"I can be your teacher, but what I teach may still threaten your rule and even indirectly affect your life safety. Even so, are you willing to persist in learning?"
"Are you willing to dedicate your life to the people of this land?"
This was the time when the reaction ability and the art of speaking were tested. King Gudea, as a just shepherd, thought of the scene when he was elected to wear this title. Although this title was given to him by the nobles, it was originally praised. When he got up, he appeared in villages and among the people.
So he said firmly: "I am both a king and a people."
"I will make Lagash the promised land."
"Umiya! I will remember your teachings for the rest of my life!"
Yuzai nodded: "Very good, according to our etiquette. If you become a disciple, you must hand over two pieces of dried meat."
King Gudea immediately went to get it himself. Dried meat was a standing supply and was available in the military camp. So after he came back, he completed the apprenticeship ceremony.
At the same time, he immediately made suggestions to Yu Zai:
"To reach Daxia from Lagash, the most convenient place that can be passed is here..."
There is a red circle on the map, which is the land of Elam. Through Elam's control area and influence area, you can find a passage in the vast desert and directly reach the Sun Mountains.
Elam is located to the east of the Mesopotamian Plain and southwest of the land of Bactria, right at the throat of trade.
But it is a pity that although Lagash has recovered relatively well among the Sumerian city-states, it is still not enough to attack Elam. Of course, Elam has just recovered from its decline. Even if it engages in a war, it will be severely damaged.
It's too early to talk about trade, but there is a difference between having an agreement and not having an agreement. Having an agreement can prove that you have made an agreement with us on this matter. If you regret it in the future, we can learn from you. .
This is just a route. Gudea believes that it can be used as a neutral zone, which will also promote many surrounding civilizations and tribes to come here to settle and trade, forming a stronghold group.
Of course, this plan for population development and trade is a thirty-year plan.
In other words, the time from the development of this route to the time when long-distance trade between the two sides is fully possible will be within thirty years.
"Silk Road."
This is the most suitable ancient road for silk to be sold to Central Asia in ancient Han Dynasty.
This is a magnificent feat. Of course, it is foreseeable how the Han Dynasty will develop in thirty years. By then, I am afraid that the railway will have been laid to the Western Regions, and may even lead directly to the land of Daxia, and the population will begin to expand rapidly. , perhaps even this Mesopotamian plain will be affected by cultural radiation.
When the steel from the East comes to this ancient land, it may create different sparks with the people here.
In the next thirty years, the population expansion is foreseeable. It will start from one million to tens of millions. This is undoubtedly We can find high-yielding starchy crops such as sweet potatoes from outside the South China Sea.
These grains are also a prerequisite for ensuring a population explosion.
After confirming the Silk Road plan, Yuzai began to teach Gudiya the "way of being a king"!
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On the fifth day of Yuzai's visit to Lagash, King Gudea officially announced the news to the entire people of Lagash in an extremely solemn and solemn manner.
Crossing a thousand mountains and hundreds of rivers, from the majestic Mountains of the Sun, further east where the sun god Utu was born, one of the three kings of the East visited the ancient land of Mesopotamia. Stay temporarily in the city of victory, Lagash!
Moreover, King Gudea also officially announced that he would become a student of the King of the East and would devote his life to learning advanced systems and saving the entire Mesopotamian plain. So the words of the oath were echoed by this oath. The king recited it and spread it widely.
[I am both a king and a people. The king is the people, and the people are also the king. It is the people who created the new city of Lagash! 】
This sentence aroused violent reactions from all walks of life in society, because the word "people" does not represent class divisions. The nobles thought that Gudea was ambitious. Did he want to follow the example of the king in the past and carry out drastic reforms? So as to take away the interests of their aristocratic class? In that case, if the investigation is clear, Gudiya will be regarded as a traitor, and he will no longer be a just shepherd.
The middle class, as well as the lower class, feel this sentence even more deeply.
The current city of Lagash was rebuilt on the ruins of the ancient city. It carries both the past and the future. The reforms that have been underway since the time of King Urbaba finally blossomed in King Gudea's generation. As a result, Lagash became the first city-state to emerge from the Dark Ages.
This is the king distributing the credit to every citizen. Although these people at the bottom do not get any tangible benefits, this sense of participation is recognized by the king...
Then everyone seems to have become an uncrowned king. They firmly believe that everything they do is contributing to the construction of Lagash.
This emotion is called "with glory".
The benefits are obvious, and the latter sentence was what Yuzai told Gudiya and asked him to add it.
A simple sentence united the bottom and middle-class people in the entire city-state. This was cohesion. So if an enemy invaded Lagash, everyone would fight hard.
All it takes is one sentence.
When the nobles went to ask Gudea, Gudea wisely told them that of course the nobles and priests were also part of the people.
So, the nobles thought they understood. It turned out that King Gudea's words were just looking for a word that encompassed everyone. They put down their guard and returned to their respective mansions to continue having fun and working.
Gudiya exhaled.
He knows that that sentence is just a general empty talk now, and the people may feel excited about it, but this excitement will disappear completely after the increasingly sharp social contradictions arise in large numbers.
Therefore, some benefits must be created to allow the people at the bottom and the middle class to rise up and support him as the king, so as to compete with the gradually bloated aristocratic power.
This is the first lesson of being a king that Gudiya learned here in Juzai!
To be a king, you must first save the people!
No one will support a king who loses his power, but if the people support him, even if the nobles depose the king, as long as he is alive, the people will follow him to build a new city-state!
"The way to be a king is to save the people first! If you harm the people in order to sacrifice yourself, it would be like cutting off your legs and eating your belly. If your belly is full, you will die!"
"If you want to bring peace to the world, you must first rectify your body. If your body is not rectified, your shadow will be crooked, and you will be in control at the top but chaos at the bottom!"
After several days of communication with Yuzai, Gudiya was able to briefly speak some Eastern sentences. He recited them and kept himself alert. However, these Eastern languages were incomprehensible to the nobles, who only knew how to understand them. I thought this was my own babble in my sleep, or something like some divine or barbaric language.
He also wanted to carry out a complete legislative act and wanted to learn from the Oriental Hammu.
Although there have always been ancient laws here in the past, there is no particularly perfect code... because the only formal and earliest "Uruka Jina Code" has been wiped out with the death of this king. It fell away, leaving only the laws quoted in other clay tablets. It was these scattered laws that gave Lagash a new life in the hands of King Gudea.
Those who erased this code were the surrendering nobles of that era, who opened the door to the city-state for the Elamites and the Akkadians.
Now, Gudea is already the twelfth king of the New Lagash city-state. After a hundred years, many people and things have deviated from their original intentions.
If you want to become a king praised by the ages, the opening of the Silk Road is an important link. It is also imperative to change the political system of Lagash and eliminate these bloated national tumors within thirty years. matter!
Never repeat the same mistakes, learn from the past and learn from the future. This is also a vocabulary I learned from Yu Zai!
How can we do good politics with you bunch of insects?
