By mid-December, the form of the Grass River area was already very clear. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Eyue divided the land, broke the clan into a large number of yeoman farmers, and learned the system of the early Xia City. By taking advantage of the new aristocrats who had been cultivated by a part of them who were rich but had little power and no clan prestige, and by taking advantage of the more than 100 young people who had learned new skills such as counting and reading and cultivating the fields in the Xiacheng Academy, the city was divided into five acres according to the method of cultivating the land for 50 people per mile and one person plowing the land and taking 5 acres of land as public property, so as to concentrate power in their hands and enrich the public property.

It was difficult to capture slaves in the vicinity of Echeng, so Eyue determined that the basic strength of Echeng was yeoman farmers and a small number of manor aristocrats in order to develop the city rapidly.

The method used by the Acropolis is similar, but it is not quite the same, because to the west of the Acropolis is Sijon, where slaves can be plundered.

Wei He and Wei Yuan joined forces to expand Wei He's own private property several times with Chen Jian's assistance two years ago. At the same time, he cooperated with Chen Jian to control the means of production such as agricultural tools by strictly controlling business practices.

A large number of means of production were leased to those who had no surname, and each person who was not a slave could rent up to ten ploughshares, ploughshares, oxen, and other means of production.

The old aristocracy, who owned hundreds of slaves, struggled to obtain enough tools for production, while the people with surnames in the Acropolis, who had fewer slaves, were greatly supported, and the people who had no surnames benefited a lot.

The old aristocracy was extremely opposed to the policy of the Guard, but the new, once non-existent class of yeoman farmers was extremely supportive of the policy of the Guard.

In just two years, the annual tax contribution of yeoman farmers has exceeded the annual harvest of all the previous public slaves.

After the spring ploughing in the 35th year of the Chinese calendar, the Acropolis went to Xirong to plunder slaves, and the old nobles recruited a large number of nameless people, but after returning from the victory, they still used the original spoils distribution system, which caused extreme dissatisfaction among the nameless and the low-level people with surnames.

By the time the news of the civil strife in Xiacheng in May and June and the death of Chen Jiandong in Dongyi in July, the old nobles were convinced that Weihe had lost the greatest support and foreign aid, and launched a rebellion shouting the slogan of Wei Yuan's new policy to disrupt the city. Demanded that Wei Yuan be executed and that the tools be confiscated and placed under the management of the clan.

The rebellion was quickly put down, and more than a dozen noble families were executed, and land slaves were plundered. The Acropolis was then transformed, and all citizens were obliged to bring their own weapons, horses, and strong bodies to follow their leaders into battle. A large number of slaves were distributed to the low-level people as a reward, and the slaves were responsible for cultivating the land, while the countrymen ensured the ownership of the land and slaves with military obligations, changing the previous way of distributing slaves.

Most of the individual farmers in Echeng were cultivated, and Eyue was the largest slave owner and landowner, and one of the five ordinary countrymen was sent as an infantry, while the aristocratic class who supported Eyue was an expensive charioteer, and their own private slaves followed the chariot impact; The Acropolis divided up the slaves of the great nobles, and most of the middle-class people had three or five slaves, who were cultivated by slaves, brought their own weapons and strong bodies and food, replaced taxes with military obligations, and kept the city stable by plundering Xijon slaves.

Both cities used the methods that suited their own cities, both for development and for future conquests.

While Jian Chen was using his ambitions to find allies, the two cities, which had already completed internal integration and centralized power, quickly mobilized.

So in December of the 35th year of the Chinese calendar, the two cities organized their armies with unimaginable speed for the rest of the cities, expelled the envoys of the puppet government of Xiacheng, and waited for the alliance along the Caohe River.

Echeng dispatched thirty chariots, 1,000 infantry of the five tribesmen, and 400 private slave soldiers; The Acropolis mobilized 200 rich horsemen, 600 slave-fed free-duty infantry, as well as a large number of infantry and numerous slaves.

In addition to the more than 1,000 people who went through the motions in the nearby small towns, the 3,000 people who Chen Jian came from the expedition from Yucheng, the 600 people led by the children of the relatives and nobles in each city, and the relatives and nobles of the rest of the cities, an army of 10,000 people gathered along the small Caohe River.

And an army of 10,000 people is unimaginable for many cities, and this is a force that can only be entangled by the combined efforts of the entire tribe.

This force was only there to quell the rebellion, not against any third party, but it silently announced the emergence of a new force within the Huasu League. A powerful force with Xia Yu as the center, Wei E as the wings, and the power of three cities that can entangle more than 10,000 soldiers is quietly changing the internal pattern.

This is not something that Xia Cheng's puppet regime can resist - as far as Yucheng is concerned, this is a puppet regime, and Chen Jian has never admitted that Xia Yu has his own politics; For the rest of the cities, I wanted to make it a summer and a elm, but after Chen Jian returned from Dongyi, no one mentioned it again.

This disparity in strength was obvious, and by the time the news of Jian Chen's imminent return to Xia Cheng came, the internal chaos of the Xia Cheng puppet regime had already begun.

In one of the first houses outside of the inner city of Xia City, Muma, who was the Ris of the city, was talking in a low voice with the men of the same city.

This hut has witnessed many changes in Xia City, and when the clan disintegrated and was agitated to separate and separate, this hut in Muma was the first hut to be built alone; When the private workshop was first established, the first private workshop in Xia City was set up next to the campfire in the courtyard outside the hut, and the first cooperative farm was established that was collectively owned rather than publicly owned by the city. After the conspirators returned to Summer City, it witnessed the bankruptcy of the first private workshop; In the following July, when rumors were spreading, it witnessed the sinister and dirty scenes of people's hearts.

In the faint light of the fire, Muma and his neighbors in Tongli recalled a certain day in May.

It was the day after the summer grain harvest, and it was time to pay the public grain. There is no need for the tax collector to call them back, and for the fifty households who have opened collective workshops and made continuous profits, the public grain will not affect their livelihood at all.

Mu Ma remembered that he had brought some money with him at that time, and he was going to go to the money village to repay part of the original loan after paying it off, but when he came to the center of the city, he found that the houses were empty, and many people stood in the center of the city stupidly at a loss.

The people from the Planning and Statistics Department were gone, the people from the Qian Zhuang were gone, and they disappeared overnight, and everyone hurriedly tried to find the fake Sikong Tanuki, but found that there was no trace of the bluegrass and the child, and the whole city became a leaderless state in an instant.

Then some of the council's nobles arrived in the city, along with the slave soldiers they had cultivated in their fiefdoms and some of the younger members of the clan, who quickly took control of the center of the city and announced a piece of news that shocked the entire city.

"Hongyu is a foreign demon girl who bewitched Ji Xia, so much so that Ji Xia violated the resolution of the council in Yucheng, freed the slaves and allowed them to become countrymen, and she will come back to collect all the land as public property, and the slaves will also become countrymen."

Some lies are difficult to make up, especially in the face of Jian Chen's great prestige, some lies cannot be made up too much.

For example, if Jian Chen turned his back on the clan, it is estimated that no one will believe it, but it is not good.

It's hard to say whether it's a demon girl or not, but she deliberately provoked the surnames that she was not the first member of the alliance at the beginning of the construction of Xia City, and people were inevitably a little scared.

But the news that all the land had been turned into public property and that all slaves had been emancipated did not cause the panic that the rumor-mongers had hoped.

Mu Ma didn't know what other people thought, but at least in his opinion, this kind of thing didn't affect him much. He was a craftsman plus a yeoman farmer, and slaves were dispensable to him.

As for saying that the land is collected as public property, Mu Ma thinks it is even more ridiculous, why should it be collected as public property? There is so much land outside, if you want to reclaim it, is it possible to turn it into public property without people planting it to turn it into food? Xia Cheng is not so crowded that some people have land and some have no land to cultivate.

For him, he is more concerned about how to sell what he makes in his workshop when the city is temporarily paralyzed.

So he remembered that he had stood there for a while, listening to some people standing on the high platform, but not wanting to listen to a word, and then he came home with his money bag in his hand, thinking that he had to find someone to testify that he was not not going to pay his taxes, but that he had nowhere to pay.

"This money has to be put away, and it can't be used indiscriminately."

Even after all this time, Mu Ma still remembers his thoughts vividly.

He trusted the chieftain Ji Xia and the clan council, both of whom he trusted, so he didn't have any excitement or anger at this time, at least on the day of the end of May.

Things changed on the fifth day, when the councils, who had taken over the power of the city, took out their seals of power and began to find a justification for their rights.

The secular source of Chen Jian's power is to lead the city out of the wilderness and gradually become rich, and the source of divine power is the guidance of the ancestors.

The conspirators of the council thought for a long time, and there was no way to compete with Chen Jian on the point of national prosperity. Then it is better to let the wealth of some parts oppress the others, sow discord, ignore the problems of the system, and turn them into problems of ethnic groups and clans.

So they figured out the rationale for the regime's existence.

"Xia Cheng belonged to the thirteen clans of the original Grass River Alliance, not those wild people, slaves, subordinate farmers, and those clans who later joined Xia Cheng. They should not and have no chance to become the countrymen of the city, to collect their land, to increase their taxes, and to let them provide for the people of Xiacheng, not to be our equal. ”

"We represent the pure Xia City people to take over the right of Xia City, you are the same as us, you are the real masters of Xia City, we should be the masters of those people, let them work for us, not become the same people as them!"

"Ji Xia promised a rich future, but we can promise a more abundant and comfortable future, and everyone in the conquered land is our slave."

"We're not against Ji Xia, it's just that since Ji Xia wants those slaves to be the same as us, let Ji Xia toss in Yucheng, but our Xia City must keep the bloodline pure."

"When Ji Xia returns, I want you to tell Ji Xia about everyone's choice. Since he is our leader, he should always accept the proposal of the people. ”

"The real summer city wins!"