Chapter Seventy-Three: A Reluctant Invitation

The city wall is an insurmountable gap between the nomadic and the agrarian people.

This chasm divides the two civilizations not only physically, but also spiritually.

The tall and majestic walls can bring a sense of security to the farming people, but they can only give the nomads a sense of fear.

The nomads felt that the city wall was like a big fence, and the people who surrounded it were like cattle and sheep in the fence, waiting to be slaughtered.

At the same time, the city wall has also become a landmark building for the nomads to stop, and they do not have the construction technology of the city wall, and naturally there is no siege technology to crack the city wall, so the nomads have always looked forward to the city wall, but they are very much looking forward to it.

Because they knew that on the other side of the city wall was the incomparably rich Central Plains Continent, where there were the most exquisite food, gorgeous clothes, warm houses, and all the beauty they could not imagine.

It is the ancient birthplace of their ancestors.

However, the farming people were very resistant to these Chinese Miao compatriots who had gone away to open up their territories, because they were disgusted with the squalor of the nomads and feared their barbarism.

There was an irreconcilable contradiction between the two, so the city wall was used to demarcate the boundary.

From the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Great Wall has begun to be built, the first Yin Shang built the Great Wall, it was really to captivate the Yidi Fang Kingdom, but from the Zhou Dynasty, all the way to the Warring States Great Wall is to prevent invasion, because of the wilderness of the grasslands and mountains and forests, those Chinese compatriots will be trained to be more powerful and barbaric.

The stability and richness of the Central Plains have sharpened the farming nation more and more mellow and soft.

As a result, a large number of Great Walls began to be built in the high mountains and valleys and gorges in the border areas, but in the process of construction, in addition to the military role, another role of the Great Wall was also discovered.

That is, the Great Wall can reconstruct the economic ecology, originally the Central Plains and the grassland mountains and forests are enemies, but also interdependent, nomads will sell excess animal skins, cattle and sheep and even wives and daughters to the Central Plains, and the principle of the Central Plains will bring some goods into the grasslands and forests.

This kind of trade behavior has appeared since ancient times when inter-tribe circulation, and the originator of trade is Yin Shang.

It is recorded in the "Biography of the Southern Xiongnu in the Book Hall of the Later Han Dynasty" that "Beidan Yu Nai sent Da and Qu Yi Mozi King and others to drive cattle and horses to trade with Han Jiake." ’

It shows that this kind of transaction has formed a fixed pattern.

Another function of the Great Wall is to control this kind of trade channel in the hands of the state, originally the border civilians can trade privately, but after the construction of the city, the commoners can not trade privately, and the grassland people need goods have to be formally imported and exported through the pass, and the price and type of commodities are also in the hands of the state.

This is another function of the Great Wall, which controls commerce and the flow of people.

It's like the 'zombies' that are constantly flowing in from the city gates, each of which has to be bathed in a boiling hot water puddle outside the city gate before it can be sent to the outer city for resettlement.

In order to accommodate these 'zombies', the city was expanded again, and a third layer of the city wall was built.

These people from the Lin Hu Restraint tribe who were sent back by Tu Tan are really like 'zombies', although they look a little better than Zhai Qiu's 'skeletons', but they are even more terrifying.

Because these 'zombies' have a rotten dead air on their bodies, people can't help frowning when they look at them, they really look like zombies who have no brains and are instinctively trended.

"What are these disabled people doing when they are rescued?" Wang Li also stood on the city wall, frowning at the zombies with severed hands and feet.

"Since they survived, they naturally got the approval of the Heavenly Emperor." Wang Xu frowned, and his voice was a little indifferent.

The condition of these people is even more miserable than that of slaves, who are at least able-bodied, but most of these people are people who have been abused or suffered great hardships.

From these people, Wang Xu saw the horror of barbarism for the first time, and also had killing intent for the first time.

Hearing the subtlety of Wang Xu's tone, Wang Li raised his eyebrows slightly, "The emperor is merciful." ”

"Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs, but those who are unkind are not as good as dogs." Wang Xu laughed coldly, "This is not called mercy, this is called the way of heaven, those who follow the way of heaven are close to God, and it is still violated, and those who go against the way of heaven betray God and cannot live." ”

Wang Li blinked blankly, pinched his chin and thought for a moment, "This is a cultivation method?" ”

Wang Xu glanced at Wang Li with a smile and shook his head, "The secret of heaven must not be revealed." ”

Wang Li scratched his neck, wandered around Wang Xu like a monkey for a while, and shouted at the iron bull on duty under the city wall, "Tie Niu, go and bring those quilts and blankets that we replaced." ”

Tie Niu scratched his head in confusion, thinking to himself, didn't the previous son dislike those quilts were too ugly and ready to burn them?

"Of these people, the most seriously injured are women." Mo Lian walked up to the city wall with a gloomy face and said beside Wang Xu.

"You can make your own arrangements, and choose a place for them to live in peace among the songs of the court." Wang Xu frowned slightly, hesitated for a moment and said, "Be responsible for some simple manual work and be exempted from regular labor." ”

Although there is no mature legal and regulatory system in Guzhu Country, there is now a rule, that is, everyone must work and exchange working hours for living materials, but there are specified hours and cannot exceed working hours.

A maximum of ten hours for adults and six hours for minors, the rest of the time is left to the discretion of the subjects.

Most of the work was felling, building, smelting iron, building roads, transporting, gathering and farming.

This kind of life is equivalent to a great thing for the wild people who originally lived in hunger and cold, because the state not only provides them with free shelter, but also provides them with abundant food, so that they dare not slack off when they work every day.

So far, at least, there has not been a single case of slacking off.

Until the population was overly inflated, Wang Xu was prepared to use this communist system to maintain domestic production efficiency and stability.

The disabled themselves are an outlier, so Wang Xu separates them separately so that they do not disturb each other, and when the time comes, these people will naturally integrate into the country.

However, they can't feed these people in vain, so they can only ask Mo Lian to find some jobs that they can do, so as to ensure the greatest fairness.

And it can also be used as a model in the future, after all, if people with disabilities work hard, what kind of face does an able-bodied person have to be lazy?

"Please also ask the emperor to give his ministers more time, these disabled women still have some hidden diseases." Mo Lian said through gritted teeth.

Wang Xu frowned slightly, and sighed lightly, "Leave this kind of thing to Qingniang, you don't have to handle it." ”

"The minister has a reluctant request." Mo Lian pursed her lips and looked up at Wang Xu stubbornly.

"Since it's a reluctant invitation, don't embarrass me." Wang Xu chuckled and helped her up, and said softly, "Tu Tan will give those poor women an explanation for you." ”

Mo Lian bit her lip and said softly, "Is the minister's Fire Phoenix Department allowed to become an independent army?" ”

Wang Li, who was eavesdropping, looked at him in surprise.

Wang Xu also froze for a moment, and nodded with a smile, "Yes, you are allowed to form an army, and the upper limit of the number of people is two thousand, and as for other military needs, you need to bear it yourself." ”

Mo Lian smiled, and excitedly hugged Wang Xu's arm, "Thank you, Emperor!" ”

After saying that, he swept away the gloom before and jumped down the city wall.

"Women are in the army, it's not in line with the system." Wang Li said with a smile: "Not to mention the waste of military salaries, there is no combat effectiveness." ”

"Don't underestimate a woman." Wang Xu smiled and shook his head, "They can not only teach each other husbands and children, but also cultivate silkworms and raise knives, and they are not weaker than men." ”

"The point is that you will be pregnant with the rules, do you want a woman who lies in the bed with you at night and has dozens of lives on her hands?" Wang Li chuckled.

"Your few female guards should have more than dozens of lives on their hands." Wang Xu said with a smile.

"Ahem, how can they be blessed to sleep with this son?" Wang Li said slightly embarrassed.

"The tragic situation of those women in the tribe should have stimulated the women in the country." Wang Xu said softly, "When they begin to realize that men are unreliable, they can only get a sense of security by taking up arms themselves." ”

"You mean Mo Lian?" Wang Li frowned slightly.

"She is the patriarch of the Fire Phoenix Clan, and being able to have this kind of consciousness means that she has begun to ascend to the Dao." Wang Xu said with a smile.

"But in the Central Plains ritual law, this is the crime of offense and transgression." Wang Li frowned.

"The Lonely Bamboo Country is different from the Central Plains." Wang Xu shook his head.

"The experience left by the ancestors for thousands of years, do you think it's not good?" Wang Li narrowed his eyes.

"How do you know when I got this from? Maybe it's the experience of the next millennium? Wang Xu asked with a chuckle.

"Hey, envy the people in the door, not only know the past! Can you also predict the future? Wang Li's voice was a little tense.

"In the past few days, they have made rapid progress in Yuchun." Wang Xu looked at the moose running wild under the city, bringing up countless smoke and dust, Yu Chun and the others smiled.

Seeing that Wang Xu was reluctant to say more about the envy of the family, Wang Li pursed his lips and said with some indignation, "With your saddle, even if you are a fool tied to my horse by me, you can become a riding master, and the essence of riding skills inherited by my Wang family for a hundred years is so defeated on two broken rings!" ”

"After all, the saddle is just a tool, but riding skills are different from person to person, and they will not be obsolete with the times." Wang Xu chuckled and said, "After you have a saddle, won't your Wang family's riding skills be able to champion the three armies?" ”

"The essence of equestrianism is to control the horse with the strength of the legs and waist, and now with the saddle, it is redundant." Wang Li pouted.

"Equestrianism is not just about the art of horses, but also horse martial arts, and so on, after having a saddle, you can control the horse with your legs, and your hands will be freed." Wang Xu said with a smile.

"That makes sense, I'll study it." Wang Li blinked, rolled over and jumped off the four-meter-high city wall.

Wang Xu leaned on the city wall and looked at the direction of Linhu, which was hidden by the woods, and estimated the progress of Tu Tan's task.