"Then how should I record this alliance in the history books?"

"The pen is in Ji Xia's hand, and the text that records the history book was also created by you Xia people, so isn't it for Ji Xia to write? Why do you have to ask me? ”

Su Yue replied coldly, and said: "It's not that I don't want to promote Ji Xia as the next head of the tribes, it's just that if Ji Xia doesn't make it clear what to do after you become the leader of the alliance, I'm afraid that the relatives will be slaughtered by you, so that the noble and the low will not be distinguished, and let the priests and nobles do those lowly things like crops." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info If it is such a chaotic noble, even if you have endless food and countless copper and iron, what is the use? ”

"Wolves are always born wolves, and even the most vulnerable wolves do not become sheep. If Ji Xia doesn't understand what the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth are, I can mention Ji Xia. Although I don't know what the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth are, I understand that tigers cannot give birth to sheep, and this is what the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth want to tell us. ”

"When there is no Ji Xia, no copper and iron, everyone is alive and well. On the contrary, after Ji Xia appeared, there were many slave riots, which is why I did not recommend Ji Xia as the next leader of the alliance. ”

Jian Chen understood that he couldn't refute these words at this time, and the slightest lack of deterrence and partial recognition that had been easily established would be consumed, so he bowed his head and said, "What Leader Suyue said is that maybe what I thought was too simple. Tigers and leopards, if there is no mother animal to teach those beast hunting skills, it is not right to think that they have the strength of their claws and bones to cross the wilderness. It was precisely because of my stupidity due to my youth, as Su Yue said, that perhaps I was not yet the leader of the alliance, at least not until I thought of how to make the slaves rebel. ”

Everyone was quite satisfied with this, but they also heard the meaning of Chen Jian. A sheep, even if its mother is a tiger and leopard, can teach it all kinds of hunting skills, but it is useless if it does not have claws and bones.

Su Yue was not easy to refute these words, and he had to admit some things, but it was not good to turn his face directly with Jian Chen at this time, so he had to praise: "It's good that Ji Xia can think like this." This time, the alliance should have elected the high priest of the ministries, but since Ji Xia felt that he was not capable of serving as him, he thought that there was no one else who could serve in the future. Even so, some rules need to be thought about together, but they may not be able to figure it out in a short period of time. I see you all disperse here, and see you again in three or five years. Maybe Ji Xia had already figured out how to be a good high priest at that time, and then you could listen to what our high priest wanted the Great River to look like. ”

Jian Chen sighed and said: "Heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, vast and boundless and difficult to find, how can it be three or five years to be able to think about and understand all the truths between heaven and earth?" I don't dare to ask the heavens, the earth, the ghosts and gods, I just hope that I can do what the living want to do is to fulfill my wish. ”

Su Yue laughed and said, "It seems that Ji Xia has made up his mind to only ask about personnel and not about ghosts and gods." Ordered by the ancestors, opening up the earth and opening the sky, Ji Xia has such a big heart! ”

Chen Jian also laughed, and did not deny it, but said: "When people live in the world, walking out of their mother's womb is the beginning of the struggle against heaven and earth." When he was born, he was condensed in heaven and earth, and after he died, he turned into green smoke and dust, lived in just a few decades, and died and turned into ghosts for the rest of the thousand years, opening up the earth and opening the sky, but in order to live better. ”

"But there is not only Xia Kingdom between heaven and earth. Dare to ask Ji Xia Pi is the land of Xia Yucheng's ridges? Or is it a big river that runs thousands of miles up and down? ”

"It is not me who opens the earth, but your relatives. Aren't your relatives going out of the great river to settle down and plant and hunt? Don't ask me what kind of place I have opened, if there is a day when the relatives of all tribes are thousands of miles away, it will naturally open up thousands of miles of heaven and earth. On the contrary, trapped between the city outlines, it is not guaranteed within fifty miles, let alone thousands of miles. ”

The conversation between the two people didn't want to let go, it sounded like Chen Jian had been evading and compromising, but in the end, he still didn't let go of his own words, as long as he learned how to hunt, won everyone's approval and did not object, he could become the next head of the alliance.

This is a fact that even Su Yue can't refute, and in the end, he can only break up unhappily, turning this alliance that seems to be supposed to be resolved by internal discussion of the next successor into a tense meeting. For the entire Great River Tribes, there is actually no problem solved, and everything is exactly the same as before.

But for the rest of the towns, this has changed too much.

For example, Echeng, when the Huasu League split a long time ago, in order not to get involved in the disputes, had to travel far to the northwest and migrate all the way.

Prior to this, nomadic farming was not a natural separation caused by the isoprecipitation line, but a free choice of suitable places for cultivation according to their own living customs, and agriculture had not yet shown great advantages.

However, now with new tools and technologies such as iron tools and ox ploughing, the land can be reclaimed, and it is no longer the era of slash-and-burn farming, and the comfort of settling has surpassed wandering around.

In the past, if you couldn't fight, you could move the whole clan, and in the past, if you didn't want to get involved in strife, you could leave with the whole clan, and if you couldn't fight, you could run, but now it's difficult to walk away.

It is no longer an era when a clan can migrate all the way from the shores of the East China Sea to the far northwest. It's not that I can't go, but I can't bear to leave those belongings.

The reason for the relocation of the land is that the land can be cultivated with iron tools, and who is willing to leave their hometown until they are really unable to survive until they have to live?

These cities did not realize the inevitability, but they actually felt this change, so when they smelled the smell of gunpowder between Chen Jian and Su Yue, few people thought of the idea that the people of Echeng did not want to get involved in it and avoided it far away.

There is no way to avoid it, so the only thing left is to choose a side and prepare in advance for a possible war in the future. Because the war is likely to start near one's own city.

Needless to say, Ewei and the other cities had already stood with Jian Chen. If they don't stand together, they are the smallest enemies to deal with in the Xia Kingdom, and the two cities are already too closely connected with the Xia Kingdom.

Since the civil strife in Xia subsided, E Yue gave up the last possibility of reducing the influence of Xia Kingdom, gave up the policy of only allowing people to farm, not to buy and sell, and to do low-level industries in Xia Kingdom, and chose to integrate into the chariot of Xia Kingdom more quickly.

The Acropolis is because of the general system of semi-slaves and semi-serfs and the policy of three points to the east and seven points to the west, it is impossible to turn the other cheeks with the Xia State, on the contrary, they will support the Xia State to take the initiative: extend the war to the rest of the cities, if the defense counterattacks and Yucheng moves west, then the Acropolis will be the first line of the war, which is a situation that the Acropolis people do not want to see.

And these are not all, for Chen Jian, who provoked the incident, there are more headaches to face.

Chen Jian made it clear that he wanted to challenge Su Yue's position, and he also knew that Su Yue would not turn his face at this time, because Su Cheng was not ready, but it would not be too long.

He also knew that from the point of view of pure strength, the longer the time dragged on, the more beneficial it would be for the Xia Kingdom, but if the time dragged on for too long, it would not be good for the Great River Tribes.

He wanted to replicate the armed colonization plan of the Zhou Dynasty in his previous life, but he had to consider that the situation today was very different from that time.

Now that there are iron ridges, the longer the time drags on, the more land will be cultivated in those towns, and the more comfortable the settled life will be. There is no longer the heroism of the previous life, the Shang and Zhou eras, and the heroism of walking away.

It is extremely difficult for a small Xia country to reform, and so many peasant officials are trying to get the old people of Xia County to go to the east and west counties in Xia County, and there are so many preferential policies.

And if it really drags on until ten years later, it will not only be the opposition of the leaders of the city, but the opposition of the entire city.

These people who speak the languages of the great rivers are the basic plate of armed colonization, and it will be too difficult to force them to leave the cultivated land when the time comes. Ten years later, according to the current smelting scale of Yucheng, it will be possible to accumulate six or seven hundred tons of pig iron farm tools, which can be sold to various cities, and about 200,000 yeoman farmers who can cultivate the land alone can be armed, basically including the Chinese people in each city.

In the previous life, the development of the New World was of course because of the temptation of wealth, but also because the land of the Old World had been almost divided, and there were many people and little land, which was spontaneous.

If this life drags on until ten years from now, it will not be a substitute for spontaneous migration, but only forced migration, and it will not be a matter of the identity that has just been established. And now if you don't occupy the territory in advance, when the iron script begins to spread, it will be completely late for the rest of the ethnic groups to form their own culture.

In his previous life, Duke Zhou waved his hand and asked Jiang Taigong to go to Dongyi and go to the rear of the enemy, Jiang Taigong cleaned up and took people away, anyway, everywhere was slash-and-burn slave planting, and there was not much bronze. And in this life, even if Su Yue died, Chen Jian was elected as the leader of the alliance, and with a wave of his hand, he let the clans of the cities that had already begun to enter the formal settlement of agriculture migrate to the east and south, and then only the cities and towns would rebel.

Sooner or later, it will be fought, and the fantasy of a peaceful settlement has become impossible with iron tools and writing, so it can only turn around as soon as possible and artificially create enemies, and then defeat them and sweep away some of the city's relatives and nobles by force, and throw them all to Dongyi and the south as vanquished, mixed with some Xia land and small city-states attached to Xia City, emancipating slaves, allowing private ownership of large tracts of land, promising Dongyi's land and the government to provide iron tools and agricultural tools and other means to expand to the southeast.

And if all this wants to maintain no internal friction for two or three hundred years, there must be a strong central government, who dares to rebel and suppress by force, who dares to use force to conquer internally, forcing them to expand outward, and when it expands to Xia City, it basically means that the basic plate of the future generations of ethnic groups has taken shape.

However, a strong central government must own at least a thousand miles of land as a direct jurisdiction of Gyeonggi.

Xiacheng is in the upper reaches of the river, and once there is a change in the lower part, it can go out from top to bottom at any time, but the north is the grassland, and the west is Rongdi, which has been promised to the acropolis, which is not suitable for development.

Although Yucheng is in the center and not in the corner, it is the most difficult and unfavorable place, but there are coal, iron and water transportation nearby, and the southeast, northwest and northwest are suitable for jurisdiction.

This also means that many cities in the vicinity of Yucheng, including Sucheng, must destroy the high-level county officials and become directly under the jurisdiction of the county, so as to ensure the spread of culture and the advantage of the central government by force.

It's just that the relatives and nobles in the nearby cities are unwilling to move away, and they refuse to let go of power and fantasize about hereditary, which makes Chen Jian very difficult.

Except for fighting, except for a war that involves all the real rivers and Dongyi, there is no other possibility, unless Jian Chen just wants to be a nominal co-lord of the world, so that the seeds of division can be planted now.