From Chief to Ball

"But now, Xiacheng doesn't need such a squeezed accumulation anymore. Handicrafts, bronze smelting, cattle farming and gunpowder, fiefdoms expanding westward, sheep and horses plundered in the north... We can already afford Xiacheng's off-duty soldiers , and even have a surplus every year. The rest of these will be thrown into Yucheng, skipping this step of accumulation... The whip will never be more effective than making people spontaneous slaves for their own lives, until here everyone can When the things produced are more than the average daily output of each slave in Xia City, Xia City can turn more slaves into human beings by feeding back to Xia City."

Chen Jian shook his head and sighed: "Nowadays there are many things in Xiacheng that can stand on two feet and use tools, but there are too few 'humans' among them. We have to turn these non-human beings into humans and tie them together with Xiacheng. .”

Red Fish, who finally understood the difference between a human being and a slave, stared into Chen Jian's eyes, surprised by her man's ambition: she understood too well how terrible it would be for these slaves to become human—more than 2 literate, more than 2 benefits Tangled with the city, more than 2 Chinese people who lined up to listen to the whistle from farming to working in the workshop will be a force that no leader of this era can imagine except Jian.

What's even more frightening is that these people are not just countrymen and soldiers. After a few years, the best of them can be selected and thrown into a village. With what they have learned, they can turn the still barren village into a Xiacheng village. Promote everything that Chen Jian wants to promote, writing, language, morality, technology... They are seeds, seeds that can take root and sprout anywhere.

Red Fish thought, the world she thought a long time ago was the waves along the banks of the Grass River, but now the world she knows has become the banks of a big river, what about the future?Will the world she knows in the future also include the boundless and vast sea that she hears now?

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Ambition is a kind of desire, which will excite all the sensitivities related to desire. When a certain desire is about to move at night, the words about ambition and dreams are like the juice boiled from the bark of the silk tree , Under the waning moon, the boats trembled inexplicably on the calm water somewhere in Onozawa, and the wailing in the tremor woke up the gulls who were sleeping overnight.

Two people who know what they want and always work hard for it are happy, especially at night they want the same thing, so they are happier than usual.

When the morning glow filled the sky, the two of them stepped down from the boat, not shying away from those clansmen who looked at them with smiles, their happy and flushed cheeks inevitably made the soldiers of Xiacheng miss the woman who was far away in Xiacheng.

The women in Onozawa are no longer slaves, they are already human beings in name, so they can only be careful not to do it arbitrarily. This involves the future distribution of property. The son of Yehe cannot inherit the fief but can inherit part of the land. This is a law as support.

When the clan disintegrated, Red Fish instigated the women to fight for part of the land. The women of these soldiers in Xiacheng were the earliest batch of Chinese in Xiacheng. Most of these women could not only support themselves, but also had brothers to rely on. The soldiers The woman who doesn't really want to provoke her, and doesn't dare to violate the laws of property inheritance in Xia City, feels very itchy.

With this itchy envy, it is inevitable to feel homesick, and the autumn planting is about to happen, and the women in the family are in charge of the slaves, and they don't know if they can do well.

When eating in the early morning, the Xiacheng soldiers in Onoze began to sing some songs about Caohe. Chen Jian and everyone gathered together to chat. Through the light nostalgia and attachment in the song, Chen Jian promised that half of them could go back At home, the number of new troops who will stay in Onozawa in the future will be 120 people, and they will rotate once a year.

Those who want to go back draw lots to decide whether to stay, and those who don't want to go back are promised that if they don't take turns to live here for a long time, they will get half of their daily food, rice and goods every month, and there will be bonuses to their military achievements in the future.

If it is acceptable, they can even keep the land in Xia City. After three years of overstaying, they can allocate another brick house built by public property here.

People are not symbols full of fanaticism. Everyone who is separated has their own desires. This kind of compensation is not only for the soldiers here, but also for the rest of the craftsmen and ordinary people.

After some hesitation, 30 soldiers decided to transfer back to Xia City normally, and the remaining 70 soldiers decided to stay for at least three years.

A day later, Yuqian'er, who had been counting warehouses in Sucheng, returned to Shanjiao Island. Before she could rest, Chen Jian asked her to prepare to return to Xiacheng.

"Autumn planting is coming soon. I will hand over the jade card to you. This year, you will preside over the sacrifice of autumn planting for me as a storekeeper. I will come back next year. I don't feel relieved to let the rest of the people preside over it, and they will not be able to accept it. Everyone, you can decide everything after you return to Xia City."

"In addition, half of the first batch of children who can read some characters in Xiacheng Academy will be divided and sent here. Including all the recommended and famous people, those who passed the school assessment, who are qualified to serve as officials but have not yet All clan members who have vacant official positions are sent here. It is a rule that you must work here for three years before you are eligible to become an official official. This is the final assessment. Those who don’t want to come can just give up their qualifications.”

"Also, some of the craftsmen, masons, carpenters, and smelters in Xiacheng will be allocated here. According to the meritorious service accumulated in the daily life, the goods distributed here will be increased by half every month, and the rotation will be once every three years."

Chen Jian lowered his head and calculated. There are 400 free slaves here. According to the ratio of 600 in one area, at least [-] people are needed. Including the management, a total of about [-] people are needed to operate effectively.

A certain amount was set, and Yu Qianer wrote it down. Chen Jian finally ordered: "Also, collect the wealth and food of the people of the country, go to the Acropolis to buy slaves, increase the smelting of bronze and the production of gunpowder, and build a few more copper furnaces. Then part of the slave labor is allocated. The property collected from the people of the country will be paid off from the public property within six years, and [-]% of the extra will be paid after six years, or the three shares of the [-] public property income of Yucheng workshops will be divided equally."

"In addition, a few million more catties of grain and copper shells will be issued to collect the goods of the people of the country as a preparation for exchange. As much as they are collected, they will be cast as much as possible, and the transaction with the Acropolis Echeng will be increased. Tell Weihe Eyue to prepare them for The newly trained army came to Onozawa."

"Let the white horse lead the people north out of Yangguan, establish a market on the grassland, and exchange food, salt, pottery, etc. for the horses of the grassland tribes, but the exchange of leather armor, bronze, and gunpowder is strictly prohibited, and anyone who exchanges them will be hanged. Whoever it is."

"Let him continue to instigate the struggle among the grassland tribes, help the weak to attack the strong, no matter whether it is exchange, plunder, slaughter, any method is up to him. Doesn't he want to make meritorious deeds? Tell him that the greatest merit of a man is enfeoffment, His fief in the west is too small for his heart. If he can get [-] horses before next winter, with a guaranteed harvest of [-] horses every year, I will discuss it with the council, Yangguan To the north is his fief."

Yu Qian'er knew that her elder brother would never seal such a big city easily, and knew that this matter was by no means a trivial matter, so she remembered this amount and kept it in mind, thinking about the amount of goods in Xia City, and after some calculations, it was not a big deal. difficult.

A lot of Xiacheng's wealth is concentrated in the hands of the Chinese people, and the Chinese people will not agree to the forced collection, but there is absolutely no problem with Chen Jian's reputation and reputation, but there is only one problem.

"Brother, it's not easy to collect food this year. Everyone will believe you when you say that you will pay back, but now that there are wolf furs in the west, many people are looking forward to turning their property into farming tools and weapons to conquer more people. The land captured more slaves and expanded its fief."

"They have made more military exploits, more land slaves, and more food. Ordinary Chinese can make up a small half, and most of it depends on them. But they may not be willing to repay it after six years. In these six years, they can seize several times land goods."

Chen Jian looked at his little sister, at this moment he finally learned to think about people's hearts, and said with a smile: "You are right, but I asked the wolf skin chief to take charge of the land fiefdom, as an uncle of the clan, you should talk to him first. Tell him that his land is in the east, don't be as short-sighted as those people with foreign surnames, let him take the lead, first persuade everyone, thinking that the rest of the lords will be oppressed for the righteousness of the city."

"Furthermore, I said that a few workshops cannot be built in the fief, just to control them. Tell those people that those who pay more within six years can be given priority in exchanging weapons and armor, and those who don't pay will be left behind. You It's the secretary, who is in charge of Xiacheng's workshops. It's not easy to rule this group of people who have only people and no workshops to rely on? Wolf skin manages the most private soldiers and the largest fiefdom in the west. You tell him as I said , he will stand by your side. There are soldiers, there is a market, even if it is voluntary, who would dare not pay it?"

After finishing speaking, Chen Jian took off half of Yujue who was in charge of the military power, asked someone to bring a piece of silk, and wrote some symbols that even elm money could not understand. Printed the wrench on it, put it into a wooden box, and handed it to Yu Qian'er.

"During the time you are in Xiacheng, the new army will be dispatched by you. I will stay here and build your fief as soon as possible. It will be different when you come back next year. Go, hurry back before the autumn wind blows , the sacrifice of Qiu Zhong cannot be delayed."

Chapter 77 Su Xia Limited Sovereignty System ([-])

After sending away Yuqian, Chen Jian inspected the land opposite the Cape Island, and selected several future villages and farms along several tributaries. It is not suitable to divide large and small farms into large and small farms, and manage them in a way that breaks up small farmers, so as to facilitate the promotion of cattle plowing and horse plowing ridge farming technology.

The work of burning bricks continued. After the first batch of red bricks came out of the kiln, Red Fish led people to start building a wide brick wall as he said, like a screen, which can be seen from the pier.

When the word "huge learning" was written, Chen Jian nested in a wooden house, and no longer cared about the affairs of the promontory island.

In the wooden house, several people were planing wood chips with large adzes and drying them with a fire. Six or seven women carefully cut a gap in the upper end of the wood chips and drilled a small hole with red-hot copper.

Pass the thin hemp rope and leather through the small hole, and connect the one-foot-long and half-inch-wide wood pieces one by one, and finally roll them together.

The sound of rattling wood chips made Chen Jian daydream. This is the first book in this world. At this time, it is still wordless, and it is full of white flowers, piling up half the room.

Chen Jian took out the brush, asked someone to fix the pine ink, and picked up the pen tremblingly, knowing that he was creating something that could be passed down through the ages—the first volume of the cultural circle or the entire unknown world.

Because Xiacheng's characters were written on the wall with charcoal instead of printed on bronze from the beginning, so there are not so many sharp ones suitable for knife carving. The simplified characters are not too difficult to write, and most of them are simplified. Pictographic and a little knowing.

Picking up the pen to suppress the excitement in his heart, after a while, Chen Jian raised his hand and wrote a few lines.

"One trip two or three miles, four or five families in mountain villages, six or seven children, eight or ninety flowers."

"Qiu Lai, Mai Huang, Bai Lu. Yan Nan Fei. Someone, or one."

"It's time to plant gourds and beans when you are pregnant with children; the white dew is early, the cold dew is late, and the autumn equinox is the time to plant wheat. It is rainy in the early morning and sunny in the evening..."

"In the morning, the sun is in the east, and the shadow is in the west. In the evening, the sun is in the west, and the shadow is in the east."

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He wrote a total of seven or eight poems, which conformed to the rhyme of this era as much as possible. The simple prose could not be simpler, but it contained a lot of things. This was something he began to think about a few years ago. What about the priestess of a rival clan, after all these years she could finally use it.

In the first chapter, there are numbers from one to ten. When determining the pronunciation of the characters, Chen Jian intentionally took the most common characters as initials and finals, and used them as reverse-cut sounds in the future to improve literacy.

Including Mai, who is read as Ji, and Tie, who is read as Te, it took three to five years to carefully collect enough things that he knew would be common to everyone in the future.

The Mongolian children's books in the previous life were heaven and earth, not bad, but not suitable for this era, and not suitable for large-scale promotion. Although the beauty between the lines is fascinating, it is not for the lower Liba people.

The first article he plagiarized was simple and ridiculous, but there was not a single word repeated, and each one was a phonetic word he had selected before.

Keep in mind the first article, at least the clansmen will recognize ten numbers, and know that the unit of measurement in Xiacheng is mile, the land that is one mile long and one step wide is one mu, and one step wide is the width of two furrows.

And it also promoted Xia Cheng's grammar - quantifier, a flower, not a flower, not a flower.

After finishing the first chapter, Chen Jian wrote notes on the first chapter on another wooden slip, the weights and measures system derived from it, the classifier grammar derived from a flower, and a large number of after-school exercises.

I wrote it all morning, and only finished the notes to the first article, and finally wrote the words "fifteen days" at the end, which means that it is not too difficult for people to recognize these ten characters within fifteen days.

As for the second article, it inspires people's thinking: the connection between autumn and wild geese flying south, and at the same time leads to the solar term of Bailu.

In the notes of the second chapter, there are explanations of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the various solar terms in Xiacheng, and various appearances of the rotation of the four seasons.