Chapter 56: The High Priest
The mad dog was naturally talking about Jian Chen, and the entire Xia City was a group of mad dogs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Mad dog is because of the unity of the family that was originally regarded as a big sentence, this mad dog actually practiced it, and did it so resolutely, not hesitating to ignore Xia Yu's split, it is simply unreasonable.
And because of the leadership of this mad dog, the whole Xia City went crazy, and those rebellious fugitive slaves and workshop workers actually went out with them, which made their world view extremely broken, and they never thought that a leader would stand with the slaves and talk and laugh.
This group of mad dogs can bite people, and the bite is particularly painful, with a mere 4,000 troops across the east, forcing Qiongxi to return to the division, ambushing 3,000 with a loss of less than 100 people, and then breaking through three cities in a row, it was unstoppable.
This group of mad dogs did what they said, plundered more than 20,000 Dongyi slaves, and even used them in exchange for those captured relatives. This was even more unthinkable in the past, and no one would exchange their spoils for so-called kinship, unless it was many years ago when the Huasu League was in power.
If it is only the above two items, it can only be said that this person is a loyal dog in this city, but after adding the words of the workshop workers' riot and the power structure and knowledge inheritance model of Xia Cheng, this is a real mad dog.
The mad dog now seemed to be ready to bite, and a rumor spread among the cities as early as when Xia Cheng was deep into Dongyi.
It is said that an envoy from Xia Cheng said something that should not be said after getting drunk, to the effect that after Ji Xia returned, he would record the conflict between the Dongyi and the Dahe tribes in the 35th year of Huali as a secretary, and those leaders who were threatened by the Qiongxi and did not dare to send troops behind closed doors would be recorded in the history books and passed on to future generations to be spurned by future generations.
It is even rumored that after Ji Xia returns, he will force Su Yue to punish the leaders of those cities in the name of the alliance leader, and may even use the reason of the interests of the new alliance to punish them severely.
The protagonist of this rumor is someone else, and no one may believe it and smile faintly, but it is difficult for anyone to say that it is on this mad dog who has been shouting about the unity of relatives for so long and still practicing it himself.
After the Rebellion in Windy City two years ago, the slogan that the interests of the Great River Tribes took precedence over the interests of the cities alone was loud and earth-shattering.
At that time, Xia Cheng was not a mad dog, and the leaders of each city greatly appreciated this oath for the inheritance of their children, and at that time it seemed that everyone would help each other when inheriting in the future, and the position of the leader would be passed on to outsiders in our few houses, otherwise it would be detrimental to the interests of the Dahe tribes, and everyone worked together to force him to step down.
Even after Su Yue heard the news of Xia Yu's split a few months ago, he was even more excited to think of this excuse, thinking that it was the best reason to drive out Yucheng.
But now it has become a noose hanging over their heads.
Not all of the city's leaders were afraid of the rumor itself, as many of the towns hastily put together an army to go to the place where the two clans met after the retreat of the city, and there was always some excuse to go.
Of course, they were worried that Xia Cheng, a mad dog under the banner of kinship unity, would really talk about limited sovereignty and really want to use this excuse to interfere in various cities.
Compared with this, they were more worried that Suyue and other cities would withdraw from the covenant and no longer agree with the slogan of Xia Cheng's kinship unity, and they would be angry or worried that Xia Cheng would tear their faces as it grew stronger.
Now there is still this covenant that restricts Xia Cheng, and once Su Yue and other cities withdraw from the covenant in order not to be questioned and questioned, it is equivalent to untying the rope around the neck of the dog in Xia Cheng.
The towns that were far away were fine, but the towns that were closer to Onozawa and on both sides of the river were already panicking.
They knew the terrible nature of the mad dogs, especially the policies implemented near Yucheng that made them extremely uneasy, and it was difficult to say which side the low-level countrymen would stand on once they started to fight - even those fugitive slaves from Onozawa could stand with the people of Xiacheng and be tamed, let alone the slaves and low-level in their own cities.
Acknowledging the validity of the covenant as a guarantee of law, and at most punishable; But to break the covenant is to turn the world upside down.
These leaders found and came to Sucheng as soon as possible, not to celebrate, but to beg Su Yue to take the responsibility of breaking the city for their allies, not to tear their faces with Xia Cheng, and also begged Su Yue not to give Chen Jian a chance to play on the topic.
It is common sense for a sober person to be angry, and it does not apply to a mad dog, especially if the mad dog may bite many people to death before he dies.
Su Yue was very embarrassed, but he was helpless in the face of these leaders who had secretly allied with him.
Whether these words are rumors or groundless is not clear. Su Yue had never seen through Chen Jian, he hadn't seen it through from the beginning, and once he really took this opportunity to reprimand those leaders who avoided the war, Su Yue knew that he would be very embarrassed at that time.
The punishment was light, and he couldn't give an explanation to the mad dog; The punishment is severe, and one's allies will hold a grudge against them.
can let him admit that it was his incompetence or mistake that caused the Dongyi people to take advantage of this time, and his own reputation would suffer again.
Last year, he was quite satisfied with the history books, especially the scenes and glory of his victory, but now he can't live without the history books.
However, the secretary who recorded the major events was Chen Jian, and according to the rules set at the beginning, only the history of the major events recorded by the secretary was considered the correct history, and this seemingly useless thing became more and more important.
How will this period of history in the 35th year of the Chinese calendar be recorded? It's like the well-spread anecdote about Ji Xia seeing the sky, at first the leaders would smile and feel very wise, but when history wanted to record themselves, they began to hate the story.
A distorted history is not not the truth, but only a part of the truth, and it is up to the person who writes it which part of it is recorded.
With a headache, some leaders who had opinions about Jian Chen asked, "Mad Dog is coming back, what should we do?" The leader of Suyue always has a way, if he asks us in public why we didn't send troops, where should we put our faces? ”
The leaders were at a loss, especially the few cities that were threatened by the Dome and did not dare to follow the Dome army when it attacked the city, and they were expecting a solution from Su Yue.
One of the leaders said: "It's not impossible, Qiongxi pointed out a clear way, that is, a sun will rise in the northwest that will dry up the river, let's use this reason to start a war with Xia Cheng and completely destroy Xia Cheng." Xia City is getting stronger and stronger, and there were originally four cities, Xia, Yu, Wei, and E, and now there are 10,000 people in two cities to support it......"
But before he could finish speaking, six or seven people objected in unison, shouting: "If the leader of Suyue adopts this method, we will immediately withdraw from the alliance and will never stand with you." Let's not talk about whether the people in the city believe that our city is so close to the four cities of Xia Wei and Eyu, how can we resist the anger of the people of Xia City? ”
"That's right! If the leader of Suyue agrees to do this, we will withdraw from the alliance and side with Xia Cheng!" ”
"You stay away from them until the army comes, but what about us? The people of Xiacheng went deep into Dongyi alone, and they were still able to break the city in ten days, and there were riders and chariots to help them here, who could resist? ”
Su Yue rubbed his forehead, shook his head and said, "I don't agree with this either, really push this mad dog to the extreme, who knows what he will do?" ”
"After the civil strife in Yucheng, some propaganda about the rights of the city, who the city is, and who represents the city has been continuously transmitted to us, are Ji Xia's words just for those fugitive slaves?"
"What I'm worried about is that when the time comes, Ji Xia will capture a few cities, distribute iron tools for cultivating cattle, divide the public land of the city, divide the land and slaves at the bottom as people, and rely on the children of thousands of schools to govern those people, no levy for three years and no tax for five years, fight for ten years, and use another ten years to recuperate. Slaves can't be on our side, and the people at the bottom may not be resolute, they are short-sighted and will only see the small profits in front of them, and they are more likely to be deceived by him, and they will be part of Xia Cheng in ten years. ”
"What I'm more worried about is that this mad dog can shout that his relatives are one today, and tomorrow he can shout that the cultivator has his own land, and everyone in the world can read and read the number of books, and choose his sage as an official to cut off the lineage. He has more than 10,000 former slaves in his hands, Xia Cheng doesn't want him, and he tosses in Yucheng without looking back. ”
"Defeated by Dongyi, the most we can do is change our clothes and language, and we still have the right to pay tribute, how many people can he manage, and it is not up to us to manage the clan? Drove Ji Xia crazy, that is to be like a barefoot poor slave, our heir has to start from scratch like those civilians, he doesn't need our blood, because he taught the children in the school what we hid in the blood. ”
"Rather defeated by Dongyi, not defeated by Ji Xia. I also understand this truth, but he has been shouting for several years that he has been a family member and has done such a thing. Compared with these words, more than propaganda, more bewitching, don't say Ji Xia, that is, Xia Cheng's actor, who of us can compare? ”
"All the ministries are now rejoicing in Ji Xia's actions, whoever opposes Xia Cheng at this time will lose the support of the countrymen."
"Now that there is an alliance in hand, he will not interfere with each other's cities, unless it is against the interests of his relatives and does not force him into a desperate situation, he will not dare to completely break with us."
"Therefore not only shall you not levy him, but you must reward him."
Everyone looked at Su Yue and wanted to know how to reward him, and Su Yue's next words shocked everyone even more.
"I want to ...... He was elected as the high priest of the alliance, but in return, he had to promise us that we would only talk about the unity of the kinship, not the slaves, the aristocracy, and the commoners. ”
"High priest?"
Everyone was stunned, this reward was a little too big, and the big one was a little scary.
The leaders of many cities are themselves high priests, if not their wives, high priests or the people they trust the most, to explain the legitimacy of everything the leaders do, and to prove that everything the leaders do is right with the help of their ancestors or the guidance of heaven and earth.
The leader is a secular leader, the high priest is a theocratic leader, and God was not hierarchical and did not have a complete system before the emergence of class society, but even if all things are animistic and all spirits are equal, someone needs to make an ideological summary.
Needless to say, the leaders of the tribes are naturally the high priests of the tribes, and they communicate with the ancestors of heaven and earth on behalf of the tribes.
In Su Yue's view, this new official position called the secretary was not only responsible for recording history, but more importantly, it replaced the function of the priest of the city and controlled the propaganda of ideology.
From the original comet to the system of kinship and limited sovereignty, these theories and ideological propaganda should have been done by the high priest of the city, but they were robbed by this so-called secretary and done it very well.
Su Yue regretted it very much, when the comet of the alliance came, he gave Chen Jian the opportunity to explain the reasonableness of his behavior for the sake of power.
The result was unstoppable.
The fabrication of the remarks about the binding of property and morality on the grounds of blood inheritance gave the aristocracy the opportunity to control power in the name of justice, but also gave the rationality of the rebellion of the bottom; In the name of mutual assistance among the chiefs' families, the Suxia system was concocted in which the interests of the great river tribes outweighed the interests of the cities alone, giving the chiefs the opportunity to inherit their heirs, but also leaving the possibility of using this as an excuse to conquer.
Inadvertently, Su Yue realized that the other party had obtained the right to interpret the law step by step and became a high priest without the name of a priest. They only saw the good, but they didn't notice the poisonous snakes hidden under the flowers.
What if you don't give it? As long as he doesn't turn his face, this secretary can continue to use his own set of ideology to explain the world and engage in public opinion propaganda, and no one can compete with anyone.
Fortunately, when the comet came a few years ago, the propagandized things broke the theory of divination of the signs of heaven and earth, the priests could also be wrong or deceived by bad spirits, the ancestral guidance in the black and white bear theory may be pretended by bad people, and the simple practical theory and the unknown were abandoned and left to be known in the future, leaving the original ideology in turmoil.
From that time on, the theocracy ceased to be supreme, it could be false, it could be wrong, it could be the deception of bad souls in the name of their ancestors.
According to Xia Cheng's theory, I sacrifice, if you are in good weather, you are true, so there is a tribute; If there is a drought and flood after the sacrifice, it is fake, bad, pretended, and smashed.
It was this that gave Su Yue the confidence to reward Chen Jian as a high priest, otherwise he would never have let go of this right - after the great event of the comet a few years ago, the divine right was caught by the secular right and took a back seat.
In this case, Su Yue felt that it was better to make him worthy of his name, but the price was to explain the world in the way of hello, me, hello, and everyone. If you don't have children, it doesn't mean that we don't, if you are willing to toss in your city, don't come to our city to stir up, talk about the unity of the relatives and the happiness is very good, not to mention the contradiction between the bottom and the relatives, it is best to dilute it as if it does not exist.
That's the bottom line. You Ji Xia accept, you Ji Xia is the high priest. You Ji Xia didn't accept it, everyone broke up in two, fighting to defeat both sides and fighting to unite with Dongyi to destroy you first.