The city is changing, and it has become a little unrecognizable. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In front of the most prosperous courtyard in the city, where his parents lived.

The original mud has been reduced to bricks, supported by several large wooden pillars, painted with wood lacquer, and with some quaint decorations.

There were already slaves at the door who led the horses and fed them, and it could be seen that they lived a little more "decently" than those who farmed, and they were domestic slaves, and they were relatively close slaves.

Some of the slaves recognized E, and they ran up laughing, and lay on the ground with their backs exposed, so that they could be trampled on when they dismounted.

"Young master, you're back."

She was a little unaccustomed to it, but she stepped on the man's back and got off her horse, glancing blankly at her house.

"Young master, I'll tell you that you're back. When the news of Ji Xia's expedition to Dongyi came in July, your mother cried for several days, thinking that the young master would also die in battle. A few days ago, there was news that Ji Xia had returned from Dongyi's victory, and the master had sacrificed the protection of his ancestors, and the family had been preparing meals these days, so I went to tell the good news. ”

The slave was just about to leave, but he said, "Go and tell me, but I'll go out and walk around first, and I'll come back later." ”

The slave was surprised and asked, "Young master, don't you go and see your parents first?" ”

"They are my parents, the leaders and high priests of Echeng. First the city, then the family, as it should be. You just say...... I want to see the city with my eyes, and when I go back, I ask them not to blame. ”

The slave scratched his head and said, "You've seen it." ”

She didn't explain much, smiled, and without waiting for the man to lie down, she turned over and galloped off into the distance.

In the southwest corner of the castle, most of the houses are thatched or squirting, but this is where the castle has not changed.

It has long been a foregone conclusion that there will be rich and poor in the clan. But the gap between rich and poor or status was not so deep before, slaves were one thing, and clan members with a gap between rich and poor status were another.

Here are her childhood playmates. It's always easy for children to become friends, such as chasing rabbits with a bow and arrow on a migration from the east, roasting together when hungry, and then meeting to follow each other when they grow up, playing the role of a leader and a member of the clan.

This should have been E's personal guard or partner when she became an adult, but because of his study in Qianxia City and Yucheng, the two of them haven't seen each other for several years.

Gently pushed open the wicker fence of the courtyard and tied the horse to a large stone in the doorway. The stone was not used for tethering horses, but had a small hole in it, and a mallet next to it, apparently a mortar for several common poppy rice.

There was a smell of livestock sheds in the courtyard, two little pigs curling their tails and humming, a five or six-year-old child chasing the piglets with a small stick, and a big white goose watched vigilantly at the door pushing the door in, quacking and flapping its wings.

Inside the barn there was a small cow lying there grazing on forage, piles of cow dung piled together.

In front of the barn there was a wooden plough, which had no bronze or iron, and a ploughshare made of birch wood was polished smooth by the earth. Two stone sickles with wooden handles were placed crosswise in a rainproof place under the barn, and next to them hung a few handfuls of sun-dried grass, with a faint smell of medicinal herbs.

The little child who was driving the pigs was not afraid of life, staring at the clothes on E's body and asking, "Are you from Xia City?" ”

She smiled helplessly, and wanted to tell the child that she was not a guest to the city, and that I had been to your house before you were born, but after thinking about it, she still didn't say anything.

"This should be the child of his brother's family. He is the same age as me, and even if he has a woman, he can't have a child of this age. I don't know if he still recognizes me, so he won't even think I'm a guest in another city, right? ”

Thinking wildly, she opened the thatched door, and inside it was warm, and two little girls and an older woman were peeling the flax there, and the youngest girl was not skilled, and was always tearing and crying.

The older woman looked up and shouted in surprise, and E-Dian recognized it as her mother.

"Yellow, why are you here? Coming back from Yucheng? ”

As she spoke, she hurriedly added some branches to the mud stove and drove away the two little girls who were learning to make thin flax skins, and the two little girls were relieved, and were immediately full of affection for the guest, and ran out barefoot to play.

"I'm going to help out at the next house, you do it first."

The woman lifted the straw curtain and shouted at the children outside, "Stop pulling the pig's ears!" Go and call your uncle back. ”

Ehuang thought to herself, this is really the child of her brother's family, it seems that she has not guessed wrong.

A moment later there was a sound of footsteps outside, and the child did not make it clear, but he heard a rather rough voice shouting, "Is the leader going to call for troops?" ”

As soon as she entered the door, she was greeted by a sturdy man with a broken sheepskin, a little small, and very tight.

"Yellow! You're back? Oops, it really scared me to death, when I was cutting the cow grass, I heard that you went to Dongyi, and they all said that you were dead......"

With a smile, she punched the other party's majestic chest, took out a handful of copper coins from her arms and gave it to the children outside, saying, "Go buy some wine and mutton, this money can also be used here, right?" ”

After a short time the wine and mutton were placed in the clay pot, and Elu took out a large piece and gave it to the children, and drank some with the two of them, recalling the story of the migration long ago, and laughing for a while.

"How's the past two years?"

"Last year was okay, this year it's worse."

"How?"

"Last year's harvest was better and things were cheaper. Something happened to Xia Cheng this year, so it wasn't good. I don't know anything else, salt is a lot more expensive, and I heard that the salt pans over there are no longer public property. I also bought a lot less money than last year. ”

"I see you raising cattle?"

"Where is mine, public property, you have to take care of it carefully, otherwise you can't afford to sell me. If it weren't for the assignee who knew that you and I were playmates when I was a child, I was afraid that it wouldn't be my turn. Hey, I said that there would be another batch of ploughshares this winter, and it would be my turn then, but where did I come up with such a thing, and I haven't seen a new ploughshare and hoe for more than half a year. ”

"Do you still have to cultivate the public land every year?"

"No need. Everyone originally thought that mountains, rivers, fish, shrimp and trees were all owned by the city and the clan, and it has always been like this. Later, when the leader returned from Yucheng in the spring of last year, he changed some things. ”

"Have you also learned how to pay taxes in Xia Cheng?"

"Almost. How much grain was produced in the fields? Now that there is no public land, the warehouse is fuller than before, which is a good thing for everyone. ”

"The flat land near the city is divided?"

"Divided. According to the adult men, the women are divided into mulberry forests and oak forests. After the distribution of the public land, there was no need for everyone to work in the public land, as long as each man handed over the harvest of five acres of land as a public property and paid taxes. It's just that some clan nobles are responsible for dividing the land, and their land is better, and ours is worse. Their land is nearer to the cities, and we are farther away. But everybody has to pay taxes, and there's nothing unacceptable. In the past, in addition to the public field, there was also the clan field of the clan, and then it was their own. Now it's up to you no matter what. ”

E's heart chuckled as she remembered her uncle hanging at the head of the city. After studying in Yucheng Academy for so long, the most he has learned is contradictions and interests, and he is worried about whether his parents will learn from Yucheng as radical change, so that all the relatives and nobles are against it?

If that's the case, I'll have to persuade my parents. There are so many literate and arithmetic people in Yucheng, and the whole city of Xia Cheng has only come out of the woods and has not eaten for a few years, and there are not so many deep-rooted clan relatives at all......

Thinking of this, Elu couldn't help but ask, "Is everyone's land the same?" ”

He nodded and said, "It's all the same." ”

She was so excited that she spilled some of the wine in her hand, and then she heard her say nothing.

"But it can't be said the same. Each male subordinate can share an additional 40 acres of land, and for each cow of his own, each cow will be granted 80 acres of land. Some people also have more cattle and more slaves, and they have more land......"

It seems that his father has discussed with his husband in Yucheng for so long, and the method that is most suitable for the city is not as radical as learning from Yucheng, at least most of the relatives and nobles will support this change, which nominally solves the problem of land ownership.

Now it seems that he is not very opposed to this policy, on the contrary, he is extremely supportive, because after drinking some wine, he has been nagging about the unfair distribution of the spoils of the Gongtian clan in the previous clan era, and he is obviously drunk.

…………

The young men who had returned with them had also returned to their respective homes, and they did not wander around, enjoying the leisurely richness of their homes. Slaves did everything, the food was quite good, and there were even some things that had never been enjoyed in Yucheng.

Different families have different voices, and several small workshops have scolded the group of troublemakers in Xia Cheng, and the riots and the problems of indiscriminate currency issuance and salt prices have greatly affected the sales of workshop products; Most of the land slave new aristocrats were extremely dissatisfied with the difficulty of iron transportation in the division of Xia City, and wanted to take advantage of the final tax policy three years later to cultivate more land.

and a few slave traders praised each other; There are even a few merchants who exaggerate the policy of liberalizing trade control and returning salt and copper to private interests after the division of Xiacheng, and without the official management and alliance benefits of the Supply and Marketing Division, the price difference of just 2000 miles has made them a lot of money.

There are those who praise, those who oppose, those who support, and those who curse.

But whether they were for it or against it, when they talked about the division of land, they proudly told the children about their wisdom and the wisdom of their chiefs and the stupidity of the commoners.

"Each of them has to pay a tax of five acres of land, but our slaves can also share fifty acres of land, which belongs to us, not to slaves, and each slave only needs to pay a tax of two acres of land. If you think about it this way, let's get some female slaves to give birth to small slaves in batches, and in ten years there will be many people, and more land will be cultivated. ”

"Our family has always been very close to the leader, and the leader has secretly discussed it with us long before the change. At that time, those who were close to the chief were buying slaves and ploughing cattle, and they all knew that the future division of the land would depend on these. At that time, we deliberately released rumors that we would make the same radical changes as Xia Cheng, and that slaves would be given the rights of land and countrymen, and that they would be redeemed by public property, and that they would no longer be governed by clans, but that they would learn the system of six divisions and elect officials to manage them. ”

"Those clan nobles who were already opposed to the change of the leader were a little angry, and the leader deliberately pretended to go hunting, and as a result, this group of people couldn't bear to do it, hahaha."

"As a result, when you came back, you also saw that the heads of those fools were hung on the city wall, and their slaves, fields, and cattle were divided among our families, and some soup was left for the people at the bottom......