From Chief to Ball

"I'm not afraid because I know that Ji Xia regards us as relatives, and Xia Guo has no habit of arresting people as slaves. I wonder when Ji Xia will let us go back?"

Chen Jian said with a smile: "It's coming soon. I have to let you understand why your leader and the people close to the leader are getting richer, and you are gradually estranged."

After turning around a few more times, randomly selecting a few captives and asking about it, Chen Jian basically had an idea.

Among the [-] captives, there were not too many slave owners, who were basically killed by the volley of guns; there were not too many small slave owners with a small number of slaves, and the impact of Habayashi guards killed the group of horsemen Quite a few, and the rest have disappeared without a trace.

The rest are basically the same situation as the first captive. They belonged to the leader who came to fight when he said he wanted to, and hoped that he could get some rewards by the way.

They are not even self-cultivated farmers. They belonged to the same kind of people who once had certain political rights, but now the iron oxen have accelerated the stratification and lost their political rights. They are considered to be free. A group of people.

The longer time passed, the more likely they were to become serfs. As the captive said, he wanted the people of the country to go to war, but the spoils were distributed unfairly. In the end, those who had slaves were cultivated, and the fields without slaves were barren and poorer.

Originally, it was necessary for all clansmen to fight in unison. Since Chen Jian made the chariot and horses, it has become a battle that requires a few people to win the battle, and the rest can follow the impact.Since the main force of the decisive battle is the small and medium nobles, as long as the leaders have no problem with their brains, they must favor those small and medium nobles in terms of policy, otherwise how can we fight?

The success of the transformation of the two cities of Ewei is due to the fact that Xiacheng has sufficient tools, has accumulated enough wealth near the water, and Chen Jian helped formulate the reform method, and people who can read and count enough can be simple officials; It was a new taxation system modeled on the model of the Xia Kingdom, a large number of self-cultivating farmers or the redistribution of slaves to ensure that every relative of the people of the country was a small slave owner, in exchange for more soldiers.Even so, it took three or four rebellions in exchange for the result, rather than a successful reform without resistance.

Cities like Sucheng are too big for too long, and it is even more difficult to change.Even if Su Yue intends to contain those relatives, but drives them away, kills them, deprives them of their rights and distributes their wealth equally, then how can he win the support of the small and medium-sized nobles in other cities?And why should they refute Xia Guo's system, so as to gather more vested interests to start a war with Xia Guo?

In the past few years, with the spread of technology, the original democratic politics of the people in each city has gradually disappeared. The immediate relatives of the leaders and the small and medium-sized nobles have gradually influenced the decision-making of the city: Suyue has also won the support of many people for this reason.Au Yue is just the spokesperson selected by those small and medium-sized nobles and city leaders. He cannot get the support of these people compared to Xia Cheng, and he can only rely on Xia Cheng, so Su Yue is the one who has no way to change.

If he changes, he will still be Awayake, but he will not be the Awayake that many cities think he can be the leader of various tribes. Naturally, everyone will elect someone with the same interests as them.From a few years ago, Su Yue was no longer the leader of all people with the surname Su, but the leader of some people with the surname Su, and the rest were probably not worthy of the surname Su.

After getting a general idea of ​​the situation of these prisoners of war, Chen Jian returned to the camp, found someone from the propaganda team, and set the tone to disrupt those people.

They are not slaves, so they can't use too sharp hatred, they can only scold the chief for unfair distribution, expose how the chief priests seized a lot of wealth, and how much of the public land has been reduced to private by the chief and his immediate family members.

Chen Jian is very good at inciting hatred and dissatisfaction. Sometimes these things are meaningless, and sometimes they are very meaningful.

Anyway, he is not going to use those small and medium-sized nobles and so-called relative priests to govern the tribe, so there is nothing to worry about doing it.Some people must be offended, anyway, the offended people will not have a foothold in the Xia Kingdom in the future, and they will not rely on them to fight wars, let alone manage them, so why do they still please them?

Holding on to this idea, Chen Jian led the army and waited in the camp for a few days until the supporting Xia Guonong soldiers arrived, thinking about what reason to denounce Su Yue's crimes.

There is no problem in capturing Sucheng and its surrounding cities. The problem is how to minimize the resistance and dissatisfaction in the cities and quickly digest these people.

Chapter 141 A Completely Reactionary Rest of Life ([-])

Chen Jian prepared a full stomach of rhetoric and vicious taunts, but when the army arrived at Sucheng and the towns of its hard-core allies around Sucheng, there was no need for it at all.

Those who deserved the surname Su fled to Dongyi or other cities with their chariots and horses, leaving only those who had the surname Su in name but did not actually deserve the surname Su, and a lot of slaves.

These people may also want to run, but originally everyone was on foot, and a clan walked slowly together; now those who run early have cars and horses, and can leave after packing up, while the rest are not so easy to walk , Those with carriages and horses dislike being dragged down and are afraid of being overtaken by Xia Jun.

The six cities were destroyed without bloodshed, and more than 9 men, women and children were obtained, as well as more than 7 slaves.

The method is crude and simple, to ensure the interests of the vast majority of civilians, divide the original public land in the city and the private land of the fugitives according to the civilian population, and set aside one-tenth as the future military land.

Two hundred households of Xia people were relocated from each city, and the reserve officials trained in Yucheng were used to register household registration according to the system of Xiacheng, leaving a small number of slaves to cultivate those military fields, and the remaining slaves moved away.

All farmers receive ten pumps per mu, and need to do corvee labor during the slack season to dig water canals and repair city walls. They can use the copper money borrowed from Xia Guo's warehouse to buy farm tools, and they can pay it off within five years.According to the number of cattle, more than ten households share one head.

The promise given to slaves is that after working for four years, they will all have household registration and become human beings.During this period, slaves were allowed to marry, and the children born could also be counted as human beings, and they would no longer be humble.

More than 7 slaves and more than 2 urban civilians were moved to the opposite bank of Yucheng, where the terrain is flat, adjacent to the big river, and the terrain is relatively high.

After the general stability, Chen Jian led his army to the east to break the siege of Xinhua City.

Four thousand elites, plus four thousand farmers and soldiers, as well as the army of Xinhua City and those slave civilians who were promised to grant land after the war, totaled more than [-] people.

Concentrating the elite and all the artillery, storming the Chinese army, Qiongxi retreated, Chen Jian did not directly attack the city, but retreated back to Xinhua City, and continued to build forts to garrison.

At the end of autumn, he returned to Yucheng and broke through seven cities. So far, the Xia Kingdom's military superiority has been completely crushed, and the land and population that can be controlled directly under the central government have reached the limit of the proportion of officials.

So with the prestige of great victory, spread the word to the four directions, and met in Yu Yu.

In the autumn of the second year, the chiefs of the various cities of the Dahe tribes gathered in Yucheng, discussed for a month, and finally reached a consensus.

The tribes are collectively called Huaxia, except for the 120 clans in the cities of Huimeng, the rest are Yidi.

It adopts the nonsense story that Chen Jian heard about the legends of various clans: all the tribes of Huaxia originated from the holy mountain at the source of the great river, and later the large population migrated to the great river.There are two brothers in the tribe, one is Huang and the other is Yan. The tribe knows how to use fire to get rid of fishy smell, build houses to keep out wind and rain, and distinguish millet and grain to wrap hunger.

Later, due to the flood, they went their separate ways.The Yellow Belt people went southwest and then crossed the mountains to the Northwest, leaving behind the branch of the Xia Kingdom; the Yandai people lived along the banks of the great river, and then another branch went down the river, and were bewitched by bad spirits to worship the sky as Dongyi.Xia and the various tribes were originally a family of brothers, and the alliance at this time is nothing but the reunification of brothers into one.

Now that the Huaxia Brothers are allied, they must go eastward to exterminate those who worship the sky, let them realize their mistakes, speak the language of Yanhuang again, and slaughter their priests to cut off these false rumors and educate their people.

The Huaxia tribes respect Chen Jian as the king, and he is the protector of all the Huaxia tribes. The tribes elect people who are responsible for offering sacrifices to the ancestors. right.

If the ministries encounter barbarian attacks, famine, drought, etc., Xia Guo needs assistance, and at the same time provides soldiers to protect the countries.

All the ministries abide by the great laws of China that have been negotiated for more than a month. There are regulations on what can be done and what cannot be done, but any violation is considered a betrayal of China. The ministries have the obligation to conquer and divide up the land its people.

How to sacrifice and how to dress are all stipulated by Chen Jian. Chen Jian temporarily takes the position of high priest. Before no one can fully explain the world, the position of high priest will only exist for ten years.

The Kingdom of Xia is the common motherland of all the tribes of China. The new capital was built, its name is Hua, and the capital is Huacheng.The leaders of various tribes in Huaxia died of illness and died in battle. They were all buried in Huacheng.

All Chinese tribes shall not attack each other without reason for 300 years.

Xia Guo provided technologies such as iron and copper smelting, and provided cannons as ritual vessels and weapons for various ministries.Correspondingly, various ministries need to pay tribute to copper, iron, grain, etc.

The Xia Kingdom was established for eight hundred miles, and fourteen cities within the eight hundred miles were attached to the Xia Kingdom, and the system changed.The chiefs and priests of the attached land retain part of the land. After five years of slave labor, they become nationals, and then rent the land of the chief priests.

Eight hundred miles away, Xia Guo is not allowed to interfere with the inheritance of rights in various cities.But all the next leaders must have the experience of studying in Huacheng Academy for eight years, and all heirs need to be canonized by the Ministry of Rites of Xia Guo. Those who have not studied in Xia Guo Academy are not eligible to inherit and will be regarded as betraying Huaxia.

The relatives and nobles of all ethnic groups have the right and obligation to go to Xia to study.Enlightenment textbooks from various countries must be consistent with the Xia Kingdom and must not be deleted, otherwise it will be considered a betrayal.

In contrast, the State of Xia has the obligation to help other countries defeat the barbarians, stabilize the land, find mines, and start smelting.

All ministries meet once every five years, and hold a grand alliance meeting in Huacheng, where all Chinese people can participate in the competition of martial arts and knowledge.

There are no checkpoints between the ministries of China, and all trade exchanges are free.All ministries use Huaxia copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins, and private minting is not allowed. Anyone who mints privately will destroy all relatives within the five uniforms. If the leader mints privately, the country will be destroyed.

After the alliance of the ministries, they went eastward with all their strength, defeated Dongyi, established their own countries, and formed an alliance again.

So Chen Jian led the main force of the Xia Kingdom, plus the elite of [-] cities, went down the river; E Yue led his troops from E City to the east.

In the 45th year of the Chinese calendar, Chen Jian broke through the sky, broke the city, and sent the leader of the Dongyi priests back to Huacheng. He broke down the city for fifteen times along the way. The name is Qi.

By the summer of the 46th year of the Chinese calendar, although there were still many cities in Dongyi, the Dongyi Plain had been surrounded by two networks.

Chen Jian enfeoffed more than 30 small countries along the river, and enfeoffed Eyue to Qi. As a marquis, he had the obligation to replace Xia Guo in conquering barbarians within thousands of miles and small Chinese states that violated the oath.After arriving at the coast of the East China Sea, more than 20 small countries were enfeoffed southward along the seashore.

From Echeng to the coast of the East China Sea, more than 40 small countries were enfeoffed, and people from various tribes migrated. Xia Guo provided ironware.

At this point, the siege network against Dongyi has been formed. With the existence of Xia Guo, a super-large suzerain country, the various Huaxia states dare not fight for the time being, and can only focus on seizing the land of Dongyi.

After returning to the Kingdom of Xia, he went south along Dayozawa and led his troops to defeat the southern regime that had already taken shape in its unification, and started the struggle among the tribes on the south bank of the Great River. Clans are established there.

Among them are the chiefs of the original clan, and some of the internal meritorious service of the Xia Kingdom are too high to be rewarded. However, those within the Xia Kingdom are not knighted, but as the managers of the conquered areas, they still need to be under the jurisdiction of the Xia Kingdom in name, and cannot be hereditary. , but in fact the benefits are excellent: for example, using local people to plant and reclaim the land, making the land an industry that can be inherited by private individuals.