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"Since they are all relatives, it is a simple arithmetic problem. No one is more noble than another, as long as the number is good, numbers will not deceive people."

"Kill these hundreds, and the city can gain the trust of thousands of people. Isn't it bigger than the place that those hundreds of people can occupy when these thousands of people gather together? Why should I let these hundreds of people go?" , and lose the trust of thousands of people?"

"In the future, a new thing will appear, and Xiacheng is just one of the cities. I want to be the leader of this new thing, not the leaders of the clans in Xiacheng; I want to be Xia, Yu, and Xinhua , Yangguan, Heyin, Shang, Wei, Feng, fugitive slaves, etc., are the leaders of tens of thousands of ethnic groups in these cities, not the leaders of the thousands of people in the old Xiacheng."

Red Fish was startled slightly, and asked, "What the hell is this?"

"country."

Chapter 80 Countries ([-])

"Country? What is that?"

Chen Jian bent down, grabbed a feather arrow in his quiver, and wrote a small word "mouth" on the white snow.

"It's a mouth, a human mouth, a mouth to eat, a mouth to speak, a mouth to live."

"But this mouth, there are squares in all directions, and it is also a city. There are living people in a city, so it can be regarded as a city if it has a mouth."

"Clans, cities, this is the mouth, not the country I'm talking about."

"The original city is the clan, and the clan is also the city. There is nothing more important than blood. Except for Xia City, blood is the basis of the city's rules, and it is the four sides of the mouth."

"It's like blood in an arm, it will bleed out when it is cut. This is red blood that can be seen and touched and tastes sweet."

"With this blood, everyone in the city can spontaneously take up arms to defend this 'mouth', but the city itself has no weapons."

"This city is just a place where various clans live, and the strength of the city itself is the clansmen, so the city hides every spear in the hands of everyone in the city. something stronger in itself."

He brandished the arrow, and wrote the word Ge on the small opening in the snow.

"This is Ge, the Ge of the Spear. The Ge that can kill, the Ge of violence."

"This spear is above the city, and it is still supported by the people in the city. How can no one wield this long spear that can chop everything?"

"But it's not a specific person who wields this long dagger."

"It is an invisible thing that controls and controls this long dagger. It is not blood, nor is it a specific thing, but a vague thing that cannot be grasped."

"When this long spear is over the 'mouth', the city is no longer the tribe itself, but has become the invisible thing I said."

"The 'mouth' under the Changge is not necessarily square. It may be longer at the top and shorter at the bottom. The left one wants to be curved, and the right one wants to wrap the other three sides."

"But this spear on top of them says: No, you have to be square. Cut long, extend short, bend straight, cut open trying to wrap."

"This spear is supported by each tribe, but it is not held by each individual. Everyone may not want the square 'mouth', but everyone can't fight against the spear held by everyone. A long spear propped up by one person."

In the end, he drew a bigger mouth outside Kou and Ge, trapping Kou and Ge inside.

"The outermost one is bigger than the 'mouth' inside, and even extremely violent things like spears are within the grasp of this border."

"This border can control Changge and manage cities, which can be regarded as rules."

"But it's still a 'mouth' at the end of the day, just bigger than the one inside."

"This is to let the long Ge see that the mouth under it can actually become bigger and taller than it. This can be seen as the appearance of the smallest 'mouth' after being angry."

"That's why Ge Mao can't kill people casually so that he gets so angry that he even devours Chang Ge himself; but he can't stop killing people, lest the smallest mouth inside become disfigured."

"Furthermore, this border can also be land, mountains, rivers and rivers. Within this land, the long Ge is controlled by the rules to suppress the interior. Similarly, this long Ge must support a piece of land so that the tribe can cultivate and survive."

"Within this border, under the spears, and in the smallest mouth, there are many spears that you and I cannot see. Slaves and masters, people of the same race and people with different surnames, people with many fields and people without land, Chinese and wild people Of... this requires that spear to judge the shock."

"Beyond this border, there are barbarians, Dongyi, Xirong, grassland tribes, hostile cities and other enemies that can be seen, which need this spear to conquer and attack."

"And the invisible thing that controls this spear is Guo. I am the leader, but it is not me who controls this spear, but Guo. It's just that Guo can't speak, I just speak for it That's all."

"The country is based on everyone, but it is above anyone."

"The country, the most important thing is who is the mouth under the spear, or who is so powerful that if you don't maintain it, you will wrap the spear in anger? Who is the foundation of the country? ?”

"Old Xiacheng people are the best. They trust me. I am their leader. They can turn the city into a country as a matter of course. They just need to protect their interests. They kill whoever they say, and they say Whoever is a slave is a slave, it's very simple."

"But the old Xiacheng people are also bad. They have few people. If you just follow their 'country' within a hundred years, you can only wander around the Caohe area, and you can't go out. But I can't live for a hundred years. When I want to When they take back their interests, they will be angry and object that it will become a border that can swallow spears and cities."

"If the city of Xia is the country of Xia, it is only a land of three hundred miles. If Xia Yuxinhua is a country, it can have a land of a thousand miles. If the rivers and various parts are a country, it is a country of thousands of miles. We can be the people of the country of thousands of miles. Why do you want to be the leader trapped in a land of three hundred miles?"

Red Fish stared at the Chinese character in the snow, thought for a long time, then wiped it off gently with his foot, and said, "This Chinese character is beautiful, but also very attractive. This thing can't be seen or touched, but it can't speak, and finally It needs one person to speak and one person to control the spear...how should I explain this word?"

Chen Jian thought for a while, and then skillfully wrote that word.

"Let's explain it as I said just now. Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. Even if you have ambition, you must know this truth, otherwise it will take hundreds of years to understand the horror of anger and the power of overturning the boat. "

Hongyu laughed and said: "For Xia City... no, for Xia Country, what is this water that can carry and capsize boats? Even if tens of thousands of people belong to the same clan, then you have to say The invisible spears are fighting in secret. There are poor and rich, literate and illiterate, and some want to work and some want to get something for nothing. It doesn’t mean that if one family is one, everyone will stop fighting.”

Chen Jian drew a big circle on the snow and said: "Bing, I have clansmen working in workshops and farming; Guan, I have children in the school system; land, with few people but almost unlimited land; Hand over; things, the public workshops prepare themselves."

"I don't need the clan leader to be in charge, nor the chariot of noble riders in the noble manor."

"So the water in the Xia Kingdom is the workshop workers who work in the workshop and the self-cultivated farmers who work in the collective. As long as the interests of these two groups of people are protected, it will naturally be stable. In order to gain their support, the country can suppress the interests of the rest of the people."

"At this moment, this is not a country supported by blood, nor does it need blood to give the country power over everything, and it doesn't need sacred blood to hold this country together."

"The farmers who cultivate are first the farmers of the Xia Kingdom, then the soldiers that the Xia Kingdom needs to recruit, and then the men and fathers of a family, and finally they are part of the clan."

Hongyu probably understood the difference, thought about it for a while, and asked, "Yucheng is easy to say, there are no clans there, and it is already similar to the country you mentioned. But Xiacheng is different. The old Xiacheng people are still the same today. The pillars of Xia City, those villages far away from the city are difficult to govern, and there are not so many people to send officials..."

Chen Jian said with a smile: "So this is an opportunity. If you don't seize this opportunity, change will be too difficult."

"The land is large and the population is sparse. There are good fields for thirty miles around a city. If you draw a circle with a radius of thirty miles around the city, you can cultivate millions of acres of good fields. It can accommodate more than ten thousand light and strong farms. There is no need for a village commune, as long as the village The society moved into the city, so as not to be far away and difficult to govern, so that the national law did not enter the village community. Centralized management can save a lot of people, and can also curb the development of clans and clans."

"The land that was originally enfeoffed was because I didn't have so many people to directly govern it at that time. It is better to entrust it out and let them manage, educate, assimilate, and reclaim it. Now that many people have participated in the rebellion, they will take back these fiefs and civilize them. The population is concentrated in one city. Otherwise, I will spend another three to five years to make them familiar with Xiacheng."

"If you don't give them fiefdoms to grow their power, don't give them population to win over the clan, and don't give them the name of training private soldiers, how would they know that they have power before, and how dare they jump out at this time? At that time, Dingguo will be there Yucheng, this side is far away, they may jump out one day if they are hiding, they might as well jump out now and kill a nest."

"As for those wild people, because we didn't have cattle and iron tools before, and we wanted to raise soldiers but couldn't exploit our own people, we deliberately caused this kind of injustice and exploited them. How much food can we get by exploiting them now? They have already familiarized themselves with everything in Xiacheng , of course it can also be classified as one city.”

"Among the slave farmers who took this opportunity to revolt and welcome me, it was also an opportunity to give them the status of nationals. The rest of the slaves who did not resist remained as slaves, and could compensate the old Xiacheng people to appease their dissatisfaction. "

"At that time, the Kaihua people in the western fiefdom will be concentrated in the eighty miles west of Xiacheng to build the city, and the wild villages in the east will be merged to build the city along the Caohe River in the east of Xiacheng, and the Yangguan will remain unchanged."

"The three cities are like stars, and the summer city is like a moon, guarding each other. Only one person is needed to guard and deploy, and more than a hundred officials. The distance is no more than a hundred miles, and the news of road repairs can be reached in one day. Officials are educated, and within ten years there is no need to worry about not having enough land to establish villages for reclamation.”

"Ten years later, the population of Xiacheng has grown rapidly and there is not enough land, so some will be moved to Dongyi to build a city, and several Xiachengs will be replicated."

"Based on this, ten years later there will be enough people who can read and write, and they will also learn how to manage a city. By then, a hundred people will be able to manage a city."

The native land of Xia elm is the country, and the conquered land is separated, with Xia elm as its root, branches and leaves spread. "