Chapter 76: The Banner Flutters and the City Wall Stands Strong
After Xiao Yiran became pregnant, the season was already midsummer, and she led Xiao Ming and Xiao Yue around every day, and Xiao Yiran was pleased that the endless farmland in the south of the city was now fragrant with rape flowers, the cotton plants were green, and the sorghum had grown to more than one meter high, and it was about to tassel.
The thick city wall is still under construction, and Xiao Yiran sometimes wonders, is the size he gave too large? According to the original sue to Li Yu, the city wall is ten steps thick and fifteen steps high, and if converted into meters, it is about seven to eight meters thick and ten to twelve meters high.
Occasionally, Xiao Yiran also went to the horse farm on the east side of the Wangshan station, on the bank of the big river. After several years of breeding, the horses of all sizes have now exceeded 200. In a few years, a cavalry force of 200 men will be formed, which will be the capital for the future struggle against the fierce ethnic groups on the north bank of the Great River, in the depths of the distant steppe. Although Xiao Yiran has not yet sent people to explore there, the historical knowledge before rebirth told her that in the depths of the grasslands in the far north, the history of the existence of those fierce ethnic groups is very long. If it is not necessary, Xiao Yiran does not want to entangle with them too early.
Leaving the racecourse, we went west along the river bank and came to the south bank of the Dahe River at the northern foot of Wangshan. Xiao Yiran had already asked Li Yu to lead people to build a place for firing pottery here. Since subduing the nine ethnic groups on the banks of the Great River, and giving full play to the skills of those ethnic groups who can fire pottery, most of the current Dragon Clan people have used pottery. Even the emperor who is as noble as Xiao Yiran does not use all bronze ware, but also uses some pottery.
On the surface, Xiao Yiran, who seems to be playing every day, has been thinking about private ownership in his mind. Today, there is a more detailed plan. Just wait for the policies formulated by Xuan Yi to hand them over, compare the two, and then learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and then they can be promulgated and implemented.
Moving to the bank of the big river, Xiao Yiran's heart was full of a sense of crisis. This is by no means the Mengyue River station in the depths of the southern jungle, and it is comparable to the Longshan station. If you want the dragon clan to grow rapidly and have the strength to fight in the next confrontation with those powerful races, you must do everything possible to change the current public ownership system and increase productivity to the greatest extent.
As Xiao Yiran's belly grew bigger day by day, the days passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, summer goes to autumn, and the city wall of Wangshan Castle is completed at the end of July. Xiao Yiran ordered people to insert the flags made by Xuan Yi and them on the three city gates in the east, west and south, and on the square in front of the palace, two huge flags were also erected. One side is embroidered with the words "Wangshan Dragon Clan" on the front, and the other side is embroidered with a big "Xiao" character, and the north side of the two flags is the image of the dragon god "Dragon". At this time, on the southern slope of Wangshan, the shape of the "dragon" posed with huge stones, in the halfway up the mountainside towards the station, winds up to hundreds of meters from east to west, echoes with the image of the dragon on the flag of the station, and looks more powerful from afar.
With the completion of the majestic city wall, in the endless 10,000 acres of fertile fields in the south of the city, rape and soybeans have already been harvested, and the heavy red sorghum ears have also reached the harvest season. There are large patches of cotton, countless cotton flowers can be picked every day, and there are golden rice fields that ripple in the autumn wind. This qiē and qiē have brought prosperity to the dragon clan.
Taking advantage of the fact that the clansmen were immersed in the joy of moving to a new home and meeting a bumper harvest year, Xiao Yiran decisively issued three orders.
First, the dragon clan worships the moon and worships the gods, all of which are held on the evening of August 15.
Second, the dragon clan has implemented a fixed marriage system since August 15 this year.
1. Establish an independent family with women as the mainstay.
2. Marriage is based on the principle of voluntariness, and neither man nor woman can force each other.
3. The mistress of each family can marry up to five men.
4. The minimum age for marriage is 18 years old for women and 19 years old for men.
5. The hostess can abandon the man, and if the man does not want to be with the hostess, he must obtain the consent of the hostess.
6. The population of each independent family, as well as the relations between its members, must be registered with the competent civil affairs officer under the Ministry of Finance.
7. In a fixed family, a man and a woman who have established a relationship between husband and wife are not allowed to have sex with adult men and women outside the family.
8. It is strictly forbidden to marry close relatives within five generations.
9. Every family has the obligation to support its own elderly and raise its offspring.
Third, abolish distribution according to needs and implement the policy of distribution according to work.
1. The principle of distribution, more work, less work, no work, except for those who have no ability to work.
2. The land is divided into each family for cultivation and management, and the ownership belongs to the entire dragon clan, and each family pays a part of the crops to the clan according to the amount of land cultivated, as the cost of cultivating the land.
3. The farm is dissolved, and all the livestock in the original farm are given to the family family, domesticated as a family unit, and a certain number of poultry eggs are paid to the family on a regular basis.
4. The textile, manufacturing, health, military department, and hunting department are still owned by the dragon clan.
5. Each family can use the harvest from the land and domesticated poultry to exchange the cloth, tools, furniture, etc. needed by the clan.
6. The Ministry of Health treats all ethnic groups free of charge and does not charge any fees.
The three orders were given to silence the entire dragon clan for two days, and then, when the clan realized how much these policies would benefit their lives, the whole clan rejoiced. All the clansmen spontaneously came to the square in front of the palace, cheered, and finally prostrated on the ground, kowtowed to the palace, and then left one after another. Looking forward to the arrival of August 15, I can kowtow to the great emperor in person.
On the evening of 16 August, Xiao An and Xiang Lin, who were far away in Longshan and Mengyuehe stations, also rushed to Wangshan Station. Due to the importance of this August 15, Xiao Yiran had already sent his own guard platoon to pick up the two as early as half a month ago.
Xiao Yiran saw that Xiao An was already pot-bellied, and the two couldn't help but look at each other and laugh.
"Ann, how many months?"
"More than nine months, I'm afraid I'm going to give birth here."
"Then let's wait until we have a baby. Whose child, is it Xiang Lin's? ”
Xiao An shook his head.
"Sister Ran, what about you, it doesn't seem to be as fast as me?"
"I was conceived in April, and I was less than five months old."
For the Longshan and Mengyuehe stations, Xiao Yiran did not implement the privatization of the fields, and in Xiao Yiran's heart, he had already regarded those two stations as a retreat for the Dragon Clan in the future.