Of course, the children didn't know the word "not to be immortal", but they used the culture that was in line with the material production of that era and before to give Li Shilang a similar definition. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But secretly I think it's funny, now the gun is not so easy to explode, especially the heirs of Xia Guoxun, who are "upright and young", are more likely to come into contact with these things.

After listening to it a lot, it is inevitable that if it is not for his parents and grandparents, he is afraid that Xia Guo will not be able to build it, and naturally he will hear the implication of the difficulty of starting a business from his ancestors, and he will inevitably think that this world is fought by his parents and grandparents, but now only half of the places in the school palace can be recommended, which is simply unreasonable.

It's just that too many people have been killed because of these things over the years, and no one dares to shout openly about the bloodline and the like, the clear bloodline is gone, and the secret bloodline continues to hide and inherit in other ways.

In fact, the Xia Kingdom was not only built by them, but in terms of the purity of the bloodline, I am afraid that the Li family brothers are not the old Xia people.

Therefore, the stability of those five or six years is not only the story of these original Xia people growing up step by step, but also the stories of "people who were not originally Xia people but became Xia people".

It's just that they have become a different kind of Xia people, and when the stability and war are over, what they are fighting for is exactly what those children before think it is unreasonable.

A long, long time ago, during the Eastern Expedition to Dongyi, the soldiers who were not yet in Xia and called Xia Cheng at that time saved a mother and son who were slaves, and later the mother and son also had an infant child, and the family of three lived in Xinhua City.

The mother named her seven-year-old chopsticks and herself Wanwan to celebrate the right to "want to eat because you are hungry" from slaves to human beings.

Later, at the end of the thirty-seventh year of Huali, a group of original fugitive slaves and now workshop workers formed an army to Xinhua City to complete the change of defense, and the bowl was counted as a trustworthy person because of the credit of leading people to attack the city, and thus became half of the country, and chopsticks followed those fugitive slaves to listen to them tell the story of Yucheng.

In the summer of the 38th year, a large number of workshop workers were mobilized to Xinhua City, and as one of the few original fugitive slaves who could read and write, he was appointed as a general in charge of the military affairs of Xinhua City.

He went to Xinhua City with a large number of young people who had completed their education classes. Those who go there have to teach there for three years, and these three years can obtain the merits that would normally take six years to accumulate, when the child named Chopsticks is already nine years old.

In the past two years, the chopsticks have grown a lot taller, because they are full; He can write a few words, because there are always some words painted on those walls, and some people in the army have to be recognized, and his mother cooks in the army, so naturally there are people who know him to always tease him - after all, those people in the army were slaves before, and this feeling is natural.

He rushed from Yucheng to Xinhua City to recognize the mother and son, but after two years, he was already a big man in charge of the safety of tens of thousands of people here, so it was naturally impossible to meet this pair of people who were just an episode in his life as soon as he arrived.

At that time, Xinhua City had been stabilized, and the cities of the Great River had sent some people to garrison and reclaim the land, and the children who had studied with Chen Jian had also completed reforms in their small "fiefs": they banned slaves and brought them land rent, or gave them surnames to become their own clansmen to expand their strength.

Those Dongyi people who have not been exchanged back also have the idea of missing their hometown, and the propaganda team that taught the workshop workers in Yucheng what to fight for and the public opinion department of Xia Guo mainly propagated two things in Xinhua City: you are worthless in the eyes of your leader, so those people were exchanged back and you were abandoned, do you recognize him as the leader, and does he recognize you as a clansman? You are defeated as slaves, this is what Qiongxi said, and it is natural for the defeated to be slaves, but as long as you do it well, you can get five or six acres of land after three or five years, and you can rent iron tools for cultivating oxen.

These people who have not been exchanged back are probably the bottom people in Dongyi City, Dongyi has no writing, and there is no indoctrination of Dongyi all departments and the like, in their opinion, not working as a slave to death is the best ending, and escaping back is not the same life?

Moreover, life here is much better than in the original city, and every day there is always a hope that some people will become free people because of their good behavior and learning some of the languages of the great rivers, and they will be given their own land, and they will not need to cultivate the public land, but only pay a certain amount of taxes.

The freed slaves from Dongyi were a completely different story, they were instilled with hatred and resistance from the beginning, so they could quickly integrate into the system of Xinhua City, becoming part of the earliest assimilation and becoming a trustworthy part.

Although they did not have much land, they could own five or six acres of land from the beginning, borrow tools to cultivate it, and spend the rest of their time doing short-term work or other things in exchange for copper coins.

Many things can only be purchased with copper coins, and it is difficult to obtain copper coins except for working for Xia Guo, and many things cannot be done or bought without money.

When he came here, everything was prosperous, but he knew his mission: to complete the division of these Dongyi people within a few years, to give them land and small houses before a possible war broke out, to encourage them to fight and obtain meritorious deeds, and to explain the rules of the Xia Kingdom.

It's just that this process is a bit long, and it needs to wait until the officials at all levels in Xia County and Yucheng grow up before it can be fully launched.

Before that, he had to train soldiers, build simple fortresses, trade with surrounding cities, and maintain military superiority over nearby cities in order to survive until the third batch of officials of the Xia Kingdom was trained.

When he was in Yucheng, he already knew very well what he wanted to do, and he also understood that it was impossible to treat everyone equally: the people of the Xia Kingdom would not shed blood for the slaves of Dongyi to become humans, and those slaves who wanted to get the same life as Mo could only rely on their own resistance, and few people in the Xia Kingdom were willing to be saints to cut their own flesh and blood to save others, and those who were saved by others were not qualified to become people.

Therefore, the education he received before his arrival was very straightforward: even if they were only given five or six acres of land, even if they still needed to do a lot in order to survive, this was exactly what they could give after the salvation. Either way, it's better than when you were a slave, and you can only get so much if you want to do it unless you become a slave and lead them to rebel again.

Only let them own five or six acres of land, so that they can cultivate the land and work in the workshops for those Xia people after they have done their own things, otherwise why would the Xia people fight for them?

The land system of Xinhua City is different from that of Xia Yu County, except for some Xia people who have been reclaimed, most of them are non-Chinese people, and they have nothing when they come to Xinhua City.

There is no food, seeds, farm tools, and technology, although there is a lot of land, but it is not a time when there are more people and less land, so the Xia State does not need to control the land, only needs to control the grain seeds and farm tools.

After reclamation, five acres of land were given to those non-Chinese people, but in addition to these five acres of land, the rest of the reclamation was public property, and after the good land was reclaimed, they only relied on the five acres of land in their hands to buy agricultural tools, but they were afraid that it would take more than ten years, which was a carefully calculated scientific oppressive means.

There is no way to get more money than to work for the public property, and you can't rely on sticks to reclaim the land that is far away, and no one can afford to give up the five acres of land. They seem to be free, but in fact they are still bound to the land by controlling the means of production, and by using their mentality of wanting five acres of land, the natural thing of nature becomes private or state-owned, and the ownership is determined - they have no choice but to own five acres of land and the rest is owned by the state; Either choose the land is a natural thing, not anyone's, but not even five acres of land left here empty-handed.

Therefore, within the Xia system, the originally meaningless land became an attractive reward, tied to become part of the welfare of the people: slaves were not encouraged, so what was the reward after the conquest? Yeoman? The Xia people already had the foundation, or even better, to become yeoman peasants, who had infinite temptation for the commoners and slaves of the rest of the cities, but could not rely on them to fight; For the Xia people, they are still homesteaders after the war, so why go to war?

What will reward them for the end of the war? Land? Does land that no one cultivates make sense? There is nothing to reward other than to make people dependent on the landowner.

Fiefdom, when there are few people and more land, the land itself has no meaning, and it is the people on the earth who are meaningful. Serfs, tenants, and long-term laborers are what make the land meaningful and allow more people to fight for it.

Progress never happens overnight, and if a slave becomes a nominal human being, even if he is tied to the land, as long as he is no longer a talking animal, then perhaps this is the only certain progress in this life.

After a few laps in Xinhua City, he became more and more convinced that his choice was right, at least it was much better than when he was a slave, the road always had to be taken step by step, and these people had the identity of a human today, which was an improvement compared to a slave.

It is said that after seeing all this and becoming satisfied, he will focus on major matters such as training soldiers and collecting food, and will not intersect with people like dishes and chopsticks, but sometimes they are inadvertently connected.

One day after inspecting Xinhua City, at a banquet, a young man in the education class said an interesting thing.

"I arrived here the other day and met a child. I was thirsty, so I asked the boy, 'Hey, where is the well?' The boy had a bamboo pole in his hand, squinted at me, and shouted, 'I have a name, my name is Chopsticks, and my mother and I are no longer anyone's slaves, you can't talk to me like a slave!' ’”

Everyone laughed, and they laughed, not only because they remembered the child Chopsticks, but also remembered the origin of their names, and the fact that they originally told the mother and daughter of Chopsticks.

The man continued: "As soon as I was told by the boy, I apologized, but he took a stick like a soldier and said with our military salute: 'You don't have to apologize, we are all from the Xia Kingdom, and for the sake of the Xia Kingdom's better life, of course I will take you to drink water.'" But you're going to call me by my name, chopsticks, and not feed me. Otherwise, I'd be angry. ’”

"When I drank the water, the boy asked me what I was here for, and I said I was here to teach them how to read and count, and he took my hand and wrote the chopsticks on the ground, and told me that it was his name. I asked him if he would like to learn how to write words. He said yes, saying that he wanted to teach his little sister after learning to write, and then teach those who couldn't write. He also said that he wanted to grow up quickly, become a soldier, go to those cities, and rescue those children like him to Xinhua City, so that they could all be human beings when they grew up. ”

So I asked him, "Who told him this?" He said it was taught by those in the army who played the flute and spoke all day. I asked him what he was doing now. He said that a few days ago, he was cutting wheat in the field to make money, and he also took out a copper coin for me to see, saying that when he had money in the future, he would buy a lot of wool felt boots and go to Yucheng to give those who had left his mother and his boots at the beginning. ”

The young man raised the bowl and said, "For the sake of this child, I would like to stay here, because I was a slave." Ladies and gentlemen, here and in Yucheng, there are people who are willing to live well, there are people who can see that tomorrow will be better, no one is born a slave, I see what I want from this child. I will not leave here for the rest of my life. ”

The men who had counted slaves rose one after another, reminisced about the humiliation they had suffered, and drank the bowl of wine together.

It's just that if it's nominally human, is it really human?