Everyone immediately put down the wine cup and looked at the red fish in unison, the red fish subconsciously took the chopsticks and clicked the wine in the cup, watching his reflection with a fox-like sly smile turn into vague ripples in the cup. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"In this case, Ji Xia may have to build a few new workshops, and it is said that he will make some wooden tablets that can be written more conveniently, similar to silk silk but cheaper than silk silk. It is said that there is also an easier way to copy books. Once successful, some things are much easier to change. ”

"As a reward for passing by this time, and for the common prosperity of your relatives, you have money to spend, Ji Xia wants your relatives to help build a few workshops, which are in your city. The benefits can be split in half. ”

"As for the fact that the children of your relatives want to go to the school, it's not impossible, build a few more schools in Yucheng to teach books that are different from those of the people of Xiacheng. But the money to build the academy and the money to train the gentleman ...... You also know that everyone in Summer City is a part of the city, and they have to work, and it is difficult to vacate people. ”

As soon as the words fell, where did the leader still not understand what this meant?

Obviously, this is the benefit of half of the profit of the workshop in front, and this workshop is definitely not as profitable as the iron-smelting furnace in Yucheng, otherwise it would not be possible to let it out. But compared to the few poor artisan workshops in the city, it must still be profitable.

"Of course, we will pay for it."

Hongyu toasted and said, "Even if this is the case, the cities will be like a family after a long time." In fact, in addition to those few workshops, there are many ways to make relatives rich, but it is difficult for Xia Cheng to have such a large number of people. ”

"For example, mining requires a lot of manpower. There are iron ore mines in Yucheng, but there are not many copper, gold and other mines. And now your cities have a lot of money, and the iron tools that have been exchanged for slaves to cultivate can save a lot of manpower to open mines. Yuxia has rich experience in how to prospect, prospect, excavate, and transport. The money for prospecting, opening roads, transportation, and nearby smelting is from Xia Cheng, and the money for things like digging is up to you, and it's still one and a half. ”

"Xia Cheng is not to encroach on the mineral deposits of the relatives, but to help the relatives cultivate some people who can mine, and when you can mine alone in twenty years, Xia Cheng will naturally leave and let go of those interests. At that time, it will be the children's world, and we will all be dying, and we will leave some wealth for the children. And what are those minerals worth if they are hidden underground? ”

Most of the city-to-state aid is nicely spoken, but not everyone knows what it is for.

Fine smelting or iron smelting could not be done in these towns, and even iron ore would not or could not be found, while precious metals such as copper, gold, and silver could be found and smelted if possible.

Xia Cheng has money and technology, but what is lacking is cheap labor and the production capacity of low-grade products. Since the annual growth target of the city is to be achieved, foreign investment has become a feasible way to control the city in the form of economic colonization.

Moreover, with the expansion of Xia City's influence, the development of productive forces, and the abundance of surplus products, the demand for money surged.

Casting guns and the like requires a lot of bronze, and a cannon that is not powerful enough to penetrate six or seven rows of phalanx soldiers is not to mention one or two thousand catties or even hundreds of catties, which will take up a lot of copper, and once the currency shrinks, it is not a good thing for Xia Cheng.

This can be regarded as a good thing for everyone, and there is no need to worry about these cities taking over the workshops and mines controlled by Xia Cheng into public ownership of the cities, and they dare to have a pretext for war.

Within the Xia Cheng system, there is a deformed overcapacity, especially weapons, copper and iron, etc., and the city itself does not have such a large consumer market.

But if you want to ensure the living standard of the people in Xia City, you can't rely on eating steel and gunpowder. Moreover, with the emergence of the possible cotton textile industry, picking cotton peaches, peeling cotton seeds, and playing cotton are all primary manual labor that requires a large number of people.

Without bringing other cities together, it will be difficult to sell the things in Xia City, and it will be difficult to secure enough manpower for some of the planned workshops.

Relying on the natural accumulation of the rest of the city, it would take about a dozen years to become a dumping ground for Xia Cheng, and to popularize a tax system based on homesteaders, so that everyone could become a potential consumer of the product, instead of the current situation where only the nobles could afford it.

This time, it was not a big deal for the mission led by Hongyu to prepare a supply depot for the army, and the more important thing was to find a way to tempt the rest of the cities to tie up with Xia Cheng.

Hongyu thought about what Jian Chen had told her and said, "Ji Xia said that the grass river runs from north to south, and the big river runs from west to east, which is a natural road given by the ancestors that does not need to be repaired. Just like a tree, the water absorbed by the roots runs to the leaves, so that the tree can grow tall and lush. ”

"These two rivers are the pathways through which water travels. The area along the river supports each other, the first rich drive the rich, the first to establish the workshop to drive the establishment and then the establishment, until the formation of a prosperous road from Xiacheng to Yucheng for hundreds of miles. ”

"Since kinship is like a family, there must be weavers, planters, hunters, and breeders in the family. It's the same in the great rivers, but the brothers and sisters in the family are the cities. Some cities grow grain, some mine minerals, some smelt minerals, and some educate relatives...... Only in this way can the whole of the great river develop better. ”

"I wonder what you think?"

Chengyi smacked for a while, nodded and said, "This is a very good way, and what you said is also very reasonable." If you can really become rich all the way along the river, you will be happy to think that your ancestors will be happy. ”

"yes. Therefore, Ji Xia looks forward to all of you going to Yucheng in April next year to discuss some important matters related to the mutual development of the city. ”

When the leader heard this, he panicked a little and hurriedly asked, "I don't know what this prosperous road refers to as the whole big river?" Or is it between Xia Cheng and Yu Cheng? Ji Xia wants to invite the leaders of those cities to come again? ”

The leader wants to know what this method of mutual aid means. Are you going to stand in line now? Or is it just for the prosperity of the city?

This is something that must be clarified, in case Jian Chen forces them to form an alliance with Xia Cheng to fight against those cities led by Su Yue, this needs to be carefully considered, and it is not something that can be agreed immediately.

Even though Jian Chen had just returned from the victory of Dongyi, he seemed to be the savior of the entire Great River Tribe, but in fact, it was because of the presence of Su Yue's army that Qiongxi took advantage of the loophole.

If there are many people who support Xia Cheng, of course, they can stand in line, but Xia Cheng's background is too thin and now they can't see that they have an absolute advantage, so it is not wise to stand in line at this time.

Xia Cheng was far to the northwest, and Yucheng was in Onozawa, so it was extremely difficult for the enemy to capture these two cities, but his own cities might not be able to hold them.

Hongyu had already guessed the other party's reaction, and hurriedly explained: "For the time being, it's just between Xia City and Yu City. Those cities to the east, Ji Xia, are both willing and a little weak, and now it is difficult for Xia City to have such financial resources and population. ”

"There are not many cities invited, six or seven, but not only the chiefs, but also relatives with a large number of slaves can go."

"Ji Xia just meant to discuss together for the sake of prosperity between the cities, not to make an oath, and it has nothing to do with sending troops or conquests, and it is definitely not a clan alliance. It's only about money, not about Bingge. Even if you don't participate, it won't affect the transactions between Xia Cheng and your relatives, and it won't affect the things you promised to develop together in various cities. It's just that Ji Xia thinks that everyone can always do better if they discuss it together. ”

She solemnly took out a piece of cloth from her bosom and unfolded it: "This is the 'Basic Rules for the Mutual Development of Kinship Cities along the Xiayu Coast' proposed by Ji Xia, you can listen to it first before making a decision. ”

After consulting everyone's opinions, everyone put down the dishes, chopsticks and wine cups, listened attentively, and finally put their hearts at ease.

In general, there were no other constraints other than economic, and there were no agreements involving the sending of troops by the Alliance. Basically, the Xia City system assists several cities between Xia Yu to develop together in the form of loans or support technology, and roughly draws up some plans, which sounds very tempting.

Such as providing agricultural tools to help build new slave estates, developing mines, signing contracts for the purchase of agricultural products or low-grade products such as wood and charcoal from the upstream towns, helping to establish regulated breeding pastures, providing new textile technology, co-coinage, giving priority to the cities of mutual aid for any product of the cities, the obligation of the cities of the summers to embargo hostile towns of the towns of mutual aid, and so on.

On the whole, it is very good, and it seems that except for Xiacheng, the development of the rest of the cities is dominated by the lowest minerals, agricultural and animal husbandry products, and low-grade textiles that only spin threads and do not dye woven fabrics.

It was a good thing that the cities minted coins together, but the amount of coinage was controlled by Xia Cheng, and the pricing power of ironware, dyed cloth, and weapons was in Xia Cheng's hands.

In fact, Xia Cheng is sucking the blood of the cities along the river to ensure the welfare and living standards of the people of Xia City, but in the case of extremely low productivity, when sucking blood, more nutrients must be fed to ensure that they can continue to suck, and these cities are getting fatter and fatter within ten years.

In the past, only one pound of blood was taken away by Xia Cheng for eight taels a year, and in the future, it may be ten pounds of blood taken away by Xia Cheng, which is really mutually beneficial and win-win.

There is no semblance of a military alliance, but it has the substance of a military treaty. The most upstream and eventually downstream of this system of economic mutual aid is Xia Cheng. Once Xia Cheng collapses, the upstream cities within this planned urban economic mutual aid organization will also collapse, and they will have to side with Xia Cheng at that time.

The covenant is only a piece of cloth, and economic interests are the shackles of steel. The former can be torn apart, and the latter is an unbreakable stone in the sky in today's cities.

It is best for the chief to agree, and if he does not agree, he will prop up compradors or agents, and there will always be people who forget about the holy clan and stand firmly under the dirty interests.

The reality was simpler than Chen Jian expected, the leader didn't think about so many hidden things behind it, and happily accepted this proposal, and said that he would definitely go to Yucheng next year to discuss with Chen Jian, and generously hoped that the copper coins provided by these grain slaves in exchange could be directly exchanged for what the city needed when discussing next year.

This is a very cruel reality, whoever is close to Xia Cheng in the city now will be richer, so there are more people, and then there will be more rights.

The chief not only had to go, but he had to go deeper than the other relatives and nobles in order to secure his rights.

It can only be said that to hell with the natural and sacred clan bloodline, to hell with the morality left over from the clan era, and to hell with the rules of the old era.

The chiefs and nobles felt that they would have a bright future, but it was vaguely difficult to foresee.

In fact, they vaguely perceive the future as a dizzying and unimaginable future in which the minority rules over the many, catering to a new moral system in which the minority rules over the majority.

The divine itself will remain, but the divine will quietly change.

Divine loyalty remains, only that the object of loyalty is no longer the blood of the large clan, but the direct family of the individual.

The sacred accusation remains, but it is no longer directed at the elected chiefs of the people who are responsible for the development of the city, but against the inaction and stupidity of the individuals.

Divine morality still exists, but the highest morality is no longer the old system of cultivating public land, safeguarding the highest interests of clans and towns, and helping each other and working together; Rather, it became a new morality based on the payment of taxes, allegiance to individuals and landowners, the preservation of the family, the natural inequality of status determined by property, and the immorality of rebellion.

It's good, a step forward. It's just that some people will miss the beauty under the old morality and ignore the improvement of the material level of the new moral foundation.

This thing is not a ploughshare, which can be used today and tomorrow, but it takes a long time to transition, oscillating between the old and the new, until one day the new completely replaces the old and has a natural sacredness, and then the newer will appear to compete for this natural sacredness.

There are very few things that have come from time immemorial and have maintained their natural moral sanctity.

It is not for nothing that people's hearts are not ancient, and people's hearts are not ancient, because the times are not ancient. Is the wind of the world up or down, and what is the sacred thing of which era prevails?

At least in the eyes of these towns, those who were the first to betray the old sacred morality became the first rich of the towns, and they were the ones who did not believe in the words of equality and mutual aid left over from the clan era, and so they lived better.

The success of the Red Fish's mission this time is also thanks to the fact that the people's hearts are not ancient, otherwise where would there be so many potential cheap labor for Xia Cheng to suck blood.

In the farewell of the relatives and nobles of the city full of anticipation for the future, Hongyu led his people to continue to the north, paving the way for the army to march into the summer city.

And further north, Wei Xi'e and the others also met their parents and wanted to know their parents' attitudes towards Xia Yu.

In fact, they didn't need to go, but Jian Chen didn't want to leave a hostage, so he simply put them back.