"Country? What is that? ”

Chen Jian bent down, grabbed one of the feathered arrows in his quiver, and wrote a small word "mouth" on the white snow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This is a mouth, a man's mouth, a mouth for eating, a mouth for speaking, a mouth for living."

"But this mouth, with its rules in all directions, is also a city. A city has living people, so it can be regarded as a city if it has a mouth. ”

"Clans, cities, this is the mouth, not the country I am talking about."

"The original city is the clan, and the clan is the city. There is nothing heavier than blood, except for Xia Cheng, bloodline is the basis of the rules of this city, which is the four sides of the mouth. ”

"It's like blood in the arm, it will flow out when you cut it, it's a red blood that you can see and touch and taste a little sweet."

"With this blood, everyone in the city can spontaneously take up arms to defend this 'mouth', but the city itself has no weapons."

"This city is just a place where the various clans live, and the power of the city itself is the clansmen, so the city hides each spear in the hands of everyone in the city, you can't see it, you can't feel it, and there's nothing more powerful than the people themselves."

He brandished his arrow and wrote a word on top of the small mouth in the snow.

"This is Ge, Ge of the spear. Ge who can kill people, Ge who is violent. ”

"This spear is above the city, and it is still the people in the city who support this spear, how can no one wield this long spear that can cut everything to pieces?"

"But it's not a specific person who wields this long go."

"What masters and controls this Changge is something that cannot be seen or touched. It's not blood, it's not a concrete thing, it's something vaguely ungraspable. ”

"When this Changge is above the 'mouth', the city is no longer the clan itself, but has become the invisible thing I said."

"The 'mouth' under Changge is not necessarily square, maybe the upper one has become longer, the lower one has become shorter, the left one wants to become curved, and the right one wants to wrap up the other three sides."

"But the spear above them says; No, you have to be square. Long cuts, short lengths, bent straightenings, and cuts that try to wrap up. ”

"This spear is held up by each clansman, but it is not held by each person. Everyone may not be willing to be square, but everyone can't fight against the long team that is supported by everyone. ”

In the end, he drew a larger mouth on the outside of the mouth and Ge, trapping the inner mouth and Ge in it.

"The outermost one is bigger than the 'mouth' inside, and even the extremely violent thing like the spear is in the grasp of this frame."

"This border can control Changge and manage the city, which can be regarded as a rule."

"But in the end, it's still a 'mouth', just a little bigger than the one inside."

"This is to let the Changge see that in fact, the mouth under it can become bigger and taller than it. This can be seen as the appearance of the smallest 'mouth' after anger. ”

"So Ge Spear can't kill people so casually that he is forced to be angry, and even Changge himself is devoured; But he must not kill people, lest the smallest mouth in it become unlikely. ”

"Moreover, this border can also be the land, mountains, rivers and rivers, in which the rules control the Changge to suppress the interior, and this Changge must also support a piece of land so that the clansmen can cultivate and survive."

"Within this frame, under the spear, in the smallest mouth, there are many spears that you and I cannot see. slaves and masters, those of the same clan and those of foreign surnames, those who have many fields and those who have no land, those who are countrymen and savages...... That's where the spear comes to adjudicate the shock. ”

"Outside of this frame, there are also the barbarians, Dongyi, Xirong, the steppe tribes, and the hostile cities, which can be seen, which requires this spear to conquer and attack."

"And the thing that can not be seen or touched in control of this spear is the country. I am the leader, but it is not me who controls this tribe, but the country. It's just that the country can't speak, I just speak for it. ”

"The foundation of the country is everyone, but it is above anyone else."

"The most important thing is who is the mouth under the spear, or who is the most powerful that if you don't defend it, you will angrily wrap the spear in it? Who is the foundation of the nation? ”

"The people of Old Xia City are the best, they trust me, I am their leader, I can turn the city into a country as a matter of course, I just need to protect their interests. They say kill whoever they kill, they say they treat whoever is a slave as a slave, and it's very simple. ”

"But the people of Old Xia City are also not good, there are few of them. If I only follow their 'country' in a hundred years, I can only wander around the Caohe River, and I can't go out, but I can't live for a hundred years. When I want to take back their interests, they will be angry and will object, and they will become the border that can swallow the spear and the city. ”

"If Xia City is Xia Kingdom, it is only three hundred miles away. If Xia Yu Xinhua is a country, there can be a land of thousands of miles. If the great rivers are a country, they are thousands of miles away. We can be the people of the country for thousands of miles, why should we be trapped in a land of 300 miles as the leader? ”

Hongyu stared at the Chinese character in the snow, thought for a long time, and gently wiped it away with his foot: "This Chinese character is very beautiful, but it is also very attractive. This thing can't be seen or touched, but it can't speak, and in the end, it still needs one person to speak and one person to control the spear...... How do I interpret this word? ”

Jian Chen thought about it and skillfully wrote out that word.

"Let's just explain it as I just said. Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat. Even if you have ambition, you have to know this, otherwise it will take hundreds of years to understand the horror of anger and the power of overthrowing. ”

Hongyu laughed and said, "That pair of Xia Cheng...... No, for Xia Guo, what is this water that can carry a boat and can capsize a boat? Even if tens of thousands of people are of the same clan, there are spears that you can't see fighting in the dark. There are poor, some rich, some illiterate, some want to work, and some want to get something without work, it doesn't mean that everyone will not fight if one family is one. ”

Chen Jian drew a large circle on the snow and said, "Bing, I have workshop workers and cultivators; Official, I have children in the school system; The earth, where there are few people and many lands, is almost infinite; Taxes are paid according to the number of acres of land; Goods, public workshops are self-contained. ”

"I don't need the clan chief's personal jurisdiction, and I don't need the noble rider chariot of the noble manor."

"Therefore, the water of this Xia country is a workshop worker who works in a workshop, and a homesteader who works collectively. As long as the interests of these two groups of people are safeguarded, they will naturally be stable. In order to gain their support, the state can suppress the interests of the rest. ”

"At this moment, this is not a country supported by blood, nor does it need blood to give the country the right to transcend everything, let alone sacred blood to unite this country."

"Those farmers who cultivate are first the peasants of the Xia Kingdom, then the soldiers that the Xia Kingdom needs to recruit, then the men of a family, the father, and finally the part of the clan."

Hongyu roughly understood the difference, thought carefully for a while, and asked: "Yucheng is good to say, there is no clan there, and it is already almost the same as the country you said." But Xia Cheng is not the same, the old Xia Cheng people are still the pillars of Xia Cheng now, those villages and communities far away from the city are difficult to govern, and there are not so many people who dispatch officials......"

Chen Jian smiled: "So this is an opportunity, if you don't seize this opportunity, it will be too difficult to change." ”

"The land is sparsely populated, and the surrounding 30 miles of a city are fertile fields, and the city is the heart of 30 miles as the path to draw a circle, which can reclaim millions of acres of fertile land. It can accommodate more than 10,000 light and strong farming, and there is no need for the village community, as long as the village community is moved into the city, so as not to stay away from the difficult jurisdiction so that the national law does not enter the village community. Centralized management can save a lot of people and curb the development of clans. ”

"The land that was originally divided was because I didn't have so many people to directly govern it at that time, so it was better to divide it and let them manage, educate, assimilate, and cultivate it themselves. Now that many of them have participated in the rebellion, they have taken back these fiefdoms and gathered the civilized population into one city. Otherwise, I'll have to spend another three or five years getting them acquainted with Xia City. ”

"If they don't give them fiefdoms to grow their strength, don't give them the population to let them win over their clans, and don't give them the name of training private soldiers, how do they know that they also have power, and where do they dare to jump out at this time? At that time, Dingguo will be in Yucheng, and this side is far away, and they may not know if they will jump out one day, it is better to jump out and kill it now. ”

"As for those wild people, it was because we didn't have iron tools for cultivating cattle before, and we wanted to raise soldiers but couldn't exploit our own people, so we deliberately caused this kind of injustice to exploit them. How much food can they get by exploiting them now? They have already familiarized themselves with everything about Summer City, and of course they can also be classified as one city. ”

"Some of the slaves and peasants took this opportunity to revolt and greet me, and it was the opportunity to give them the status of a countryman. The rest of those who did not resist remained the slaves unchanged, and could compensate the people of Old Xia City to appease their dissatisfaction. ”

"When the time comes, the western fiefdom will be civilized, and the people will be concentrated in the eighty miles west of the summer city to build the city, and the wild villages in the east will be merged to build the city along the east grass river in the summer city, and the Yangguan will remain unchanged."

"The three cities are like stars, and the summer cities are like the moon, guarding each other. Only one person is needed to guard and deploy, and more than 100 officials. The distance is only 100 miles, the news of road repair can arrive in one day, and all the villages and communities are forcibly included in the city, governed by the laws and regulations of the state, and the officials are educated, and there is no need to worry about the lack of land within ten years to establish a village community for reclamation. ”

"Ten years later, the population of Xia City for recuperation and recuperation surged, and there was not enough land, so some more were moved away to build a city in Dongyi, and several Xia cities were reproduced."

"Based on this, after ten years, there will be enough people who can read and write, and they will also learn how to manage a city, and then a hundred people will be able to manage a city."

Xia Yu's homeland is the land, and the conquered land is separated, with Xia Yu as the root, and the branches are scattered. ”

"Hundreds of years later, wherever the branches and leaves are scattered, the same language and the same species, the barbarians assimilated and forgot the language and customs of their ancestors, thinking that they were Xia people. All the land that can be cultivated is good land, all the mines that are exploited are smoking, and the roads are repaired and traded. ”

"The mouth in the word 'country' is big enough, then the border of the word 'country' will also become larger. Wouldn't it be good to wait until a descendant took charge of the army, annexed and conquered, and thousands of miles of rivers and mountains became the land? ”

Hongyu leisurely looked at the word on the snow, thinking about the four simple and magnificent pictures of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, recalling the many stories that Jian Chen had told her, and sighed.

"What you say is good, but you and I can't see it."

"There are boats across the sea, cars on the road, and this kind of distance can always see the end, even if it is thousands of miles away."

"But the time is far away, so how can it be crossed?"