From Chief to Ball

Everyone thought about it for a while, then laughed there, and shook their heads one by one, saying, "When will we be able to clearly hurt someone but make people appreciate the sacrifice?"

"Soon. In a few years, one by one will be able to do it, and the ones that won't be gone will be able to do the rest."

There was something in Chen Jian's words, and he didn't care whether these people understood or not, so he asked someone to bring him over and said, "The village that exchanged salt with you is gone, and it will move out next year. What do you think you will eat next year?"

"I just did some calculations. You should still have salt to eat next year. At least three days later in this valley, there will be goods like salt and herbs exchanged with you as you said. This valley The terrain is flat and people cannot hide, so it is really a good place to exchange."

When he was stunned, Chen Jian asked someone to loosen the rope for him, and several people wrapped the salt in several pottery pots in their bags and handed them over, "It's convenient to carry it this way."

I don't know why, so I dipped my hand to make sure it was salt, and I was even more confused. I really don't know what this person in front of me is going to do. Will there really be salt and herbs in this valley in three days?

Chen Jian didn't say much, he left the moan in the field without saying a word, turned around and was about to leave, but after seeing him motionless for a long time, Chen Jian laughed and said, "Afraid that I will follow the footprints? I will teach you a way to climb Go up the tree and walk the branches, and no one can catch up."

Chapter 35 Only fires are allowed, no lamps allowed

He accepted Chen Jian's kind reminder, climbed up the tree and ran away without a trace. The rest of his partners were all detained by Chen Jian, and at night they were forced to collect branches and live in a cave he found.

I haven't lived in a cave for two or three years. The topic of the evening is inevitably recalling the days when I lived in a cave, the years when I never got rid of the barbarism. The stories are paired with wine, and everyone is drunk and courageous.

"Ji Xia, are you really planning to exchange with these escaped slaves? Or are you planning to set a trap to capture them all?"

Chen Jian took a sip of the wine gourd handed over by the speaker, and said with a smile, "Guess?"

"I guess we are really planning to exchange with them. We will build a new city here in the future, and we are not allowed to build a city wall... It is said that the weapons of the slaves who fled to the depths of the Great Wilderness are not as sharp as ours, and they can still block those encircling raiders." People, it is nothing more than because there are swamps and lakes full of people everywhere."

"That's right, Jixia, let's build a city here, it is best to build it on an island in the wilderness, and the water is the best city wall. Speaking of ships, we have such big sailboats, they are still sheepskin rafts or trees Kayak, if we really turn against each other, we don't have to be afraid."

"Ji Xia, before I came with you, I thought we were all relatives, and everything could be discussed. But when I came here, not to mention just relatives, even brothers would be beaten to death. Mile."

Several people chattered a few times, and finally someone asked the most daring question: "Ji Xia, these slaves should be executed for escaping. What should I do if I escape?"

The few people around the side gathered around when they heard this. This is a problem they are very concerned about, because most of them are the beneficiaries of the slave system. Many people have owned slave land because of their military exploits. Such a thing, if you escape, you will be executed.

Chen Jian didn't know what they really cared about. Looking at the crowd, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, the rules of Xiacheng remain unchanged, and your slaves are still yours. But are the slaves here yours?"

"No."

"Killing the fugitive slaves here, will it scare the slaves in Xia Cheng who want to escape?"

"No."

"Is there any difference between a dead slave and a broken bowl from a broken wheel?"

"No."

"That's it. What are you worried about? Ah? Are you the only ones who have slaves? I don't have one? The public property is not counted. My brothers and sisters are not separated. Now I have three to five hundred slaves. What are you afraid of? It's what I'm afraid of; what you want is what I want; what are you worried about?"

Only when the stakeholder is involved in the system makers themselves can the people below be convinced, each of them heaves a sigh of relief, and then thinks of another problem.

Xia City has a set of officials, does it mean that this city will have a similar set?There must not be many old people in Xiacheng here, and they definitely won't be selected, they must be directly appointed by Jixia...

Worried about the slaves, it's really better to imagine that you can show off your hands and feet in this city, one by one, seemingly inadvertently boasting about their previous achievements through drunkenness, pretending to be unintentional or boldly taking off their leather jackets to reveal their glory symbolizing The scar, I hope Chen Jian can remember his bravery in battle after seeing it.

After Chen Jian also praised a few words, he found a few escaped slaves and asked about the situation in Onozawa. Unexpectedly, everyone was very stubborn. Although there was fear in their eyes, everyone was together and finally defeated the fear. Keep silent.

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He didn't rest at night, he circled a big circle on the branch, jumped into the bitingly cold water in order not to leave footprints, gritted his teeth and pushed the burden of salt on top of his head, and finally reached the raft hidden among the reeds , When I climbed up, my lips were already purple.

He drifted in the lake for a whole day, actually not far from the island in the middle of the lake where they lived, but he couldn't bear to go back in the daytime, and didn't dare to see the disappointed eyes of everyone who couldn't see Yan Hou.

After eating half a stomach of reed roots, he stayed up until nightfall, climbed up from a hidden cliff, and shouted a few times before reaching the top, and the people guarding on the top were about to shout in surprise, but his mouth was covered.

"Don't call me, take me to Jianze secretly, something serious happened."

Needless to say, seeing Ye came back alone, the night watchmen knew that something serious had happened, and after hearing Ye's instructions not to speak out, they knew that this matter might turn the world upside down, and everyone was panicked. .

Going into a cellar dug out, Ze, in his 30s, didn't panic. He asked someone to replace the night watchmen, prevented them from going out, and turned over the stove himself. The smoldering fire ignited, and he went out to grab some snow and rubbed his ears. By the way, he asked someone to inform some people who could discuss matters.

After all the people arrived, Ge narrated the strange scenes he had experienced. A group of people looked at him in disbelief, but they knew that he was never the kind of person who talked nonsense, besides, he really did a few things. It is impossible for those people to let go of such a big matter, let alone let him come back and tell some lies.

Ze stood up and walked a few steps and asked, "What's that person's name?"

"Ji Xia."

"Ji... this surname... I have never heard of it. Has any of you heard of it?"

The people below all shook their heads. Since they are qualified to discuss matters in this cellar, they have of course been on this island for a long time. Besides, this is along the banks of a vast and boundless river, not a grass river that spans three to five hundred miles. Chen Jian The name is more quaint than legendary.

Ze thought for a while and said, "Did you see him release the people in the village with your own eyes? He only said that he would let them move out next spring?"

"Yes, he also said some weird things to the people accompanying him. It seemed that he wanted to drive away all the nearby villages, and he wanted to exchange with us. Could it be that he thought of doing this because he saw that we had a lot of goods in exchange for salt? ?”

Ze shook his head and said: "It's absolutely impossible. The salt around here is from Sucheng, and many of us have escaped from Sucheng. Isn't he afraid of making Suyue unhappy by doing this? If he is not afraid, then prove them The city is comparable to Sucheng, and a city leader who is comparable to Sucheng, would he value such wild animals?"

There is a reason for Ze’s confusion. He can’t understand this kind of obvious overtures, because the concept of recruiting security has not yet existed in this era. Their resistance and declarations have shaken the foundation of the city, and they can only be wiped out without any overtures. .

Even if they are released to later generations, those recruiting peace are because their resistance will not shake the foundation of the entire society. Most of them think that the emperor is good and the officials are bad. They have never fundamentally shaken the entire society, and there is room for peace.

These slaves are not the case. If they are recruited, what about the rest of the slaves?How to maintain slavery?This is a resistance that shakes the foundation of the entire society, and is feared and opposed by all those with vested interests.Rebellions that can be recruited must be fine-tuned within the rules of the circle, and interests can be redistributed within the scope of the rules of the circle; those who cannot be recruited must break the circle and change the rules, and change the original circle into a new one. into squares.completely different.

It is precisely because of this difference that no one has ever wanted to contact them in good faith. Chen Jian's obvious overtures turned into winking at the blind man, which made the people in the cellar somewhat puzzled.

"What the hell does he want to do?"

Ze walked around the ground a few times, thinking of every possibility he could think of, but he couldn't figure it out.

His thinking is very simple and realistic: a person sees a pity for a hungry dog, and may give the dog a corn cake that is dying of starvation, but he will definitely not cut off his own thigh and feed it to the dog.

The nobles in those cities may pity them before they escape and give them more meat to eat; but they will never allow them to escape to resist or even kill their masters.

To give meat is to feed the dog, and to resist is to cut up the legs. Could it be that this Jixia is really that kind of person, someone who can really be kind enough to cut off his own meat and feed it to the dog?

Thinking of this possibility, Ze asked: "Hey, do you think what Jixia said can be believed? What kind of person is that person... Is he soft-hearted? Seeing your broken body and frostbite on your feet, is there any doubt? No sighs?"

"Not at all. He even poured wine on my cracked foot when he asked me something. It hurts like hell. This person is very strange, he behaves strangely and speaks strangely, and I can't understand what he is going to do at all. By the way...it turns out He was accompanied by a woman, and he had some conversations with that woman..."

After saying what Chen Jian teased Yue Mei, everyone laughed, Ze's face darkened, and he was stunned, how could this be a kind person?Among other things, it can be heard from these few words that this is definitely not a person who can cut up his own meat and feed it to dogs.

Seeing everyone laughing, Ze sighed: "This kind of person is terrible. The goshawk only uses the goshawk's eyes to see the world, so the goshawk wonders why those little birds fly so short and slow, this kind of goshawk It’s not scary. What’s scary is that the goshawk not only uses its own eyes to see the world, but when it sees a bird flying very slowly, it thinks that the bird is flying so slowly because it wants to eat bugs.”

"He knows what we want, and why some masters may be nice to some slaves but still run away, which is not what I thought at all."

He shook his head and sighed, "I don't want to associate with this kind of person. But for the sake of salt, herbs, and thousands of people living here, I have to associate with him. Since he said that he would drive away the surrounding villages, Then he will drive him away, and the villages he drives away may really be grateful to him as he said. There must be some reason we don’t know for him to do this, I’m afraid it’s not for pity us.”

Everyone was silent for a while, then said with a wry smile: "Now suppose we are about to starve to death, and there is a pot of boiled mushrooms in the pot. The mushrooms are poisonous, and we will die in a month; if we don't eat mushrooms, we will starve to death at night. Eat ? Or not to eat?"

Chapter 36 Substitution