From Chief to Ball

When autumn passes, it becomes winter, and if winter passes, 34 years in the Chinese calendar will be considered to have passed.

Various changes have left different memories for many people, but there are also many memories of people who do not belong to the Xiacheng system or even the Caohe League, and these memories are naturally related to the Xiacheng system.

For example, in August, Yucheng's decree on fugitive slaves and not slaves spread to other cities, and the nobles in various cities who had praised Chen Jian because of the theory of blood could not help but curse at this time.

This kind of scolding is very interesting, the closer you are, the harder you scold, but there are also a group of people who don't scold, because they took the lead in reaching some trade with Xiacheng. The iron farm tools and wool shears provided by Xiacheng are very cheap, and the What was paid was the non-existent wool that could be sheared twice a year-slaves could do it, and iron implements saved them a lot of slaves.

The exchanges between them and Yucheng in Xiacheng became more and more close, but the fundamental changes involved did not take place: Chen Jian once suggested that they allocate part of the land for slaves to cultivate, and after paying enough food, the remaining batch could be used to stimulate the enthusiasm of slaves.

However, those people were keenly aware of the danger and resolutely opposed it: If slaves own surplus products, how can they control slaves?Only having nothing can guarantee that slaves are their own private property and not human beings.They would rather not use iron farm tools than give up their talking property.

Envoys from various cities arrived in Yucheng in September and reiterated the original secret agreement, strictly prohibiting Shi Qi and others from performing any drama about Yucheng's reform in other cities. If Chen Jian does not abide by it, he will cut off the food supply with Yucheng trading.

Chen Jian agreed, and when everyone thought they had captured Yucheng Mingmen, another incident made them even more uneasy.

A continuous autumn rain in mid-September caused a city downstream to be flooded. After the flood receded, Yucheng organized a fleet and donated 80 jin of grain to that city with the righteousness of all the tribes of the river. .

The entire grain transportation lasted for half a month, and it was so orderly that it didn't even affect the entire field of work in Yucheng. Moreover, most of the grain that arrived was new wheat. Performing various dramas to promote the unity of kinship and the like.

At the same time, it was also a kind of demonstration. As a demonstration after being threatened by people at the beginning of the month, the leaders of those cities knew that this was Chen Jian telling them that it was useless not to threaten themselves with food.

The shock caused by this batch of grain didn't stop there. The nobles in every city knew that Yucheng had established several farms and that Yucheng had begun to use iron farm tools on a large scale. Of course, they knew where the new wheat came from.

So a rather terrifying thought swirled in their minds: Could it be that those iron farm tools and plowshares are really more useful than slaves?You must know that two thousand slaves holding stones can't produce that much food at all, let alone provide free assistance to other cities.

The places where these boats passed made those people realize the horror of the new tools. When the boats came back, many people followed the boats to Yucheng, wanting to see those new farm tools.

As for the disaster-stricken city, what they remember most is that after their homes were destroyed, boats flying the flags of the Yin-Yang fish and the flag of the Flower of Light that Hwaseong worshiped back then shuttled back and forth, transporting the people they urgently needed. of food arrived.

Not everyone needs food, many people have stored food, but there are also many civilians who do not have so much stored food.

Those who came with the food, and some people who sang songs and performed plays, the idea of ​​kinship unity was originally far away for them, but now it is within reach.

The sun rises in the east and rains in the west, your family suffers from a disaster and my family is fine. Since we are all relatives, of course I will help you through the disaster year. It may be better if the world is bigger in the future. There is always a place where there is no disaster, and there is always a leader You can deploy the world's materials.

These grains are provided free of charge, but in order to be able to carry them, the people of Yucheng asked those who were affected by the disaster to build a small pier by the river. After the small pier was built, a row of houses was built as a warehouse. People are responsible for coordinating the rebuilding of these disaster-stricken people.

Then a batch of farm tools came over, saying that they had suffered a disaster and it was time for them to cultivate. Although Yucheng didn't even have enough farm tools, they still sent Yun Yun for the sake of the family.The leaders and nobles were busy with their own affairs and had no time to take care of those people. This was a matter of course. The commoners didn't feel anything, so they started to cultivate the land according to Xiacheng's method.

Those Xiacheng people also said that it means saving the emergency but not the poor, so they have to teach them new farming methods. If they are willing, the Xiacheng people hope that they can share [-]% of the harvest, but they don’t use it for the time being, just in case Xiacheng suffers. Disasters are prepared for emergencies.

If Xiacheng still doesn't want it within five years, then [-]% of the food will belong to them. I hope they will take good care of the food.

Everyone was grateful and of course agreed to this request, especially after seeing that the ox pulled the plowshare to easily plow a lot of land from the silt, they felt that this request was not too much.However, there are not so many plowshares for cattle and horses, and someone needs to be responsible for distributing them to think it is fair, so I selected someone who is highly respected among myself to be responsible for coordinating these matters-it is obvious that troubles are easy to cause when there is a group, especially when enough land is reclaimed When the leaders and nobles are jealous.

After the grain transport ships left, there were still a few people from Xiacheng who stayed behind. The leader was a disabled man named Song. He mainly told stories and chatted with people. By the way, I asked these people to strengthen the pier. kind.

Of course, no one noticed that this city is about three hundred miles away from Yucheng, and two hundred miles to the east is the junction of the Dongyi clan and the Dahe tribes.

Regarding the matter of "free" food assistance, many people are actually dissatisfied. When they say it out loud, it makes other cities feel uncomfortable, so they have to praise Chen Jian for a few words, but there is no more.

The rest of the cities have nothing to say about it, but in Yucheng, it is a big fuss. The relatives and children of each city gather in the Yucheng School, and come here to study after the Huaizi Festival. They all call Chen Jian Mr., so naturally they want to listen Mr. brags about his righteous deeds.

Mr. is very lazy, so lazy that the first come first, including E Yansu, Tang Yuemei, and more than 30 people, after completing the eight texts of Kaimeng, the newcomers will be grouped with them, and each person will manage a few people, and eat and live by the way Together as classmates, by the way, you can also teach them those enlightenment things.

This is a very good thing. Usually they are relatives and nobles, but now they are distinguished in the classroom. The newcomers will inevitably show off what they have learned, from horseback riding, archery and fencing to spelling, phonetic recognition and counting. Multiplication and division of numbers makes everyone feel refreshed.

It is said that we have to wait until the new group of people have completed their enlightenment before continuing their studies, otherwise there will not be so many people to teach them.

However, their husband is also very diligent, and will spare some time every ten days to give them lectures, but the content of the lectures is not knowledge.

It is such as the fact that the tribes of Dahe have the same root and origin, that the war between the tribes of Dahe is unjust and that they were cast aside by their ancestors, that there are countless lands and wealth outside, and that those who are ambitious should learn from the old man named Wei. The leader's ambition is outside, saying that it is not that difficult to build a city and so on.

This surprised the students, because they were so diligent, even if it was raining heavily, their husbands would speak on time on that day every ten days, which was completely different from before.

Not everyone may believe it, but at least some of them believe it, and that's enough.Ideology must exist. If you don’t occupy it, other ideas will naturally occupy it. This thing is not so magical and tall, nor is it something unique to the industrial age.Witchcraft, history, ghosts and gods, religious philosophy, serving the people and ourselves, ethnic groups and towns, and ways of thinking are all ideologies.

After the boats that transported the grain came back, they made more publicity and put forward a hypothesis: the land of the ancestors is so large, there are those who are affected by disasters and those who are not. As the leaders of the tribes of the big river, they should coordinate the transportation of the harvested grains. To the place of disaster...

This is beautiful, even if you want to refute it, you can’t do it. Another thing is that this is the truth, but it’s too difficult to do. This group of people inevitably started to think about how to do it, but they were shocked after thinking about it. .

On the winter solstice in the 34th year of the Chinese calendar, their husbands generously gave each of them a very delicate coin, which was more beautiful than those beautiful Xiacheng copper coins. The glittering gold was definitely not gold, but brass.

They are all made of copper, but they are different from those mass-produced copper coins. The front is blank, and the back is a meandering river and a flower facing the light that was often used as a pottery pattern in the Huacheng Alliance.

Someone asked why the front was empty?

Their husband told them that they don't know what to engrave on the front, but the yin-yang fish of Xiacheng must not be engraved. The back is not a grass river but a big river, not wheat ears but bright flowers. This thing is not engraved casually.

Everyone played with this beautiful copper coin and had a good meal together. Then, with the help of wine, their husbands drew all the signs of various clans on the stone slabs. There are dozens of clans in dozens of cities. .

Then they found that the husband drank a lot of wine, so much that his face was a little red and his tongue was a little big.

"You say so many things, it won't fit on the copper coin, even the best coppersmith can't draw it, even if it's drawn, everyone can't see it clearly, what do you think about it?"

"Besides, when we fight the barbarians in the future, since Chief Suyue wants to lead the tribes, he must have a banner, right?"

Everyone asked, "Isn't there a flag in Sucheng?"

Their husband replied: "Can this be the same? I am the leader of Xiacheng, so my seal is the seal of the leader of Xiacheng, not my own seal. The clansmen can only go to my house to get my own seal. My private property, even though it is my sister who takes the company's property, she will never give it to you. Do you understand?"

After a while of reaction, I understood. After thinking for a long time, someone said enlighteningly: "Then let's gather some things from our respective clan cities together? For example, the horns of our clan, the yin-yang fish of Xiacheng as eyes, Their clan's hooves, another clan's tail..."

After the man finished speaking, the children remembered the first and only time that the husband lost his composure since they came to Yucheng. They excitedly dropped the wine bowl and kicked over the small wooden table. I took talc and drew two strokes on the wooden board, but before I finished painting, I spit out the wooden board drunk.

Amidst the roar of laughter, several people carried their vomited husband back to sleep, while the rest stared at a line drawn on the wooden board that looked like a big river, guessing what it looked like.

And those knocked down wooden tables, broken wine bowls, vomited filth, and everyone's laughter have become a deep memory of this year.

Many years later, they still cherish the half copper coin, the front is still empty, but the heart is already full.

Chapter 11 Breaking the Calm

At the end of April in the 35th year of the Chinese calendar, the ground was covered with falling flowers after a spring rain.

In a cave along the river, a few people were warming up to the fire, and a few horses outside the cave were grazing grass.

The few people warming up are obviously nobles from the city, because their waists are equipped with beautiful jade.

But it looked like they had dusty complexions and raised bags under their eyes. They didn't know how many days they hadn't slept, and they were all downcast.

Several people took off their boots, and a smell of foot odor diffused in the cave. Although the felt boots of Yucheng Workshop were warm, their feet smelled bad.

Lying there alone, he took off his shirt and looked at his thighs that had been worn out from riding a horse. Ouch, he rubbed some herbal ointment, which was very refreshing and expensive.

The man who applied the medicine was young, his name was Fengzhuo, and he was the leader of the cities on the east of the river.Two years ago, with the help of the two cities of Suxia and Xia, he seized the position of leader, and he did something, and everyone supported him for a while, praising him for his father's legacy.

Three or five Xiacheng people are stationed in Fengcheng. Although they are only soldiers and messengers, they have a little understanding of farming methods. In two years, the public land has produced a lot, and the common people have many rewards.