Chapter 69: Towards Feudalism
The bronze produced in the Chongdu River basin can be used to mint coins, and even to make containers such as bronze tripods or bronze statues.
The forge and furnace of Los Angeles will be relocated here, and all the technicians and their families will come with them, and they will be well protected, given a high social status, and guaranteed food and clothing.
Bronze represents the high-end technology of this era, and technology is the primary productive force.
Preferential treatment of bronze smelting personnel is to develop the primary productive forces.
In addition to the copper mines, it is the population. Sixty percent of the people Yang Yu promised before the war, that is, more than 200 people who crossed the river, were given to slave owners who participated in the war as slaves, and in fact the lives of these slaves did not last long, because as soon as the output of bronze increased, bronze tools would naturally be popularized on a large scale.
After the popularization of bronze tools, for the sake of liberating the productive forces, slaves were naturally transformed into tenant farmers by Yang Li, and slave owners were transformed into feudal knights.
Perhaps Huaxia does not have the concept of "knight", but can be called more of a gate valve, or only a landlord, who is also a middle-level ruling class, and they will always be a tool for Yang Li to exploit the lower-class people.
More than 200 of the 300 new slaves will go to the delta to drain the swamp, Yang Li ruthlessly drove some of the slave owners to the delta to colonize.
The other 100 people were still assigned to farm on the banks of the Luohe River, and Yang Jiao educated them at that time, and pointed out where the land would be privately owned by them in the future, and how to obtain it, and the slaves thought it was good.
The other 200 people will stay at the Chongdu River to develop agriculture and other industries with the relocated metallurgical industry as the core, and the old site of the Xiling clan will be rebuilt and designed exactly like a war fortress.
New mining sites are about to start producing copper, and two new settlements are about to be established.
The population of Chongdu River Mine came partly from immigrants from Los Angeles and partly from the indigenous people, who were enslaved as serfs and miners.
However, the slaves were enslaved for the shortest time, because the disintegration of slavery followed after the large-scale civil use of bronze objects.
The change of times is not like the development of technology in a game and then mutation, in fact, it is gradually realized, and those who are in it may not be aware of it.
Of course, Yang Li has a new goal, that is, iron smelting.
If bronze began to spread on a large scale, it was foreseeable that the technology of smelting bronze would inevitably flow out to other tribes.
The technological blockade is temporary, and the surrounding people are the descendants of Yan and Huang, and the future Chinese nation, so that they can progress in their studies, there is no problem.
Compared with the use of azurite ore to smelt bronze, the smelting of iron tools is more complicated, and the requirements for organization and personnel are higher, but once iron tools appear, it is equivalent to advancing civilization to the era near the first year of the Common Era, which is too large.
Therefore, Yang Li's current thinking is that in the future, the technology of bronze can be spread and used to drive the development of the entire civilization, but the technology of making iron and even steelmaking needs to be sealed in his own hands in order to maintain the rule of the highest centralized power.
As for the specific implementation, it can be studied slowly.
The construction of the city to recross the river will be the focus of the next internal affairs, and it will go hand in hand with the construction of the cavalry troops on the Los Angeles side.
Further down the line, the construction of a new city at the confluence of the rivers between Los Angeles and Chongdu is akin to a satellite city, which is part of the relocation of the capital.
Of course, land prices are not going to skyrocket.
The most dazzling people of the tribes who crossed the river in this attack are obvious to all...... It's Yulia.
But no matter how Mao Mei made a fuss, Yang Li just didn't give her a fief, Mao Mei was very angry, and she was aiming everywhere with a big sniper.
Yang Li said well, if you take that piece of land, you will have to establish a judiciary, manage lower-level officials, observe the state of agriculture and peasants every day, and ensure the development of production, so I will look for another candidate for the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses in Los Angeles.
When Mao Mei heard this, she immediately said that she couldn't go, she was frightened by the trivial chores, although some of them were made up by Yang Li to bluff her.
Then the person with the second merit in war was appointed as the city lord, a previously inconspicuous slave owner named Chen Jiuten.
Comrade Ninety was different from other slave owners, this guy was honest and honest, and when he attacked the city, others had reservations, and when he saw that his own heirs or slaves were somewhat damaged, he tended to retreat and recuperate, and make a comeback.
Only Chen Jiu Shi was always on the front line regardless of the cost, and he was on the front line of the five attacks launched by Tupo on the city wall, and he was there five times, the eldest son and the third son were killed in battle, five of the seven slaves died, and the rest were seriously injured.
Even Chen Jiu Shi himself was stabbed through the abdomen with a spear and almost fell off.
Therefore, after the battle, Yang Jiao not only made up for his slaves, but also tripled the original base, and rewarded three ploughing oxen and ten bronze spears as compensation, but more importantly, the next appointment.
When everyone came to ask Yang Jiu Xincheng's name, he really thought about it.
Los Angeles has become a city, with complete industrial and agricultural functions, and the delta area is also called a city, doesn't it cost me the face of the great river bay?
In that case, it is called a village.
Because it was a village built by immigrants, it was called a new village.
This piece of land is called Delta New Village.
Village Chief Chen Jiutie, everyone has to envy me, let the slave owner of how many slaves you had before, now the status of others is higher than yours, this is what he exchanged for his life.
Yang Li's appointment is actually an incentive mechanism for the middle-level ruling class, because whether it is a slave owner or a later feudal lord, they have the idea of preserving their strength, and they will also have contradictions with each other.
War is a kind of consumption of the lord's strength, once everyone has the idea of preserving their strength, they may not be able to see it when they fight against the wind, and once they are against the wind, no one wants to move, and this will be the end.
Therefore, Yang Jiao, the leader, has to play a regulating role in it, and he wants to use the model of post-war rewards to let everyone understand that the hardest working person must not be the most disadvantaged person, and what you lost due to your hard work in the war, I will definitely make up for you.
Why a good leader can convince the people, why there is a Western proverb that "a sheep led by a lion is better than a lion led by a sheep", this is the truth, once the strength of the organization is condensed into a rope, it is easy to exert much greater power than a loose group.
As the results of wars and rewards are recognized, the mentality of your subordinates will change from recognition of your style of conduct to recognition of you as a person.
This achieved the highest achievement of a leader in the feudal era and even the imperial era.
When Napoleon returned from exile on the island of Elba, his old subordinates and veterans gathered around him, and even from an intellectual point of view, there was little hope for the next republic, and this was the aura of leadership at work.
Chen Jiu has a new home, even his wife has married a few more, and the second son was exceptionally included in the guards by Yang Jiao and became a member of the future iron cavalry.
Delta New Village currently has a big project, which is to drain the swamp and destroy the environment.
Similar swamps in ancient times, how much there were, now the air is very good, Yang Li decided to pollute first and then clean up, because later generations will do this, then a number of high-energy consumption industries can be eliminated, by the way to develop new energy, improve the industrial structure.
As a result, more than 70 new families from Delta New Village, after the completion of the reclamation of wasteland, went to the designated place to build a low embankment to drain the water to make room for the future expansion of the village.
The seat of the village committee is Chen Jiushi's home, which is now very magnificent, with a two-story wooden house inside, a low wall outside, a cowshed and kennel on one side of the wall, and a shooting range and training ground on the other side, just like a small fortress.
The fortress served both a guard and an administrative function, but the armed forces of Delta New Village were more than a dozen members of his family.
Unlike the feudal princes of Hayabusa, the administrators were only responsible for government affairs, military affairs, and had no control rights. In fact, government affairs are only maintained in place of the monarch, and theoretically he receives a salary.
Yang Jiu would allocate funds to Chen Jiu from the treasury, but the current system was not strictly county, Chen Jiu Shi owned his own slaves and land and managed them, which meant that his income was divided into two parts: self-production and appropriation.
The new village has just started, and it is still relying on food and material delivery from Los Angeles, and it is expected to start to enter the business mode until the beginning of spring next year.
The above is the development plan of the two new cities, Chongdu River Mining City and Delta New Village, the road repair team has another project, these guys have some experience, this time the speed of road repair is much faster, of course, there is still no way to meet the swamp, bypass.
After arranging the government affairs, Yang Li still focused on the military in the following days.
After all, I plan to kill my eldest cousin in the coming year, and I told him in person, but if I didn't go by then, wouldn't it be a no-show.
The so-called gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase, Yang Li thinks that he can't be called a gentleman, but the basic integrity still has to be there, saying that if he wants to beat you, he will beat you, and even your cousin agreed.
The key to establishing a martial arts system in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and even in the Sui and Tang dynasties and creating a top cavalry is the training system.
The first thing to be discarded here is the training of modern soldiers, and to drive out of mind the thinking of running the playground, doing push-ups, lining ups, and standing in a military posture.
The top fighters have never been mass-produced by stencil printing, and each of them is an elite fighter who has spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build, similar to the current fighter pilots.
However, it is closer to the training mode of national athletes or professional fighters.
Athletes are out of production, a coach and a number of sparring partners train all day long, a logistics team ensures nutrition and formulates training plans, and at the same time, a perfect competition and communication system promotes the overall level of improvement.
However, where are these similar to the fighting generals trained by the gate valve at the beginning, and what kind of system should Yang Jiao create to ensure the output of excellent fighting generals, all the theoretical basis is still to find reference in historical facts.