Chapter 85: Carnival and Hegemony (End)
Slave owners were entitled to revelry, and after they had eaten enough in the summer city, some began to look for another kind of satisfaction besides eating and drinking. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The sports field built on the hill is also the theater of the summer city, and when it is not the end of the month, the favorite songs and slightly exaggerated plays of the men of the summer city are staged here.
Since the last time private ownership and war were preached, no new drama has been staged, but the people of Xiacheng still never get tired of watching it, and the spiritual life like the big Yangge at the head of the village fills the emptiness after eating.
Behind the scenes of the stage, Shi Camelina and the others were changing their clothes, the shouts outside were deafening, they were the opening of this carnival, and they had been busy for a long time, and now it was time to harvest cheers and applause.
The venue was already full of people, the wooden benches were already full, and many people were crowded on a higher ground, and although there was chaos, it was quiet before the new army to maintain order shouted.
Many people from Wei'e and the two cities also came, and some soldiers had seen the two plays on the march, and they were also full of anticipation at this time, or told others that they had fallen in love with a woman with a singing voice like a yellow warbler, and the grievances and hatreds of those women on the stage.
Chen Jian, the mastermind behind the scenes, does not have any literary atmosphere, how popular it is, how exaggerated it is, how bloody it comes, and today's aesthetics have not yet reached the time to begin to connotate.
The half-concealed and half-concealed clothes that add to the temptation, the twists and turns but easy to understand the story, the **** and etiquette singing, mixed with the ancient tragicomedy in the memory of the previous life, contain the private goods and indoctrination ideas that Chen Jian wants to carry, and the three new plays begin like this.
Everyone watched it intently, the whistle was endless, and the half-hidden riverside love songs made many people's blood run high, and what they advocated was nothing more than those few things...... All dramas in Xia Cheng must be politically commanded, and as for the so-called real elegance with connotation, we will wait for twenty years later.
The adaptation of "Xinling Jun Stealing Talismans to Save Zhao" is deduced with the breath and way of thinking of the times, alluding to the oath and commitment of this era; Xiacheng's version of "Su Wu Shepherd" shows a deliberate cultural identity.
The last scene of the romantic drama is advocating the obligations and rights under the new marriage in the new era, this is the first time Shi Camelina has played a bad woman, with all kinds of amorous feelings, she does not work after vowing to others, enjoying all the things brought by men, but when men go out to fight for the city, she hooks up with others, just to satisfy her own desires; In contrast, the younger sister of the character of Shi Camelina, small and cute but strong and independent, still worked after the faint ceremony, but because of the man's change of heart, he left with his own hands and found his home again.
The ending of both of them is to leave and start again, but the careful people of Xia Cheng still see the difference. They may not understand that marriage under private ownership is a vow, a transaction of property and sex, a helpless mutual help in the face of future generations, and if they can't work and support themselves, they will degenerate into things rather than people. But after the end of this scene, Chen Jian heard the scolding he wanted to hear and the praise he wanted to hear, hoping that this scene could allow more people to have simple constraints in the early days of marriage after the disintegration of the clan: you can sleep with whoever you love, just like before the dissolution of the clan, but the premise is that you have the ability to support yourself, otherwise there will be scolding because you are dependent on someone else's things, which is a right and obligation, and has nothing to do with the morality of the times.
After the scolding, the people in Xia Cheng still gave applause, they had clearly distinguished between reality and drama, and it did not prevent them from loving Shi Chu, Shi Cha wiped his sweat, and said to others with a smile behind the scenes: "I won't be that kind of woman, because Ji Xia sent me Taobei, and I also want to thank Hongyu for letting me have half of the land of men in the clan, I sleep with a lot of people, but I will support myself, and I will not swear an oath to them." ”
After watching the red fish who was thanked by Shi Camelina, a sweetness surged in her heart, she could see that this scene had its own shadow, and believed that Jian Chen was so close to herself because of her appreciation of these. After the sweetness, I thought about it a little more: a few decades later, the clan has disintegrated, women will no longer have land, and land and war are the stage for men, at that time, what will happen to women?
But then she was relieved: "Decades later, Ken and I were lying side by side in the tomb, and there were children offering sacrificial food, at least ...... I'm not a woman born decades later with nothing. ”
Thinking of her death decades later, she smiled happily and wondered how she would lie in the grave then. Mr. Jian likes to lean sideways, and he happens to curl up in his arms, which is not bad.
Thinking of the ridiculous appearance of the two corpses, he was suddenly awakened by the gong, raised his head and found that Chen Jian had already walked to the curtain stage, and shouted around: "The major affairs of the clan are in the agriculture and in the Rong." The warriors who fought could protect our land, the slaves who toiled, and the laborers who could grow more grain and weave more linen, which was what made Xia Cheng so strong. Since they are warriors, there must always be the strongest one; Since it is labor, there is always the fastest one; Do you want to know who's the strongest and fastest? ”
"Yes!"
Jian Chen clapped his hands, and someone brought some jade jue, bronze swords, bronze mirrors, and glass...... This is the prize of the competition, except for the prize of honor, each of which is expensive in this era, and the material reward after the spiritual reward drives the people of the city to be martial, and this sacrifice is also used to lure the people of the rest of the city to participate in this sacrifice by the most expensive means, so as to form a habit and culture, a habit that cannot be erased with the imprint of the summer city.
The crown of flowers and the jade jue around the waist, in fact, just these are enough to arouse the competitive heart of these people.
And to make the atmosphere even more lively, the first competition was the chariot, equestrian, gladiatorial fighting, and the new army training kemari: bouncy balls wrapped in soft grass after the pig urine bubble was blown, and the passionate collision and military formation rules similar to rugby.
When the gong sounded again, the chariot began to gallop around the field, the archers on the chariots shooting at distant targets, the drivers controlling the horses, and the right side of the chariot jumping down from time to time to clear the obstacles.
It is not only a survival skill on the battlefield, but also extremely ornamental, and the subsequent-for-tat content such as equestrian performances and gladiatorial fights make these people even more addicted.
After Keju appeared, the rest of the people in the city looked intently at the competition below, the rules were easy to understand, but they didn't expect the battle formation to be so interesting.
At the forefront, apparently, were some heavily trained sword and shield soldiers, leaning over and ramming into the opposing defenses; The "archers" in the back row suddenly launched "cold arrows" to attack the weakest place on the opposite side; The Ranger patrols the side, waiting for the right moment, either to deter or to attack from the side......
The simple ball, rehearsed in the form of a military formation, made most of these spectators who had been on the battlefield applaud loudly, as if they saw their own shadows.
There were only so many competitions on the first day, and the four competitions were full of expectations, guiding everyone's spiritual needs, and shamelessly snatching the top four strongest titles to Xia Cheng.
Whether it was chariots or horsemanship, the rest of the cities could not compete, and the leaders of the cities had no light on their faces, so they naturally thought of getting some chariots and horses from Xia Cheng, especially when they saw those people wearing garlands and listening to the cheers of people regardless of the clans of the cities, they also hoped that this cheer would appear on their own people.
At the beginning of the second day, there were people from the rest of the cities, javelins, bows and arrows, and races, and several cities were evenly matched, and there were many people participating.
If you want to compete, there are few requirements: not a slave.
After the competition, there are many rewards: vanity, fame, cheers, prizes, and overtures of the opposite sex.
In the competition, the people of the three cities and those small settlements got closer, promoted exchanges, and left expectations.
After five days of revelry, everyone reluctantly left, looking forward to the next beginning.
After discussion, the three cities agreed that such a carnival would be held once every three years, in Xia City, the project had been fixed, and the rewards were still rich.
Jian Chen is looking forward to the next time there will be more than just these people. In order to promote the exchange between the three cities, Chen Jian also told the people in the other cities that Xia Cheng would go to the rest of the cities to perform if he had a new play, and if the people in the other cities had time, they could also come to Xia Cheng to watch.
For this carnival, Xia Cheng consumed a lot of resources and food, which made Yu Qian'er feel painful, but Jian Chen only smiled faintly after reading those numbers.
All this is worth it, and it cannot be measured by food money, because it can promote exchanges between cities, accelerate mutual recognition and belonging,
And...... Through this carnival, Xia Cheng demonstrated its economic, cultural, technological, and military superiority, carrying with it the aftermath of the Battle of Shanze, and determined that the hegemony within a radius of five hundred miles of the Caohe River would be unshakable for at least a few years, and that more and more settlements would move closer to the city.
The Three Cities Alliance, which seems to be equal, is a balance between one strong and two weak, and it is still headed by Xia Cheng.
Overlord, Boye. Uncle, the elder brother of the kinship, although this brother is wild and self-proclaimed. As a brother, you don't need to bully your younger brother, but to deal with the disputes between your younger brothers, disobey the subdued, convince the envelope, Chen Jian is very sober, this is not the time to oppress and oppress, but also need to maintain a fair and fair image, continue to stand the archway, under the banner of family harmony.
After the carnival that achieved the goal, Xia Cheng gradually quieted down, repeating the previous life, but revealing the subtle changes in life in the repetition, everyone struggled with their own lives in the ordinary life after the carnival.
Yu Qian'er was busy working hard for her commitment, followed the sailboat to Echeng, calculated the difference with the ox cart transportation, and began to sail between Xia Cheng and Echeng once every ten years, and occasionally when the new drama of Xia Cheng opened, there would be people from Echeng who used the Tao Bei of Xia Cheng to come and go by boat, and it didn't rain at the speed of the raccoon cat who desperately reported the news after the decisive battle with the Meteorite Clan.
After getting the cheers and title of the fastest race, the tanuki ushered in Lancao's second pregnancy, and built a new house outside the city with military merits, decorated it beautifully, and secretly contacted Wolf Skin and others, and agreed that if someone wanted to push down Chen Jian in three years, they would use a spear to make those people retreat, and those who secretly contacted would naturally have white horses.
Bai Ma was sent to Yangguan, where he was stationed for three years and also served as the administrator of Yangguan, as a model for foreign wars, which was greatly advocated by Chen Jian and became the prototype of a new drama in Xia Cheng.
Ishiyama still hates Hakuba, but he keeps his original vow and will never go into trouble again. The few surviving people on the steppe left their clans and agreed to work together, and the future children would also be together, regardless of the amount of land, and everything would be divided equally. Sometimes they would also go to the cemetery to pay tribute to those comrades-in-arms who lived together but did not die together, and every time they would get drunk and could not get out of the nightmare of the night of separation on the grassland.
Muma, a model that was raised by Chen Jian, bought four sheep, opened a lot of new land, and was elected by everyone as the lisi, in charge of more than 50 companies. His house had already been built, and the women had moved into his house, and perhaps the life of a playful woman who had been drawn by Jian Chen would soon be realized. When he returned home from the land, the woman warmed up his favorite tofu and sauce, a gourd of yellow-green pea wine, and after drinking, he snorted, and the woman covered him with sheepskin, curled up in his arms and counted that he should go to the Fang Market tomorrow to buy a large clay pot, but not acorn burning.
Acorn withdrew from the new army and vowed to burn excellent pottery, but it was difficult to reach the level of black pottery in Echeng, and after being mocked and ridiculed by Yu Qian'er in good faith, he finally gave up and only fired those simple pottery to sell in those small settlements. But after he was done, he always secretly burned his own fire, hoping that one day his name would appear in the ballad, of course, this ballad must not be the same song as describing the tax collector as a rat.
Ji Yun, the tax collector who had been cut down from the wild people who had sung into rats, gradually got used to the songs that cursed him, and began to accept gifts from the wild people's villages.
However, soon after accepting the gift, he was beaten by Ji Song, who had a broken hand, although Ji Song was no longer the Si Kou of Xia Cheng, but this beating made Ji Yun dare not resist, because Ji Song had broken his hand for Xia Cheng, tasted herbs for his people, and went to a far other country to find a way for Xia Cheng.
The number of people who had the same doubts as Ji Song gradually increased, and after the reform, various problems under private ownership began to appear, which were more serious than before the dissolution of the clan. There are not many of them, but they are the frogs of Chunming, and they began to think in the changes of the times, with a kind of idealism but not knowing how to go.
When the clans were busy measuring the land and preparing for next year's division of the land, the people who walked with Ji Song were called to the sacrificial hall by Jian Chen, and they talked for a long time, Ji Song himself didn't know whether he understood or not, but he remembered the story of the first time he sat on the horned deer and climbed the plow to act as a god in a settlement controlled by the Meteorite tribe.
These people were used by Jian Chen in the most suitable places for them to go, bringing the cultivation technology and new way of life of Xia Cheng, going to the settlements in the mountains, spreading the beliefs and ancestor worship of Xia Cheng, teaching those people to plant and live, and trying to build their own ideal villages. Chen Jian believes that after tempering, these people will pass on their humble thoughts about the times little by little, and the sparks of these ideas and the doubts of "what to do" in the change will be brewed in the times and mature one day in the future.
Living people interpret a variety of lives, joys, angers and sorrows are connected, everyone inadvertently affects the rest of the people, Xia Cheng is alive, and the world is changing.
And this kind of freshness, this kind of life that is no longer like a machine, also made Chen Jian put his mind at ease, arranged the affairs in the city, and set foot on the road to the banks of the big river in late autumn.
Volume 3: Uncle Fang Guo (End) (To be continued.) )