Chapter 16: Explaining the World and Changing the World (2)

When the comet swayed its little tail across the night sky, everyone fell into a sense of panic and uneasiness, including Jian Chen. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Manpower is exhausted, and he has been preparing for a long time, just for this time the clan alliance has a perfect ending, but it is no match for the changes in heaven and earth.

Jian Chen knew very well that the comet was not a calamity, but most of the people in Sucheng did not think so, they felt that the calamity was coming, especially the dozen or so clans with a strong wind of witches, and even thought that this was the opposition of the Celestial Society's clan alliance this time.

The theory of comet disasters is not accidental, for example, Zhang San died, and after a long time, people may forget what they ate for breakfast on the day they died. However, the comet only appears once in many years, and many people may only see it once in their lifetime, if Zhang San happens to die when the comet passes by, relatives and friends will naturally associate death with the comet, which will be unforgettable for a long time.

After the various clans have eaten enough, more and more people have begun to think about where people will come, and they are also thinking about the connection between the sun, moon and stars and people, which is the enlightenment stage of the worldview, which seems ridiculous, but it is precisely because of these ridiculousness that people have taken the most important step.

Philosophy is a systematic and theorized worldview. The philosophy of this era was still in the early stages of mysticism, and the pioneers tried to explain the world with their own ideas, and the mysterious unknowable was the easiest answer to explain, and the easiest answer to justify, and this worldview gradually became the mainstream: because the rest of the explanations could not justify themselves.

Xia Cheng was raised by Chen Jian's seedling, and there were too many contradictions in his worldview, and he did not experience spontaneous accumulation, so his worldview was slightly different from that of the rest of the clans.

However, with the increase of exchanges, Chen Jian was not a systematic theorist and theologian, so Xia Cheng's worldview was extremely confused and unified.

This is evidenced by the fact that the people of Xiacheng who followed him were just as panicked as the rest of the city after the comet appeared.

Especially when the people in Xia Cheng saw that Chen Jian also forgot about the comet and sighed, this uneasiness was even more intense, although the reason for Jian Chen's sigh was not the mysterious catastrophe theory, but another reason, but the rest of the people did not understand.

The panicked Xia City people gathered around Jian Chen, demanding an answer from their leader.

"Ji Xia, does this star with a tail indicate that the result of this alliance is not good? It's like...... Just like twenty years ago, even if you get together, you still have to be separated? The sand and wheat flour, even if they were mixed together temporarily, were sifted through the linen cloth and all came out. ”

"Ji Xia, didn't the ancestors tell you what it means? What are we going to do? Do you want...... Go back to Summer City first? These days I always dream of my old mothers, and I am afraid that they will not ......"

Jian Chen took his eyes off the starry sky, knowing that the more people were panicked, the more important the leader could be, and he was their backbone, so he must not show his lament at this time.

So he reluctantly squeezed out a smile and said, "It's nothing, it's just a star, you dreamed of your mother just because you have been away from Xia City for too long, don't be afraid." Tell Ji Song to let him take the people of Shi Camelina first, let their boat leave first, and continue to the next city to perform and distribute herbs, everything is as usual. ”

The people of Xia Cheng were slightly uneasy, and the explanation given was difficult for them to believe, because Jian Chen did not explain what this thing in the sky during the day was and why it appeared, just because the long-term trust made them believe it temporarily, but it did not completely solve the doubt.

Someone hesitated for a moment, then asked timidly: "Ji Xia, the Wufeng in your hand comes from the iron of the Meteorite Clan, and their iron comes from the falling stars, I always feel that there is an indescribable connection between this star and us. If there were no fallen stars, they would not have iron, and they would not be able to oppress other clans, and they would not have been wiped out by us and scattered to the grasslands of the north......"

They sorted out the relationship between the stars and people that they could think of, at least with a little logic, Chen Jian held Wufeng and said with a smile: "Iron can kill people and oppress the rest of the clans, but it can also be made into farm tools to grow wheat beans." So what is it that the Meteorite tribe used iron to oppress other clans and caused their demise? Or did the iron itself cause them to perish? ”

The person who asked the question lowered his head and pondered, and Jian Chen hit the railway while it was hot: "Just like the stars in this sky, even if it is a sign of disaster, in my opinion, it is a good thing. You think, just like your mother told you that if you eat too many castor beans, you can just stop eating them? Another example is that the cold wind in winter makes the earth withered and cannot be planted, but it also makes the grass river freeze and makes the mall flourish in connecting the two cities of Xia and E. As I said, we have hands and brains, we can change the world and make the original bad become good, why be afraid? ”

These people in Xia Cheng had been indoctrinated by Chen Jian for two or three years, and the originally blank silk silk in their minds was full of graffiti engraved with Chen Jian's symbols, and these words gradually dispelled their uneasiness.

"But Ji Xia, the rest of the people in the city seem to be very afraid, I have heard many people talk about it, their priests think it is a bad omen, and some tribes are ready to go back."

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "I sigh that it is not the stars in the sky, but the people under the stars." If you can't meet this time, I don't know how long you'll have to wait. Well, get ready, and come with me to visit the head of Awadake. ”

His positioning of Xia Cheng this time is to make a wedding dress for others, in terms of fame, he and Su Yue are very different, Xirong and the grassland tribes are not much of a threat to the tribes on both sides of the river for the time being, and his victory is too far away. And Sucheng defeated the Dongyi tribes and won the support of more than a dozen clans, which was a real battle to establish the hegemony.

At this time, the ambitious Su Yue must have been anxious when he encountered a comet, and the leader may not believe in these things, but he will definitely be worried in his heart.

As Chen Jian expected, when Chen Jian went to pay homage to Su Yue, before he entered the door, Su Yue only came out to greet him wearing a piece of animal skin, and asked people to prepare a light wine, and his face was full of unwillingness.

After the two sat down, Su Yue asked, "I have heard that Ji Xia knows a lot, and Xia Cheng also has a lot of skills to change the world. May I ask Ji Xia, what is going on with this star? Could it be that our kinship alliance is really opposed by God and our ancestors? ”

Jian Chen asked rhetorically: "Our ancestors sheltered us, how could they oppose the relatives not fighting each other to become one?" ”

"Some people say it's like a pack of wolves, and the wolves will get together more and more, and eventually they will have to separate, otherwise they won't be able to catch enough food. The sediment in the river will fill the hollow valleys, but the protruding sandbars will be lost, which is the truth between heaven and earth, which will make up for what is missing but separate what is left. That's what the priests said to me......"

Jian Chen laughed and said, "Leader Su Yue, the jar is full of water, and the water will indeed overflow. But if you don't want to overflow, you can make the jar bigger without adding water. Now that our relatives live in a place where the money is thousands of miles long, can't such a big jar hold such a small amount of water as hundreds of clans and dozens of cities? Leader Suyue, now that you have just defeated the Dongyi people, this is like the sun at noon, the hottest. When the sun sets, it's hard to dazzle people. ”

Su Yue suddenly moved, this is what he is most worried about, once this opportunity is given up, those old people who have experienced the alliance and unity gradually wither, it will be difficult to reunify, and it is impossible for him to win again and again, and it seems that some clans of the Dongyi people have learned to smelt copper, so it will be more and more difficult to go on.

Jian Chen's words hit the most blazing place in his heart, and he asked again: "Please also ask Ji Xia to teach me." I'm already in my thirties, and time is running out. However, the rest of the clan was discussing the matter, and many of the chiefs feared that it would eventually change from unanimity to fighting each other, as it had been twenty years earlier...... Echeng, near your summer city, didn't want to get involved in this fight back then, and moved away from the land on both sides of the river like fat and crispy bones. Now many clans have returned, but this star ...... It scared them again. ”

Su Yue's face was a little excited, and he saluted Chen Jian and said: "Ji Xia's fame was originally unknown to anyone, but as more and more people listen to your lectures in the Ji Xia Academy, many people are secretly saying that you don't know anything, I see that Ji Xia is not worried, is this star not a disaster but a good omen?" ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "I don't know divination, and Xia Cheng never divination, and I don't know much about whether it's evil or good." But I have two stories I want to tell to the chief of Awadake. ”

"Please."

"In the autumn of last year, Xia Cheng went on an expedition to the grasslands. The people of Xiacheng divided their troops to the northwest and attacked the villages of the grassland tribes, leaving Shi Shan and others to lure the grassland tribes in the east. As a result, Shi Shan and others were forced to move by the water cut off by the grassland tribes and were defeated; And White Horse and others won a big victory in the northwest. If there was no failure of Shi Shan and others to lure the grassland tribes, how could there be victory? ”

"This is the first story, which is what the people of Xia Cheng often say about losing where the sun rises, but winning where the sun sets. After returning victoriously, they captured the horses of the steppe tribes, and on the way back, some war horses escaped, and everyone was distressed, but soon the war horses came back with a few wild horses, and everyone was very happy. ”

"How can there be a good and bad thing in the world? Good fortune and bad fortune are interdependent. ”

"The starry sky is vast, the heaven and the earth are boundless, who can say that they know all the heaven and earth? The stars in the sky are not necessarily a curse, but a blessing, but do the people who say it are bad omen feel that they understand every change in the heavens? ”

He repeated what he had said to the people of Xiacheng before, and explained the relationship between the two sides of the simple contradiction theory with the concept that the blessing of misfortune depends on and the blessing of fortune and misfortune are easy to accept in this era, and Su Yue nodded again and again.

Especially at the last remark, Su Yue heard Jian Chen's voice and said in surprise: "Ji Xia has already convinced me, maybe the rest of the people?"

"This is exactly what I hope for, and what everyone in Xia City hopes for, the family is harmonious, and the oath is of one heart. I'll do my best. (To be continued.) )