In the early morning after the hangover, Su Tang did not go with Jian Chen, although he was curious about how Jian Jian built the city in Onozawa, but he did not ask in detail, he always felt that he would see it soon. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The ships transporting grain from Natsujo docked near Aisoki every day, and the grain that had been exchanged for bronze could last for a while, and with the living advertisements of this war, it was presumably that the sales of gunpowder would become a commodity, and it would be more than enough to support the establishment of a cluster of workshops in Onozawa, which was a group of free slaves who only wanted to survive for a bare minimum.

Seeing the ship transporting grain, Chen Jian, who still had a headache, was relieved, and it seemed that there was no wave in Onozawa during the time he left.

Thinking of the only few people he could communicate with openly, he inevitably felt a little tired and eager to relax in his heart, even though the bow of the boat broke the waves, which made many villagers holding the raft sigh, but he still felt a little slow.

Two days later, I finally approached the headland island, and the waves outside dissipated in the headland bay with two natural wave-proof stone walls, calm as a bronze mirror.

From afar, I heard the sound of hot labor on the island, and the two women were in good order according to the rules of Xia Cheng, cooking, boiling water, working, and resting.

Thousands of strong men with bare upper bodies and bulging muscles were shouting the horn of Xia Cheng, which was a scene that Chen Jianding liked.

The trees on the front of the one-mile-wide headland had been cut down, and the ashes of the burned plants had accumulated a thick layer, and the people of Xiacheng knew that this thing could be used to make soap, wash away grease, and also fertilize the fields and grow nitrate, so they did not scatter them into the lake but piled them together.

The cleared area was about 150 steps away from the shore of the headland lake, and it was the place where Chen Jian found the highest water rise after excavation. Two simple wood-and-stone piers have been built and a path has been trodden.

The two large canals in the center of the lake have been dug and crossed into a cross fork, which is filled with some river water as a benchmark level, and the rope is kept at a height of almost the same, Chen Jian looked at the neat knot at the end of the rope, and knew that this must be tied by his sister who likes neatness.

The canal had not yet communicated with the lake, because it was higher than the lake, and Yu Qian'er and Hongyu did not know what to do to ensure that the water did not flow to the lake, so they were waiting for him to return.

In the future, the canal that will be used as an inland river in the city will be about four or five steps wide, which is not grandiose and even makes Chen Jian, who has seen a lot of big scenes, feel a little childish, but it is enough to use it in this city.

The excavated earth was all transported aside, there was a lot of white clay in it, several huge kilns had been built under the supervision of the Xia Cheng masons brought by Chen Jian, but they had not yet been lit, a group of women were sitting in the scorching sun and making brick molds with wooden molds, and a row of simple houses with branches and thatch were built as places to stay at night, and some were used as pergolas to dry these bricks.

On the island, the red fish, who was calculating how much corn should be withdrawn, was nudged on the shoulder, looked up blankly, saw the boat on the shore, and ignored the good-natured laughter of the female tribesmen next to him, and threw down his things and ran to the shore.

"Why did you come back? Only left us such a few people, isn't it because I am thinking about the woman named Yuemei, and I don't want to break my oath with me, so I just look forward to this group of people on the island to resist and kill me? ”

After a few words of laughter, he stretched out his hand to dust off the man's shoulder, his hands were slightly raised, and Jian Chen tacitly squatted down and asked the woman to tidy up his hair bun.

"You've lost a little weight, and look, your eyes are a little swollen. I ate dry cakes for a month, and I went to prepare what I wanted to eat in the evening. ”

Hongyu took Jian Chen's hand and asked a few questions, but Jian Chen didn't answer, his heart was warm as if he was being heated by the early autumn sun.

"Nothing happened on the island, did you?"

"No, Yu Qian'er and I have also managed thousands of people in Xia City, the work you arranged before you left has been completed, and now there are some people who are making billets there."

"How?"

"It's like you did when you took me as a slave, let them do it for a day, and I counted how much each person could do in a day, and then set a amount, a little less than that. If you reach this amount, you can withdraw corn and salt pottery every day, and there will be a reward for exceeding this amount. At that time, you used this method to deceive me, but I saw through it, and I deliberately pretended not to spin. ”

The two finally had a common memory, although this memory was not good at the beginning, full of the cunning of the slave owner and the resistance of the slave, but at this time I thought of it and smiled at each other, Hongyu understood that it was from that time that he was seen by this man, his heart was a little rippling, a little numb, and his eyes seemed to drip water.

Looking at the people around him, knowing that the thoughts of the rest of the month would have to endure until the moon came out, while suppressing the heat in his heart, his eyes were aimed at the boat, and he whispered in Chen Jian's ear but was not shy, watching Chen Jian deliberately smile and shake his head evilly, and gently pinched him, it took a long time to calm down the ripples in his heart, and he looked up at the sky and only hoped that the sky would get dark soon.

The two of them walked aimlessly, and the number of people gradually increased, a few people greeted Chen Jian, and more people bowed their heads in the clay mound and made of mud bricks, and even saw the appearance of several collaborative small groups, there were a lot of bricks around them, and they were very skillful in making, but they hid their skills and did not allow others to see them.

Jian Chen smiled, and said in his heart that Ze and Ohnozawa's fantasy had changed, and this change must be Redfish's idea.

Hongyu looked at Jian Chen's familiar smile, and felt very proud in her heart, this was her favorite kind of smile, as if a kitten had succeeded in stealing the owner's hidden jerky, and her eyes were squinted when she smiled, like another success sometime in the night.

"How did you get them to do that?"

"It's simple. When you locked me up, there were only three or four people around me, and they believed me, so I could spin very slowly with them. Actually, Ze and Mo are very smart, and they should have guessed what I was going to do, so they tried to get these people to do it slowly, so that there would be less ration and they could get more corn. ”

"But there are a lot of people. Although these people are convinced, there are thousands of people, each of whom has their own little plans, which is different from the three or four people I had at that time. I said that they would make more than 100 meat and fish every day, and that in the future, when the workshop was established, they would be able to guide them to work and take more corn every day. ”

"I heard that Ze and Mo also ran to tell these people to let them go as slow as possible, so that everyone could get the most corn, but although everyone believed in Ze and Mo, they did not believe the rest of the people. They always think, what if they believe Ze's words and others don't listen? So it's useless for Ze to say anything, even if he has prestige, isn't it because of people's selfishness? Isn't that exactly what you intended? ”

"Then I pretended to be unintentional and mentioned a few people who smiled at me, and told them that they could be three or five people together, and quietly taught them how to cooperate, and after two or three days they made more bricks in a day than others, and I immediately rewarded them with some good things, and promised that if they continued to do so, when the workshop was established, they would not have to work hard."

Redfish covered his mouth quietly and chuckled: "In order to make them different from others, I also had people burn a few pottery brand-names for them instead of their wood." I made twenty of them, only five of them were separated, and the remaining fifteen were hung all day, and those who thought they were faster than the others were doing their best. ”

Chen Jian hugged the red fish and laughed for a while, and teased: "Sure enough, I have been a slave before I know how to manage slaves well." ”

After putting down the red fish, he wrote two very abstract words on the ground, and the red fish didn't recognize it, but it felt a little familiar, as if a few words were taken apart and combined together.

Chen Jian pointed to an open space in the distance and said, "In a few days, I will go to Sucheng, and when the first batch of bricks is burned, you will take people to build a brick wall, which must be four or five steps high and thirty steps long." Then scribble these two large letters on it. ”

Hongyu picked up the wooden stick and gestured to the two words written by Chen Jian, although they were familiar, he couldn't guess what they were.

Chen Jian read the words in a straight voice: "Learn, learn." ”

There is a school in Xia City, but it is only a specific word, just like a room in the council hall alone, it is just a unique name for a special being, not a combination of school and hall.

Hongyu followed and recited the strange pronunciation a few times, and Chen Jian used a few words he created to tell Hongyu how to pronounce it, and after trying it several times, he looked at Jian Chen suspiciously and said, "I can read it." But what is it? ”

Chen Jian took the words apart and said: "This is the eaves, this is the child." Study together in a group, just like the children in our Xia Cheng in the school, listen to people in the room, and learn this word. ”

"What about this, what do you look like?"

"I have long looked familiar, these are half of the bird's feathers, and I can write and recognize the feathers. But what is it when you take it apart? ”

"You're right, it's half of the feather, do you mean a bird or a chick, the feather has just grown but can't fly with feathers, is the feather that can't fly intact? Of course not, so this half of the feather is the meaning of the test flight. ”

"Together, it's learning. What is Learning? It is the birds that never know how to fly to the ones that can fly and have abundant feathers, the children who listen to people preaching under the eaves, who go from not being able to pinch bricks to being able to pinch bricks, who are illiterate to being literate, who are not able to farm to be able to farm, and ...... From a slave to a qualified slave owner, it's all learning. ”

"Brush these two, they have to be big, very big. Underneath these two words, draw the simple characters you can write, and use the simplest dozens of characters I made up to write more phonetics. ”

The red fish muttered about learning two words, and suddenly felt that the aftertaste was endless, and the only thing I didn't understand was why these two words were so big?

"Because...... Fish, like fish. Wheat, like wheat. This can be seen through at a glance, but it's like the sourness of vinegar, the strength of wine, and the pain of the heart, so how to write it? I can shout at the sky when I'm happy, but how do I write it out for you to know? Words, it's time for more. ”

The red fish blinked abruptly and said, "Just like these two words?" Thinking around the bend? Analogy? Every word is no longer the same, every word is a story, a metaphor? (To be continued.) )