Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, winter was coming, and the Xia expeditionary army returned on the last boat, and on the Eastern Front, the war between the Xia and the tribes on the new route was suspended for a winter, and a new war would start when next spring arrived.

It is also because the new route is far away from the Xia country, and the Xia country does not have too many C-type ships, which leads to the expeditionary army has been troubled by the ship capacity when conquering the tribes of the new route, and the progress is relatively slow, even if it starts from the tribe closest to the Xia country, at the end of a year, the expeditionary army has only won sixteen tribes.

On the ship, the soldiers often discussed how much credit they could get in this war, whether they could reach the standard of a third-class merit, and whether they could let one more woman in the family have children for themselves.

"Brother Zhang, with your merits, you should be able to get a second-class merit, and you can bring two women home." A young warrior said in an envious tone to the big man beside him.

Dahan smiled and touched his head and said, "I calculated that it should be enough for second-class merit, Xiaoshan, you are still young, and you will have the opportunity to make meritorious service in the future." ”

"Uh-huh." Xiaoshan nodded vigorously, the envy in his eyes could not be eliminated in a short time, his credit this time was not even a third-class merit, which made the young warrior very troubled, fortunately, he still had the advantage of being young, and there would always be a chance to make meritorious contributions in the future.

In the tribal era, men became chiefs or senior tribesmen, because they could have a higher status in the tribe, enough food, and more women.

In the era of the Xia Kingdom, the people of the Xia Kingdom were not short of food, but status and women were still the goals pursued by men, and if they made meritorious contributions, they could improve their status and obtain women, which was the simplest and clearest way, so the vast majority of teenagers dreamed of entering the War College and becoming a warrior after graduation, expanding the territory for the king and the Xia Kingdom, and making contributions on the battlefield.

For military merit, the third-class merit rewards a woman and 30 catties of animal meat, the second-class merit rewards two women and 100 catties of animal meat, and the first-class merit rewards 3 women and 300 catties of animal meat.

This was Su Yan's first plan to formulate the "Merit Reward Regulations", and the rewards were mainly women and animal meat, and bronzes, linen, and animal skins were also secondary rewards.

With the development of the Xia Kingdom, the "Merit Reward Regulations" are also constantly changing, but there is no change in the number of women rewarded for the three levels of military merit and each level of military merit, and the change is the secondary reward, mainly the new gadgets that have just appeared in the Xia Kingdom that can be mass-produced, which cannot meet the needs of the whole people, and it is the best choice to reward meritorious personnel.

In addition, the military merits of the soldiers can be accumulated, for example, if the credit obtained by a soldier in a battle cannot meet the minimum third-class merit, the soldier can temporarily not receive any reward, wait until the next or next few battles, accumulate the merit to reach the standard of third-class merit, and then receive the reward, this period is one year, and at the beginning of the new year, the merit can start to accumulate again.

As a result, there are more soldiers who have won third-class merit in a year, and the soldiers are all rushing to reward women for third-class merit, but fortunately, Xia Guo has been fighting abroad, and there are enough women to distribute.

In particular, the cavalry units stationed in the city often go deep into the grasslands to plunder cattle, horses, sheep and population, and the cavalry have more opportunities to make meritorious contributions, and the average number of women per cavalry is also the largest, so it can be said that the cavalry unit is the place where the teenagers of the war college want to enter the most, but the selection standard is too high, too many people are brushed, and the cavalry unit cannot be expanded indefinitely.

Su Yan has already seen through the problem of monogamy and polygamy, and there is no need to force modern monogamy.

Xia Guo wants to have a larger population, but he doesn't want to force those hateful men into Xia Guo, which will become a hidden danger for Xia Guo, and a woman who is a vassal of men is the best choice.

However, when the Xia Kingdom is strong and stable enough, the ratio of men to women will continue to approach one to one, and monogamy in ordinary families will become the norm, and only men with higher status will have multiple wives, and the population growth rate of the Xia Kingdom will also return to normal levels.

The fleet returned to the Xia homeland, every time they passed through a city, there would be a ship to stop, and the soldiers in the expeditionary legion who lived in the city got off the ship and went home, most of the half a year of the campaign had exhausted them, the physical fatigue was less, more was the mental exhaustion, and they needed a warm home to relieve the tired spirit.

Just as autumn ended and winter arrived, the rewards of the meritorious soldiers were handed down, and the soldiers of the field/war army and the city defense army in each city gathered at the military bureau or sub-office, and received from the director or division chief of the military department the commendation order with the king's seal on behalf of the meritorious service, as well as the familiar wooden plaques and metal coins that they had already heard of but had come into contact with for the first time.

Wooden cards are familiar to the soldiers, from the Eastern Front battlefield and the Western Front battlefield brought back women without belonging will be placed in various cities, at the beginning they will live in a certain area, until winter comes, will enter the Xia Kingdom of a family, most of the time, these women can only be chosen by the Xia Kingdom men.

A wooden card can take away a woman, and when the time comes, all the men with the wooden card in their hands can come and choose the woman they like, in order to prevent the woman they choose from being snatched away by others, some men will prepare in advance, such as building a good relationship with the woman they like some time earlier.

As for metal coins, in the autumn, the cities had already issued notices to inform the people about metal coins and the shops of the Ministry of Commerce, and the people were very supportive of the emergence of metal coins and the Ministry of Commerce, and the soldiers of the expeditionary corps also learned about metal coins and were also very supportive of this matter.

A gold coin can be exchanged for a hundred copper coins, originally Su Yan set a copper coin to buy a pound of millet in the shops of the Ministry of Commerce, and a gold coin can only buy a hundred catties of millet, so it seems that the purchasing power of a gold coin is not high, and Xia Guo needs to mint a large number of gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins to meet the demand.

The Ministry of Industry has prepared a large number of molds for minting coins, which can quickly mint enough metal coins, but Su Yan doesn't want to waste much manpower on mining and smelting gold and silver ore, so he directly waved his pen and turned a copper coin to buy one catty of millet into a copper coin to buy ten catties of millet, and exchanged it for the cheapest animal meat, and one copper coin could buy three catties.

In this way, the purchasing power of gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins will be increased tenfold, and the demand for metal coins will be reduced tenfold, but there will also be troubles that cannot find money when buying less than ten catties of millet or one catty of animal meat, but these troubles are all trivial, after all, currency has just appeared in the Xia Kingdom, and there will be opportunities to change it in the future, and even Su Yan can directly enter the era of paper money from the era of metal coins.

Replacing coins minted in metal with banknotes that can be printed in large quantities will require less manpower and material resources.

Now that the warriors have received their coins, the third-class merit is rewarded with five silver coins, the second-class merit is rewarded with one gold coin, the first-class merit is rewarded with two gold coins, and the soldiers below the third-class merit are also rewarded with a different number of coins.

The five silver coins of the third-class merit reward can buy the cheapest beast meat as much as 150 catties, and the two gold coins of the first-class merit reward can buy the cheapest beast meat up to 600 catties, and there is no problem in eating meat every day.

With the population of Xia Kingdom, it is impossible to eat big fish and meat, and it is already a matter for a few people to be able to eat meat every day, even if each city regularly distributes animal meat to every household, most families marinate animal meat and eat it slowly in the future.

The soldiers happily went home with the commendation order, wooden signs, and coins, and soon the soldiers and their wives went out of the house again, and their target was the shop of the Ministry of Commerce, and with the coins in their hands, they could finally enter the shop and buy what they wanted.

Soon, the shops were overcrowded, and the Ministry of Commerce had to limit the number of people entering the shops until someone left the shops, allowing the corresponding number of people to enter the shops, and not allowing those who entered the shops to stay for a long time.

People who enter the shop walk quickly in front of the shop counter, looking at the things they want to buy, and give up all of them to choose what they have already decided to buy.

The shops sell all kinds of grain, millet, rice, flour, soybeans, etc., the price is very low, but no one will buy these grains, grain is not in short supply for every family, and the Ministry of Commerce does not think about selling grain, but only takes out a little grain as a sample.

Probably the most sold thing was cloth, followed by animal meat, both of which were not very expensive.

Buying cloth to make new clothes for their children and buying animal meat to add nutrients to their children is what most parents do.

There are also warriors who can't take their eyes off the bow and sword, gritting their teeth and giving up buying other things, ready to save a little more money and buy the bow and sword, the weapon is simply a second life for the warrior.

The shop was officially opened, the Ministry of Commerce has been fully prepared, the cloth and animal meat that everyone needs most are unlimited, you can buy as much as you want, you can go to the warehouse to pick up the cloth when you sell out, and the animal meat can be slaughtered when it is sold out, until it meets the needs of everyone.

Families with less coins in their hands will directly spend all the coins, and families with more coins in their hands will only use up a part of the coins, especially fresh animal meat, which can only be purchased on the same day, anyway, the shops are there, they will not be lost, and the coins in their hands will not depreciate, and they can go to the shops to buy things that are lacking in the future, and they can even buy them from other people at a lower price, and the role of coins has been revealed.

Not only the soldiers who were rewarded with coins for their military exploits, but also other citizens were rewarded for various things, and most of the rewards were given in the form of coins, and the citizens took the coins to the shops themselves to buy the things they needed.

Anyway, since the shops in the cities of Xia Kingdom opened, they have been overcrowded for many days, and the number of people entering the shops has to be limited.

Winter is the time to rest, many people who do not have coins in their hands also come to the shops to watch the excitement, looking at the people who come out of the shops with things one by one, the onlookers are showing envious eyes, how they wish they were also one of them, but unfortunately they have no coins in their hands, and they have not made any contributions this year.

Comparisons have always existed, with soldiers comparing ranks, women, and military exploits, ordinary citizens comparing food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and women comparing men and children.

Comparison is both a bad thing and a good thing, comparison may make people jealous, but comparison may also inspire people to think upwards and strive to get a better life.

Therefore, Su Yan has been guiding the comparison atmosphere of the Xia Kingdom, allowing the people to learn from the good side and reject the bad side, so there is a system of rewarding the hard-working and punishing the lazy.

Diligence can be rewarded, this is the simplest thing for ordinary citizens, men farming, women weaving, as long as the work is fast and good, you can get rewards, if you can put forward some useful advice on their own work projects, you can make a meritorious service.

Becoming a warrior is faster than the national of other professions, but a warrior is also a dangerous profession, the strength of Xia is very strong, no enemy is the opponent of Xia Guo, Xia Guo's weapons and equipment have an absolute advantage, but it does not mean that the warriors of Xia will not die in battle.

On the battlefield of the western front, the cavalry of the Xia State continued to go deep into the steppe to fight the nomadic tribes, and on the battlefield of the Eastern Front, the expeditionary army of the Xia Kingdom attacked the tribes on the new route, even in the Xia Country itself, a team was also spreading around the city as the center, and in a year's time, except for winter, the remaining three seasons of the Xia Kingdom were spent in war.

Although the number of casualties of the enemy is dozens or hundreds of times that of the Xia side, there will eventually be casualties on the Xia side, and the death of a warrior represents the breakdown of a family, even if the Xia State compensates the warrior's wife and children, but the warrior is dead, no amount of compensation can make the dead warrior resurrected.

Every time the army returned, the city was full of laughter and laughter, but the sorrow of the families of the war dead was hidden in the corner, and the young people only saw the glory of being a soldier, but did not see the hidden sadness, but the older people could see this.

For them, it is unfortunate and fortunate not to become a warrior, when they are young, they also think that they can become a warrior, go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, how many years have passed, several peers they know have died on the battlefield, and the flame of wanting to become a warrior has long been extinguished.

The people of a Xia country can only see the changes around them, life is better, and people are more motivated, and as the king of Xia Kingdom, Su Yan sees the changes of the entire Xia Kingdom, Su Yan needs Xia Kingdom to make internal stability on the basis of rapid development, and every plan is formulated for this goal.

[In the cold, Heng Yi's head is dizzy in this chapter, I hope the cold will get better sooner, alas]