From Chief to Ball

Although they don't have much land, they can own five or six acres of land from the beginning, borrow tools to cultivate it, and spend the rest of their time doing part-time labor or other things in exchange for copper coins.

Many things can only be purchased with copper coins. It is difficult to obtain copper coins except for working for the Xia Kingdom. Without money, many things cannot be done or bought.

When Xi came here, everything was prosperous, but he understood his mission: to complete the differentiation of these Dongyi people within a few years, and let these people own land, small houses, Encourage them to fight for meritorious service, and explain the various rules of the Xia Kingdom.

It's just that this process is a bit long, and it needs to wait until the small officials at all levels in Xiajun and Yucheng grow up before it can be fully launched.

Before that, he had to train soldiers, build simple fortresses, trade with surrounding cities, and maintain military advantages over nearby cities, so as to support the training of the third batch of officials in the Xia Kingdom.

When he was in Yucheng, he already knew exactly what he was going to do, and he also understood that it is impossible to treat everyone equally: Xia people will not shed blood for slaves from Dongyi to become human, those slaves want to have the same life as Ye It can only rely on self-resistance. Few people in the Xia Kingdom are willing to be saints and cut their own flesh and blood to save others, and those who rely on others to save are not qualified to be human.

Therefore, the education Xie received before his arrival was very straightforward: even if they were only given five or six acres of land, even if they still needed to do a lot to survive, this was exactly what they could give after salvation.No matter what, it is better than when you were a slave. You can only get so much of what you want to do unless you become a slave and lead them to resist.

Only by allowing them to own five or six acres of land, can they cultivate the land and work in the workshops for those Xia people after finishing their own affairs. Otherwise, why would the Xia people fight for them?

The land system of Xinhua City is different from that of Xiayu County. Except for some Xia people who cultivated, most of them are non-Chinese. When they came to Xinhua City, they had nothing.

There is no food, seeds, agricultural tools, and technology. Although there is a lot of land, it is not a time when there are many people and little land. Therefore, the Xia Kingdom does not need to control the land. It only needs to control grain seeds and agricultural tools.

After reclamation, five acres of land will be distributed to those non-Chinese, but the rest of the cultivated land is public property. I'm afraid it will take more than ten years. These are all carefully calculated scientific methods of oppression.

Apart from working on the public property, there is no way to get more money, and you can't rely on sticks to reclaim distant land. Besides, no one is willing to part with the five acres of land.They seem to be free, but in fact they are still bound to the land by controlling the means of production, and they use their mentality of wanting to get five acres of land to make the land, a natural thing, private or state-owned, and determine the ownership— —They have no choice, either they choose to own five acres of land and the rest belongs to the state; or they choose that the land is a natural thing and not someone else’s, but they don’t even leave here empty-handed.

Therefore, within the Xia Kingdom system, the originally meaningless land has become an attractive reward, bound to become part of the welfare of the people of the country: slaves are not encouraged, so what will be used as a reward after the war?Homesteader?Most of the Xia people already have the foundation to become self-cultivated farmers, even better. The self-cultivated farmers have unlimited temptations for the common people and slaves in other cities, but they cannot rely on them to fight; Why go to war?

What can reward them after the battle?land?Is there any meaning to land that no one tills?There is nothing to reward but to attach people to the landowner.

Fiefdom, when there are few people and a lot of land, the land itself is meaningless, but the people on the land are meaningful.Serfs, tenants, and long-term laborers make the land meaningful and allow more people to fight for it.

Progress has never been achieved overnight. If a slave becomes a nominal person, even if he is bound to the land, as long as he is no longer a talking animal, then perhaps this is the only certain progress in this life.

After walking around Xinhua City for a few times, he became more and more convinced that his choice was right, at least it was much better than when he was a slave, the road always needs to be walked step by step, these people have a human identity today, compared to Slavery is an improvement.

Ordinarily, after reading all this and becoming satisfied, you will focus on major matters such as training soldiers and collecting food, and will not interact with people like bowls and chopsticks, but sometimes they are connected inadvertently.

At a banquet one day after inspecting Xinhua City, a young man in an education class said an interesting thing.

"I came here a few days ago and met a child. I was thirsty at the time, so I asked the child: 'Hey, where is the well?' The child held a bamboo pole in his hand and squinted at me. One glance, and shouted: "I have a name, my name is Chopsticks, my mother and I are no longer slaves of anyone, you can't talk to me like you call a slave!""

Everyone laughed, and Ye also laughed, not only because he remembered the child Chopsticks, but also because he remembered the origin of his name, and the fact that he told the mother and daughter about the chopsticks.

The man went on to say: "When I was mentioned by that child, I apologized, but he held a stick like a soldier, and said with our military salute: 'You don't have to apologize, we are all Xia people, for Xia Guo The country is better off, of course I will take you to drink water. But you have to call my name, chopsticks, instead of hello. Otherwise, I will be angry.'”

"After I drank the water, the child asked me what I was here for. I said I was here to teach them how to read and count. He took my hand and wrote the Chinese character for chopsticks on the ground, telling me that was His name. I asked him if he would like to learn to write and count? He said yes, saying that he wanted to teach his little sister after learning to write, and then teach those who can’t write. He also said that he wanted to grow up quickly and go to Be a soldier, go and conquer those cities and save those children like him to Xinhua City, so that they will all be human when they grow up."

"I asked him, who told him this? He said it was taught by those in the army who played the flute and talked all day long. I asked him what he is doing now? He said that he was cutting wheat in the field a few days ago To make money, show me a copper coin, and say that if you have money in the future, you will buy a lot of wool felt boots, and go to Yucheng to give to those who left your mother and your boots.”

The young man raised his wine bowl and said, "Just for this child, I am willing to stay here because I have been a slave. Everyone, here is the same as Yucheng. Better people, no one is born a slave, and I see what I want in this kid. For the rest of my life, I won't leave this place."

A group of people who had counted slaves stood up one after another, recalling the humiliation they had suffered, and drank the bowl of wine together.

It's just that if you are a person in name, are you really a person?

Chapter 128 Those People, Those Years (End)

It was that conversation about the simple difference between "hello" and "chopsticks" that brought the two people together who should have put everyone's safety in their eyes together again.

The chopsticks have grown taller, but the chopsticks are still the same, so the chopsticks recognized at a glance that they were the uncle who gave him the wool felt boots, and they were very happy.

"Uncle, can I be a soldier after I finish my studies? I want to fight with you."

The child looked at He, but He still shook his head and said, "Whether you can follow me to fight or not is not up to me."

He can't make any promises, even if he is a general, the personal guards around him can only be arranged by the superiors, it is strictly forbidden to keep private soldiers, and it is strictly forbidden to appoint personal guards by himself.

"Why?" The child was quite puzzled.

"This is the rule." He used the simplest reason, so the child didn't ask any more questions, feeling that this reason was really hard to refute.

The two chatted for a long time, and then they broke up. They each had their own things to do, and Xinhua City was a model for the entire Xia Kingdom after it captured the rest of the cities in the future, so many new things had to be tried here. .

After that meeting, Chopsticks went to school and began to learn simple Kaimeng characters. The next meeting between the two was in the summer of the second year, that is, 39.

The people from the construction department came to Xinhua City from Yucheng, and took advantage of the summer to build two rammed earth fortresses outside the city, and built a complete earth wall along the hillside, preparing to improve the defense system of Xinhua City.

This kind of work can be exchanged for copper coins. With copper coins, you can buy ironware instead of renting it, and you can also buy many other things. The purchase price of grain is very low, so most people with little land choose to work here.

It is said that the children are not used, and those who come will not get any money, but he saw the chopsticks and a group of children. Obviously, the chopsticks have become the head of the children in the school.

From a distance, I heard Chopsticks talking to the children: "Although we are small, we can still move a few stones. When the city wall is built, those who want to take us back as slaves will not be able to break in." It's..."

He heard it was funny, walked over and scolded, and asked, "Why don't you go to school? The taxes you pay are not for you to fool around. Go and go, it's not as tall as a pickaxe, what are you messing around here?"

Chopsticks giggled and said, "Today is a ten-day rest, and our husband has gone to take a rest."

"Then you can practice writing and counting by yourself. Don't you know everything? Besides, besides learning to read, don't you also need to practice holding spears in line?"

"I can already read quite a few words, and the new textbooks haven't been distributed yet."

"You know a lot, and everyone knows a lot? You don't need this matter now. If you really want to contribute to Xia Guo, you might as well teach your friends to read more. How much do you know? one?"

After a few more reprimands, the group of children were driven away, and the adults beside them all laughed.

Although he scolded and laughed, Kehe felt that everything this child did was very suitable to his own taste, because his name was He, and this child was once angry because he was fed. People who survived despair.

This kind of person has his own understanding of the world, and has love and hatred that some people seem ridiculous.

Not long after, Ye He heard the name of Chopsticks again.

Cotton bolls were picked in July. This is cotton for trial planting. Only a few have been planted in the public land. Once it rains, it may be destroyed, so some of them need to be picked as soon as possible.

After Chopsticks left school, Chopsticks helped to pick cotton bolls. It was uninterrupted every evening. Children caught up with their ten-day rest and couldn’t pick much in a day, but they did it well. The reason is probably because they used to be slaves but now they are slaves. As a human being, he believed in his heart that everything he did was for Xia Guo, the thing that turned him from a slave to a human.

While picking cotton bolls, I haven’t stopped studying, and in the assessment, I can be regarded as the best in the middle school of the same group of children. Just in time for someone from Yucheng to inspect here, the young chopsticks got a copper labor that many people don’t have. The medal was a good talk for a while.

Many people believed that the child's fate would turn around, so they asked Chopsticks what they wanted to do in the future.Chopsticks said to go to the war, and after the war, if he could be admitted to the education class, he would teach in Xinhua City so that more children could learn to read.

This answer made you sigh for a long time, so another year later, Yucheng issued an order, requiring Xinhua City to prepare a group of high-quality students who can easily read and count, identify with Xia Guo, perform well, and at the same time speak some simple words. When the children of Dongyi dialect and best who were originally slaves went to Yucheng to study, He immediately recommended chopsticks.

Therefore, chopsticks went to Yucheng in the 40th year of the Chinese calendar and experienced special studies, mainly propaganda, agitation, hatred and the like.

When Chopsticks was studying in Yucheng, Ge led his people to build many huts along the trade path with nearby Dongyi, storing grain in them, with the purpose of luring Dongyi people from nearby cities to flee to Xinhua City.

Before that, with Xinhua City as the center, there were warehouses trading with Xinhua City in the surrounding Dongyi cities, and all kinds of goods except weapons were sold.

The purpose of this kind of warehouse cannot be pure. Most of them are to support some people who are dissatisfied with the leader and want to replace them. At the same time, let them send their children to Xinhua City to receive new education, and provide weapons, farm tools, small workshops and other technologies along the way. , Let this group of people expand their strength.

By the way, the people in these warehouses also secretly encouraged the slaves to flee, and spread among the slaves by fabricating rumors that they would be free after fleeing to Xinhua City.