"Why did Ji Xia discard the high priest's jade?"

Some people didn't hear Jian Chen's sigh, they only saw Jian Chen's movements, and asked in surprise. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Jian Chen sighed and said, "It's not that I threw away the high priest's jade, it's that the high priest's jade is too heavy for me to hold." ”

"When I was praying, I was thinking that if I just need to worship, make offerings, and pray to my ancestors, then of course I can do it. If I can make my relatives more prosperous, this is my honor, and who doesn't want to be able to worship their ancestors on behalf of the tribes? ”

"It was only when I saw the green smoke on the altar and the vastness of the sky and the earth that I realized how stupid I was. What is heaven? Is there an end? What is the earth? Can there be any lengths and shorts? Why does the sun and moon rise in the east and set in the west? Why do the stars change seasons? Where do we come from? Where will it go? ”

"All this, the ancestors did not tell me, nor did they guide me."

"My ancestors guided me only with tools, iron tools, farming, and the like. This is the business of the living, but I can't even fully understand this, how dare I talk about heaven and earth, ghosts and gods? ”

"The return of the living, I have only been given guidance on the living, but the high priest is in charge of the heavens, the earth, the ghosts and gods, this is not something I can do."

"That's why I left the jade on the altar, if anyone can explain that, it must be because of the favor of the ancestors in the matter of heaven, earth, ghosts and gods, and it is more suitable to become a high priest than me."

"Just as an ancestor instructed a man in his ability to produce crops, but asked him to build a house, isn't that against the guidance of the ancestors?"

"That's why I'm afraid. I could not have become a high priest until I had thought clearly about what the heavens and the earth were, why the sun and moon rose in the east and set in the west, and the four seasons and stars changed. ”

Jian Chen bowed again and said, "If someone can solve these doubts in my heart, then he is the most suitable person to become a high priest." Even though everyone elected me as the High Priest, I still wondered in my heart that I was really not able to take on the responsibility of High Priest. ”

"The position of the High Priest elected by you, but I cannot afford it for the time being. If someone can explain all this, he is the one who can really take on the responsibility of high priesthood. ”

"I'm too stupid to do such a thing now, and now I may not even be as good as the priests of some cities, so how can I take on the responsibility of high priest?"

Everyone looked at the jade on the altar left by Chen Jian, and then listened to Chen Jian's words, and they were all stunned.

No leader has ever been able to say to the public that he is unqualified, stupid, or incompetent, especially when it comes to theocracy.

But Jian Chen can, because the theocratic consciousness within the Xia Kingdom is extremely weak, and the people of the country only need a leader who can lead them forward in the world of the living.

Now the position of the high priest seems to be within reach, Su Yue wants to trap Chen Jian, but for those city leaders or priests who don't know, this position of high priest is what they dream of.

However, Chen Jian's words cut off the dreams of these people, and they seemed to be humble, but these people all knew that when it came to reasoning and talking, who could be sure that they could convince Chen Jian? If you can't be convinced, how can you be qualified to become a high priest?

Besides, the sun and the moon rise in the east, heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, where they come from and where, as a full-time priest, I can't think about them all my life, and who can say a theory that can be self-consistent? Even if some people's hearts are as hot as fire, but at this time, in front of so many people in the entire ethnic group, especially with the person who can reason with his mouth the most beside him, I am afraid that there is only one possibility of being ridiculed when he speaks at that time.

Some people can't help but curse in their hearts, you can't answer, can we answer? According to you, if there is no one who can explain these problems, will the position of the high priest remain vacant?

This is obvious...... If you can't answer these questions, why should you be a high priest? Even a person like Ji Xia who has made meritorious contributions and worked hard doesn't dare to be, who dares to be? And why?

Su Yue also didn't expect Chen Jian to do this, the position of the high priest is a great honor, in his opinion, this is a temptation that people can't refuse, especially when he used the position of the high priest as a bargaining chip, Chen Jian has already compromised, no matter how you look at it, Chen Jian is bound to win, but how can he suddenly give up?

If he insisted on resigning from the beginning, it would indeed be unexpected, but at least the position of high priest was not vacant, and Su Yue felt that he could concurrently serve or elect someone he trusted to take on the role.

But before he just excused himself and became the high priest to preside over the sacrifice, but he took the initiative to give up and said such a thing, who can be cheeky to be the high priest now?

Now that the seat of the high priest is available, and it is empty, if you stand up and pick up that piece of jade, there will be supreme glory, but this piece of jade is now too heavy for people to bear!

Besides, with that, all the questions that Su Yue had prepared before couldn't be asked...... I don't understand this, but I want to ask it, so it's not necessary.

Su Yue never expected that someone would be so shameless, and he could say in public that he didn't understand and was not qualified, but the person who said that he was not qualified also wiped out other people's qualifications with one sentence!

Jian Chen looked at the people who were dazed, or thinking, or helpless, and said in his heart, you think slowly, just a question of the sun and the moon rising in the east and setting in the west is enough for you to think for a while. What I don't want, you can't get!

Now that secular power and theocracy are separated, but theocracy is now vacant, Su Yue wanted to slam Chen Jianfu high and hard to the ground, but he did not hesitate to give up his theocracy.

But now the divine power is ceded, but before Chen Jian fell, he climbed down in a shameless way, and by the way, the jade of the divine power was burned hot, enough to burn the next person who wanted to take over......

Su Yue really didn't expect this to be the case, it was impossible for him to be shy and re-serve as the high priest at this time, but the position of the high priest was still there, but it was vacant and no longer belonged to him, nor did he belong to anyone, and he lost some rights out of thin air but didn't get anything.

Originally, Chen Jian wanted to become a high priest himself, stipulate the system of rules and regulations, and use violence to maintain the centripetal force and cultural unity of this ethnic group.

However, the high priest is only a high priest after all, and it is a weapon of criticism, which cannot be carried out without the guarantee of great force, especially when it is alienated from the chiefs who nominally hold the worldly power.

At first, he looked forward to starting from small places, completing some ceremonial superficial unity in the name of the high priest, and then gradually going deeper from the outside in: funerals, weddings, etc.

These will not touch the direct interests of the chiefs of the various clans and towns, and there will be no big obstacles to their implementation, and they can be carried out slowly. Start with these small rituals, gradually unify them, and finally give a reasonable explanation for why these rituals are doing this.

He also knew that doing so would greatly increase the power of the leaders of the Great River Alliance, and give the leaders of the Great River Alliances more reasons to interfere with the rest of the cities, but it would not threaten the Xia Kingdom, because the explanation of whether it was reasonable was in the hands of the High Priest.

I originally wanted to use this opportunity to increase the power of the leaders of the various tribes, so that the various clans could accept this kind of unified order, and then use the means to snatch the position of the head of the alliance into his own hands.

Now the Xia State does not have this strength, and during the period of accumulating strength, the familiarization and recognition of the centralized power of the various ministries will be completed in advance, and the person who holds the centralized power will be replaced by himself at that time.

However, with the emergence of the issue of inheritance rights in the city this time, Chen Jian realized that he had to solve not only Su Yue, but also to wage war with the previous power system of the entire clan.

Everything in this world is changing, and I imagine a perfect situation, but I don't think about whether this perfect situation will change or not.

Because he thought more about the system itself, not how to make it go - he first thought about how to cook a sheep, but neglected how to catch it.

And now, he drove the sheep to a cliff surrounded by cliffs that might break his bones, and would pull anyone who wanted to climb down before he was strong enough to climb to the top to catch a sheep.