It will take some time for all the snow and ice in the field to melt, but the ice cream flowers are already blooming yellow flowers in the remnants of the ice and snow, and spring is already approaching. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Spring is coming, February has arrived, which means that some people are about to usher in the last days of their lives.

The imprisoned rebels were well aware of the current situation, and since Jian Chen had accepted those new countrymen and subordinate farmers as part of Xia City, it meant that there was no room for reversal, and they could only use their blood to maintain the stability of Xia City in the future.

This long period of knowing that he was going to die was devastating, and instead of corporal punishment, Jian Chen separated several of them and locked them up in solitary confinement in the caves that had been dug to store food.

In ten days, seven or eight people had completely collapsed, and the rest continued to reveal all kinds of plots they had originally conspired into. From wanting to take advantage of Chen Jian's expedition to cut off food logistics to conspiring with Xia Cheng's interests to seek support from all parties, they all vomited cleanly.

These charges can be used or not, Chen Jian didn't take it seriously at all, and a crime of provoking clan strife and causing hundreds of deaths and injuries was enough to kill this group of people. The people of the new Xia City hate it to the core, the people of the old Xia City are eager for someone to take the blame, and the rules and laws of the Xia Kingdom need a group of heads to establish authority.

After the study of those grassroots officials, Chen Jian finally had time to deal with the problem of these betrayers.

Many of the conspirators wanted to meet Jian Chen in the hope of explaining some of their actions, but instead of meeting the leader of the conspirators, Jian met with a young man.

A name often mentioned in the self-confessions of those conspirators, a young man who participated in the civil strife in Xia Cheng and raised the slogan that Yu Xia should be the leader but Yu Xia would go his own way and the clan would oppress the rest of the clans.

This is a person Chen Jian is very familiar with, he is the first batch of children in the school, and he has studied with Chen Jian for a long time.

Although many methods are rough, they have some skills and know how to make trade-offs, which is originally regarded as Chen Jian's descendant, but he didn't expect to be so close to the conspirators.

The reason why I saw it was because this young man let the guards pass on the words: he knew that he was guilty and was about to die, but he didn't want his crime to betray Xia Cheng, and only asked Ji Xia to answer a doubt in his heart.

This is different from those voices that cry and think that they are innocent, that they think that they are meritorious, that Chen Jian is killing the old brothers of Lao Xia Cheng to curry favor with the newcomers, and so on.

There was wine and food in the house, and the young man was neither afraid nor trembling, as if he had known that he was going to die.

Jian Chen didn't directly ask him why he didn't say that he had betrayed Xia Cheng, but poured a bowl of wine and handed it over, "I remember that you were one of the first people to start learning words and arithmetic, right?" ”

Ji Xia remembered correctly. When Sister Hongyu was painting words with lime on the walls of Xia City, I began to learn to read and write. Later, I followed Ji Song to travel to the Dahe Tribes, and then when Ji Xia went to Yucheng, I happened to be sick, so I didn't go. ”

Chen Jian exhaled and recalled: "Brush words on the wall...... It's been years. ”

After a long time, Jian Chen shook his head and said, "I think it's understandable that they rebelled, they can get land and property and everything they want." ”

"I can't understand your rebellion, you are the one who studied with me, you are not a relative of the clan or even a fiefdom slave, you want the right to have it in this summer city. I can't understand it not because I trust you, but because you don't get much and don't ask for anything for yourself, so I can't understand. ”

The young man smiled and said, "Ji Xia, you always think that people eat because they are hungry. That's true, but it's not absolute, maybe I'm not hungry and I'm going to eat something. Just like a cow has four legs, this is the rule between heaven and earth. But there are also cows that are born with three legs, and there is always something different...... I'm the three-legged cow. ”

"Ji Xia thinks that it is possible to rebel for the sake of land wealth rights, and it is right to say that, but it cannot be said that rebellion must be for the land wealth slaves"

Jian Chen was amused by the young man, not because it was funny, but because he skillfully used some things in arithmetic: for example, simple logic to refute Chen Jian.

This is probably the fruit of the education system that he is most pleased with over the years, even if it is built on rebellion.

The young man looked at Jian Chen, half-tilted his head to the sky, and said slowly: "Ji Xia, in the past few days of being imprisoned, I have been remembering why I am against you. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally remembered something you said to us a long time ago. ”

He sighed and recalled, "It was the autumn of the thirty-second year, and you and we went to the mountains to pick fruits. A big, big squirrel suddenly ran under our feet, and a few men and I chased after it. Just a few days ago, you told us a story, and you said that one of the differences between humans and animals is that people know that they will be hungry tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or even the next month and will accumulate food, but animals will not, so let's think further, don't just see everything in front of you, otherwise there is no difference from animals. ”

"As a result, when we found the big squirrel later, we found a hole in a tree. There are pine nuts, hazelnuts, and acorns in it. Obviously, it was not the fruit that ran into it on its own, but it was brought in by the squirrel. I was terrified because I thought you must be right, so I took the rock and smashed the hole in the tree. ”

Jian Chen was stunned and said strangely: "Just because of a squirrel?" ”

"No, I gradually understood what you meant, and gradually forgot about it, or I actually understood in my heart that what you said was not the same thing as what I saw. It was only in the days after I was captured by Hakuba that I always dreamed about it, and I realized that maybe it was because of that incident that I wanted to rebel. ”

"Ji Xia, you know what? It was you who took us out of the mountains. It's like before we only had a black fog in front of us, and it was you who made us open our eyes and find that there were other colors beyond the wild fog. It is precisely because of these colors that there are people like me. ”

"If I were the one who only thinks about hunting birds tomorrow and catching birds the day after tomorrow, I would never think so much. If I just learned to read and count, maybe I wouldn't think about it so much, but you also made us learn other things, let us learn to think, let us try to see further, let us understand a lot of things that we shouldn't understand, that's why I rebelled. ”

The young man did not blame or beg for mercy, but said very indifferently: "Later, Ji Xia went to the alliance with the Dahe tribes, and then went to Yucheng, but I couldn't go because I was sick. During the days when I was lying down, it was a slave girl who took care of me, and we caught her in the nearby mountains and forests. ”

"One day it occurred to me that when Ji Xia and the tribes of the Great River were allied, they said that the relatives were one, but there were still slaves of the other tribes in the tribes of the Great River; If you want to count relatives, in fact, the people in the nearby mountains and forests are closer to us, but they are also captured as slaves. ”

Jian Chen was even more puzzled, and said curiously: "Since you think so, you should think that I am right to accept them as slaves and accept them as countrymen?" ”

The young man also wondered: "Shouldn't you think that relatives are, and those who don't have the same surname can be caught as slaves?" Except for yourself and the people of your own clan, no one can believe it! ”

"At that time, I was sick, I didn't have to work, and all I thought about was these things every day. I was thinking that the Meteorite tribe might have been closer to us at the beginning, and maybe even had the same mother hundreds of years ago, but the Meteorite tribe still captured the nearby tribes as slaves, and we wiped out the Meteorite tribe again. ”

"So I thought, Ji Xia must be wrong, someone pretending to be an ancestor is guiding you. Ji Xia said that we can't see so many slaves with few people, we can kill them! Wouldn't it be enough to kill those who can't manage it, and only those who can manage it, and kill those who are in the rest of the clans? ”

Chen Jian looked at the young man blankly, and said with some distress: "What you said is not wrong, you can want to prove that your eyes really see a little farther than others...... It's like you should be a big tree that can build ships, but you have become firewood. Why didn't you ask me if you had such a question? ”

The young man shook his head and said, "I'm scared, because I know Ji Xia can convince me, so I won't ask." I believe that what I am thinking is right, the guidance of my ancestors. ”

Jian Chen sighed and poured another bowl of wine for the young man, who took it and drank it, and also let out a long breath.

"When the news of the change in Yucheng came, I was even more scared. Not only was he worried that Ji Xia would turn those fugitive slaves into Chinese, but he was also afraid of the Planning and Statistics Department. ”

"What's so scary about that? Isn't it that a workshop has been built to make everyone's life better and better? Jian Chen was even more puzzled, not knowing what this young man was thinking.

"Ji Xia, I followed Ji Song to the Great River Tribes. They have no iron and very little copper, but their clan lives differently than we do. They could use fine jade, which the slaves had spent a long time carving; They don't have iron, but they can build beautiful stone statues of houses with men......"

"But Ji Xia, will you and the Planning and Statistics Department let a slave spend a few years carving a stone statue and polishing a piece of jade? They can do it without copper and iron, so what is the point of let's make copper and iron? As long as there are enough slaves, is there anything that can't be done? A ploughing ox and an iron tool can grow grain; Thirty slaves with stones can't be planted? ”

"Besides, everyone wanted to eat a pear, so the Planning and Statistics Department arranged for someone to pick the pear; Everyone wanted to eat fish, so they arranged for someone to catch fish. ”

"But...... If I want a different flute, if I want a different, luxurious silk dress, can these PSS do it? Another example is that I want a date, and the Planning and Statistics Department said that the date forest is too far away and it is troublesome to pick, and there are pears nearby, but in fact, pears and dates are both fruits, both are sweet, you can eat a pear instead......"

"When he was in the Great River Tribes, a certain clan nobleman liked silk strings, and there were slaves for him to eat and drink, and he pondered for several years, and finally played a pleasant tune. Is it possible to put it in our city? The Planning and Statistics Department can plan 10,000 wheat cakes or steamed buns, but it can't plan such a song! ”

"If Ji Xia wants to say that the Planning and Statistics Department has made everyone's life better, but I want to say that if there is no Planning and Statistics Division, those people are captured as slaves and killed if they can't be managed, we can live well, and Ji Xia doesn't need to be so tired."

"I want to eat dates, I just have to tell the slave and he will pick them for me, instead of telling me to eat a pear......"

Jian Chen smiled helplessly: "Then what are you doing?" Just lying on the kang? ”

The young man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, you can do what I like!" I want to work in the fields, but I don't work because I have to eat, it's different! ”

"What I liked...... For example, thinking, such as thinking about something, thinking every day, from morning to night. Think what a man is, what a clan is, what a city is, where do people come from......"

"But no, I don't have slaves, I can only do what I don't like. What I like to do can't be turned into a wheat cake, so I'm particularly afraid of Planning and Statistics Division.

"Because this thing makes people think that only making food, copper and iron is labor, and the sound and rhythm thinking are not labor, but I don't think that's the case, if we don't think like Ji Xia said, we won't come to this day."

"I think that what a slave can do is not a thing, and that there is no iron to replace it with more slaves; And thinking about it is called a thing, which 10,000 slaves can't do. Or if you have to say it, the latter is expensive and the former is cheap. ”

"I thought about it for a long time, and it suddenly occurred to me that if we were in charge of a lot of slaves, and our clan only needed to do what we liked. I went to work in the fields if I wanted to, but not because I had to eat; I can think about whatever I want, and I don't have to worry about running out of food. ”

"This is the real man, otherwise wouldn't we be slaves to hunger and cold? Only when I am not afraid of starvation to death, not afraid of freezing to death, and have food and clothing, can I know what a real person is, and can I solve the doubts that the squirrel and Ji Xia brought me at the beginning! ”