From Chief to Ball

That's a great approach, a great slogan, a great first step.

There are not too many slave owners in Xia City, most of them are the class gap deliberately created by Chen Jian to understand the cohesion of the clan, but there are not few people who aspire to become slave owners.

Their life has been pretty good in these years. Public property welfare and the promotion of new technologies such as water conservancy projects and manure completed under strict control have ensured the living standards of Xiacheng people.

There is no vertical comparison of this kind of living standard, but a horizontal comparison. Some people think that their living standard is not the best in other cities. Who would stare at the poorest poor people? The slave owners in the city lived a life, and they had food and clothing without working.

And those who really control Xia City now also have a lot of power in Xia City. They look forward to hereditary, recommendation and other systems, and hate this kind of life where everyone starts on an equal footing.

Obtaining the support of Xiacheng's core forces by narrowing the vested interests is a good move, the essence of populism.

As for the future, of course they can't really let all Xiacheng people share the public property equally, but they can't show their fangs in the first step-just like Chen Jian's judgment, they risked their lives and ran back to Xiacheng definitely not for the sake of the people Services.

After the tone was set, more and more city gatherings continued, and cracks appeared in the originally harmonious Xiacheng. Clans, which had disappeared, reappeared, and some people who joined Xiacheng later began to panic.

Under such deliberate provocation and estrangement, the originally broken clans reunited together.There are fifty households in one mile, and there are various clans, but now there is distrust among each other.The contradictions between the old Xiacheng people and the new Xiacheng people became more and more serious, even if Mu Ma was so kind, it was difficult to reconcile.

It has been clearly stated that the people of Xinxia City will be slaves again, so the people of Xinxia City are unavoidably uneasy and angry. The anger between the two parties is difficult to suppress, and the conflicts between them are increasing day by day. Put into practice.

However, such things as clans and clans seemed to be revived overnight.

The tenth day of June... Muma recalled this day, and she was very sure of this day, because it was the first ten-day holiday in June. Muma wanted to go to Caohe to take a bath, but the woman told him to let him grind the wheat Chengfen, because the city has been in chaos these days, and the supply and marketing cooperatives have been closed and no one is in charge, so they can't buy flour.

Muma remembers that she carried a bag of wheat to the windmill and queued up at the wind mill. After selling and rationing wheat flour from the supply and marketing cooperative, it is rare to queue for such a long time.

He couldn't remember what happened before, whether someone jumped in line, was it a joke, or someone really said something nasty, but the fight broke out.

"Brothers, he bullied people in our clan!"

"Go to hell! People with foreign surnames!"

"Smash him! Throw him into the river! They should be slaves!"

"Fart! Xiacheng also has our blood and sweat, why should we be slaves?"

"Oh! I used a bronze sword! Killing people..."

Muma originally thought that he was Lisi, who had the responsibility to educate and discipline relatives, and was more or less an official. At this time, he should say something fair—no one dared to instigate hatred and fights between clans at will. You will be punished with whipping and fined.Now the whole city is in chaos, and no one cares about it.

When he squeezed through with his strong body, he saw a clansman surnamed Mu being knocked to the ground by a person with a foreign surname. He couldn't hold back his anger and rushed over to hit the man's lifeblood with his knee.

Then there were bursts of whistles, as if someone had been prepared, a group of people appeared next to the mill with copper swords, spears and other things that were used to kill heads in previous fights, and then someone shouted : "Let this group of people be slaves! Don't stand with us!"

"Let them lie on the ground! Kill them! They should be slaves! Jixia kindly gave you the status of human beings, but you don't know how to be humble."

"Everyone with a foreign surname deserves to die!"

Mu Ma couldn't remember who made the move first, and he didn't feel that a trivial incident of jumping in the queue was worthy of such a damn serious evaluation, but at that time someone had already made a move, and when he was shouted by these people again, his blood rushed, and his mind suddenly became chaotic. up.

Anyway, more than 20 new Xiacheng people died that day, and seven or eight old Xiacheng people died. Then the people in the council delivered a speech, calling on the real Xiacheng people to take up arms and let them know how powerful they are. , and smashed the more than 20 dead bodies to pieces.

The new and old Chinese in Xiacheng quickly armed themselves, upholding the last restraint and not burning each other's houses... But the house was still set on fire by some people, and afterward, Muma didn't know who set the house on fire, and burned a few of them to death by the way Child, when the burnt black baby was pulled out from the ashes, the anger on both sides could no longer be contained.

All in all, the situation became uncontrollable. The two sides fought in the city. After paying the price of more than 100 deaths and injuries, all the residents of Xinxia City were arrested and disarmed.

The council immediately announced that, except for the surnames who first joined the alliance at the beginning of the year, all other surnames would confiscate their land and properties and distribute them to the old Xiacheng people.

For a moment, the old Xiacheng people cheered and celebrated this victory that should not have existed, and recalled the clan, a symbol that Chen Jian had deliberately suppressed for several years, in their minds.

The clan leaders who had lost their rights regained their authority overnight, the Lisi system completely collapsed, and the distrust between the old and new Xiacheng people was deliberately amplified. The families who planned to burn the babies were secretly promised half of the salt fields.

At least in June, the Xiacheng people who were brave enough to fight in public and timid in private fights disappeared, replaced by a group of people who heard every day that the clan is the real relatives, the clan can really treat you well, we must be masters and let them be slaves The slogan of the fanatics.

And in the midst of this frenzy, the relatives of the council decisively poured a scoop of cold water, a scoop of cold water that made everyone sweat.

"Once Jixia returns, what kind of crime will the clan fight be? Anyone who does it will be punished, and so many people have died. I'm afraid there will be many corpses hanging on the city wall. How terrible."

Chapter 74 The most profitable thing is to mint money

Many people trembled about Jixia's possible punishment when he returned to Xiacheng in the future, but then another voice bewitched them and disrupted all their rationality.

"Jixia said that the city is the people of the country, and he was elected by everyone. Isn't it the common wish of everyone? Just like the rules, isn't it all agreed by everyone after discussion? Everyone discusses, from the clan The era is the greatest rule, and we are following the greatest rule.”

"Besides, those people did it first, so is our clan going to be bullied by them?"

Who made the first move, no one knows.But there is one thing, those people in the council first made a move to say that they would confiscate the land and property of the Xinxiacheng people. Since they refused to be slaves obediently, don't blame us for arresting you.

The incitement of this kind of words needs corresponding cooperation. When the land and cattle of the new Xiacheng people become the property of the old Xiacheng people, these words will become convincing, making them constantly look for reasons to prove their actions correct.

This kind of chaos was unimaginable two months ago. The clan and the clan have no rights to deal with the disputes.

Those who dare to stir up clan conflicts against the city rules represented by Si Kou will be severely punished. After exiling a few people, those who tried to restore the clan's governance have been honest for a long time.

Xiacheng moves faster than other cities, so the power is more concentrated. The country replaces the original clan to gather more than ten thousand people together, forming a new group based on reality, but once the power vacuum is lost There will be extreme chaos.

For a moment, Muma even fantasized that Ji Xia would better not come back, but only for that moment, in his opinion, it is always good for Ji Xia to come back and accept everyone's opinions, and everyone still believes in a real Chief's.

Clans, cities, tribes of the great river... which are the imagined communities?Which are real?

Some people sometimes think about these problems, but they will soon be destroyed by the morbid and deformed carnival. The emptiness and anxiety after thinking.

If everything remains the same, Xiacheng will still operate, but those who are responsible for enforcing the rules have changed some people, Xiacheng is still there, just like Xiacheng will still be Xiacheng after these people are dead a hundred years later.

But if everything must change, and everything is the same as when Chen Jian was the leader, then what is the purpose of the change?Where, then, is the rationale for the rights of the conspirators in the assembly?

So the easiest way appeared.

Divide up the already rich Xiacheng, and create contradictions when there is no contradiction in order to demonstrate the legitimacy of the regime change - the Jixia government belongs to the entire Xiacheng, but the council power belongs to the old Xiacheng People - this is different from the previous city government, in order to determine the core of the new ruling class.

Simply and rudely dividing a tight city into two halves, and instigating one half to bully the other half, this can last for several years.When the half of the profit from instigation is developed and expanded, the original "correct and real old Xiacheng people" are divided into two halves, and the carnival can be maintained for a long time.

On the premise that there is no ability to expand the pie of the entire city, it is the easiest way to reduce the number of people who share the pie and force the clan to cover up the interests they are pursuing, and endow their actions with a strong sense of justice and rationality.

When the clan gradually expands, and even the descendants of one clan really rule the whole world, blood relationship and ethnic group can no longer distinguish who deserves to die and who does not deserve to die, they can use heresy, heresy, foreign country, foreign province, sweet and salty, tall and short Wait, wait, think of ways to decide who deserves to die and who doesn't deserve to die, so that ambitious people can taste the feast with elegance.

The root of all problems is nothing more than economic interests. After putting on all kinds of good-looking skins, the taste has changed, and then the morality that people want to accept is used to judge right from wrong.

Therefore, after this sick and deformed carnival came to an end, and a large number of Xin Guo people became half-slaves without land to farm cattle, a new problem was placed in front of everyone.

In the past, there were city leaders and subordinate officials who distributed according to rules, and there were rules to ensure the fairness of distribution. Now there is nothing, and the power of one person is weak. In order to get the fairness you want, you always have to find someone to rely on, so Clans emerged.

This is blood-related, at least not imaginary, and it seems to be the most suitable and the only thing that can guarantee the interests of a single weak person in the chaos.

But the foundation of Xia City before was not a clan.

So June in numb memory is extremely chaotic.

First the good.