The herald left overnight, and Chen Jian came to the group of captives who had been screened out as his own relatives. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

More than 4,000 people looked at Jian Chen in horror, and there were some acquaintances inside, even if they were not acquaintances, no one didn't recognize Jian Chen, and shouted Ji Xia quite awkwardly.

Chen Jian casually called a prisoner under the escort of his personal guards and asked, "Why are you beating us?" ”

The captive shook his head and said, "The leader asked us to fight, so we had to fight, otherwise what else could we do?" Ji Xia, you're not going to kill us all, are you? We're all relatives. Ji Xia was able to save tens of thousands of relatives from Dongyi, so he shouldn't have killed us. ”

Chen Jian laughed and said, "If you say that, it is definitely not the family close to your Suyue leader. Or you should hate me. Your surname is Su? ”

"Hmm."

"What do you usually do?"

"Farming. Living in Sucheng, helping the relatives and nobles to cultivate the land and public land, in the past few years they have iron tools to plough cattle, and we don't have them, so we use their farm tools to plough cattle. You should first plant public land, then your own land, and finally your own. When we were fighting, we followed, and when we fought well, the leader said that we could give some oxen and iron tools and land. ”

The captive said a few words, sighed, and said, "Actually, the iron tools for cultivating cattle are quite good, which is Ji Xia's great feat." But before we had these things, the chief had to ask us a lot of things, and since we had them, it was not good. ”

"It turns out that when we go to war, we have to go with us. What now? Some of them have iron slaves who plough oxen, and they practice all year round, and when they fight, they are the main force to win the victory, and we only need to follow with the spear. Originally, everyone was a person with the same surname, but now they are gradually estranged. I thought that if it was still when the mountains were set on fire and planted in the past, probably the chief would have asked us people before the war with the Xia Kingdom, but now all we have to tell us is that those who have cattle, iron, land and slaves agree. ”

Jian Chen sighed and asked rhetorically, "You don't like cow iron ridges?" ”

"Like. But that's not mine. Without these things, there was anything that at least the leaders would ask us about, but now they don't need to ask. I followed the expedition, not only as requested by the chief, but also in the hope of making some meritorious deeds and receiving some rewards. ”

"Actually, we don't like to go out to fight. If the battle is won, the slaves will not be divided. It was the time of planting and harvesting, and we left home and had no one to plant the land; And those who had slaves were cultivated by slaves. The more we fought, the poorer we became, and the richer those who had slaves. ”

"Actually, I also listened to some of the things that Ji Xia did in the Xia Kingdom, in fact, I don't object to having slaves, but I am against my inability to share slaves. Since you can't get it, it's actually the same with or without slaves. Either there will be a war in the future, and only those who have slaves will go, and those of us who have no slaves will not go; But if we go to war, we will not be given slaves, and in the end we who have no slaves will owe a lot of money and food, and the chief will not let his slaves cultivate for us while we are at war. ”

"I am not afraid because I know that Ji Xia treats us as relatives, and Xia Guo does not have the habit of arresting people as slaves. I don't know when Ji Xia will let us go back? ”

Jian Chen smiled: "It's almost there." You must first understand why your leaders and those close to them are becoming richer and more estranged. ”

After turning around a few more times, picking a few captive slaves at random and asking them again, Jian Chen basically knew what to expect.

There were not many slave owners among the five thousand captives, and the barrage of guns basically wiped out those men; There weren't too many small slave owners with a small number of slaves, and Yu Linwei's onslaught killed a lot of those horsemen, and the rest fled without a trace.

The rest is basically the same as the first captive, belonging to the leader who said that he would come to fight, and by the way, he hoped that he would get some reward.

They were not even yeoman peasants, they belonged to a group of people who once had certain political rights, but now lost their political rights after the iron ploughing cattle accelerated the class division, and were counted as free countrymen, but who had been reduced to serf vassals of the new nobility of the city.

The more time passed, the more likely they were to become serfs, as the captive said, they wanted the countrymen to fight, but the spoils were unfairly distributed, and in the end those who had slaves were cultivated, and the fields without slaves became barren and poorer.

Originally, all the clansmen needed to fight in unison, but since Chen Jian made the chariot and war horse, it has become that a few people need to win the battle, and the followers can be attacked. Since the main force of the decisive battle is the small and medium-sized nobles, as long as the leader has no problems in his head, he must favor those small and medium-sized nobles in policy, otherwise how can he fight?

The reform of the two cities of Ewei was successful, firstly, relying on Xia Cheng, there were enough tools and enough wealth accumulated near the water, and Chen Jian helped formulate the method of reform, and there were enough literate people to be simple officials; The second is to imitate the model of the Xia State to come up with a new tax system, create a large number of yeoman farmers, or redistribute slaves to ensure that every relative is a small slave owner, in exchange for more soldiers. Even so, it was the result of three or four rebellions, rather than a successful change without resistance.

Cities such as Aseong are too big and too long, and it is even more difficult to change. Even if Su Yue had the heart to curb those relatives and nobles, but if he drove them all away, killed them, deprived them of their rights, and shared their wealth equally, then how could he gain the support of the small nobles in the rest of the cities? And why refute the system of the Xia State, so as to gather more vested interests and Xia to go to war?

In recent years, with the spread of technology, the original democratic politics of the people in each city has gradually died out, and the immediate family members of those leaders, small and medium-sized nobles, have gradually influenced the decision-making of the cities: Suyue has also won the support of many people for this reason. Su Yue is only the spokesperson elected by those small and medium-sized nobles and city leaders, and he can't compare to Xia Cheng without the support of these people, and he can only rely on Xia Cheng, so Su Yue is the one who has no way to change.

If he changes, he will still be Su Yue, but he is not Su Yue who many cities think can be the leader of the tribes, so naturally everyone will elect a person with the same interests as them. Since a few years ago, Su Yue is no longer the leader of all people with the surname Su, but the leader of some people with the surname Su, and most of the rest are no longer worthy of the surname Su.

After getting a general understanding of the situation of these prisoners of war, Jian Chen returned to the camp, found the people of the propaganda team, and set the tone for breaking down those people.

They were not slaves, so they could not be too bitter in their hatred, but could only denounce the unfair distribution of the chiefs, expose how the chiefs and priests had seized a great deal of wealth, and how much of the land owned by the chiefs and their immediate families had become the private interests of the chiefs and their immediate families.

Jian Chen is very good at this kind of incitement to hatred and resentment, sometimes these things are meaningless, and sometimes they are extraordinary.

Anyway, he was not going to use those small and medium-sized nobles and the so-called noble priests to govern the clansmen, so there was nothing to worry about. There are always some people who have to be offended, anyway, the offended people have no place in the Xia Kingdom in the future, and they don't rely on them to fight, let alone rely on them to manage, so why do you still want to please them?

With this idea in mind, Jian Chen led the army to wait in the camp for a few days, waiting for the supporting Xia State peasant soldiers to arrive, and by the way, he thought about what reason to use to denounce Su Yue's crimes.

There was no problem in taking Aseki and its surrounding towns, but the question was how to minimize the revolt and discontent of the cities and quickly absorb these people.