From Chief to Ball

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As for Dongshou, all the leaders are required to recognize Suyue's status.

"How many tribes have you passed through?"

"Nine. Eight of them agreed to go. The other...is the Niu clan. I didn't go."

E Yue smiled. This is a long-standing event. When the split occurred, the blood of the Niu and Su clans was too much. Whether they go or not has the same meaning.

Now that the eight clans are determined to go, E Yue knows that he will go once again, and then he will see the situation, anyway, his city is far in the northwest, if something happens, he will not be burned for the time being.

It seems that more than a dozen clans have already agreed, but this time the alliance will not be that simple. Many clans will never agree, especially the powerful ones.

Awayake's prestige is in the east, and these tribes in the west are not under great pressure, and it is difficult to accept it.

Seeing that E Yue did not refuse for a while, Su He knew in his heart that he had actually agreed, and asked, "Chief E Yue, do you have a Xia city to the west?"

"Yes, the leader's name is Xia, and his surname is Ji. Didn't you come back with Ji Song all the way?"

"Yeah, I felt strange when I heard him talk about a lot of things about Xiacheng. Sister Shujiu, your mother and my aunt know about all ethnic groups. Have you ever heard of the surname Ji?"

Shujiu shook his head and said: "I've never heard of it. We didn't know the existence of Xiacheng until we migrated here. But their city...is very weird and powerful. The leader is young but can be convinced by everyone. There is one city every year. In the same way, we also learned a lot from there. Listening to the legends of their tribe, it seems that they are our relatives a long time ago, but they disliked the flood of the big river, separated from our ancestors, and migrated here."

Su Yue frowned and said, "This is really strange. Back then, the 71 clans gathered in Huacheng to communicate with each other, so we settled down in Su, calendar, astronomy, herding cattle and building the city. Xiacheng is only one city, how could there be so many? I heard people say that you also Learn Xiacheng to plant? Ji Song said that they farm like that, and the yield per mu is [-] catties, is this really true?"

E Yue nodded and said: "It's true. I saw it with my own eyes, and I can't fake it. One mu is as good as our two or three mus. That's not the most. My son is in Xiacheng, and I heard that the ten mus of land produced three acres. More than a thousand catties, it's really scary."

Su He clicked her tongue secretly, E Yue is the leader of a city, it is impossible to say such nonsense, and asked again: "Then the ox cart outside...is also learned from you?"

Shujiu smiled wryly and said, "Learning? Where is it so easy to learn? I traded it with corn. The tribe made a few, but it didn't work. No matter how far you go, the wheel will break, and it's hard to make it so round."

"Is this also done by their leader named Xia?"

"Correct."

"What kind of person is that?"

"Young, smart, and able to fight."

After finishing counting nine briefly, he shook his head and said, "I feel that I am very good at counting, but it is still much worse than that young leader. He counted hundreds of thousands, but for a moment, I have to use calculations."

In the previous food borrowing incident, I saw Chen Jian's speed of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within tens of thousands. I was terrified, and it was a little hard to accept, but I had to praise it.

Su He was taken aback, he knew Shujiu's natal family's clan, he was proficient in the calendar and counting to get such a surname, Shujiu seldom played outside since he was a child, and was locked up in the house by his mother to practice counting, looking at all the clans, he only talked about counting, There are only more than ten people who are similar to Shujiu, but Shujiu actually concedes defeat on the basis of counting?

Looking at Su He's expression, Shujiu sighed and said, "It's more than that. From what I've seen, ten years from now, I'm afraid even Xia Cheng's current children might not be able to compare. Nursery rhymes have benefited me a lot.”

Su He looked at E Yue again, feeling more and more strange, E Yue smiled and said, "You don't have to be surprised, I was also surprised when I heard Jiu'er talk about it. There are many weird things, not just this one, He is only sixteen years old, yet he seems to know everything since he was born."

With such a high evaluation, Su He no longer had any doubts, and instead asked: "What is the population of Xia City? How much food is there? How many slaves? Can you be considered a big family?"

"Two years ago, the people of Xiacheng lived by fishing and gathering; one year later, the wheat beans were enough for the people in the city, and the slaves still needed to eat acorns and grass vegetables; after another year, the strider said that there would be three years of food in one year. .”

"There are not many slaves, only two thousand, but this year they used the method of ox plowing and plowing. One is light and strong enough to handle a hundred acres of land, and two thousand slaves can feed the whole city. There are 200 people in their city, and there is no need to plant Work hard, train the army every day, and even use the method of chariots, meet on the flat ground, and use one as five."

"Xiacheng is not a family with a single surname. More than a dozen clans have elected Ji Xia as the leader, but there is no opposition. It is no different from a clan, and it is worthy of a big clan."

"The three cities around Caohe, the Acropolis has more people and slaves, and the warriors are tough, but if they meet in a decisive battle on the flat ground, the Acropolis is not as good as Xiacheng. My Echeng Heidaosijuan tribe is famous, but compared to Xiacheng's goods, it is not enough. Look. In the past, Hua used copper to cast soldiers. Didn’t you know that you could use bronze in Sucheng? The hundreds of warriors in Xiacheng all have bronze weapons, which is incomparable.”

Su He said anxiously: "Xiacheng also uses bronze weapons? Ji Song didn't tell me."

As soon as the word Ye was used, E Yue understood that Su Cheng might have found a way to melt and cast bronze, and said in his heart that he couldn't blame Su Yue for having the support of more than a dozen tribes in a short period of time.

I'm afraid that in the more than ten years after his tribe left his homeland, many things he had never seen before appeared there. The advantage of staying away from there is that it will not be affected by the tribe's conquest, but new inventions will take longer to develop. Pass it here.

After the two talked for a while, Su He finally decided to invite the leader of Xiacheng to go to Dahe for winter hunting at the beginning of winter. If these things can be spread to his own tribe, the strength of the tribe can be improved.

After the banquet, E Yue prepared an ox cart for Su He, and sent an envoy in advance to inform Chen Jian that Su He was going to go.

Chen Jian, who was still preparing the venue for the sports meeting, was very excited when he heard the news. This news from afar is really important to Xiacheng.

What Xiacheng lacks now is a status, a status that is regarded as a relative by the cultural circle rather than a barbarian in the northwest. This is more important to Xiacheng than the gunpowder chariot.

Chapter 77 Strong and sweet

"Brother, is this Su He important? Why do you seem to be happier than the last time you won the battle?"

Yu Qian'er didn't understand Chen Jian's excitement, not only her, most people in the meeting couldn't understand Chen Jian's actions.

For them, the world was originally only as big as Xia City, and later E City and Acropolis were also considered part of the world. As for things thousands of miles away, even riding a horse would take many days, so what does it have to do with cities?

Before Chen Jian could explain, Red Fish said, "How can it be unimportant? I used to be a slave, even though I lived in Xiacheng, even though I did a lot of things, as long as I am still a slave, you will elect me to join the council Is it? After I became a member of Xiacheng, you gradually accepted me, this identity is too important."

She has experienced the years of not being recognized, just like those slaves in Xiacheng, even though she lives in Xiacheng and considers herself a Xiacheng person, the real Xiacheng people will not admit it.

Chen Jian understood this different explanation, but these leaders didn't understand it. For them, whether they became relatives with those tribes was not important, and it had no impact on their lives.

For Chen Jian, since he wants to do something big and leave his name and imprint on the history of this era, this road is inevitable.

Although there is no concept of nationality at this time, if one day Xiacheng falls and is ruled by the tribes of the grassland, the tribesmen will definitely choose to flee to Echeng instead of staying under the rule of a foreign race. This is the difference.

Even if there is no concept of nationality, there is a closeness within and outside the cultural circle.

With so many powerful tribes on both sides of the river, they might elect a other relative as the leader of the alliance, but they would never ask the leader of a tribe like Dongyi and Nanman to be their king.

Whether it is emotional or habitual, it is absolutely impossible to accept.

At this time, what Chen Jian wanted was different from what his clansmen wanted. Being involved in this vortex, clansmen had to serve as soldiers and die, just to fulfill one's glory and dreams.

So Chen Jian had no way to explain to his tribe what he was thinking. Seeing that everyone was just puzzled and did not object, and still supported him, he also acted arbitrarily once: he had to personally take someone out of the city thirty miles to meet him.

The envoys who came and went kept reporting the whereabouts of Suhe Jisong and others to Chen Jian. During the two days of waiting, the city was painted with paint, and many yellowed walls were covered with a layer of white ash. Even if it is hot, it is not allowed to go topless for the time being.

The members of the council each issued a set of silk clothes, which were paired with jade jade exchanged from Echeng.

Other than that, there is nothing that needs to be changed. Everything is as usual. The city rested for a day, and daily necessities such as soap were distributed for free according to the population.

The clansmen didn't feel any difference. On the contrary, they were happy for a while because of the free daily necessities.

A few days later, when it was confirmed that Suhe and his party had arrived fifty miles outside the city, Chen Jian ordered two chariots to ride, and the rest of the leaders and the people from the power center of the city rode in bullock carts, and followed Chen Jianjian out of the city to meet them.

The place where the two sides met was by the river, and someone had set up a simple pavilion with wood in advance, and put some food and drinks there.

Su He heard a lot of stories from Ji Song along the way, and when passing by a few wild villages downstream, he went to visit them and stayed overnight.

Just one night, let him see many clues. The day he came was at the end of the month, and the field officials from the city went to the wild tribes to teach them how to plant millet, weed weeds and how to walk the land. Men, women and children gathered around the fire and listened carefully, occasionally asking questions.

Field officials are always more popular than tax collectors, but they probably also know the unity of rights and obligations, and tribes that do not pay taxes are not qualified to learn planting.

Tian Guan didn't know much, and most of them were told by Chen Jian's ear. Even after the retelling, Su He still listened with gusto.