Two days later, in the valley outside Onozawa, Chen Jian knelt on the grass, eating and drinking on a simple piece of wood, and the bronze tableware and wooden plates had been placed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was noon when Ze walked into the valley, and he had seen this kind of scene when he was a slave, and he didn't like this kind of scene in Onozawa, but he liked it at this time, because at least the other party regarded himself as a human being.

After saluting, he knelt on the ground after a few words of praise, and someone had already heated the wine and poured it full of bronze jue.

"I often hear Ji Xia talk about his youth, and today I saw that it was true. There is no alcohol in Onozawa, so I will use the drinks from Natsu Castle to pay tribute to Himetsu, thanking Himesha for allowing thousands of people in Onozawa to survive the winter. ”

Jian Chen drank it with a smile and said with a smile: "Before you came, you must have been guessing what I wanted to do, but I'm afraid that I am also guessing in my heart now, right?" ”

"Yes, that's it."

"I want you to be slaves."

Ze didn't jump like thunder, and said with a smile: "Then this glass of wine will be a farewell." Stay in Onozawa I think I'm still tough and I won't bend my knees if I die Onozawa will still be the same Ji Xia s mind I guessed that it was someone from the island, but I didn't guess what you said was so direct. ”

Chen Jian didn't raise his glass, but asked, "Could it be that you don't work on the island?" Don't fish? Not hunting? Don't grow millet? The island is miserable, maybe it's not as good as when you were a slave? At least when you are slaves, the master is reluctant to let you die, and the living is worth a few urns of corn, and the dead will have to send someone to throw it away. ”

Ze snorted, "That's different. At least in Onozawa, I'm a human, not a cow dog. It's like ......"

He thought about it for a long time, and he didn't know the word freedom, it was too abstract and too forward-looking, but he described it: "It's like a fish in a winter blister, maybe it will freeze to death because of freezing, but it's better than being fished away. ”

Chen Jian laughed for a long time listening to this analogy, and Ze who laughed was a little stunned, and Chen Jian asked, "Since you said that you are a human being in Onozawa, then what is a human being?" ”

Ze scratched his head, his head was a little around, and he couldn't think of an answer, so he had to say, "What is a person?" You who eat meat, and you who have slaves, are human beings.

Jian Chen sighed and said, "I heard that you were originally a member of a small clan and were captured as slaves. When you are in the clan, your clan has no slaves, and naturally there is no master. So when there are no masters and slaves, everyone is not human? ”

Ze got up and said, "Forgive me for being stupid. I don't know what a person is, and I don't want to know what a person is. But Ji Xia wants us to be slaves, which is absolutely impossible. ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "Okay, let me ask you again, then you said that you have to eat every day, wear it in winter, and bake it when it's cold." Hunger, cold, and desire to plant and hunt all these things force you to plant and hunt, and you can't do it if you don't do it. Does it mean that all living people are slaves? ”

Ji Xia's words are reasonable. You don't have to work to be fed and clothed. I have heard from people in the city that there is a vast sea in Dongyi, and if you want to see the sea, you can go there. And if we want to see the sea, we must first be slaves of cold, hunger, and desire, and even if we have this heart, we will have to work all our lives, and we will never see it. ”

He is also an extremely intelligent person, thinking of Jian Chen's previous question, he suddenly smiled and said, "I thought of the question that Ji Xia just asked, what is a person." ”

"Please."

"I knew I wanted to see the sea, and I did it, and I did it, and it's different from cows and horses, and I'm a human being, because cows and horses don't know what to do after they're fed and mated. But the premise of I want to see the sea is that I have to be fed and clothed, and then I can think about these things, and I don't have the heart to think about it before I am fed and clothed, so I don't know what I want to do except be fed and clothed, and how can I know what people are? Generally speaking, it is man who eats meat and has slaves, and it is not man who makes slaves. But this person is not the person Ji Xia asked, because he doesn't necessarily have to go to see the sea, maybe he wants to do something else, then people are different, people here are like cows with different horns, so I said I don't know what a person is. ”

Jian Chen couldn't stop laughing, clapped his hands and praised: "Even if this is the case for the time being, then now it seems that you are all slaves and cattle and horses in Dayozawa and in the city." Because you have to work all day to fill your stomach and warm your body, there is no difference between you and cows and horses, unless one day you only need to work for a little time to be fed and clothed, then you can be regarded as detached from animals, and you can be regarded as being able to figure out what a human being is, right? ”

"That being the case, you are now slaves, cattle and horses, and I have not changed at all to let you be slaves, so why do you refuse immediately? Like you said, you think that the fish in the blister instead of in the clay pot is what you think of as the person, although they are all dead, but you prefer to freeze to death in the blister rather than be cut open and cooked in the clay pot, that's what you want, right? That's all you want to be, right? ”

Ze cleaned up for a long time, made sure that he was straightened out, and nodded: "Yes." As Ji Xia said, we are still slaves, but the masters are our own hunger. But we'd rather be this kind of slave than that kind of slave. ”

Jian Chen raised his head and said, "Then this glass of wine is not a farewell wine, how do you know that I am not letting you be the master and my own hungry slave?" You're willing to do that, right? ”

Ze nodded and raised the bronze jue and said, "Yes." If Ji Xia said so, this kind of slave can do it. I want to be a real person, just delusional. The person Ji Xia thinks about and the person I think don't mean the same thing. ”

"Wonderful, you said you just wanted to be this kind of 'person', so why bother me? Yu Qian'er, blow the whistle, let Ze see something. ”

Yu Qian'er got up, took out the pottery whistle and whined a few times, the whistle in the distance was continuous, Ze turned his head in surprise, and saw that there were two more sailboats on the lake, and the sails were speeding on the water with the boats in a surprising posture that surprised him, and there were several people standing on the boats, holding spears, shouting in unison in response to the whistle, and there was a bit of momentum to compete with the pine waves.

Although Ze didn't recognize the sailboat, he knew that with this thing, he might not be safe on the island, and this was not the kind of canwood in those cities that could hide in Zezhonghe by himself......

His face changed, and he exclaimed, "What does Ji Xia mean by this?" ”

"It's not interesting. On the winter solstice of last year, the various clans gathered in Sucheng, and after the leaders discussed together, they told their ancestors to swear an oath to heaven and earth, and sealed Onozawa and the surrounding ten miles of land in Xiacheng. Then you occupy the land of Xia Cheng in Onozawa, and you are just living here, and this land belongs to Xia Cheng. Moreover, Xia Cheng has the ability to take back the land, and there are thousands of you, how about Xirong? I used a thousand people to defeat tens of thousands of Xirong, you have been in the Onozawa for a long time, I'm afraid you haven't heard this rumor, right? ”

Ze looked at the sailboat and the soldiers beside Chen Jian, and understood that Xia Cheng was only afraid of being very different from those cities in the past, although he didn't believe it very much, but he was a little scared in his heart after all, after all, if there were dozens of such ships, how could the few people on his island be able to stop it?

When he was panicking, Jian Chen smiled again: "I'm not a good person. I thought, just take you the kind of slaves you think you are, you definitely don't want to, don't work and don't say anything, maybe you have to run away and resist, smash my easy-to-smelt tools, kill my people, and let other slaves run with you, don't you say? ”

Ze nodded stiffly and said, "Yes." It's good that Ji Xia knows, even if I die, there will always be people who know that there is another way to live besides being a slave, and they won't be at ease to farm in the fields. Unless they kill us all. But, Ji Xia, even though our people are not as good as your warriors, if you die ten, you can always get one, right? ”

Jian Chen clapped his hands and said, "That's a good point!" I've thought about it a long time ago, it's not worth it to take you back as slaves, so you don't pay any taxes on the land of Xia City, it's not good. Let you pay your taxes, you have nothing but fish and shrimp with broken skins. Right? ”

Ze was completely stunned, so he could only nod and say, "Yes." It doesn't matter. ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "No matter if it's okay, since I'm the leader of this territory, how can I ignore it?" I just asked you what you think of people, and it seems that you are very accepting of what you think of as 'people' and are very satisfied. In that case, I will come up with a way in which you are both a 'man' as you speak of and a slave as another kind of slave that I call a slave. ”

"In this case, we are both satisfied. You're satisfied, after all, you think people are like that, so supposedly you won't resist, right? Besides, the land, the tools, the seeds, and all that are mine, and you have nothing but strength, and you have to work if you want to be fed, and you work harder than you did when you were a 'slave'. You can't resist like that, can you? If you want to resist like this, I can only use Xia Cheng's words to say that you have to make an inch, and I can only send soldiers to exterminate you. ”

Ze's heart had calmed down at this time, and after thinking about it carefully, he knew that he was by no means Xia Cheng's opponent, and Ji Xia had already talked to him openly and honestly, and he had never heard someone say it so clearly, although it was ugly, it was very reasonable, and he definitely didn't feel disgusted because it was unpleasant, but he had to thank him, and some of the things he had been thinking about seemed to be much clearer all at once.

So he raised the bronze jue and laughed: "If Ji Xia really has such a way, this kind of 'slave' is what we are willing to be, and we will not resist, but we also ask Ji Xia to keep his oath." ”

Chen Jian also raised his head and said: "Guard, absolutely guard." I won't take you back and use them as slaves with whips and ropes, and I'll keep that promise. But I've heard that you're quite famous in Onozawa, and everyone is convinced that even a pinch of salt is divided equally among everyone, and I admire that. However, in the future, this rule will be changed, and if someone gives me work, and I give him salt, sugar, grain, and so on, it is that person, and you are not allowed to take away what others have taken after their work and divide it again. ”

Zelang said: "I can swear, this can definitely be done." In the past, salt was divided equally because there was very little income. If I can get it by working for Ji Xia, how can I take someone else's share again? I don't care about any goods and food that I have earned from your labor, and I can swear an oath before everyone, including those in Onozawa. Ji Xia wants to swear that we will not attack us if we don't resist, but Ji Xia can't take care of the affairs on that island of Ohnozawa, and there are still some corn fields on the island, lotus lotus root and water chestnuts, etc., Ji Xia can't look down on it, we contribute mussel beads every year, just ask Ji Xia to have a place to live with us, and we will never do anything that harms Xia City. ”

Jian Chen drank the wine and laughed: "It's good to say, I'm the most trustworthy person." Yu Qian'er, prepare to read the oath to Ze. (To be continued.) )