From Chief to Ball

"Yeah, I'm looking forward to our tribe handing over ten catties of grain per mu of land. It would be even better if we could hand over twenty catties..."

The more you hand in, the more you've harvested. Anyway, it's not harvested according to the size of the land. It's nothing more than supporting some special people to calculate and consider.

Chen Jian and a few others squatted in the wheat field, talking about their expectations for the next year. Those riders from Echeng did not dare to ride into the wheat field. While working out, he told Chen Jian what Yu Qian'er asked them to convey.

Things have priorities, so he first said what he thinks is the most important thing, which is to exchange the bronze farm tools for corn.

"Bronze farming tools..."

A few people beside him hurriedly objected: "No way, bronze can be smelted into weapons, and Sihuo thinks too little."

"That's right. Although they use stones, they also have an army formation. If they have bronze weapons, they will be even stronger. It's like a tiger with a pair of falcon wings."

"Sihuo is still a child after all, so it's a little thoughtless."

Chen Jian frowned and asked, "What else did Sihuo say?"

"She said that corn, wheat, and beans can be planted in rotation. Now that the corn has just been harvested, it is the time when it can be exchanged the most, because there is no unified management and sale of corn in Echeng, but families spontaneously buy it. If you wait until next spring When the corn is still green in the field, it cannot be exchanged for so much."

This reason is not convincing to everyone. In the eyes of the rider, this is already the second most important thing. After scratching his head, he remembered another reason that he thought was not too important.

Chapter 19 Sharpen your weapon before you want to be good at it

"Sihuo said that there is no Sihuo in Echeng. If you want to change it, you have to change it, and you use your own corn. The corn is your own, so the farm tools you exchanged are also your own. The tribes in Echeng have been separated. She You can swear to those who exchange bronze farming tools that they will not be used to make weapons."

Chen Jian probably understood Yu Qian'er's considerations, but the people next to him were still a little puzzled. Did they really stop building weapons if they didn't use them?If that's the case, Song doesn't have to go so far to find the answer he wants.

But this reason is actually quite sufficient. The city government can forcibly take back the agricultural tools in everyone's hands, but what they pay is credit, which may cause dissatisfaction among the people in the city.For the cities that have been divided into families, the gap between the country and the family has appeared. Most people think about themselves first, not the whole city. At this time, the support of the families in the cities is the right of the leader. origin of.

In the previous life, even after going through the changes of Xia, Shang and Western Zhou, when the King of Zhou took over all the mountains, rivers and rivers as state-owned, it still triggered riots among the people of the country and started the republic.As long as the city is still small and every clansman is required to fight, the people of the country must have great rights, and the leader must also consider the ideas of the people of the country.

Farm tools are very important to the families of farming peoples. The world has existed for so long, and so many meteorites have fallen on the ground. It is difficult to find meteorites in settlements, and most of them are made into farm tools by village blacksmiths. If you are lucky, some natural alloys may be passed down as family heirlooms.

There are very few bronze agricultural tools in the tombs of the Bronze Age, perhaps because the slaves destroyed the tools and the slave owners were unwilling to improve them; It is rare, and it is unlikely that ordinary families will use bronze farm tools as funeral objects, but leave them as treasures to future generations.

Chen Jian is more inclined to the latter possibility. The market for bronze farm tools should not be small. Now is the time when the price of corn is relatively lowest. At this time, changing a wave can indeed maximize the benefits and facilitate planting next year.

Another thing is that since Chen Jian has the confidence to develop the handicraft industry in his city, regardless of the situation of the two cities at war, the more developed the planting industry in E City, the more profitable it is for Xia City.

Farm tools can be smelted into weapons, but this weapon alone is not enough to give E City an overwhelming advantage. Some small tools cannot be made by the opponent, so they can only be exchanged.

For example, the artifact saws of this era, the teeth of the saw are not aligned, but the odd and even number of saw teeth are separated to the left and right, and it will be a concave shape when viewed along the saw teeth. Pinching and possibly even breaking the teeth.

Moreover, some smelting techniques cannot be mastered in Echeng. Even though Chen Jian instructed that Jin has Liuqi, the bronze weapons smelted are obviously not right. After constant exploration, he discovered that Jin has Liuqi. It is only the ratio of copper to tin, and the bronzes made according to that ratio are generally brittle.

Although the explanation given by Yu Qian'er did not conquer the tribe, it had already conquered Chen Jian. Without investigation, he had no right to speak. Chen Jian didn't know much about the power structure and differences between cities, but Yu Qian'er had experienced it personally, so Her words are more credible than Chen Jian's own imagination.

"How about this, let the various tribes temporarily collect the bronze farm tools that have been distributed, and give them new ones within a month, first make a batch and transport them to E City, and try to replace these farm tools before E Yue returns. "

"Then how do you bring the corn back?"

"There is no rush for the time being. We will wait until the snow falls in winter before transporting it. We will store it in E City for the time being."

After snow falls, simple sleds can be made, and horses and cattle can be used for transportation. The production cycle of vehicles is long, and there is no suitable road, so the efficiency is not high.

Now more than half of the autumn wheat has been planted, and the autumn planting can be completed in two or three days. The harvest of beans is done with a sickle, so some tools such as hoes and Leisi can be sold for the time being. After the autumn harvest, you can spend some time After improving the smelting of bronze, there is not much ore on the surface. The mine has killed many slaves in the past few months. Chen Jian needs to take a special look.

Because the tribes in Xiacheng are still in the transitional stage of disintegrating into families, relying on the inertial thinking of the tribesmen, it is still easy to centralize power and take back the farm tools of each tribe.The clansmen also believed Chen Jian's statement that a new one would be replaced after a month, and they knew that Chengyi had this ability.

Two days later, four birch bark boats transported the collected bronze farm tools down the river. In fact, the number was not very large, only more than 200 pieces, and many of them were defective products from the previous experiment.

In addition to these existing agricultural tools, there are two or three newly made straight shaft plows, but they are pulled by people, they are small, and the mechanical structure is obviously wrong. They cannot be plowed deeply and are very laborious.

Quyuanli is a huge technological improvement compared to Zhiyuanli, but in fact, the big reason is just to change the direction of force. This is a technology reserved for the tribe, and of course it will not be directly exchanged.Moreover, this kind of straight shaft plow will make Echeng's technology learning go in the wrong direction, even if they learn to use ox plowing for a while, they still can't figure out the difference.

When Yuqian'er received the goods, Eyue hadn't returned yet, but sent back the second wave of messengers. While Shujiu was considering the arrangements for those slaves, a news spread from the wine shop that tomorrow he would be outside the city. Some farm tools are sold on the land.

The people in E City knew that there would always be some novelty and good things in Xia City, and the news in the wine shop spread quickly, and the rumor that Xia City produced more than [-] catties per mu made the news even more serious.

Wealthy families think that they can buy more, so that they can reclaim more land; while those poor families sigh, knowing that this kind of injustice will become bigger and bigger, and the innovation of tools cannot keep up. With the increase in yield per mu, more and more food will be paid in the future, and he is likely to become a slave due to bankruptcy.

Early the next morning, the sandy loam outside the city was already crowded with people, and this area was also chosen by the people who followed those farm tools according to what Chen Jian said.

This kind of straight-shaft plow pulled by people can cultivate sandy loam and yellow loam, and this kind of land is only found in river banks and valleys. It is not suitable for those lands that are close to mountains and forests after burning. Since it is a demonstration, we must choose a suitable time and place. environment.

Yu Qian'er didn't say a word the whole time, but let the tribe use various tools to show the speed of land reclamation, not even a word of publicity.

These men who came with farm tools were selected by Chen Jian as experts in reclaiming the land last year. In fact, even if they were given stone tools, they were faster than normal people, but in the eyes of people who were not familiar with them, this speed all became the bonus of bronze farm tools.

The two or three people who reclaimed the most land last year and whose names have been hung on the public notice board in the city for a long time hold bronze hoes and use the fastest speed to plan the soft sandy loam. Rooted plants such as grasses.

One of them won the fastest reclamation award in the sports meeting last autumn, and a pig's tooth pendant was hung around his neck to symbolize this honor.

Yu Qian'er drew a line, pointed to a willow tree about [-] steps away, and said: "Whoever plows there first and then returns to make a ridge will have wine and cooking at noon; the last one will have no wine." of."

She was joking with her clansmen, but the people in E City didn't hear the joke. They were startled when they saw the distance of four hundred steps, and they thought that it would be dark after such a long distance.

The clansmen standing in front of the line had participated in two tribal games and knew what is fair, so they waited quietly. Mosuo held the blackened hoe that had been soaked in sweat.

The ground-planing champion wearing a pig-tooth pendant whispered to the clansmen around him: "Brother, let's cooperate. I calculated that if we separated, each of us would need to plan [-] steps. But the two of us If we work together, we only need to dig three furrows, [-] steps, and each person can save [-] steps."

His younger brother also whispered, "Will this be unfair?"

"Of course not. Just like in war, the cooperation of five people is always better than ten chaotic people. Sihu didn't say it was wrong, and Ji Xia encouraged us to think more, maybe there will be rewards. Now in the city If you want to get a woman's attention, you can't just rely on your body, you have to rely more on your brain."

After hesitating for a moment, the younger brother agreed, and the two waited for Yuqianer to say the start. When Yuqianer finished shouting, the two brothers did not immediately start wielding the hoes, but found two small wooden sticks and stuck them on the ground, aiming at the distance. The willow tree, the elder brother checked the straight line at the back, and the younger brother ran forward with a small wooden stick, inserting a stick at intervals to ensure the straightness of the ditch.

Yu Qian'er laughed and said, "Brother told a story that a group of people draw snakes, and whoever finishes drawing first can drink a pot of wine. Some draw the fastest, but they add four legs while waiting for others."

The man squinted one eye and said with a smile: "I've heard the story about Ji Xia, but even if I draw eight more legs, I'm still faster than them."

Everyone laughed, but the men were merciless, wielding the hoe with the best skill, but kept looking up to see if the hoe was crooked.In the past, when the tribe hoeed the ground, there was a rope as a reference, but there is no such thing now.

The younger brother didn't come back until the others had dug out more than a dozen steps. The brothers started digging the ground together. The older brother dug a furrow along the direction of the wooden stick in front, while the younger brother stuck to the place two feet away. Excavation.

Before the rest of the people understood what the two of them were doing, Yu Qian'er was already smiling. This was indeed a good idea.

Digging [-] steps over there, the two of them didn't make much of a gap with the others, they just caught up with the speed of others. Although they surpassed, the advantage was not great.

But in the eyes of the Echeng people, the speed of these people has surpassed their imagination, because they are not skilled workers, so the speed is very slow, but they regard this proficiency as the help of the bronze farm tools.

When the two men reached the willow tree and began to return, the men finally saw the problem.The two brothers did not each dig one, but separated according to small wooden sticks, and each was responsible for a section.

Obviously one was missing, but two complete furrows have been formed, and they are completely in line with the tribe's regulations. They are straight, the distance between the furrows is two feet, and the three furrows are just enough for the wheels to pass through.

"It's obvious that each person has to dig a round trip of [-] steps, but these two people only dug [-] steps... Where did the missing [-] steps go?"

People didn't realize it for a while, but some people who did, finally understood a question that children in the school learned: How many spaces are there in a row of a hundred trees?