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The bronze official asked with some concern, "Could the guidance of the ancestors be wrong?" ”

There were also hundreds of bronzes that had been cast by his hands, and after this batch of "defective products" was formed and cooled, he knew the result, and his concern was not who was right and who was wrong.

At least before today, Chen Jian's words seemed to be right and didn't need to be changed, but now that there was a time when something was wrong, he couldn't help but worry about the future of the city.

Jian Chen was not prepared to be an all-knowing and all-powerful god from the beginning, and he did not have this ability, but it was the first time that this kind of problem had arisen since the people of Hehe had instilled those myths, and he had to explain it clearly.

"The ancestors said that two chopsticks are easier to break than one, do you say this is right or wrong?"

Tongguan thought for a moment and said, "Of course it's right. ”

"But what if that chopstick is thicker than two chopsticks combined?"

"The ancestor must have meant that these three chopsticks are the same......"

After he finished speaking, he seemed to understand a little, looking at the bronze utensils that were harvested, and suddenly thought of the story that Chen Jian said, every clan may be guided by their ancestors, and the words of their ancestors are often not very clear, and different people have different understandings.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a little excited, could it be that I was also guided by my ancestors? But I didn't dream about anything, or did the newcomer who did something wrong get the guidance of his ancestors?

Chen Jian walked up to Tongguan and said, "The ancestor just told a vague shadow, and he guided each of us, but not necessarily in a dream. He will tell you in your hands, in your eyes, even when you don't even know it. ”

"It's like casting bronze, you deal with bronze every day, when we first melted, we melted it upside down, but the bubbles in the copper juice always condensed between the swords. At that time, even if our ancestors told us to be smelting, what was it? What is Upside Down? If a person who has never been cast is useless even if he knows, right? ”

Tong Guan nodded, looked at his rough hands, and recalled that Chen Jian had said that when copper and tin turn cyan together in the furnace, it is the best time to smelt.

Before he worked for himself, he had also thought that the fire was red, but how could it be cyan? It wasn't until the copper tin was completely melted for the first time that everyone was stunned when they looked at the cyan flames in the small cauldron.

"Could it be that the guidance of the ancestors is really in the hands and eyes? Those who have not done these things, even if they have been guided by their ancestors, may not be able to know what it means. ”

"yes, that's it. Maybe my ancestors told me that Liuqi's statement was right, but it was very vague, and I thought it was a matter of talking about the ratio of copper and tin, after all, I have never smelted it since we smelted the first spear. ”

He paused for a moment and said solemnly: "At least in the matter of melting bronze, the ancestors have given you more guidance than to me, but not necessarily by dreams, but by your hands and your eyes, and many times you don't know." ”

There was a frenzied and excited look in the eyes of the copper official, and he believed more and more that what Chen Jian said was true, there were several times when there was a problem in the copper furnace smelting, he did not go directly to Chen Jian, but based on the accumulation of these hours of labor, he felt that something was probably wrong.

It seems that this method of melting and casting copper is really integrated with his hands, eyes and head, otherwise why can't those people who have less melting and casting bronze think of it?

"The more you do a certain line of work, the longer you do it, the easier it is to get the guidance of your ancestors in that line? But the guidance of the ancestors is sometimes very vague, how can we judge who is right and who is wrong? ”

Hearing this question, Jian Chen smiled and said, "We have hands and eyes, for example, you made a copper spear, and he made a leather shield." He said that his copper shield can block the sharpest spear, and you say that your spear can pierce the toughest shield, who is right and who is wrong, try it and you will know? ”

He picked up those spears and said, "Look at these spears, they are tougher than before, you are right, you really understand the guidance of Liuqi, and I am not as good as you in this matter because I have been away from the copper furnace for too long." ”

The bronze official said with some trepidation: "No, Ji Xia...... You ......"

Chen Jian waved his hand and said, "This is a good thing, the city is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more things to do." Why do you want to be officials? It is also to tell the ancestors at the time of the sacrifice, so that he can give guidance to you, and feel it with your eyes in the labor of your hands. ”

"You have done a good job, do you remember that in the future, those who contributed to the city will be made into pottery statues and placed in the sacrificial hall for future generations to remember forever?"

Tongguan swallowed, of course he remembered, but he didn't expect it to really fall on him.

"In the future, your name will be remembered forever by future generations. When future generations use the spear to kill the enemy, they will think that if it weren't for you, maybe the spear would break again in battle. ”

Tongguan scratched his head and smiled, he imagined that one day in the future, even if he died, his name would still be passed on, which was indeed a very fortunate thing, which was more important than his own children.

"Well, I'll remember it, and when I'm done with it, you'll have the honor of being one of the first names to be remembered by posterity. At least I am not as good as you when it comes to melting copper, my ancestors once told me in my dreams that copper swords can be cast one and a half feet or even two feet long, and maybe one day I will be able to see ...... with my own eyes."

Originally, the copper official was still happy that his name could live forever with the city, but when he heard Chen Jian's words, he was a little surprised for a while, can such a long copper sword really be cast?

"I'll draw something in a while, after you finish casting the daily quota, try to smelt it if you have time, and for each kind of smelting, the city can reward you with some food, which is your own, and you can go to the market to exchange anything you want. However, the daily quota still needs to be completed. ”

"Don't worry, these spears were made after completing yesterday's quota."

He knew that those rewards might not be easy to get, but today he was satisfied, it turned out that the ancestors were also guiding him, which was more than anything to be happy about. In the future, the people around the copper furnace may also be guided, and today is also a lesson, what you know may also be wrong, you must see it with your eyes and try it with your hands, and then say that others are right or wrong.

At dinner in the evening, word of the men and deeds of these men and women had spread throughout the city, and the people looked at them with envy, and the soldiers were full of respect for these people, and they knew all too well how important the sword and spear were that could not be broken easily.

A few sheep were taken out of the public property to reward them, and the people in the city took it for granted, now is no longer the kind of time when everyone eats the same, and those who can't eat are also eager to get this honor, which is not only a temporary freshness, but also a manifestation of self-worth.

They were not jealous, because although the melting of bronze was not as good as those people, there were many, many things such as planting, grinding, carpentry, and so on.

Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, the ancestor is the name, the truth is the essence, but it is a different way of saying, there is no unchangeable person, and there is no unchangeable word, this is not a scripture.

The enlightenment of the descriptive stage and some technological innovations, before the education system is fully established, can only rely on these front-line workers, and only they can summarize some details and experience, so that the technology continues to advance.

For those who contribute to technological progress, material rewards are indispensable, and spiritual satisfaction is equally important.

Their names will be passed down to future generations, because this is the rule of three generations in the eyes of later generations, and it is also the age of myths and legends.

Myth is only the deification of those heroic figures in the human conquest of nature.

What is Hero?

In the previous life, Shennong who tasted grass, built a nest with a house, and made fire, they were all heroes in mythology, and what they conquered and defeated was not man, but nature.

The reason why they left their names in posterity is not because they ruled over the vast land, but because they brought a better life to their people, and they were all heroes, so they naturally appeared in mythology.

The myths of this civilization in this world have their own descendants to summarize and fantasize, but Chen Jian can imagine how much romantic color will be added when those pottery statues and names are handed down to future generations.

But at this moment, people in the era of mythology in the later generations come into contact with people who may become myths in the future, and it is normal that these people who will become myths in the future will also eat,, and sleep, and they also have seven emotions and six desires, so there is no worship.

Even Chen Jian himself, the clansmen only regarded him as a man.

The biggest difference between Xia Cheng and the rest of the cities is that the role of priests is diluted, and there is no primitive theocracy.

Xia Cheng from scratch is a blank piece of paper, and Chen Jian used his own pen and ink to engrave Xia Cheng on it, and did not go through that natural development process.

The struggle between theocracy and secular power followed the entire pre-industrial era, even in the previous life of China, it was after countless extermination of Buddha and killing of the Tao to obtain the absolute authority of the emperor. Those religions that seemed harmless to humans and animals were killed, and the county officials in the imperial era also had a very important task of destroying obscenity, they were not only government officials, but also a kind of missionaries and defenders.

Chen Jian downplayed the meaning of theocracy, and the legitimacy of his rights could only lead the city to develop and grow, and there was no such thing as a natural vision, but whether there would be similar legends in the future was unknown.

In order to make the myths that may appear in the future more exciting, Chen Jian handed over the drawings that he had drawn for a day to the few people who melted and cast bronze, and only drew a rough, and they were all very simple and delicate gadgets.

Simple gears, crossbow triggers, coins, stirrups, wheel stabs...... He didn't explain what these were for, he just drew them to scale to give them time to think about it.

In the practice of labor, Chen Jian is no longer as good as these clansmen in the front line of labor, and it is foreseeable that with the intensification of the social division of labor, there will be more and more places that are inferior to others. (To be continued.) )