From Chief to Ball

After the man heard what the woman and child said, he cried: "Do you have a woman and child? My brother's child was starved to death, and the woman was captured as a slave and tortured to death. When she died, she was thrown naked into the Outside... When those people called the old Xiacheng people to arrest us as slaves, did you numbly pat your chest and say that you were not moved? Have you ever objected? My whole family is dead, and I am the only one left... If you let my younger brother swim across the Grass River, at least I still have a younger brother."

Numbly, he shouted: "Why should I object? I said it! It has nothing to do with what the city becomes. I just want my women and children to live better. I don't want to arrest you as slaves." I will oppose it, but I will not arrest it. Your land cattle were robbed, and I did not go! I will do it according to my own method, why do I have to support and oppose it?"

He suddenly drew out his dagger, and the people outside were not afraid, and also drew out their own weapons.

At this moment, a faint woman's voice came from the room, accompanied by the cry of a child.

"Ma... what happened?"

Numa looked at the crowd in despair. She was the only one left in the dead family trembling. She clenched her fists and tears fell down. In the end, she didn't cry anymore, but suppressed her crying and lied: "It's nothing...Ji Xia is back, let me tell Muma..."

Mu Ma put the copper sword on the ground, trying to squeeze out a thankful smile, but couldn't squeeze it out, and finally walked into the room, looking at the woman's bright eyes, the huge man burst into tears.

"Is Ji Xia back?"

"Ah."

"That's good... I'm going to die... The child is still young, and when Ji Xia comes back, Xia Cheng will come back. We are Chinese, and there will always be someone to take care of the child for you. Just say that I fell asleep, don't let The child is afraid of..."

After saying these words, she seemed to have exhausted all her energy, and her eyes turned feebly. Mu Ma hastily held up the woman's head and let her take a look at the child. The one-year-old daughter wanted to get close to her shriveled chest, but at the last moment her arms hung down.

Muma picked up the child and stood in the house stupidly, looking at the collection on the wall, which was given to him by Chen Jian many years ago, and which existed before the house was built, making him want a home, A painting on birch bark that gave him the courage to take the lead in leaving the clan.

On it are simple lines drawn with charcoal, and the background is the city wall of Xiacheng, just like a child's drawing, there is also a sun with awns on it, and a smiling face on the sun.

Under the sun, there is a house, a very simple thatched house, with a fence behind and a yard in front.

In the yard, there are dodo birds pecking at the wheat grains on the ground, geese and geese singing with their heads up, and there seem to be some clothes drawn on a clothesline. Under the clothes are some children with braids, pushing The little windmill seems to be running.

There are no women, no men, but this simple charcoal drawing still stunned Mu Ma and others.

Without women, how can there be children?Years ago, they thought "Maybe women are in the house mending clothes."At that time, it was a simple dream, to have my own home and my own family.

Everything in this painting a year ago has become reality, including the men and women who were not in the painting but were believed to exist.

But now, it will be the same as this painting...

Chapter 78 Pampering

In a turbulent era, no one can be alone. Good and bad are blurred under the turbulence of the era, and they cannot be conjectured with everything in a stable era.

Many years later, that painting and numbness became the story in the book. From the whole story, people in the stable era only found such a good person who met the definition of kindness in their hearts, forgetting the bloody terror and violence of the turbulent era. Surviving and struggling, recalling the good life of the slave owner and the kind, calm and elegant aristocratic temperament, I think that is actually very good.

Including the person who led the Xinxiacheng people to revolt and was hanged, he also became a thug in the eyes of later generations; some people even began to question, if the leader of Jixia did not return from Yucheng but acquiesced in the fact that Xiayu was split, how could it be possible? Is there such a tragedy?

A story must always have a perspective. There are many non-historical stories about the civil strife in Xiacheng that have been recorded in the few pens in the history books. Of course, there are also stories that are told from the eyes or perspectives of the people of New Xiacheng.

But those stories from the lowest perspective have no fresh humanity, no natural kindness, only resistance, violence, killing, revenge, survival... People who are far away from the turbulent era do not like to read such stories.It wasn't until many years later, when the turmoil returned, that such stories began to circulate and be loved again.

There can be good people and there are really good people in the world, but there is absolutely no country that is like an angel with benevolence and kindness. Therefore, the leader of the city that is the prototype of the country must not be as kind as people imagine.

Just like Chen Jian, who many people in Xiacheng looked forward to as the real leader, so did the same.

In mid-December, when the army was approaching Caohe River and the surrounding cities were all on Chen Jian's side, the puppet regime in Xiacheng sent envoys to negotiate, hoping that Chen Jian would let them go. , as long as they move westward to their fief and become part of Xiacheng.

Otherwise, Xia City will be destroyed, leaving only ruins, and the complete chaos of Xia City will seriously damage the vitality of the entire Xia Yu system.

That was the last chance for a peaceful settlement without bloodshed, but Chen Jian's answer was: All those who participated in the rebellion were bound and surrendered.In addition, all the deaths and chaos in Xiacheng, the food and grass consumed by the army's northern expedition, and all the money should be paid by the families participating in the rebellion.

It seemed that Chen Jian was still abiding by the laws and regulations, but in fact this meant that there was no possibility of compromise. In fact, he was forcing this group of people to violently resist or flee Xia City, only using high-sounding reasons.

Even if the death of the rebellion is not counted, Chen Jian made a small calculation for those emissaries, from the food and grass consumed by the expedition to the compensation for the dead Chinese, the money alone is enough to kill those families and make them abject debt slaves .

Besides, according to the rules, I am afraid that these people will be sentenced to severe punishments, which is actually no different from refusal.

This virtually severed the possibility of a peaceful solution and effectively pronounced the death sentence for all conspirators.

From this, it can be said that Chen Jian is a ruthless villain, a villain or even a murderer, because if he compromises and accepts his brother's harmony and smiles away his grievances, he will not shed so much blood.

These bloods will be counted on Chen Jian's head in the fresh stories in the future, it seems that some grievances can really be wiped away with a smile.

It's just that at this moment, these hatreds cannot be dismissed with a smile, because too much blood has been shed.

Chen Jian just smiled, and what he lost would be more than half of Xiacheng's population, as well as the prestige of the city's regime and the authority of rules after several years of management, and the entire Xiayu system would fall apart.

It is better for a few families to cry than ten thousand people. The most important thing to be a leader is not to be swayed by emotion, and to treat everyone and everything as a rational analysis of interests.A cry seen with the eyes is the same as a cry not seen with the eyes, and it does not make the cry more noble or touching just because it is seen.

Refusing to compromise at this time is actually forcing many people to cry, drive many people away, and force many people to die.

It is conceivable that the wives and mothers of some relatives and relatives of the clan cry and tremble at home, or flee to the far northwest with their newborn children in such cold weather, or even the situation where mother and child say goodbye to their sons and commit suicide at home.

They wore fox fur and lamb fur, so their tears were probably more noble and elegant than those clay legs wearing linen, but Chen Jian could just ignore them.

On December [-]th, the day after Chen Jian cut off their surrender and smiled, when Xiacheng was in a mess due to panic, the army stopped sixty miles away from Xiacheng and joined forces with the rest of the city. The leader of the city.

In addition to declaring the justice of this war, Chen Jian is also delaying until the city undergoes a complete change, and all the old forces before the city are completely gone or wiped out in revenge.

Soldiers are precious and fast, and the delay can change many things, but under the absolute advantage of power, the ending cannot be changed, only the process is changed.

When the news of Chen Jian's refusal to accept the compromise was sent back to Xiacheng, the conspirators were desperate. They wanted to carry out the threat of negotiating with Chen Jian to destroy Xiacheng, or arrest all the old and weak Xiacheng people as threats. But under the confusion of people's hearts, there is no ability to implement it.

On December [-]th, a group of people fled Xia City on horseback, leaving their huge wealth behind.To the west is the fiefdom of Wolfpi, to the southwest is the Acropolis, and to the east is the City of E. They have nowhere to go but flee to the grassland.

The conspirators and their followers who had agreed to advance and retreat were completely disintegrated because of the escape of a few people. Their original plan was to capture all the old and weak in Xiacheng to blackmail Chen Jian. Everyone was put to death, but once someone fled, no one had the heart to do such a thing. They all scattered and started to pack up their belongings.

The plotters and followers wanted to escape, and the old Xiacheng people who were involved in the previous vortex no longer supported or opposed them. They only hoped that the war would subside. All those who could control the situation stood still to delay the time. The army was within sixty miles of the city. Entering the city, but the vendetta of the alliance and the clan dictatorship created before...

Under this deliberately created situation, on the night of December [-]th, Xiacheng’s peasants, wild people, and Xinxiacheng people who had been reduced to slaves revolted. With the slogan of controlling Xia City, they fought against those clan relatives who wanted to escape but hadn't escaped yet.

They killed more than 100 of the conspirators' followers in the city and the idiots the conspirators didn't take with them when they fled...and many people who were unwittingly caught in the vortex of turmoil.

And when the person who should be killed either died or fled, Chen Jian's rider came late and appeared outside the city gate, promulgating the rules set by Chen Jian: From now on, no one is allowed to commit suicide privately, no blood relatives Revenge, everything waited for Jixia's army to enter the city.

In this deliberately created resistance, everything in the old era was swept away, and everything was smashed under the drive of hatred, looking forward to a new life.

In fact, this is a purge, a seductive purge in the style of Zheng Boke. All supporters of the old system and sympathizers were affected and became victims of deliberate connivance.

The clan has been completely disintegrated, and there is no political force that can shake the city system for at least ten years.

Is there a good person among the clan leaders or relatives?Of course there are, and there are many, and many people are indeed thinking about the clan.

But this clan system has hindered the development of the city, and the existence of good people is not the rationality for the entire system to exist.

Either voluntarily give up the right to become a supporter of the new system and change identity: do not use the clan blood as the right to support the aristocrats or bureaucrats who have changed from clan relatives to cities;

From May onwards, there was no other solution to the mess left by Xiacheng except to completely smash it up and start again, and there was no feasible way to clean it up.

To smash all these tasks, Chen Jian deliberately set aside time for the rebels in the city.All the management and people who could be the management are no longer in the city, and the only program of the rebels can only be to change the dictatorship of the blood clan into the dictatorship of the city chief.