From Chief to Ball

E-strider also laughed and said: "Yucheng's method is really good, but we can't learn it. There are not so many people who can read and count, but there are more relatives and nobles who have been slaves for a long time. After learning Yucheng's method, Chengyi It's ruined."

"For Yucheng, the purpose of the farm is to ensure the minimum demand for food. The pillars of Yucheng are the workshops that are integrated into one piece; but for Echeng, even if there are merchants, workshops, and pastures in Echeng, there is still a lot of food. The pillars of E City are still the clan members who are relatives and farmers."

Shujiu looked at his son in relief, and glanced at her husband quietly, seeing some approval in his eyes, he finally let go of his heart.

E Yue looked extremely happy, there was nothing that excited him more than his son's growth.He didn't know what the schools in Yucheng taught, but it was time to teach his grown son something.

"Strider, when I went to Yucheng to meet with Jixia, Jixia told me something. I also want to break up the clan like Xiacheng, gather power, and ask him what to do."

"He told me that there are two types of clan relatives in our city."

"One is old and has clan authority, and the other is not high in authority and stands with me. The former doesn't like me to gather power, and the latter will stand with me but is weak."

"So let me send all the children of the second type of relatives to Yucheng School. Once these children learn to read and count, even if the first type is killed, the city can still be kept in order."

"When Xiacheng became closer to us, the new manors, workshops and other things mainly support the relatives of the second clan, so that they gradually have land, slaves and money, but they don't have enough rights. They will fight with me. Similarly, relatives who hate these clans borrow clans to control power."

"Echeng is not Yucheng. You can rely on so many people who can read and count to directly take over the right to take over the city. I still have to rely on those clan relatives to help manage the city. The first type of people will definitely oppose breaking up the clan. , but I don't need them anymore, because Jixia helped me train more than a hundred people who can read and write, and there are also a large number of new relatives who own wealth slaves to support me."

"Either surrender and surrender power, or fight to the death, but obviously they lost and died."

"Killing the first type can not only reclaim their rights, but also plunder their slaves and wealth, as a benefit to please the lower-level people during the reform."

"People at the bottom of the country need the cattle and plowshares of the public property, and they also have to worry about being reduced to slaves because of debts. They will support the leader to have the absolute right to distribute certain things. At the same time, they are natural soldiers of the city, and they can restrict those new relatives. .”

"For the people of the country, I am the leader. They want to listen to me, and I can decide their taxes, expeditions, whether they can borrow cattle, distribute iron tools, and so on."

"For relatives, I am the biggest relative, I have the most slaves, I have the most land, and I have the most private soldiers."

"Since the city is as you said, these two kinds of people are the pillars, and my position as leader will naturally be secure."

E Yan remembered these words one by one in his heart, pondered for a long time, and finally asked: "Father has now secured the position of leader and taken back the rights of the clan, but now Xiacheng seems to have taken root in our city. .Jixia has already received support from various cities, and my father will definitely support Jixia, so there is no need to ask, but what about the future?"

"Now Xiacheng is only slightly shaken, but our city has such a big influence, what will happen in the future?"

E Yue frowned and said, "This is something I've been thinking about."

"Take this opportunity to cut off the increasingly close ties with Xiacheng, but still be friendly with Xiacheng, and no longer build workshops and the like. Men plant food and reclaim land to raise livestock, women weave linen and teach children. Merchants are strictly prohibited from buying and selling. Public property jurisdiction, so that the reliance on Xia City is the least."

"Continue to follow Xiacheng's footsteps as always, build workshops, start trade, and even get closer to Xiacheng, build workshops and mines together, and connect with each other. Cities can be rich quickly, but they rely heavily on Xiacheng. In the future We can only obey Xia Cheng completely."

"You have been in Yucheng for a long time, and you know Jixia very well. I only heard about the fact that 3000 people from Jixia went deep into Dongyi, but you also know that it is unbelievable to hear it here. Strider, just look at it, what should we do?" what to do?"

E Yan thought for a long time, and said calmly: "Father, mother. When we are approaching, Ji Xia asked me to bring you some words."

"He said that from the source of the great river to the shore of the East China Sea, it spans thousands of miles. Xiacheng is too small, but the world is too big. Even though the great river's tribes and clans are thousands of miles away, they are nothing more than a drop in the ocean to the world."

"Xiacheng can conquer Echeng within a month, but don't the people of Echeng resent the people of Xiacheng? It will take another five years to make the captured city stable, and how many five years will it take for a human to live?"

"Nowadays, a city with a radius of a hundred miles can have sufficient land, but with the development of cattle and iron ridges, what can a hundred miles in a hundred years be able to do?"

"There is a land of thousands of miles, why should the eyes be fixed within a hundred miles? There are tens of millions of years, why should the eyes be fixed on ten years?"

"If one day Xiacheng becomes the leader of all the tribes, it is necessary to expand the land of the ancestors thousands of miles, so that the future descendants will not have a foothold."

"But how can tens of thousands of people in Xiacheng manage a land of thousands of miles? Could it be that the land can be cultivated without people? It is difficult for the three cities of Xiacheng to maintain frequent rebellions, so how can they govern the land of thousands of miles?"

"E City can obviously become a city of thousands of miles, why must it be confined to a land of hundreds of miles in the Caohe River, worrying about the strength of Xia City?"

"E City is a place of death. In the north is Mangyuan, there are relatives in the east, and Xia City is in the west. The land of E City should be on the coast of the East China Sea. It is surrounded by the sea in the east, rich in salt fish, and rich in fertile land for thousands of miles. This is the foundation of the eternal world."

"Now save money and food, stabilize the city, and train soldiers. Once the world changes, the soldiers will go east to Dongyi."

"Since the great event has been accomplished, the land of thousands of miles along the coast must be sealed in the city of E, and I will be regarded as the uncle of all relatives in the east."

"It only takes three years to build a city, and it takes only two years to cultivate it. You can get the benefits of fish and salt in an instant. Dongyi slaves are everywhere. After a hundred years, there will be tens of thousands of cities in the place. Isn't it impossible?"

"At that time, Xiacheng was in the middle and headed, Weicheng was in the west, and Echeng was in the east. They were all the uncles of the cities, sharing the land of thousands of miles, and worshiping the ancestors together."

"If the descendants of Xiacheng are virtuous, then respect them as the leader; if they have no virtue, then replace them. This is not something that can be explained clearly now. When the Huasu Alliance was in the past, the prosperity of Huacheng was unrivaled. Where is it now?"

E Strider finished speaking in one breath, looked up at her parents, and said calmly: "I want to be the leader of Qianli. If my parents don't want to, I want to take some tribesmen to Xinhua City, open up eastward, and multiply. Cheng, E City has another foothold; defeat, but the loss of a thousand people."

"Echeng is too small. I saw thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in Yucheng."

For a long time, E Yue laughed in unison counting nine.

"Since that's the case, let's beat the drums, order the soldiers, meet Ji Xia, and return to Xia City to put down the rebellion."

Chapter 72 Reasonable

By mid-December, the situation in the Caohe area has become very clear.

E Yue divided the land, broke the clan into a large number of self-cultivating farmers, and learned the early system of Xiacheng.Using some of the new nobles who have been cultivated with money but little power and no clan prestige, and using more than a hundred young people who have learned new skills such as counting, reading, and farming in Xiacheng Academy, the city will be divided into 50 people. One mile and one person cultivated the land and took five acres of it as public property, which concentrated the rights in the hands and enriched the public property.

It was difficult to capture slaves near Echeng, so Eyue determined that the basic strength of Echeng was self-cultivating farmers and a small number of manor nobles, in order to achieve rapid development of the city.

The method adopted by the Acropolis is similar, but not the same, because Xirong is to the west of the Acropolis, and slaves can be plundered.

Weihe and Weiyuan worked together to expand Weihe's private property several times with Chen Jian's assistance two years ago.At the same time, in cooperation with Chen Jian, he controlled the means of production such as agricultural tools by strictly controlling commercial behavior.

A large number of means of production are leased to those who have no surname, and the leasing and allocation method of counting heads and not looking at slaves is adopted. Each person who is not a slave can rent up to ten plowshares and cattle and other means of production.

The old aristocrats with hundreds of slaves had difficulty obtaining enough production tools, and the Acropolis people with surnames who had fewer slaves supported it greatly, and the people who had no surnames benefited a lot.

The old nobles were extremely opposed to Weihe's policy, but a new, non-existent class called self-cultivating farmers were extremely supportive of Weihe's policy.

In just two years, the annual tax tribute contributed by the owner farmers has exceeded the annual harvest of all public slaves.

After the spring plowing in the 35th year of the Chinese calendar, Acropolis went to Xirong to plunder slaves. The old nobles recruited a large number of people without surnames. After returning from the great victory, they still adopted the original distribution system of spoils, which caused extreme anger among the people without surnames and the people with surnames at the bottom. dissatisfied.

After the civil strife in Xiacheng in May and June, and the news that Chen Jiandong was killed by an arrow in July, the old nobles were convinced that Weihe had lost the greatest support and foreign aid, and shouted the slogan of Weiyuan's New Deal to disrupt the city. rebellion.It is required that Wei Yuan be executed and that the collection of tools be managed by the clan.

The rebellion subsided quickly, and more than a dozen noble families were killed, and the land slaves were plundered.Then the Acropolis underwent reforms, and any Chinese had the obligation to prepare their own weapons, war horses, and strong bodies to follow the leader to fight.As a reward, a large number of slaves were distributed to the lower-level Chinese. The slaves were responsible for farming the land, while the Chinese used military obligations to ensure the ownership of the land and slaves, which changed the previous slave distribution method.

Most of the people in E City farmed, and E Yue was the largest slave owner and landowner. Five ordinary people out of five served as infantry, while the aristocrats who supported E Yue served as expensive chariot soldiers, and brought their own private slaves to follow the chariots. The Acropolis is the slaves of the great nobles who have been carved up. Most of the middle-class people have three or five slaves. They are farmed by slaves. They have their own weapons, strong bodies and food. Military obligations replace taxes. Yap is stable.

Both cities have adopted methods suitable for their own cities, not only for development, but also for future conquests.

When Chen Jian used his ambition to find allies, the two cities that had completed internal integration and centralized power quickly mobilized.

So in December of the 35th year of the Chinese calendar, the two cities organized an army at an unimaginable speed for the rest of the cities, expelled the envoys of the puppet government in Xiacheng, and waited for the alliance along the Caohe River.

E City mobilized [-] chariots, [-] ethnic infantry, and [-] private slaves; Acropolis mobilized [-] rich horsemen, [-] full-time infantry supported by slaves, a large number of infantry and many slaves accompanying the army.

In addition, more than a thousand people from the nearby small towns, 3000 people from Chen Jian's expedition from Yucheng, 600 people led by relatives and noble children from various cities, and relatives and nobles from other cities gathered along the banks of the small Caohe River. an army of ten thousand.

And an army of [-] people is unimaginable for many cities. This is a force that can only be entangled by the joint efforts of the entire ethnic group and various tribes.