From Chief to Ball

"Didn't I send all the children who had completed enlightenment before to work in various workshops and farms? The first batch has now been working for two years. They can read and count, so they can take care of the newcomers from the church for the time being." .”

"Select the best among them as officials, and let the people of the country take them as teachers. I want to take advantage of these days to write out the rules of each workshop and farm. Rules and regulations.”

"Now that the city is getting bigger and bigger, I can no longer manage so many people. It's time for a change."

With the addition of more than 1 people, counting the bottom class and slaves who fled here under the radical policies of various cities last year, the entire Yucheng City has a population of nearly 3.With the addition of [-] people from Xinhua City and thousands of people from Xia City, Chen Jian was promoted from a village party secretary to a township cadre.

It is no longer realistic to take care of everything in every detail as before. Fortunately, it seems useless to prepare a lot of literacy talents who can be managed in advance, and I only need to be responsible for the general direction.

The three cities connected together can be regarded as the embryonic form of a country, and many things need to be perfected to prepare for a bigger country in the future.

After thinking for a while, he said: "Now that you have grown up, you have done some things very well. Even if I am not in the city, there is no trouble in the city. After Xiacheng is pacified this winter, you still have people from our side. As a human being, you have to put in more thought. If you can do what you do according to the rules, only new things that have never appeared before will come to me.”

"I have to make rules, write laws, train troops, reform systems, and build new workshops. I may not have much time to govern all the affairs of the entire city."

Yu Qian'er said in relief: "It's okay, isn't it messed up now? The rules will be perfect in the future, as long as you follow the rules. Brother, I probably understand."

"Understand what?"

"The rules are constantly changing. It's like how many seeds to plant and how much manure to spread on an acre of land. It was the same before the appearance of the columbine plowshare, and it was the same after the appearance. All we need to do is to constantly change these rules. It’s enough for those officials to carry it out. That is to say, you only need to write the rules, and you don’t have to worry about what to do after the rules are set.

Chen Jian laughed and said: "That's it. It's easy to say, but it's much harder to do it. Well, you go to count the number first, and don't tell anyone these things. Hurry up, I and the rest of the city It has been agreed with the people that we will go north to Xiacheng before November [-]th, and we must separate out the people before that."

"What about the selection of officials?"

"Let's talk about it after Xiacheng is pacified. Before that, the new arrivals of more than [-] people should be managed according to the method of the military camp, with strict rationing. Eat enough, wear warm clothes, don't pay money, and learn the rules. Let's do it before the spring of next year. distribute."

Chapter 63 The Wedding of Bronze Gunpowder and Lead

Under the simplest strict rationing system, statistics and planning have very little to do.

It took Yu Qian'er two days to count the number of people, and another three days to distribute the wooden tokens. According to the method determined by Chen Jian, the clan was broken up and reorganized.

As soon as Feng Zhuo came to Yucheng, he was completely emptied by Chen Jian. He lost the city's management system and could not do anything by himself, while Yuqian'er only needed to hold on to the food and clothing he controlled.

Chen Jian first sent Fengzhuo several chariots and horses, exquisite bows handed over from Dongyi, a small number of exquisite lead wares, ration rolls from brothels, etc., and invited people to host banquets every day for wild hunting. Let the clansmen in Windy City discover that they can live without the leader.

This can be regarded as an extravagant way of life in the Xia City system. Generally speaking, the entire Xia City is a group of local turtles, including Chen Jian.

Even though Xia City's production level is much higher than that of other cities, it is still far inferior to the leaders, nobles and slave owners of other cities in terms of luxury life.What tools can do, talking tools can do the same and do better.

There are no jade craftsmen in the Xiacheng system, and metals are basically used in tools and weapons. Most of the exquisite utensils made are sold to other cities, and it is difficult to find that kind of luxury artisans in the whole system.

For noble leaders, this is a city that is not suitable for living within the system, but it is full of attraction for most of the lower classes.

But with the new compromise policy and future development, the vast majority of people in the deformed system may become the new nobles of the huge country in the future, so the destruction of this city's special system will be sooner or later.

Therefore, before the self-destruction of the system, Chen Jian should take advantage of the cohesion of the system and the advantages of concentrating power to do big things to do a few things that can ensure the advantages of the ethnic group's civilization, so that it can continue to develop in the slow historical process afterwards.

There are no technical bottlenecks in many things, but there are many detours, and the need to keep trying so that the development is too slow.

But before that, we must first ensure self-sufficiency in grain for 3 people in Yucheng, and develop animal husbandry, ensuring that there is meat and occasional wine, which requires 3000 million catties of grain a year.

Based on the current crop rotation method of two years and three crops, and a single-season yield of [-] catties per mu, at least [-] mu of land will be needed next year.

The previous farm has reclaimed about 6 mu of land, and another 16 mu of land will be reclaimed for spring plowing next year, making a total of [-] mu of land.

If oxen, columbine carts, plowshares, etc. can be guaranteed, according to the labor volume of each light and strong cattle plus [-] mu, at least [-] cattle, [-] horses, about [-] light and strong men, and the corresponding number More women and old people.

This will require 8000 to 1 people to be distributed. The food issue must not be sloppy at all. Not only must we be self-sufficient, but we must also make adequate preparations for future wars.

Fortunately, today's population is sparse and land is everywhere. Everyone can grow to the limit of what they can cultivate. Coupled with the popularity of cattle and horse iron tools and the improvement of official management, the annual grain output should be sufficient.

Now everything belongs to the public property, everyone is within the system, and private land is meaningless.

Because the land needs to be planted by humans, even if a person from Yucheng has [-] mu of land, it is still meaningless without humans.

Now this can ensure that more full-time people can be supported with the least agricultural population. This is different from the mobilization force at the end of the feudal dynasty in the previous life. At that time, it seemed that there were a lot of people, but most of them were tied to the small land. , every year can only guarantee that they will not starve to death, and it is difficult for the government to mobilize their strength-one person can obviously plant a hundred acres of land, but there is not that much, and they can only be divided into the smallest small pieces, and they cannot exert their strength.

Private land is very attractive because there is cheap labor without means of production, so that private land can deprive part of the fruits of labor.Non-private land itself has some kind of magic, and the land is worthless without human labor.

Chen Jian is determined to adopt the model of collective labor farms before the unification, and then release the control after the unification.

First, the literate population of Yucheng is increasing every year, and there is sufficient management power to govern it, and under the conditions of a small country with few people, some wrong methods can be corrected at any time.

The second is that the method of using officials as teachers is more suitable for collective farms. It can achieve strict top-down control, new technologies can be spread quickly, and everyone's labor limit can be brought into play.

The third is that it is easier to build water conservancy projects and reclaim fertile land through collective labor.This is not something that a single family of farmers can do.

Fourth, once the civil strife in Xia City is settled, a series of reforms will be carried out in the entire system, the first of which is the compulsory military service system.

Except for some out-of-production and expensive out-of-production soldiers: such as the planned stirrup shock cavalry, assault heavy infantry, and gunpowder troops, all spearmen maintaining the front line will be recruited on a three-year compulsory basis.

The form of collective farms can ensure that one out of ten people is recruited without affecting the life of the family. If it is an independent farming system, the mobilization force will drop a lot. Nowadays, most families consist of three or two people, and the children have not yet grown up. There are no big families to farm as a family.

If all goes well, Chen Jian plans to train about 800 full-time professional soldiers within three years, and at the same time ensure that there are about [-] standing phalanx conscripts in the entire Xiacheng system.

And once needed, the management model of top and bottom can be used to start a general mobilization. At the peak, more than [-] troops can be mobilized.

The current mobilization system is too affecting the normal production in Yucheng. This time, the labor enthusiasm aroused by the strong morale of the newly liberated people has kept the normal operation, but we cannot put all our hopes on the high morale.

Once the system is complete, the military service system created with the three-year recuperation period will ensure that Xiacheng will never have any opponents, and will be able to guarantee a protracted war.

Many military service systems have their advantages, whether it is the recruitment system in the past history, the military service system, or the slave owner's spontaneous military service system in which the people of the country are united.

However, the system needs to be guaranteed to be incorruptible before it can burst into strength. As long as the management can keep up with any system, it can be fought in this rotten world. The problem is that the executors of the system are people, which are the most difficult to control.

This life may be able to guarantee high efficiency, but then it may be corrupted so that the group will fall into the abyss.

And the only thing that is different from people is technology, which will not change with people, and there is nothing that absolute technology can't do.

Now that Chen Jian is going to create stirrup cavalry, he has to consider the possible rise of nomads. Suppression by relying on institutional advantages is one aspect, and technical suppression before death is also necessary.

Reflection after the high priest incident brought Chen Jianxin insights. He no longer worried that the ethnic group would become unrecognizable to himself, and he no longer deliberately pursued this ethnic group to follow his previous life, so he was more courageous.

Bronze, wrought iron, gunpowder, lead, it's time to combine these things.

Tubular firearms are not so mysterious, nor do they have such terrifying technical bottlenecks. As long as the way is right, they can be produced in a very short time.

Even if the lethality was not great at the time, it could be passed down and developed over hundreds of years. When the nomads learn to stirrup the grasslands, they don't have to worry about the fate of the ethnic group suffering a similar fate.

In the previous life, gunpowder was introduced to Arabia in 100, and the Bronze Fire Gate pistol appeared in [-]. The city wall of Constantinople [-] years later made the cannon a siege weapon.

Bronze, matchlock-ignited muskets can be made with today's productivity levels, and they are effortless - a short bronze tube with the rear sealed, leaving a small hole for matchlock ignition.Although the power is ridiculous, it cannot be denied that this is a gun, which meets the macro definition of a musket.

If the ethnic group in the previous life had gunpowder and absolutely correct ideas that have been tested by later generations in Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, it would be easier to make it with the level of copper smelting at that time.

It's not impossible to make a matchlock gun with wrought iron rolls, the effect may not be very good, but it is very suitable for Xiacheng's system, adding the ability of long-range projection to Xiacheng.