From Chief to Ball

And at the end, I told everyone to remember that some rules must be changed, such as speaking, dressing and tying hair, but some rules can be slowed down, such as the status of women, the clan distribution system, the selection of clan leaders, etc. It can be manipulated and is not allowed to impose interference.

Even though a lot of things have been burned without forcing, the clan leaders still don't like so many rules. However, the military power is fighting in the latter two groups, and the head is panicking in the front, hoping that they can also live without starvation. day, finally agreed.

According to the general direction, the leaders of many clans made oaths with their future lords. Chen Jian was only the host of this ceremony, but he did not participate in this oath. He was telling those who were entrusted that I will not go to this territory in person. Just don't worry, I'm not the one they swear to.

After this oath, another oath was held, and this time Chen Jian participated in it as the leader of the Xia City Council.

The content of the oath this time includes: these clans must learn the language of Xiacheng if they want to exchange in the future; Young people who may be elected as the next leader go to Xiacheng to study; when offering sacrifices, they must sacrifice to the common ancestors of Xiacheng.If not, Xia Cheng will not exchange anything with them.

The content of the two oaths, the latter is to ensure cultural assimilation, the former is that Chen Jian has no energy to manage so many villages, so he simply settled down to show that he will not hold power too tightly to reassure those people.

The deliberately scattered villages and the trade fairs along the river can be determined that these villages cannot develop any handicrafts, and can only become food and linen production areas. It is enough to conquer the civilization vacuum in the west, but it is still necessary to counterattack Xiacheng. not far off.

After making the oath, Chen Jian took Xiacheng's soldiers to inspect the clans with seeds, farm tools, etc., and told Yu Qian'er that he would free up hundreds of slaves this year to help the entrusted people in the territory. Build a house large enough to live in and a sacrificial hall for worship.

The primitive people who had never seen such an army trembled, and were shocked and frightened by the great power behind their lord.

Chen Jian made a rough estimate of the scope, and asked someone to cut a few pieces of wood as the boundaries between the various territories. There is no border in the west and a border in the east.

When returning, each clan sent up the most intelligent children in the clan and asked them to follow Chen Jian back.

There is still some time before the spring planting on March [-], but not enough land can be reclaimed, so the choice of these lords in the first year is to set fire to the mountain.

Many people watched the flames rising in the valley, and couldn't help but think of the scene when they followed Chen Jian out of the cave for the first time to plant a few years ago.

There is no ridge yet, the house has not yet been built, and they are wrapped in animal skins... But they have experienced these things themselves. Thinking about Xia Cheng, everything will be fine, and now the seed farm tool masons and the like can ask Xia Cheng for help.

Three years later, this place will never look like this.And... These lands, these people, will all belong to me, to my descendants, perhaps, it will remain unchanged forever.

Chapter 48 Safe internal preparations for expansion ([-])

During the pregnancy season, plant gourds and beans.

When the peach blossoms are in bloom again, Xiacheng rests for a day as usual. The wild reunion in the sky and the ground, the tantalizing singing, and the figures of men and women bathing... The waves along the Caohe River, like the peach blossoms falling on it, make the whole Cao He blushed.

The wind that blows red peach blossoms and awakens frogs comes from the east, and it also brings news from the east, a piece of news that I don't know good or bad.

In previous years, due to the freezing or thawing of the big river, a large amount of ice deposits blocked the river, and there will be ice flood breaches every three to five years. This year, He Bo finally did a good thing. Good year.

This is a good thing, but misfortune and good fortune depend on each other. A good year means that you have the strength to fight.

The person who brought the news also conveyed Suyue's request: I hope that Xiacheng will build some bronze spears and transport them along the river after the river thaws.I hope that Chen Jian will bring some gunpowder and people who can practice gunpowder as soon as possible.

Of course, this kind of trade was done well. Bronze gunpowder could exchange a lot of corn without having to transport it back, so it could just be used for the construction of the city of Onozawa.

The people in the two cities of Ewei also knew about this transaction. They had Chen Jian's previous promise, and they also fulfilled their promise, sending a large number of people and slaves to participate in the work of the Xiacheng workshop.

It is impossible for the people in the Acropolis of Echeng to contact the core things now, but the extra manpower can alleviate the lack of manpower in Xiacheng. The copper smelting furnace is in production every day. Under the premise of ensuring the use of agricultural tools, as many Produce some bronze.

Instead of melting and casting, it was shipped in the form of bronze ingots. There were several bronze craftsmen accompanying the ship. They didn't know the core of the bronze alloy, but they knew how to cast it into shape.

These bronzes will be re-melted into weapons near Sucheng to save manpower in Xiacheng, and Suyue will definitely send people to help.

Chen Jian asked the people who left by boat to bring a message to those clansmen who stayed in Sucheng. He might have to go there in June and July, and let them continue to do what they had set before.

The city has stabilized for the time being, and most people are busy with the new year's farming. Compared with last year, there is not much change, but the same grain can be exchanged for less things.

The best-selling goods in the market these days are slaves, and private slave trading is also going on. Chen Jian's idea for those who are entrusted is to use semi-slavery private soldiers similar to servants, and bring simple-trained villagers in the village. Seize the vacuum of civilization.

The fate of many slaves has also changed because of this. Originally, there was only one way to become a slave farmer, but now there is another way out, but the fate of this way out is not in their own hands, but in the hands of their masters.

The slaves in Xia City have been divided into three, six, and nine classes. Those who can speak the language of Xia City, those who are close to the blood of the Eastern Expedition Meteor Tribe, and those earliest slaves of the Red Fish Tribe are counted as the first class. slaves to be exchanged.

As the designated place for slave trading, Fangshi is performing similar scenes every day: opening the slave’s mouth to check the teeth, taking off the slave’s clothes to see how strong the slave is, and asking the slave about some common conversations.Those warriors in the original clan are the most popular and can be exchanged for the most food.

Private slave trading is allowed, but it must be fair in Fangshi, otherwise the law of Xia City will not recognize the new owner of the slaves, and Zhongfang City will collect a part of the grain in exchange.

Chen Jian would not give these slaves as private soldiers the status of nationals. He made this very clear, otherwise it would cause extreme dissatisfaction among the public slaves, which would be a violation of fairness.

But in the territory of their respective lords, these slaves can have certain privileges, but no matter how many privileges they have in the territory, once they enter Xia City, they are still slaves: including the need to give way to Chinese people on narrow roads, etc. It is also extremely superficial to highlight the rules of identity distinction.

With the popularity of the slave trade this time, it led to the sale of many daily necessities, agricultural tools, weapons and other goods. Yu Qianer was surprised to find that the city had not yet harvested, but there were more and more goods in the public property.

This is also one of Chen Jian's goals. Taking advantage of the opportunity of entrustment, the food and goods that were entrusted to everyone last year will be returned to the public property in this way of exchange. In a short period of time, a large amount of materials can be accumulated, making some The stretched public property is a little more generous.

It is a very subtle turning point to distribute and then collect.A direct tax increase or compulsory collection will cause a lot of dissatisfaction, but using this opportunity of land confiscation to slightly increase the price of production tools, the hidden tax method can reduce some contradictions.

In the short term, those who did not have great victories in some cities obtained a large sum of money by selling slaves, which were used to repair their houses outside the city or marry back women; The accumulated wealth changed the owners and redistributed it, driving those ordinary people who did not make military exploits to have surplus food to buy handicrafts, and those people would not praise those who exchanged with them, but instead praised Chen Jian's policy.

The gap between the rich and the poor and the hidden high and low are actually enlarged due to the enfeoffment of land, but in the short term it creates the illusion of shrinking. The stability brought about by this redistribution can last for three to four years, and it also makes many young people see To the template of dreams.Chen Jian told everyone that there are still many villages that have not been divided, and those who have been divided are not allowed to attack, as a reward in the future.

In the new year, many old people died again. The public property has reduced the expenditure on supporting the elderly. The birth of a large number of babies has shifted the pressure of raising children from the public to the private due to the emergence of the family system. It will last for another ten years at most. A new batch of Children can grow up, and the elderly who cannot work will die. Xiacheng will usher in the era of the lightest burden, the most young and strong labor force, and a large number of soldiers who have been trained since childhood. When the force is at its peak.

When the young and healthy people start to grow old ten years later, the population of Xiacheng will gradually stabilize. Calculate the life expectancy of the first batch of children born in Xiacheng ten years later and the first batch of children 30 years later. Arriving at the balance of life and death, Xia Cheng has about 20 years to support Chen Jian's ambitions.

In other words, in the ten years before the 20-year golden age, Xia Cheng could not be the target of public criticism. He could only gradually improve his reputation on both sides of the river by helping Su Cheng make wedding clothes, and secretly provoke Su Cheng's reputation.

"Five years of honeymoon, three years of disagreement, two years of rebellion."

This is the goal Chen Jian set for himself. If Suyue can die ten years later, Sutang's brothers and sisters will die or be sterilized due to lead poisoning, and Suyue's family will become extinct. This is the most perfect ending.

If he didn't die, he would have to repeat the story of the battle between Huasu and Huasu in the river valley.

During the honeymoon period, what needs to be done is to consolidate this small alliance and support a slight expansion of the rights of the leaders of the alliance, but do not support the hereditary rights of the leaders of the alliance.Conquer those dissatisfied clans, instigate those powerful clans that are qualified to compete for the leadership position, and build a city in Onozawa as a technology center and academic and cultural center to expand the influence of Xia City on both sides of the river.

The safest way is to stay in Xiacheng by himself and send a most trustworthy person to go to Onozawa. However, Chen Jian has no heirs for the time being, and even if he is born, it will be just a baby. The advantage of river transport connects the two cities for the time being.

This kind of strategic deployment that spans thousands of miles is very dangerous in this era. In the previous life, the Shang Dynasty in the Western Zhou Dynasty had a similar strategic deployment, but the effect was not good: the two brothers of King Wen went to the land of Wuyue, and they were called Taibo in name. Dayi, not wanting to embarrass his father because of the rule of setting up a heir and not setting up a child, he and his second brother ran to the barren land of Wuyue to give up the throne to his younger brother Ji Fa. Arrange the idea of ​​attacking Yin and Shang in the two strategic directions of west and south.

Chen Jian divided the wisdom of this past life into two parts: one part was to build a city in the hinterland of the big river, and to use the advantages of ships to gain a support point for the future civil war; He was not familiar with the place, so he probably brought a hundred people with him. It still took three to five years to establish a country in a civilization vacuum. It would not be too difficult to expand westward with Xiacheng as a support.

The reason why he had to wait until May and June to go east was that Chen Jian was also waiting for some models to appear in the west that would make the people jealous.

Chapter 49 Stable internal preparations for expansion (End)

As early as the beginning of February, when the ice and snow were about to melt, Chen Jian had a conversation with his clan brother Lang Pi who had just divided up two small clan settlements, and several people from the same clan were sitting together.

"I don't care much about the affairs of the city. You have made a lot of military exploits these years. How many land slaves do you have?"

"Give me 120 mu of land. The slaves cultivated 40 mu of land, and after adding the military achievements, the total is nearly [-] mu, right? There are more than [-] slaves in total, [-] slaves, and more than a dozen slaves."

"How about this, you sell some of the land and exchange it for slaves, and our brothers will give you some of our private slaves. According to the rules, public slaves cannot be bought and sold, and I can't directly give you weapons. You use the land for Change some slave weapons, otherwise I will not be able to explain to others."

Langpi understood what Chen Jian meant, and asked, "You want me to fight west?"

"Yes. I can't manage the land in the west, and I'm afraid they won't be able to manage it well. You just want to make a model and let them learn from it. My sister and Hongyu will help you with the construction of the fief, and the fight outside. You have to rely on yourself. There are wild tribes in the west, and it is easy to fight."

Wolfpi frowned and said, "Jian, since it's easy, you should do this. Take the crowd to fight and capture thousands of slaves, and everyone will believe you even more."