From Chief to Ball
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"Whether A is to be made or not is beyond our guesswork. As for whether A should be exchanged for food, cattle and sheep, or kept for our own use, Jixia will definitely hold a national council and discuss it with everyone." , This is no less important than going to war with the enemy."
The third brother said with a smile: "Exchanging or selling, in fact, can't change anything. Apart from our Xia Kingdom, are there other cities that can smelt iron? Even if they can, even if they know how to make iron, how can there be so many?" People don’t need to farm to forge iron?”
"That's true."
Unknowingly, these not the earliest batch of Xia people already had some sense of superiority. Even though this sense of superiority was suppressed under the theory of kinship unity, it would always be revealed inadvertently.
A few more words were said, and there was a shout in the distance.
"Why! Why! Ji Xia called you."
The two younger brothers looked at the elder brother rather strangely, and the second brother of the Li family smiled and said, "This is the word my husband gave me, because I always like to ask why, so my husband gave me such a word. The husband said It's better than being called Li Er."
"That's right. Why is it not a cat or a dog? Why is it something invisible and intangible? This thing is better than something that can be seen and touched."
Amidst the compliments from his younger brothers, Li Heyi looked at the royal guard who was shouting in the distance, but didn't answer his younger brothers' words, and frowned, "Something must have happened, I have to go there immediately."
Standing up, thinking about it, expressing my emotions in the simplest way, patted the shoulders of the two younger brothers and said: "Fourth, don't be lazy when harvesting wheat; third, learn hard when blacksmithing."
Unable to think of any better words of farewell, he took out a few copper coins from his pocket and handed them to his younger brother, then turned and left.
After turning around the small river, Li Heyi couldn't help asking the guard, "What happened?"
"The people from those ethnic groups sent by Jixia to the south have returned, bringing back a lot of seeds and some news. It seems very important, not only you, but also some people from the Six Departments, generals, and the Planning and Statistics Department have been summoned gone."
"What is so important?"
Although Li Heyi likes to ask why, he only asks when he can't figure it out, so this question is not a question of why he was called, but what kind of big event will happen after the call.
He knows about getting seeds from those ethnic groups in the south, and he also knows that Ji Xia once said that the white things that look like flowers can be woven into cloth, and he also knows that when Ji Xia asked whether those things grew on trees or After growing on the grass, I was happy for a long time.
But if that's all it is, there is no need to summon all the people from the Sixth Division and the army.
Now the Department of Planning and Statistics has been gradually dismantled. Apart from keeping some under the direct control of the king, the rest have been thrown into the six departments as small officials. The king is busy with military training, workshops and blacksmithing. Handled things are delegated.
Li He knew that it was like his fourth younger brother helping to cut the wheat, but the king ordered permission, and the rest was completely handed over to the Ministry of Households to let them assign how many people to go to which farm, and how to drink water and eat when working. The problem.
It can be seen that if it is just a matter of promoting a certain seed, it will definitely not call the high-level officials of the entire Xia Kingdom or the future high-level officials who are preparing to discuss it together.
By the time he arrived at the center of Yucheng, many people had already gathered.
There were already four or five people in front of the newly built, large masonry government hall, and they also looked worried. The guards guarding the door checked and let them in.
As soon as Li Heyi entered, he heard a dark-faced clansman talking to Ji Xia there.He knew this person earlier than he went to the school, and he followed Ji Song to travel to the tribes of Dahe.
It can be seen that the journey has been hard. The man was tanned and his clothes were dirty. It was obvious that he was called here to ask some questions just after he came back.
Because as soon as he came in, he heard this person say something that Li Heyi didn't quite understand.
"The leader of the clan the year before last punished a clan in the name of reaching heaven without permission. He blinded the clan leader's eyes, cut off his ears, demoted his relatives to slaves, and all the clan members became slaves. A year later, many clans Surrender, present the sacrificial vessel, and swear that you will never go to heaven and earth in private."
Li Heyi listened in a daze, looked up at Ji Xia who was frowning in thought, but didn't ask.
Chen Jian waved his hand to signal everyone to sit down first, and told the man to stop talking.
Just in the early morning, a boat came back from the opposite side of Onozawa, and brought back a group of people sent by Chen Jian to exchange information, but in fact they were to detect news and bring back seeds.
The matter of the seeds went well, but Chen Jian was a little nervous after hearing what these people said about the ethnic groups in the south.
Today, the range of activities of the ethnic group is only a thousand miles away, and not all the things that are more than a thousand miles away are known, and even the world is only a hundred miles away for most people.
But judging from the current situation, if you want the ethnic group of the Dahe Zhubu that you want to integrate into to become the only civilization and leader in this area in the future, you have to collect information from thousands of miles away.
The ethnic group thousands of miles south of Dahe didn't mean that they had surpassed the Xia Kingdom in terms of technological development. In fact, the overall technological level was the average level of the Dahe tribes before Xiacheng appeared, using both copper and stone.
But the words of those who came back aroused Chen Jian's vigilance.
The world is constantly changing. When one's own group moves forward, the rest of the group also moves forward.
Chen Jian heard a translated word with a general meaning, which proved that the ethnic group in the south was about to take shape.
A very simple vocabulary, Jedi Tiantong.
It sounds a mysterious word, but for the ethnic group in the south, this is a major event that affects the entire ethnic group.
Jedi Tiantong, to put it bluntly, cuts off the right of an individual or a certain clan to communicate with the world in its own way, and takes over the divine right to the rest of the people, and at the same time uses the divine right as the basis and legal principles to unify all tribes into one cultural group. thing.
In other words, this is a "religious" reform of the southern ethnic group, which is no less than the creation of copper and settlement, because it is based on the establishment of the southern ethnic group's centralization system.
In primitive religions, gods are equal, and there is no saying that anyone is superior to anyone else, because gods are imaginary objects based on human society, and without a complete human society, there is no complete pantheon.Just like the previous disputes between the gods of land and the gods of war in the various tribes of the grassland, it was nothing more than a struggle between the two ways of life for the theocracy.
In the beginning, clan leaders or priests mastered some calendars, farming times and other things, and they were the ones who could communicate with heaven and earth.
With the development of the times, even clans of the same blood began to migrate due to the pressure of life. Those who mastered the method of sacrifice became new clan leaders or priests, and then used their own methods to deify their ancestors and develop many different cultures. the pantheon.
After copper and stone were used together, people began to settle down, but the harsh natural environment and primitive and backward planting methods were prone to disasters, so people began to sacrifice themselves.
Over time, this kind of sacrifice became more frequent, and a lot of sacrifices began to be wasted. Many people no longer concentrate on production, but become people who are busy communicating with heaven and earth.
Different from the tribes of Dahe, when the Huasu Alliance was established decades ago, the sages and wise men of the ethnic group gave a way to fool the gods, using the excuse of "the food and use of life and death are different" It has become something simple and rough, and will not affect the development of the ethnic group.
Originally, this method of recovering theocracy would gradually appear after the establishment of the Huasu Alliance, but the most prestigious leader of the Huasu Alliance who was likely to unite this ethnic group into a prototype of a country died young, and the clan split, but remained Under the habit of a rational sacrifice.
But the southern ethnic groups may have taken another path, a path of irrational sacrifice.Chen Jian listened to the people who came back and said something about the experience in the south. The sacrifices were very frequent before, there were too many priests, and many people claimed to have the ability to communicate with the world-in fact, it was similar to what Chen Jian did, claiming that everyone can communicate with their ancestors. communication, but Chen Jian enriched this system, secretly replaced some concepts with simple practical theory, and monopolized the power of interpretation with the knowledge of his previous life, striving to get rid of ignorance before death. Technology, this is death.
For the ethnic group in the south, two possibilities will appear over time: either the gods stand side by side, and each city clan has its own gods to worship, so there is a tendency to separate; or irrational sacrifices are prevalent.
Everyone has the right and ability to communicate with the world, which means that everyone has the right to interpret their own behavior, which means that the leader's rights lack the theocracy, and it means that it is impossible to have a unified cultural circle group , let alone a centralized leader.
According to those who came back, ten years ago, many people in the southern ethnic group were tired of those many people who could communicate with the world, because even the calendar was not unified, and they also supported a large number of priests, using various methods to sacrifice. Heaven and earth communicate with heaven and earth.
In other words, heaven, earth, and human beings are not separated. Heaven and earth can control the affairs of human beings. All human behaviors are guided by heaven and earth. It is meaningless to live. Humans are just appendages of heaven and earth.
It was under such circumstances that the people of the southern ethnic group launched the religious reform under the primitive religion 20 years after the Huasu League and more than ten years after the Dongyi tribes.
After sacrificing to heaven and earth, the leader of the largest clan alliance announced something, an extremely important event for the southern tribes!
——After he sacrificed to the heaven and the earth, the heaven and the earth ordered the gods to split the distance between the heaven and the earth. From then on, the heaven, the earth, and the people were in charge of their own affairs, and people could no longer communicate with the heaven and the earth at will.
The rights of the human world are independent of the heaven and the earth, and become the real, human leaders.
After the distance between heaven and earth expanded, several mountains were left as wild mountains connecting heaven and earth, and these were in the hands of the chiefs of the tribes.
In other words, except for the leader or the priest appointed by the leader, anyone who claims to be able to communicate with heaven and earth is a fake and has no such qualifications.
Speaking of theocracy, it unifies theocracy and grasps the power of interpretation of the gods in the name of calendar, farming season, and technology.
In secular rights, it is said that heaven, earth and man are separated, and man is equal to heaven and earth, and the leaders of the world are equal to the gods of heaven and earth, not that the gods are superior to man.
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