When the news reached Yucheng, Jian Chen smiled helplessly for a long time, and then excitedly patted his hand swollen. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The bitter smile is because the blame for this crime finally fell on his head, and this battle is no longer a war for the hegemony of various countries, but a war between two ideologies where there is no room for compromise. But once the battle is lost, not only will the entire ethnic group retreat, but what is even more terrifying is that the Dongyi group has become the prototype of the state, and the combined forces will completely defeat the messy Dahe tribes, and the rise of a predictable slave empire.

Excited, because he is nearly thirty years old, in this era can be regarded as a middle-aged man, and there is not much time left for him to delay any longer, and a slight sudden illness may take his life. Besides, after the battle is over, it will be built, which is the most important thing.

The high-level meetings of the Xia State have been convened, and the accusations against themselves have been used as combat propaganda as they are, and the powerful public opinion machine has been operating efficiently using a top-down system.

The mines called for an extra basket of coal and iron to be dug before the war began, the farms called for the food to be registered and rationed, the propaganda team spread hatred among those who had been slaves, and messengers carried the news up the river through carrier pigeons or simple roads that had been repaired.

In the previous years, Xia Guo had already prepared for war, and had already made various plans, and each person was responsible for counting grain and distributing spears.

Chen Jian wipeed his beard, changed into clothes, and came to the school.

The school was already in chaos, and the children of the various clans were at a loss, especially the young people of some hostile towns, and they were panicked, and soldiers had surrounded the school since early in the morning, and no one was allowed to enter or leave.

They also got the news of Su Yue's army, and they also knew about Chen Jian's guilt as read out by Su Yue, and they also knew that there were some Dongyi archers in Su Yue's army.

This made these young people who lived a privileged life, accepted the idea of ethnic groups for several years, and opposed the enlightenment of the idea of bloodline and heavenly determination. Some people certainly think about bloodline succession, but others are convinced of Chen Jian's set of ideas such as assessing sages as officials and relatives no longer fighting.

There will always be people who betray their ass.

When Jian Chen walked into the lecture hall, dozens of people stood up in unison, didn't ask anything, but called out in unison.

Jian Chen pressed his hand and motioned for them to sit down on their knees.

"This may be my last lesson to you. Tomorrow I will send a boat to take you away and return to your parents. ”

"Maybe one day in the future we will meet each other, or maybe one day we will fight each other."

"But I think, no matter when, you and I will remember: there was once an Yucheng along the river, and there was a school palace in the northeast of Yucheng, and there was a gentleman and many disciples in the school palace."

"Many disciples and gentlemen, together with the gentleman, drew a banner with the surnames of you, me, and each of the great rivers on it, winding like a river, and its name was Dragon."

"Here, many disciples and gentlemen, together with him, fantasized about planting this flag on the shore of the East China Sea and at the source of the great river, and the book is the same as the text, the same word, and the same sound. There is no more fighting with each other, and brothers are happy with each other. While Yidi did not yet have a written language, cut off their legends, kill their priests, and exterminate their culture, so that those newborn children would sacrifice to our ancestors from birth, and there would be no more wars and fights after that. ”

Here, many disciples and gentlemen, from trying to make bricks, to measuring and straightening, to building fortifications, relied on their hands to build this school little by little on the barren open space. Here you know for the first time that the Great River is not something that cannot be seen or touched, but that it is a group of thousands of people who are united together. It's you, it's me, and those who work in the fields and in the workshops. ”

"Here, I have taught you, as a nobleman, how to deceive, how to fool, how to instigate, how to oppress your people. It's like teaching you how to kill, you can kill people, and you can know how others want to kill you, and how to protect yourself. ”

"I didn't say what was good and what was bad, I just told you how your fathers deceived and fooled you, and as for whether it is right or wrong, it is your own choice. Xia Guo has taken a different path, I have taught you how to go on this road, and I didn't say whether it was good or bad, it was also because you should make your own choices when you grow up. ”

"I even believe that after you have learned all this, even if you are destined by blood, you will do better, more secretively, and more clearly than your fathers, at least you will disguise yourself as the gentleman I said."

"But what I want to do is to crush these gentlemen with blood. That's why your fathers went to war with the Xia Kingdom. What I'm going to crush is the eternal lineage, not a person, so I have to face more enemies than I have to crush a person. ”

"Some will say, impossible, at least not now. I want to say that you are right, it is like the end is too far away to know that this generation will not be able to go to the edge, but some people just have to take a few steps forward, 10,000 steps and 100,000 steps, they are all on the road, but they are different. At least in the Xia Kingdom, at least some people have already believed that the noble priests would rather have a kind; The distinction between the high and the low is by no means predetermined. ”

Ben thought, picked up a bowl of wine, and said something heroic. For example, if I am defeated, don't forget the original agreement to let the banners of the great river tribes be planted on the shores of the East China Sea; Don't forget what you want to hear, such as this friendship. ”

"But I'm afraid that you really take yourself too seriously, and really regard this war as a play between classmates and brothers in the Yucheng Academy."

"I don't like this, because in the Xia Kingdom, you are no different except for your blood, and even in my eyes you are not as good as a farmer who knows how to grow crops after completing an agricultural class; And in the world of your fathers, you are naturally nobler than those peasants, and it is only natural that you can regard this war as a brotherly dispute, until we meet in the future. ”

"Okay, that's all for this lesson, maybe the shortest class, maybe the last one. Disperse, pack up, and there will be a boat for you to send downstream in a moment. ”

Jian Chen clapped his hands, and two soldiers walked in with a bamboo basket.

"By the way, there is one more thing, hand over the flags of the Great River Tribes that were sent to you before. I feel sick for no reason when I think of your fathers' pledge of friendship with the nobles of Yidi for the sake of the bloodline. In case the Xia Kingdom is defeated in the future, you must hang the banner of your family, don't hang the dragon banner of the Great River Tribes, you are not worthy. In the end, if one day the people of the Great River tribes will not survive and rise up to resist, your fathers will not be able to do it if they hang the banner of the Great River tribes and invite the leaders of Yidi to exterminate their relatives. ”

The young people listened to these harsh words, and looked at the two Xia soldiers who were neither angry nor hateful, but showed faint contempt on their faces, and they didn't know what to do in their hearts.

After a long time, someone finally took out the flag and threw it into the earthen basket, and someone made a start, and threw more.

When he received the seventh side, a young man suddenly stood up, bit his finger and wrote something on the paper in front of him.

"Sir, I'm not going back. Please give my letter to my father, I am sick for him. I believe that there is no constant and no constant cheapness, and I also believe that my father will drag the city into ruin by doing so, and even if he wins, what can he do? Consider a relative born to a mother hundreds of years ago as a slave? Looking at their stupid can't even write, it's like raising pigs and dogs? ”

"Please sir let me pick up the spear musket, if I am after the battle, I am willing to be an ordinary person from the Great River Tribes, go to the academy to learn what I want to learn, and do what I can do well. If the father has done wrong, then it is up to me, the son, to atone for his wrongdoing. This pedigree only makes me feel guilty, not proud. ”

"In the Xia Kingdom, people talk to each other, and they can say how much land they have planted, how many meritorious deeds they have made, and how much copper and iron they have smelted. And me? The only thing I can say is who my father was, who my mother was, who my grandfather was, and which chief's grandmother was sisters. ”

"I've been in the academy for seven years, and I'm getting more and more disgusting about this kind of conversation, please don't drive me away, I have my own choice. Even if you have to send me back, I'll run back. ”

When these words were finished, three other people also stood up and did the same, swearing to break with their father and hope to stay in the Xia Kingdom.

They weren't the first batch, there were already five of those students who had stayed in the Xia Kingdom before them, and they were only a few, very few.

When these four people stood up, seven or eight other people also stood up, and they did not do so resolutely, but hoped that Chen Jian would send a small boat to send them to Xinhua City.

"I knew in my heart that my father was wrong, but I didn't want to fight with my father. If Sir thinks that our father is not worthy of carrying the dragon banner, then please let us go to Xinhua City, where we will fight to the death with the sunset. Let the banner that has fallen in our city be raised there. ”

"If the gentleman wins, we are willing to come back and do something. If Mr. is defeated, we will stay in Xinhua City and stay there until we die. ”

Jian Chen didn't say anything more, nodded and left, leaving a room of people looking at each other awkwardly.

Soon after, all those who were in Yucheng and nearby hostile cities were brought to the river, and several boats were sent to send them away.

Those who stayed behind were not assigned to the army, but let them take charge of some things within their ability, such as writing and arithmetic.

The entire Xia Kingdom has begun to mobilize, and the strength shown before is only a part of the Xia Kingdom, when this group of people sees the true strength of the Xia Kingdom clearly, they understand what a terrifying state machine their fathers have to face.