Chapter 61: Unstable Factors
Different eras have different values, and in this era, a "good" slave should not resist, the slave works, and the master should gladly accept that he will die. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
If you can't do this, you are not a good slave, and with the deepening of slavery and the inculcation of distorted values, most of those who want to resist will be excluded and will be considered "lazy".
He was undoubtedly not a good slave in the eyes of the slave owner, and was even extremely hateful and could not be killed; But in the eyes of the slaves who knew his story, he was a trustworthy leader.
No one can be recognized by the whole class, and there is no value that applies universally regardless of class, status, or where the ass sits.
For example, the wolf skin who followed Chen Jian into the cell to re-educate Ying in rebellion did not understand what Chen Jian was saying these words for; But Hagi, who also heard these words, felt that it was simply an initiation, allowing him to see many things that he had not seen before.
The same similar words echoed in the ears of those fugitives who actively resisted and refused to give in, except for the seven or eight fugitives who were locked up, except for those who died, they were basically educated by Chen Jian.
Chen Jian was busy with education and agitation work, and the city also changed from a wartime mechanism to a production mechanism according to the deployment of the council, and the rest of the people still had to do the rest of the work in the winter, except for the normal training of the new army.
The wild people had to prepare wild goods and tribute for the New Year's sacrifice in winter, and the people of the city drove all the slaves and sent them to the nearby mountains and forests to cut down trees.
Two snow and ice roads that have been paved up the hill from the Grass River have already begun to operate, and the felled timber slides down the icy road by the slope of the mountain, and the people below divide the timber into batches according to its diameter and bend.
The crooked ones were used to burn charcoal for heating, and the straight ones were pulled back to the city by horses and oxen, and the carpenters in the city led their tribesmen to make simple climbing plows and transport them when the snow fell in winter.
After the second heavy snow fell, Xia Cheng had already made nearly two hundred sets of climbing plows, and selected a batch of horses to put on the climbing plows.
Five hundred slaves and three hundred conscripts drove the long plough team to Echeng, and Chen Jian selected dozens of slaves from the slaves who were already familiar with farming to mix in it, and put "bad" slaves such as Yi into the slave team and went to Echeng to trade grain.
Before leaving, he sent an envoy to inform the people in charge of the salt, mining, and shopping malls, and asked them to hand over the work to their deputies and return to the city to rest in the winter, and at the same time to wait for him to return to the "slave management" class.
In the bitter cold wind, Chen Jian rode on a horse, and his knees were covered with sheepskin knee pads sewn by red fish, but his knees were still sore.
E, who followed Jian Chen back, ran to the place next to Jian Chen, and took out a small gourd of hot wine from the arms of the clansmen and handed it over.
Jian Chen blew his nose, wiped it on the heel of his shoe, took the wine gourd and said with a smile: "Huang, how do you think you seem to have something on your mind?" ”
"Ji Xia, when I go back this time, my father will definitely ask you what you think of our brothers, Echeng is different from your Xia City, my grandfather is the leader, and my father's position is also recommended by my grandfather, and the clansmen are used to the inheritance of the leader's son, although they have the right to recall, but as long as they don't do too badly, they won't do it."
He hesitated for a while and said, "I still have a younger brother who is valued by my father very much, and he didn't come to Xia City. You say, my father likes me a little more? Or do you prefer that brother? ”
After all, Ehuang is not big, and he is not the kind of person who grew up in the court of scheming, the scheming and scheming of this era are still very shallow, what most people will say, and if they have not experienced the bloody storm, they will naturally not think so much.
For Eyue's sons, Chen Jian had already gotten the news from Yu Qian'er, the younger brother that Eyue said was called Ebei, who was born to Eyue's third wife, and there were basically no clansmen in Eyue except for his mother, and Eyue also valued him very much, and gave him a lot of rights.
According to normal speaking, E Yue will definitely elect the position of the leader to his son, people are close and close, and the premise of Zen is that his subordinates can control the power and do a brilliant job, but as the son of the leader, he has a great advantage that he can have many opportunities to show his ability.
Chen Jian put himself in his shoes, if he was Eyue, he would definitely not choose Ebei, unless Ebei did very well and the rest of the brothers did very poorly, otherwise, even if he was elected, the clansmen of the number nine would not agree, and even launched a rebellion after Eyue's death, as for the reasons can be made up in countless ways.
But he didn't directly reassure E, and said with a smile: "It's too early for you to think about this, your father is still very strong." ”
E's face turned slightly red, and she hurriedly said, "No, I am...... I just ......"
"Huang, who do you say will be the most important friend in Echeng in the next few years?"
"It must be your summer city."
"Yes, Xia Cheng is a city of brothers. Your father is still very strong, his eyes have been watching you, who has the talent to lead Echeng to become stronger, this is what he has to think about. Do you see these horses? They didn't know how to pull carts and plows in the first place, so before carts and plows came along, horses were only as good as if they were fat and strong. But after learning to pull the cart, there is another thing that is good or bad, that is, whether the horse can pull the cart or not, and whether he is obedient or not. The car and the plow originated in Xiacheng and also spread to Echeng, you have lived in Xiacheng for a long time, so you are the best horseback riding and driving in Echeng. So apart from horseback riding and driving, could there be something else in Xia Cheng that changed the clansmen's evaluation of whether this person was capable or not? For example, planting, such as digging wells, such as ...... Crafting a vehicle? ”
Jian Chen said these words thoughtlessly, and patted E Huang's shoulder, who was still pondering the meaning, and Chen Jian had already run away.
The journey of three hundred miles took a few days, and Ehuang had been thinking about what Jian Chen had said, and seemed to understand something.
Echeng, in a wine shop.
Yu Qian'er got up early, wiped a table brought from Xia Cheng with a burlap cloth I don't know how many times, and couldn't stop, always feeling that she was constantly busy as if she could make time pass faster.
"Is the fish cleaned up? Are the dumplings wrapped? My brother likes to eat sweet, is there any sugar pickled sour fruit? Don't put salt in the tofu brain......"
Since she came to Echeng, she has never nagged like this, and the people next to her are laughing and shouting: "Okay, it's all ready, I'll send it to Eyue in a while, you can rest for a while, don't go around like a wolf cub whose tail has been stepped on." ”
Yu Qian'er rubbed her hands, walked around a few times, and finally blocked a person holding a clay pot, and only after breaking a clay pot did it quiet down, and she shirked it when someone from Echeng came to exchange for tofu in the early morning.
Look at the sky, it's going to snow again, and I don't know if my brother can get there today. I was looking forward to my brother coming soon, but I didn't want my brother to rush on a snowy day, so I inevitably had some contradictions in my heart.
By noon, the sun had not yet come out, and the wind seemed to be stronger, but the wine shop finally looked forward to two people.
The clansman on horseback picked up the curtain outside the door, shook the snow off his body, picked up a bowl of hot soup and drank it, very comfortable, deliberately did not talk to Yu Qian'er, teasing her.
Yu Qian'er finally couldn't help but ask, "Can my brother come today?" ”
"Ji Xia has something, let someone else lead the team this time."
When Yu Qian'er heard this, she jumped up happily and said, "You say that, my brother must be coming, so he won't not come, you must lie to me." ”
The man laughed, ran to the horseback outside, and took down a bunch of straw men, decorated with red fruit, and a layer of yellow syrup, which was strung together by a branch, and was as crystal clear as jade.
"Your brother asked me to bring you, sugar gourd. The seeds in the red fruit have been poked out by the red fish with chopsticks, but you have to give me one, I haven't eaten it yet. ”
Yu Qian'er swallowed her saliva, looking at the red fruit and the yellow syrup, she was very happy, there were a lot of sugar gourds, and she could see that her brother wanted her to give a bunch to each of the people here, and there was an extra bunch after counting, obviously for herself.
So I was no longer anxious, sat down and bit the sweet and sour fruit, looking at the wind and snow outside.
It was dark early in winter, but Chen Jian still rushed to Echeng before dark, and Eyue and others were already waiting there at the city gate, and after greeting each other, Chen Jian first brought the slaves to the city to count.
The person who counted the points pinched the slave's arm, pinched the slave's mouth with his hand, and looked at the slave's teeth, if the teeth were not good, they were not worth so much food, and the teeth were not good, and it was easy to die early.
"Look at it casually, these are all strong, you look at those women, they are all grassland tribes who can fight, I have captured a lot, these women can be kept as slaves."
The person who looked at it looked at it a few times, nodded and said, "It's very strong, and the number of people is enough." ”
After counting, he counted nine: "The grain has also been stacked in the warehouse, and there are cats watching mice, which is indispensable." ”
"Then you don't need to weigh it, it's calculated as two hundred catties per sack, and it's too troublesome to weigh hundreds of thousands of catties. We came with a total of 200 climbing ploughs, which can transport back more than 100,000 catties at a time, and slowly transport them. ”
After taking a general look, Jian Chen asked, "E-Yue, are these slaves to be distributed to the family?" Or is it used intensively? ”
E Yue said before that the public property was not enough, so she asked the family to pay for slaves, but she knew that Xia Cheng had eyeliner in the city, so she had to say: "These slaves are strong and strong, but they are not very good at working, so they will be concentrated for half a year first, and then they will be separated." ”
After speaking, he looked at these slaves and asked, "You didn't catch these slaves who look like us on the grassland, did you?" ”
"No, they used to work in the city, and they all had relatives who died at my hands, so I handed them over to you."
"Heh, that's a good idea, these will all be farming?"
"Yes, you can understand our words, and you can also farm and build a house, but you have been trained for more than half a year."
E Yue walked over and checked the palms of several people, and found that they all had cocoons in their hands to hold farm tools, and they were very satisfied. Normally, skilled slaves can exchange more things than newly captured slaves, especially those who are upright and in the prime of life.
He glanced at the Hagi mixed in and felt that this person was the strongest and had the most calluses on his hands, so he asked, "Can you understand me?" ”
Thinking of what Jian Chen said before, she put away her hatred, and replied with a smile on her face: "Master, I can understand your words." ”
"What will you do?"
"Building houses, mud, mining, cutting down trees, ......"
E Yue listened to a lot of words, turned around and smiled at Jian Chen: "This slave is not bad, it is worth so much food." Look at this man, he is as strong as a bear...... Ji Xia, let's go, the meal is ready. ”
"Well, here we go. By the way, I also brought some herbs, which can kill lice when they are lit, and these people get together, and their bodies are dirty and easy to be bitten by lice, so I lock them up and smoke them first, and I also brought some lime and sprinkled them in the place where I lived, and there are many people who are prone to plague, and it is ...... in summer."
Chen Jian seemed to be very thoughtful for Eyue, and said a lot of ways to manage slaves that Eyue didn't know, Eyue firmly remembered it in his heart, thanked him for his success, and entered the hall with Chen Jian left and right. (To be continued.) )