Progressive civilizations are always similar, while wild civilizations each have different distortions.

Because of this similarity, Wei Xi found the shadow of his own city in the strangeness of the city.

The standing army, separate public property, levy of food, violence replaces preaching, laws stipulate rights and obligations, and the rights that each performs its own duties...

Although there are many differences on the surface, just like scalpers and flower cows, they are all cows, but their fur colors are different.

The state has always been a tool of the ruling class. For Xiacheng, more than 2,000 people in the city are the ruling class, while nearly 1,000 slaves and wild people outside the scattered villages are the ruling class. It is impossible to expect them to fight spontaneously for the city, nor to expect them to pay taxes voluntarily to fulfill their obligations; so the standing army appeared and the law appeared. In order to maintain the law, new violent organs and executive institutions also came.

The slaves of a thousand people are not controlled by a tribe, so the standing army has become a necessary existence for suppressing rule; in order to maintain the standing army, taxes are indispensable; in order to ensure tax collection, some full-time personnel have officially become special existences in the ruling class.

Whether it is Weixi, Eyue or Chen Jian's tribe, it is the same.

The leaders were no longer satisfied with the free and voluntary respect of the clan system, even if they could obtain it.

They transcend blood clans and no longer represent the interests of blood relatives but represent the interests of the ruling class in the entire city kingdom. Therefore, they use violence and law to gain new respects, unlike the respect under the clan system.

On the surface, every tribe is not respecting rights, but just following the respect for the law, but what is the law?

When the laws and regulations appeared, Ji Song was not the leader, but he had greater authority than the leader of the clan in punishing his clans.

This authority is completely different from the past. It is no longer the conviction of the tribe and the respect of nature, but the existence of a society that transcends natural institution based on the army of cities and taxation and other violent organs.

When the clan grows up, it always has to grow into a country. Some people don’t want to grow up, but they can’t stop it.

Wei Xi naturally wouldn't think so much, nor could he understand this. He just instinctively felt the similarities between the two cities, and his contempt for this tribe gradually dissipated.

It is not because I saw those strange tools that could replace slaves, but because I saw the inner system that was similar to my own tribe and supported by laws.

"This Ji Xia's method is very similar to her brother, but she is younger than her brother."

Thinking in his heart, he turned around and asked the accompanying person and said, "When will Ji Xia be back?"

"It's soon, you can go to the house to sleep for a while, or eat something, the newly exchanged corn wine yesterday."

"No, I'll walk around the city and take a look."

"Okay, but you can't go there."

The man stretched out his hand and pointed at a place with thick smoke outside the city. Wei Xi smiled and said, "Our tribe is not something that others can go to, I know."

He turned his head and walked casually along the gravel road in the city. He really didn't look at the place where the smoke was emitting, but just curiously asked about many novel things that he didn't understand.

More than an hour later, Chen Jian finally arrived from Heyin City, with several blindfolded people following behind him.

Wei Xi saw those familiar people, but he didn't see his uncle. He smiled and said, "This is the mine slave we are looking for. Since you have caught it, we will soon send fifty sheep. But... there is another one?"

"We have met that person, but he has a jade pendant on him and is not a mine slave."

"He is, but he ran away before he had time to pick the jade pendant. Please return this person to our tribe."

Chen Jian raised the jade ring and said, "Before you came, he gave me this and begged me to send him to the Eyue tribe. I have agreed. Then you came to our tribe. There were nine people in total, each of whom was worth six sheep. Compared to this ring, I want these six sheep more, but I want to keep my promise more."

Wei Xi was a little at a loss and thought that if he encountered such a thing, he might do this. This man named Ji Xia kept his promise, but what should he do if his brother asked him to do?

"Let me do this, I'll send him to the Eyue tribe. If you talk to the Eyue tribe, do you think it's okay?"

He nodded and said, "Then that's it. Can those mine slaves be placed in your city first? When I come back, I can take them away. I can give you my jade pendant, and you will give it to me when we send the sheep."

"Hahaha, there's no need, I can trust you. Have you ever seen E Yue?"

"No, but I know this surname and a very famous tribe."

He pointed to the ribbon on his head and gave the answer with a smile. Of course, every tribe wearing silk knew this surname. There was a saying that he didn't say, that is, the surname E was much more famous than the Ji surname.

Chen Jian called several tribe members and handed them his tokens to them and said, "You should take a boat to Echeng now and tell Eyue to set off as soon as possible and meet in the mall. Two things are said, one is the matter of the Weixi tribe, and the other is that it is already the beginning of autumn. The tribe with horses in the north may start to mow the grass and dry it to prepare for the winter."

After several tribesmen received the token, they repeated it to ensure that they did not hear it wrong. After Chen Jian nodded, several people went to find Yuqianer to ask for food and boats.

Yuqianer ran out of the room and shouted, "Brother, are you going to the mall?"

"Yes, if you stay in the city, we will also have to cut hay. You have to arrange some people."

"I know, yesterday was fine. If you go to the mall, discuss something with you."

She blinked at Chen Jian, and Chen Jian apologized to Wei Xi: "My sister. I'll tell her something."

When he walked to the corner, Yuqier whispered: "Brother, we can't exchange it with E Yue and the others for the time being. You are not allowed to make wine, but there is not enough food for the time being. Their black pottery is so good. They have also learned how to use hay to store baskets. There are also ox carts that cannot be broken when transported over; there are also jades, ox horns, etc. If bronze is not replaced, there is not enough food, and the ox carts are made slowly... All we can exchange is salt, but we can't eat much salt. If we change this way, our city can only change food out of the food, that's not possible."

"What do you think you should do?"

"Not change. Let's change it when we have it. Can't let their merchants come to our city for the time being? Or let the merchants passing by the mall hand over some food?"

"Then where did the food they paid come from? Didn't it be added to the things they changed? In the end, it would be like we collect our own people's food, and in disguise we turned one fifteen pounds into one fourteen pounds or more."

Yuqianer smiled and said, "I have thought of it for a long time and discussed it with Hongyu. She said that if their black pottery is going to be exchanged for more food in this way, they can't replace it with the acorn pottery. And those jades and so on. She said that if I don't allow the tribes to change, the tribes will hate me, and E Yue will not be able to say anything."

Chen Jian also laughed, and Yu Qianer grabbed his hand and shook it: "Can you do it?"

"No. Everything is the same, change it anyway. Because we just planted it, there were insufficient food and not many slaves, but we could see farther. I removed those two pieces this time, and I was really going to discuss exchange with E Yue, but it was completely opposite to what you said."

"What's the meaning?"

"I want to swear with him that goods passing through the mall between the two tribes will never be charged for passing taxes. Do you think he can agree?"

"He must agree. There are actually not many things we can change now, but this is not good for us. If this continues, the acorn pottery kiln can only be replaced by the wild people. If he changes it for a while, it is better to go to farm the pottery he can make in a day."

Chen Jian smiled and stretched out a finger and said, "Now E Yue will laugh, but E Yue will cry after a year. Let Acorn temporarily stop the pottery kiln and help burn bricks. You continue to change the things of the E Yue tribe, and change them as you should."

Yuqianer looked at the finger and nodded and smiled. Of course she believed her brother's words, but we didn't understand why we had to swear?

"By the way, these days I've left, you've prepared enough food for 400 people to eat for a month, stir-fry the noodles, oil and salt, prepare herbs, repair the bad wheels, and recruit wild people again, go and build a few wooden towers along the mountain and strengthen the Yangguan. Also, you've miscalculated the matter of cutting hay, and if you want to calculate too much, you have to build some stables."

Yuqianer stretched out his hand and said, "Give me the seal letter, this is something Situ should take charge of. I can't take care of it, and the rules cannot be messed up."

Chen Jian took out Yin Xin and said, "Okay, from now on until I come back, my sister is Situ from Xiacheng. Situ Ji, are you ready for the staff your brother wants to bring? Sihu Ji, are you ready for the food your brother wants to bring?"

"I'm ready to reply to Ji Xia, the Lord of the City."

She deliberately acted serious and said with serene words. After a long time, the brother and sister couldn't hold back and looked at each other and laughed.

"Brother, when you come back, ask E Yue to ask me for a jade hairpin. I am guarding the public property, but I can't change it. If I exchange it for a clan property, all my sisters want it. You secretly ask E Yue to ask for one... When you come back, you lied to the sisters and said yes... well, I said it was given to me by the 9th."

"It's easy to say, God knows you know me, I know, but my sisters definitely don't know."

Yuqianer laughed and ran away with the seal.

In fact, she doesn't like jade hairpins very much, but just wants to use it to tell herself that in her brother's heart, she is different from other sisters.

Although she is already a merchandise, it is different, but she works hard to calculate the tiring headaches of those things every night, just to be a good merchandise, because those digital goods can bring herself closer to her brother.

But sometimes, she just wants to be a simple sister because she thinks that if other sisters can count these things, they can also be used as goods. So is the brother close to him because of the numbers in his mind? Or is it just because she is his brother's favorite sister?

She couldn't figure it out, it seemed the same, it seemed different, were the numbers in her mind also part of herself?

However, at least the hairpin has nothing to do with the position of serving goods, it is simply a request from a sister to act coquettishly to her brother.

In the past, I could lie on my brother's back and hold my neck, but now that I have grown up, I know that this is not good, so I have to use a jade hairpin instead of physical intimacy.

After running far away, she habitually touched her pigtails and said blankly to herself: "Where do I put it in with the hairpin?"

Combing your hair is not only a change in your hairstyle, but also announcing that you have grown up. When a girl puts a hairpin in, she is actually telling the young men: Come on, come and sing to me.

She didn't want to, and felt confused. She wanted to run back and tell her brother that she didn't want a hairpin anymore. She ran a few steps but didn't think about what to change to.
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