After agreeing on a date, it was time to return home, and on the way back to Xia Cheng, some rumors began to spread among Xia Cheng's army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

There were many rumors, but the ones that caught the most in the hearts of these soldiers were the ones about the land, the exploits of war, and the distribution of slaves.

"Have you heard? Ji Xia is going to gather the slaves together to reclaim the land after he returns, and there is no slave division, only the land. ”

"Well, it's nothing. It is faster for the slaves to work together, or else we would have divided the army into three slaves, and divided one person to watch them work. If they were to be gathered together, a thousand slaves would only be three or five men carrying whips. ”

"Yes, these slaves will have to be divided sooner or later. I heard that Ji Xia is going to divide the slaves in three years, and he will arrange the work of the slaves within three years, but the harvest will be divided according to the slaves we own. ”

"I'm not against that. Slaves can be combined for other things. But if there is more food, I have to tell Ji Xia that I can't just eat acorn noodles for slaves anymore, and I don't want my slaves to die in three years. ”

"That's it, slaves are like ploughing oxen, the longer they live, the better......"

"I'm afraid the leaders of the council won't agree, you know? Our leader was a little unfair, and let his son do light work the last time he was assigned to work...... It's nothing to work, but what will happen when the land is divided in the future? Ji Xia said that in the future, let the clan leaders distribute the land, so the best and easy to irrigate land near the Xia Canal will not be distributed to her children? ”

"Yes, in fact, if the leaders were as fair as Ji Xia, there would be nothing to divide or not, but they can't do it."

"Do I have to share the land I have earned so hard with them?"

Maybe some people also think of the time when they relied on them to live in the past, forced by their inner morality, these people don't agree with the last very selfish words, but they support them in their hearts, but they just don't feel cold.

All kinds of rumors were brewing on the way home, and these rumors were caused by Chen Jian intentionally or unintentionally, and he would always unintentionally mention some strange things around the campfire at night, which gradually triggered these people to think about and defend their own interests.

People are selfish, and after transcending the cave age where they had to unite to survive, these selfishness began to spread. The clan chiefs, who were in charge of the clan's land and property, began to think about their sons and daughters, and it was foreseeable that in the future there would be no fairness in the distribution of land by the clan communes.

These rumors continued to ferment, reaching their peak after the whole army returned to Xia City, because after Chen Jian led everyone to worship their ancestors, he did not directly evaluate the merits, but told everyone to delay it for a few days.

The envoy on horseback kept leaving, going to Yancun, Heyin, Shangcheng, Yangguan and other places dozens of miles away, so that the forehand there could temporarily hand over things to the deputy and return to Xia City.

A few days later, all of Xia Cheng's elected officials, army centurions, clan leaders, council members, and those who had passed the simple examination of the academy were all called to the council hall by Chen Jian.

The hall has been decorated with a majestic one, with a row of simple wooden stools, a small table with clay cups in front, and a wooden platform in the front.

The distance between the walls of the hall is controlled within seventeen meters, which is exactly the limit distance of echo, and there will be no echo when speaking on the wooden platform.

More than fifty people sat together, and the vast majority of these people were elected by the people of Xia City, and could replace the interests of the vast majority of the "people" in Xia City, of course, the people here did not include slaves.

Chen Jian stood on the wooden platform, the red fish beside him holding a large pile of tree bark and wooden tablets, and the people sitting below sucked the water soaked in wild chrysanthemums and camellias, snoring.

Jian Chen smiled and knocked on the wooden board, signaling everyone to calm down first.

"Probably many of you wonder why I called you all here, and before I get into the story, I'll tell you two stories."

"The first story is that we raise geese and wild ducks, geese and geese don't eat fish, wild ducks don't like to eat grass when they eat fish, if one day fish and grass can only be fed one, how to feed them?"

"The second story is about a herd of sheep roaming the grassland, hiding from the wolves. The head sheep knows where the wolves are, but the flock does not. At this time, should the head sheep tell the flock why they chose this path? Or do you not speak and move forward with the flock? ”

After the two stories were told, there was immediately a chatter and discussion below, they knew that Jian Chen would not be untargeted, although the two stories sounded strange, but they still came to almost the same answer after discussion.

"Geese and ducks, geese feed grass and hungry ducks, ducks feed fish and hungry geese."

"The head sheep should tell the flock why they chose that path, instead of just taking them with them without talking."

Jian Chen pressed his hands on the wooden platform and nodded, "I'm glad to hear everyone say this, the same as I thought." ”

"I was elected by everyone to be the leader of Summer City for three years; You were elected as an official for a period of three years. We were elected by everyone, so we represent the thoughts of the vast majority of people in Xia City. Now that the population of Xia City is growing, I, as the leader, can no longer manage all of them, and can only carry out the decisions of the council through you, and in addition to doing your own thing, you must also tell the rest of the people why you are doing this like a sheep. ”

"Whoever supports any decision is made? Who is against? This is the primary problem in the development of Xia Cheng. It is impossible for any decision to be approved by everyone, so we can only make decisions according to the ideas of the majority. ”

"The duck and the goose in the first story are the relationship between us and the slaves. I can say that the slaves will oppose any decision we discuss, if they are qualified to speak. What is Summer City? Xia Cheng is the city of our group of slave owners, all the laws and rules must protect our interests and protect the slave owners, this must be remembered clearly, if someone does something wrong, you can be chosen, and you will be pushed down. This is like the foundation of a house, which cannot be changed. Slaves have the morality of slaves, slave owners have the morality of slave owners, in our opinion, slaves who love to work and do not resist are good slaves, in their eyes may not be, but their ideas are meaningless, we must let these slaves look at people and things like us. ”

"The slave is the duck, we are the goose, even if we only consider the choice of the goose, but the same goose, some like to eat thatch, some like to eat reeds, some like to eat corn...... This also needs to be clearly distinguished, and how much support is it to make any decision? Or is there more opposition? ”

"Someone is going to say, as long as there are enough people to count who eats what, and feed them separately. I want to say that this Ji Song had the same idea at the beginning, he wanted to maintain the undisputed unity of the clan life, and he also wanted to live a rich and full warehouse of corn, which is impossible, because this requires at least 100 people to take off production to count these every day, we can't support it, and it is even more impossible for Xia City to expand in the future. ”

Jian Chen tried his best to guide them with words that everyone sitting here could understand, this simple truth these people can understand, even if a clan eats, there will be a lot of support and opposition to what they eat every day, not to mention this kind of law and rules that affect everyone.

"In the following words, I hope everyone here will think about what I said earlier, and consider the question of who supports and who opposes it, the numbers will not lie, and I also hope that you can make some suggestions from these numbers to make Xia Cheng develop better."

Chen Jian took a sip of wild chrysanthemum water to moisten his throat, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, the red fish on the side handed over a silk silk, on which many numbers were densely written.

"Let's start with the population."

"Xia Cheng is now divided into three kinds of people: countrymen, wild people, and slaves."

"There are three more wild villages that have made up for their mistakes through taxation and conquest, and with the clans accepted before and the subordinate farmers who have made meritorious contributions in this campaign, there are already 6,300 people in Xia City who have the status of nationals. There are constantly small settlements in Yangguan, Shangcheng, Heyin and other places living nearby, and the population of wild people has approached 8,000. Together, there were more than 8,000 slaves owned by the public property and the clan. ”

"Of the 6,300 people, 3,600 men and women were able to work, 2,000 were under the age of 14, and most of the 2,000 were newborns, and the remaining 700 were disabled, old, and unable to work."

"These 6,300 people are Xia Cheng. Their interests, their needs, are the testimonies of Summer City. As for the remaining more than 16,000 people, we don't need to think about them, whether they are doing right or not, only the people in Xia City can evaluate. ”

"Although the wild people collect ten taxes and one one, and they also need to serve and pay all kinds of goods, they still live better than the slaves, and they can enjoy some of the things produced by the slaves, so there is no need to worry that they will stand with the slaves against our law, on the contrary, they still have hope, and feel that they can live in the summer city step by step."

"The slaves, though dissatisfied, were not outnumbered, and were not as numerous as the Acropolis, so we need not worry about their revolt. But the matter of the Acropolis needs to make us sober, and the slave population must not exceed the number of the countrymen and the wild people combined. ”

"At the same time, we must also be careful not to take too hard a harsh exploitation of the wild people, otherwise when they cannot survive, they will despair, stand with the slaves, and push us to the ground. I heard that a few days ago there was a proposal to continue to expand the number of days for the requisition of wild people, and even to prepare to requisition them in large numbers to build summer canals during the spring planting and autumn harvest. ”

"In addition, the number of babies among the 6,300 people in Summer City is increasing, because we have eaten well, died less, and lived longer, and these wild people need to be constantly replenished to Summer City. Otherwise, ten years later, the children of Xia Cheng have not grown up, the old man has withered and passed away, and there are very few people left, how can they suppress the wild people and slaves? When the time comes, we will lose even more, and we may even become slaves. ”

"Some people oppose the barbarians becoming nationals, and those subordinate peasants who get rid of the status of slaves through war exploits, saying that it will divide more slaves and land, and harm their own interests, but your eyes should look farther, because you are officials and leaders, and you also need to explain it to those who have opinions in the city."

Many people below did not object to any of Jian Chen's opinions, and had become a kind of blind trust, feeling that since it was Jian Chen's decision, it would definitely make sense, and it was only now that they understood why they did it, and after a little thought, they understood what Jian Chen meant, and they trusted it even more, feeling that Jian Chen's thoughts were indeed more far-reaching than them.

Maybe these supports themselves are because Jian Chen has not violated their core interests, and they will support these small things, but when it comes to grabbing their interests, it is useless to say that it is Jian Chen, even if the ancestors of heaven and earth really appear.

Seeing that the people below began to think and start discussing, Jian Chen stopped and made sure that these people understood, and then took another silk silk from Hongyu.

"In the past few days, I think the most rumors you have heard are about land division, single passing, and the injustice of clan leaders."

Several clan leaders stood up and were about to explain when they heard this, but Jian Chen waved his hand and said, "It's just a rumor, I don't mean to blame." Whether it is a division of land or a single pass, or the question of who supports and who opposes it. ”

"A few days ago, I asked Yu Qian'er to ask the people in the city, and I chose a hundred, men, women, and children, and people from every clan, which can almost be regarded as the opinion of most people."

"Of the 100 people, 48 are in favor of the single, 20 think anything is okay, and 32 are against."

"Those who support the single are all young and strong, who have made great achievements, and who are young."

"Most of the people who oppose singleness are old, incapacitated, and weak."

"The same thing, why do the same people from Xia Cheng have such a completely different opinion? Why are those who support it mostly light and strong, and those who oppose it mostly old and weak? Why didn't anyone want to go alone when they were in the cave in the past? ”

"I'll give you some time to think about it, especially Ji Song, think about your previous question, is it that people's hearts have changed? Or people are constantly choosing the most suitable for themselves with the change of work methods and tools. In fact, the essence of the human heart has not changed, it is always about its own interests, but the way to safeguard its own interests is constantly changing. ”

After a while, Jian Chen sighed and said, "Now that the people in Xia City are full, they will naturally think about other things, there are more things sold in the market, some people are looking forward to wearing silk silks, some people are looking forward to having their own houses, and some are looking forward to having a drink after dinner." Eating enough when you don't have enough to eat is the greatest hope, and when you are full, there are more problems. ”

"If you don't separate and still keep the clan, can you solve this problem? If I think it is possible, this requires each clan leader to be loved and supported by the clansmen, and to be able to take care of everyone when distributed, just like evaluating military merits, but can you do it? Many people are not even clear about addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and there are not many people who can do so, so it is impossible to do so. ”

"There are many advantages combined, if one day there is another kind of cattle and horses, you can cultivate thousands of acres of land without grazing every day, and then you can put the land together, and only a few people can cultivate it, and the rest can do something else, but not now."

"What the separated people think, you should know very well, it is nothing more than that they feel that the land slaves they have earned by going to the battlefield do not want to share with the people of the clan, and some women have taken a fancy to a certain man and think that it would be better to divide them and live alone. There seem to be a lot of people who don't want to separate, but there are differences. Some are weakly worried that the clan will not survive when it separates, some are just not used to the change, and still others are nostalgic for the old life when the clan came together. ”

Yu Qian'er didn't ask everyone, but the hundred people she asked were enough to prove what everyone thought. You've heard the rumors these days, and it's going to happen sooner or later. The people who support are all light and strong, they are all soldiers, and if they have some resentment in their hearts, then it will be terrible, and as a military leader, I must think with the soldiers, so I support separation. ”

"However, separation is not one person per household. Nowadays, there are not enough ploughing cattle and horses, and if there is a conscription for one person to plant, the family may not be able to survive, so I asked Yu Qian'er to calculate that ten people are divided into two cows. Why ten people? Because of the building of houses, ploughing the land, and harvesting, ten people help each other, and even if they are recruited, they are recruited according to the method of one soldier and one tithe, and it will not affect the farming. According to the amount of land, it is redistributed among each other after the autumn harvest. ”

The leaders were just about to get up and ask, but Jian Chen waved his hand and said, "I know what you want to ask, it's just that you want to ask what is the difference between this clan?" If the clan leader can achieve a fair distribution, can he not be divided? I said yes, but the population of the clan is too large, and you can't tell the difference, and you can't be fair. ”

"The towns will take charge of those who are weak and cannot support themselves on their own, and they will also collect taxes from those who have been assigned to feed them."

"Clan leaders, this is the opinion of the vast majority of the people of Xia City, and I think this is unstoppable. I know that you have paid a lot for the survival of the clan in the past, and the clansmen also know it, I asked Yu Qian'er to ask those people, if the land is divided, the clan leader will divide ten people, will they agree? This time there was no objection. ”

"Now, let's talk about what else you want to say?"

Many people are still thinking, especially the leaders of the clan, of course they know those rumors, and they also know that this matter seems to be inevitable, and as time goes on, more and more people will think so, and then their own leaders will be ousted.

Rather than this, it is better to agree to give yourself ten more shares of land, anyway, you are already old, and you have witnessed too many things that you didn't dare to imagine in this life in the past few years, so it is better to leave something for your relatives and children.

However, they didn't speak first, the first to speak was Ji Song, who had been silent, he got up and said: "Ji Xia is right, now there is no way for one person to cultivate a thousand acres of land in a day, the division and integration are actually the same, but there will be a lot of unfairness together." If Ji Xia can guarantee the life of those who are weak and unwilling to separate, I agree with Ji Xia's opinion. ”

He is the leader of the lost part of the city, these people miss the unity of the past, but they don't know how to face the great changes of the times, and their hearts are actually the most painful. Chen Jian told them that the only way was to make the land produce more food and make the tools better, only then could their dreams come true, they couldn't understand it, but they also began to think about the great changes of the times.

After Ji Song agreed, those among the officials who were as confused as Ji Song agreed; And the young, the soldiers, the officials, have been looking forward to the fact that they are the biggest beneficiaries. The last clan leaders had a choice between ten lands and a dying struggle, with only a few choosing against.

Jian Chen didn't speak, but asked Yu Qian'er to pass on the news discussed here to the outside.

After a while, the young people waiting outside shouted in unison, their tones were full of excitement, and these soldiers and light men of Xia Cheng used their voices to tell the people inside what support was, and what was the real strength and foundation of Xia Cheng.

The leaders of the opposing group listened to the unstoppable sound outside, sighed heavily, and left the clansmen, what are they? Will there be a chance to be in the council in the future? One day ago, they could compete with these officials, and a day later they were nothing.

Even if you oppose it, what can you do? Those people outside are the strongest soldiers in Xia City, holding spears in their hands, oppose? That's death-seeking. (To be continued.) )