From Chief to Ball

Fifteen of the more than 80 people in the province were selected to be responsible for the meals of the old people and the children of relatives and nobles in various cities.

In this way, a total of [-] people can be saved, and at the same time, it saves the time of daily withdrawal and calculation, and it can also save a lot of firewood-it takes time to cook soup in life, and the fire also has residual heat.

From the beginning of eating to the end of eating, I did such a thing all day long.

Nearly fifty people stayed together for six or seven hours, and the final result of the discussion was not surprising, but it saved sixty manpower.

But Chen Jian felt that this was a good start. At least it made them understand what the statistics were for. Some numbers that sound scary are actually nothing if they are carefully calculated.

It was like a mess of thousands of threads, and finally a thread was pulled out.

The threads are very short.The mess is long.But as long as it is wrapped around the shuttle, under the flexible fingers of the woman, it will eventually turn into a ball of thread in an orderly manner.

Chapter 100 Unifying Thoughts

The busy people outside were turned on their backs, but the planning and statistics department closed the door and drank mint water for five days. The black-clothed guards were guarding outside, and all those who wanted to talk to Chen Jian were blocked outside.

Just after dawn in the morning, I saw dozens of young people entering the room. After dark, there was a ray of light from oil lamps, and they left tiredly in the middle of the night. Everyone was holding a lot of wooden slips, and it was too late. Tie it up with leather and connect it with hemp rope.

Every night new orders come from within.

On the first day, the cooking staff of the various workshop divisions gathered together, and at the same time ordered the people in the transportation department to suspend the transportation of grain from the Sucheng warehouse, and instead asked to transport all kinds of tools, stones, and upstream timber within five days.

On the second day, the people from the smelting department were asked to temporarily merge with the construction department, and a wall was built to separate the various thatched houses built before from the city to be built; only two brick workshops were left, and the rest were all stopped. The red bricks continued to be fired, and the other dug a small canal to connect with the small river. It was said that different bricks would be fired in the future, and water would have to be poured into it.

On the third day, all the old Chinese recruited by Xiacheng were required to be separated according to the workshop department, and a group of 30 people went to the planning and statistics department. According to the previous meritorious service and working time, the rank and official rank were assessed, and the person in charge of each workshop department was determined. people.

On the fourth day, the general plan of Yucheng’s living area was sent out, and the construction department and the smelting department were required to measure the foundation first after the merger. According to the method of [-] rooms in a row, [-] adjacent rooms were determined with almost the same size. house foundation range together.

On the fifth day, half of the people in the logging department were abolished and assigned to the remaining workshop divisions, and the rest were assigned to the transportation division, which was mainly responsible for transporting the timber purchased from upstream and coal from the mine.In the evening, the masons of the construction department went to learn how to build coal stoves overnight. Unlike firewood, there must be ventilation gaps below, so that the combustion can be complete.

Chen Jian had said before that all issues would be discussed after five days. The people outside finally knew what they should do, and when they had some appearance and wanted to do a good job, they received a message from the black guard.

All the old Xiacheng people with sixth-rank official positions and more than 200 people under their jurisdiction have arranged things within two days and are going to study and discuss some things. The black-clothed guard who passed the message called it a meeting.

Many complaints turned into widely circulated jingles among the old people of Xiacheng. Since the establishment of the planning department, there are seven days in a ten-day meeting...

Complaints are complaints, but I have to go and arrange the tasks within two days. All the old Chinese who are above the sixth grade of officials have arrived in an open field early in the morning, because there is not room for so many people in the room.

One person held a few large pieces of wood and charcoal in his hand, and those who could not write and those who could write sat together, in groups of four or five, squatting on the open ground.

In the distance are the guards in black, and no one is allowed to approach, including those relatives and children from other cities.

Less than a hundred people sat in a circle, and Chen Jian counted the number of people in the circle according to the wooden slips, and calmed everyone down.

"As soon as the task was assigned, I called you over. Everyone must be reluctant. I know it too, so I will make a long story short and try to finish it within two days."

"Mainly talk about these few things. I have heard a lot of complaints and dissatisfaction recently, and it can be said that I don't understand. The rules of our Xiacheng are like this. If you don't understand anything, just ask. Only when you know why you want to do it can you do it. good."

"The first thing is about our exchange with other cities. Some people say that we can cut wood, linen, and other things by ourselves. Some people say that we should not sell bronze to other cities. Now that the cities are considered powerful, we should unite with the cities near the Caohe River, use the advantages of the bronze chariots to obtain slaves, and force them to surrender and pay tribute instead of this exchange method. There are not a few people who have this idea Bar?"

The people below are not lying. They know Chen Jian's temperament. As soon as the words fell, several people shouted: "It's like this. There are so many logs nearby, all over the mountain. The smelting department has been digging pits so far. Without copper mines, there is still no sign of iron smelting, and I don’t know how long it will be free, this is a pit that can’t be filled, it’s better to let the people from the smelting department cut wood.”

"That's right, we can exchange good bronze for wood. It's not that we can't get wood, we have it nearby. We also disagree with the exchange of bronze. Jixia said that the relatives are harmonious, but everyone knows that the relatives are not harmonious. Fighting? Last winter, if the relatives were really in harmony, why did the alliance come to this? In the future, if there is a real fight, they will use our bronze weapons to kill us Xiacheng people, I feel uncomfortable thinking about it."

"Even if they are relatives, they have to be divided into big and small. We don't treat them as slaves. They pay tribute and submit some food, goods and fur every year, just like we did with those settlements to the west of Xiacheng. Why not?"

"When Yucheng was built, the people of the country didn't agree much, but maybe Ji Xia thought too far, and we didn't object."

"I've been thinking about talking to Jixia for a long time, since Jixia asked today, I just took this opportunity to tell it. It's not just a few of us who think so, many people think so."

After the man finished speaking, he sat down angrily, and Chen Jian asked, "How many people think so? Let me see."

Half of the more than a hundred people expressed support for that person's words, and half of the support for Chen Jian was probably because of Chen Jian's prestige and consistent correctness.

Chen Jian was not bothered, and asked with a smile: "According to your wishes, we should stay in Xiacheng, catch slaves everywhere, expand the copper smelting furnace, and distribute them to slaves without exchanging them. We don't need to work, as long as we let Slaves work, don't they?"

These people thought so, nodded and said: "Yes, that's it."

Chen Jian asked back: "What about the slaves' resistance?"

"We don't work, but it doesn't mean we don't train. There are thousands of people in our Xiacheng, if they all train like the black guards, they will always be in charge of the [-] slaves, right? Anyone who refuses to accept it will be killed."

Chen Jian nodded and said: "What you said seems to make sense, but let me ask you something, let's not talk about how to catch these [-] slaves, just say that if you really have [-] slaves working, are you willing to lie down and drink every day?" Eat meat, sleep with female slaves, listen to plays, walk birds and run dogs? Or do you want to queue up to fight and dance with bows and swords every day before dawn?"

The man straightened his neck and said: "Anyway, I can. Fighting for the city is the duty of our countrymen, and it is also for us to live better..."

The surroundings burst into laughter, the man's face was a little uneasy, Chen Jian said with a smile: "Then even if you can guarantee that you will not enjoy the hard training every day, what about your son? What about your younger generation?"

"Just like Ji Song, I feel every day that everyone should be a good person, everyone should follow the rules, and everything will be fine and there will be no disputes. Don't you have the same brains as him?"

Speaking of people and stories familiar to everyone in the city, everyone once again laughed kindly: Although they thought Ji Song was a little silly, they didn't admire them.Admiration is one thing, belief is another, and it is another thing to really do what he does.

When everyone finished laughing, Chen Jian pointed to his head and said: "Since we are all the rulers of the city, and the city belongs to you as well as mine, then always remember, don't try to make everyone think the same , everyone should be a gentleman, that is the simplest way to govern, and that is also the most impossible way. Isn’t it ridiculous to infer the future from an impossible event?”

"You have gone through the thorns and thorns, and you know the sufferings of the city when it was first built, and you may be able to persevere. But our children and grandchildren have not experienced these hardships, will they understand? Relying on the rules, they can really practice hard every day instead of enjoying life?"

"When our children and grandchildren can't wield bows and arrows and only know how to walk dogs and birds, why should we suppress these [-] slaves? At that time, they don't even want to fight. Let these slaves go to war and give them swords. Why should they still do it? Slaves? Why would they take us for granted?"

"At that time, the children and grandchildren will become slaves and be slaughtered. I'm afraid there will be no one who worships us. Is this what you want?"

"To put it lightly, you are living a better life now, people are lazy and want to enjoy life."

"To put it more seriously, people who think this way are actually digging the foundation of our Xia City again, and want us to ruin the sacrifices of our descendants in the future!"

After the heavy words were finished, all the people in the circle lowered their heads. Chen Jian asked, "Think about it, am I right? Why do you think that the rules can always be maintained? Why do you think that there are slaves to support you?" , can our children and grandchildren wake up before dawn and line up to perform martial arts battles like us?"

"Who can guarantee it? If it is not possible to do it and let the descendants become slaves, who will take the responsibility? Who can bear it?"

This time, no one stood up again, and the person who was stunned before also admitted his mistake: "I thought it was too simple. But I really didn't want to break our sacrifice..."

Chen Jian waved his hand and said, "It's a good thing to be able to correct mistakes. Speaking of slaves, why do we raise slaves? It is so that each slave can produce a thousand catties of grain every year. We will feed them two hundred catties and take eight for ourselves. One hundred catties. In the final analysis, it is for deprivation, am I right?"

"Since this is the case, is there only one way to take it away by raising slaves? This is the only way to make slaves resentful with swords and sticks?"

"If you want me to say, it's not the only way. Our brains should also move forward from the way of only raising slaves."

"Let me tell you something first. Listen to me. Our copper smelting furnace in Xiacheng can produce [-] catties of copper per day, which is [-] to [-] catties a year. From mining, transportation to smelting, and forming, it usually takes eight A hundred slaves."

"These 700 to [-] jins of copper can be exchanged for [-] to [-] jins of grain in other cities. The [-] to [-] jins of grain need at least [-] slaves."

"You have all learned simple arithmetic. Sixty to seventy thousand catties of copper are equal to six to seven million catties of grain, right?"

Everyone nodded. They could still figure it out. This is the lowest transaction price of copper, and it is the price within the city. It is more expensive to transport it outside.

Chen Jian said again: "Then 700 to [-] catties of copper are equal to the labor of [-] slaves for a year. Six to seven million catties of grain are equal to the labor of [-] slaves for one year. Is this correct?"

"Then here comes the problem. There are [-] slaves on one side and [-] slaves on the other side, but the exchange is equal. I want to ask everyone, where did the work done by the [-] slaves in a year go? ?”