"About this is the feeling of evaluating a person's historical achievements after the final conclusion... If one day, I will be evaluated by others, and I may still hear this evaluation. What would it feel like?"

"For the same thing, is the evaluation after death based on the three views of the times? Or is it aside the three views and judged purely by the driving force of the historical process? History is pure, but evaluation is value-oriented..."

After nostalgia, he did not hurt the present. Chen Jian only thought of his own evaluation after his death, which was related to his identity in the next life.

Standing alone on the top of the mountain, looking at the battlefield where there were no bloodstains of bones and blood. I didn't say anything for a long time until the sky gradually became dark, and I sighed. My heart, which was slightly hesitant, finally became firm... I have ideals, and I have the ideals of my previous life, stick to it, and don't be confused by my butt. My original heart is.

It’s just that the time is too long, and there may be many times. Memory carries a person’s emotions. Can you really be a person who can enjoy the scenery of the road and not forget your destination? It will take at least a thousand years to meet like-minded people and times. Can you really stick to your original aspirations?

In the sunset, many people saw Chen Jian stretching out his hand. These hands that had been used to create the world were not whistling to the sky or to respect the sky. They just murmured a few words, clenched their fists, and hummed a strange song. The faint tune made people rush in the cold wind.

The wind in late autumn and early winter blew away Chen Jian's words, and no one heard what he said, even after falling from the mountain, it was not much different.

On the top of the mountain, what he said and the songs he sang finally became a mystery. People guessed but couldn't guess. They only saw Chen Jian riding a horse and leaving behind, but no one dared to ask.

After leaving Quangu, everything was as usual. On the way, Chen Jian continued to deal with the kind and fresh Yuemei, but finally felt a little tired in his tone. Yuemei just thought he was tired from traveling far away and did not think too much.

The first snow in early winter has not yet fallen, but the breath he exhaled has brought out white fog, especially when a group of people walk together, you can see the white fog rising from a distance.

The closer the fog to Sucheng, the more it gets. When Chen Jian finally saw Sucheng, he smiled and beat his frozen numb legs, covered with red fish's skin, but he still couldn't withstand the cold winter.

He raised his head and looked at the tall city wall and the solid loess stones under the city wall. In comparison, the city wall less than two meters high in Xiacheng was like a toy for a child.

The outer circle of the city is still a trench, and people keep coming and going on the small paths leading to the surroundings, carrying bundles of firewood or grain in and out with shoulder poles.

After Chen Jian and others appeared, many people stopped to watch these horses they had never seen before, wondering why these donkeys were so big.

Or because they knew that the leaders of each city were coming to the party, the people of Sucheng maintained the demeanor that a large city should have, did not give much guidance, and had corresponding respect for the leaders and guests.

"I finally arrived. Sucheng is indeed very big. I can't blame it for the best cities on both sides of the river decades ago, and it is far from comparable to Xiacheng."

Chen Jian raised his horse whip and pointed to the city from a distance. Su He smiled and said, "Although Xiacheng is still small for the time being, it will eventually become bigger in the future. Not to mention anything else, the birch bark boat I learned from Xiacheng has been spread all over the people in Sucheng. It is said that a city that can come up with such a solution will definitely be a big city."

Chen Jian didn't expect that the biggest impact among ordinary people was not the wheels but the bark boat, and he was slightly surprised.

Su He guessed Chen Jian’s thoughts and said, “The wheels are expensive and not something that ordinary people can make. The bark boat is simple and convenient, and you can fish and cast nets. Every household here needs a boat. Nearby is a big river, and there are often floods in summer. In the past, there were wooden boards, which were far less convenient than bark boats. Each family pulled out a lot of bark and prepared the boat in advance and put it in the house. Once it was watered, they would have to escape.”

"It seems that the clans on both sides of the river have been suffering from floods and droughts for a long time."

"Yes, but I can't bear to leave. Although there is a flood, once the water passes, the mud is everywhere. If it is sprinkled with seeds, it will be as good as the yield of the other clans in three to five years. It is almost the same as the ridges in Xiacheng. This big river is mother, and the overflowing water is milk. I really love and hate. When I hate, I curse the god of the heaven and earth in the song, but even if I curse, I don't allow other clans to say something bad."

Su He closed his eyes slightly, as if he was listening to the rushing river water from a long distance, and was intoxicated by it. He said for a long time: "Ji Xia, this time the leader invited you, in addition to the oath, he also hopes that you can see the water level of the river... I don't want to be like a summer canal to be flooded by people, but I hope there will be no more floods."

He sighed and said, "Although the silt production after the flood is extremely high, it can't bear it once every few years. Now I will tell you what I saw in Xiacheng. Everyone knows the method of making ridges in Xiacheng, and no one wants to hide from the flood every year."

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't help, but the big river is far from comparable to Caohe River. It's so wide that the waves are churning. Although Sucheng has a large population, it may not be able to control the river."

"Yes, after I came back, the leader heard about what I saw in Xiacheng and had discussed with several nearby clans. Is it just Sucheng, which has been suffering from floods and droughts for a long time? It's just... it's just that many leaders have heard that they have never seen each other, so it's hard to believe it..."

Su He was a little excited, and Chen Jian did not swear. The matter here was very complicated, not just that simple, and he couldn't agree directly, so he could only see the situation before talking.

After entering Sucheng, the leader of Sucheng brought people to greet him. More than 20 leaders who had arrived had already heard of Chen Jian's name, and he was curious and praised him.

The clan leaders were still coming one after another, and E Yue, Wei He and others had also arrived. They lived very close to Yue Mei's clan members who were with Chen Jian. There were banquets for several days, and the leaders discussed major events with each other or recalled the time decades ago.

Chen Jian was embarrassed at this time because Xia Cheng suddenly came out of the wilderness and was far from such a historical heritage.

The parents of E Yueshujiu and the parents of other clan leaders were either acquaintances or counting several generations as sisters and brothers, and they were connected to each other, and occasionally there were relatives who had not seen each other for decades.

The people of Xiacheng were accidentally isolated by these leaders, not intentionally, but they really had no relatives with Chen Jian. If it weren't for Xiacheng's various inventions, Chen Jian felt that he had been forgotten by everyone.

This was the result that Chen Jian had already expected. The people of Xiacheng had a feeling of alienation and loneliness for the first time. Listening to a group of people counting their kinship and talking about the old things decades ago, the people of Xiacheng had to secretly regret that their clan was not on both sides of the river decades ago, otherwise today would be wonderful.

Various tones were talking in Sucheng. Although the language was almost similar due to the geographical environment and living habits, the tone was very different. Because of the humid climate on the south bank of the Great River, the sound would not distort due to cold and dryness, so the tone was more delicate and the vocabulary changed more; the clans seven or eight hundred miles north were very strong due to factors such as dry climate, and the tone was very strong nasal and closed accents. The flat and curled tongues of some words were not very clear, but they were easy to understand in cold and dry weather.

No matter how it changes, the inner essence of language is similar, which makes Chen Jian very happy. This is the most basic foundation, but it also requires the efforts of heroes.

For example, in the previous life, there was both unity under the same language foundation and division under the same language foundation. Shaanxi, Guangdong, Shandong, and Henan became dialects within the province; Switzerland, Netherlands, and German, which had the same roots and origins, became several languages ​​and nations alone, and created the different national concepts of the East and the West before the West dominated the discourse power in the West... Shaanxi people did not become Qin people, and Shandong people did not become Qi people. They did not have time to form an imaginary community and merged into one. It has to be said that this is a great blessing. The achievements of the ancestor dragon are comparable to the sun and the moon.

The approximate language and the clan alliance that once existed temporarily made Chen Jian full of confidence in the future of this clan.

Using language that can be communicated, Chen Jian learned about the generality of the entire circle of transformation.

Caohe is the tributary of the big river at the northwest end of the entire Hualian circle, and it is about 1,400 miles from Caohe to Sucheng.

There are seven or eight hundred miles north of the river, and cities and villages with assimilation circles. Because there are tools such as sheepskin rafts and wood, there are also many clans on the south bank, but the range is not large, controlling a distance of about four hundred miles, and it has certain communication with the clans further south. The specific manifestations are the appearance of rice and the name of millet.

Sucheng is about 600 miles east of the so-called Dongyi. It has similar languages ​​but different. The original religion and worship are also different, but it is nothing more than the difference between a three-legged pot and a four-legged pottery cauldron.

The entire clan circle is about a long range of about 1,800 miles long and 900 miles wide. Most of them are on both sides of a large river or tributary. It is converted into a unit of about 500,000 square kilometers of land in previous lives, which is about the size of two provinces.

Hundreds of clans and nearly a hundred cities and towns were scattered and developed differently. There were small cities and states in the prototype of the country, and small clans who were still in slash-and-burn farming or even eating raw meat and drinking blood. This kind of unbalanced development is normal. Even after liberation in the previous life, there were still matriarchal communes and slash-and-burn farming groups in the mountains.

The use of pottery is already quite common, and some clans have also appeared original porcelain. Original ones have begun to prevail due to surplus food, but overall, no currency appears.

The crops are mainly corn, rice, soybeans, bean rice and pockmarks. The animals that are commonly raised include cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, geese, etc. The cats are still in a semi-domestic state, forming a symbiotic relationship between mice and humans in the granary.

The general yield of these crops is less than 100 kilograms per mu, and it is about the point where one harvest is three or four. However, due to the vast land, the sparse population, the burning and silt, etc., there will be occasional bumper harvests to ensure the development of the animal husbandry industry.

The food is mainly roasted, boiled and porridge. The winemaking technology is gradually mature, and fermented foods such as vinegar and sauce have appeared. The meat sauce is still very high-end and high-end foods.

Before this, the dispute between habits and worship had been carried out several times: because the blood of animals often had parasites and bacteria, many clans did not eat animal blood before, and passed on them as a kind of knowledge and then became a myth and taboo.

With the widespread use of pottery steaming, this taboo has been broken, and many originally inedible internal organs have walked onto the dining table before the religious taboos appear.

The brewing of corn wine has also formed a scale, using the method of converting koji sugar instead of the method of growing buds and sugar. In this era, wine was still an important sacrifice and luxury.

Vegetables are more common, including gourds, mustard greens, radishes and cabbage. There is no cooking method for stir-frying. Most of them are boiled with meat or fat.

Artificial pressed vegetable oil did not appear, but some people have begun to use a layer of oily skin on the corn porridge to cook vegetables. Some oil crops are also used to satisfy hunger when they are hungry, and some even eat toxic castor seeds.

The richness of food indirectly proves the inevitable emergence of things such as clothing, etiquette and other things.

The clothes and clothing of each clan are basically unified, with special meanings of worship of gods and philosophical concepts. The rich families and blood nobles use silk as their clothes, and the weaving level of silk weaving is no longer low.

Ordinary people use a kind of fiber bark weaving cloth, and they have basically mastered the method of fermenting glue to clean the hemp fiber, but no cotton appears.

The domestication of tussaurus and mulberry silkworms has been basically completed, and we have realized the relationship between moths and silkworms. Many cities have officials who specialize in teaching women to raise silkworms.

Most cities have emerged as hereditary prototypes in the handover of rights because of the emergence of private ownership: they are still nominally elected by everyone, but the leader's descendants have a higher chance of being elected as leader because of the inheritance of land, slaves, connections, etc.

A small number of cities still have remnants of clan villages. People cultivate the land or redistribute the land according to the population every three to five years. The leader holds the distribution rights and constantly accumulates wealth through the distribution rights.

Bronze has not been widely used, but some powerful clans have mastered the method of bronze casting, and even some metal utensils have appeared, but the efficiency of use is not high.

Slavery system has not yet become the main mode of production, but slaves have guaranteed the labor of public land in most cities.

The tribe members in the city are natural soldiers, with high political rights, and the leader cannot make decisions on major matters and needs to solicit opinions from tribe members. This is a manifestation of the unity of rights and obligations.

The use of stone tools has reached its peak. All clans have mastered the techniques of drilling, polishing, etc., and can even be used as jade with extremely high hardness.

During the firing of pottery, both fast and slow wheels are common, and the kiln temperature is basically qualified. The residual rate of fired pottery is reduced, especially the black pottery in Echeng and glazed pottery in Yueyi are the most famous.

Family slaves coexist with public slaves, and land private ownership emerged, but women have not completely lost their status. With the remnants of the old era's thoughts, women's status is basically similar to men and they have the right to choose a spouse independently, because their thoughts are always behind the corresponding era for hundreds of years.

Because of female fertility, the worship custom of the goddess of fertility still exists and is integrated with other myths. However, most of the priests of the main priests changed from women to men, and the strong atmosphere of the theocracy exists in many cities.

All cities and towns also mastered the methods of tying the holes and timing, mastered the division of the four seasons of the year, the solar calendar and the moon calendar coexisted, and began to name the stars in the sky.

Primitive poetry appeared in large numbers, from heroic epics to production labor, different poems were circulated among the people in the form of singing, and the most primitive rhythmic beauty began to appear, which is the direction of natural development.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are closely related to food. Only when you are full can you have the time to think about the other problems. War also begins to make profits due to surplus production and slaves.

Seven or eight cities facing east of Sucheng formed an alliance with Sucheng. A few years ago, Sucheng defeated the invasion of the Dongyi people and became the overlord of the nearby area, with its military strength prospering.

Because of the remnants and foundations twenty years ago, and the mastery of bronze casting, salt ponds, etc., Sucheng is unparalleled in this generation, and looking at the entire circle of transformation, it is also a huge city.

The Dongyi people facing east of Sucheng occupied a generation of coastal areas. There were also clan exchanges outside the war. Things such as seashells can be seen in Sucheng, and are about a thousand miles away from the sea.

In addition to the powerful Sucheng, there are three or five cities with very powerful cities and towns, and they have a population and force second only to Sucheng. The number of soldiers mobilized by the young and strong population is more than 6,000. The entire city is not considered slaves, but has a population of nearly 20,000.

Because there were many powerful clans and cities, the power of the entire circle of transformation was weakened, and the Dongyi tribes had begun to unite, constantly fighting, making peace, and plundering population slaves within a vast range of thousands of miles.

The non-cultivation clan on the south bank of the Great River is not strong, but there is also a rice planting circle that grows rice. It is quite powerful, but because of a wide buffer zone, the two ethnic groups have not yet reached the point of fighting each other.

To the west were the Xirong people. After learning to grow corn, they gradually became stronger and tough. They were no longer primitive tribes that could not last long after a touch. There were hundreds of miles south of the Acropolis that were controlled by the Xirong people.

Not counting the alien races that appeared for some reasons near Xiacheng, there were no strong enemies to the north of the river. The so-called Beidi and Xiacheng saw grassland tribes.

Because of the cold climate, extremely fragile productivity and the fact that metals have not been used on a large scale, the Beidi tribe was aggressive, but its productivity was relatively backward, and it was difficult to unify and unlikely to unite. It had little threat, but instead became an excellent hunting ground and slave capture site.

The most threatening ones are the Dongyi people, the products and salt that rely on the sea, the climate suitable for cultivation at the same latitude, the similarity of the technical level of transformation and technology, the emergence of heroes... All of these determine that they are different from the Western Rong people. The Western Rong people can only form loose alliances for the time being and it is difficult to gather the ethnic group.

It was this threat that led to the emergence of Sucheng's hegemony. Several cities at the forefront had only two choices: either move away from the Dongyi tribe, or unite around the big cities to keep warm. These tribes are the ones who most desire the emergence of clan alliances.

Factors such as floods have also led to the emergence of clan alliances along the river, and they need to work together to deal with floods, rather than disconnecting between the upstream and downstream.

In this way, the two biggest threats affected a small half of the clans and cities, and the huge force needed together was unstoppable.

The strong desire for power, the weak desire for security, neither weak nor strong, and there is no barbarian flood, and they are worried that the clan alliance will appear and will not become a sacrifice.
Chapter completed!