Chapter 258: The Beginning of the Nation
The ritual lasted for most of the day and did not end until 10 p.m.
The cumbersome and solemn ceremony made the name of the emperor shrouded in a veil of mystery in the rise of the people of the Xia Kingdom, and these two words represented a supreme right.
After the ceremony was completed, the whole country celebrated, and this day was later designated by Wang Lang as the first festival since the founding of the Xia Kingdom, the National Day.
On this National Day, the whole country rests, and all walks of life have a three-day holiday, and the soldiers will also receive half a month's salary.
The official establishment of the Xia Kingdom represents the official emergence of a real civilization in this wild world.
With the completion of the six yamen, the state apparatus of the Xia State officially operated.
For this young country, it was a nascent agricultural country, and the basic industries were nationalized.
In agriculture, after consulting with the ministers, Wang Lang began to implement the policy of equal distribution of land.
The Shengdou miners also began to have their own land, and the princes and nobles obtained several times more land than the Shengdou min, but more land meant more taxes, for the common people, Wang Lang collected according to the eleventh tax, and for those nobles, it was doubled.
In order to prevent the occurrence of land annexation, the land of Xia State belongs to the state, and no one is allowed to buy or sell it privately.
The people who have been allocated the land are happy, and this way is completely a personal matter to plant a variety of things, and a family can live a very nourishing life if they work hard.
The distribution of land caused the people to disperse from the city, forming large and small villages outside the city.
The ancient imperial power of China is not lower than the county, this method has great drawbacks, so that the local tyrants and squires have formed an extremely large interest group, Wang Lang is not allowed this kind of thing to happen, the village chief of each village is also a formal official of the state, and there must be a performance assessment every year.
Without external troubles, Xia began to increase its efforts to build.
Wang Lang did not let the soldiers rest either.
A month after the establishment of the Xia Kingdom, he ordered his soldiers to attack everywhere and exterminate all the large beasts on this grassland.
If the country wants to develop, it is impossible to allow these monsters to move freely on their own land, otherwise, the people will not be able to travel alone at all, which is very detrimental to the development of the country.
The army slaughters all the beasts it picks up with great efficiency.
In half a year, almost the beasts within a radius of a hundred miles were bleated.
Herbivores, also caught or killed, caught alive prey, were sent by soldiers to the cargo depot for sale.
The people who have their own property are very interested in raising livestock, and Wang Lang's prey was sold out as soon as it was sold, which was basically in short supply, which also made the soldiers make a small profit in the past six months.
At this time, in Yancheng, a newly established restaurant was also officially established, and Wang Lang personally attended the scene and named the store Shiweitian.
The periphery of the tribe was basically calmed down, and the nascent country of Xia began to grow slowly.
The gradual birth of a newborn represents the hope for the future of Xia Kingdom.
Wang Lang sat in a chair and listened to the report of the dark clouds.
"Your Majesty, the children who studied words with me before have learned almost everything, and they have mastered a lot of the mathematics you handed over, and they can basically understand addition, subtraction, multiplication and division."
Dark Cloud said respectfully.
Wang Lang nodded and said: "Wuyun, these literate talents, I will temporarily assign them to your Ministry of Rites, and I will set up a Qin Tianjian in your Ministry of Rites, this department is mainly responsible for observing the celestial phenomena, recording time, determining how long the time of the year is in this world, the day with the shortest day and the longest night as the line, positioning this day as the first day of the year, and then dividing the year into twelve months, and leaving this matter to them!" ”
"This thing can take a long time to complete, and with their ability to do it, they should be able to do it." Wuyun said slowly.
"Well, I also believe in the talents you have cultivated, in the future, all the children in the Xia Kingdom must receive three years of education, and the future officials will be selected from these educated children, and this matter is also the responsibility of your Ministry of Rites. I will let the Ministry of Engineering be responsible for building the literacy site for these children, which will be called the school in the future, and it will be a subordinate department of your Ministry of Rites, and it will be counted in your political achievements. Wang Lang said solemnly.
"Chen understands, I will take care of this matter." Dark Cloud replied.
"There's nothing to do with you here, the matter of establishing Qin Tianjian will start in the next two days!" Wang Lang waved his hand to let the dark clouds retreat.
After the dark clouds left, Wang Lang walked to the table, picked up the brush he made, and dipped it in some black dye, this black thing is not ink, twenty boiled from the inside of a plant, it is also the main dye of black cloth.
The one-meter-square animal skin is now secretly covered with various characters, and in order to unify with the characters created by the dark clouds, these characters have both hieroglyphs and simplified characters, which looks very strange.
On the top of this animal skin are written four big characters, the Law of Great Xia.
The crooked calligraphy had already filled half of the animal skin, Wang Lang pondered for a while and began to write
"Article 33, for the crime of intentional homicide, anyone who kills with intent to commit murder shall be sentenced to death, and those who commit less serious circumstances may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years.
Article 34 For the crime of adultery, if a married woman interacts with a man other than her spouse, the adulterous party shall be sentenced to death and the land and property shall be confiscated.
Article 35,
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It wasn't until dusk that Wang Lang changed into another animal skin and continued to write, until the light was completely out of sight, and then he put down the brush in his hand.
The two girls brought the food, put it next to Wang Lang, and stood aside respectfully.
"Sit down and eat!" Wang Lang said lightly.
The two girls answered, sat beside Wang Lang stiffly, picked up the dishes and chopsticks, and began to chew and swallow slowly.
These two girls, since they were favored by Wang Lang, were accepted by him as concubines.
His regulations on concubines have been clearly stipulated in the law that concubines are different from wives, and husbands can dispose of concubines at will, and children born to concubines do not enjoy the right of inheritance, and must leave home to fend for themselves when they reach adulthood, but the status of citizens is still the same as that born in the main family.