On November 17, six days before the winter solstice, and the comet had been hanging over everyone's heads for three days, a headwind suddenly blew in Sucheng under the shroud of anxiety and panic, and Ji Xia, the leader of Xia City, thought that the comet in the sky was not necessarily a bad omen, and claimed that good and bad luck depended on each other, and even bad omens may not be impossible to turn into good things. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It was like a spring thunder that shook the earth, and even the diviner priests who respected Chen Jian and listened to his lectures also raised their voices of opposition.

The stage where plays and herbs were distributed was repurposed, and Jian Chen made a bold statement to convince everyone and let everyone judge right and wrong.

The already chaotic Sucheng was even more anxious, many clans who did not want the formation of the clan alliance seized the opportunity, and more people hoped to convince Jian Chen that they did not want this young leader, who was favored by his ancestors, to embark on a reverse path of war.

Under the surging undercurrent, Jian Chen let the people of Xia City continue to spread rumors, muddying the water even more, he wanted to take this opportunity to see clearly who was the friend who could be used for the time being, and who was the enemy who could be opposed, which involved taking sides in a few years.

Early in the morning, the stage was already crowded with people, and with the foreshadowing of the last performance and the distribution of herbs, it was natural for people to find a place to watch and judge, and the wooden roofs were full of people.

The leaders of the various clans, priests, soothsayers, and the like gradually came to the stage, and some of those who had listened to Chen Jian's lecture saluted Chen Jian first, and then retreated to the side, waiting for a confrontation.

Jian Chen rubbed his hands and looked at the people gathered below, knowing that this was a rare opportunity, because of the restrictions of transportation conditions, the spread of many things was extremely slow, and this time the heads of various clans were there, this would be a story that could fly like dandelion seeds without being deliberately spread.

Philosophy is a systematic worldview, and philosophers always try to explain the world, but the key to the problem is to change the world.

But before you change, it's important how you see and understand the world.

Soon after emerging from the wilderness, it was an era when mysticism was rampant, and ideas such as animism and immortality of the soul were more easily accepted by people because of the verification of dreams of relatives after death, and the idea that God destined everything began to prevail.

It's not that no one thinks of any other worldview, but because this worldview is most easily accepted under the intellectual conditions of the times.

In the Xia, Shang and Zhou eras of Chen Jian's previous life, he probably also experienced such a process from chaotic mysticism to heaven and everything to the unity of heaven and man.

In addition to the restrictions of the knowledge of the times, there are also the needs and guidance of the ruling class, such as the idea of the **** era, which is the favorite of the form of power passed on from father to son and bloodline.

In short, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and princes are all destined by heaven, this is the meaning of God, don't dream, accept your fate.

This kind of worldview has not always existed, and even in the clan era, it was not the mainstream, but became the mainstream with the needs of the ruling class, guiding public opinion and thinking, which is a means of using the understanding of the world to change the world.

At this moment, this argument has also emerged because of the emergence of the implicit blood inheritance system within the clan, and it is very popular among the chiefs and priests, who are willing to believe and want to believe.

But in Chen Jian's previous life, this kind of worldview belief that God destined everything collapsed with the Xia Dynasty of Yin Shang and King Wu's war, and collapsed in an instant, because if God destined Yin Shang to be the king, how could there be such a thing as King Wu's success?

The collapse of the patriarch worship and all the worldviews of heaven, people hope to seek a new way to fill the collapsed three views, the sages found another way to explain: heaven and man are one, heaven and man are inducted, heaven and man complement each other, and not necessarily all are destined by God, and even soon some people completely denied the existence of heaven, and the earliest humanistic thought appeared.

This change can also be seen in the "Book of Songs", in which there are many verses of reverence for heaven, law for heaven, and fear of heaven, and the older the poetry, the more so. But when the national style prevailed, there were poems such as blaming the sky, complaining about the sky, hating the sky, and a poem of the oldest resentful woman directly questioned the heavens, and in a poem that recorded the drought, there were also Zhou kings who questioned why the sky would let the drought harm those innocent people...... This kind of questioning was unimaginable in the era when all divination was prevalent in the belief in the determination of heaven, and it also confirmed the changes in the worldview of the times.

At this moment, Chen Jian is still facing a group of people who have just begun to think about where to go from, as long as a reasonable explanation is given, they are happy to accept it, for the time being, the ruling class has not tried all means to deceive and inculcate that kind of worldview that is determined by heaven, and the thinking is not rigid to the point that it is difficult to change, but is in the process of pursuing the truth for the first time, because this is also a node of the era and a great era of change and turbulence, the final transition from barbarism to civilization.

There were very few people who supported Jian Chen, and Jian Chen faced a whole group of people, and under the warm sun of early winter, the first person stood up.

He was a priest in the city on the south bank of the Great River, and he had asked Chen Jian a lot of questions a few days ago, and after bowing to Chen Jian repeatedly, he asked, "Does Ji Xia think that the will of heaven can be changed?" I have heard that many years ago there was such a star in the night sky, and the next year there was a great drought, and this star was a bad omen, and it happened at the time of the clan alliance, which was a warning from our ancestors and the heavens that it was not right to do so. ”

Jian Chen smiled: "I don't know divination, can I see the evil fortune on the battlefield when divining the evil fortune for the field in the field?" ”

"Not really. I heard that the star a few decades ago appeared when the barren millet was burned, which just confirmed the great drought. ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "In that case, a few decades ago, could a priest have divined good fortune and evil?" ”

"Yes."

"Then I think that's a good thing. There will always be a great drought, and the stars in the sky are just an omen. Even if it is true that the ancestors and God have told us, the ancestors and God have also given us hands. Isn't it a good thing to know in advance that the disaster of the fields is nothing more than floods, digging ditches when there is a drought and building embankments when there is a flood? You have also heard me say that there are canals and embankments in Xia City, and if there is a drought, water will be taken and flooded, and even if there is a bad omen, what can be done? This is not a bad omen, but a warning and a spur to prepare with our hands for possible calamity. ”

"Now that we are in the midst of an alliance, even if it is a bad omen, isn't this bad omen just a warning to us, let us keep our oaths, brothers and brothers, otherwise there will be disaster?"

The man was dumbfounded for a while, thought for a long time, bowed to Jian Chen and stepped aside, everyone in the audience applauded, and felt that this seemed to be the truth, and said in his heart: "What Ji Xia said is true, evil omen and warnings are still different. ”

After cheering, the leader of a small clan stood up and said, "Anyone can say this, but Ji Xia can't say it." ”

Chen Jian saluted: "Please advise." ”

"I heard that Ji Xia was just an ordinary child a few years ago, but he suddenly got the favor of the ancestors, isn't this destined by God? If you hadn't received those favors and pity, wouldn't you still be an ordinary person at this time? And how did you become a leader and stand here? The instructions given to us by the ancestors and the heavens cannot be disobeyed, and Ji Xia is the best example. ”

Jian Chen shook his head with a smile and said, "The ancestors favored me and told me in my dreams about planting, building cities, conquests, etc., but they didn't directly make me the leader. ”

"Man, it's not something you can predict. A person's destiny is, of course, dependent on the favor of his ancestors and God, but also on his own struggle. I definitely don't know how a member of my small clan was elected by everyone to be the leader of Xia City? As a result, the elders and the members of the council said, "You have led us to plant, build cities, and fight, and do not shirk, it is you." I said at the time that for the sake of the development of the city, I would not think about the life and death of the individual. And so I became the leader of Summer City. ”

"But is this what the ancestors and God told the members of the council to choose me? No, it is that I have relied on the guidance of my ancestors to do things that are beneficial to my clan and my city, and if I have not bent my bow and archery from the beginning, step by step, even if my ancestors have taught me a lot, what is the use? ”

"Heaven and the ancestors will only guide and warn, and in the end it depends on personal struggle. Suppose the ancestors had told me that I would have eaten venison in two days; There is a herd of deer in a certain valley. As long as I listen to these two sentences and don't make them with my hands, will there be venison to eat? ”

"As the head of the clan, didn't you rely on everyone's trust, but on you directly appointed by the ancestors? If not, what's the difference between you and me? ”

The leader of the small clan pale, shook his head and was silent, and after a moment of silence, someone immediately stood up and said: "Ji Xia didn't understand the method of witchcraft, and I have also heard you talk about a lot of things, which is quite reasonable." Ji Xia once said that if you want to know how to harvest corn and wheat beans, you must first know how corn and wheat beans grow and why they grow good or bad. What Ji Xia means is that if you want to get a result, you must first know and understand one thing, am I right? ”

Chen Jian nodded, and the man said: "Since this is the case, we will not talk about Wu Bu, not about bad luck, but only ask Ji Xia, what is the star in the sky?" ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

"If you don't know, how do you know that he is not a troublemaker? Why not worry? ”

"The heavens and the earth are vast, and there are thousands of grasses and all things, who can say that they can recognize it clearly? Even the most ordinary things you see may not be understood, and many times you just think you understand them, but they are not. If you don't understand, you can wait until later to understand, and just do what you understand, is there anything wrong? Then I ask you, the most common sun and moon, do you say they are round? If it's not round, then you don't understand it every day, and you see the sun and moon every day, do you still have to worry about them bringing disaster? ”

For the first time, Chen Jian's words did not get approval and cheers, but attracted everyone's doubts and ridicule, people thought that Chen Jian was crazy, the moon and the sun were not round, what else could it be?

The person who scolded Jian Chen was even more joyful of a victor, shook his head and chuckled: "Who said you know more? It turns out that you can't tell whether the sun and the moon are round? The sun, the moon, of course is round, my eyes tell me, it can't be wrong. Now that I know, why should I worry about their misfortune? (To be continued.) )