From Chief to Ball

So the question becomes: Of course, I support Jixia's seemingly proposed rule that fathers die and sons succeed, and expect him, the high priest, to perfect his explanation and rationality; but he doesn't necessarily support the son that Jixia supports.Therefore, I am nervous but not angry. The only thing I worry about is which side I will stand in in the future.Stand now or stand again in the future?

Chapter 1 Fourteen Split

Everyone was full of expectations, but full of worries, and finally waited for Chen Jian's proposal.

"Since this is the first time that the tribes of Dahe have discussed the issue of the leader, they have to convince the people of the country. What convinces them is not the method this time, but the various rules in the future. If the method this time cannot convince the people of the country If you are convinced, then how will the rules in the future be convinced by everyone?"

"Just like if I want to implement a rule, so I set up a log and say that it can be carried outside the city and give a hundred dollars. Then I don't want everyone to resist the log in the future, but so that the rules behind the log can be implemented."

"If you don't do well this time so that the people of the country will complain, then the people in the country will only laugh at the rules of the Dahe tribes in the future and will not be able to abide by them; if you do well this time, the people of the country will think that the rules of the tribes of the river are good to them. They will naturally abide by the new rules and will not oppose them, isn't that the case?"

All the leaders nodded and said yes, and they were full of confidence in Chen Jian, the future high priest. At least few priests can say such a person who can understand the truth without relying on the gods. Who can refute it when it is used where all the leaders want it?

Su Yue didn't have any objection either, he was thinking about Ji Xia, Ji Xia, the more difficult you say, the more dangerous it will be when you become the high priest - what you say is not what everyone wants to hear, But everyone can't talk about you, so there is only one way to make you shut up.

After a long time, Chen Jiancai said amid the reasonable shouts of praise from everyone: "The sons left by that leader are all talented, but as Ling's husband, I know Ling better, so I am closer. According to Xia Guo's rules, then Naturally, whoever has talent will be the leader, I know that everyone doesn't like to hear this, but you have to think this way..."

"It's like if you get a deer, it will stink if you can't finish it in summer. Of course you will give it to others. But how will you divide it? Do you give it to people you don't know first? Or give it to you first People you know, people you are familiar with, or your family? In the clan era a long time ago, it was naturally distributed to the whole clan, but not now."

"So as King Xia, I will support Ling as the leader according to Xiacheng's rules; but according to everyone's normal thinking, I will also support Ling. After all, I am closer to Ling than his brother."

Everyone hurriedly looked at Su Yue's face, and then at Chen Jian, thinking to themselves which rule did you choose according to?The result is the same, but the way of saying it is completely different. We prefer your way of sharing the deer.

The city priests who were going to force Chen Jian to express their opinions at that time thought of a "meeting ceremony" for the high priest.Now you can say that both are the same, but when you become the high priest, you can't be so confused. You have to give us an explanation: Is talent important or blood closeness?You have to give us an explanation.

Su Yue was not angry at all, and said with a smile: "Ji Xia is right, so of course I support Ling's elder brother. My reasons are the same as Ji Xia's, talent and closeness are the same. After all, I don't know much about that Ling, I don’t have a talent I’ve seen before.”

Everyone looked around and didn't speak. This matter itself has nothing to do with them. It is neither uncle's blood relationship nor master-student inheritance, but this matter must support someone.

"This is the first time that I have had disagreements with the leader of Suyue, but it is neither a battle with Yidi nor a flood in a great river. I, the leader of the Xia Kingdom and the false leader of Weicheng, always want to speak out about myself. If you think about it, I hope Chief Suyue will not be offended."

"How could it be? This should be the case. Could it be that I, the leader, can make all the leaders dare not speak now? This is simply my fault. Jixia shouldn't record it in the history books like he did when he met Qiongxi."

Everyone laughed for a while, relieving the stagnant atmosphere, and said that it's not that we dare not speak, but that we don't want to speak now, whoever is the leader of that city is none of our business, but you two are forcing us say something.

Chen Jian sighed and said, "We can't hurt the harmony of the family, and we can't let the people in that city feel that we have chosen the wrong person. It seems that there is only one way."

"At that time, the city will be divided into two halves, and each will temporarily act as the leader. From today until the winter of the 39th year of the Chinese calendar, the two false leaders of the city will temporarily coexist. If the building is better, let whoever is the leader."

"If the defeated one refuses to let go, and the people of the country don't object, we Dahe tribes should also fulfill our responsibilities as a family, and send troops to maintain the rules of the oath to enforce our rules."

"One is to let the tribesmen of Dahe know that if they don't abide by the rules and regulations or the oath, the other tribes will punish them, and then the rules we negotiated can be implemented naturally; I'm arguing about this matter, which is not what we are going to do in this alliance."

"Now that Dongyi has not been flattened, I heard that Mouhu and Qiongxi have done some great things together, and they have looted a lot of gunpowder and learned how to dig tunnels to attack the city. Reinforced, roads are not leveled, at this time there should be no disagreement over such a trivial matter."

Su Yue cursed secretly in his heart, but he didn't object at this time.Today it is simply not enough to oppose standing in line that is simply a power struggle.What he needs is to turn the power struggle into a battle of ideas after promoting Chen Jian as the high priest...

Because Su Yue understands that the attitudes of these leaders towards this matter can be roughly divided into three types: the group headed by Ewei supports Chen Jian, his own family alliance supports him, and most of the rest don't care.

But once you become a high priest, the battle of ideas will only change into two attitudes: support and opposition.What is indifferent now will become objectionable then.

Now Xia Guo has just come up with stirrups, muskets, cloth face armor and other things that can deceive people. No one is willing to object unless the leaders of the cities are forced to a desperate situation. They all have the illusion that they can do it in three years Own your own iron smelting workshop - you can have no smelting workshop, but the rights must be inherited by blood and the independence of each city must be maintained. If the iron smelting workshop is replaced by the latter, no one will change it.It is better to have rights over stones than iron tools for rights.

Nowadays, many cities are still immersed in the fantasy of peaceful coexistence and unity of relatives. They have not been compared with the precedent of centralization and seizure of power.

And it was this kind of fantasy and Su Yue's ambiguous attitude that did not clearly object that made those cities who didn't care at all say, "Jixia's method is novel, but you can try it. In three to five years, is it beautiful jade or stubborn?" Mr. Shi can see it."

Su Yue laughed and said: "Let's do it that way, let's make an oath, and if the two brothers still have conflicts at that time, then we can only send troops to support the one who has done well."

"It will be a rule in the future. If the leader chooses someone to succeed, that person must be wise and capable. If others want to usurp it, we must jointly send troops to oppose it and support the one the leader chose before his death."

"If it's the same as this case, the one who passed away suddenly didn't elect a successor in advance, we have to figure out a way in the past three years, and we can't always use this method of trying separately. This time there is no way, next time we must There is a rule, whoever owns it belongs to.”

Everyone couldn't hear the subtext, and echoed: "That's it, whoever owns it is whoever owns it, there must be a rule."

Several people looked at Chen Jian with smiles, thinking that this is what the high priest should do.Who's who should be; and why should be whose, it's up to you to explain.

They still have great confidence in Chen Jian, and also in their own fantasies. They hope that after this alliance, there will be new questions about heaven, earth, people, rights, leaders, etc. that the tribe cannot refute. Interpretation in the interests of the leader.

Chen Jian also looked at the crowd with a smile, and said in his heart that I am afraid that you will be disappointed. I didn't bring the wooden slips and paper this time, but I brought the stirrup armor and musket.

Chapter 1 Fifteen

Su Yue didn't think about what Chen Jian was going to do, but asked a more practical question.

"Jixia, as you said, if the city is divided into two, whoever can make the clansman live in peace and prosperity after a few years can become the leader of the entire city. You also said that if the other party cannot abide by the surrender of rights , then everyone will fight together.”

"But what if the other clan's city did not go to crusade? Shall we go to crusade on the city that did not go to crusade? Does that mean that in addition to managing floods and barbarians, the tribes allied First of all, how about maintaining these new rules?"

Chen Jian nodded and said, "That's exactly how it should be. The rules for building houses are drawn with rulers, and the rules for ministries are of course drawn with spears."

Su Yue praised: "Ji Xia's words are right. The rules should be enforced by the chiefs, but who should establish these rules? Among the chiefs, Ji Xia is the most intelligent; It is Ji Xia who favors her. Although these rules require the consent of the clan leaders, this rule needs to be confirmed by one person."

"Since Jixia returned from Dongyi, all the tribes have been convinced. Therefore, the purpose of convening the alliance of the tribes this time is to let the tribes remember Jixia's meritorious service in rescuing the relatives. And I propose that Jixia be the head of the tribes. Priests, to determine the various rules, discuss with the leaders."

"Since Jixia is favored by our ancestors, he must know what kind of rules our ancestors like and hate when we don't have them. Therefore, if Jixia isn't the chief priest, he can't do it."

"Besides, according to what Jixia said, some bad souls will pretend to be the souls of our ancestors and give us wrong guidance. This is beyond our ability to distinguish. However, Jixia led the people from the construction of Caohe to the defeat of Dongyi. What a mistake, probably Jixia has already been able to tell which ones are real and which ones are fake."

Everyone had heard about this for a long time, and they all knew the purpose of this alliance, so they were not surprised, but they all echoed and supported Su Yue's proposal.

Some people think that this is what they deserve, and no one is more suitable than Chen Jian; some people think that because they are related to Su Yue, they have already sided with Su Yue.

However, what Su Yue said about the high priest was full of evil intentions. He said it nicely and wanted Chen Jian to communicate with his ancestors so as to confirm the rules that his ancestors liked and eliminate the rules that his ancestors hated.

It's just that "ancestor" here is not an illusory thing at all, but a collection of the thoughts of all the chiefs present - what they dislike is what the ancestors dislike, what they like is what the ancestors like, and what they dislike is what the ancestors like. What was brought up by Chen Jian must be a bad soul guiding Chen Jian.

The big hole that Chen Jian dug to destroy theocracy has become a part of secular rights fighting for justice for their own actions. Said, but it is a yoke.

So Chen Jian replied cautiously and panicked: "How can I tell if it's real or fake? I'm afraid I can't do well in this important task of the high priest. You should choose another person."

Su Yue smiled and said: "This is not my idea alone, it is the trust of the various tribes in you. Jixia said all day long that the relatives are one, and the interests of the Dahe tribes are above everything else. Now is the time for you to take on the heavy responsibility. How can you be afraid?"

Chen Jian asked the surrounding leaders and priests again, "Do you all think that what I said before is correct?"

A person who had debated with Chen Jian because of the comet incident nodded and said: "At the beginning, I thought what Jixia said was wrong, but after thinking about it later, I realized that there is nothing that can solve my doubts better than this."

"The ancestors will treat us with the same kindness as parents treat their children, and will not bring disasters to our descendants. Just like a mother breastfeeding, how can the son be hungry to punish him because he bit the mother's breast because of his ignorance? "

"Since this is the case, it is wrong to say that the disasters, divination failures and other ominous events are caused by our insufficient sacrifices, so that the punishment from the ancestors of heaven and earth is wrong. The ancestors are our ancestors. What about the ancestral gods who drowned their descendants in the flood?"

"That's why those bad fortune tellers, those calamities, floods, plagues, and naturally bad souls want to devour us."

"Before I heard Jixia's words, I couldn't understand these questions, so that I thought it was our ancestors' punishment. But if Jixia said it like this, I can understand it."

"Last year, our city was threatened by mountain torrents. The people of the clan were very afraid and thought that more sacrifices were needed. It was precisely because of Jixia's words that we asked everyone to use hoes, shovels and other tools exchanged from Yucheng to surround the city. Live in the fields. This is precisely because Ji Xia said that our ancestors liked us to fight those bad souls, so we were able to keep our corn fields."

Not only this priest, but many people also showed signs of agreement.Chen Jian's theories are actually full of loopholes, but compared to the previous sacrificial theories, at least they can be justified and won't cause too many existing confusions, and new confusions have not yet appeared due to the level of productivity .