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In fact, Chen Jian was not worried about returning to Xia City to seize power, and in the face of the absolute superiority of the violent machine, all resistance was meaningless.

He wasn't worried about those people fleeing to the rest of the city after their defeat, even though they knew a lot about Summer City.

Running to the inner cities of the Great River Tribes will not make the other cities stronger. Reform must have a material basis, and change without material conditions will only have the opposite effect, and if the rest of the cities forcibly destroy the public land tax system and change it to a private land tax system when there is a shortage of metal farming tools and cattle and horses, it will be a disaster for the cities.

Running to the grassland, Chen Jian was not worried. Farming people and nomads are completely different, fishing, hunting and farming tribes can learn many methods and systems of farming peoples to quickly evolve from clans to national prototypes, but nomadism is not good, even many technologies in Xia City are difficult for nomads to develop in a short period of time, their accumulation speed is too slow, and it may take hundreds of years to complete the accumulation without being able to plunder.

The reason for such a request is to keep the original oath that tribal civil strife or civil war should be resolved as much as possible within the community; It is also to compromise with the rest of the cities, give them a bargaining price, and show their attitude by the way.

Whether or not it can be implemented depends largely on whether there is a strong city that can maintain this rule, and is willing to be the supervisor and enforcer of the rules within this system, and now is the time for the various clan towns to gradually get used to it.

Compromise is Jian Chen's established plan.

The previous struggle and aggressiveness were to raise the bargaining price of Xia Cheng for the current compromise, forcing the rest of the cities to take the initiative to come to Xia Cheng to negotiate terms. It seems that Jian Chen is freeing the slaves, but in fact it is not out of kindness or humanitarianism, but just to make the rest of the city afraid of cornering Xia Cheng and ending up with them. Using the means of ideological output to force the rest of the cities to be on fire everywhere, they don't have the heart and strength to ponder Xia City itself.

It is not realistic to conquer by force now, and if you want to form a unified and innovative Great River Tribes that do not need the old nobles, you need at least three or five thousand management personnel, otherwise this unified Great River Tribes will be a compromise country, and when the time comes, you must rely on the old clan relatives and nobles to manage this huge country of nearly two provinces.

Decentralization of power, strong independence of the city, and strong conservative forces will inevitably arise after excessive compromise. Unification is for the better development of the ethnic group, and reunification itself is only the most effective means for this purpose, this is what Chen Jian must make clear, can not unrealistically unify for the sake of unification, leaving a community only in name, so it is still necessary for Xiacheng's education system to make efforts to fill the power gap after ten years.

Therefore, there is still a need to compromise, and therefore the third request is to throw an olive branch, some things that the rest of the cities want Xia Cheng to do but are difficult to talk about can take this opportunity to say, this is the agreement that the secret envoy and Chen Jian secretly reached a few days ago.

Sure enough, Su Yue and several leaders were secretly happy in their hearts, and they breathed a long sigh of relief, and said one after another: "Ji Xia is right, the rebels should be punished, and it is natural for the respected people in the clan to follow. But what if they fled to other cities, and punished them according to the rules of Xia City? Or according to the rules of the rest of the cities? ”

"According to the rules of Xia City, of course. They are the people of Summer City. ”

Su Yue hurriedly said: "I see, what Ji Xia said is very reasonable. However, many slaves in our city have fled to Yucheng. The rules of Yucheng are not the same as ours, slaves are the property of our city, and they have become people when they flee to Yucheng, so are they property or people? ”

"Just as those who rebelled in Xia City should be punished according to the rules of Xia City, but they should not be treated according to the rules of other cities because they fled to other cities. Isn't that the truth? ”

Jian Chen said angrily: "That's exactly the truth, it's my fault that I didn't notice these trivial things." ”

Many clansmen's relatives thought to themselves, where is this a trivial matter, this is simply a major event that will shake the foundation of various cities.

Many of them didn't know about the secret agreement reached between Su Yue and Chen Jian, and when they heard that Chen Jian's tone was relaxed, they suddenly felt much more relaxed, at least they didn't have to worry about the demagogic words of those who had fled to Yucheng among the slaves.

Jian Chen looked at the relatives and leaders of the Yigan clan, and said slowly: "It's not too late to make amends, since this mistake has been discovered, it is natural to correct it." Perhaps, from now on, each city should also send people to the vicinity of Yucheng, and if there are escaped slaves, they can be captured and disposed of according to the laws of their respective cities. ”

"It's just that the leaders of each city need to decide together, and this is not Xia Cheng's own business after all."

"Furthermore, since all the ministries have kept the covenant, there are some things that need to be made clear. There can be differences between cities, but what are the differences that violate the oath of kinship? What doesn't count? ”

"For example, the Xia people like to eat wheat buns, and the Su people like to eat corn, and this difference is okay. But if the summer city bundles its hair to worship its ancestors, and a certain city wears its hair and sacrifices to the sky, this difference is not allowed. ”

"These things are not something that a stupid person like me can come up with on his own, so it needs to be discussed by the various clans. Those who violate those who cannot be violated, Xia Su and your relatives will fight together; Rebelling against those who can be disobeyed does not compel them to change, nor can they be conquered in the name of that. ”

"Therefore, Xia begged the head of the Suyue League to consider and convene the clan alliance again next summer to discuss and improve the rules of the Great River Tribes, so as to restrain the various cities and towns from inadvertently violating the interests of the Great River Tribes, so that they know what they can and cannot do."

Some of the nearby leaders also nodded their heads and said that the rules of the previous alliance were too broad, and they did not expect that there would really be a city to be the overseer and enforcer of those rules, and the law could not be called a law without the support of violence.

Jian Chen has already made concessions, which has satisfied many towns. Just stationing soldiers in Yucheng to capture fugitive slaves after the signing of the new covenant can reassure them, and once the rules are clear, the big city can't attack the small city at will, unless that city has the ability to compete with the two cities of Suxia. Originally, this rule seemed to be a fictitious rule, but with the war between Xia Cheng and Dongyi in the 35th year of Huali, it was a city that did what it said and had the ability to do.

Of course, Jian Chen knew that the condition given by Su Yue was to make him the high priest of all the tribes, but the position of high priest was not something that Su Yue could give, and it still needed to be elected by all relatives.

Su Yue does not have such qualifications, his rights are not big enough, and there is not enough legal rationality to say that.

The high priest is the theocratic leader, who is actually the maker of the internal rules, because the priest can judge right and wrong. However, the high priest is not the executor, and the executor is still the secular leader, Su Yue, who lives after the secular chief.

In the normal development of normal development, it is possible that the future power struggle between the great river tribes will be a struggle between theocracy and secular power, and the result of the high priest not being united with the leader is that the high priest will use theocracy to fight for secular power.

But it was impossible for Jian Chen to do this, and the first thing he had planned to do after becoming the High Priest was to find a way to destroy the sanctity of the position of High Priest. He can't shake the foundation of the future for the sake of temporary power, he wants to be the leader, so it is impossible for him to get the divine power above the world when he is the high priest, otherwise he will have to wipe his ass in the future.

Su Yue would not know that Jian Chen was thinking like this, he was thinking about Jian Chen as a normal person, and he was still able to nominate Jian Chen as the high priest because Jian Chen's consistent remarks destroyed the absolute correctness of divine power.

At the time of the alliance a few years earlier, Jian Chen could have proposed a better compromise rule that would be acceptable to the divided clans, but instead of bringing it up, he hid in Onozawa to investigate and allow the river to split. At that time, the prestige was not enough, and it was impossible to become a position similar to that of the high priest if he was proposed, and it was not his turn.

If you bring it up now, you can convince the clan and justify becoming a high priest in this name, the fame is enough, and the strength is strong enough.

It's just that no one expected that this high priest would vow to be the greatest traitor to the gods.

Now that Chen Jian has only said half of his words, he has not even agreed to the Yucheng policy not to the outside world but only to the inside, but has asked all the clans to come together to negotiate and settle it, which makes the rest of the cities look forward to the meeting alliance next summer, and they also come to threaten to prevent Su Yue from repenting.

In the previous secret talks, they had already compromised with each other.

The result of the negotiation is that Chen Jian gets the position of high priest, but he has to make a rule to make the position of high priest lose his divinity, and the rules themselves replace the divine guidance to evaluate right and wrong, and change the position of high priest to anyone who reads and judges and remembers the rules can take it, and over time, his status may only be equivalent to the Ministry of Rites in his previous life, but before that, the high priest has a status second only to the head of the clan alliance.

The price that Chen Jian had to pay was to strictly prohibit Xia Cheng from influencing the rest of the cities by exporting ideology, and to downplay as much as possible the rebellion of the workshop workers and the relationship between the countrymen and the city, and instead propagated the theory of the unity of the kinship, anesthetized the resistance of the bottom, perfected the justice and sacredness of foreign wars, and was responsible for cultivating the relatives and nobles of each clan to "cover up the actual blood lineage in the nominal selection of knowledge", and not to recruit the children of the commoners in the rest of the cities -- to cut off the possibility of learning for the commoners in the rest of the cities by raising the cost of public schools. It was forbidden for knowledge to spread among the non-ruling classes in the rest of the cities, and it was forbidden for the Xia people to open private schools in the rest of the cities, and to give knowledge to the nobility to complete the differentiation before the bloodline theory went bankrupt.

The result of this agreement is actually that Chen Jian betrayed the fugitive slave class and the common people who consolidated his power for the sake of power, but did not betray the fugitive slaves and those at the bottom. The extermination of a certain class is never by slaughter, after the massacre the original class is gone, but new people take over and the class itself remains. Just as the slave owners and the slave class were roughly eliminated in the territory of Yucheng, not exterminated, but replaced the old class itself with new tools and new relations of production.

Therefore, this compromise will only make those original fugitive slaves in the Xia Cheng system slightly resistant in sensibility, but they will not resist violently, Chen Jian betrayed the fugitive slave class, not their group, on the contrary, they became vested interests in the deformed system of Xia Cheng.

Inside, Jian Chen did not lose the support of the Xia Cheng group that supported him the most; Outside, it eased the contradictions between Xia Cheng and the rest of the cities, won a chance for Xia Cheng to recuperate, and also accumulated strength for a new country that would turn the compromised clan alliance into a violent unification and sweep away the old strata in the future.