From Chief to Ball

At that time, the goods of the Yucheng workshop group will only accept copper coins, or it will be cheaper to accept copper coins than the real goods, while the workshop groups in nearby cities will give those people copper coins in exchange for labor, or use copper coins to buy raw materials.

Taobe is easy to imitate, and now the simple concept of currency has been accepted in the city, and Taobe has completed his mission, and it is time to step back behind the scenes as a witness to history.

Copper coins are more formal than taobei, and the copper content in them endows them with a certain use value and is easier to be accepted by people.

Those old Chinese who were rubbing the copper coins obviously liked this thing very much, and also guessed that this thing was a new currency, wondering if Tao Bei was going to exchange it for this kind of copper coin?This thing looks much more reliable than Taube.

After Chen Jian made everyone happy for a while, he waved his hand and called all the Chinese people who were still there to try out the car and enjoyed it, and surrounded him on the ground.

"Nowadays there are plowshares, iron columbine carts, and some rules are about to change. For example, in your fiefdom, how much grain must be handed in each year is set by the quota. It cannot be less. After completing these quotas, you are willing to cultivate the land Just farm, and do other things if you want to, but the food quota is the bottom line, and if you can’t finish it, you can take back the fief. No matter how much money you have, you can’t eat, can you understand? We have to make sure we have enough to eat.”

Everyone nodded. This is easy to understand. I haven't been hungry for a few years. There is no need to say anything about this truth.

"Originally, you may have to fix all your people to work on the land to turn in so much grain, but now you don't need so many people. Maybe 600 people are entrusted with the land, and only 200 people are needed to farm the land to complete the quota. The remaining What about the next 400 people? Farming is of course also possible, but the problem is that there is enough food now, if one person farms the land in exchange for food, wouldn’t it be more profitable if he did something else?”

"Such as raising horses? Raising cattle? Raising sheep? Logging? Wine making? Woodworking? Iron? Our control may be lifted next year. You still can't do things like salt, iron and copper mines, but not all other things may be all by yourselves. Take care of the public property. You all think carefully about what your fiefdoms are suitable for, and if you think about it, ask the people in the Planning and Statistics Department to see if your ideas can be implemented."

"Another one, the amount of grain that your fiefdoms turn in every year may change. This year, if I want wheat, you must free up a part of the land to plant the wheat I want; next year, if I want beans, you have to give me beans. You It is said that beans are more expensive than wheat, so I want to grow beans...don’t even think about it until the quota is fulfilled; once the quota is fulfilled, you are willing to plant as much as you want. Don’t blame me for not making it clear. If the quota is not fulfilled by then, is the fief It's hard to tell yours."

For these people sitting around on the land, this was great news, and it even shocked them a little.

From the beginning of Xiacheng’s establishment, everything was controlled exclusively by the public property, from food to pottery to bronze, but now it sounds like it is going to loosen part of the control, leaving only the things that must survive are still under the exclusive control of public property.

A few people thought of some ways to make money almost instantly. They thought about it before but couldn't do it, and they didn't dare to do it. Now they have ideas.

Quickly, he pointed to the plowshare driveway: "So the key to the problem is these things? Only by using these things can we free up manpower, and each person can produce more money every year."

Chen Jian praised a few words, and then said: "That's why I asked you to come here. First, there are still many things to learn. You can learn by yourself, or send a letter to ask a few people from your fief to learn. Some things can only be seen with eyes. You can’t learn it, you have to work with your own hands, so you can know how much an acre of land can produce, and you can plan for the future. Wouldn’t you be unhappy if you were allowed to work here until autumn?”

Everyone laughed, and one person said: "Why don't you like it? A few years ago, you were digging the ground with your hands holding stones, but now you just walk with the plowshare. After eating for a few days, I am full of dissatisfaction when letting him come to the farm, as if making him work is torturing him."

After chatting and laughing for a while, Chen Jian got up and said, "Well, I'll set aside a piece of land for you, and you can cultivate it yourself with plowshares and carts. By the way, I will send a letter to ask the people in the fief to come and learn, otherwise I will give you plowshares and columbine. You don’t even know how to use the car.”

"Okay, I can't give you this stuff for free. The workshop in Yucheng belongs to everyone in Xiacheng, and you have to spend money. I can't afford that much money, but I can give it to you first. You can give it to me in kind within a few years." .Horses, wool, columbine carts, wooden utensils, grain, all these things are fine.”

Everyone was okay, nodded and said: "We can distinguish between public and private. If you give us money if you don't want it, those who don't have fiefs in Xiacheng will be unhappy, and it doesn't make sense."

"It's good to understand. While the weather is warm, you build a few houses to live in first. This is for yourself. When the wind and rain leak, you can only blame yourself for being lazy. If you want to keep some people here in the future, what do I have?" The new method will be implemented in this farm first, and you have to send people here to watch over it, and change it every two years so that we don’t use horse-drawn plowshares here, and you are still grinding stones.”

A group of people got the tools and went to build their own huts together with a smile, and they got along with each other in a group, discussing with each other what they could do in their fief while working.

In fact, there are many things that can be done, many, many things, and there is no technical bottleneck, it's just a matter of turning your head a little bit.

Taking the agriculture of the two cities of Xiacheng and Yucheng as an example, there are countless things that can be done according to local conditions.This place is similar to the Central Plains in the previous life. There are no paddy fields and no rice, so there is no need for buffaloes.Cattle and horses will have rotten hooves in paddy fields, but they are like fish in water in dry fields.

Horse-drawn plows are faster, three times faster than oxen, but oxen can plow deeper and require less human attention, each with its own strengths.

Take cattle and horses as an example, there are many ideas that have no technical bottlenecks but have made great progress.

The horse harness in the previous life took a fork in the road. At the beginning, it was tied around the neck like a cow. However, cows and horses look different, and the consequences can be imagined.It was not until much later that the harness was moved from the neck to the chest that the horse became a usable field animal.There is no technical bottleneck in this, and it has been completed in Xia City without detours.

The feed for cattle and horses will make cattle and horses grow better after green storage and fermentation, and there is no technical bottleneck in this.

In the hollow grassland near Onozawa, ditches are dug to allow water to pour in at the end of autumn, which can not only ensure that the bright grass will not freeze to death due to the cold weather, but also allow a large amount of silt to ensure that the grass will be more fertile next year.

The bean cake left after processing soybean oil can be fed to cows and horses as a high-quality licking feed when it is abundant; cow dung and horse manure are fermented to fertilize the field, which can increase crop yields; legumes and gramineous plants can be used in rotation Nitrogen fixation by legume plants increases the production of staple foods, which in turn increases the number of horses and cattle.

The method of large land and rare people, such as encircling lakes to build fields, mulberry fish ponds, etc., are methods of sparse land and large population. It is pure dogmatism to use them directly. Chen Jian's brain is not so bad, so the people of this era The agricultural revolution was based on the condition of vast land and sparse population, and the premise that land can be wasted on a large scale.

Chapter 4 Agricultural Transformation ([-])

After being busy at the farm for a few days, Chen Jian returned to Yucheng. The Department of Planning and Statistics was working on this year's farm quota, which needed his final review.

Grain, cattle and horses are just one of them. Dye crops such as indigo, swim bladders, goose feathers, mulberry wood, gourds, etc., all need to be prepared in advance, which is related to the workshop plan for the second year.

The biggest problem is still the shortage of manpower. All departments in Yucheng are staring at the group of children from Xiacheng who have completed the most basic education. Even if they come, they cannot work immediately, but it is better than counting them People who don't understand are better to use.

Nearly a hundred children who have completed their studies in Xiacheng Kaimeng waited for the final assignment with a daze.Xia Cheng is now a whole, he can't do anything by himself, if he is not in the system, he can't get meritorious titles, etc., and he can't enjoy the treatment of the Chinese people, and no one knows what he wants to do except for the arrangement above.

Unexpectedly, the first thing they faced was not to assign what they would do in the future, but to spend three days entering Chen Jian's room one by one to do some final assessments.

Chen Jian cherishes these seeds very much, because Xiacheng's future education system will ultimately depend on these people, so he did not use a rough selection method, but used individual inquiries that cannot be replicated after many generations. Years later it will be discarded.

Seven people with particularly flexible minds were selected out of a hundred people. The seven people were well-known when they were in Xiacheng Academy. They each have their own strengths, and the children are convinced.

The seven selected people held a very formal apprenticeship ceremony at the end of mid-February, and officially called Chen Jian as Mr. From now on, they will be Chen Jian's students. Chen Jian will teach them personally, and they will also Continuing with off-the-job learning.

Among the seven people, four were from Xiacheng, and three people were from Ewei and Ewei cities. The apprenticeship ceremony of the seven people was very grand and envied by the rest of the people.

In addition to being able to study full-time, these seven people have their own characters.

Originally, they only had names and no characters.The names of the seven people were given to them by Chen Jian. As a gentleman, he has this qualification, and another one is also considered an honor.

The name alone is too ugly, and there are everything from hot water dumplings to cotton-padded pants.

These seven people are the first group, and a group of people will be selected every year in the future. They will receive primary off-the-job education, purely theoretical, and they are a group of people who want to know why.

The remaining more than 90 people, Chen Jian, were divided into six classes according to the abilities they learned and mastered.They will study part-time.

In the next three years, I will work in the workshop for half a year, and study for the other half year. What Xiacheng lacks most now is this kind of people instead of the above seven kinds of people who specialize in off-the-job study.

This is also directly related to the agricultural revolution in the farm today. Originally, the public property of Xiacheng could only support a small number of children's education for one to three years, but with the increase in agricultural output and the establishment of workshop groups, some Potential students after enlightenment have the material conditions to study part-time for three years.

Dozens of people stood on the playground of the school, and Chen Jian stood in front of the wooden platform and shouted: "You have grown up now, you may have pulled each other's hair and wiped each other's snot a year ago, but now you are fourteen, you have already You can tie your hair, you can give birth to a baby. Of course, you can also work."

"Eat and use, all of this is done by hard work. Some of you may mutter in your heart, why can a child who is the same as you three years ago be able to manage many people from the beginning, but you can only start from hard work?" Start? I don't think there's more than one person who's thought that way?"

The children all lowered their heads and giggled, Chen Jian sighed: "Three years ago, like half of you, there were few people who could read and count, but now there are many, and more and more, you will no longer know these words." What's different. If you really complain, don't blame me, you can only blame why your parents didn't meet earlier."

"If you want me to say, those who complain are too difficult to achieve great things. The courage that the school teaches you is to let you face the things that are difficult to change; the wisdom that is taught to you is to let you change the things that can be changed. "

"Now that you have both courage and wisdom, then dry your nose, throw away your complaints, and do your own thing. Let me tell you, don't feel that it is humiliating to let you go to the workshop to do things. Let you do it now." Can you be the leader? Not to mention being a leader, but now you are asked to go to the farm to farm, will you? There are new changes every year, and everything you know may not be done in two years, so even if you go I went to the farm and went to the workshop, I hope you can continue to learn like you are in the school."

"If you do well, you will always be noticed. Everyone is not blind; if you don't do well, everyone will criticize you."

"When you enter the workshop and the farm, you are working for yourself and for the entire Xiacheng. Who is Xiacheng? Xiacheng is you, and you are Xiacheng. You work in the farm for yourself to eat If you are full, you are also producing food for other workshops; and the utensils smelted by other workshops will be used in your cultivation.”

"The public property, whose is it? Isn't it yours? Who is Xia in Xia City? Isn't it yours?"

"Everyone is Xiacheng, and Xiacheng is you, then everyone is for you. The reverse is also the same, you are for everyone."

"Children, I hope that next year when meritorious deeds are recognized, you will be seen among those who wear brass badges and have your names among those who have labored the most convincing list. You have courage and courage. Wisdom, lacking in nothing, don't let me down."

"Next, I'll call on the names, and stand together. You will be classmates studying together in the future. After half a year, you will have to start your full-time study again. At that time, I will listen to the evaluation of you by the old Chinese and the old workshop workers."

According to the number of people in the previous evaluation, they were divided into six groups, and the people in each group were similar.In addition to working in the six groups, every two months Chen Jian will teach a class something for them to comprehend and digest.

It is not necessary to know why, but it is enough to know why. They will be the main technical workers in the future and the people who teach literacy in various workshops.