shouted in a voice, the surroundings suddenly became quiet, Mu Ma knew that there was no turning back, gritted his teeth and walked in front of Chen Jian in the puzzled eyes of everyone, and took out a piece of bark from his arms, on which were painted the names of twelve people, some were words, and some were paintings. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Underneath each name is a blood-colored handprint, which is used as a testimony to the oath.

"Ji Xia, we have to divide it out, according to what you said, each person will give 400 catties of grain to the city or clan a year, please Ji Xia also give us cattle and horses! This is our name, we swear to our ancestors, we will never pay a grain of grain, we will pay a tax of fifteen and one, and we will also pay for the use of cattle and horses, even if we starve to death, we must first pay enough grain to pay! ”

After he shouted these words, his face was a little red and a little hot, and he was still sweating in the slightly cold spring breeze, and he didn't dare to look up at Chen Jian, he had already shouted out anyway, so he could only resign himself to fate.

There was immediately a whisper of surprise, accusation, and even disdain, that they had violated the morality of the clan, and that they had only done the worst things in the past to leave the clan, but now they chose to leave on their own initiative.

Chen Jian beat the drum, signaled not to speak, reached out and took the somewhat curly birch bark, looked at the childish symbols and handprints on it, and somehow wanted to laugh.

If Xia Cheng had always existed, then this bark would probably become the most important historical witness of Xia Cheng, so he was not perfect, because the bark was easy to rot, and the charcoal characters on it were easy to blur.

Perhaps, it would be better to engrave it on a clay tablet, but it is obvious that these people did not expect this effect, and naturally they will not be prepared to pass it down through the ages when the blood seal vows are made, for example, it is very formal and convenient to collect, but it is very real.

Jian Chen took the bark of the tree, pointed to the name on it, and said, "You all come out." ”

More than a dozen people glanced at each other, stood up firmly, stood by Mu Ma's side and shouted, "Ji Xia, this is what we twelve of us discussed together, not Mu Ma himself. ”

"Yes, what punishment is there for the twelve of us to bear it together."

Jian Chen put the bark aside and asked, "Have you thought about it?" If your food is not enough, Ji Yun, as a tax collector, will not care so much, and will collect the grain you should pay first. ”

Mu Ma nodded and said, "Think about it, that's what we mean, there will never be less public grain." ”

"Well, one more, you have left the clan, and some of the things of the clan cannot be given to you. If you have children of your own in the future, you can't let the clan keep them, right? ”

"We raise it ourselves."

"Where's your mother?"

"If she wants, I'll take her to her own house, and if she doesn't, stay in the clan."

Jian Chen snorted, turned his head to the leaders and said, "Look, these are all people from your clan, they said so, what do you think?" ”

Several leaders smiled bitterly: "What do you think? At the beginning, he said that he was willing to take out so much food a year and go out to live alone. But Muma, you have to think about it, if you really can't get by, the clan won't take you in anymore. Also, the slaves of the tribe belong to the tribe, and it is impossible for them to be given to you. ”

Mu Ma Xin said that some of the slaves had their own gains, but at this time he also knew that the leader could not back down in such a matter, so he said, "I know. But we have to get a share of the land, right? I've also ploughed this land......"

This time, without waiting for the leader to speak, Jian Chen said, "That's right, I can give you some." I can't just watch you starve to death. The grain seeds will be distributed to you according to the amount of your land, but you must remember that once the harvest is made, Ji Yun will not care how much you collect, but will only take the grain you should take according to the quota, and you should not hate him when the time comes. ”

"What do you do to hate him? This is the rule of the city, and no one can change it. ”

"In that case, let's divide it, Yu Qian'er, you calculate how much land their clan has, according to the number of men, and see how much they can get in total?"

Yu Qian'er had already calculated it a few days ago, and at this time, she was still pretending to frown and think for a long time, and the red fish on the side just wanted to laugh, turned around and shook her shoulders.

"Calculate it, twelve people can divide a total of five hundred and seventy acres of land, and according to the population, they can receive one cow and one horse."

"You're wrong."

Hongyu, who had been holding back a smile, suddenly spoke, Chen Jian and Yu Qian'er were stunned, she knew about this, why did she say these words at this time?

Hongyu turned around, walked to the side of a group of women and said, "Ji Xia, you only divide according to the number of men, this is not good. Why, don't women have to eat? ”

Jian Chen gritted his teeth and looked at the red fish, and said in his heart that he would take care of you when it warmed up in a few days, if you had any opinions, you would have said it earlier, and if you said it at this time, wouldn't the women all start to think about this problem?

"Women can't plow the land, can they?"

"Yes, you can't plow the land, but you can harvest it, right? Let's not talk about whether you can farm or not, just like the tanuki and the bluegrass, the bluegrass is going to live in the clan of the tanuki. So these people have no tribe, will women live with him in the future? ”

"That's right."

"So if in the future, the men of the clan will all go out and live alone like casua, what will be left of the women? In the past, it was enough to gather, but now in the city, there is not enough gathering, there is no land, and women are equal to nothing! When the time comes, if you really get married to Muma and these people, and go empty-handed, how can you do it? If a man treats a woman badly, the woman can only hold on, because without land, she will starve to death if she leaves a man. ”

Hongyu avoided Jian Chen's gaze, turned around and shouted at the women, "Sisters, do you say? Do you really want to raise women like sheep and cattle? The rope is in the hands of the master, whether it is good or not depends only on the will of the master, so how can it be done? ”

As soon as the words fell, those women also reacted, and more than half of the people gathered here were women, and at this time, they shouted with the voice of the red fish: "Yes, Ji Xia, this is not good!" ”

"If you bow to someone empty-handed, you can't leave if you really don't want to, right?"

"That is, if I have land, men don't want me anymore, I can still find other men, or live by myself. Could it be that a man only needs my body? ”

When it comes to their own interests, in an era when women are still human beings rather than alienated things, these voices converged together, making Jian Chen helpless, and suddenly understood why Hongyu didn't say it before, because only at this time could Jian Chen have to accept it.

Redfish is cunning, she likes Xia Cheng, she likes Jian Chen, but she also likes to be a woman who is not raised by others. She is not bad, she is just fighting for her own interests, and she will not destroy Xia Cheng's interests, so she did not say it to Jian Chen in advance, but after weighing everything, she endured it until now.

More than half of the women were like wasps that had disturbed their nests, the buzzing sound overshadowed Chen Jian's drums, and the men were a little dazed, feeling that it seemed to make sense, and only a few of them strongly objected.

Hongyu understands that all status comes from the land, and everything she wants must be fought for by herself, she has not relied on Chen Jian, love and liking, it does not mean that she will be willing to be a vassal thing.

She also understands that she may be persuaded by Jian Chen alone, she may be intoxicated by those tricks and romance and agree to the other party, or she may be cracked by the other party's cunning.

And now, it is impossible for Jian Chen to make her confused, because this is in public; Behind her, half of the people in Xia Cheng were standing, they all had the identity of Chinese people, and they still occupied half of the world in labor, this force, even Chen Jian could not stop it.

"Stop arguing! There are many women, just like in front of the beehives. ”

"Ji Xia, Hongyu is right, according to your points, if all the men are gone in the future, we will have nothing but begging the men to support us?"

"That's it, you have to make it clear!"

"We were right to elect Redfish to the council in the first place, otherwise it would have been over today!"

Redfish raised his head and made a smug smile at Jian Chen, who covered his ears and shouted, "Okay, good!" Don't be noisy, be quiet! ”

After waiting for a long time, it was finally quiet, and the women had already gathered, and even the blue grass ran behind the red fish, glaring at the tanuki, and the tanuki stood helplessly next to the blue grass.

"Okay, then women also have a share, but you can't be the same as men, even if you can harvest, that's half the work, a woman's land is half of a man's, that's okay?"

"Yes."

"If you are with a man in the future, you will have a faint prayer and the land will be taken away. I don't want to go over, the land follows the woman, and everyone has their own way, this is always okay, right? ”

"Okay."

"Recalculate!"

Chen Jian shouted helplessly, took the bark himself, recalculated a big division, and finally threw the charcoal pen and shouted: "The twelve people of cassa are divided into four hundred acres in total." Do you need women to come and check it out? ”

"No, we can trust you. It's just that you forgot to think about us. ”

"yes, we're human too."

Jian Chen rubbed his forehead, looked at the red fish with a smile, and then looked at the group of women who burst out of strength, and said helplessly: "Sisters, I was wrong. Redfish, what else do you want to say? ”

"It's not for the time being, but I'll talk about it when I think of it later."

"That's it, Yu Qian'er, you take someone to help them measure out the ground. Muma, you come over and draw lots. ”

Muma swallowed, walked over to the jar, there was not much bark left, closed his eyes and put his hand into the jar, and felt for the cows and horses that belonged to him and his companions.

As if he had just woken up from a dream, he took out the cattle and followed Yu Qian'er to measure the land, and he did not wake up until Yu Qian'er led people to stick sticks in the land that belonged to him.

Yu Qian'er had already left, the crowd had dispersed, and there were only him and eleven companions, a female cow, a red horse, and 400 acres of uncultivated land on the land in early spring.

"Brother, this is our land."

Mu Ma nodded, squatted down and even grabbed a handful of soil in his hand, looked up at the sky, roared at the blue sky, and threw the soil in his hand into the sky.

"It's a good weather tomorrow, I went to Yu Qian'er to get food, let's work hard, in autumn, don't wait for Ji Yun to come to the door, let's send him the food!" Four hundred acres of land, twelve people, not much, but what we have is strength, and these two big animals, just do it! ”

"That's right! Open up the wasteland across there, too! ”

"The house is not in a hurry, and when the corn is planted, we will build it, and build a wooden shack here, it won't be cold anyway."

A dozen men looked at their hope and talked as loudly as they could, as if to let God know their joy.

The spring breeze blew the earth green, took away the ice and snow, and changed everything.

The land has changed, the people have changed, and the cities have changed.

It's just that after the spring breeze, no one knows whether it will rain like puff pastry or hail all over the ground.

"It's going to be a good year."

Mu Ma looked at the land, as if he was communicating with the land god again, and after he finished speaking, he nodded, mumbled as an answer, and reflexively caught up with his partner who had gone away. (To be continued.) )