After listening to Jian Chen's explanation, Hongyu always felt that something was wrong, but it was more like digging a pit and letting those leaders jump down, not just because of the support and support of those old people and children. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"If someone is willing to give out 400 catties of corn every year in the future, the leaders will not be able to force them in the clan?"

"Yes, that's what the leaders agree."

Chen Jian smiled slyly, the old have support, the young have something to rely on, relying on the public property of Xia Cheng is definitely not enough, if you want to separate, it is inevitable to levy a poll tax, but the levy of a poll tax will inevitably encounter resistance, but another way to collect it will make it easier for the clansmen to accept.

As for burying the pit, Chen Jian did dig a pit for the leaders to jump down, and today's productivity level cannot afford the life of a family with only one laborer, but if the productivity develops, it will be different.

The matters that should have been discussed in the council were discussed in public, and the leaders promised that they would be able to live alone as long as they could produce enough food each year. When that day comes, the leaders will not be able to break their promises.

After this winter, the food problem in Xia City will be basically solved, and if there is no war, there will be some family resources in the city within two or three years.

Coupled with the emergence of the grain standard currency, a large amount of grain was concentrated in the hands of the cities, and those who received the currency could not exchange all the currency for food, and they might also buy some of the rest of the daily necessities, so that the currency would circulate with the help of the market.

At the same time, the fang market also has a similar effect to the bank, which can save a large amount of grain, and even issue a part of the currency in excess of the amount, because the people of the tribe cannot run on the same day, as long as they can turn it over.

Chen Jian did not study economics, and he did not count the amount of excess currency issued by the reserves, but the concentrated grain could be used for him to mobilize and use this winter to develop the handicraft industry.

If goods are not abundant, it is naturally impossible for a natural economy to appear, so it can only be purchased and sold in the cities, using scissors to exploit the people of the cities and towns, and accumulating food and goods for the construction of the cities.

The city and the tribal are two completely different concepts.

Now it belongs to the city of 6,000 acres of land, 800 slaves, a mine, a salt factory, and the mountains and rivers that nominally belong to the city, and all kinds of goods under the unified jurisdiction of the merchants.

The taxes collected in the autumn were basically consumed in the battle of Yangguan, and the food that Yu Qian'er worked so hard to exchange in Echeng was a lot for individuals, but it was a drop in the bucket when it was put in the city.

Although forced labor and forced labor do not cost anything, they cannot be used for a long time, and the people will oppose it if they use it too much, and the gains outweigh the losses.

After the climax of the initial construction of the homeland, this spirit of unity in Xia Cheng can continue for a few years, but after a few years, it will be bustling with profits.

Walking into Fang Market and letting Yu Qian'er go to the house, Chen Jian looked at the account book and estimated the family background of the city.

"Yu Qian'er, how many things can the clan exchange from Fang City every month in the past?"

"It's not much, count it up to one or two thousand catties of grain. Some are exchanging grain for others, and some are exchanging other for food. It was mainly based on the land owned by the city and the labor of slaves. The 800,000 catties of grain were divided into 300,000 catties, leaving 400,000 catties for the various tribes to eat and harvest wheat, plus what I earned in Echeng, there was a maximum of 1780,000 catties of grain in the public production. ”

"The acorn burned pottery is not much for everyone, it is indeed not as good as the black pottery in Echeng, plus the various tribes live in big houses, in addition to eating and drinking, it is rare to change a few like raccoon cats to look good in the house. Carpentry and bronze farming tools were not exchanged too much, slaves were only able to use stones, and the tribes were not too willing to exchange food. ”

Chen Jian looked at it, this is all the family background of the public property of the city, after a battle, the family background of the city is no longer comparable to the family background of the rich clan surnamed Ji, as the leader of the city, but he can't take the things of the tribe without distinguishing between public and private, if it is misappropriated, the tribe will have more requirements in the distribution of rights in the city.

1780,000 catties of grain may not be able to meet Chen Jian's winter plan, plus in case of special days, he has to distribute some food to disabled soldiers and the elderly, which is already stretched.

Chen Jian got up and closed the door, when there were only elm money and red fish in the house, Chen Jian said: "This way, red fish, you go to the pottery kiln, let the acorns burn another batch of pottery shells and copper coins, according to 400,000 catties." Yu Qian'er, in the exchange of Houfang City, try to use pottery shells and copper coins to carry out it, and find a way to let them exchange the captured prey and the like for pottery shells first. ”

Hongyu hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, we have 178,000 catties of grain, where are 400,000 catties?" What if they all come to change and we can't exchange so much? But you leader will be reviled by men. ”

Jian Chen smiled: "No, you just do it, but don't let too many people know." Although we don't have 400,000 catties of grain, the grain of those tribesmen is still stored in us, and the grain of each tribe can last until the wheat harvest, and it is unlikely that they will all exchange grain. ”

"But there is one point, where pottery and copper coins are fired, you have to look at them every day, and you can do as much as you want, and you must not burn more."

Redfish nodded helplessly in agreement and asked, "Then what do you want so much food for?" ”

"One is to make the people accept the taobei and copper coins as much as possible, except for the soldiers, the rest of the people should be familiar with such things; Another...... Do something while it's winter. ”

Winter was not a day of work for the farming summer city, there was wind and snow every day, it was not too cold, but there was nothing to do in the land, so they could only squat in the house, and even the daily work of the slaves was transferred to the house, mainly to rub twine and weave.

Except for the new army, which was still training, only organized patrols were left in Summer City to wander the wheat fields and chase away the wintering animals.

A few days after that conversation, the hall of the council was filled with all the slave managers in Xia City, and every night they were teaching slave management, and Jian Chen explained the principle of relaxation in as simple a way as possible.

The fields and mines where slaves were used on a large scale provided a good opportunity for slaves to revolt, which required these newly become slave owners to learn the methods of repression.

In the evenings, the council is a place to study, and during the day, the doors of the council hall are closed, and Chen Jian and a group of carpenters work inside to make something to lay the groundwork for next year's change.

Now the productivity level of Xiacheng is higher than that of slash-and-burn farming, and it has basically accepted the ridge planting technology, which is convenient for ventilation and fertilization and watering, which can be regarded as the prototype of irrigated agriculture.

However, these rudiments are not enough to support the disintegration of the clan in a short period of time, nor are they enough to resolve the various contradictions within a few years of disintegration, and the best way to suppress the contradictions is the development of the productive forces, and what can be accepted and easier to learn today is animal agriculture.

In the previous life, the Liangzhu culture began to use agricultural tools such as stone plows in the Neolithic Age, and there was no difficulty in ox ploughing technology, and the ploughshares could be replaced by stone and bronze without iron.

In the previous batch of farm tools sold to Echeng, there were simple people pulling wooden plows, but this time Chen Jian wanted to directly make a plow pulled by oxen and horses.

Sometimes the progress of technology is not linear, in the previous life the Tang Dynasty had already appeared in the Quyuan plow, the Han Dynasty already had a cocoon car, but before the liberation, some southwest mountainous areas were still cultivated by two oxen and poles, and planted by people sowing and planting.

The predecessors have already taken the detours, and this is the biggest advantage of the traverser.

There is not much insurmountable gap between the straight plough and the curved plough in nature, but there are many differences in labor-saving and efficiency.

Chen Jian calculated that with the cultivation ability of the clansmen, the average person has less than one mu of land a day, and with the support of Quyuan plough and the cattle and horses in the city, the efficiency can be increased by six times. In the face of reclaimed land, ten or twenty times more efficiency can be achieved.

When animal agriculture began to spread, the existence of the clan was almost meaningless, and Chen Jian had already dug the pit, and the leaders of the clan could only use morality and kinship to prevent the clan from splitting. Whether it is morality or kinship, it is vulnerable in the face of interests.

The carpenters in the council hall have mastered the technique of mortise and tenon, and last year they have also mastered the technique of baking, although not very fine, but also to bake straight wood into curved shapes.

After the curved ploughshare is done, a hole is carved in the wood, and then the vertical wood that holds the ploughshare is inserted into it, and the height of the ploughshare is fixed and adjusted with a wooden wedge.

The bronze ploughshare used by Chen Jian in the first batch of experiments was not many cast, only two or three pieces, because the practicability of the bronze ploughshare was not high.

Bronze is too brittle to be forged, can only be cast, once blunt, the iron can be smashed by the blacksmith to make a sharp edge, and the bronze can only be polished or recycled, which also restricts the development of agriculture.

Therefore, Chen Jian only used bronze as an experimental product, and when it came to mass production, he would use stone instead of bronze, so that the cost could be lower, and the stone ploughshare could be thrown away directly if it was broken.

The harness can be directly used with the set of pulling carts, this kind of curved plough is a single ox, and the land near Xiacheng is not red clay, but yellow loam, ox ploughing or horse ploughing is very suitable.

In addition to this single-ox curved plow, Chen Jian also made some large two-horse ploughs, which can be deeply ploughed and deeply ploughed, which is convenient for large-scale reclamation.

It took half a month to finalize the two types of ploughs, and the clansmen only knew what Chen Jian was doing in the council hall, but they didn't know what he was doing, and the carpenters were all silent.

These carpenters can receive a small pottery shell every day, but only half of it per day.

If the people in the city don't know what they're doing before spring, they'll send out the remaining half at once.

The simple method used by Jian Chen, once the people in the city knew about it, then no matter who leaked it, half of the Taobei of all people would be deducted.

With the gradual adoption of Taobei as a medium of exchange, the use of Taobei has been familiar to the people of Xiacheng, as long as you hold Taobei, you can exchange anything you want to exchange in Fangshi, carpenters know the benefits of Taobei, and even try not to talk in their dreams when sleeping. (To be continued.) )