After the Battle of the Spring Valley of the Great River, the 32nd year of the Huasu Alliance, July 19. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Sunny and breezy.

On the wooden platform, Chen Jian took a silk silk that only he could understand and read it out loud.

“…… Therefore, the above twenty-three men were sentenced to be hanged, and all the slaves of the land were divided into ten parts, and the public property was given three, and the children of the people who were deceived and killed in battle were given three, and the rest of the city was divided into four per person. ”

"The original leader was escorted back to Sucheng for the five major crimes of betraying the clan and disrespecting the ancestors, and the leaders discussed and dealt with together."

"His family has a total of 4,000 acres of land, 184 slaves, remembering that he has meritorious service with the city, and his ancestors have also overcome obstacles to establish the city, and the sacrifice cannot be cut off, leaving a thousand acres of land and 20 slaves for the sacrifice of his descendants, and the rest are all divided equally."

"In order to prevent the elected leader from doing evil like him, after a month the chiefs of the clans will gather here, and you will elect a new chief, and the relatives will oversee his oath, and the affairs of the city will be discussed by the elders of the city during this month."

"Such as the above acres, zhang, ruler, catty, etc., someone will demonstrate with you in a while, which is convenient for measurement. What else do you relatives have to ask? ”

I asked three times in a row, but I didn't raise any doubts, except that I might be a little confused about the unit of measurement in Xia Cheng, but when measuring the land, many people were curious to follow the soldiers of Xia Cheng to see it, and they always heard these strange words from their mouths, and they probably understood what they were.

People and people's steps are always different, how much can you eat in a meal, not to mention that people are different, that is, there will be a world of difference between a person's two meals, so it is necessary for a specific person to take a step or eat a meal as a measurement.

More often than not, people don't care whose step by step is the pound, which doesn't mean much to ordinary people, but it is very important to Jian Chen, so he seized every opportunity to implement the unit of weights and measures as the basis for a unified cultural circle in the future.

After making sure that there was no objection to everything he was talking about, Jian Chen waved his hand, and the soldiers kicked away the wood whose necks were hanging from the feet of the people on the noose, and the silent struggle began, and the bodies of more than twenty people stretched out, and the purple-black tongues stretched out very long, but fortunately, the wood and the rope were strong enough, and finally died.

The people of their clan were reduced to slavery regardless of whether they were involved in this matter, so no one collected the corpses, and Chen Jian told the people of the city that as a warning to these people, the corpses of these people would not be allowed to be buried, but would be a wilderness of corpses, making it difficult for their souls to enter the world of their ancestors.

The corpses of this group of people hung on a big tree outside the city, like the pottery wind chimes common on the roofs of Xia City, swaying with the breeze, and before the rotting crows had begun to fly over and peck at the eyes of these people, it would dry in two or three days.

In the previous trial, Chen Jian instigated the contradictions between the poor and the lowly in the northeast and southwest corners, which caused the contradictions accumulated between the nobles and the commoners of the city to erupt due to the distribution of land and the concentration of power in small circles. At the same time, he presided over the redistribution of confiscated land, and won the support of the common people of these towns in a fair manner.

Because of this instigation, as well as the bloody hands that had been washed away before and Qiu's military discipline that had not been committed, this accumulated contradiction became the main contradiction in the city today, and the unpleasantness and estrangement caused by interference in internal affairs became a secondary contradiction, and the soldiers of Xia Cheng did not receive much hostility in the city.

When he asked the soldiers of Xiacheng to instigate, he deliberately controlled the direction of the contradiction, and when he complained, Chen Jian changed the focus of the contradiction from the irreconcilable rights of the rich and the poor, and covered up the past under the guise of the personal low morality of the person being tried, and did not offend the big families and people in the power circle in the city too much, on the contrary, he also did not divide the slightly disputed land in the family conflict into these living families, which won their favor and support.

In particular, the root of the contradiction he concocted is the moral problem of the leader and the person who controls the city, the use of power to seek better land and the like is an accidental rather than inevitable moral problem, and the right of the city is best controlled by the permanent property, because the permanent owner will have a certain morality, and will not covet small profits, etc., but also found a better excuse for these people, what they need is such a rhetoric that can anesthetize the common people of the city, and there are countless people who praise Chen Jian for a while.

Although it has become an established fact that the big families control power after the gap between the rich and the poor, including the leaders of the cities and towns only rotate among several families, etc., these are the same everywhere, but there is always a lack of a clear and plausible explanation for this matter, and Chen Jian's words brought them the most needed reason.

The civilians also understood that it was impossible for them to step into the center of power, and Chen Jian presided over the distribution of the benefits brought to them, and tried the leader as a warning, so they didn't care about Chen Jian's words, as for believing it or not, it was their own business.

The only people in the entire city who held a grudge against Chen Jian were the people who were close to the chief, and Chen Jian knew that it was impossible to get everyone's approval, so he used the tears and resentment of a group of people to win the support and praise of the majority of the people in the city by hanging them all, not being hanged and enslaved, and making it difficult for them to rise again in the east of the city.

The deliberately propagated concept of kinship made the people in the city unaware of the difference between this trial and the previous one: it was a trial of the leaders of their own towns by the people of the rest of the city, and the previous right and wrong within the city had been replaced by the common right and wrong in the cultural circle, and some people and the city began to interfere and participate in this evaluation of right and wrong, and even the rebels of the city were hanged with the so-called laws of the cultural circle.

The people of the city did not notice a subtle change: the son of the old chief could almost justifiably be elected as the leader, because the only family that could compete with it had disintegrated, and the power vacuum that had collapsed was held by those close to the son of the old chief...... Decades later, when the leader was once again elected, there was no one left to compete with him.

The circle of inheritance of power is even smaller, first there is the fact of blood inheritance, and then there is the legal principle of family inheritance, and this is also the condition for Chen Jian Suyue to get the support of the rest of the clans: to secretly support the blood inheritance of the rest of the cities in exchange for their approval of this interference.

After the purpose of this intervention was basically achieved, Chen Jian stayed for a few more days, and took the soldiers of Xia Cheng to count the land, and left all kinds of bronze weights and measures made by Xia Cheng on the ship, and taught them how to use them, leaving behind cloth and silk with various simple characters of Xia Cheng and two or three soldiers.

On the 23rd of July, when the city was basically stable, Chen Jian and Su Tang were about to withdraw their troops and go back, and before leaving, they invited, or rathered, to entic, and trade more than a dozen prestigious people in the city to follow them back to Sucheng.

The name is: due to the deception of the previous selection of the leader and the fairness of Ji Xia Suyu, these people asked Su Yue and the rest of the leaders to come to this city to supervise the selection of the leader, and to supervise the oath of the leader when he succeeds him, because it seems that it is difficult for heaven and earth to punish those who break the oath, and it is ultimately up to people to carry it out.

The fact is: these people didn't think about it so much at all, it was Chen Jian and Su Tang who used various excuses to let them go, and acted as a self-directed request, providing an excuse and precedent for Chen Jian to turn this matter into a rule.

In fact, it is to leave enough operational space for the future son to take over, which is equivalent to letting the wolf manage the flock, and when the wolf is going to die, he will not support a sheep to become the leader, but will definitely choose his own wolf cubs, if the choice is not a wolf cub, it is not in accordance with the rules, and the rest of the wolves will attack it in groups, as for the irregularities, they can always be found.

Jian Chen estimated that the leaders of the rest of the clans should accept this result for the sake of their heirs, which required the conclusion of a secret covenant to break the oath of the people.

Succession from father to son is not yet the rule, but implicit succession has emerged, and the son as the leader has more opportunities to show himself and to be known.

Nominally, any countryman is eligible to be elected as a leader, but an ordinary countryman has no contact with all kinds of power circles, and he does not have enough experience to prove himself.

The people of the clan can't see through the essence, so naturally there is no voice of opposition, and the root of the contradiction between the rich and the poor concocted by Chen Jian is actually the idea of the personal morality of the person in power, which can effectively paralyze the hearts of ordinary people in order to gain the support of more people in power -- and this will force the emergence of a set of aristocratic moral norms, as well as promote the birth of a certain kind of thinking: as long as the person in power has enough morality, then the world will be peaceful and happy, if the world is not peaceful, it is not the fault of the system, but the morality of the person in power is wrong.

Strictly speaking, Jian Chen's evaluation of himself is now very dirty: an advocate of bloodline aristocracy; the ugly politicians who numb the hearts of the people; instigator of clan wars; The initiator of the jurisprudence of the hegemony of the city.

But history is measured in millennia, and it also spirals forward, and sometimes it has to go west in order to go east. Taking advantage of the vacuum of civilization around us, it is the best choice to integrate the cultural circle to reduce internal friction and sprout everywhere like dandelions.

He can't manage so many cities, a summer city has exhausted all his thoughts, and it is impossible to fight against the entire era alone, the cultural inheritance caused by the underdeveloped material conditions is only in the circle of the aristocracy, and this situation will inevitably occur, and if it cannot be changed, it can only be used to achieve the goal.

While he did all this, he also left behind the seeds of destruction in Xia and Yucheng, waiting for iron tools to replace bronze, ox ploughing to replace slaves, enough wealth accumulated within the tribe, potential foreign enemies to be assimilated, more people to be literate, and more people to teach in private.

When that day comes, when all these things full of the flavor of the old times can no longer solve the contradictions at that time, more people will think: what to do?

Therefore, in the pile of paper and the old silk silk, people may see the story of Xiacheng and Yucheng a long time ago, and find a trace of the remnant of the shadow, from the public recommendation system and the study and examination system of the Xiacheng bureaucrats, to the monopoly of salt and iron in the government-run economy, the ownership of land, the return of the world to the public or the world to the private, all these are the basis for those who are interested in finding their basis and inspiring their thinking.

At that time, when a hundred flowers bloomed, thousands of words contended, and a road that could be taken was finally selected, it could be regarded as the true civilization core of this ethnic group.

It's still early, and there is no skin, as long as the skin grows.

"There's no hurry."

On the way back, Jian Chen thought about what he had done, comforting himself in this way, and at the same time thinking about the conversation he had with the leader of the city before: When he really has an heir, will his original intention really not change? When the temptation of reality is in front of you, can you really keep your heart?

When the newborn baby hooks his fingers and looks at him with a hazy and curious gaze; Wait until the children call out for the first time, wait until you see that there are so many similarities in them to yourself...... Will you really stand up straight and without hesitation as you did in front of that person a few days ago? (To be continued.) )