From Chief to Ball

"Yucheng is to the west, and there are few people within a hundred miles. The two cities of Wei and Feng can occupy this place to cultivate and live. The rules and laws of Yuxia are common within a hundred miles. After three to five years, the number of cattle and sheep will increase and the population will prosper. can think of a way."

"So this needs to be decided by the leaders of the alliance, so I can tell my ancestors."

After speaking, more than ten thousand relatives from the two cities petitioned together, willing to follow Chen Jian to live in Xi'an in Yucheng, because the people of Xiacheng live a good life and can help them more.

This is the method Chen Jian came up with. Of course, if there is a better method, it can be used, but the proposal must convince the two cities, and provide food, farm tools, Cattle and sheep.They are not slaves, but kin.

Since everyone praised the previous speech, now that the relatives are in trouble, you must help, right?If you don't help the Xiacheng people to give a solution, if you still don't agree, then there will be grievances.

Under the dual oppression of moral high ground and reality, everyone had to agree to this proposal, and they knew in their hearts that even if they disagreed that the Xiacheng people had brought these people back, what if they disagreed?

It's just that after agreeing, it's justifiable to sue the ancestors, and by the way, he also has to admit that Chen Jian is not only the leader of Xiacheng, but also the false leader of Weicheng.

As long as the official leader of Weicheng is not released for a day, Chen Jian will have the right to speak twice when the tribal alliance discusses matters and elects the leader.

This matter, which was supposed to be discussed in the small circle of clan leaders, was brought up in public again, and the time, place, and atmosphere did not allow rejection. This was the most annoying thing for those who were used to small circle politics.

Although he said something that he agreed with, his heart would inevitably feel a little pimple. Chen Jian seemed to be unable to understand, and then said: "There is one more thing. Xia fought in Dongyi for two months, and the soldiers were exhausted. It is difficult to get out, so I have no choice but to sign a covenant with Dongyi Qiongxi, and I will not attack each other within three years, otherwise I will not be able to bring these more than ten thousand relatives back."

"This is an oath I made in the name of my ancestors, so I cannot violate it. Besides, there are relatives and nobles from the two cities of Feng and Wei as pledges."

"But I also won hundreds of miles of land for the tribes of Dahe. This is the land of glory that belongs to the ancestors. If there is a war with Dongyi in three years, the leader of Suyue can lead an army of several cities from Fengcheng to the east. Xia Ke led the Xia army from Xinhua City straight into the hinterland of Qiongxi; guarded, the leader of Suyue could live in Sucheng to dispatch his relatives, and Qiongxi did not dare to go deep into the hinterland of the Dahe tribes without breaking Xinhua City for a day, so as not to miss the farming season."

These words made the leaders nod frequently. Very simple strategies are often very useful. Judging from this year's campaign, the location of this place is indeed very important. It can be said that if the city stands for a day, the ministries don't have to worry Xi's army appeared near the city.

Taking advantage of the time when everyone was nodding, Chen Jian said: "Therefore, I hope each of the tribes will send fifty men and women from each city to garrison in Xinhua City, making up a few thousand as a defense. Xia City will send another [-] soldiers and thousands of clan slaves. , These thousands of people only obey the orders of the leaders of the tribes to fight, as long as they stay in that city for one day, we cannot participate in the internal disputes, unless the Dongyi collapses and the cities of the Dahe tribes are built on the shore of the East Sea."

"With 50 people, it is worthwhile to cut off the possibility of Dongyi entering and looting. Otherwise, how can [-] people make up for the entry of Qiongxi, plundering people, delaying farming, and robbing cattle and sheep?"

"Your children and relatives all have fiefdoms in Xinhua City. These 50 people can be regarded as rewarding the children's meritorious service. Let them live on their own. If they do well in the future, they will gain more, and even build a city alone and have their own surname. Not impossible."

The leaders of several cities have not expressed their views yet, and some relatives of the clan are already happy. If their children can really form a city of their own and have a different surname there, that would be great.What's more, there are fifty couples of men and women in a city, and the burden shared by each clan is only a few people, which is nothing at all.It is indeed worth using this person to win a possibility for the children and reduce the risk for the city.

Su Yue thought about it for a while and didn't object. Fifty people less is just superficial. As long as Dongyi doesn't go west and has the status of the leader of the alliance, he can still conquer many cities that quit the alliance within three years. own strength.

Attacking Dongyi, whose civil strife has subsided, is not worth the loss. There is a force that nominally does not participate in the civil wars of the various tribes to open up. As the leader of the Dahe tribes, he sometimes has to consider the interests of the entire Dahe tribes.

Furthermore, from Su Yue’s point of view, Chen Jian’s great shortcoming is that he jumps too high when doing things. At best, this can win people’s hearts, but at worst, he can’t do many things that he can’t do in name. Well, if someone else did it, at most someone could criticize him, but if he did it, his prestige would definitely drop.Since it is said that the soldiers over there will not participate in the civil war, they will never participate. It is also a good thing to involve the five hundred elites of Xiacheng at once.

This time Su Yue learned to behave himself, and said with a smile: "This matter is of great benefit to the relatives, of course I will agree. I don't know if Ji Xia has any other suggestions, so I might as well say them all. I have a lot of time, so just I'm afraid that your relatives are tired and hungry all the way, and there are still hot rice cattle and sheep waiting in the city, so it's not good to go around for half a year to eat cold rice leftovers."

Chen Jian also smiled and said: "There is only one last thing left, please agree to it. You also know that in May, there was civil strife in Xiacheng, and the city was divided into two parts. But Xia's grandmother is still in Xiacheng, and there are thousands of people in Xiacheng. Relatives were bewitched by it."

"When they divided the city into two, it was the time when Dongyi invaded Dahe tribes and surrounded Fengcheng. This is against the interests of Dahe tribes, and I cannot tolerate it. So after they escaped, I did not lead my troops northward, but endured the grief of my people being deceived and bullied and led my troops to Dongyi to rescue my relatives."

"The big river is the top, the cities are next, and the clan is the bottom. This is what I have always practiced. Now that the relatives have been rescued, the glory of the ancestors has not been shamed, so I can return to Xia City to deal with this rebellion. "

"Since Xiacheng used to form an alliance, it is now part of the tribes of Dahe, so I hope that all relatives can send people to accompany me back to Xiacheng, and arrest and interrogate this group of people who have violated the highest interests of the tribes of Dahe, just like in the past. The matter of the Windy City."

"They bewitched the clansmen. They didn't have many believers and few troops. With the prosperity of Xia's army, they would surely be defeated in one battle. The clans don't need to send too many troops. They only need to have relatives, sages, virtuous and respected people to follow to counter the rebellion. Please be sure. Don't say no."

Chapter 59 Compromise and Betrayal

This was the only one of the three things that he requested for himself or for Xia Cheng.

In fact, Chen Jian wasn't worried about going back to Xiacheng to seize power at all. In the face of the absolute advantage of the violent machine, all resistance was meaningless.

He wasn't worried about those people fleeing to other cities after failing, even though they knew a lot about Xiacheng.

Going to the inner cities of the tribes of the Great River will not make other cities stronger.Reform must have a material basis, and reform without material conditions will only have the opposite effect. If the rest of the cities are forced to destroy the public land tax system and replace it with a private land tax system when metal farm tools and cattle and horses are insufficient, it will be a big problem for the cities. Yap is a disaster.

Chen Jian was even less worried when he ran to the grassland.Farming peoples are completely different from nomadic peoples. Fishing, hunting and farming tribes can learn many methods and systems of farming peoples to quickly evolve from a clan to a prototype of a country, but nomadic people can't do it. Even Xiacheng's many technologies are difficult for nomadic peoples to develop in a short period of time. Their accumulation is so slow that it could take hundreds of years to complete without looting.

The reason why such a request is made is not only to abide by the original oath of the tribal civil strife or to coordinate and resolve the civil war within the ethnic group as much as possible; it is also to compromise with the rest of the cities, give them a bargaining price, and express their own attitude by the way.

Complying with the rule system will solve the contradiction internally. Whether it can be implemented depends largely on whether there is a strong city that can maintain the rule. If you are willing to be the rule supervisor and law enforcer in this system, now is to let the clan cities gradually get used to it. when.

Compromise is Chen Jian's established plan.

The previous struggle and aggression were to increase Xiacheng's negotiation price for the current compromise, forcing other cities to come to Xiacheng to negotiate terms.It seems that Chen Jian is liberating the slaves, but in fact it is not out of kindness or humanitarianism, but just to make the rest of the city fear that Xiacheng will be driven to a desperate situation and die with them.Using the method of ideological output to force the other cities to fight everywhere, they don't have the thought and strength to think about Xiacheng itself.

Conquest by force is not realistic now. If you want to form a unified and innovative Dahe tribe that does not require the old nobles, you need at least three to five thousand management talents. Otherwise, this unified Dahe tribe will be a compromised country. It is necessary to rely on the old clan relatives to manage this huge country that is nearly two provinces.

Scattered power, strong independence of cities, and strong conservative forces will inevitably occur after excessive compromise.Unification is for the better development of the ethnic group, and unification itself is only one of the most effective means for this purpose. This is what Chen Jian must figure out. He cannot unrealistically unify for the sake of unification, leaving a mere nominal Community, so Xiacheng's education system still needs to make efforts to fill the power gap ten years later.

Therefore, a compromise is still needed, and therefore the third request is to throw out an olive branch. Some other cities want Xiacheng to do things that are hard to say. You can take this opportunity to say it. This is the secret of the secret envoy and Chen Jian a few days ago. agreement reached.

Sure enough, Su Yue and the few leaders were overjoyed, heaved a sigh of relief, and said one after another: "Ji Xia is right, the rebels should be punished, and it is only natural for the respected and respected relatives to follow. It's just that if they flee to other places Are they punished according to the rules of Xia City? Or according to the rules of other cities?"

"Of course it is according to Xiacheng's rules. They are from Xiacheng."

Su Yue hurriedly said: "So, what Ji Xia said is very reasonable. However, many slaves in our city fled to Yucheng. The rules of Yucheng are different from ours. The slaves are the property of our city, so they fled to Yucheng But they have become human beings, so are they property or human beings?"

"Just like those who rebelled in Xia City, they should be punished according to the rules of Xia City, but they cannot be treated according to the rules of other cities just because they fled to other cities. Isn't this the truth? ?”

Chen Jian said with emotion: "That's the reason. It's my fault that I didn't notice these trivial things."

Many relatives of the clan thought to themselves, this is not a trivial matter, it is simply a major event that will shake the foundation of every city.

Many of them didn't know about the secret agreement between Su Yue and Chen Jian. Hearing that Chen Jian's tone was relieved, they felt a lot more relaxed. At least they didn't have to worry about those who were in the bottom of the slaves who heard the demagogy of fleeing to Yucheng. words.

Chen Jian looked at the relatives and leaders of the clan, and said slowly: "It is not too late to mend the dead sheep. Now that this mistake has been discovered, it must be corrected. Perhaps from now on, all cities should also send people to the vicinity of Yucheng , if there are escaped slaves, they can be captured and dealt with according to the laws of their respective cities."

"It's just that the leaders of each city need to decide what to do. After all, this is not Xiacheng's own business."

"Besides, since all the tribes abide by the covenant, some things need to be clarified. There can be differences between cities, but which differences are considered to be a violation of the oath of kinship? Which ones are not?"

"For example, Xia people like to eat wheat buns, and Su people like to eat corn. This kind of difference is acceptable. But if Xiacheng wears hair to worship ancestors, and a certain city wears hair to worship the sky, this difference is not acceptable."

"These things are not something that a dull person like me can come up with. It needs to be discussed by all the clans. If you violate those that cannot be violated, Xia Su will fight with your relatives; if you violate those that can be violated, you cannot force them to change. , nor can they be conquered in the name of this."

"So Xia begged the head of the Suyue League to think about it, and convene the kinship alliance again in the summer of next year to discuss and improve the rules of the Dahe tribes, so as to restrain the cities and towns from inadvertently violating the interests of the Dahe tribes, and let them know what What can be done and what cannot be done."

Some nearby leaders also nodded and said yes, the previous rules of the alliance were too broad, and at that time they did not expect that there would really be cities that would be the supervisors and enforcers of those rules. It cannot be called law.

Chen Jian has made concessions, which makes many cities satisfied.Just stationing soldiers in Yucheng to capture the fugitive slaves after the signing of the new covenant can make them feel at ease. After the rules are clarified, the big city cannot attack the small city at will, unless that city has the ability to challenge the two cities of Suxia.Originally, this rule seemed to be false, but with the war between Xiacheng and Dongyi in the 35th year of the Chinese calendar, it has changed. This is a city that does what it says and has the ability to do it.

Of course Chen Jian knew that Suyue's condition was for him to become the high priest of the various tribes, but the position of high priest was not something Suyue could give, and it still needed the joint election of all relatives.

Su Yue did not have such qualifications, his rights were not strong enough, and what he gave was not legal enough.

The high priest is the leader of theocracy, in fact, the maker of internal rules, because the priest can judge right from wrong.However, the high priest is not the executor. The executor is still the secular leader Awatake, who is behind the secular leader.

If it were normal development, the future power struggle of the tribes of Dahe might be a struggle for theocratic and secular rights, and the result of the high priest's discord with the leader is that the high priest borrowed theocratic power to compete for secular rights.

But it was impossible for Chen Jian to do this. He had already planned that the first thing he would do after becoming the high priest was to find a way to destroy the sanctity of the position of the high priest.The foundation of the future cannot be shaken for the sake of temporary power. He wants to be the leader, so it is impossible to make the divine power higher than the secular when he is the high priest, otherwise he will have to wipe his ass in the future.

Su Yue would not know that Chen Jian thought this way, he thought of Chen Jian as a normal person, and he was still able to elect Chen Jian as the high priest because Chen Jian's consistent remarks destroyed the absolute correctness of theocracy.