Chapter 589: Sit and Discuss (Please vote and subscribe)
"Chief Jiang has come from afar and has taken great pains. I should have personally gone to the city gate to greet him, but the city was busy with military affairs yesterday, and I was not able to entertain him well. I had to send Hong Shaoqing to entertain him on his behalf. I wonder if you had a good rest last night? Come, please sit here."
Luo Chong stood up and walked around the desk, sat down at the main seat of the reception table, and invited Jiang Xuan to sit opposite him. A clerk next to him served hot tea.
This way of entertaining was enough to give Jiang Xuan face. After all, he was the leader of a large tribe with a population of more than 2,000, and the Han tribe was planning to peacefully annex the other side. At that time, Jiang Xuan would have to be assigned an important position. If he didn't appear sincere now, how could he fool this guy over?
Since Jiang Xuan and You Fu had the longest communication time and were already quite familiar with each other, You Fu was asked to be the translator for the two of them during today's meeting. You Jiang didn't speak Chinese or the grassland language, so it was quite troublesome for them to communicate. Even You Fu had to make some gestures when translating for him.
When Jiang Xuan understood Luo Chong's words, he immediately remembered Luo Chong's so-called "busy military affairs". The streets were full of military supplies. With so many weapons, how many soldiers would be equipped!
"The hospitality of the Han tribe is very good. The Han leader doesn't need to be so polite." Jiang Xuan also waved his hand and said, looking flattered.
He had to be surprised. Before he came to the Han tribe, he thought it was okay, but after seeing these cities, he realized the huge gap between You Jiang and the Han tribe. The leader of such a large tribe would not have any problem even if he ignored him, but now he was so polite. How could he not feel flattered?
"I heard from You Fu that there is a Jiang family living by the Liuyang River, with a population of more than 2,000. The people make a living by farming. I feel very close to it. Our two tribes should be one family. The people in the tribe all drink the water of the Liuyang River, which is the same source. They all eat rice irrigated by the water of this river, which is the same root. Since we have the same root and the same source, Chief Jiang does not need to be distant with the Han tribe. Just treat the Han tribe as your own home."
You Fu and the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple next to him were stunned. Oh, the chief is really amazing. He turned people into his own people with just two sentences! Everyone living by the same river is a family? If we follow the chief's theory, I don't know how many relatives will suddenly appear in the Han tribe.
Jiang Xuan looked at the reactions of several people with a confused look on his face. He didn't know what Luo Chong said to make You Fu and others look shocked and admired, so he had to look at You Fu with an inquiring look. You Fu also quickly translated and explained what Luo Chong had just said, and then it was Jiang Xuan's turn to doubt his life.
It is true that we all live by the same river, and we do eat food grown by the same river. What you said makes sense, but why do I always feel something is wrong? !
Jiang Xuan didn't know how Luo Chong calculated it, but he could count two tribes that had never met as one family, but it didn't sound wrong. However, he was able to sit in the position of the leader of the Jiang family, so he was naturally not a fool. He knew why Luo Chong said that. It was just to build a relationship. It didn't matter how to build it. The important thing was that you wanted us to join the Han tribe, so you had to convince me first.
"Thank you for the hospitality of the Han tribe. Since the Han leader asked me to treat the Han tribe as my own home, I won't be polite?" Jiang Xuan tentatively replied.
"This is what I should do. We are all family. If you need any help, just tell me. I will definitely help you if I can. I will also find ways to help you if there is no other way. By the way, do you need a house in Jiangshi? If you need a house, come to us. We have a lot of good houses here. We promise to arrange them for you."
Hearing that he didn't want to be polite to him, Luo Chong also quickly stated his price. As long as you are willing to move in, it is not a problem to give you a few houses. You see how good I am to you, Jiangshi, as your big brother.
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Jiang Xuan was distracted by Luo Chong's jumping thoughts and didn't know what to say. He didn't know why, no matter what he said, Luo Chong could always lead the topic back to the matter of absorbing Jiangshi within two sentences, and he said it so implicitly. You are the leader of such a big tribe. Did you fool all your people with your mouth? Ah! ?
"No, I want to ask the Han leader, the Han tribe obviously already has so many cities and people, why do you need so many people? Do you have any plans for the future that require so many manpower?"
Jiang Xuan saw that he really couldn't get around this question, so he simply asked Luo Chong a question directly, wanting to hear what this young leader would say. It is impossible for this leader to be the leader of a super large tribe like the Han tribe and to convince his people completely if he doesn't have some skills and a plan for future development. Apart from anything else,
with Luo Chong's deceptive mouth and his flexible thinking, if you ask how the tribe will develop in the future, he will definitely be able to tell you one, two, three.
Moreover, Jiang Xuan had been thinking about this problem before he came. The current development of the Jiang family has reached a bottleneck, and he has begun to be confused about the future. Now if he can ask the leader of the Han tribe about this problem, then even if he doesn't join the Han tribe after returning, he can figure out how the Jiang family should go in the future.
Hearing Jiang Xuan's question, Luo Chong also knew that the other party was not a person who was easy to fool. It seemed that it was time to show some real stuff, so the expression on his face suddenly became serious, making Jiang Xuan, who was sitting opposite, think that his eyes were blurry just now, as if the Han leader had always been so serious.
"As for population, the more the better. The more people there are, the more things can be done, and our people can live better. If there are few people, many things will have to be postponed, so our development will be slow. However, each of us has limited time, so I have to pursue a faster speed and more people.
A great man once said this, 'Ten thousand years is too long, I only fight for the day'. I agree with this sentence, so I can only do my best to develop the Han tribe to the strongest and largest in the limited time of this life, and strive to leave more for our descendants.
By the way, I heard You Fu say that the Jiang family also worshipped their ancestors, so you should understand what I mean.
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with respecting ancestors . The Han tribe also revered the natural world and the ancestral heritage.
Without the natural world, we would not have been born. Without the earth, rivers, sunshine, and air, we would not be able to grow food, and without food, we would not be able to survive. Therefore, the heaven and earth are great, and we should reverence them.
The inheritance of ancestors is equally important, because it is our ancestors who taught us how to survive, how to find and use the resources given to us by Mother Earth. This is the foundation for the continuation of our race, so people should not forget their ancestors.
But I also have some opinions of my own, just like our ancestors, who used countless blood and tears to summarize a lot of production and life experience for us, and then taught us tirelessly not to make the mistakes they had made, and to master the correct methods and ways.
In the same way, for our descendants, we are their ancestors, so why can't we leave something for our next generation, whether it is better material conditions, more advanced science and technology, or cultural and ideological heritage.
Since we are now capable of doing all this, why not leave them something more?
I heard from You Fu that the Jiang family is good at raising bees and can produce honey and beehives. I don't need to guess that you will definitely teach this skill to your descendants and let them pass it on, but then what?
Do you know that there are other uses for raising bees? Do you know how long the shelf life of honey is? Do you know that in addition to being eaten, beehives can also be used to make beeswax? Do you know that in addition to collecting nectar, bees can also be placed in greenhouses for pollination? "
Luo Chong looked at the confused Jiang Xuan and You Fu, who was translating with his hands and feet dancing, and continued mercilessly.
"You don't know these, so you can only teach your descendants what your ancestors have taught you intactly. There is no progress in this process. Is this right?
As an ancestor of the next generation, if you only play the role of a mouthpiece and cannot create more knowledge and skills to pass on to the next generation, then please ask yourself, can you live up to your pioneering ancestors? Can you live up to your hungry descendants? "
As soon as Luo Chong finished speaking, not only Jiang Xuan and Jiang Yong, but even You Fu and the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple beside them fell into deep thought. The leader's words were thought-provoking. Did we learn the skills taught by our ancestors and then start to eat and wait for death? As long as we pass on what we have learned to the next generation and watch our children get married and have children, we will have completed our life mission?
"But I don't know anything, how can I create more things?"
This is another very realistic problem. Not everyone is a genius. Who can guarantee that he can leave something useful for future generations in this life?
There is nothing wrong with saying this, but Luo Chong had just finished speaking. If he thought about it this way, it seemed that he was making excuses for his behavior of eating and waiting for death.
So he heard Jiang Xuan ask: "Han leader, I think what you said makes sense, but as you just said, there are some things we don't understand. Not to mention that we have the Jiang family, even with so many people in the Han tribe, it is impossible for everyone to be as knowledgeable as the Han leader. So what can we do to leave more inheritance for future generations? Please teach me, Han leader. "
"What's so difficult about this? If you don't know how to do it, then learn it. Not everyone can create, and not everyone is a genius, but if we teach the most basic things to a hundred people, there will always be two smart ones who can create new things. No matter what they create, it's a good thing. Then we let more people learn and summarize. Those who learn these new things will derive their own knowledge. Even if there is only one person among a thousand, we will make money.
If you think that the rest of the people can't create value, then you are wrong. As the managers of the tribe, we only need to promote those few smart people and give them more power, so that these few smart people can lead the rest of the tribe to do more things.
Just like what you saw on the road when you came from Liuyang County, since we know that digging artificial rivers and building canals can open up more farmland, we can let a few smart people lead the rest of the tribe to dig, even if our current fields are enough for everyone to eat, but what about the future?
The people live a stable life and have enough food. If this continues, the population will definitely increase. For example, if you have five children, and each of these five children has five children, the population will increase 25 times. A large population growth will definitely require more fields to produce food. If we don't start planning now, do we have to wait for our descendants to grow up before we can find a way to dig rivers and build canals?
This is not impossible, but how many years does it take to dig a river? Since we can do it now, why should we leave it to our descendants to find a way? The descendants of that generation will naturally have their own things to do. They also have to contribute and inherit for their descendants. We can't leave this kind of thing to our descendants, otherwise it will be no different from what I said about eating and waiting to die.
If you drag your feet and don't do it, your descendants will follow you and don't plan for their descendants. How can the tribe develop and progress?
So we must lead by example. What parents do will be what our children will do in the future. This is the character shaped by the environment. Although it is not certain, it does have a certain impact.
You may not understand this, so let me tell you a little story.
Once upon a time, there was a family with three generations living together. The male owner of the family was very unfilial. He pushed his mother, who he had raised with great difficulty, into the wild in a cart, and then went back home, intending to starve his mother to death and no longer fulfill his obligation to support the elderly.
His son saw this and was very sad. He didn't want his grandmother to die like this, so he went out and pushed the cart that his father had used to push his grandmother back, but he didn't bring his grandmother back. "
"Didn't the Han leader say that this grandson couldn't bear to leave his grandmother? Then why didn't he bring his grandmother back? What's the difference between doing this and his father? "
Jiang Xuan was also very angry after listening to You Fu's translation. The Youjiang clan, like the Han tribe, also worshipped their ancestors. What are ancestors? The elders are their ancestors, so filial piety is also universal in the Youjiang clan. So when he heard Luo Chong say that someone actually threw his mother into the wild, he would naturally be very angry.
But Luo Chong, who was talking about this matter, did not have any emotional fluctuations, and just listened to him continue.
"The father of that child also asked his child the same question, saying why did you push this cart back again, it looks unlucky.
But the child said very confidently, didn't you use this cart to push my grandmother away? Then when you are old and can't work, I will also use this cart to push you into the wild and throw you away. This is what you taught me.
The father of the child realized his mistake and obediently pushed the cart to pick up his elderly mother. "
"Oh-I understand, this is what the Han leader said about leading by example, and the environment shapes character. If parents do not respect the elderly, their descendants will follow suit.
But the child that the Han leader mentioned is also very smart. He can actually come up with such a way to make his father learn to be filial. I wonder where this child that the Han leader mentioned is and what his name is. I must meet this smart and filial child. "
After listening to Luo Chong's story, Jiang Xuan suddenly realized and slapped his thigh. He also praised the child that Luo Chong mentioned, but Luo Chong's face suddenly turned black and he began to complain in his heart.
"How the hell do I know who this child is? I just heard about him from others in my previous life, okay?"
(End of this chapter)
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