"To put it simply, slaves are born slaves, and the children they give birth to are also slaves. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info If you treat them as animals, one person is in charge of ten animals, it seems very reasonable, and it is easy, and everyone likes it. ”

"But you have to think about the fact that these animals can talk and think, so they will inevitably rebel. Not now, but in the future. ”

"Furthermore, it's like taking those Dongyi people as slaves, because they are Dongyi people, so they are slaves...... Isn't this telling them all the time that they are Dongyi people? Even if the civilians and slaves didn't know before, they would know if we talked about it all day long. This is equivalent to giving them a reason to rebel and unite. ”

The people did not object to this statement, and they could understand what Chen Jian meant. In the previous Summer City, the highest degree of resistance was the slaves of the steppe tribes. Because the rules before Xia Cheng were very clear, as long as all slaves behaved well, they could obtain the status of becoming wild people after being subordinate to the peasants, but those who had completely different appearance and skin color from the people of Xia Cheng from the grassland tribes had no possibility of becoming human at all, so the resistance was the most fierce.

This is one of the few histories that these people can learn from history, and those rules are actually a constant reminder of the identity of the grassland tribes, and the two people who originally hated and conflicted may also be united to resist because of this identity.

However, some people have thought that the entire Xia City squatted motionless in the grass river, that is, they kept giving birth to children, and then went east when the population increased.

However, these people who were encouraged by Chen Jian all looked forward to doing some great things in their lives that would leave a name for future generations, so the group of people who came down from Chen Jian couldn't afford to wait.

Chen Jian looked at everyone with a smile, and seeing that everyone did not object, he said: "When those people, Ze and others were not ordinary people, they took those workshop workers to fight for their children a chance to learn to read and write. ”

"At that time, I had already started to write textbooks, but some of the leaders were not satisfied with them. They suggested that I write something like this and teach it specifically to the children of the workshop workers. ”

"Yes: Although I am a lowly person, if I am diligent and do not resist, I can accept the insults, and I can also move my relatives to love me. The nobles lived in brick and stone houses, the sluts squatted under the thatch, and heaven and earth arranged for them to be divided into ranks, and their status was both noble and low. Cheap and cheap, noble and noble, the morning sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and heaven and earth are reasonable. ”

Hearing this, the leaders of the workshops who had been slaves and now had become high-level leaders in Xia City couldn't help but curse one by one and clenched their fists.

Jian Chen didn't name the leader who proposed it, and said with a smile: "I just thought, is it really useful to go on like this?" At least in our Xia City, a few cities near the Caohe River are probably useless, you see that Wei Yuan of the Acropolis was just a person with no surname who raised cattle before, so it can be seen that heaven and earth did not arrange these things. ”

"Since the people of our Xia Kingdom don't believe in this, and I haven't written it in my textbook, some things can't be the same as other cities. We don't believe in Guiheng and Heng, so how can we persuade the Dongyi people to be slaves for generations and never resist? ”

"So we want to give them the status of others, but not the people who enjoy the treatment. And tell them that as long as they work hard and work hard, one day they will live the same life as us. In this way, when they rebel, they only think: I rebel because I don't have enough to eat, I don't have land. It's not that I'm a Dongyi person, so I'm born a slave, so I'm going to rebel against the Great River Tribes. ”

"If you are not a slave, you can still exploit it, what should I do? This is not to treat slaves in the same way as before, but to exploit them in a new way. ”

As soon as he said this, a group of people chattered and discussed, but after discussing for a long time, there was no result.

Chen Jian casually drew a rectangle on the wall and said: "If this is the land of our countrymen, each household is divided into 100 acres, there is fallow land and pasture, and it is also necessary to plant wheat, beans, and corn separately to stagger the harvest time." A family, a man and a woman, if they only plant 100 acres of land, there is no problem, but if they harvest, they will not be busy. Because there are livestock, ploughshares, and carts for farming, but the harvest can only rely on the sickle, and during the harvest time, one household and two people will cut four acres of land a day, and there may be more when the harvest fails. ”

He drew some small plots of land near the large rectangle and said, "The small plots of land around here can be cultivated by slaves and Dongyi people who have fled here." You can rent it to them, and we will collect the land rent. Nominally, they can cultivate five or six acres of land, and nominally, if they cultivate well, they can also accumulate money to buy more land, plough cattle, and so on. ”

"But we all know that with a little more taxation and hard work, they may have twenty or thirty years to own a piece of land or plough cattle, and a little more will only be able to hope for their children and grandchildren."

"These small plots of land are theirs, but most of the land is ours, so they need to rent our land and rent our farming tools. What if they want to make a little money after they have finished their poor harvest in their fields? You can only help us harvest in exchange for some money. If we are lazy enough, we can rent all the land and plant it, and only collect the land rent. ”

"What's the difference between this and a slave? Slaves are cattle, and it is people who rent the land, so that their resistance will be much lighter, at least they themselves have two or three acres of land, five or six acres, and they will not resist until they have to. But there are no slaves and no hair, and if they are slightly incited, they will resist, and we still have a bunch of people ready to shock and suppress in the country, which will cost more money to support soldiers. ”

"Now that there is so much land, can we give them more? Of course not, they plant too much, how can they have time to help us work? If the benefits of the Chinese people are not reflected, the Chinese people will be unhappy. In the future, there will not be much land and people, and they will have even less land, so we will have to rely on renting our land. ”

"If we used to be masters and slaves, in the future, at least in Xinhua City, we will try a new way of exploitation, which I call landlords and hired peasants or small farmers."

"What our generation has to do is to produce more iron tools, breed more cattle and horses, and lure more people to come to us. If our sixty or seventy thousand people do not increase, we can have about 200,000 non-nationals, and they will not resist, they can pay food, and they will learn our language, forget their customs, and even arm them when necessary, and let them go on the expedition, only by promising a small piece of land—which of you dares to let the slaves take up arms? But they are different. ”

"As for saying that the land is originally empty, and it can't be planted if no one cultivates it, why do those mountains, rivers and wastelands belong to us? This is the same as the reason why the slave belongs to the master, deception is. It's just that we are better than other cities, we only need land, and the rest of us are still people. Out of tens of thousands of people, there are always three or five who have bought more land through hard work, which requires a lot of hype to give hope to those who rent land. At least five or six acres of land can be used, and when the farm is busy, you can do a short-term job to subsidize the family. ”

"Then it can be seen from this, whose interests will we Xia Kingdom defend in the future? Of course, it is to protect the interests of our people, in other words, to maintain the system of land owned by a certain person, which is the basis of everything. In the future, the yin and yang of the Xia Kingdom will no longer be masters and slaves, but those with more land and no land at all. ”

"We must firmly oppose the slave owners, the slaves are all private, who pays taxes to the state?"

"In the future, we must sit on the side of the big landlords, unite with those yeoman farmers who can cultivate and be self-sufficient, and tie those who have little land to the land. Because our countrymen can become landlords, and some others can become landlords, so this is our ruling class, who do not defend them? ”

"In the future, we will use the slogan that the cultivator owns ten acres of land and the state provides rented iron tools to conquer Dongyi. Let the slaves and the lowest level of the countrymen stand on our side, and drive out those Dongyi relatives and nobles who have mastered culture and etiquette. We want to say that we are here to save them, not to punish them. Saving all nations and slaves from fire and water, this is what we have to believe. ”

"Although we all know that in fact, it is just a better looking and better way to exploit it, but if we don't believe it, how can they believe it?"

"What's in it for that? The good thing is that there is still a lot of land, and when the population is too small for us to count, there will be less resistance from them. There is a lot of land suitable for reclamation, at least six or seven hundred years for us to give birth, except for foreign enemies, there is no internal disharmony that can overturn the Xia Kingdom. But if you keep using slaves, you may not be able to stop for six or seven hundred years, and slave revolts will rise one after another. ”

"There is also the advantage of changing the hatred between ethnic groups into hatred between classes, so that Dongyi will fall apart and no longer be a whole. What we want to oppose is only the relatives and nobles of Dongyi, not to take all Dongyi people away as slaves. The relatives and nobles were wiped out, because they controlled the culture, which is the foundation of Dongyi today. And we will have hundreds of small officials who have grown up in a few years, we don't need those Dongyi relatives and nobles to help us manage the people, we have our own way, we have our own officials, and their cultural legends will not remain. ”

"We're not good people, but we're better than the slave owners. Nowadays, it's not about who is better, it's about who is less bad. Thanks to the Ox Cultivators, we have a slightly better ability than them. ”

"We don't ask about heaven and earth, only about the world, so naturally we don't need to use the excuse of heaven and earth to attack. Our rationale is to make life better for more people than they are now, can we do that? Yes, because those slaves have nothing, and it is better to let them have a little land of their own than before, do they still need to ask the heavens and the earth? ”

"When I plough this summer, I will get a group of slaves from Xinhua City who escaped from Dongyi City and send them back to Yucheng."

"All you have to do is count and calculate how much land they have so they don't starve to death. Calculate what kind of taxes we levy, and when we mobilize them to do labor, so that they can accumulate seven or eight years before they can afford to buy their own iron tools and farm tools, and if there are too many years, they will lose patience and see no hope. But at the same time, we must not let them have so much land that they do not have time to work for us when they are busy with the farms, but not so much that they feel that they are more miserable than being slaves. ”

"This requires a rigorous calculation, and you all have to send people to calculate it and understand the boundaries deeply. You can't be too strict to make them resist, and you can't be too lenient to keep them busy all day long. ”

This matter was not only related to the income of public property, but also determined the policy when attacking Dongyi in the future. It can also let you understand the method of managing taxes, not the method of patting your head. The calculations, your ideas, and why you have done so will be written out, and then compiled into a book that will be passed down to future generations as a textbook for the next group of officials. ”

It was the first time for these people to receive such a thing since they were the central officials of the Xia Kingdom, but they also understood that some things could only be understood by doing them in person, and Chen Jian would not care much about many things in the future, which was to hope that they would investigate and study more.

But soon someone thought of another question.

"Ji Xia, you said that yin and yang are harmonized, so if those who rent land are yin, who is yang?"

"Our countrymen in Xia City."

"But how do you reconcile this?"

"Once those people become members of the state, they are part of the country, if not people. Our people are another part. We just want to train our countrymen to become landlords, and in the future, if possible, we will divide them to all parts of Dongyi according to their ranks, so that they can own hundreds of acres of land. ”

"When the time comes, those who rent land will be the landlords...... In fact, most of them are now antagonistic to our current countrymen. They had no power to oppose it, so they turned to the state in the hope that the law would protect them from paying too much of a tax. And of course, our countrymen also have to turn to us for help, so that they can suppress those who rent seeds. ”

"There is no contradiction, there is no disharmony, everyone is happy, what is the use of the country?"

"If one side is strong, suppress this side and support that side, try not to let everyone go to the point where they finally pick up a hoe and pick up a pickaxe and chop wood as a soldier, educate the people of the country to let them know the truth of yin and yang coordination, and don't get a mess until the fish dies and the net is broken."

"Remember, we are not betraying our people, but we are thinking about them in the long run. got a hundred dollars a year, and after a few decades, his head was cut off; Fifty dollars a year, hundreds of years...... The latter, of course. ”

"Therefore, the textbooks used by our officials should not only write about how slave owners exploited slaves, but also clearly write about how rents should be collected for renting land, and the possible consequences of excessive rent collection."

"Got it, it's not a bad thing, and there's no need to be afraid. On the contrary, this is still a good thing, for the Chinese people do not know how to squeeze, they cannot better and systematically squeeze to the limit of their non-resistance. It's up to you how you use it. ”

"Even if they don't write it, when the bottom is really forced to live, will they close their eyes and wait for death? I don't think so. So it's better to write it out, write it out, and pass it on, which can be regarded as a wake-up call. ”

"If you don't write, it's like sitting on a firewood pile and someone lighting a fire underneath it, but you still think that you don't, and instead of watering, you continue to pour oil. This is not a good thing. ”

The crowd was confused, some disagreed, some felt unnecessary, and some were quite self-absorbed, thinking that the more stupid the people, the better, as long as some people were smart, otherwise it would be difficult to rule. Of course, there is also a group of people who agree with this very much.

Generally accepted these things are not difficult for them, many people have seen slaves rebel and survive, so they are very confident in the system that will be implemented in Xinhua City, a small piece of worthless land plus agricultural tools and guidance provided by the public property, can be exchanged for a large number of people, and can also solve the situation of insufficient labor above the common people during the busy farming period, and there is no need to worry about the rebellion of the slaves to shake the foundation.

The only concern is whether doing so will cause displeasure from the rest of the city? They vaguely felt that when Chen Jian lured some of the noble sons and heirs of the cities to study in the Yucheng Academy, gave them slaves land for war exploits, and gave these people the ambush on the other side of the river, which was the easiest to capture prisoners, when he was conquering Dongyi, he taught them to fight and seize power, trained private soldiers for them, and taught them to manage the fiefdom and food...... I'm afraid it's really not out of the kindness of some family.