From Chief to Ball

After all the ten tribes were notified, the civet cat looked at the mountains in the distance, and the tribes that did not keep their oath were among the mountains.

He was thinking, how would Jian punish them?

On the bank of the distant Caohe River, Chen Jian was riding a white horned deer and was leading the team forward slowly.

The bodies of the dead clansmen, as well as the bodies of the servants, were sent back to the village by boat down the river early.He asked the clansmen who left first to bury them together, leave some soil behind, and build a grave after everyone went back.

Counting the time, the pit should have been dug and buried in by now, and the clansmen should have known the news of their victory.

It's just that there are too many things to take when going back, so the large troops walked very slowly, and they had to take care of these slaves.

Before the slaves have felt the pain of labor, they will not think of fleeing.This is not the American plantation of later generations, nor is there Uncle Tom's hut, there is only a dead end to escape, and there is no natural way for one person to meet the other.

What's more, these people who are about to become slaves still have the concept of labor in things like chopping wood and peeling beans. They may think that this is nothing, at least it is much simpler than the struggle against nature many years ago. .

The feeling that life is worse than death can only be summed up after someone has experienced it.

Chen Jian looked at these slaves who didn't expect to resist, and thought that their concept of labor would be turned upside down soon.

Copper mines have to be mined, and people can only memorize them bit by bit. Even in the age of technology, miners are still a high-mortality occupation.

In addition to mining, the land needs to be reclaimed, mud and bricks also need to be made by people, as well as building walls and ramming... These are extremely tiring jobs, which they have never heard of.

Of course, the use of slaves should not be too excessive.To put it bluntly, a slave is a talking tool, but it has life.Live one more day, work one more day, and earn more.

The oppression became ruthless, tools were smashed, and uprising and resistance were not worth the loss.Nowadays, the population is scarce, and every member of the tribe is very important. Chen Jian does not want the tribe to die in such inexplicable things.

The delicate balance between the cost of repression and cruel exploitation is something that any ruling class must learn, and it is also an important thing he wants to teach his tribe.

In this era of scarce population, assuming that each slave can cultivate [-] acres of land every year, harvest a thousand catties of grain, dig out three to four hundred catties for them to eat, and earn a net profit of five or six hundred catties. earn some.And if the oppression is too severe, even if there are many things deprived every year, in the long run, premature death, possible resistance, and smashed tools... will not be worthwhile.

This is not the factory in the era of primitive accumulation. There are piles of bankrupt farmers who have been forced to live by the enclosure movement. They have as many child laborers as they want, and the child laborers with a life expectancy of six years are fired immediately if they can’t work.Anyway, there is the Poor Act, if you don't go to a factory, you will be caught in a workhouse, it would be better to live six more years.

An era has its own countermeasures. Nothing is static. Even though people from another world have a natural aversion to slavery, in this era we must abide by the rules of the era.

Population is power now, and these captured women can also bring new life to the tribe.Chen Jian has observed these people, and they are not much different from the clansmen, and the children born to them can be raised by the clansmen.Except for a very small number of people who will think of their biological mothers when they grow up, most people will choose a more comfortable life.

These captured women will also have an impact on the concept of the tribe, and the future children will involve a very serious question: Do children belong to men?Or a woman?

With surnames to distinguish ethnic groups who are not married, men to cultivate land to get more food, and captured female slaves to give birth to children, must women be used to distinguish blood?

The change of concept does not happen overnight. Excluding the factor of female slaves, in the environment of long-term group marriage or pair marriage, children born normally can only rely on women to distinguish blood, because each woman may have four or five fixed spouses. The same is true for men. Men can't tell whose child it is, but women can clearly know that it is their own child.

This will take a long time, and there is no way to speed it up, and the effect of forced implementation is not good, and the current productivity is not qualified to disintegrate the ethnic group into a family.

Counting the days when I don't want to be green, I have to wait a year or two. I have to rely on this group of slaves to get bronze as soon as possible, and I and the tribe will be out of production to train and attack more tribes, looking for cattle and horses, so that the tribe can be disintegrated into a family as soon as possible.

He rode on the horned deer, and smiled unnaturally. He has been in this world for so long, and he can finally be regarded as a member of the ruling class, and he began to think about how to squeeze others.

My butt was a little hot, but fortunately my head was still clear.

Chapter 19 Council

The first day of the first lunar month in the clan calendar is the first name in the clan calendar that has nothing to do with eating.The people of the tribe can finally take their eyes off the food and turn to the crystal dewdrops. The dewdrops are beautiful, but not tasty.

Chen Jian speculated that today should be the Mid-Autumn Festival in his previous life, and the weather was already a bit cold.When the sun dried the last drop of dew, the last invited tribe also came to the village.

The ten tribes, plus the two tribes in the village and the rescued two tribes, have a total of 600 tribes with a population of more than [-] people, making this small village lively.

Those captured slaves are busy preparing for today's banquet. Chen Jian has been back for four days. During the four days, these slaves first built a few small houses for themselves, and then planted wooden fences to prevent themselves run away.

Chen Jian divided these captured slaves into five teams. Each team lived far away to prevent them from colluding secretly. The five teams were responsible for different things on weekdays, so as to minimize the chances of them getting together.

Today is a special day. There is no need to do hard work, but only light tasks such as carrying firewood and carrying bowls.Now that thousands of people gather together, their hair without a bun looks out of place, especially because the people who came here are very clean, which makes them feel ashamed.

I am not qualified to eat the food brought up, I can only swallow secretly, even if I want to steal it, the girl named Yuqianer is very fierce, the food taken away by each group of slaves is different, if the food is found If there is less, the people in one group will be whipped by the cane.

Red Fish is holding a pot of cut fish, the white fish meat is very delicate, next to it is a small bowl of something that exudes a strong sour smell and the smell of mustard seeds. She really wants to taste it, not because she is greedy, but because she is curious, but Not at all.For some reason, she felt that the girl named Yu Qian'er was somewhat hostile towards women like herself, but she didn't know where the hostility came from.

After putting away the food, she turned her head to look for Chen Jian, and found that Chen Jian was entering a hut with the leader of the tribe who arrived last.

The hut was made of rammed earth, which cut off her eyes and ears, so she couldn't see or hear anything.

In the hut, ten tribes, old grandmother, Shitou, and Chen Jian, a total of thirteen people, were kneeling and sitting around a piece of tiger skin, which was seized last time.

Chen Jian sat on the tiger's head intentionally or unintentionally, and asked Yu Qian'er to pour some cloudy wine into the bowls in front of each leader.

"Taste it, it's wine."

The ten leaders picked up the bowl curiously, licked it with their tongues, and found that it was very sweet and had a special fragrance.After taking a sip, they praised it as a good thing.

Of course they knew that Chen Jian didn't call them here to taste wine, so they just took a sip and waited for the next step.

Chen Jian took out a twig, and then took out a handful of twigs, and said to everyone: "A twig is easy to break. But a twig is too tender to be broken. Since we come from the same Ancestors, they will gather together like this tree branch, don’t you think so?”

"Yes, of course."

The leaders nodded one after another, and someone took a branch curiously. They found that Chen Jian's tribe used this kind of branch when eating. The leaders of the tribe who came earlier tried to stir it a few times, and put it aside again.

"You also know that our people come from the place where the sun rises. There is also a meteorite tribe there. They oppress the surrounding tribes and force them to donate some food. One day they will find us. You say we Will you give it?"

"of course not!"

"Not only did they not give them, but they also robbed them. Didn't they rob a lot of sheep and horned deer this time?"

"Yes, Jian, how should these things be divided? That tribe can't beat us."

Chen Jian waved his hand and said, "That's not the case. Their tribe may not be able to defeat us, but what about you? Which tribe do you think can block those weapons falling from the world?"

These leaders lowered their heads and pondered for a while, and finally someone said: "Then what shall we do?"

"We are like branches on a tree, coming from the same root. Of course I don't care about your tribe's affairs. I have said before that everyone is the same ancestor. As long as you believe in your ancestors, your affairs Our tribe will definitely help. What I said, I have done it so far, right?"

"Yes, we trust your tribe."

"Yes, we believe in you."

Chen Jian nodded and said: "But this time, there are still four tribes who did not come. The ancestors protect us and will punish those who violated the oath. The ancestors could not come here from another world, so they need us." Children and grandchildren come to punish them, are you right?"

"Yes. That's right, like children who have made mistakes, they always have their mother to tell them what is right."

"Yeah, you are all the leaders of the tribe, and you are like the mother of the child. We have to discuss how to teach the child. Now that we have so many people, it is impossible to call everyone together to discuss it. It’s not good to discuss anything, don’t you think?”

Listening to the commotion outside, these people knew that Chen Jian was right.Tribes used to have a deliberative system, and it was okay within the clan, but now the ties between each clan are much closer, and the noise and differences are also increasing. Tribes upstream and downstream of the same river have already had troubles over fishing. After several times, these matters cannot be resolved within the clan.

"Since this is the case, we will discuss matters such as unhappiness between tribes, wars with foreign tribes, and negotiations with foreign tribes. After you go back, you will discuss with your tribe, and we will discuss with you after the discussion. What do you think? "

The leaders discussed in whispers and nodded in agreement. They could imagine that there would be more and more wars in the future, and the conflicts accumulated between the various tribes would gradually increase. This is a good way.