Chapter 126: Merchant Nobles

Data refers to symbols that record objective events and can be identified.

It is also the source of the beginning of civilization.

Humans have moved away from animals and have gone from genetic instinctual behavior to cultural behavior.

The instinctive behavior pattern of animal genes is: external stimulus-instinctive response. The pattern of human cultural behavior is: external stimulus-think-react behavior.

From the beginning of the knotted rope chronicle, it was to record the data, and then let the civilization begin to develop.

At the same time, the mastery of this kind of data also means the mastery of rights.

Therefore, Fu Xi, who mastered the book of Hetuluo, became the ancestor of the people.

Fu Xi, who mastered the Hetuluo book, combined this way of recording data with his own philosophical outlook, and then created Bagua, combining the logic of mathematics with the logic of humanities, but also softened the rationality and sensibility in Chinese civilization, trying to find a state of moderation.

It is precisely because of this idealized model of Fuxi that the rationality of Chinese civilization has not been popularized, or this kind of rational thinking has been controlled by those in power, but has used perceptual thinking to formulate rules.

The descendants of Fuxi, the Yellow Emperor ordered Cangjie to create writing, so Cangjie is the earliest historian of Chinese civilization, Cangjie is also known as Emperor Shi, and his descendants are also named after official positions, and the surname of Shi is basically the descendants of Cangjie.

It is precisely because of the earliest appearance of historians in the Chinese civilization and the recording of the history of civilization in the form of data and stories that the history of the Chinese civilization has a long history.

However, because the recording data is too important, and the consolidation of royal power in the feudal period is inseparable from the data recording, this kind of talent with recording ability and recording logic is basically monopolized by those in power.

Qiu He is the inheritor of this kind of record data, and Qiu's seems to have his own way of arithmetic and data collation, so when he reported the data to Wang Xu, it attracted Mo Kui's frequent sideways.

Mo Kui inexplicably had a sense of crisis for this beautiful young man who was born with his eyes.

Qiu He clearly reported to Wang Xu the population of the city, the ratio of men and women, the old and the young, the total amount of food, and even the distribution of slaves and precious resources.

These data are quickly digested for Wang Xu, a modern person, and they are basically the level of junior high school application problems, but for ancient people who have not been trained in systematic mathematics, it is a very advanced ability.

Even the Zhu family was a little confused when they listened to it.

Qiu He's dry mouth reported for more than half an hour, and finally finished all the data, took out the silk cloth from his cuffs, and bowed down and waited for others to show it to Wang Xu, "The above are all data sorted out by Mr. Zhu and Mr. Tu and others overnight yesterday, please take a look at it." ”

"Just put it up, Guzhu Country doesn't have the habit of going to court, and there are no rules, only a meeting to solve problems." Wang Xu supported his chin with one hand, and knocked on the paulownia table with the other hand and smiled.

Qiu He paused for a moment, glanced at the people left and right, and walked up the steps to put the silk cloth on the table.

"Good work." Wang Xu glanced at him and asked with a smile, "What about the conclusion?" ”

Qiu He pursed his lips, "The slave thinks that the grain reserve seems to be just enough, but it is inevitable that there will be accidents, the emperor said before that each person has three catties of grain a day, which is too merciful, and the slave thinks that one and a half catties is enough." ”

"So your conclusion is enough?" Wang Xu stared at Qiu He and asked.

Qiu He's breath stagnated, he felt an invisible pressure, and hesitated for a while, "The slave thinks that it is enough to support the clansmen to eat in May, and the mountain fruits in the forest have not all withered, and there is still a lot of game to hunt, as long as the winter thaws, you can also catch fish on the beach, so food should not be a problem." ”

"Okay, the food allocation between the city and the Lin Hu department will be handed over to you." Wang Xu chuckled and said, "The Sima of the Lonely Bamboo Country is not in charge of the military endowment, so he is in charge of the country's grain consumption, and you will receive the post of Sima from today onwards." ”

Qiu He's eyes widened in surprise, and he looked at Wang Xu with disbelief.

"Emperor, Sima Nai is an important position of the five officials." Mo Kui gasped and couldn't help but speak.

"Do you have a better candidate?" Wang Xu narrowed his eyes and looked at Mo Kui.

Mo Kui shrunk his neck, "The minister just doesn't know this little friend yet, and he wants to know more." ”

"He is the descendant of the Nine Marquis mentioned to you before, whether it is his background or bloodline, he is a descendant of the orthodox Yin Shang, and you have also seen that it should be very suitable to serve as Sima, the monarch is already very distracting to allocate grain and grass in Chaoge and Haodu, and he has to worry about the expansion of Chaoge, so he should not be able to manage the grain and grass of 100,000 slaves and the remnants of the Bai Di Department." Wang Xu said with a smile.

Mo Kui raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this, and arched his hand at Qiu He, who was still in a daze, "It turned out to be the Nine Marquis, disrespectful and disrespectful, it seems that the emperor has pardoned the sins of your clan, and I am in the Guzhu Mo clan to celebrate my brother." ”

Qiu He came back to his senses, and hurriedly replied, "The descendant of the Qiu family, the criminal minister, has seen the nobles of Shang." ”

"A nobleman?" Wang Xu raised his eyebrows with interest and smiled.

"Returning to the Emperor, this is the reward of the Emperor Tang to the Guzhu Mo clan in the past, no matter whether it is ranked as the third prince or the five official positions, seeing the Mo clan is one level lower, so it is called a merchant noble." Mo Kui laughed respectfully.

"The Guzhu Mo clan can afford this honor, after all, it is the same clan of the Yin Shang royal family, and it has guarded the border for Yin Shang for thousands of years." Wang Xu chuckled and nodded, "Qiu He is a very smart child, and the monarch can be more close." ”

"When the minister saw Qiu's little friend, it was also the same at first sight." Mo Kui smiled kindly.

"How are the other clans of the Bai Di Tribe?" Wang Xu asked again.

Qiu He, who had not yet recovered from the great ecstasy, hurriedly thanked him and gave up his position to the Zhu family and Tu Tan.

"Brother Tu, please." The Zhu family smiled and humbly conceded.

"Then I won't shirk it, stay up all night, report early, and go back to bed early." Tu Tan said with a smile.

"No one made you stand dumbfounded." Wang Xu quipped.

"I don't know why, as soon as I get to this hall, I can't help but follow the rules." Tu Tan smiled awkwardly, "Obviously, I haven't seen how the big guys went to court, I heard from Mr. Storyteller nonsense." ”

Wang Xu narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a quiet smile, "Then you usually listen to those families in Yan Country except for slaughtering dogs, and this rule has become a habit." ”

Tu Tan grinned honestly, and sat down cross-legged, "Let the emperor laugh, it is true that in addition to Tu Gou bragging with friends from all sides, the most is to listen to books, hehehe, especially those books that don't cost money." ”

Seeing Tu Tan sit down, Mo Wolf took Yu Chun to sit down, and lazily lay down and stretched, Mo Kui and the Zhu family humbled each other and sat down.

Qiu He hesitated for a moment, and sat down on his knees in a proper manner.

Only Fei Tong stood tremblingly, pretending to be a sculpture.

"Go to the back and prepare the tofu, dried tofu, dried tofu or something, and it's uncomfortable not to eat something for a meeting." Wang Xu smiled at Mo Lian beside him.

"I'll take you." The ink wolf suddenly stood up and led Mo Lian to the harem to find the kitchen.

"Hui Emperor, Bai Di has a total of three major clans, Sang, Zhou and Fei, five middle clans, Qiu You, He, Zhao, Hu, Xian, the rest of the thirteen inferior small clans, the three major clans in addition to the Fei clan, the five middle clans, are all descendants of the Zhongshan Kingdom, the Fei clan is the thirteen lower small clans are the original clans of the city, these people are in charge of the basic operation of the city, the residents of the city are mostly the clansmen of the lower clans, responsible for managing the fields in the four sides of the city, sequentially divided and cultivated, the governance model of the Bai Di tribe is similar to the Central Plains, Not all wealth belongs to the royal family, so each family has private property. Tu Tan began to report.

"How cohesive are these clans for the common people?" Wang Xu frowned and asked.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, roads and channels crisscrossed the country, dividing the land into squares and shaped like the word "well", so it was called "well field".

The well field belonged to the king of Zhou and was allocated to the common people.

The lord was not allowed to buy, sell or transfer the well field, and he had to pay a certain tribute. The lords forced the common people to cultivate the well fields collectively, with private fields around them and public fields in the middle.

In essence, it is a private land system, but it is not the private ownership of the people, but the private ownership of the king, and the taxes on the lord are extremely heavy.

This system was a transition period from slavery to a feudal society, and the advantage of the well field system over slavery was that it could stimulate the productivity of the lord or slave owner, and the state did not have to raise too many idlers.

But the disadvantage is that it is easy to form small interest groups, and when such interest groups grow, they can even affect national decision-making.

When Shang Ying changed the law, the first thing was to abolish this well field system.

Because the Jingtian system is not suitable for a large population, the population of about 150,000 slaves is basically the best governing condition for the Jingtian system, so Bai Dibu can be so rich for nearly a thousand years.

But this is also based on 'human farming', if Wang Xu directly replaces it with animal farming, the 150,000 people in Qiancheng can basically be idle 140,000 people.

And these 140,000 people need to let them create other values, otherwise it is easy to have unnecessary problems, the more important of which is whether these more than 10,000 civilians are bound by the interests of a small group.

If there is, it is more troublesome.

Because even Wang Xu needs to use more than 10,000 civilians to govern those slaves.

Before, whether it was the Lan Gang Army or the Shennu, it was the best example.

These people, who have been enslaved for many generations and are slaves by birth, no longer possess the basic characteristics of human beings, to put it mildly, a group of 'animals' that look like humans, and are not even as good as savages.

And it is also very difficult to reshape the three views of these slaves.

Therefore, it is still necessary for people to guide them and assign them tasks in order for them to survive.

Even if Wang Xu wanted to give these slaves human rights and equal rights, they had no way to enjoy them, so Wang Xu could only try his best to ensure that their bloodline continued.

Letting these people's bloodlines continue may be the greatest comfort and gift to these people.

After all, a slave like Zhai Qiu, who can change his life against the sky, is a unique existence.

Just like Zhai Qiu led the Lan Army, these civilians in Qiancheng are also necessary to lead the hundreds of thousands, or even more slaves to a normal life in the future.

Wang Xu still wants to separate the slaves of Qiancheng from the Guzhu Kingdom, although it is very cruel, but it is also a choice that has no choice.

Let the descendants of these slaves become the clansmen of the Lonely Bamboo Country is Wang Xu's greatest effort.

But whether the more than 10,000 aborigines living in the land of Qiancheng can be controlled, this is also the first question that Wang Xu has to consider.