Chapter 53: The False Chief
For thousands of people who have been taken captive as slaves of foreign races and do not know the ups and downs of fate, there are no words that bring tears to their eyes more than the words "let's go home". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
At their most helpless, they remembered the vague phrase of kinship. And at the moment when the exchange was completed, this sentence was extremely clear in their minds, and there seemed to be nothing more like this truth.
I have felt it, so I know that I am moved, so it is clear and blurred.
More than 10,000 people who were released wept with joy behind the hill, hugged each other, held the hand of everyone who saw Xia Cheng and said words of thanks, and told their former strangers and now their families about their previous fears and sufferings.
These feelings reached the extreme after Chen Jian's sensational and contrived speech, and bringing everyone home became a promise and the best propaganda drama.
When night falls, and the excitement of daytime emotion and sensationalism slowly fades, these people finally begin to think about their future life with their gradually clear minds.
With their homes destroyed and left with nothing, the Dongyi people looted everything they had accumulated over the years, leaving only a ruin.
It's late autumn now, and those unattended crops must have been eaten by countless animals in the jungle, so even if they go back, how can they survive this winter?
All the leading figures of the clan have been held captive by the Dongyi people, and these people are in a kind of clueless chaos, not knowing what to do next.
Before the advent of various metal tools in Xia City, the organization of the city was centered on clans, and everyone worked together to fight against nature with rudimentary tools, and with the emergence of surplus agricultural products, the creation of slaves and the division between rich and poor led to the existence of homesteaders as a whole.
There were taxes in the summer city, but the rest of the cities did not, but in other forms such as public land, such as voluntary military service, the construction of the rights of the cities was completed.
The wealthy of the clan ensured that they would get more slaves when they went out on their expeditions, and the people of the clan had become accustomed to this method.
Yet now all this has been swept away, not by a long period of change, but by an instantaneous power vacuum. People need to be organized, even in the cave era, they needed someone to be the leader, but now these people can't even find a person who can serve the people.
If you want to convince the public, you must first solve the most basic problem faced by thousands of people, how to survive this winter. It's too hard for any one person to do.
The people of Windy City are scattered, and the leader Feng Hao is still there, at least someone can think about them, but Feng Hao has nothing but the trust of the clan, and these trusts are about to come to naught when winter comes.
The other city was much more miserable, and they had no leader. Now there is still a bowl of rice to eat, but these grains belong to the people of Xiacheng, even if the leader of Xiacheng said that the relatives are one, and he also helped the relatives who suffered from the flood last year, but what should he do in the future?
When everyone was at a loss, some rumors gradually spread among the crowd, and these rumors seemed to break through the lightning of the night, giving these people an inspiration.
In the early morning of the second day, thousands of people from another city spontaneously gathered together and whispered among themselves about the gossip they had heard during the night, and anxiously awaited something.
When Jian Chen emerged from the humble hut, thousands of people shouted in unison, "Please take the position of leader for the time being!" ”
It's not a reluctant choice, it's a lot of people's inner words, it's just that no one reminded them before those rumors came out, so they didn't expect it.
Their leader did not die, nor was he deposed and exiled by the people because of his guilt, but on the contrary, their leaders and clan nobles were taking hostages on the Dongyi side in order to ensure the implementation of the covenant and this exchange.
Even if Jian Chen shouted a lot of words like the unity of the clan, thousands of people still did not have the habit of electing a person who was not from their own clan as the leader, even if this person rescued them from Dongyi, he could not change the habit that had always been rooted, this was a deep-rooted thing.
The rumors were released by Jian Chen, and the name was also thought of by Jian Chen, so he could smoothly bypass those deep-rooted things and get the rights he wanted.
The temporary prefix can solve a lot of things, not only in line with the way of thinking of everyone, but also to grasp the power in their hands, and take advantage of the fear of the coming winter to integrate these people into the system of Summer City.
After the cries of thousands of people, Jian Chen did not give in, walked up to everyone and said, "Since my relatives trust me, how can I refuse?" Winter is coming, and if you don't have a leader to lead you, how will you survive this winter? ”
"Your leader will be held hostage to Dongyi for at least three years. But people can't live for three years without land and food, and how you farm and harvest Xia City is different from your city, but I have only been the leader of Xia City, so you may have to make some changes. ”
These people certainly know that Summer City is different, but they also know that the people of Summer City live better than most of them. Even if it can get better, why do you have to hold on to the old things?
Seeing that everyone did not object, Jian Chen was silent for a moment and said, "Since you are not afraid of change, then I hope you will promise me one thing." During the years that I have been temporary chief, I have been given the right to make decisions. If you do not agree with me as a leader, you can depose me together, but until you depose me together, my discretion will be agreed upon by all of you. ”
The people below didn't object, they just asked, "Can Ji Xia make us live as well as the people of Xia Cheng?" ”
Jian Chen laughed and said, "The life of the people of Xiacheng did not fall from the sky, but was made by labor. Whether you are doing well or not, the leader can tell you what to do, but in the end it is up to you. But at least one thing, you can always live better than before, and at least you don't have to worry about the Dongyi people taking you away. ”
It's not much, it's a thin promise, but it's like a mountain for those who have just experienced those hardships.
Chen Jian also did not explain Xia Cheng's power structure, which was obtained after Xia Cheng's low-level struggle, and he couldn't explain it at all for a while, so he only asked for an arbitrary right.
Every year the children in the school grow up, and they can already replace the old clan nobles with a new kind of authority to govern them.
Xia Cheng's rules are not perfect, and there is still a special division inside, how to deal with these people, this needs to be given an answer to everyone in the National People's Assembly after the civil strife has completely subsided.
With the attachment of the people of this city, the establishment of a new Huayi, and the end of the civil strife in Xiayu, a new concept called the state, which is different from the individual city, will gradually appear in everyone's thinking, and a new administrative unit controlled by a strict bureaucratic system from the top down will become another model and attempt.
After these thousands of people made their choice, Feng Hao understood that it was time to take a stand.
He was very familiar with Jian Chen, and his people were also familiar with the people of Xiacheng, the power struggle two years ago was the intervention of the people of Xiacheng, and after that, many people of Xiacheng stayed in Windy City until Windy City was captured by the Dongyi people.
But now he only had a dozen guards in his hands who had escaped with him, and there was no complete system of managing the clansmen at all, and he had nothing but the position of chief.
Jian Chen didn't force him, but Feng Hao himself knew that it was impossible to return to his homeland in Windy City, and everything had to start all over again if he went there, and there was nothing to rely on, and half of the clansmen would die in one winter.
So he found Chen Jian and cried, saying that Windy City was like a silk rose, and he was willing to trust it to the arbor of Xia Cheng, and hoped that Chen Jian would help Windy City for the sake of his relatives.
However, until the end of the begging, Feng Hao's tone was very strict, and he did not reveal the words that Chen Jian was looking forward to, "Young Debo is willing to let Ji Xia temporarily become the leader of Wind City", and he did not give Chen Jian a chance to climb the pole at all.