From Chief to Ball

There are many city people nearby, most of them are the kind of people who can't afford copper jade in Lingzui, and they all agree with this statement.Of course, they hope that their parents and ancestors can also enjoy sacrifices. People are always willing to believe what they want to believe. The nobles are willing to believe that the richer the sacrifices, the more they can be enjoyed by the soul, while the poor are more willing to believe in grasshoppers. These things can only be enjoyed by the soul, but the bronze jade in the world of the living will not be able to enjoy it... Probably what they expect is to be on the same starting line after death.

Of course, these words were not thought up by Ling, the person who taught him was to instigate the division of the city in exchange for the support of some people.

However, Ling's elder brother heard some insinuations in the words. Although he didn't say it explicitly, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems to be insinuating that he deliberately uses things that the soul can't enjoy but the living can see to show his filial piety, which seems to be fake.

Ling's eldest brother turned red and was extremely angry. Hearing the comments and support from those around him made him even more annoyed. He scolded angrily, "Where did you learn this nonsense? I think you've been lying since yesterday! Another You don’t eat and you cry, what on earth do you want to do?”

Ling coldly said: "Shouldn't I be sad when my father passed away? Are you saying that all those who are sad because of the death of their parents are fake? Heartache is like a sword stabbing, can you still hold back crying? Besides, Ru Dog grass horse, this is what everyone can prepare for their parents and ancestors. Speaking of I still have fief slaves in Dongyi, and I have some copper rewards from the military concubine Xia. Do I have to pretend to be sad and not know how to use them? Is it the copper jade that father can't enjoy at all?"

His words seemed to be declaring that he was not a fake, but he reminded everyone invisibly that he had made great achievements in Dongyi. He was no longer that stupid and stupid child, but he could fight thousands of miles away. people.

Now the position of the leader is pending, and every incident may affect the support and opposition of the people of the country. Even though all the tribes of Dahe need to witness together, if a person whose clansmen all hold grudges and grudges is elected, it is impossible to secure the position of leader.

Before she was alive, the two sons born to a woman surnamed Su both managed some things in the city. Normally, if there were no accidents, these two sons could always inherit the position of leader.

But this city is too close to Yucheng, and they are all waterways that are convenient for boats, so it has become abnormal.

In the past few years, the population of the city has remained the same and has not increased much, but the original composition of rights and relative strength have changed.

Those relatives and noble children who followed Chen Jian to study in Yucheng Academy became the link between Yucheng and this city, and the benefits brought by this link inevitably affected the structure of the city.

For those relatives and nobles who are hostile to various policies of Yucheng, their lives are the same as before, with slave labor and clan members farming clan farms as income.

And those relatives who were connected to Yucheng because of their children began to enjoy the benefits that their children brought to their families.

Just by planting that little land, there is no way to accumulate wealth to buy a lot of tools, but the cargo station established here in Yucheng began to consciously support the parents of those girls according to Chen Jian's order.

For example, some tools, those relatives and nobles who are hostile to Yucheng can't buy much at all. With the reclamation of the land near Yucheng, there are fewer and fewer tools that can be exchanged for the same grain.

The relatives and nobles whose children are in Yucheng Academy enjoy different treatment. They can temporarily borrow some copper coins in the name of their children, and Xiacheng will also send people to guide them to change the previous planting methods.

For example, crops such as pine ink, wild tannin, herbs, dye crops, or labor-intensive primary handicrafts were also transferred to nearby cities, and the biggest beneficiaries were the relatives and nobles of these children in Yucheng.

In addition to the consumption of Yucheng, ink cannot be sold elsewhere, and Yucheng does not spend a lot of manpower to make it, and the nearby cities happen to have people.Yucheng also consumes a large amount of pottery every year, but the orders will only be given to those close to Yucheng, and correspondingly some fired lime, shipbuilding wood and the like will also be purchased first.

Coupled with the popularity of new farm tools, some relatives and nobles began to reclaim private land crazily, but most of the land near the city is public land, and if it is too far away from the city, they worry about slaves escaping. After all, escape was practiced nearby a few years ago To the extremely free place in Yucheng.As a result, new manors of half-slaves and half-serfs appeared. The original relatives controlled the farm tools, and those people were allowed to own a small piece of land that could only survive starvation. The income from the public land in the entire city is more than that of many years ago.

Under the economic transformation, there is a struggle for power—should we follow Sucheng?Or follow Xia Guo?

Not all the relatives and nobles whose children studied in Yucheng were close to Yucheng, and the people supported by Yucheng were all those who had few slaves, good reputation and little power.

These people used Chen Jian's half-sold and half-given new technologies and new tools to crazily build up their reputation among the common people. In a cooperative way, they produced tools, and the common people contributed labor to reclaim land, organize workshops, and cut down trees.

The work he did was the same as before, but he got more food and had a surplus of copper coins every year. Thinking about how many years he would have a set of farm tools, he naturally sided with Xia Guo.

It seems that Ling has been away for more than three years, but her reputation has not dropped at all, it is much higher than before, especially after returning from Dongyi, she has made great achievements in battle.

This city is probably the epitome of a city near Yucheng. Chen Jian doesn't have the energy to manage too many places, so this kind of economic control is also kept in the west of Yucheng, south of Xiacheng, Onozawa and the banks of Dahe. some of the towns.These cities are not the basic base of the blood relationship alliance within Sucheng, and they are also convenient for maintaining close ties with Yuxia and Yuxia cities, and will not touch Suyue's bottom line.

Ordinarily, this city was not in Chen Jian's plan. After he became the high priest, he planned to invite cities with water links between Yuxia and Xia to form a mutual economic alliance. The heir, Chen Jian didn't want to be touched.

But the old leader's sudden death disrupted Chen Jian's plan and forced him to fight for it.

If you don't try to give up directly, your students will lose confidence in themselves. This time, you have to do it if you don't do it.Even if I know in my heart that this is not the best time, the world never changes according to human will, and there are not so many opportunities that are ready and infallible.

But this is also a risk, he is testing Su Yue's bottom line, and he has to stick to his own bottom line.

Now the relationship between the Xia Kingdom and the Sucheng blood alliance is very delicate. Its allies are very nervous. They don't want to go to war until they have completely digested the previous slaves, built small roads and new city walls; and similarly, Xia has just undergone changes. Although it has [-] people in name, its military After the reform, the combat effectiveness has actually declined significantly compared to before. The internal integration has not been completed, and the potential has not exploded, so Xia Guo does not want to fight.

Therefore, no matter whether it is Ling or his elder brother, they are now just a pawn in the struggle for future dominance within the Dahe tribes. .

Whether Ling or elder brother can become the leader, it does not depend on them, nor on the choice of the tribe, but on the game between the two cities of Xia, Su and the affiliated cities.

It's just that due to the distance and the speed of message transmission, the other player who should have been a chess player has not yet entered the arena. Chen Jian's extreme actions may turn the issue of succession of the city's leader into the fuse of a full-scale civil war.

Chapter 1 I fell into the pit and it happened to be alive

Chen Jian hopes that this fuse exists, but he also hopes that this fuse can be extended for three to five years.

One is really unbeatable now, and the other is even if he wins. He has not yet thought of an effective way to ensure the stability of the country.

In the previous life, Xia Shang was nominally the co-lord of the world, but it was only the obedience of hundreds of princes in name. Still those.

In the Zhou Dynasty, after the two enfeoffments, the meaning changed.First, Duke Zhou was a great talent, who used rituals to construct the universal values ​​of that era. As the executor and supervisor of rituals himself, what maintains the stability of the family and the world is the distinction between upper and lower, and the distinction between superior and inferior.

At this point, Chen Jian is not as talented as Zhou Gong, so even if he copied it, he couldn't learn it.

It is schizophrenia to say that regardless of one's background, one should only be an official based on academic knowledge, while expecting that all ministries will agree that the distinction between top and bottom will naturally have different values.The former is the standard that you can go if you can, and the latter is that you can’t go if you can because your blood is wrong. This is the diametrically opposite, and there is no room for compromise.

Without completely replicating the great talent of Duke Zhou, whether it can guarantee the internal stability of the ethnic group for hundreds of years, let alone the external conquest, the so-called "noble spirit" of this ethnic group is likely to die before birth-he has been killed with paper It has eliminated the possible trivial words and righteousness, and it may have eliminated many supposedly mysterious bronze cultures with iron, and it has also eliminated many nouns and special words that should appear in natural evolution...

In the history of this world, there will no longer be wars between two countries, and the general will take off his armor to salute the enemy's king; it will no longer be possible for a sharpshooter to not shoot because the enemy's chariot is also noble and has a higher status than himself in the Zhou system. ; It is also impossible for the Chu State to be defeated in the battle between Jin and Chu, and the car was stuck in the mud. The Jin State told the people of the Chu State to pick the crossbars from the car and put them in the mud pond so that they could escape. After the escape, the Jin State did not forget to praise: We It is indeed not as high as the escape technology of a big country like yours...

The country that abandoned this set of "universal values" most definitely was the Qin State. Among them, the most important patriarchal family and the like had a situation where the father asked his son to borrow money, and the son was full of displeasure. Judging by the universal values ​​condensed in 800 years, this is simply a beast.

Theoretically, if everyone's morality is perfectly in line with propriety, then there will be no disputes in the world, but it is not realistic.

Should we believe in the supremacy of morality?Or rules first?As long as the rules have not been deliberately restrained by morality, will everyone become a "beast", or will it naturally produce morality that is in line with the times and class?

Chen Jian believes in the latter, but the biggest problem between belief and practice is whether it can be done.

If the Xia Kingdom can overwhelm the heroes, it can naturally use strong force to guarantee that the central land counties and surrounding barren lands will be enfeoffed and colonized in a way similar to the county-state system; Power, the best choice is Zhou Gong's method to maintain the top-down system with moral law, so that the nobles are all relatives of the same family.

This life has a limited lifespan, so we must be anxious; Xia Guo's strength is still very weak, so we cannot be anxious.

This contradiction created the previous dialogue in this city.When Xia Guo is strong enough to make all the cities have to obey, what Ling said is pure morality and habit; cultured morality.

As for how to explain it from the source, but also to explain the rationality, this is not what the high priest can say, but only when the leader and the high priest belong to one person can he be qualified to explain.

You should believe it, this is the request of the high priest; you don’t have to believe it, but you will be beaten if you don’t believe it, this is the right of the leaders of the tribes.

The return of the soul to the soul, the return of the living to the living, this is what he wants to practice, and it is impossible for him to break it by himself, as it should be.

And it was this appeal and difference that made Chen Jian understand one thing on the way to this city.

He vaguely felt that Su Yue and other city leaders had dug a hole for themselves, a big hole in which they could bury themselves.

When he is not the high priest, he can toss about as he pleases. When he is the high priest, he tells all the leaders of Xia Guo's set of three views, that is to force the leaders of other clans and cities to oppose, and let Xia Guo become the leader of the cities. The enemy of the noble; according to the interpretation of the three views that everyone hopes, the noble will always be noble and the humble will be humble. ?

The wooden slips and papers piled up on the side only have a big frame for the various structures, and there are loopholes everywhere in the various details. This is originally a rote copy with the skin of idealism. Many things cannot be explained at all, and it is easy for people to find the loopholes.After all, the time is too short, and he hasn't prepared for the gaps in the entire system in advance.

And the strife in this city seems to be accidental, but in fact it is just something that must happen to him in the Awayake pit.Even if the leader of this city does not die, something else will always happen.

As a member of the alliance, he can express his opinions and choose to support and oppose.

As a high priest, he can't express his opinions casually, especially when he disagrees with the leader and the rules all the time. He needs to throw out a whole set of concept systems to explain why he expresses such opinions—if it's just an alliance As an internal member, he said that he was too stuffed to choose with his eyes closed and no one cared.

It seemed that the high priest was rewarding him for his exploits in the expedition to Dongyi, but Su Yue was actually forcing him to express his opinion in advance.Apparently, someone inside Suyue has noticed Xia Cheng's growing strength, but they have no excuses, so they want to push him to the forefront.