From Chief to Ball

By the 48th year of the Chinese calendar, the tribes of Dahe had stabilized. With advanced weapons and cultural advantages such as gunpowder, artillery, cavalry, chariots, armor, and muskets, the cities that were enfeoffed were developing steadily.

Either slavery or the country system, using various policies, quickly assimilated the wild people in the territory, and constantly sent young people from various tribes of China to Huacheng to study, abiding by the various systems that were originally established .

In Xia Kingdom, there are [-] miles of land in name, but in fact most of the people are concentrated in nine cities, distributed along the river or along the lake, so as to ensure that the Xia army can arrive at any time and facilitate management.

Not counting Xiajun and Xinhua City, Xia Kingdom has a population of 40, of which the newly built Huacheng has a population of [-].

Relying on the promise to liberate the slaves, the slaves spent four years of work in exchange for human status, and also brought a huge amount of new land to Xia Guo as public property.

Now that everything has stabilized, Xia Guo, a series of policies that have been prepared for war since its birth, needs a comprehensive change, and this change is extremely reactionary and anti-human.

The land reclaimed by those slaves was used as a reward for the nobles of the country, and the comprehensive military merit system was cancelled.

Only iron and copper smelting, military industry, gold and silver mines, coinage and salt are left for the government to specialize in.This is strictly forbidden to private individuals, and the rest is encouraged to operate privately, and some state-run workshops have even been split up and distributed to some people as rewards.

The land is privately owned, allowed to be bought and sold, renting is strictly prohibited, only labor can be hired to pay, and tenants are not allowed to rent and cultivate the land. All taxes are collected from the landowners, and those who lease the land to others for planting and collecting rent will belong to the tenants.

Strict eldest son inheritance system, the vast majority of all production materials are distributed to the eldest son, the property can be divided equally or according to the will, once they become adults, some money is given to the eldest son who is not the eldest son so that they can set up their own families, regardless of the heavy taxation of the family punish.

Relying on the advantages of a small country with few people, Chen Jian can control these young people who do not have the right to inherit the means of production, or collectively let them move to reclaim and build new cities, or make them cheap labor.

The tenancy system is strictly prohibited. Either hire someone to pay that person, or grow it yourself. Taxes are only collected from landowners, and all leased land belongs to the tenants.

All seemingly extremely reactionary systems are aimed at concentrating capital together and vigorously developing primitive industries and workshops while the various enfeoffment states are gradually stabilizing.

Let the equality in name and the inequality of means of production replace the inequality of blood.

Chen Jian estimated the development of each feudal country, and felt that relying on the population that the entire Huaxia could control, a huge market could be supported.

As a result, stricter laws and regulations that were clearly inclined to capital exploitation were promulgated, which won the support of most of the original Xia people.

The earliest batch of Xia people occupied a large amount of land, and the state provided farm tools for support, and hired a large number of slaves who had nothing but human identity after liberation.The position of these people is no longer landlords, but agricultural capitalists, agricultural capitalists supported by the state.

Hwaseong is next to a river, and workshops such as sawmills, ironworks, and woodworks with hydraulic hammers or hydraulic saws accommodate a large amount of cheap labor.

The cotton textile and wool textile industries, and the corresponding transportation industry and inland river shipbuilding industry are also booming.

At this time, the reactionary nature of the eldest son's inheritance has not yet been revealed, and the labor force mainly depends on those who were former slaves.

This kind of system is Chen Jian’s gamble. If the industrial revolution cannot be suppressed before the population reaches its limit, it will be the biggest dream of all the people at the bottom.

But the advantage is that it can provide enough cheap labor for a period of time, prevent the land from being divided into small pieces, and prevent the capital from being split.

From the perspective of human nature, it is good for children to inherit property evenly; from the perspective of capital, it seriously affects the process of capital accumulation, creating a large number of self-cultivating farmers. Woven self-sufficient.

But these alone were not enough. Chen Jian drafted a strict "Education Act", stipulating that in five years, the children of Xia Guoguo people must receive strict enlightenment education after the age of six. If you know the number of words and the arithmetic of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and understand some simple laws, you will be fined.

The large number of students in the education classes prepared in the past ten years have been fully spread out, because there are basically no rural areas at this time, only the nine cities surrounding Hwaseong, so it is much easier to build schools and the like.

A strict examination system was established, and the period of enlightenment education was increased to five years. After five years, some excellent students were selected and transferred to technical secondary schools to learn some methods of being petty officials or technicians in various workshops. They studied for two years and practiced for two years.Those who are particularly outstanding can be admitted to middle school, and then enter Jixia Academy to study.

Chen Jian let go of most of his rights. Anyway, there are not too many important things, and he can't manage it now. Everything is mainly for recuperation. He himself spends the rest of his time focusing on education, amending laws, and supervising some general directions. Policy, cultivate the management art of officials.

During the Huaxia League, Chen Jian resigned from the position of high priest and built a building dedicated to sacrifice.

In addition to the building, the most magnificent megalithic building in the entire Xia Kingdom was also built, called the Xianren Temple.

When retiring as the high priest, Chen Jian respectfully placed the jade pendant, which symbolized the high priest, on the sacrificial building, and carved five lines of characters with stones underneath.

See the world, explain the world, change the world.What you know is what you know, what you don't know is what you don't know.

He told everyone that he has no way to see the whole world, can't explain the whole world, and can't do the most difficult thing to change the whole world, so he is not qualified to be the high priest.If someone can know everything, be omniscient, explain everything, see all the places with mountains, waters and earth, see the sun, moon and stars and explain the movement of the sun, moon and stars, then this person can become a high priest.

He also told everyone, if you can't see the whole world, then look in front of your eyes; if you can't explain the whole world, then explain what you have seen; if you can't change the whole world, then change what you have explained.

All those who have made contributions to Huaxia will have their names engraved in the Shrine of the Sage, and will be sacrificed for all ages.How to be selected has a series of rules set by him.

As for ancestors and heaven and earth, Chen Jian didn't want to make a religion, so he had to tell everyone: Heaven and earth have their own set of rules that we can't figure out, and you have nothing to do with the ancestors of heaven and earth since you were born.

If the ancestors of heaven and earth decided that a person can live to 90 years old, it means that this person can live to 90 years old without starving, getting sick, fighting or dying.You obviously could live to ninety years, but you just threw yourself into a well and died. That was not predestined by heaven and earth, but your own choice.

Divination is meaningless. If everything is doomed by heaven and earth, and divination can change what has been doomed by heaven and earth, then how can it be said that everything is doomed by heaven and earth?

All the efforts you have made since birth are meaningful, because you will not have another life.

Chapter 142 A Completely Reactionary Rest of Life ([-])

More than twenty years later, the 71st year of the Chinese calendar.

Chen Jian is old.

Huacheng, the capital of the kingdom, already has a population of 28, making it the most prosperous city in the known world.

The mandatory five-year compulsory education has made the literacy rate and enlightenment rate of the new generation around Hwaseong reach [-]%.

The eldest son inheritance system is fully implemented, and under the annexation policy of allowing private sales of land, the rich get richer and have more financial resources to support the development of distant places.

With the meager property distributed by the family, the eldest sons who are not heirs either study hard to become officials and join the army, or follow the guidance of the government to build cities further afield for reclamation and development, or they can only work in Hwaseong and plant with others.

As for the descendants of those slaves and civilians, it doesn't matter whether they are the eldest sons or not, there is really nothing to divide.

The largest landowner owns 1 mu of land, and there are a lot of people working there. It is not a tenancy system, but a salary system, and what is given every year is not grain but coins.

The largest cotton textile workshop has [-] looms, and there are various spinning workshops to cooperate with it.

Many people worked in private cotton workshops, wool workshops, or workshops such as transportation, shipbuilding, and smelting.

Because of the existence of the government-led adult immigrant reclamation plan, the workshop owners had to offer fairly generous wages, plus the advantages of urban life, in exchange for labor.

During the five-year buffer period after the promulgation of the Education Act, Xia Guo trained a large number of enlightened teachers. After that, Chen Jian basically no longer supervised Xia Guo's government affairs, but devoted himself to education.

With the love and support of the whole people, and unrivaled prestige, no one has the idea of ​​seizing power, and perhaps there are people who consciously put this idea behind in a flash.

For 20 years, Chen Jian, as the principal of Jixia Academy, turned Jixia Academy into a university, offering literature, management, arithmetic, statistics, smelting, agronomy, medicine, architecture, military affairs, natural science and other disciplines.

Speaking of college, many things are actually at the junior high school level, and many of them are known but not why.

In the smelting class and the natural class, Chen Jian did a few experiments.

Place the candle in a sink of clarified lime water, close the glass, and wait until the water level rises after the candle is extinguished.Chen Jian said that air is a substance, and what can support combustion is some kind of gas.If this gas is regarded as yang, then the opposite is yin, which is only opposite to yang that can support combustion, and can make lime water turbid.

Then, the iron was taken out, rusting on the water, not rusting in the distilled, sealed, deyanged bottle.This tells the students in the smelting class that the red iron ore is produced by iron and yang.

Then use charcoal to react with the calcined copper oxide, and the gas released can still make the lime water turbid. This tells the young people that the so-called smelting is to use charcoal or messy things to replace the yang energy inside, so as to change it. became metal.

I also did an experiment with pure water and salt water in winter. When the pure water freezes, the salt water has nothing to do with it. So I told the young people: If pure water wants to melt, it needs a higher temperature, but mixed salt water wants to melt. Lower temperatures are required.

Therefore, bronze and copper were taken out and tested, and the results were the same.