After the revelry after the murder was more indulgent than usual, the intervention army took advantage of the situation to wash away the blood from their bodies, and promised to confiscate the murdered land and slaves for redistribution, people temporarily forgot about those who died in battle, and began to calculate how much they could share, and also hoped that this seemingly fair Ji Xia would preside over this distribution, and not be distributed by those in the northeast corner, because they always gave themselves more. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The heirs and orphans of Jian Chen's so-called "heroes" have become forgotten corners of the feast, and although they are properly arranged by Jian Chen in the best places and enjoy the best food, no one pays attention to them after all.

The joy of flowing and winding the water is too elegant, and the people in the city prefer this kind of men and women to sit together, and sing with pots and ou, and the eyes can't help but be stunned, and there is a fallen hairpin in the front, and there is an atmosphere of a hairpin in the back.

Juju is a play, wrestling with Boxiong, plus Chen Jian deliberately let the people of Xiacheng lose a few games, and learned the reward of Shangjun Limu, his reputation in the city is higher, at least people feel that he is trustworthy and fair.

When the feast was about to end, someone wanted to take advantage of the situation to elect a new leader, but Chen Jian refused on the pretext that the original leader had not been deposed, only saying that although he had made a big mistake, the rules still had to be followed, and he had to be deposed first and then elect a new one, and he would disperse first tonight.

The people felt that it seemed reasonable, and after picking up some scraps and cold them, they dispersed, and made an appointment to judge again tomorrow.

After everyone left, Su Tang found Jian Chen and asked quite puzzledly: "Ji Xia, the people's hearts are burning today, and it is just taking advantage of this momentum to elect the son of the old leader as the leader, why do you have to delay it for a day?" ”

Chen Jian closed the door of the house, asked someone to guard the door to let the rest of the people in the house leave, and poured a bowl of wine for Su Tang, but Su Tang didn't dare to take it, so he had to pay tribute to Chen Jian first.

"This matter was my temporary idea, and I didn't discuss it with you, don't blame it."

"Where did Ji Xia speak? Father handed over the axe jade to you, and I will listen to you on this expedition. ”

"This is something other than the expedition, I don't dare to trespass, but it's too late, so I can only do it first, and I hope you will convey it to the leader of Suyue."

Su Tang knew that Chen Jian was very disciplined in doing things, and knew that it must not be a trivial matter to say this, so he hurriedly listened quietly.

"The man who is being imprisoned today is still the leader of this city, and the people of the city have not deposed him, right?"

"Yes."

"The death penalty after the deposition is nothing more than the killing of an ordinary person. I asked Su Tang, before this, had there been people from outside the city who killed the leader of the city, and the people in the city did not object, but applauded? ”

Su Tang shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it." Since the death of Hua, the clan has been fighting for many years, and many leaders have died in battle. The two cities are at war, and the death of the leader is an eternal blood feud, where can you still applaud? If there is internal strife in the city, at most it will be the exile loser, and even if it is killed, it is the business of the city, and there has never been a precedent for the rest of the city to do it. ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "That's it." Rules are set by people, and there must always be a precedent at the beginning of the rules, and now this is an opportunity. What we will sentence tomorrow is not an ordinary person, but the leader of a city, a leader who has made a mistake but has not been deposed according to the rules. It is not the angry people of the city who are condemning this leader, but us. ”

"Why is he being judged by us? Because he made a mistake. What went wrong? made the mistake of slaughtering relatives in a vain attempt to defect to Dongyi. Are these mistakes just related to the city? No, this is related to the more than 20 cities and dozens of clans of the Huimeng, and this is no longer just a matter of one city, but the entire Great River Tribes. That's why we're qualified to judge him, and we're going to judge him as a leader. ”

"Moreover, the mistake he made is not only wrong in this city, but also in the entire Great River tribe, and he will not be punished for slaughtering his relatives in Sucheng and Xiacheng? This is not like the fault of boiling sheep in Xiacheng first and then putting salt, and Sucheng boiling sheep is putting salt first and then cooking. To make a mistake is to exceed the rules. The Great River tribes should have a large and universally applicable rule that is acceptable to all clans, and the rules of each clan must be carried out within the framework of this rule, which is the true kinship alliance. ”

"Indeed, it was said that the tribes of the alliance would not interfere in the internal affairs of the other tribes. However, now that there is Yi in the east and Rong in the west, there are fierce tigers, and the great rivers are constantly in dispute, and it is the time of danger, if the barbarians occupy the land occupied by the blood of the ancestors, and cut off the sacrifice of the ancestors, this is the most unacceptable thing. ”

"When the chiefs of the clans deceive their people, attempt to defect to the barbarians, and forget the sacrifices of their ancestors, it is not a matter within a city, but a matter of common interest to the tribes of the Great River, that is, the choice of direction of each individual city must not be contrary to the interests of the entire tribes of the Great River. The common interests of the great river tribes are paramount, and the autonomy of the individual clan cities should be limited. ”

"Whether, then, whether the minor rules are contrary to the general rules of general application, or whether the autonomy of the city is detrimental to the interests of the entire great river tribes, is it up to the people of a city to decide whether these rights and wrongs are up to the people of a city? Apparently not! ”

When Su Tang heard this, he couldn't help but slam the pottery bowl on the ground, probably sensing his gaffe, pretending to bend down to pick it up accidentally, but he couldn't contain the excitement in his heart.

For several years in a row, the wind and rain have been smooth, and today there is no flood and summer flood in the big river, and the old leader of Dongyi is sick and dies in the disputes, which is the time for Su Yue to want to conquer the disobedient big river tribes, which Su Tang is very clear.

But the reason for this long stay of action is that there is a theory that can be accepted by everyone, and without a theory to support it, it will be difficult to convince the conquered clans, and it will be difficult to deceive the soldiers in the oath of war.

The basis of the Great River Alliance is the same ancestor, and the actual interests are the threat of the Great River Flood and the Dongyi, which cannot be used as an excuse for civil war, unless the Dongyi tribes invaded Suyue and forced them to send troops to those clans who disobeyed him on the grounds of protecting the ancestral tombs, and they did not send troops, and now it seems that there is no such opportunity for the time being.

As for the possible revelation of the heavens, which can at least be fulfilled, because the comet incident caused this theory to be shattered, Su Yue strongly supported Chen Jian's words in order to succeed in the alliance, but now he has to pay the price for these words.

Su Tang, who had been listening to his father's words, was instantly attracted by Chen Jian's words, which were a perfect theoretical support and an excellent excuse to expand the power of the leader and justify internal interference.

"Ji Xia is right, the leader who has not been deposed by the clan will be judged, there is no precedent, and it is also supported by everyone, once this head is opened, then there will be a precedent for similar things in the future. The first thing that needs to be erected is a big rule that all clans and cities abide by, and under this big rule, the small rules of each city must conform to this rule, otherwise it will be a violation of the alliance. ”

"There shouldn't be too many big rules at the beginning, let the clans take advantage of the warning of this incident to accept the idea that the big rules are greater than the small rules, and then increase the big rules little by little......"

"If that's the case, ten or twenty years from now, these cities of the Huimeng will definitely be different from what they are now...... As Ji Xia said, these things are not up to the people of a city to decide, so who will judge? Naturally...... Naturally, it was the father who led the alliance...... There is gunpowder from Xia Cheng, soldiers from seven or eight cities around Sucheng, and this righteous ...... that Ji Xia said."

As he bent down to pick up the bowl, Su Tang's hands trembled uncontrollably, not only because of the excitement in his heart, but also because of a small problem that had been going on for the past few months—the trembling of his hands and feet was not serious, and the witch doctor had given him some herbs to discourage him from drinking, and he did not take it seriously, let alone think about those bright vessels that he loved the most.

When he got up, he had already made up his mind that if this thing could really be done, his father would definitely like it, and it would be beneficial to him.

So he said, "Ji Xia is right, this matter cannot be decided after my father and the leaders of the rest of the cities arrive, otherwise the people in the city will definitely elect a new leader." I think my father would have agreed, and that's what every leader would love to see. Then I told my father what had happened here, and asked me, the son, to decide one thing for him. ”

Chen Jian said: "This is not enough. Taking advantage of this incident, the leaders of the various clans of the city gathered in Sucheng to discuss this matter with them. The leader of Su Yue is very wise, he will understand that this is good for the entire Great River Tribe, you should send someone back quickly and let him prepare in advance. ”

Su Tang nodded and said: "This is the righteousness that Ji Xia came up with, even if my father understands it in his heart, but it is not as thoughtful as Ji Xia thought, I still have to ask Ji Xia to talk to the leaders about this matter." ”

"It's up to me to say this, and I'll discuss it with your father when I get back."

Chen Jian naturally agrees that in his previous life, he scoffed at the two reasons he said before, but it is very appropriate to use them here: in an era when material conditions are not enough to support a great unification, at least to achieve theoretical closeness, and to maintain the closeness and sense of belonging of a cultural circle with a reason that is acceptable to everyone, so as to wait for future generations.

His theoretical level is not high, but at a certain time in his previous life, the best mouthballs and theorists in the whole world have torn up the theory of limited sovereignty, including the supporting one: the eldest brother, as the patriarch of the family, has the obligation and right to interfere in the internal affairs of the younger brother, etc., which can be improvised, and can be improvised, and after unification, it can naturally be slightly changed into a tributary cultural circle system.

With the current level of each clan and town, there is absolutely no ability to refute like the commentators of the two newspapers and one society, and Chen Jian is not afraid of being refuted when the leaders gather, and it cannot be refuted on the surface, and it is possible to promote this matter through the exchange of interests in private.

Now that Xia Cheng is not the strongest, Chen Jian is very sober about his positioning, being Su Cheng's pawn and drummer, he is responsible for concocting theoretical support and righteous names, and Su Yue is responsible for secretly exchanging interests. By the time the mutual use ends and parting ways, it doesn't matter who is the winner on both sides, the important thing is that the bottom line of your life has been reached.

Divided by the people of Zhangwang Li and Zhao, not by the Zhang and Li people, this is the bottom line of his life, the coming day is long, a unified empire with centripetal force does not appear overnight, but the division into countless small countries may happen overnight, and form a mindset.

The way of thinking itself is an ideology, and in previous lives, the East and the West developed two different systems: the system of sovereign and equal nation-states based on the Treaty of Westphalia; A system of cultural circle division based on the tributary of the suzerainty of the East.

After a thousand years of continuous division, the theory of the former took shape after the Thirty Years' War, and with the rapid development of the Age of Discovery, it laid the right to speak, became the cornerstone of the relations between states in later generations, and left behind the huge powder keg of imaginary community ethnic disputes in his birthplace.

The latter did not catch up with the turbulent era of the world, did not have time to develop a variant to adapt to it, and did not have enough right to speak, and with Nixon's visit to China announced that the last world power had officially joined the world with the Westphalian system as the cornerstone, the cultural sphere or the ideological suzerainty system was officially shattered - it seems that the former system has been the truth, and there is no second choice.

And Chen Jian wants to see, to see with his own eyes, whether there will be another way in this world that has no connection, insinuation, or association with his previous life except for the similar sense of identity he imagined.

And, when finally faced with a great change that has not been seen in a thousand years, when all the veils of warmth and affection are torn off, a different cultural system develops independently, not disturbed by imported products, and will eventually end up with the different paths that I believed in in my previous life, in order to seek clarity. (To be continued.) )