From Chief to Ball

The redistribution of species has also created this kind of weirdness, such as the subshrub cotton that should not appear in theory. Before seeing the real thing, it is difficult for them to understand how the seeds of a plant can be white flowers like clouds.

Chen Jian thought for a while, and explained this crop with catkins or poplar hair.

"From next year, we will also try to grow some of this kind of cotton here. This kind of cotton can be spun and weaved."

"Why choose to grow this thing? Some people may say that we already have linen and silk, but cotton is not the same."

"The hemp needs to be put in water for retting. After the retting is rotten, women have to tear it into silk bit by bit, and then they can be used to spin thread after it is flicked. Nowadays, besides spinning wool, the dyeing workshop can also spin these linen threads. But the weaving The speed is too fast, and the speed of dialing is too slow."

"If we start growing cotton, these cottons are naturally fluff that can be spun. All that is needed is to use people to pick out the seeds in the cotton, and then pop the cotton, which can save more manpower than the sackcloth."

"I reckoned that if everyone is proficient, they can pick a catty to a catty and a half of cotton for spinning in a day; and if it is linen, even if they don't do anything in a day, they can't peel so much linen."

"Suppose there are a thousand people who specialize in spinning and weaving. If hemp is used, nine hundred people are needed to go from retting to peeling, but only a hundred are enough to spin and weave. But if cotton is used, we Half of the people can play and peel, and the remaining half can be used for spinning and weaving."

"What we want is clothes and cloth. These 1000 people are equivalent to a five-fold increase in production. On average, each cloth requires fewer people, but we still sell the cloth for so much money, and we can make money." More, can support more soldiers."

"So next year we will try to grow cotton in Yucheng and Xinhua. The household department will prepare to set aside the best land for next year. I will prepare in advance for the planning and statistics department to produce a spinning wheel suitable for spinning cotton and a simple machine. Wooden loom."

"This is a big event next year, so we must prepare in advance. The transport department will also prepare a caravan of donkeys and mules to cross the river south, carry iron tools to exchange for more cotton seeds, and buy some slaves who can plant and weave. By the way, I also want to invite some relatives to come here to have a look, and ask a lot about the ethnic group in the south by the way."

The dozens of people gathered together, no matter whether they were unrelated to the Ministry of Household Affairs or the Planning and Statistics Department, nodded to show that they understood, but soon some people raised objections.

"Jixia, it's okay to try growing this kind of cotton, but why do you want to plant it in Xinhua City? It will be learned by the Dongyi tribe soon. If you want me to say, let's plant it near Yucheng."

"correct."

"What are we going to do with Xinhua City? Isn't Ji Xia planning to make all the Dongyi people Chinese?"

Chen Jian smiled and waved his hands and said, "Don't worry, this is the reason why you are all called here today. Now besides Dongyi, there is a large ethnic group in the south with a radius of thousands of miles. What should we do in the future? This needs to be done in advance. It takes five or even ten years to prepare."

"Let's talk about trying to grow cotton here first."

"It might be a bit cold near Xia County, so the planting might not be suitable. Besides, the two cities of E and Wei are now raising a lot of sheep. We should give them some benefits. After all, we are still sworn allies."

"As for Xinhua City, not only cotton, but also more grain must be grown."

"It doesn't matter if it spreads to Dongyi or not. It's even better if it spreads. Our looms and spinning wheels are strictly prohibited from being privately owned. Only the dyeing workshops have them. They grow them and weave them in their own way, which is actually similar to hemp."

"Another one, it's like geese and geese laying a lot of eggs, and you put them all in a wicker basket, and if you miss it, they will all be gone."

"The past few years have been sheltered by our ancestors, and the weather has been smooth, but not long ago, there were severe droughts and floods. When Mocheng was hit by a disaster the year before last, I said that the tribes of Dahe needed a common leader. The owner When there is rain in the west of sunrise, dispatch abundant food to the land of disaster."

"What about today? The tribes of Dahe do not actually have a real leader. Our country of Xia must ensure enough food in case of a famine. Therefore, Xiajun, Yucheng, and Xinhua have to be reclaimed. Not only It needs to be reclaimed, and a lot of people need to be invested in reclaiming.”

"These three counties are hundreds or even thousands of miles apart. No matter where there is a famine, the food from the other two cities can also be delivered, so that we will not starve. Now our iron, copper, weapons, etc. can be exchanged with others, then It’s because we have enough food, and once it’s not enough, they may not exchange it with us.”

"This turns back to how we treat the Dongyi people, because you also know that there are not many of our people in Xinhua City. Xiajun mobilized the people to go to the east and west counties, let alone go thousands of miles. outside?"

"So the most important land reclamation people in Xinhua City should be the Dongyi people or the slaves of the Dongyi people. How to lure them to come to Xinhua City? If they come to Xinhua City and are still slaves, then there are people in Xinhua City and Dongyi. What's the difference? If we have 10 people now, and we don't care about our own gains and losses, and follow the king's order to migrate to Xinhua City, then all problems will be solved...These 10 people are enough to capture all the Dongyi people As a slave, you don't have to worry about their resistance, but do we have it?"

"Since there are none, we can't capture them all as slaves. Remember, when we fight with the Dongyi people in Xinhua City in the future, don't talk about capturing all the Dongyi people as slaves. arouse all their resistance."

"It's like a pair of chopsticks, all united together, it's very difficult for us to break."

"For those cities that are close to Xinhua City, we will not attack them if they are close to us; if they are against us, we must attack; if slaves flee to Xinhua City, they can be allowed to cultivate the land and pay taxes, but The land is ours, the tools are also ours, and we have to collect high taxes; we can even shout the slogan that people are not born slaves to make Dongyi slaves rebel against their masters to welcome the king."

"The purpose is to turn these chopsticks into sticks and disturb them from the inside. Attract slaves, agitate civilians, massacre warriors and warriors, and drive away leaders and relatives who have mastered Dongyi sacrifices, language, etiquette, and customs. "

"Dongyi shares a big river with us, and in the end there can only be one language, one custom, one sacrifice, but do those slaves understand? They don't understand at all. Their next generation can think that they are Xia people, that is, people from the tribes of the river." , because those legends and sacrifices have nothing to do with them. They have no writing or history, and they only need to eat for a few years."

"But the ethnic group in the south of the Great River is different. They are not more threatening than Dongyi, but it is hot and humid there, which is not suitable for us to fight. But let them develop, and after a hundred years, all tribes may unite together, and even never We have learned writing and official system here, so that their history can be passed on.”

"After dealing with the Dongyi matter, we will make an expedition to the south to defeat their tribal leaders, making it impossible for them to unite together for more than a hundred years. After we have more descendants, we will slowly build a city there. Migrate there."

"After all, it is not the same as the grassland, and it is also suitable for farming. As long as it is suitable for farming, it should be our land."

"This matter may be what we will do in the next ten years, or even 20 years."

"But no matter what, before we die, we need to accomplish three things. The tribes of Dahe have a common king; destroy all those who understand Dongyi's etiquette, culture, and singing songs, or drive them far away The bitter cold land; go south for a campaign to defeat the great leaders of the southern tribes, destroy their largest city, and let them fall into war."

"People always have to endure hardships. Our generation suffers, and future generations will not have to suffer. Although the world is big, it will eventually end. There are more and more children, and there are only those lands that are suitable for farming. Now It seems that the land is not worth a copper coin, it is everywhere, and people are the most precious; but one day, people will be lower than the land. Just like iron, it is just a pile of broken stones before we smelt it, maybe only It takes [-] catties of grain to exchange for a mine; but if now, iron ore is discovered in other cities, how could it be possible to exchange for [-] catties?"

"Everyone here used to have my blood relatives, the old relatives of Xiacheng, and the slaves who fled to Onozawa... But now you are all from Xia, and all the tribes of Dahe. All the conflicts between us before There is no need to fight now, and the only thing left to do is to prepare the next piece of land that can accommodate tens of millions of people for future generations."

"First east and then south, this is the general way we achieve all this, so everything in the future must be prepared on this basis."

"If you don't know what you're going to do in five years, you're not a qualified Xia official; if you don't know what you're going to do in ten years, you're not a qualified Xia official either."

Chapter 1 The Preview of the High Priest

"Knowing what we are going to do in the future is not enough. We also need to know what the world we know is like, what the world of the living is like."

"Someone once asked me what it looked like after death, but I didn't answer."

"The matter of living has not been done well, how can we talk about the things after death while we are alive? The living has things to do for the living, and the dead has things to do for the dead. They do not belong to each other. It's not something we should be thinking about."

"As for the heaven and the earth, it is too vast. Even if the ancestors favored me, how can I explain it clearly?"

"So today everyone gathers together, let's not talk about the ghosts and gods of the dead, nor the gods and monsters of the heaven and earth, but only the heaven and earth of the living."

Chen Jian looked at these people nervously. He had been thinking about the original world view these days. This was something he had to face after he became the high priest, initiating a transformation of the original world view that was no less than that of the Jedi Tiantong of the southern ethnic group.

To become a high priest must explain the heaven and the earth, the world of the living, and the operation between the heaven and the earth.If he lived long enough and really completed the unification of the ministries, he would not be able to say something nonsense after he became the high priest. This would cause too much impact, and many things would have to be repaired based on this.

And if these people in front of them can understand and believe, even though these theories are full of loopholes, they are enough to support the original worldview of this era.

This is not a meaningless trivial matter. If you don’t fool around, there will be other things occupying it. Once a self-justifying system is formed, it will be too difficult to break it.

After the tension calmed down, Chen Jian picked up a charcoal pencil and skillfully drew a black and white bear yin and yang fish on the white, limewashed wall, which is familiar to everyone below.

In fact, his original system was based on this. If the real thing cannot be explained clearly, then it can only be deciphered.

Long before this time, he had already tried to fool him once, and the effect of fooling him seemed to be very successful for the time being.

When the group of people from the agronomy class went to the farm, Chen Jian gave them some pea seeds, because those pea seeds were selected, so the problem arose.

After the harvest last year, Shi Quan and other people from the agronomy class came to Chen Jian with the harvested peas. Chen Jian was thinking about how to explain the peas to them, and used those people from the agronomy class as the first attempt. .Is it right or not? Let’s talk about it. It’s fine if you can justify yourself and not be so wrong.

When those people came to Chen Jian with peas, the question was also about height, since Chen Jian had specially instructed them to observe the height for record before they left.

Among so many peas, all the short peas will be short when they grow up, while the seeds produced by the tall ones will be tall and short, and the tall ones are obviously more than the short ones.

Chen Jian was ready to start fooling around at that time, and he also drew a black and white bear with yin and yang fish, telling them that everything in the world has two kinds of yin and yang, which are in contrast.

For example, where there is a sun, there is a moon, where there is a high, there is a low, and where there is cold, there is heat.

Tall is to short, like yang to yin.After the sun appeared, yin was submerged by yang, so darkness could not be seen.And darkness itself exists, and once the sun is covered, darkness will appear.