Chapter 70: Ruts
After becoming the leader through bribery, Jian Chen immediately sent riders to inform the leaders of the seven savage villages downstream and the villages in the mountains to go to the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The people of the Eyue tribe may be arriving tomorrow, and before that happens, he must live up to his name.
After everyone came, they sacrificed to their ancestors together. During the sacrifice, Chen Jian swore that he would never favor any tribe, otherwise the ancestors would never protect him again.
By the way, he nagged about more than a hundred things, specifically to distinguish what is the right of the tribal leader and what is the right of the city chief.
I have listed the possible problems that have come to mind for the time being, so that the current tribal alliance will not be able to distinguish between what is a state affair and what is a clan affair.
In the nagging, he also gave up some rights to the leaders of the various tribes, and it sounded as if the leaders of the various tribes could manage more things than before, but in fact, Chen Jian seized the military power, the right to distribute land, and the right to allocate personnel, although it was only for more than half a year, it was enough.
The tribesmen sent more than twenty bronze wooden canes that had been prepared long ago, and distributed them to each leader, including the leaders of the wild people.
The scepter is a symbolic meaning. Because before his appearance, most of the leaders were respected and experienced old people, and the staff symbolized the old man, and by extension, it symbolized power.
Even in previous lives, it was not only Egypt, Europe, Maya, and Aztec who had the scepter, but also the Chinese civilization at the beginning. Sanxingdui and Hongshan culture have been unearthed, and there is also the legend of Kuafu's day by day, abandoning the cane to the ground and turning into a peach forest.
The essence of this legend should be that Kuafu's tribe followed Chi You and was beaten by Yan Huang, so he had to take the tribe to migrate westward, but he died halfway, and the tribe buried him and his scepter in the peach forest, and finally became a legend.
After the tribal era passed, the major affairs of the country were enshrined in Rong, and the symbol of power changed from the scepter of the old leader to the Rong Yue Liding.
After the leaders obtained the scepter with a wooden bronze head, they gave a bronze scepter to Jian Chen according to the script that Jian Chen had already arranged, which meant that the rights of the tribal council were temporarily handed over to the owner of the scepter.
Jian Chen first pretended not to accept it, and said in fear: "I'm not even the leader of the clan, why did I become the leader of the council?" ”
The leaders said, "The council has been decided, so let you be the leader and lead the city and the tribe further." ”
Chen Jian took the scepter, considering that the clansmen could not understand the poems, so he said: "As long as I can make the development of the city and the tribe better, even if I die, I am willing, and I will never flee because I am afraid of disasters." ”
Raising the scepter, which had only been used for more than half a year, there were bursts of cheers in the city, which was more or less expected.
After the ceremony, on the square, Chen Jian threw out the first sweet date after becoming the leader of the council.
The land on the south bank of the Cao River will be divided along the river according to the population of each tribe, and the distance and distance will be determined by the lottery of each tribe, without favoritism, but the direction of the ditch must be the same.
Slaves from their own tribe would help the rest of the tribe to clear a portion of the land on the south bank, and seven people from each tribe would go to the south bank to build a small village to guard the land and drive away the animals.
Each tribe was given a portion of clay pots, salt, dried fish, fishing nets, and linen. When the harvest is over, the four tribes living in the city will help the rest of the tribes bring back the grain from the mountains.
There was no slap after the sweet jujube for the time being, all the tribes were thunderous, and the tribes that were originally a little uneasy gradually reassured, at least now it seems that Jian Chen did not turn to his own tribe, and even got some benefits, and his rights as a leader were slightly more than before.
Yu Qian'er was in charge of distributing the gifts given to the various tribes, and Chen Jian then had the copper furnace stopped, and arranged for a few people to go to the mine to watch over the group of slaves, and no longer transport ore to the area until the people of the Eyue tribe left.
The original ore was dug into a pit and all buried in it, and the smelted tin was also dug and buried, and anyone who leaked the secret of the tribe's copper smelting during this period was beheaded and put to death.
Several tribes had no doubts about this, and they did not know how copper was smelted, a rule that they thought could only punish the four tribes in the city.
Afterwards, the men of each tribe gathered together and spread wooden frames in the market, and took out some of the things that could be exchanged in the city and put them there, and Yu Qian'er and her younger siblings were responsible for showing them how to use and eat some things.
Four rooms were vacated, cleaned, covered with animal skins, and decorated with pottery knick-knacks hanging from the plastered walls.
Some freshly caught fish from the grass river were also thrown into the lotus pond, and a large number of wild flowers were dug up from the wild and planted on both sides of the road outside the moats of the city, including the toilets, which were also sprinkled with grass and wood ashes.
After being busy, the Chen family asked the clansman who came back first: "You said that the woman from the Eyue tribe is their priest?" ”
"It seems that she is a woman of Eyue, and when she burns the wasteland and plantes, it is this woman who reads the greetings."
"What's her name?"
"Uh...... In our words, she is called nine, the nine of six, seven, eight. ”
"Jiu'er? That's weird enough. ”
"Not only that, but the woman also looked at the shadow of a log all day and muttered."
Chen Jian nodded, rubbing his hands and didn't know what kind of person this opponent was, this transaction was too important to his clan, he had to do it well, and it was related to the distribution of the clan's rights after he handed over the scepter in winter.
"It should be almost there, right? Drumming and soldiers stood on both sides of the road, in armor. Let Yu Qian'er drive the ox cart to meet you...... Take this nine. ”
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Nine is indeed almost there, but her name is not strange at all.
Her mother's clan is in charge of the calendar numbers, so most of the names in the clan are one, two, three or various stars, and she is given a number as a surname, and her name should be the number nine.
She was now walking with her people on the same road that the tribes in the mountains and forests had walked a month ago, and she had seen houses and fishing nets, but she did not worship like those people, but only bowed her head slightly, and did not think that this was the abode of her ancestors like those people a month ago.
The road is the same road, the difference is the eyes.
Her eyes had seen civilization, so there wasn't much surprise.
The nets are not the same as those of your own tribe, and you catch more fish than your own tribe. But there is only one net near the first village road, and it seems that the village is not very rich.
As she passed through the village, she pretended to be thirsty and told the group to stop and rest in the village for a while.
Walking around the first village, I looked at the villagers in the bark and animal skins, and was a little puzzled. She thought that everyone in Jian Chen's clan could at least wear that kind of linen clothes, but now it seems that it is not, and there are not many clay pots among these people.
Looking at the houses in the village, Nine was even more strange.
The wood of these houses is all new, and the cut places are still white, not black after the rain and sun, and you can even see the pits left by digging the earth, and there is no grass growing on them, which shows that these houses have been built for up to half a year.
The house is also different from the house of his own tribe, because the house of his own tribe was on the bank of a large river, and in order to prevent flooding, the house cannot be this kind of semi-basement. Either the kind of wood of the millet tribe is built underneath, and the house is built on a wooden trunk that is more than one person high; Either it's the Chinese way of ramming the foundation and continuing to raise it after the flood waters recedes.
"Is this the case with the Ken tribe? Not as strong as I thought? If that were the case, perhaps this exchange could have been completely different. They also moved from afar? The river never emits water? Or did they not consider the possibility of flooding at all? ”
Just looking at this village, the image of Chen Jian's clan in Jiu's heart has changed from the impassable river in his hometown to a small river fork that can be jumped over with all his strength.
She didn't ask much, and even suspected that the circles and angles on the ruler were not inadvertently drawn by the same Jian as she thought?
After looking at the village and moving on, she felt that the Jian tribe might be such a larger village.
There is still a lot of burned land near these villages, some of which are still being cultivated with stone rakes, and there are no bronze farm tools to be seen, some of the bones are perforated, and some are directly tied with ropes.
"My own tribe has not seen a bone hoe tied with a rope without punching holes for many years."
She thought with some pride, although the other party had a bronze weapon, but if it was just like this, there was really nothing to fear.
The only thing she was curious about was the ditches, she had never seen anyone plant like this, and she didn't know what they were doing.
What's even more strange is that there is nothing planted on these lands, it is empty, and there is not a single planted land near the entire village.
Now that the weather is getting hotter, and it will be too late to plant any more, doesn't this tribe have wheat and peas? Aren't those of the species? Rather, it was collected?
Riding on the back of a bull, Nine fell into deep thought.
Seeing is believing, but everything she sees tells her that the tribe is by no means as powerful as she imagined, and even she thinks that it may just be a gathering tribe with a little luck. But the gifts I saw in the tribe could never be the only one that a gathering tribe could have, what was going on?
Just as she was pondering, she suddenly felt the clansman touch her with his hand, felt that the cow seemed to stop, raised her head from her contemplation, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Glancing back, the people sat on the back of the ox as if they were stupid, looking ahead in a daze, as if they had seen the sun fall from the sky.
Nine turned his head, also stunned.
A girl, with a pair of pigtails, cute and petite. He was smiling at the sun, revealing a pair of small rabbit teeth as white as shells, eyes squinting like the moon, waving a beautiful whip in his hand, his legs were empty, and he was not wearing shoes. Ten toes are coated with the juice of flower petals, and a multicolored rope is tied to the ankle, on which are embellished with several emerald stones.
Of course, this is not the reason for Jiuleng, she was also so beautiful more than ten years ago.
What stunned her was the ox cart under the girl's seat.
Two wide, round wheels creaked and twisted and turned towards each other, and the wide platform could be stacked with what ten oxen could carry.
It's just that in this moment, all the doubts, all the disdain, all the pride, and all the speculations in Jiu's mind have been run over by this rolling wheel, leaving only a rut mark that will never be forgotten in her memory-cow, can it still be used like this?
"That'...... What is that? ”
She couldn't hide her surprise, pointed to the ox cart, and asked the person riding the horned deer next to her in the language she had learned.
But those people were just like her, and they shook their heads, and from the muttering of those people they heard a familiar name, the young man's name, the name she had heard so many times.