From Chief to Ball

A materialist is not a fortune teller. Future development and changes should and can only tell a general direction. It should not and cannot be mechanically set the time and become like a divination priest who can clearly know every detail of the future. people.

Today, the first batch of Xiacheng people have a large number of babies who have reached the age of six or seven because of their settled life, and they are about to receive enlightenment education.

However, Xiacheng's welfare system, underage public property support, marriage system is not perfect and not fully accepted, the textile industry has not yet fully developed, there is no poll tax but the policy of collective land tax and public workshops, in fact, it is a disguised form of encouragement. Or do not prohibit multiple births, multiple births, nonsense, wild marriages, and illegitimate children.

Therefore, not only those people in the current education class cannot be used to fill the vacancies of grassroots managers, but also a large number of students in the education class will be recruited after next year's Kaimeng exam to ensure the education guarantee for the terrible population growth in the near future.

This not only means that the people in the education class cannot replace the tense grassroots officials, but also means more expenditures for the out-of-production population within three years, the beginning of the city's welfare in the next few years, and the national nobles that Chen Jian promised at the beginning within three years. This heavy pressure must also be resolved together with the pie-sharing of other systems.

The external demand for workshop products is still expanding, and this demand will continue to expand after the establishment of the blood-sucking system along the river next year and after some cities begin to reform.

But in addition to external demand, we have to turn our attention to internal demand, and the only solution can only be to increase some special domestic demand goods or rations - housing.

When a city is in the process of dispersing clans and villages and is forced to forcefully or voluntarily migrate to the city, and this process is very fast and smooth, it is bound to be accompanied by a housing shortage in the city.

They need to live after leaving the cave, but they are not used to family life, so this group of people can temporarily live in mud and wood houses that can accommodate them.And the first batch of Chinese people who already have official status are used to family life, and they long for their own spacious and bright houses.

Houses with brick and tile structure are expensive, because brick and tile are public property and there are only a few brick kilns.Most of the collective work of carpenters and skilled workers have to work for public workshops, resulting in wooden doors, windows, and beam structures that cannot be completed by individuals.

Before that, in order to prevent too many houses and a large amount of labor to build houses, Chen Jian had always controlled the construction sector by public property. When the clan split, he encouraged private houses to build houses, but at that time they were all mud houses, small and dark.The workshop workers in Yucheng have no time to build houses, and Chen Jian does not allow or encourage them to build real houses alone.

Nowadays, the sudden influx of a large number of people has caused the housing problem to be extremely tense: if the new house is bright and attractive, the old Xiacheng people who own the house will be dissatisfied and demand it; However, it is difficult for the house itself to become a new means of exploiting the people of the country.

Therefore, the situation facing Xiacheng is that the government has the ability but fails to do it; while ordinary Chinese want to do it but are unable.

In this case, the house can exist as a special commodity. At a price higher than the labor value of the house itself, the nominal welfare that should be given to the Chinese people can be compensated with an inflated house.

With the promotion of the marriage and family system and the policy of forced migration to cities, housing will also become a necessity of life.

Like salt, strive to make housing a hidden tax within three to five years.

It can not only allow Chinese people to own housing, but also ensure the implementation of the welfare of the nobility and other systems-the city does not sell houses in name, but secretly uses the benefits due to the national nobility and other systems to force the purchase of houses, and uses the wealth for the construction of the education system.

That is, when distributing public property benefits according to the noble class, a masonry house is included as part of the benefit at an inflated price, and most of the public property benefits distributed by the noble class are deducted on the pretext of buying houses in installments every year, and It becomes an individual's private property and can be passed on to one's first-born children in accordance with the original inheritance law.

This kind of system such as the national title will not last long, but as long as it lasts until the unification is completed, there will be other simpler ways.

Before that, the house can only be used as a means to forcibly stimulate domestic demand; in conjunction with the blood-sucking system along the river, copper and iron weapons are exchanged for primary agricultural products to ensure the living standards of the Chinese people; develop.

And there is a great advantage in building houses in the future. You can try some new construction methods, and even change the layout of the house to make the house more tasteful.

Such as windows, such as doors, such as window paper.

The sketch had already been planned. One night after explaining the simple management methods for a few days, Chen Jian found a group of people from the construction department who followed him back. These people will be in charge of building houses and repairing ditches after staying in Xia City. the backbone.

The style of the new house is drawn on the cloth. Unlike the previous houses, one of the biggest features of the house on the cloth is that it has wooden doors that can be opened and large windows.

Before this, the windows of houses in Xiacheng were very small, and there were basically no doors, and most of them were covered with straw curtains.Especially the windows, it is impossible to make them bigger, otherwise the house will be very cold when it is windy and rainy or in winter.

Because a house with a door and a big window is a bit strange in the eyes of front-line workers.

Simple door, there are not many ways to choose in this day and age.

The most common sliding door connected by metal hinges in the previous life can be made now, but the limited manpower and blacksmiths may have to be used in military affairs and agriculture, and it is impossible to improve the living standards of the people in a short time.

There are also side sliding doors with sliding friction or copper wheels, which are labor-intensive to make, but they are only used in some special rooms for entertaining relatives and nobles. The function is basically the same as the super-long bronze sword on the king's body when the nations are in dispute.

The cheapest and easiest option left is the Hushu, the Hushu that doesn't rot.

A wooden pier, with a hole dug in the middle, the side of the door is inserted into the hole on the wooden pier, and it is closed every day, but there are really no insects.

With Hushu, a new and interesting word will naturally appear.threshold.

Because the wooden pier used as the door hinge is connected with the door frame, after the door is closed, there must be such a height of the wooden pier and the door hinge from the ground, which requires a threshold to be flush with the door hinge.

Simple times have simple solutions. With the popularity of doors, it has been many years since the story of Chen Jian’s incisors and nettles. The incisors that do not read as incisors finally have the possibility or opportunity to have this name. Yes, the first half of the sentence that runs smoothly can also be arranged in parallel to make it more powerful.

Although these people in the construction department are not professional carpenters, they can do a few hands when they see a lot. Chen Jian explained the operation method of Hushu a little bit, and everyone understood.

The only thing that is puzzling is those huge windows and divided window lattices. It is not that there are no such windows in Yucheng, which are used for some indoor work that requires light.

But those are mostly thin skin, swim bladders, or even very thinly ground large clam shells, which takes a lot of work. According to this method, a window may even require more effort than a room.

"Just do it. Then there will be something to cover the windows. It can let in light and keep out the cold wind. And...it's definitely not as labor-intensive and expensive as thinned clam shells."

"According to the picture on this cloth, try to build a few rooms first to get used to it. I have already selected the place for you."

"Once all the ice and snow in the ground melt, you are about to start."

Chapter 89 Country (Eleventh)

It will take time for all the ice and snow in the ground to melt, but the ice flower has already bloomed yellow flowers in the remaining ice and snow, and the steps of spring are already approaching.

Spring is coming, and February has arrived, which means that some people will usher in the last days of their lives.

The imprisoned rebels are well aware of the current situation. Since Chen Jian accepted those Xinguo people and Linong as part of Xiacheng, it means that there is no room for turning around. They can only use their blood to maintain Xiacheng. future stability of the city.

This long situation of knowing that they must die makes people collapse. Chen Jian did not use corporal punishment, but separated several of them and detained them separately in the cave dug for food storage.

In ten days, seven or eight people have completely collapsed, and the rest have continuously revealed all kinds of plots at the beginning.From wanting to take advantage of Chen Jian's expedition to cut off the food logistics, to conspiring with the abandonment of Xiacheng's interests to seek support from all parties, everything was vomited clean.

These charges can be used or not. Chen Jian didn't take it seriously at all. A charge of provoking clan strife and causing hundreds of deaths and injuries is enough to kill this group of people.The people of New Xiacheng hate it deeply, and the people of old Xiacheng are eager for someone to take the blame. The rules and laws of Xiaguo need a group of heads to establish authority.

After the study of those low-level officials was over, Chen Jian finally had time to deal with the problems of these traitors.

Many conspirators wanted to meet Chen Jian in order to explain some actions for themselves, but Chen Jian did not meet the leader of the conspirators, but met a young man.

A name that was often mentioned in the self-confessions of those conspirators, a young man who participated in the civil strife in Xiacheng, who raised the slogan that Zun Jixia was the leader but Yuxia had its own way, and the clan oppressed the rest.

This is a person Chen Jian is very familiar with. He is the first batch of children in the school and has studied with Chen Jian for a long time.

Although many methods are rough, they have some skills and know how to choose. Originally, this is Chen Jian's direct descendant, but he didn't expect to get so close to the conspirators.

The reason why I saw it was because the young man asked the guard to say: He knew he was guilty and was about to die, but he didn't want to be charged with betraying Xia Cheng, so he just asked Ji Xia to answer a doubt in his heart.

This is different from those voices who cry and think that they are innocent, that they have merit, that Chen Jian is killing the old brothers of the old Xiacheng to please the newcomers, and so on.

There was wine and food in the house, and the young man was not afraid or trembling, as if he knew he would die a long time ago.

Chen Jian didn't directly ask him why he said that he didn't betray Xia Cheng, but poured a bowl of wine and handed it over: "I remember you were the first group of people who started to learn words and counts?"

"Ji Xia remembers it right. I started to learn to read characters when Sister Hongyu used lime to paint on the walls of Xia City. Later, I followed Ji Song to travel in the various tribes of Dahe, and then Ji Xia went to Yucheng. I happened to be sick at the time, so I didn’t go.”

Chen Jian exhaled and recalled: "Writing on the wall... It's been many years."

After a long time, Chen Jian shook his head and said, "I think it's understandable for them to rebel. They can get land, property and everything they want."

"I don't understand that you rebelled. You are someone who followed me to learn. You are not a relative of the clan or even a fief slave. You can have the rights you want in this Xiacheng. I don't understand, not because I trust you, but because I trust you." You don't get much and you don't ask for anything for yourself, so I don't understand."