From Chief to Ball

When many people first started living in Yucheng, they often went to the wrong house after work or night school at night, and every house was the same.

Nowadays, only Chinese people above the public officials have separate houses, and the rest of the common people live in a house with a few people or even a dozen people. Even if they want to have sex, they need to go to some communal houses together. In a hut where you can do something.

After 35 and a half years of fighting, there is not much time to build new houses, and under the strict control system, everyone has no time to build their own huts.

The plan for next year has been finalized. Only about 3000 people will be able to own a new, separate house for couples to live in. The rest of the people still need to wait in line according to rank and merit. Generally speaking, within three years, they will be able to Solved, it's not unbearable.

For the basic livelihood matters, Chen Jian only made a rough plan, and threw the rest into the hands of the people below.

For next year's new workshops and new weapons, Chen Jian has selected a group of about 200 skilled craftsmen from various workshops, and then transferred about [-] new light and strong laborers as candidates for next year's firearms plan.

The skilled workers in various workshops and the outstanding talents of various disciplines don't know their fate next year, and they still need to work in the workshops before spring to drive and teach the newcomers.

But the newly elected workforce of more than 2000 workers will be busy this winter.

Chen Jian gave 500 of them the task of cutting down a large number of wild grape vines and vines such as Schisandra chinensis in the nearby mountain forest in winter, and also cut down some thinner willows by the river.

The charcoal burned by wild grape vines and schisandra vines can be ground very finely, followed by fine willow. The gunpowder prepared by this special charcoal burns quickly and can be used as a primer for matchlock guns or low-level artillery.The burning rate of normal gunpowder as primer is too low, which will prolong the ignition time of gunpowder for a long time and increase the difficulty of manipulation.

Fortunately, the amount of gunpowder required for priming is not much. Their function is only to ignite the granular gunpowder in the barrel after being ignited by the match, and the consumption is not too large.

These 500 people don't know what is the use of asking them to cut wild grape vines on the mountain, but now they have to rely on Yucheng for food, clothing and housing, and there is no other way but to accept it.From their point of view, it may be like digging ice for the clan leaders and relatives to hunt in winter when they were in the city.

The remaining more than 1000 people will take advantage of this winter to cut down branches, reeds, bark and other raw materials for papermaking, transport a large amount of straw accumulated in various farms to the city, and dig new limestone mines for papermaking Burnt lime and more.

These 2000 people will be under the direct control of Chen Jian next year, and some of them may become special military factory craftsmen. Chen Jian has already discussed with the management of the city. He will be responsible for the distribution of these 2000 people without anyone's intervention. , which is one of the special rights of the chief.

In addition to preparing for next year's new gunpowder this winter, those who stayed in Yucheng and did not return to Xiacheng with Chen Jian also had to prepare for other matters.Blacksmith hammers and anvils that can be mass-produced also disrupted the normal plan of the smelting department. The smelting department was different from other workshops. The daily smelting volume of the iron smelting furnace determined their upper limit of work, but Chen Jian used the special authority of the leader. Had to execute again.

It took more than half a month to roughly determine the pattern for the next three years, which is the general direction.

But the top priority now is the civil strife and unification of the Xia city system. Chen Jian will not let go of military power, and he must do this by himself in order to heal the alienation between the two cities.

Chapter 65 Dynamic Impact

Before the army set off, a group of riders led by Red Fish headed north along the river.

Red Fish's political skills have gradually matured over the years, and the entire city on both sides of the river knows that this is a very powerful woman in the Xia City system. She can often represent Chen Jian's attitude.

In the previous life, when the countries were at war, envoys from other countries often took hundreds of rides, but now the red fish is much more shabby.

Five carts, eighty riders, a seal in hand, and half a box of copper coins.

Other than that, nothing else.

The half-carload of copper coins two years ago was useless and could be exchanged as a work of art at most, but now these copper coins have their real function in some towns west of Yucheng—purchasing.

Since Yucheng was first built, Red Fish has been near Dayozawa, and has not moved back and forth between Xiacheng and Yucheng like Yuqianer, so this journey has a lot of feelings.

From Yucheng to the west, there are two towns within four hundred miles.

These two cities are not too big, but they are not too small either.

Red Fish is not the leader of the city, nor is it a relative of a certain clan, but just because of the reputation of guarding the city with Yu Qian'er when Chen Jian conquered Dongyi, he was welcomed by the two cities with a very high standard.

In both cities, the leaders hosted banquets in person, and all the relatives and dignitaries of the clan accompanied them, and even the riders and royal hands who followed were treated with high standards.

These two cities are too close to Yucheng, so they are inevitably affected by Yucheng.

The utensils used by the leader at the banquet are bronze, the best wine is the distilled wine from the Yucheng workshop, and the worst is the fruit wine from the farm system.

Expensive foods such as bean paste, iron pan cooking, steamed buns, and noodle cakes are everywhere in Xiayu and Yucheng. Some relatives wear handmade wool felt boots or woolen clothes.

Before the banquet, some people rode horses and some people rode cars. Many places in the city were filled with a faint bitter smell unique to cow dung. The most prosperous place in the city was near the warehouse of Yucheng Workshop. Many relatives and nobles were carrying a bag, The tinkling of copper coins inside is the sound.

There are also people who exchange grain, furs, or other things in the warehouse for money, and then use the money to buy iron farm tools or other things inside.Although exchanging money and buying are all in one place, they cannot directly exchange things for what they want.

Some brave men who followed the leader wore very short bronze swords, and some people in the city held cast iron, very brittle spearheads instead of the original stone or jade.

Red Fish smiled, watching the slight changes in the city, many relatives with bulging satchels on their waists greeted her with smiles.

There have been many inadvertent changes in the city.

Some relatives and slave owners who were close to Yucheng lived better and better. Some Yucheng people used their slaves and reclaimed land to start new semi-slavery manors, or raised a large number of sheep to Shearing, or planting dyes that Yucheng needs, and even some vegetables that Yucheng does not have enough manpower to manage.

There are also some people who bought ironware and reduced the number of planting slaves. They specialize in burning charcoal, pottery and other things that Yucheng needs but are too lazy to invest too much manpower, or cut down some wood suitable for making wheels and boats and send them down the river. .This is more profitable than simply planting. In the past, grain was used as the calculation, but now it is settled in the currency of the Yucheng system, and it is not just grain.

As a result, the rich became richer and richer, and a large number of iron farm tools were concentrated in the hands of leaders and relatives. They used these advantages to quickly complete the reclamation of good fields near the city. What is the use of the land that genius can reach?Who wants to leave the city to live?

Some of the richer ones had their own private soldiers, liberated some strong slaves, enriched their own strength, and the authority of the leaders declined day by day.

The slightly inferior relatives even replaced their urban obligations with slave soldiers, or when they went out to fight, in addition to their own obligations, they also brought their own private slaves saved by tool innovation to plunder the surrounding slaves.

The public land system is even more precarious. Some low-level people look forward to owning their own cattle and ironware, so they neglect the obligatory work on the public land and give priority to farming their own land. in their fields.

In order to ensure the advantage of the relatives of the clan, the city leaders had to increase the number of public lands and increase the obligations of the lower-level citizens, but in order to protect their own status, they had to compromise with the new nobles and try their best to ensure that these gradually stronger clans The needs of relatives and nobles, or the method of collecting currency in kind to replace the obligations of those relatives and nobles.

In the face of ever-increasing obligations, many people at the bottom of the country cannot bear it, and some people have begun to become the bottom of the life dependent on relatives and nobles.They are free city people, not slaves, but they have to sell their labor power to those clans and nobles-these bottom-level people have to bear the obligation to go to war. Fortunately, there has been no war in the past two years, otherwise it will be another Harm the interests of the upper clan owners of land, farm tools, and cattle.

The slaves who are lower than the bottom are the slaves, whether they are private slaves or public slaves. As the influence of Yucheng penetrates into the city step by step, their lives have not only not improved but become more difficult.

The amount of labor on the public land was greater than before. In order to accumulate money, the leaders could only exploit these slaves more heavily to buy the primary industrial products of the Yucheng workshops that had been subjected to scissors.

For the same person, the "grain" that a smelter in Yucheng can produce in a year far exceeds that of a slave in these two cities.

So it was no longer enough to just farm the land, and the extra slaves had more to do than before.

It is necessary to ensure the rich life of the slave owners, but also to do many things that did not need to be done in the past for the exchange between the slave owners and Yucheng.

And wealthy slave owners desire some luxuries such as iron pots, carriages, and war horses, which can only be deprived from slaves.

The price of slaves was increasing day by day in the two cities, and the two cities also began to go deep into the more primitive jungles to capture those wild clan settlements, and under the unfair spoils distribution system, the gap between the bottom and the top was widened.

These two cities close to Yucheng were inevitably dragged into the abyss of crime by Yucheng, and they suffered the most serious hidden exploitation of Yucheng.

All the beauty of the clan era, all the obedience of obligations and rights that seem to be utopia, all the virtues left over from the primitive era, all the unity left over from the clan era, and all the harmony restricted by extremely low productivity, all happened with dirty copper coins changed.

Everything old is out of line with this era, but everything new: new morality, new obligations, new deceit, new ways of exploitation, new illusions, new loyalty...have not yet been established.

Everything is chaotic, but everything is thriving.While the old is dying, new sprouts appear on the old corpse.

This is why the cities closer to Yucheng are afraid of Yucheng.

What the lower class people and slaves hate is not Yucheng, but the ruler of their city itself, and even fantasized about escaping to Onozawa, because it is said that if you escape there, you can become a human instead of a slave, and it is said that life there will be different. richer.

Little did they know that this dream had been shattered, much less the sordid compromise between the chiefs of the city.

But no matter what, no matter if they are the lower class or relatives, the biggest thing they have in common is that they agree with the currency of the Xia Yu system.