Yuan hurriedly returned the salute and said, "I know what the leader is worried about. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info is the wolf cub we raised, if you take away the food in its mouth, it still has to bite people, let alone people? ”

"The chief is smart and knows what I'm going to say. It's like a boil on a person's body, it will bleed and hurt when cut down, but if you don't cut it, it will be fatal. If your life is gone, what's the use of blood? The leader said at the banquet that he wanted me to become a relative surnamed Wei, and it was precisely because I became a relative surnamed Wei that I came to persuade the chief, don't I want the relatives surnamed Wei to be better? I didn't have a surname before, but now I'm also one of the relatives surnamed Wei, and helping the leader is helping myself. ”

Wei He nodded and said, "So what should I do?" ”

"E and Xia have a brotherly alliance, and the leader can swear to be a brother with Ji Xia, and now that Ji Xia has saved the Acropolis, it is okay to call him a brother. After the oath, if we didn't break the oath, Ji Xia would not be able to attack with the clansmen. ”

"When the Acropolis was besieged, we appealed to two small tribes in the lower reaches of the Great River, who were afraid of the Sijon and would not send troops. If they swear an oath with Xia and E, and go to collect in the name of those two small cities not abiding by the oath of their relatives, they will inevitably pay tribute to grain and slaves, and Ji Xia and Eyue will definitely agree, and we can also increase the population. ”

"The Xijon people are newly defeated, they retreat far away, and when they hear the sound of birds, they will think that it is our trumpet, we are very familiar with the villages of the Xijon people, their leader was killed by Ji Xia, and it is the time to catch slaves. In the past, the Xijon people did not plant, but came to attack while we were planting and harvesting; Now that they have learned to plant, the defeated population can recover within a few years, but they have also begun to fear fighting in the spring and the autumn harvest, and now that they have been defeated, we can invade the Xijon settlement during the autumn millet harvest, so that they will not have enough food. ”

After listening to Yuan's several suggestions, Wei He said approvingly: "Indeed, this is exactly the way to make the Acropolis strong but I didn't think of it. Swear an oath with Xia and E, this is definitely to be done, even if you respect them as brothers, there is nothing. There is only one point, although the Xijon people have been defeated, but the Acropolis is also weak, and the civil strife has just subsided...... How could they send troops to conquer those two tribes again? ”

Yuan smiled: "Does the leader know why the old leader is more loved and respected?" ”

Wei He didn't know how to answer for a while, as a son, he couldn't evaluate his father correctly, so he bowed down and asked again.

"Because the old chief took the men of the Acropolis to build the Acropolis, drive away Sijon, and plunder the slaves, so that everyone has slaves to share. Although the Acropolis is unstable at this time, if the leader can still bring people back to plunder the slaves and distribute them to everyone, then everyone will naturally love the leader, and the Acropolis will gradually settle down. If you are only worried that the acropolis will not be stable and lose the sharpness of the old leader to attack the Sijon people to the west, you will curl up in the cave like a wounded wolf, and sooner or later you will starve to death. ”

Wei He frowned and said: "It's not that I haven't thought about it, but the last time I fought with the Xirong people, there were many dead and wounded, where did this soldier come from?" ”

Yuan leaned over and said, "This is exactly the root of the Acropolis I want to talk about. The unsurnamed people in the city must also distribute land slaves, even if they are less than the Wei family, but not too few. If it can be the same, then it is the best, when the Acropolis will be the acropolis of the people, and the leader will be the leader of the people, how can there be no warriors who dare to fight? ”

Wei He sighed, "There are only so many slaves. If more is given to people without a surname, then less is given to relatives with the surname Wei, and they will definitely oppose it. ”

Yuan Zhengse said: "Now there are several times more people without a surname than the relatives surnamed Wei, and they don't have many slaves assigned to fight on weekdays, so they can only barely fight under the military regulations of the leather whip. If it is possible to distribute land slaves, do they need a leather whip to restrain them? Among the relatives surnamed Wei, there are also people who can see a few years later, how many people can really oppose the leader? Now that Xia E is getting stronger and stronger, is the leader willing to curl up in the Acropolis to rely on the protection of Xia Cheng Echeng? ”

Of course, Wei He still has ambitions, and he also knows that the law of the Acropolis has reached a time when it will not change, these nameless people only have obligations but no rights, and they are not slaves, and the army of the Acropolis is an army of slave owners, and after the new defeat in the internal fighting, it is difficult to support it only by the relatives surnamed Wei.

When he was still hesitating in his heart, Yuan said again: "I have heard that twenty years ago, Hua used his wife Su Yang as the slaughterer to take charge of some affairs. Although I am only a cattle herd, and I do not have the intelligence of Suyang, I am willing to use my stupid mind to help the leader make the Acropolis strong. I heard that when the siege of the Xijon people was at its most dangerous, the leader took out his slave food and distributed it to the people, the slave food was good, but for the leader, the strength of the city was far better than that of those grain slaves, and the leader could first use his own private property to let the nameless people fight bravely to kill the enemy, and then slowly change it later. ”

Yuan raised his head and said in a paused voice: "If the Wei family still opposes it at that time, the leader can push me out, just say that it is all my idea, and when it is really difficult to suppress them, you can kill me and let their anger subside." ”

Wei He sighed, and Yuan laughed: "The most cruel criminal law in the Acropolis is nothing more than tearing people apart with oxen. May I ask the chief, how many people in the Acropolis have endured the penal code torn apart by the ox from the old chief? ”

"One person."

"Do you remember who the leader is?"

"Yes, the whole city remembers."

"And how many people have died of illness and old age? Can the leader still remember the names of these people? ”

"I can't remember, it's too much."

Yuan laughed and said, "That's it. If this can be done, then the Acropolis will be strong again, and the people will remember the chief, and they will remember me. And if it is difficult to calm the anger of the Wei family in the end, I will be nothing more than being torn apart by an ox and dying, and people will still remember my name and will never forget. ”

"When a person is alive, no matter how exquisite the food is, it is only a momentary pleasure, and sleeping with a woman is also a momentary comfort, and if you are alive, you will be praised, and when you die, you will be remembered, which is exactly what I want."

After a few words, Yuan's mentality, which had been suppressed for many years, instantly exploded, and he was a little crazy.

Wei He is not worried that his rights will be snatched, he has the support of his clan, while Yuan is just a person without a surname, and a person without the support of his clan will never be able to become a leader in this era.

In this secret room, two people with different dreams but the same purpose, hit it off. There is one less surname Yuan in the Acropolis, and there is a new Wei Yuan.

Yuan may have thought that Jian Chen had invited him, but he felt that he would never be able to be remembered in Xia City, and those Xia City people would only remember their leader...... In the summer city, it is a summer fire, but in the acropolis, it is the warm sun of winter.

Out of the clan, finally some people began to work hard for their abstract dreams, no longer limited to food and clothing, and began to pursue higher self-worth realization.

Two days later, Xia E's coalition finally arrived at the Acropolis, and the Acropolis watched the army that helped them break the siege and broke the Xijon people in a battle, and listened to the sound of the bone flute in the army with curiosity.

Chen Jian rode on the chariot, and saw Wei He and others who came to greet him from a distance, several relatives and nobles in the Acropolis personally held the reins of the horse for Chen Jian, Chen Jian invited Wei He to ride with him, Wei He refused three times, and finally stood on Chen Jian's right side.

In the repeated thanks, Jian Chen smiled and said: "In this battle, I captured a few Xirong people, all of them should be very prestigious Xirong people, and they were just killed to deter the Xirong slaves in the city, so as not to have a rebellious heart." ”

This is a matter of course, Wei He did not object, Chen Jian waved his hand, and the new army escorted out several Xirong prisoners, with haggard faces, it was time to run out of oil, they were captured on the battlefield, and they were all tribal leaders who commanded one side.

Soon, the few remaining pine cannons were pushed out, and Wei He had already heard that there was a weapon that could spray clouds and lightning in Xia City in this battle, and he was extremely curious.

Jian Chen's purpose was indeed to deter, but not to deter those Xirong slaves, who had nothing to do with him whether they rebelled or not, but to deter the people of the Acropolis.

What he heard and what he saw with his own eyes are different after all, and he needs to have enough control over the next negotiations, and he can't help the Acropolis to get a little food and slaves after the Xijon people are defeated.

Those curious Acropolis people gathered aside, the new army cleaned up the field to maintain order, Chen Jian smiled and asked people to tie those Xirong prisoners in front of the wooden cannon, and smiled and Weihe said: "Weihe leader, there will be thunder in a while, but you have to stand up." ”

Wei He laughed dryly, and after the new soldiers checked it, they retreated far away, this time not with red-hot iron hooks, but with slow-burning leads.

Those who were curious kept squeezing inside, and those who knew the power of this thing inside wanted to get farther away, pushing and shoving, and a few loud bangs, and the Xijon people who were tied to the wooden cannon were beaten to a blur of flesh and blood.

Wei He's heart trembled, although he had heard it talk about it a long time ago, but seeing the Xirong man's body being smashed by stones, and the blood and internal organs splashed everywhere, some fear surged in his heart.

Chen Jianqiang's bloody scene of ninja was pressed down to the vomit in his throat, and this kind of artillery scene was the first time he had seen it, but fortunately, he had seen too many dead people in the past two years, and his mentality was no longer what it used to be.

The Acropolis who wanted to see the excitement screamed in fright, and many of them retreated one after another, and the scene was extremely chaotic, and the second round of executions began again.

A few times later, the Xijon people used their tragic deaths to tell the power of gunpowder in the summer city of Weihe, and the pungent smoke of gunpowder made people feel a wave of panic.

With this kind of deterrence, Chen Jian'e, Yue Weihe and others sacrificed to their ancestors, and then began to discuss what happened after this dispatch.

Wei He had already prepared, and he also knew that the gratitude on his lips was not practical, and it was impossible to wait for the people of Xia and E to ask for it, if he didn't give it at that time, then he would be guilty of it, and the people of the Acropolis would also feel that it was wrong to do so. And if he gives it, but the other party dislikes it less, the people of the Acropolis will feel that the people of Xia and E are too greedy, which is the way of thinking of the people in the cities of this era: use the moral criterion between people to measure the exchanges between the city-states of Fangguo.

It can be said that they are naïve, but any ethnic group comes out of this naivety, in the previous life until the era of the Warring States Period, the Qin King Qiang Suo and the clan, the people of Zhao still feel that the words they don't give are succumbed to themselves, and the most innocent statement of Qin to destroy the Six Kingdoms Chu is like this.

If I want to exchange with you, you have to change, and the price of the exchange is negotiable, but if you don't change it, it's an insult and it's not right. Later people will think these words are ridiculous, but in the way of thinking at that time, they are not ridiculous.

Even in Chen Jian's previous life, a certain clan temporarily handed over the cattle and sheep to the care of another clan leader, and when he went to ask for it later, the leader did not give it, and as a result, the clan people felt that the leader was a dishonest person, so they dismissed the leader and returned the cattle and sheep.

With the simplicity of coming out of the wilderness, it is the reason why Chen Jian can never fully integrate into this era, and it is also the biggest difference between him and the people of this era, he only has naked interests in his eyes, and the morality of the times can not see many traces in him, because morality is constantly changing with different times, compared to those strange knowledge, this is the biggest outlier.

Because he has helped, he must be grateful, Wei He had discussed with the people of the Acropolis a few days ago the way to thank him, in this era, there are no precious metals and currency, and all that can be taken out is all kinds of physical objects.

"If it weren't for Xia E's rescue of the two cities, I'm afraid the Acropolis would already be from Xirong. The Acropolis don't know what to repay, but fortunately last year there was a good harvest, and I prepared some gifts for the two leaders. ”

"One million catties of corn and 200,000 catties of beans. 300 cowhides and 200 cows. Five hundred slaves and three hundred slaves. Horns, antlers, tiger skins, jade, two leopards, twelve pairs of goshawks......"

Many strange things were extremely precious gifts in E's eyes, but Jian Chen only stared at grain, livestock, and slaves.

One million catties of corn is not much for a coalition army of 2,000 troops, but each person is only divided into 500 catties, which may not be enough to eat for a year.

However, Jian Chen also knew that the Acropolis could only take out so much now, and if he asked for more, it would inevitably arouse the disgust of the Acropolis.

E Yue did not object, and the matter of sending troops to thank him was decided.

After dealing with these, Wei He hurriedly said according to the words that Wei Yuan had talked to him before: "The two leaders of E and Xia, our three cities are like the horns of a herd, if the three oxen stand like our three cities, the wolves will not be able to speak, this is the advantage given to us by God and our ancestors." ”

"There is Xirong in the west of the Acropolis, there is a grassland in the north of Xia City, and Echeng is close to the settlement of Beidi in the northeast. Whether it is Xirong, Beidi or those people in the steppe, they are not our race, and we must unite against them, take away their population, rob their cattle and sheep. Our three cities can't attack each other, which will leave a chance for those aliens. ”

"Although the Acropolis was besieged by Sijon, there were many warriors, as well as women and children. I, Weihe, swear to my ancestors and heaven and earth here that as long as I am still the leader, I will never attack the two cities of Xia and E; If the two cities of Xia E are attacked by the rest of the clan towns, I will use the soldiers of the entire acropolis to help the two cities. If I break my oath, I will be ...... No, it was shelled by a wooden cannon. (To be continued.) )