Chapter 18 Priorities
When she ran to the city gate, she saw Song from a distance and greeted Song from afar, but she wondered why Song didn't wear a hat symbolizing the identity of the Six Divisions on his head. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
After being stunned for a moment, he still ran to Song's side. Most of the expectations and pursuits are often because of the lack of Song, who has lost his home and clan, so he always wants a perfect tribe without disputes, and he will take the initiative to pursue these family affections, so he is also very good to Yu Qian'er, and Yu Qian'er also trusts him very much.
"Where's your silk? My brother said that the position of the six divisions should wear a silk ribbon symbolizing his identity in front of the clan, so that the clansmen can find us when they have something. Is it because I arrived in Echeng that I don't treat me as a clansman? ”
She joked, and smiled loosely, "I'm not a Sikou anymore." ”
As if to ask something more for Yu Qian'er, he explained it himself, Yu Qian'er seemed to understand a little, she thought less than Chen Jian, but could understand Song's actions better.
"You're going to the lower reaches of the Grass River?"
"That's right, your brother asked me to wait for Eyue to come back and ask him something before leaving, I may have to stay here for a few days, and I can't leave for the time being."
"Then stay a few more days, I'm looking forward to Eyue's return later, but it seems that he will be back soon, someone sent back his news, and he will be back soon."
arranged for everyone to stay, and several riders also got rid of the curious inquiries of the people in Echeng, and when they were about to go to the boat to help carry the goods down, they were stopped by Yu Qian'er and wanted to do business first.
"Si Xiangji, Ji Xia let us stay here for the time being, let us listen to you."
The riders walked up to Yu Qian'er, and when they came, the pods of the beans had already swelled, and these seeds were brought back by Yu Qian'er, so they had a lot of respect for Yu Qian'er. Eat enough to win battles.
"I'm afraid you're going back after dinner, I have a few words to say to my brother."
She winked, and several riders nodded and followed her into the liquor store, and said in the hut, "Just eat whatever you want, we originally wanted to try the stir-fried food, and it seems that we will not be able to eat it until we come back." ”
"Do your business first, and when you come back, you'll have enough to eat. When you get back to Summer City as soon as possible, you can say......"
She hesitated for a moment, didn't know how to express herself, and thought for a long time before saying, "Let's just say that Echeng has harvested a lot of corn now, and corn, wheat and beans can be harvested three times in two years." The clansmen in Echeng have a lot of private property, and the priests of Xia Cheng think that they can exchange some bronze farm tools for corn, but they don't know whether they should be exchanged. If Ji Xia thinks it's time to change, let someone send it as soon as possible. ”
The rider shook his head and said, "Ji Xia said that the bronze is not exchanged. ”
"That was before, we used to use stones. Go after eating, try to complete this exchange before E Yue comes back, be sure to be fast. ”
The rider didn't ask any more, they had seen a lot of things that they couldn't understand before, and perhaps they had thought less about it this time, and after a little food, they rode back to Summer City.
It takes three or four days to go back and forth, and most of the autumn wheat in the summer city has been sown, and the seeds of 150,000 catties are divided, and each tribe is preferentially planted on the reclaimed land.
This is not the same as in Echeng, where families are the unit, and each family needs to cultivate the public land first, because the tools are not available, so hundreds of people work collectively is the most efficient method, and the private land does not matter how many cities each family can plant, as long as you can pay enough food.
In Xiacheng, Chen Jian and some special off-duty personnel were in full control, and the minimum amount of land to be planted by each tribe and the variety of land should also be measured to facilitate the collection of taxes after harvest, and at the same time, how to plant, when to plant, and the direction of the ditch all need to be in accordance with the rules.
The four tribes under Chen Jian's complete control plan to cultivate 10,000 mu of land, and the number of other tribes to cultivate is about 10,000 mu.
20,000 acres of land, which sounds like a lot, all adds up to only three kilometers wide and four kilometers long, which is not amazing.
Sixteen tribes, a total of more than 2,000 young and strong laborers, plus more than 1,000 slaves, each person has to cultivate an average of nearly 10 acres of land - this is a little little, in the previous feudal era most of the average land was 100 acres per ding, but 1 ding is not a person, if the tribe disintegrates into a family, in fact, each small family has about 100 acres of land.
Farming in the city, and those wild tribes outside the city also need to cultivate, Chen Jian used a part of the public property and the private property of the four tribes to lend to those tribes.
The public property is to be borrowed for eight and ten, and the private property of the four clans will only need to be borrowed for ten in the future, because he has lent it out as a tribe, hoping to gain his personal trust and gratitude, and in the future these wild people will expand some of them into the city.
Each tribe assigned a person who had cultivated the land the previous year to help guide them, and the food during the help period was from the public property.
After calculating next year's harvest, if there is still a bumper harvest like last year, then the food problem in the city will be completely solved, and you can even continue to capture some slaves, increasing the proportion of the slave population to half or even more, without worrying about the situation that the slaves have nothing to eat.
After the most exhausting days, the tribesmen looked up at the western sky at the end of their work, and the burning clouds were half burned, but in the end the whole sky did not dye the whole sky red.
"If the red cloud burns halfway, it will definitely rain in half a decade." This is the common sense that Chen Jian told them to see the clouds and the weather, and after verifying it a few times, they felt that it was very magical, and they felt that this must have been told to him by the ancestors in their dreams, otherwise how could they tell from these strange clouds whether it was going to rain or not?
"It's good to rain, so that it can sprout soon after planting, so that there will be no rain in autumn, and we will have to dig a canal to water it, and next year may be better than this year's harvest."
"Yes, I'm looking forward to our tribe handing over ten catties of grain per acre of land, and it would be better if I could pay twenty catties......"
The more you hand in, the more you will be harvested, and anyway, it is not according to the size of the land, it is just to provide for some more specialized people to calculate and consider.
Chen Jian and a few people squatted in the wheat field, talking about their expectations for next year, those riders from Echeng did not dare to ride into the wheat field, they would be whipped, so they dismounted from a long distance, ran to Chen Jianjian's side, and told Chen Jian what Yu Qian'er asked them to convey.
There were priorities, so he first said what he thought was the most important thing, which was to exchange bronze farming tools for corn.
"Bronze Farm Implements ......"
A few people beside him hurriedly objected: "No, bronze can be used to smelt weapons, and the boss thinks a little less." ”
"That's right, although they use stones, they also have a military formation, and if they have bronze weapons, it will be more powerful, just like a tiger with a pair of falcon wings."
"After all, the company is still a child, and this matter is a little inconsiderate."
Jian Chen frowned and asked, "What else did the company say?" ”
"She said that corn, wheat and beans can be planted in rotation, and now that the corn has just been harvested, it is the time when it can be exchanged the most, because there is no unified management of the goods in Echeng, but families go to buy them spontaneously, and if they wait until next spring when the corn is still green in the ground, they will not be able to change so much."
This reason did not convince everyone, and it seemed to the rider that it was the second most important thing, and finally scratched his head and remembered another reason that he thought was not too important. (To be continued.) )