After harvesting and grabbing seeds, the city gradually became lively, and the tribes who had been in the mountains moved to the city with all their belongings and began to accept this new way of life. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the day of the day and night coincided, Xia Cheng ushered in a torrential rain, but fortunately, the pottery pipes and canals that had been laid earlier drained all the water without any major problems.

In the council hall, people listened to the sound of raindrops falling on the thatch, and some were worried about the beans that had just sprouted, and worried that they would be knocked down by the rain.

Occasionally, there was a dull thunderclap, and lightning pierced the dark clouds, illuminating the room and reflecting the restless faces of the men.

Chen Jian lit a few mutton fat candles, knocked on the wooden table in the interval between the thunder, and motioned for everyone to look this way.

This time, there were no more people in the council hall than before, no longer a closed meeting with only fifteen people, but nearly forty people.

Chen Jian used charcoal to draw a random line on the wall as a river of grass, and a few squares as a city, as well as a triangular mountain and a forest like "one".

After finishing the last stroke, he turned around and said, "I want to talk about a few things today, one is that two tribes that used to be wild people, who killed the heads of many meteorite tribes as auxiliaries in the last battle with the valley, and followed Song to delay the impact of the falling star, which was a meritorious achievement. I think this is enough, and they have proved their loyalty to their ancestors with their blood and lives and redeemed their sins. ”

The leaders of the two wild tribes looked at Jian Chen happily, they didn't know that after planting the beans a few days ago, Jian Chen suddenly sent someone to call them to the city.

I thought it was another matter of conscription, but I never thought that it would be such a great thing.

It's just that they understand the rules of the council, and they are not qualified to speak until the outcome is discussed.

Jian Chen bowed slightly at the two tribes, as a comfort, hoping that they would not be in a hurry, and at the same time a gesture of goodwill.

The six tribes supported Chen Jian without thinking about it, and the other tribes thought that Chen Jian had given their tribe some land, and that the wasteland in Heyin City also needed to turn to the slaves of Chen Jian's tribe to help clear it, and they all agreed after hesitating for a moment.

The leaders of the two tribes shouted excitedly!

The people of the country and the wild people are not only different in terms of nominal status, but also have unequal obligations and rights they enjoy. After becoming a countryman, you can share the spoils of war, you can become a soldier, you can pay less food, and you can serve less conscription......

The two leaders walked up to Chen Jianjian and bowed their heads respectfully, daring to look at Jian Chen's toes to show respect and gratitude, having forgotten that it was Jian Chen who had demoted them to wild people in the first place.

Yu Qian'er followed behind Jian Chen, holding out two scepters with bronze heads, replacing the original pure wooden scepters in their hands, signaling that the city accepted them.

The two leaders took the scepter and just wanted to call Jian Chen by his name, but then they remembered that they would call the leader of the city "Xia" in the future, so they said softly: "Ji Xia, our clan is willing to share the same surname as your clan." ”

This is not only to express gratitude, but also to see the benefits obtained by the Huaihua, pine, stone and other tribes linked to Chen Jian, and now a large number of things are exchanged every day in the Fang City, and the goods in the Fang Market are basically from the four clans.

Chen Jian agreed that they would take Ji as their surname, but in order to distinguish the branches, one took the tribe's Niu as the clan and the other took the deer as the clan, and the Ji surname Niu and Ji surnamed Lu were counted as the two branches of the Ji surname.

The two leaders rightfully entered the tribal council and became the leaders with veto power and deliberation power, and there were already seventeen members of the council, eight of which were completely controlled by Jian Chen, and two who basically did not oppose him much.

After dealing with this matter, he pointed to the simple map on the wall and said, "I will now talk about the current situation of our city, there are a few things that need to be changed, let's discuss them." ”

"Now we have three cities. Xia, Heyin and Yangguan, the mall has not yet been built, and after a few days, the envoy of the Eyue tribe came, and we sent people to build it together. ”

"The Xia City is two hundred and fifty steps wide, and the city wall is one and a half steps high, and it needs to be increased again, and the construction will start in a month."

"The city of Heyin is seventy paces wide, and it is only enough to take care of the nearby land; Yangguan is seventy steps wide, three steps high, there are towers and battlements, sixty garrisons, every two months, each tribe has to send people, the tribe with horses has formed a hatred with us, and sooner or later we will fight with them. ”

"Three hundred miles down the Cao River is the city of Eyue, and the news that Song brought back is that they have a population of nearly four or five thousand, and there is plenty of corn."

"About two hundred and fifty miles north of Chuyang Pass, there is a tribe of horses, I went to see it last time, and there are not many of them, but I don't know if there are any of their relatives nearby."

"The city is to the west, and according to Redfish, there are no more powerful tribes, so don't worry about this for the time being. Whether there are other tribes on the south bank of the grass river, we don't know. ”

He paused for a moment, called Yu Qian'er and said, "You tell the leaders about the population and land on our side." ”

A few days ago, Yu Qian'er counted the population of each tribe according to what Chen Jian said, and took her younger brothers and sisters to measure the land, which had already been summarized on a piece of bark.

After building a house and exchanging, her prestige in her tribe grew, and she was no longer treated as a child.

She took a deep breath, glanced at everyone, and said with a smile: "In Xia City, there are two thousand six hundred and thirty-seven people and six hundred babies. The total number of slaves from the tribes was nine hundred, of which two hundred were directly under the control of the cities. ”

"Outside the city, plus those tribes who moved out of the mountains, there are a total of thirteen, more than 1,600 people, distributed in the lower and lower reaches of Xia City."

"The total amount of wheat harvested this time is 450,000 catties of wheat, and 30,000 catties should be confiscated, of which our four tribes should pay 20,000 catties, an extra 20,000 catties, and a total of 50,000 catties of public grain in the city."

"All the beans were planted on the original wheat field, a total of 3,000 acres."

"My brother said that if you want to ensure that everyone in the city can eat wheat next year, you must leave at least 130,000 catties of seeds. Each tribe shall set aside separately and hand over to the barn, in case you have eaten too much in the future. According to each person in the tribe, thirty catties of seeds should be set aside, and they must be handed over after the rain. ”

In addition, the city needs to reclaim a total of 60,000 acres of land, and in the future, try not to burn the wasteland and plant it directly. Now the various tribes have cultivated 13,000 acres of land, and each tribe will reclaim at least 1,500 acres before the autumn. ”

These are the results calculated by her and Jian Chen after discussion, 450,000 catties of grain, which seems to be a lot, but when it is distributed to everyone, each person is only 100 catties, which is not enough to eat at all, and then leave 30 catties of seeds, and the rest is even less.

In order to prevent the various tribes from not distributing, the situation of flatbread noodles and bran acorns appearing every day after the harvest, and the situation of bran acorns appearing when the green and yellow are not harvested, and they can only intervene.

Moreover, more than half of the more than 400,000 catties of grain belong to the four tribes, and the rest of the tribes will not dare to oppose Chen Jian at least before next year's harvest: in the past, they could still rely on gathering to survive, but now there are thousands of people gathered in the city, and they have exceeded the limit of what the collection can accommodate, so they can only choose to plant.

The chiefs of the various tribes did not object to this proposal, they had not calculated it before, but they thought that there was a lot of grain piled up in the warehouse, but when they knew these figures, they knew that the grain would not last next year.

Yu Qian'er counted the seeds that each tribe should hand over according to the population and distributed them.

After the distribution, Jian Chen said: "You have all seen that there are too many people in the city now, and many things need to be deployed. Since I am the leader of the city, I want to find a few people to share these things for me, I can't manage it alone, if it weren't for Yu Qian'er to help you calculate how many seeds to keep, you don't know, what I said is right? ”

"Yes, you can't manage it alone, you should assign some people to help you take care of it."

Chen Jian looked around and said, "There are only a few things about tribes and cities: war, planting, exchange, building, sacrifice, and population...... Down, there were wheat planting, bean planting, city building, ditch digging, slaves, and so on. It is better for everyone to perform their duties and manage one side than for everyone to come by themselves. ”

"He who is in charge of planting is called Si Nong; He who is in charge of goods is called a cargo; He who is in charge of the population is called Situ; The one in charge of the building is called Sikong; Those who are in charge of the laws and regulations are called the priests; Those in charge of military affairs are called Sima. This is the sixth division. ”

"Sima, Situ, Si Nong, and Sikong, these four positions are temporarily managed by me, and in the future, when anyone learns clearly, they can be appointed, which can be regarded as a little easier for me. Yu Qian'er has always been in Guanfang City, and she is responsible for the position of the goods, what do you think? ”

Everyone did not object, and asked: "Yu Qian'er is in charge of the goods, and we are at ease." It's just the position of the secretary, who will take it? ”

"The person temporarily selected is Ji Song, he has been in charge of military law and whipping, and he has made great achievements in the battle of the valley, and he is crippled left and right without his fingers, and he comes to be a person, I think no one has more credit than him, right?"

Everyone stopped talking, they all knew the key to the last battle in the valley, and this position was regarded as everyone's gratitude and respect for Song, and besides, he had been in charge of the military law whipping before, which was just right.

Chen Jian is a person who wears four positions, and everyone doesn't think there is any problem, Si Nong and Sikong can't be controlled by others, and no one will be convinced if they change others. Sima was in charge of military affairs, and he was the military chief, as a matter of course; Situ is in charge of the deployment of personnel, which is also the right of the city leader in the first place, and there is nothing to object.

In addition to the Sixth Division, Chen Jian also asked everyone to elect more than 20 officials, stipulating the scope of jurisdiction of the Sixth Division.

The power has nominally become a pyramid, rather than the flat structure of the previous tribal deliberations, and these elected officials are not managerial, but responsible for imparting knowledge, teaching people how to farm, how to train, how to cook, how to herd cattle and sheep, etc., and promise that in the future, except for the post of Sima, the rest of the six divisions will be elected from among the officials.

The power of the clan chiefs themselves was not diminished too much, but there were priests who had jurisdiction over those who had done wrong and violated the oath of the pottery plates in each tribe; But in reality the officials who were in charge of everything would gradually divide the prestige of the tribal chief—at least how to grow wheat, and the people would think of the chief first, rather than ask the chief.

Most of the chiefs also have such an official position, and they are happy because they can also manage other tribes. While they can manage others, others can also manage them, and their cross-tribal jurisdiction also needs to be accountable to the Sixth Division.

The concentration of power can make the city develop faster, even if it is still very chaotic, there will definitely be things that exceed the authority, but nothing can be done in a day, there must be a process of habit.

These leaders are already old, and Chen Jian is the hope of the tribe in order for those children who grow up in the academy to accept this power system in five or ten years.

The people in the Six Divisions have not entered the council for the time being, and it will take time for them to increase their prestige, so that the opposition can be weakened a little.

It's a seismic change, like the torrential rain that pours down at this time, and the thunder makes it clear that everything is changing.

And those changes that are as moisturizing and silent as spring rain are quietly changing inadvertently, and people gradually accept and gradually feel the benefits.

For example, after the rain stopped, the shy Lancao and the tanuki held a faint ceremony and officially left the Ji clan and became a member of the Shi clan.

The dowry that Chen Jian and his people gave to his sister was a small wooden table, a small cradle, a comb, and a pottery from the Eyue tribe that could be used to make up after being filled with water.

Together, the two tribes built a very small room for the two of them, with only sleeping places, thinking that they would not need much space to eat in the tribe - which was also a disguised encouragement to the disintegration of the tribe into a family, but only an emotional family, not a family based on private ownership.

At the ceremony, the two people drank the wine together with the cut gourd, tied the cut gourd and hung it on the wall, signaling the two to become one.

At the same time, it is also telling those who participate in the prayer that these two people no longer sleep with others, do not come to bother, and cannot sing love songs to the people in them, which is a kind of declaration.

People sent blessings, and those who gradually got along for a long time and gradually developed jealousy of the opposite sex they liked and the fact that others slept with them also carried a kind of anticipation in their blessings.

It's the kind of quiet change, not just for the good but also for the bad.

For example, not long after, the first incident of wounding occurred in the city, a man wanted the woman to sleep only with him, but the woman refused, and the man fought with another man, which was normal, but in the fight, the man moved his sword and hacked the other party to death. Sikou Jisong, who had returned from the Eyue tribe, carried out the tribe's first execution as a warning to the rest of the people.

Another example is the first theft in a city, where some tribes carry firewood cut by other tribes while chopping wood. In the past, there were no other tribes within a few dozen miles of each tribe, so it was difficult for this kind of thing to happen, but now that they live together, this kind of thing is inevitable after all.

There was also a tribe that used slaves too oppressively, and the slaves under their tribe rebelled, and after the slaughter, their death was exchanged for a reduction in the oppression of the rest of the tribes......

In short, in the summer city, after planting, the happiness and pain of that civilization came one after another, constantly changing the way of thinking of the people.

From hunting and gathering to spring planting and autumn harvest, what has changed is not only what you eat, but also the way of life, the distribution of rights, and the transformation of thinking.

Heaven and earth are still the same heaven and earth, but the people who survive tenaciously in heaven and earth have changed.

Relying on spring planting and autumn harvest, he gradually turned his eyes away from the struggle against nature and set his eyes on the wider world and the people living in the rest of the cities in the world.

Planting means that slaves have value, that war can be profitable, that there is enough goods to exchange, that there are people who are out of production to ponder writing, and that there are people who can look up to the stars and think about where they came from after they have eaten enough.

When the beans are in bloom, Yu Qian'er and Chen Jian stand on the newly heightened city wall, looking out at the sky in the distance that is obscured by mountains. Yu Qian'er's gaze crossed the bean field, pointed to the place where the sun was rising, and asked, "Brother, what's on that side of the mountain?" ”

"It's the sea."

"What is the sea?"

"It's a blue heaven that falls on the earth."

"Is there an end to the sea? Is the Sun's home at sea? ”

"There is no end."

"Is there anyone on the beach?"

"Yes. World...... It's not just such a river of grass. Cities...... It's not just a summer city, either. ”

Volume 2, Spring Planting and Autumn Harvest (End)