From Chief to Ball

Several people asked in amazement: "Can you really produce more than 100 catties of wheat per mu? Is wheat the raw material for your cakes?"

Yu Qian'er smiled and nodded, indicating that this is not "blowing". For the people in Echeng, the inelegant word "blowing" also has an allusion. From this word, they know the wolf skin in Echeng who likes to brag.

For everything they want to know, they want to know more stories, and they trust this cute girl with two pigtails in front of them. lie.

"Yuqian, you said that you just migrated to... er, the Caohe River last year, yes, the banks of the Caohe River, how did you cultivate so much land? I heard that the slaves in your city did not There are not as many cities as ours."

"Yes, not as many as you, but we have some useful tools for farming and harvesting, all of which are made by my brother. Take harvesting as an example, our people who use sickles can harvest a lot more than you every day. More people don’t necessarily mean more work, don’t you think?”

People in the wine shop nodded their heads, they also knew this truth, for example, the same job, slaves do it much slower, but they do it faster; It must be faster than your own stone axe.

These two speeds are not the same, but the latter seems to be more effective.

"Yuqianer, can you tell your brother to sell us some tools? The corn has been harvested, and the wheat officer sent by you Xiacheng is teaching us how to plant it, but our tools are not good. My son followed Going out, maybe we can get two or three slaves when we come back this time, but even two slaves are not as fast as any of them can use the tools you mentioned."

"That's right, tell me, let him sell it to us, and we can exchange it with corn."

These people are looking forward to those bronze or iron tools to replace stone tools. The polishing of stone tools takes time and luck. Not every tool is perfect. If you want to get the perfect one, you have to drop an unknown number of stones.

Bronze of the same shape may not be better than stone tools, but the fact that the same shape is enough to destroy the masons in the city, and even if bronze is not much better than stone, it can fabricate hundreds of exactly the same tools. The perfect hoe.

After listening to these people's request, Yu Qian'er pulled her braid and said, "Then I'll ask my brother when I go back, but it will cost a lot of corn to change it."

"Corn is not a problem. The newly burned land this year has a good harvest. There are thirty slaves in my family. Even if they eat... well, five catties of corn a day is enough."

A few well-to-do people hurriedly proclaimed their abundance to ensure that they could get these desired tools in exchange.

In the past, who was richer in E City could only be determined by who had more slaves, but if there were new tools, people with the same slave tools and better tools would be richer.

Echeng is different from Xiacheng. Not everyone has the right to discuss matters. Only when the number of corn, cattle and sheep exceeds a certain amount is the qualification to participate in the tribal conference.In Echeng, slaves are not only a class but also a status. Some families have to become slaves to repay their debts because they have borrowed too much public property. In theory, if a slave owns a sufficient amount of corn, cattle and sheep, They could also have certain rights...but only in theory.

After listening to the story for a month, Yu Qian'er understood to some extent that the difference between the slaves in Echeng and the slaves in Xiacheng was that they were different in law, but the things they did and were treated were basically the same.

After thinking about it for a moment, she asked, "Does E Yue not care about these exchanges?"

"Why does Eyue take care of it? They say you are Xiacheng's merchandiser, so do people in Xiacheng even ask you about exchanging things? Eyue doesn't care about these things, as long as you pay taxes and go out It’s time to go to war.”

Yu Qian'er pretended to be curious and asked: "Then what belongs to you is your own? The city is not qualified to ask for it, even if E Yue asks for it?"

"Yeah, unless we did something wrong, why would he take our things? We will hand over everything that needs to be handed over to the city, and what we don't need to hand over is our own. Look at my corn If you have more, you can exchange them for wine, but some people can’t even eat corn, so why don’t I give them some?”

After chatting for a while, there was a sudden commotion outside the restaurant, and a few clansmen brought by Yuqian'er hurried in from outside, shouting excitedly: "Sihuo, Jixia has returned from victory, and Sikou brought people here!" He's coming this way, there are still a few people riding horses, I heard that Ji Xia has also snatched back a lot of horses."

Yu Qian'er hurriedly stood up, apologized to those who were listening to the story, and was about to leave.Of course the people in the restaurant knew that this was a big event, and they congratulated repeatedly, but just as Yu Qian'er was about to go out, those people still asked curiously: "What is a horse?"

"A donkey as big as an ox, but with shorter ears than a donkey."

Yu Qian'er didn't look back, and when she stepped out the door, she responded to these people according to the explanation her brother had told her before. When several people imagined the appearance of this animal, someone finally said wisely: "Go and see, you will know?"

When Yu Qian'er ran out, even though she knew that her brother had won, she still liked to hear other people talk about her brother.

In addition, she was still thinking about another thing: "It's better to plant corn in spring in the city, wait until autumn to harvest corn and plant wheat, and then plant beans after harvesting wheat, so that every two weeks Every year, one year more grain can be harvested than in E City."

"Now Echeng has just harvested corn, and every family has a lot of corn. There must be a lot of corn that can be exchanged now. Anyway, slaves can eat acorns in winter. Moreover, there is no warden in Echeng to manage the exchange, and neither can Eyue. Randomly collected from various families, in this way, maybe some bronze farm implements can be exchanged, the quantity is less, and the corn exchanged for each piece will be more.”

Chapter 18 Priorities

When she ran to the city gate, she saw Song from a distance, and greeted Song from a distance, but she was a little surprised why Song didn't wear a hat that symbolized the identity of the sixth division.

After being stunned for a moment, he still ran to Song's side.Most of the expectations and pursuits are often due to lack. Song has lost his family and tribe, so he always wants a perfect tribe without disputes, and he will take the initiative to pursue these family ties, so he is also very fond of Yuqianer. Well, Yu Qian'er trusts him too.

"Where's your silk? My brother said that the position of the sixth division must wear a silk that symbolizes his identity in front of the tribe, so that the tribe can find us when there is something. Is it because I went to Echeng? Don't treat me as a clan?"

She was joking, Song smiled and said, "I'm not Si Kou anymore."

As if asking more questions for Yu Qian'er, he explained it himself, and Yu Qian'er seemed to understand a little bit. She thought less than Chen Jian, and on the contrary understood Song's actions better.

"Are you going to the lower reaches of the Grass River?"

"That's right, your brother asked me to wait for E Yue to come back and ask him some things before we can leave. We may have to stay here for a few days, and we can't leave for the time being."

"Then let's stay for a few more days. I'm looking forward to E Yue's return later, but it seems that he will be back soon. Someone sent back his news, and he will be back soon."

They arranged for the people to stay, and the riders got rid of the curious inquiries of the people in Echeng. When they were about to go to the boat to help unload the goods, they were stopped by Yuqianer, and they had to deal with business first.

"Sihuo Ji, Ji Xia asked us to live here temporarily, let us listen to you."

The riders walked to Yuqian'er. When they came, the pods of the bean beans had already swelled, and these seeds were brought back by Yuqianer, so they respected Yuqianer very much.Only by eating enough can we win the battle.

"I'm afraid you will go back after dinner. I have a few words to say to my brother."

She winked, and several riders nodded and followed her into the wine shop, and said in the small room: "Just eat whatever you want. We wanted to try stir-fried vegetables at first, but it seems we won't be able to eat until we come back."

"Get down to business first, and let you eat your fill when you come back. When you return to Xia City as soon as possible, just say..."

She hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to express herself, and thought for a long time before she said: "Let's say that Echeng has harvested a lot of corn now. Corn, wheat and beans can be harvested three times in two years. The people in Echeng have a lot of private property. Xiacheng's dealer thinks that some bronze farming tools can be exchanged for corn, but he doesn't know whether to exchange them. If Ji Xia thinks it should be exchanged, send someone to send them as soon as possible."

The rider shook his head and said, "Ji Xia said that bronze is not exchanged."

"That was in the past. We used stones before. Go there after dinner, and try to complete this exchange before E Yue comes back. It must be fast."

The riders didn't ask any more questions. They saw many things they couldn't understand before. Maybe they thought less this time. After eating a little, they rode back to Xiacheng again.

It takes three or four days to go back and forth. Most of the autumn wheat in Xia City has been sown, and the 15 catties of seeds are distributed, and each tribe gives priority to planting on the reclaimed land.

This is different from E City. In E City, the family is the unit, and each family needs to cultivate the public land first. Because the tools are not at hand, it is the most efficient way for hundreds of people to collectively work, while the private land is often used every day. It doesn't matter how many cities a family can grow, as long as you can pay enough food.

Xiacheng is under the overall control of Chen Jian and some special off-the-job personnel. At least how much and various types of land each tribe needs to plant must be measured to facilitate tax collection after harvest. At the same time, how and when to plant, the direction of the furrows, etc. All need to follow the rules.

The four tribes that Chen Jian can fully control plan to cultivate [-] mu of land, and the total amount cultivated by the rest of the tribes is about [-] mu.

[-] mu of land sounds like a lot, but all of it is only three kilometers wide and four kilometers long, which is not surprising.

Sixteen tribes, with a total of more than 2000 young and strong laborers, plus more than 1000 slaves, each of them has to cultivate nearly ten acres of land on average-this is a bit small. But a Ding is not a person. If a tribe is disintegrated into a family, in fact, the land of each small family is about [-] mu.

Cultivating in the city, the savage tribes outside the city also need to cultivate. Chen Jian used part of the public property and the private property of the four tribes to lend to those tribes.

The public property needs to be borrowed eighty to ten, and the private property of the four clans will only need to be borrowed ten to ten in the future, because he lent it out as a tribe, hoping to gain trust and gratitude for him personally. In the future, these wild people will be It is necessary to expand a part to enter the city.

Each tribe assigns a person who has cultivated in the past year to help and guide, and the food during the helping period is from the public property.

I have calculated the harvest for next year. If the harvest can be as good as last year, then the food problem in the city will be completely solved. You can even continue to catch some slaves and increase the proportion of the slave population to half or more. Don’t worry about slaves. There is nothing to eat.

After the most exhausting few days of work, the clansmen looked up at the western sky when they finished work. The fire and clouds burned half of it, but in the end they still didn't dye the whole sky red.

"If half of the red clouds burn, it will definitely rain within half a decade." This is what Chen Jian told them about the common sense of knowing the weather by looking at the clouds. How else could he tell from these strange clouds whether it was going to rain or not?

"It's good if it rains. It will germinate soon after planting. In case there is no rain in autumn, we have to dig canals to water. Maybe next year's harvest will be even better than this year's."