"Approximately, this is what it feels like to evaluate a person's historical merits after the coffin is closed...... What would it be like if one day, I would be judged by others, and I might still be able to hear it? ”

"The same thing, the evaluation after death is based on the three views of the times? Or should we abandon the three views and judge purely by the impetus of the historical process? History is pure, but evaluation is value-oriented......"

After nostalgia, he did not hurt the present, Chen Jian only thought of his evaluation after his death, which is related to his identity in the next life. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Standing alone on the top of the mountain, looking at the battlefield where there was no trace of blood on the bones, he was silent for a long time, until it was getting dark, and he sighed, and his heart that had been slightly hesitant finally firmed up...... I have ideals, ideals in my previous life, stick to it, don't be confused by my ass, my heart is.

It's just that the time is too long, and there may be a lot of times experienced, and memories carry a person's emotions, can you really be a person who can enjoy the scenery on the road and not forget the destination? Lonely for the ideal to move forward, at least a thousand years to meet like-minded people and times, can you really stick to the original intention?

Under the sunset, many people saw Chen Jian stretching out his hand, this pair of old hands that had been used to open the world, did not look up to the sky and howl, nor did he worship the sky with both hands, but just muttered a few words, clenched his fists, and hummed a strange song, and the faint melody made people's blood rush in the cold wind.

The wind of late autumn and early winter blew away Chen Jian's words, and no one heard what he said, even after coming down from the mountain, it was not much different.

On the top of the mountain, what he said and sang with himself finally became a mystery, people guessed but couldn't guess, only saw the back of Chen Jian riding away on horseback, following behind but no one dared to ask.

Leaving Quangu, everything was as usual, on the way Chen Jian continued to deal with the kind and fresh Yuemei, but there was finally a little more tiredness in his tone, Yuemei only thought that he was tired from traveling far away, and did not think much about it.

The first snow of early winter has not yet fallen, but the exhaled haze has already brought out the white mist, especially when a group of people walk together, you can see the white mist rising from a distance.

When Jian Chen finally saw Sucheng, he smiled and beat his numb legs, which were covered with the skin cut by red fish, but he still couldn't withstand the cold winter.

Raising his head, he looked at the tall city wall and the rammed loess stone under the city wall, compared to the city wall that was less than two meters high, it looked like a child's toy.

The outer ring of the city was still a ditch, and the path leading to the surrounding area was constantly frequented by people carrying bales of firewood, grass and grain.

After Chen Jian and the others appeared, many people stopped to look at these horses that they had never seen before, wondering why these donkeys were so big.

Or because they knew that the leaders of each city were going to come to the party, the people of Aushiro maintained the bearing of a large city, did not give much guidance, and had corresponding respect for the leaders and guests.

"It's finally here, Sucheng is really big, and I can't complain that decades ago it was one of the best cities on both sides of the river, far from being comparable to Xiacheng."

Chen Jian raised his horsewhip and pointed to the head of the city, and Su He smiled: "Although Xia Cheng is still small for the time being, it will eventually become bigger in the future." If nothing else, the birch bark boat I learned from Xia Cheng has been spread all over by the people of Aushiro, and they all say that the city that can come up with such a solution must be a big city. ”

Chen Jian didn't expect that it was not the wheels but the bark boats that had the biggest impact on the general public, and he was slightly surprised.

Su He guessed Chen Jian's mind and said, "The wheel is expensive, and it is not something that ordinary people can make. The bark boat is simple and convenient, you can catch fish and cast nets, not to mention, every household here needs a boat. Nearby is a large river, which often floods in the summer, and used to be wooden planks, which are far less convenient than bark boats. Each family plucked a lot of bark, prepared a boat in advance, and put it in the house, and as soon as the water was released, they had to flee. ”

"It seems that the clans on both sides of the river have been suffering from drought for a long time."

"Yes, but I am reluctant to leave. Although there was a flood, once the water passed, the ground was full of silt, and the seeds sprinkled were equivalent to the yield of the rest of the clans for three or five years, which was not about the same as the ridge cultivation of Xia Cheng. This river is Mom, and this overflowing water is milk. When it is really love and hate, when it is hateful, the ballad curses the god of heaven and earth and the river one by one, but even if he curses, he does not allow other clans to say a bad word. ”

Su He closed his eyes slightly, as if he was listening to the rushing river that was still far away, and was intoxicated by it, and said for a long time: "Ji Xia, this time the leader invites you, in addition to the oath, I also hope that you can see the water potential of the big river...... It is better not to be able to flood and drought like a summer canal, but to hope that there will be no more floods. ”

He sighed and said, "Although the production of silt after a flood is extremely high, it is not enough to withstand it once every few years. Now I will tell you what I have seen and heard in Xia Cheng, and everyone knows the ridge method of Xia Cheng, and no one wants to take shelter from the flood by wood every year. ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said: "It's not that I don't help, it's just that the big river is far from being comparable to the grass river, and it is extremely wide and rippling, and although Sucheng is large and has a large population, it may not be able to control this river." ”

"Yes, as early as after I returned, the leader heard what I saw in Xia City, and he had already discussed it with several nearby clans. Is it just Sucheng that has suffered from floods and droughts for a long time? It's just that...... It's just that many leaders have just heard of it and haven't seen it in person, so it's hard to believe it......"

Su He was a little unhappy, and Jian Chen didn't swear an oath, the matter here is very complicated, it's not just that simple, he can't agree directly, he can only look at the situation.

After entering Sucheng, the leader of Sucheng came to greet him with people, and the more than twenty leaders who had already arrived had already heard of Jian Chen's name, and they were curious and had some praise.

The clan leaders are still coming one after another, and Eyue, Wei He and others have also arrived, living very close to the people of Yuemei who accompanied Chen Jian, and the few days are banquets, and the leaders discuss important matters with each other or reminisce about the time of decades ago.

At this time, Jian Chen was embarrassed, because Xia Cheng suddenly came out of the wilderness, and it was far from such a historical background.

The parents of the other clan leaders were either acquaintances, or they were sisters and brothers for generations, and they were connected to each other, and occasionally there were relatives they hadn't seen for decades.

The people of Xia Cheng were inadvertently isolated by these leaders, not intentionally, but they really had no relationship with Jian Chen, if it weren't for Xia Cheng's various inventions, Jian Chen felt that he had been forgotten by everyone.

This is the result that Jian Chen had already expected, for the first time, the people of Xiacheng had a feeling of alienation and loneliness, listening to a group of people talking about the old things of decades ago, the people of Xiacheng had to secretly regret that their clan was not on both sides of the river decades ago, otherwise it would be wonderful today.

A variety of intonations are spoken in Asumi, and although the language is almost similar due to the geographical environment and living habits, the intonation is very different. Because of the humid climate on the south bank of the river, the voice will not be distorted by cold and dryness, so the intonation is more delicate and the vocabulary changes more; The clans seven or eight hundred miles to the north have a strong nasal and closed accent due to factors such as the dry climate, and the flat tongue of some words is not very clear, but it is easy to understand in cold and dry weather.

No matter how it changes, the intrinsic essence of the language is similar, which makes Jian Chen happy, which is the most basic foundation, but it also requires the efforts of heroes.

For example, in previous lives, there was both unity under the same linguistic base and division under the same linguistic basis. Shaanxi, Guangdong, Shandong, and Henan became the dialects of the province; Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the German language, which have the same roots, have become several languages and peoples on their own, which has also created a different national concept between the East and the West before the West dominated the discourse...... Shaanxi people did not become the Qin people, Shandong people did not become the Qi people, did not have time to form an imaginary community to become one, I have to say that this is a great luck, the ancestral dragon's work is comparable to the sun and the moon.

The approximate language and the once-temporary clan alliance gave Jian Chen full of confidence in the future of this clan.

Through the language that can be communicated, Chen Jian understands the general situation of the entire cultural circle.

The Caohe River is the most northwestern tributary of the Great River known in the entire cultural circle, and the distance from the Caohe River to Sucheng is about 14,500 li.

There are seven or eight hundred li to the north of the river and there are cities and villages in the same cultural circle, because there are tools such as sheepskin rafts and wood, and there are many clans on the south bank, but the range is not large, controlling the distance of about 400 li, and there is a certain exchange with the clans further south, which is manifested in the appearance of rice and the name of millet he.

About 600 miles to the east of Sucheng is the so-called Dongyi, the language is similar but different, the primitive religion and worship are not quite the same, but it is nothing more than the difference between the three-legged pottery pot and the four-legged pottery.

The entire clan cultural circle is about a long strip of about 1,800 li long and 900 li wide, most of which are on both sides of large rivers or tributaries, which is about 500,000 square kilometers of land in the previous life unit, about the size of two provinces.

Hundreds of clans and nearly 100 cities are scattered all over the place, and their development is also different, there are small city-states in the embryonic form of the country, and there are also small clans that are still in the slash-and-burn cultivation and even drinking blood, this uneven development is normal, even after liberation in the previous life, there are still matrilineal clan communes and slash-and-burn clans in the mountains.

The use of pottery was already quite widespread, and primitive porcelain appeared in some clans, and primitive exchange began to prevail because of the surplus of grain, although no currency appeared on the whole.

Crops are mainly corn, rice, soybeans, rhubarb rice, and hemp seeds, and the commonly raised animals include cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, geese, etc., and cats are still in a semi-domesticated state, forming a symbiotic relationship with mice and people in the granary.

The general yield of these crops per mu is less than 100 catties, and it is still about the point of planting one harvest or three or four, but because of the vast land and sparse population, burning waste, silt, etc., there will occasionally be a bumper harvest to ensure the development of animal husbandry.

The food is mainly roasted, boiled, and boiled porridge, and the brewing technology has gradually matured, and fermented foods such as vinegar and sauce have appeared, and the meat sauce is still a very high-end and high-grade food.

The controversy between custom and worship had probably been fought several times before: because the blood of animals often contained parasites and germs, many clans had not eaten animal blood before, and had passed it down as a kind of knowledge, which had become a myth and taboo.

With the widespread use of pottery cooking, this taboo has been broken, and many previously inedible offal, etc., have been brought to the table before religious taboos appeared.

The brewing of corn sake also took shape on a large scale, using the koji to sugar method instead of the sprout to sugar method, and wine was still an important sacrifice and luxury in this era.

Vegetables are mostly gourds, mustard greens, radishes, and cabbage, and there is no cooking method for stir-frying, and most of them are boiled with meat or fat.

Artificially pressed vegetable oil has not appeared, but some people have begun to use a layer of oil skin on top of boiled corn porridge to cook vegetables, some oil crops are also used to satisfy hunger in times of hunger, and some people even eat poisonous castor beans.

The abundance of food proves the inevitability of things such as dressing and etiquette.

The clothes and costumes of each clan are basically unified, with the special meaning of god worship and philosophical concepts, and the wealthy families and blood nobles use silk as their clothes, and the weaving level of silk fabrics is not low.

Ordinary people weave cloth with a kind of fiber bark, and they have basically mastered the method of soaking off the gum and cleaning hemp fibers, but there is no cotton.

The domestication of silkworms and silkworms was basically completed, and the relationship between moths and silkworms was recognized, and many cities had officials who specialized in teaching women to raise silkworms.

Most of the towns had a hereditary form of power transfer due to the advent of private ownership: nominally still elected by the people, but the heirs of the chiefs had a higher chance of being elected as chiefs because of the inheritance of land, slaves, connections, etc.

In a small number of towns, there were still remnants of clans and villages, and the land was cultivated by all people or redistributed according to the population every three to five years, and the chiefs held the right to distribute and constantly accumulate wealth through the distribution power.

Bronze is not yet widely used, but some powerful clans have mastered the method of bronze melting and casting, and even some metal utensils have appeared, but they are not very efficient to use.

Slavery had not yet become the dominant mode of production, but slaves ensured the work of the communal land in most of the cities.

The clansmen in the city are natural soldiers with high political rights, and the chieftain cannot arbitrarily decide major matters and needs to consult the opinions of the clansmen, which is a manifestation of the unity of rights and obligations.

The use of stone tools has reached its peak, and all clans have mastered techniques such as drilling and polishing, and can even process jade with extremely high hardness.

In the process of firing pottery, both fast and slow wheels have been common, and the mastery of kiln temperature is basically qualified, and the defective rate of fired pottery has been reduced, especially the black pottery of Echeng and the glazed pottery of Yueyi are the most famous.

Domestic slaves coexisted with public slaves, and private ownership of land appeared, but women had not completely lost their status, and through the remnants of the ideas of the old era, women's status was basically similar to that of men, and they had the right to choose their own mates, because ideas were always hundreds of years behind the corresponding eras.

Because of the female fertility factor, the custom of worshipping the goddess of fertility still exists and is integrated with the rest of the myths, but most of the priests of the main priest have changed from women to men, and a strong atmosphere of theocracy exists in many cities.

The clans of each city also mastered the means of timekeeping and other means, mastered the division of the four seasons of the year, the coexistence of the solar calendar and the lunar calendar, and began to name the stars in the sky.

Primitive poems appeared in large numbers, from heroic epics to productive labor, different poems were circulated among people in the form of singing, and the most primitive rhythmic beauty began to appear, which is the natural direction of development.

Food, clothing, housing, and culture are closely related, and only when you have enough food can you have time to ponder the rest of the problems, and the war also began to profit because of the surplus product and slaves.

Seven or eight cities to the east of Sucheng allied with Sucheng, and a few years ago Sucheng defeated the invasion of the Dongyi people and became the overlord of the surrounding area, and the military force flourished.

Because of the remnants and heritage of 20 years ago, coupled with the mastery of bronze casting, salt ponds, etc., Sucheng is unrivaled in this generation, and it is also a huge city in the entire cultural circle.

The Dongyi people to the east of Sucheng occupied the coastal generation, and there were clan exchanges outside of wars, and things such as seashells could be seen in Sucheng, which was about a thousand miles away from the sea.

In addition to the powerful Sucheng, there are three or five cities that are very powerful, and have a population and force second only to Sucheng, and the number of soldiers mobilized by the young and strong population is more than 6,000, and the entire city has a population of nearly 20,000 not counting slaves.

Because there were many powerful clans and cities, which weakened the power of the entire cultural circle, the Dongyi tribes had begun to unite, constantly fighting, making peace, and plundering the population and slaves within a wide range of thousands of miles.

The non-cultural circle clans on the south bank of the river are not strong, but there is a rice-growing cultural circle further forward, which is not small, but because there is a large buffer zone, the two ethnic groups have not yet reached the point of fighting each other.

To the west, there are Xijon people, who gradually become stronger and tougher after learning to grow corn, and are no longer primitive tribes that cannot last at the touch of a touch, and the area of hundreds of miles to the south of the Acropolis is controlled by the Xijon people.

Not counting the alien races that appeared near Xia Cheng for some reason, there were no too strong enemies to the north of the big river, and the so-called Beidi and the grassland tribes seen in Xia Cheng were not the same.

Because of the cold climate, the extremely fragile productive forces and the fact that metal has not been used on a large scale, the Beidi tribe is aggressive and brave, but the productive forces are relatively backward, it is difficult to unify and it is unlikely to be united, and the threat is not great, but it has become an excellent hunting ground and slave capture ground.

The most threatening thing is the Dongyi people, who are close to the sea, salt, the climate suitable for cultivation at the same latitude, the similarity of culture and technology, and the emergence of heroes...... All these determine that they are different from the Xijon people, who can only form a loose alliance for the time being, and it is difficult to unite cultural groups.

It was this threat that led to the emergence of Sucheng hegemony, and several cities at the forefront had only two options: either move away from the Dongyi tribes, or unite around the big city to keep warm. These clans are the most eager for the emergence of clan alliances.

Factors such as flooding have also led to the emergence of clan alliances along the river, and they need to work together to deal with the floods, rather than disconnecting upstream and downstream.

In this way, the two biggest threats affect a small half of the clans and cities, and the enormous forces of common demand are unstoppable.

The strong yearn for power, the weak yearn for safety, not weak or strong and not safe from the barbarian flood, and fear that the appearance of the clan alliance will not become a sacrifice themselves.

With the victory of the Dongyi people in Sucheng, a clan gathering resumes after a gap of twenty years. (To be continued.) )