Chapter Seventy-Four: News from Far Away (1)
He felt that he had learned a lot, but Jian Chen told him that this was the first lesson, so he took it to heart, and easily understood the sentence. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
History is sometimes a strange circle, a sad and pitiful circle, which has never been left behind.
At this time, the leader was not hereditary, and still needed the election and approval of everyone, and the lie that he was ordered by the divine authority of the heavenly monarch had not yet appeared, and Chen Jian's words might be treated as a heresy in five hundred years and put on the gallows, but at this time it was recognized by everyone.
E Huang felt that Chen Jian was teaching himself the methods and principles of being a leader, and he was very happy in his heart, and worshiped Chen Jian once with the most precious etiquette in E City.
Jian Chen planted the seed, and felt that the seed was very good, so he accepted the etiquette of Ehuang peacefully.
Put away the drawings, led everyone down the mountain, checked the land being irrigated, and heard the gratitude and surprise of some clansmen, people are not sages, Chen Jian naturally had some pride and satisfaction in his heart.
In order to perpetuate this pride, he led his people to install orange trees in some rugged and difficult to irrigate places, and used levers to draw water for irrigation.
The grain-filled wheat has sufficient moisture, this year will be a bumper harvest year, and the burden on Chen Jian's heart is much lighter, and when the wheat is harvested, the public warehouse can at least raise more cats, and there is no need to worry about the clansmen crowding the taobei.
The follow-up work was carried out from this day, Chen Jian divided two hundred slaves, and according to the method of drawing one out of ten men, he drew labor from each tribe, and slowly dug the remaining ditches, striving to complete another one before the autumn.
The clan had not yet dissolved, and the rotation of ten men could ensure that the clan had enough population to work in the fields.
The clan leaders had the right to choose one out of ten, and they began to taste the taste of power, and the forced servants were basically not the immediate family members of the clan leader, but some side branches of the clan.
This can be regarded as a means for Chen Jian to sell these people in exchange for the support of the clan leader, and when the clan disintegrates and divides the land in the future, he is not ready to intervene, it is foreseeable that those leaders will leave the most fertile land to their children, and at that time Xia Cheng will no longer be impregnable, and the rift in the class will eventually appear, and he can't and can't make up for it.
When the extracted people began to work, Chen Jian took advantage of the short gap between wheat harvesting and weeding, and took the slaves in the city to the place where the timber was stacked in the winter, and carried out another construction.
This time the construction has nothing to do with the material of the city, but is a spiritual pursuit, with the increase of productivity in the city and the emergence of surplus products, the tribesmen need some entertainment activities in their spare time.
Last year, he invited people from Echeng and Acropolis to join the alliance, also to promote exchanges between the three cities through an entertainment event.
Sports meeting and theater, this is his plan, people do not only need to eat, after eating also need some other spices, using stories and events, to subtly change the identity of the people of the three cities.
The land has been chosen, and the wood harvested in the winter has been piled up in the selected place.
It is only three miles away from Xia Cheng, and it is a small natural valley, surrounded by mountains on both sides, and the mountains are not high, only thirty or forty meters of small hills.
Beneath the hill is a flat meadow, which has been burned by fire in the spring, and when the cattle and horses trample it, the grass becomes low.
The small valley is about 200 meters long and will be used as a sports ground for future events and exchanges between the three cities.
By taking advantage of the natural terrain, it is possible to make a simple open-air venue.
The hills are tens of meters high, which can be used as natural staggered seats, so that a huge amount of work can be saved.
The slaves dug the earth into the shape of terraces according to the lines drawn in advance, two steps wide and one floor, a total of fifteen layers, and the height difference between each layer was about half a meter.
After tamping, stones were brought in and steps were made of lime and yellow mud every thirty steps to make it easier for people to walk.
On the terraces, simple stools made of wood were used as seats for the games for the clansmen and the rest of the two cities to sit on.
There are fifteen floors in total, and each floor can seat five hundred people, which can guarantee that thousands of people can watch.
Chen Jian stood on the top terrace and sat down, looked at it, and found that the perspective was quite good.
Cities are not built in a day, and wonders are not built in a year, and with today's population, it is enough to build such a site.
After the steps and wooden chairs were repaired, Chen Jian asked the slaves to fence the place where there was no hillside with wood, and circled a 400-meter square field.
At the corner of the two small hills, a viewing platform was built, and the stone foundation was raised three meters above the ground, in the shape of a tower, on which chairs covered with tiger skins were placed on three sides, as a place for the three chiefs to watch.
Behind the three chairs, a row of loose chairs was built to serve as seats for the members of the council, the chief, and the relatives of the two cities, and in this way the people gradually accepted the distinction of status.
In the center of the field below, a circular platform with a radius of 20 meters was built out of wood and stone, which was used as a stage for future theater performances, and could be used as a venue for wrestling, wrestling, stick fighting, fencing and other competitions during the sports meeting.
Chen Jian planned the scale of this sports meeting, which did not need to be very large, but it must create a joyful grand occasion, so that the slave owners who had spare energy and surplus products would like this kind of entertainment, form a habit, and urge these slave owners to have a strong physique.
Sport, born out of war and hunting.
Chen Jian has planned a total of more than 20 events for this sports meeting, and judging from the current situation in the city, at least about five victories can be guaranteed.
The prizes for the Games are also being made secretly, and they must show the level of Xia Cheng, be able to calm those people, and at the same time make the people who get the prizes unforgettable, and they must also have a high value, so as to play a role of encouragement.
The items that Xia Cheng was able to ensure that the other two cities were suppressed were: Cavalry, Chariots, Queues, and Grenades.
The rules of the riding competition are to cross some low obstacles and use the spear to pierce the straw man at the finish line, which is basically a sure victory over the other two cities.
The chariot race requires a larger field, in addition to the speed, but also take into account the role of war, the left side of the chariot to shoot the distant target on the galloping chariot, the right side of the chariot to clean up the deliberately set traps and retaining trees on the ground at any time, so that the chariot can pass quickly.
Queues and grenades, this can be regarded as Chen Jian's execution and dancing, used to deter the two clans.
In addition to these items, Xia Cheng does not have too many advantages, long and short runs, heavy charges, sword fighting, Echeng and Acropolis must also be full of talents.
It doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you make the people of those two ethnic groups like this kind of sports meeting, the biggest winner is Chen Jian.
Xiacheng should become the cultural center and economic center of the northwest border of the Dahe Cultural Circle. (To be continued.) )