From Chief to Ball

"I just want them to agree."

Yu Qian'er nodded, that's how it is for exchanges, maybe a jar of salt can be exchanged for a sheep, or maybe not, then two jars, or three jars if it doesn't work, it can always be exchanged, but it's not worth it.

But knowing the result her brother wants, she understands that there is no need to consider whether one can, two cans or three cans, because what she wants is the current sheep, instead of thinking about the possibility of three cans of salt in the future. sheep.

After lunch, Yu Qian'er came back with a smile, and the discussion in the meeting quickly ended.

Nine chiefs agreed, six tribes vetoed, and Chen Jian's proposal was passed.

From today until the first snow falls, Chen Jian, as the leader of the council, is responsible for the affairs of the city, including the deployment of various tribes, and coordination of land distribution and reclamation.

Since it is passed, those who violate it during this period will be expelled from the city.

After the snow fell, Chen Jian's rights were lifted.

As for whether to continue to reply to the tribal council or continue to use this method, the various tribes will discuss together at that time.

The first step has been taken, and Chen Jian has enough confidence to win over more tribes in the past half a year, or squeeze out or even replace the few opposing leaders.

As for the price, it was twenty fishing nets, two thousand catties of wheat beans, forty pieces of bronze farm tools, and reclaimed land six hundred steps long and wide.

Chapter 70 Ruts

After becoming the leader through bribery, Chen Jian immediately sent riders to inform the seven wild villages downstream and the village leaders in the mountains to go to the city.

People from the Eyue tribe may arrive tomorrow, and before that, he must live up to his name.

After everyone came together, they sacrificed to their ancestors together.During the sacrifice, Chen Jianmeng swore that he would never favor any tribe, otherwise the ancestors would never protect him again.

By the way, he talked about more than 100 things, specifically to distinguish clearly what is the right of the tribal leader and what is the right of the city leader.

I have listed the possible problems that may arise temporarily, so that the current tribal alliance will not be able to distinguish between state affairs and clan affairs.

During the nagging, he also gave up some rights to the leaders of the various tribes. It sounds like the leaders of the tribes can manage more things than before, but in fact Chen Jian seized the military power, the right to land distribution and the right to personnel deployment. , although it is only half a year, it is enough.

The tribe sent more than 20 bronze-headed wooden canes that had been prepared long ago, and distributed them to each leader, including those of the wild people.

The scepter is a symbolic meaning.Because before he appeared, most of the leaders were elders who were highly respected, experienced and wise. The staff symbolizes the elders, and by extension, it symbolizes rights.

Even in the previous life, not only Egypt, Europe, Maya, and Aztec had scepters, but also the scepter at the beginning of the civilization of China.Both the Sanxingdui and Hongshan cultures were unearthed, and there is also a legend about Kuafu chasing the sun, abandoning his stick on the ground and turning it into a peach forest.

The essence of this legend should be that Kuafu's tribe followed Chi You and was beaten by Yanhuang, so he had to take the tribe to migrate westward, but died halfway, and the tribe buried him and his scepter in the peach forest, and finally became became a legend.

After the tribal era passed, the important events of the country were enshrined in the Rong, and the symbol of power changed from the scepter of the old leader to the Rong Yue and the tripod.

After the leaders got the wooden copper-headed scepter, they gave Chen Jian a bronze scepter together according to the script that Chen Jian had already prepared, which meant that the power of the tribal council was temporarily handed over to the owner of the scepter .

Chen Jian first pretended not to accept it, and said in panic, "I'm not even the leader of the tribe, so why did you let me become the leader of the council?"

The leaders said one after another: "The council has already decided, let you be the leader and lead the city and the tribe to go further."

Chen Jian took over the scepter, considering that the tribe could not understand poetry, so he said: "As long as it can make the city and the tribe develop better, even if I die, I will be willing to die, and I will never run away because of fear of disaster."

After raising this scepter, which was only qualified to use for more than half a year, there were bursts of cheers in the city, which was more or less expected by everyone.

After the ceremony, on the square, Chen Jian threw out the first sweet date after becoming the leader of the council.

The land on the south bank of the Caohe River will be divided along the river according to the population of each tribe. The far and near range will be determined by lottery of each tribe. There will be no favoritism, but the direction of the furrows must be the same.

The slaves of their own tribe would help the rest of the tribes to reclaim part of the land on the south bank, and each tribe sent seven people to build a small village on the south bank, responsible for guarding the land and driving animals away.

Each tribe is given a portion of clay pots, salt, dried fish, fishing nets and sackcloth.After the harvest, the four tribes living in the city will help the rest of the tribes transport the grain back from the mountains.

After Tianzao, there was no slap for the time being, and all the tribes were cheering. The tribes that were a little uneasy gradually felt relieved. At least now, it seems that Chen Jian has not turned towards his own tribe, and even got some benefits. He has the right to be the leader. Slightly more than before.

Yu Qian'er was in charge of distributing the gifts given to the various tribes. Chen Jian then asked people to stop the copper furnace, and arranged for a few people to go to the mine to watch over the slaves. They would not go here until the people of the Eyue tribe left Transport ore.

A pit was dug for the original ore, and all of it was buried in it. The smelted tin was also dug and buried. During this period, anyone who revealed the secret of the tribe's copper smelting was beheaded and executed.

Several tribes have no doubts about this matter, and they don't know how copper is smelted. In their opinion, this rule can only punish the four tribes in the city.

Afterwards, the men of each tribe gathered together, covered the square city with wooden frames, and took out all the things that could be exchanged in the city and put them there. Yuqianer and his younger brothers and sisters were responsible for demonstrating some How to use and eat things.

Four rooms were cleared, cleaned, covered with hides, and decorated with baubles of earthenware on the plastered walls.

Some newly caught fish from the Grass River were also thrown into the lotus pond, and a large number of wild flowers were dug from the wild and planted on both sides of the road outside the trenches of the city, and the toilets were also covered with plant ash.

After being busy, the Chen family asked the clansman who came back first: "You said the woman from the Eyue clan is their priest?"

"It seems that she is the woman of Eyue. When the wasteland was burned and planted, it was this woman who recited the congratulatory speech."

"What's her name?"

"Uh... In our words, her name is Jiu, the nine of six seven eight."

"Jiu'er? That's a weird name."

"More than that, that woman is still muttering while looking at the shadow of a piece of wood all day long."

Chen Jian nodded, rubbing his hands, wondering what kind of person this opponent is. This transaction is too important to his tribe, he must handle it well, and it is related to the distribution of tribe rights after Dong Dong himself handed over the scepter.

"Should be coming soon, right? Beat the drums, soldiers stand on both sides of the road, armored. Let Yu Qian'er drive the ox cart to meet...to catch this nine."

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Nine is indeed coming, but her name is not surprising at all.

Her mother's tribe is in charge of calendar numbers, so most of the names in the tribe are one, two, three or various stars, and they were given numbers as surnames by Hua, so her name should be number nine.

She is now walking with her tribe on the road that the tribes in the mountains and forests walked a month ago, and she also saw houses and fishing nets, but she didn't worship like those people, she just nodded slightly, let alone like those people a month ago I also thought this was the residence of the ancestors.

The road is the same road, the difference is the eyes.

Her eyes had seen civilization, so she wasn't too surprised.

The fishing nets are different from those of his own tribe, and catch more fish than his own tribe.But only one side of the net can be seen near the road in the first village. It seems that this village is not very rich.

When passing through the village, she pretended to be thirsty and asked the team to stop and rest in the village for a while.

I walked around the first village and looked at the villagers covered with bark and animal skins, feeling a little puzzled.She thought that everyone in Chen Jian's tribe could at least wear that kind of linen clothes, but now it seems that they are not, and these people don't even have many clay pots.

Looking at the houses in the village, Jiu was even more strange.

The wood of these houses is new, and the cut parts are still white, not black after being exposed to rain and sun. You can even see the pits left by digging the soil, and no grass has grown on them, which shows that these houses are built for at most half a year.

The house is also different from the house of my own tribe, because my tribe's former home was on the bank of a big river. In order to prevent floods, the house cannot be such a semi-basement.Either the wooden railings of the millet people are below, and the house is built on the wooden railings that are more than one person high; or the rammed earth foundation of the Chinese people, and the foundation continues to be raised after the flood recedes.

"Is this the case with Jian's tribe? Not as powerful as I thought? If so, maybe this exchange can be completely different. They also moved from far away? This river never flows? Or did they not consider it at all?" To the possibility of flooding?"