He accepted Jian Chen's kind reminder, climbed the tree and ran away, and the rest of the companions were all detained by Jian Chen, and at night they were forced to collect branches and live in a cave they found. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

I haven't lived in a cave for two or three years, and the topic of conversation at night is inevitably to recall the days when I lived in a cave, the kind of years that have never been out of barbarism, the story is paired with wine, and everyone is drunk, and their courage is also bigger.

"Ji Xia, are you really going to exchange with these escaped slaves? Or are you going to make a trap to catch them all? ”

Jian Chen took a sip of the wine gourd handed by the man who spoke, and said with a smile: "Guess? ”

"I guess I'm really going to swap with them. We're going to build a new city here, and we're not allowed to build walls...... It is said that the weapons of those slaves who escaped to the depths of Onozawa are not as sharp as ours, and they can still stop those who are surrounded and suppressed, just because there are swamps and vast lakes everywhere. ”

"That's right, Ji Xia, let's build a city here, preferably on an island in Onozawa, where water is the best wall. Speaking of ships, we have such big sailboats, and they are still sheepskin rafts or bark boats, and if they really get into trouble, we don't have to be afraid. ”

"Ji Xia, before I came with you, I thought that everyone was a family member, and everything could be discussed. But when I really got here, I didn't say that it was just a relative, even if it was a brother, there was still a bloody beating. ”

Several people chattered a few times, and finally someone asked the most daring question: "Ji Xia, these slaves will be executed if they escape, this is the rule...... I just want to know, our slaves in Xia City...... What if I run away? ”

The few people gathered around them when they heard this, and this was a matter of great concern to them, because most of them were beneficiaries of the slavery system, and many of them owned slave land because of their military exploits, and they naturally demanded that slaves be an object, and that if they escaped, they would be put to death.

Chen Jian didn't know what they really cared about, looked at everyone and smiled: "You can rest assured that the rules of Xia City will not change, and your slaves are still yours." But are the slaves here yours? ”

"It's not."

"Killing the fugitive slaves here, can you scare the slaves who want to escape in Xia Cheng?"

"No,"

"Is there a difference between a dead slave and a broken bowl with a broken wheel?"

"Nope."

"That's it, what are you worried about? Yes? Do you have slaves? I don't? Not counting the public property, my brothers and sisters have not been separated, and now I have three or five hundred slaves of my own. What you fear, I fear; What you want, I want; What are you worried about? ”

Only when the stakes are involved in the system makers themselves can the people below be convinced, and one by one they breathe a sigh of relief, and then think about another issue.

Xia City has a set of officials, does it mean that this city will have a similar set? There will not be many old people in Xia Cheng here, it will definitely not be an election, it must be directly appointed by Ji Xia......

Worried about the slaves, it is really better to fantasize that they can show their hands and feet in this city, and one by one they use the wine to boast about their previous exploits seemingly unintentionally, pretending to unintentionally or boldly take off their leather jackets to reveal the scars on their bodies that symbolize glory, hoping that Chen Jian can remember his bravery in the battle formation after seeing it.

After Chen Jian also praised a few words, he found a few fugitive slaves and asked about the situation in Ohnozawa, but he didn't expect that all of them had hard mouths, although there was fear in their eyes, but everyone was together, and finally overcame the fear and kept silent.

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He did not rest in the night, but made a great circle around the branches, and in order not to leave footprints, he jumped into the biting cold water, gritted his teeth and put the burden of salt on his head, and finally came to the raft hidden in the reeds, and when he climbed up, his lips were already purple.

He spent a day in the cold of the ninja in the lake, which was actually not far from the island in the middle of the lake where they lived, but he couldn't bear to go back during the day, and he didn't dare to see the disappointed eyes of the people after not seeing the salt.

After eating half of the reed roots until nightfall, he climbed up from a hidden cliff, and before he reached the top, he cried out a few times, and the people who were guarding it were about to cry out in surprise, but they were covered with a groan.

"Don't scream, take me to Jianze secretly, something is wrong."

Needless to say, when they saw that they were coming back alone, these night watchmen knew that something had happened, and they listened to the instructions again and again not to say things like that, and they knew that this matter was going to be turned upside down, and they were panicked one by one.

Entering a hole dug up, Ze, who was in his thirties, was not flustered, and asked someone to replace the night watchmen, and let them not go out of the night watchmen who he originally knew, turned over the stove to make the smoldering fire burn, went out and grabbed a handful of snow and rubbed his ears, and by the way, he asked someone to notify a few people who could discuss things.

After the people arrived, he told the strange scenes he had experienced, and a group of people looked at him incredulously, but they knew that he was not the kind of person who talked nonsense, and he had done a few big things, and it was unlikely that he would be let go by those people, let alone let him come back and tell some lies.

Ze stood up and walked a few steps before asking, "What's that person's name?" ”

"Ji Xia."

"Ji ...... This surname...... I haven't really heard of it. Has any of you heard of it? ”

The people below all shook their heads, since they were qualified to discuss matters in this place, of course they had been on this island for a long time, and besides, this was along a vast and boundless river, not a grass river that stretched three or five hundred miles, and Jian Chen's name was still very strange and not legendary.

Ze thought for a moment and said, "You saw him release the people in the village with your own eyes?" Just say let them move out next spring? ”

"Yes, he also said some very strange things to the people who accompanied him, as if he wanted to drive away all the nearby villages and exchange them with us. Could it be that he saw that we had a lot of goods to exchange salt, so he thought about doing this? ”

Ze shook his head and said, "No way." The salt around here is all from Sucheng, and many of us have escaped from Sucheng, isn't he afraid of upsetting Suyue by doing this? Since they are not afraid, then it proves that their city is on par with Sucheng, and a city leader who is on par with Sucheng will be able to look at this bit of wild fur? ”

Ze was puzzled for a reason, he couldn't understand this obvious overture, because there was no concept of Zhao'an in this era, and their rebellion and declaration shook the foundation of the city, and it could only be eliminated, and there would be no overture.

Even if it is released to future generations, those who recruit peace are because their resistance will not shake the foundation of the whole society, and at most they think that the emperor is a good official is bad, and they have never fundamentally shaken the whole society, and there is room for peace.

But these slaves are not, and if they are recruited, what will happen to the rest of the slaves? How to maintain slavery? This is a rebellion that shakes the foundations of the whole society, and it is feared and opposed by all vested interests. The resistance that can be recruited must be fine-tuned within the limits of the circle rules, and the benefits can be redistributed within the scope of the circle rules; And what can't be recruited is to break the circle and change the rules, which is to turn the original circle into a square. Completely different.

It is precisely because of this distinction that no one has ever wanted to contact them in good faith, and Jian Chen's obvious overtures have turned into flattering eyes for the blind man, making the people in this manhole a little incomprehensible.

"What the hell is he trying to do?"

Ze paced around the ground a few times, thinking of any possibility he could think of, but he couldn't figure it out.

His thinking is very simple and realistic: when people see a hungry dog pitiful, they may give a piece of corn cake to a hungry dog, but they will definitely not cut off their thighs and feed them to the dogs.

The nobles of the cities may have mercy on them and give them a little more meat to eat before they flee; But they will never be allowed to escape, resist, or even kill their master.

Feeding meat is feeding dogs, and resisting is cutting legs, is this Ji Xia really the kind of person who is really kind, and can really be kind enough to cut off his own meat and feed it to dogs?

Thinking of this possibility, Ze asked, "Huh, do you think what Ji Xia said can be believed?" That man...... What kind of person is he? Is he soft-hearted? Seeing the frostbite on your body and feet, do you sigh? ”

"Not at all, and even poured wine on my cracked foot when he asked me to speak, and it hurt to death. This man is very strange, he behaves and talks very strangely, and he can't understand what he is trying to do at all. That's right...... It turned out that there was a woman with him next to him, and he had some words with the woman......"

After saying what Jian Chen teased Yuemei, everyone laughed, Ze's face darkened, and he was stunned, what kind of good person is this? If nothing else, it can be heard from these few words alone, this is by no means a person who can cut his own flesh and feed it to dogs.

Seeing that everyone was laughing, Ze sighed: "This kind of talent is terrifying." Goshawks only see the world with the eyes of goshawks, so goshawks wonder why those little birds fly so short and slow, this kind of goshawk is not scary. The scary thing is that the goshawk not only sees the world with its own eyes, but when it sees a bird flying very slowly, it will think that the bird is flying so slowly because it wants to eat insects. ”

"He knows what we want, and he knows why some masters, who may be nice to some slaves, still run away, which is not what I thought it would be."

He shook his head and sighed, "I don't want to associate with this kind of person. But for the sake of salt, for the herbs, for the survival of thousands of people here, I have to deal with him. Since he said that he would drive away the surrounding villages, then he would drive them away, and the villages that he drove away might really be as grateful to him as he said. There must be some reason why he did this that we don't know, but I'm afraid it's not to pity us. ”

Everyone was silent for a long time, and then said with a wry smile: "Now if we are about to starve to death, there is a pot of boiled mushrooms in the basin, the mushrooms are poisonous, and the moon will die; If you don't eat mushrooms, you'll starve to death at night. Eat? Still not eating? (To be continued.) )