In turbulent times, no one can be left alone, good and bad are blurred in the turbulence of the times, and they cannot be measured with everything in the stable era. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Many years later, the painting and casualness became the story of the book, and the people of the stable era found only such a good person who met the definition of goodness in their hearts from the whole story, forgetting the bloody horror and struggle under the bloody terror and violence of the turbulent times, and recalling the good life of the slave owner and the kind and elegant aristocratic temperament, and felt that it was actually very good.

Including the person who led the people of Xinxia City to revolt against the hanging, he also became a thug in the eyes of later generations; Some people even began to question how there could be such a tragedy if the leader of Ji Xia did not return from Yucheng but acquiesced in the fact that Xia Yu was divided?

Stories always have to have a perspective, about the civil strife in Xiacheng recorded in the history books, there are many non-historical stories circulating, of course, there are also stories told from the eyes or perspective of the people of New Xiacheng.

But those stories from the lowest perspective have no fresh humanity, no natural goodness, only resistance, violence, killing, revenge, and survival...... People who are far away from the turbulent times don't like to read such stories. It wasn't until many years later that the turmoil resurfaced that such stories began to circulate and be loved again.

There can be good people in the world, and there are really good people, but there is absolutely no country like an angel who thinks of benevolence and benevolence, so the head of the city that is the prototype of the country must not be as kind as people think.

Just like Chen Jian, who many people in Xia Cheng were looking forward to thinking was the real leader, it was the same.

In mid-December, when the army approached Caohe and the surrounding cities were all on Chen Jian's side, the people of the puppet regime in Xiacheng sent envoys to negotiate, hoping that Chen Jian would let them go, and they would follow the oath, and even not ask for anything in Xiacheng, as long as they moved west to their fiefdom and became part of Xiacheng.

Otherwise, Xia City will be destroyed, leaving only a piece of ruins, which will make Xia City completely chaotic and greatly damage the vitality of the entire Xia Yu system.

That was the last chance for a bloodless and peaceful settlement, but the reply given by Jian Chen was: all those involved in the rebellion should surrender to themselves, and all should be dealt with by their own laws and regulations, and how to punish them will have their own judges. In addition, all the deaths, chaos, grain, grass, and money consumed by the army on the northern expedition should be paid by the families who participated in the rebellion.

It seems that Jian Chen still abides by the rules of the law, but in fact it means that there is no possibility of compromise, in fact, he is forcing this group of people to resist violently or flee from Xia City, just with high-sounding reasons.

Even if the rebellion and death are not counted, Chen Jian made a small calculation for those envoys, from the grain and grass consumed on the expedition to the compensation for the dead countrymen, this money alone is enough to force those families to die and make them destitute debt slaves by the way.

Moreover, according to the rules, these people are probably going to be punished with heavy sentences, which is actually no different from refusal.

This effectively cut off the possibility of a peaceful solution and effectively condemned the death of all conspirators.

From this, it can be said that Chen Jian is ruthless, a complete villain, a bad guy, and even a murderer, because if he compromises and accepts brotherhood, he will not shed so much blood if he smiles at his enmity.

These blood days will also be counted on Chen Jian's head in the fresh story, and it seems that some grudges can really be laughed at.

It's just that at this moment, these hatreds can't be laughed at because too much blood has been shed.

Chen Jian smiled and said that what he would lose would be more than half of the population of Xia City, as well as the prestige and authority of the city regime under several years of operation, and the entire Xia Yu system would fall apart.

It is better to cry than ten thousand, and the most important thing to be a leader is not to be swayed by emotion, to treat everyone and everything as a rational interest analysis. The crying that the eyes see and the crying that the eyes cannot see are the same, and it is not because they see it that the cry is nobler and more moving.

Refusing to compromise at this time is actually forcing many people to cry, forcing many people away, and forcing many people to die.

It is conceivable that some of the sons and daughters of the noble clan are crying and trembling at home, or running away to the far northwest with their newborn children in such cold weather, and there may even be a situation where the mother and son are separated from each other in order not to drag down their sons.

They wore fox fur skins, so their tears were probably nobler and more elegant than those clay legs in sackcloth, but Jian Chen ignored them.

On December 17, the day after Jian Chen severed their surrender and laughed at their enmity, when Xia Cheng had become a pot of porridge due to panic, the army stopped sixty miles away from Xia Cheng and joined the leaders of the rest of the city.

In addition to announcing the justice of this war, Jian Chen is also delaying time, delaying until the city is completely changed, and all the old forces before the delay to the city are completely out of town or wiped out in revenge.

The soldiers are very fast, and the time spent delaying can change a lot of things, but under the absolute superiority of power, it can't change the ending, it only changes the process.

When the news of Jian Chen's refusal to accept the compromise came back to Xia Cheng, the conspirators were desperate, they wanted to use the threat of negotiating with Chen Jian to destroy Xia Cheng, or to capture all the old and weak people of Xia Cheng as a threat, but they had no ability to implement it in the confusion of people's hearts.

On December 18, a group of people left behind their vast possessions and fled the summer city on horseback. With a wolfskin fiefdom to the west, an acropolis to the southwest, and a city to the east, they had no way but to flee to the grassland.

Originally, the conspirators and their followers who were in advance and retreat completely collapsed because of the flight of several people, their original plan was to seize all the old and weak in Xia Cheng to blackmail Chen Jian, and if they did not accept it, they would all be executed, but once someone fled, no one had the heart to do such a thing, and they all did everything and began to pack up their belongings.

The conspirators and followers wanted to escape, the people of the old Xia City who were involved in the previous whirlpool no longer supported or opposed it, and only hoped that the war would subside, and all those who could control the situation were holding their hands and delaying time, and the army was sixty miles away from the city but did not enter the city, but was in the alliance, and the vendetta of the clan dictatorship created before......

Under this deliberately created situation, on the night of December 18, the subordinate peasants, wild people, and the people of Xinxia City, who had been reduced to slavery, revolted, and they shouted the slogan of killing all the councils for revenge and asking Ji Xia to take charge of Xia City independently, and fought with those clan relatives and nobles who wanted to escape but had not yet escaped.

They killed more than a hundred followers of the conspirators in the city, as well as fools that the conspirators fled without taking with them...... and many people who have been inadvertently drawn into the maelstrom of turmoil.

And when the people who should be killed were either dead or fled, Chen Jian's rider belatedly appeared outside the city gate and promulgated the rules set by Chen Jian: from this time on, no suicide is allowed, no blood relatives are allowed to take revenge, and everything is waiting for Ji Xia's army to enter the city.

In this deliberately created rebellion, everything in the old era was swept away, driven by hatred, everything was smashed and everything was waiting for a new life.

In fact, this is a purge, a seductive purge of Zheng Boke, in which all those who support the old era and the old system and sympathizers are affected and become victims of deliberate connivance.

The clan has completely collapsed, and there will be no political force that can shake the system of cities for at least a decade.

Are there good people among the clan leaders or relatives? Of course there are, and there are quite a few, and many people are really thinking about the clan.

But this clan system has hindered the development of the city, and having good people is not the rationality of the whole system.

Either voluntarily give up their rights and become a supporter of the new system, change their identity: do not rely on clan blood as the support of power, and change from clan relatives to nobles or bureaucrats in the city; If you don't want to give up on your own initiative, it can only be your life-and-death physical annihilation.

Since May, there is no solution to the mess left by Xia Cheng other than to completely smash it and start over, and there is no feasible fresh means.

To smash all this, Jian Chen deliberately set aside time for those rebels in the city. All the management and those who can be management are no longer in the city, and the only program for the rebels is to turn the dictatorship of the blood clans into the dictatorship of the city chiefs.

For now, Jian Chen was the only person they could trust to unite Xia Cheng and accept it together, no one else, no other forces.

If it is not smashed, Chen Jian will have to face land reform and cake distribution when he returns to Xiacheng, and the interests of the class will be too great when he returns.

If you don't smash it, you will never be able to tell which are the conspirators and fellow supporters and sympathizers hidden inside Xia Cheng.

Moreover, he also needed a reason to give those people the status of a countryman - to conform to the time of day, to welcome the king and help suppress the rebellion.

Without an external force and people of common convinc, the result of this uprising would be the reincarnation of the dictatorship of the blood clans, only upside down but unchanged in structure.

The reality is that this force exists, and this person who can convince all classes of clans did not die in Dongyi, but returned victorious, and his prestige was in full swing, and he became a kind and truly considerate person for the sake of the city in the previous torii - those clan nobles who thought that he was dead and couldn't help but be ugly and ate also played a role in contrasting the foil.

The reason why a green leaf is a green leaf is because he is a green leaf himself, not a green leaf made of red**.

After experiencing inequality, I realized how precious "equality" in a certain sense is; After experiencing the violent panic of anarchy, I realized how important it is to have a city government that transcends the interests of the class.

Everything is still in the embryonic era, there is no history to rely on, and you can only remember it by trying it yourself to avoid self-destruction. At this point, Xia Cheng walked ahead of the rest of the cities, serving as a wake-up call to the rest of the cities, fulfilling the duties of the high priest's cities as pathfinders.

On December 20, Jian Chen finally got the exact news. The rebels basically took control of the city, and declared that they would lay down all their arms when the Jixia army arrived.

This means that the army can finally return to Xia City, and the blood has already been shed too much, and it will get out of control if it is any later. So he changed his previous slow forward speed and marched towards Xia City at full speed.