Su Yue didn't think about what Jian Chen was going to do, but asked a more practical question. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Ji Xia, as you say, divide that city in two, and whoever can make his people live in peace and prosperity in a few years will become the leader of the entire city. You also said that if the other fails to comply with the right to surrender, then everyone will have to fight together. ”

"But what if another clan town doesn't go on a crusade? Shall we go again against the city that we did not go to? So does it mean that in addition to controlling the flood and Yidi, the leaders of the various ministries also have to maintain these new rules? ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "That's exactly how it should be." The rules for building houses are drawn by rulers, and the rules between the tribes are of course drawn by spears. ”

Su Yue praised: "Ji Xia's words are very right, the rules should probably be enforced by the leader, but who should establish these rules?" Among the leaders of the tribes, the most intelligent is Ji Xia; The most favored by the ancestors is also Ji Xia. While these rules require the consent of each clan leader, the rules need to be determined by one person. ”

Since Ji Xia returned from Dongyi, all the ministries have been convinced, so this time the alliance of the ministries was convened to let the ministries remember Ji Xia's exploits in rescuing his relatives. I, on the other hand, proposed that Ji Xia be appointed as the high priest of the various tribes, so as to determine the rules and discuss them with the leaders. ”

"Since Ji Xia has the favor of his ancestors, he must know what kind of rules his ancestors like us and what kind of rules he dislikes us for, so if the high priest's responsibility is not Ji Xia, there is nothing to do."

"Besides, according to Ji Xia, some bad souls will pretend to be the souls of their ancestors and give us false guidance, which is not something we can distinguish. And Ji Xia led the clansmen, from the construction of the city by the grass river to the defeat of Dongyi, there was nothing wrong, probably Ji Xia was able to distinguish which ones were true and which ones were false. ”

Everyone had already heard of this, and they all knew the purpose of this alliance, so they were not surprised, but echoed it one after another, and they all supported Su Yue's proposal.

Part felt that this was deserved, and no one was more suitable than Jian Chen; Some people are because they are relatives of Su Yue, and they have long been on the side of Su Yue.

However, Su Yue's words about the high priest were harboring evil intentions, and he wanted Chen Jian to communicate with his ancestors to determine the rules that his ancestors liked and put an end to the rules that his ancestors hated.

It's just that "ancestor" is not an illusory thing here at all, but a collection of thoughts of all the leaders present - what they dislike is what their ancestors hate, what they like is what their ancestors like, and what they dislike but is brought up by Chen Jian must be a bad soul guiding Chen Jian.

The pit that Chen Jian dug to destroy the divine power has become part of the secular right's struggle for justice for its actions, which is gratifying for the ethnic group, and has come out of the tragedy of blind worship and sacrifice; But for Jian Chen at this moment, it is a shackle.

So Jian Chen cautiously replied in fear: "How can I tell if it's true or fake? I'm afraid that I won't be able to do this high priest's job well, so you might as well choose another person. ”

Su Yue smiled: "This is not my idea alone, this is the trust of the ministries in you." Ji Xia said all day long that the relatives are one, and the interests of the great river are above all else, and now is the time for you to take on the heavy responsibility, how can you be afraid? ”

Jian Chen asked the surrounding leaders and priests again, "Do you all think that what I said before is correct?" ”

A person who had debated with Jian Chen because of the comet incident nodded and said, "At first, I thought that what Ji Xia said was wrong, but after thinking about it, I felt that there was nothing more than this to solve the doubts in my heart." ”

"Our ancestors will be as kind to us as parents are to their children, and they will not send disasters to our children. Just like a mother breastfeeding, how can she punish her son by starving because his ignorance bites his mother's chest? ”

"Since this is the case, then it is not correct to say that those calamities, divination, and other evil deeds are because our sacrifices are not enough to punish the ancestors of heaven and earth. Ancestors are our ancestors, where can there be ancestral gods who rain down a flood and drown their offspring? ”

"Therefore, those things that do not do good divination, those calamities, floods, pestilences, naturally those who are bad want to devour us."

"And these questions are something I couldn't understand until I heard Ji Xia's words, so much so that I thought bitterly that it was the punishment of our ancestors for us. But if Ji Xia said so, I would be able to understand. ”

"Last year, our city was threatened by flash floods, and the people were scared and thought they needed to increase their sacrifices. It was precisely because of Ji Xia's words that in addition to the sacrifice, we also asked everyone to surround the field with hoes, shovels and other tools exchanged from Yucheng. This is precisely because Ji Xia said that our ancestors liked us to fight with those bad spirits, so they were able to keep our corn fields. ”

Not only this priest, but also many others showed a look of approval. Chen Jian's theories are actually full of loopholes, but compared with the previous sacrificial theory, at least they can be self-justifying, and there will not be too much confusion that people already have, and the new confusion has not appeared for the time being because of the level of productivity.

More people think in a slightly different way, agreeing with or against Chen's theory, but the standard of living in the city has improved in recent years. And the reason for the improvement is because of the spread of ridge farming, cattle ploughing, compost fermentation technology, which is something that can be seen intuitively, and it is more like a strange theory: because Ji Xia explained how the ancestors guided, the standard of living as the ancestors of the ancestors has improved, and the food is enough to eat, and they are not hungry...... In turn, it confirms Ji Xia's words, the ancestors want their children and grandchildren to live a better life, otherwise why would it be better?

Only when they have enough to eat can they be qualified to think about the spiritual world that is beyond reality, and Yucheng's new tools give them the qualifications to think, and also give them a realistic reason to believe - it is easier to think about the right and wrong interpretation of a certain person than to directly think about how the thing itself should be explained.

Chen Jian is also very satisfied with this answer, at least there are no more people who clearly oppose his system, and even if there are, they are already a minority.

The remaining objections can only be within this system, and can only use the rules within the system to judge the right and wrong of what Chen Jian does, in other words, to choose the most suitable explanation for himself out of his own interests, which is simply a mercenary attempt to transcend the shackles of religion.

If this is regarded as a primitive "religion", there is no "heresy" here, and the definition of "heresy" is no longer a dispute over theological concepts, but an entanglement of secular rights, secular life, and secular interests.

Ancestors or gods take a back seat, and for the time being, no one will hate each other because of what the ancestral gods are and how they came about; However, some people will argue over whether the rules, systems, practices, and technologies are what the ancestors wanted the ancestors to make their people's lives better, and the only thing that is right or wrong is the facts.

This is a sophistry, what is right is true, what is wrong is false. It's a strange circle, what is good for me is true, and what is harmful to me is fake. And what is Profit? What is harm? What is good? What is bad? Objectively, it can be distinguished by itself, but it can be guided by spiritual values.

This is a good start, but only in this day and age, of course. This may have been the result of the fact that the secular power of the community had always been overwhelmed by the theocratic priesthood, or that most of the chiefs had priestly duties, and that the mere priests had little power to oppose this kind of theocratic nonsense.

Jian Chen asked everyone a few more words, and finally retracted his previous modesty and said: "Since everyone trusts me, then I can only accept it, and I hope that I will not bring disaster to my relatives because I misinterpreted the intentions of my ancestors and was deceived." ”

After completing this previous rhetoric, there were not many people who opposed Chen Jian becoming the high priest, so it was logical that he became the high priest of the Great River Tribes.

Originally, this was a planned event that had been planned for a long time, and the preparations for various sacrifices had been completed long ago, and now the slaves and tools in Su Yue's hands were not comparable to those of a few years ago, so the preparations were completed very early.

There is no ritual to become a high priest, and there are not many cumbersome ceremonies, the ritual is only elected by the leaders, and it is still determined by secular power.

But after becoming a high priest, there are many rituals, this is not a sacrifice in a single city, Chen Jian needs to officiate as a high priest, inform the ancestors of the development of the ethnic group over the years, wars, victories, etc., but also offer sacrifices, and take the lead in praying for the ancestors to continue to protect the development and growth of the ethnic group.

These are rules that have been in place many years ago, you can do what you have to do, and Chen Jian has learned a lot over the years, especially the etiquette is not so cumbersome that someone needs to learn it for a lifetime.

If it's just a high priest like that, even if it's a pet or a mascot, that's not bad.

But Jian Chen understood that the priest leaders below were only afraid that they were already sharpening their knives, not to slaughter him, but to slaughter his whole set of fallacies and heresies in Yucheng, the summer city.

It is best for the proposer to admit that he or she is wrong, especially if the proposer has to give an explanation for the rules of the entire community and the towns. There's no better way to convince others that they're really wrong than saying they're wrong.

Under Su Yue's instructions, the priests and leaders who had been preparing for a long time looked at Chen Jian who was making a final worship on the altar, recalling that they had already thought of the question that could force Chen Jian to express his position, waiting for the moment when the smoke cleared.

It's just that when that moment came, an unexpected move made everyone stunned.

Chen Jian left the jade that symbolized the high priest on the altar, which was a symbol of the high priest's status and a thing that many people dreamed of.

But Jian Chen put the thing down, retreated under the altar, prostrate on the ground, and sighed.

"I'm just afraid that I'm not qualified to be this high priest!"