After the trial, the sailboat approached the dock, and many people climbed to the boat to touch the left and right, especially the people of the rest of the tribes such as Su He and Ehuang, who praised this ship that could go against the current, and recalled the amazing efficiency of Xia City, but knew that they could only envy it, and it was impossible for their own city to be like this. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The slaves were not eligible to board the ship at this time, and their chances of getting on board were either to carry goods upwards or to be sold to the rest of the towns in exchange, even though most of the planks of the ship were cut by them.

Yu Qian'er looked at the boat with a smile, pushed aside everyone and ran to Chen Jianjian's side and said, "Brother, with this boat, I can get a lot of things." There are many small settlements along the river, and the pottery that we don't disdain to use with acorns can be exchanged with those settlements, and they are not willing to exchange them for such expensive black pottery. In the past, there was no way to bring it back in exchange, but now it is possible to have a ship. Can you let me take care of this ship? ”

Jian Chen smiled: "What do you change?" What did those settlements get in exchange? ”

"Fur. We can provide them with tanning and teach them to tann their furs, especially mink, weasels, and foxes, and I estimate that a few clay pots can be exchanged for them from those small settlements, but when they are transported to the Acropolis, there are more than a few clay pots. ”

Yu Qian'er happily shook her little head and said: "I also thought about this change before, but the ox cart transports too little, and I have to send people to protect it, so I can't make anything back and forth." You can build a few more ships, you give me ten boats, and I will sell the goods of our Xia City four hundred miles away. ”

Chen Jian raised his forehead and said, "Ten boats...... I'm afraid I'll get next year. Nearly 700 people were busy for a month, and 10 boats were 20,000 man-days. You are the cargo, and the ship can give it to you, but you have to set aside most of it to and from Echeng. A lot of goods in Echeng can't be transported, you can use a boat to transport it, and the people in Echeng also know that the loss of using ox carts is too great. You help them deliver it, you can collect a portion of their food, and as long as it is less wasteful than using an ox cart, they will be happy. ”

"In this way, I'll give you another question, when you're done with this while, you calculate, how much worse can the loss of the same hundred catties of grain be transported by ship or ox cart? As a driver, you must not decide with a pat on the head, you have to calculate it, because the numbers do not deceive. ”

Yu Qian'er nodded and asked, "Then how many things can this ship hold?" How long does it take to get back to Summer? ”

"This is the business that the company should take care of, don't ask me. Fifteen years later, I'll take you on a boat trip to Echeng, and you'll know everything. As a driver, you will manage more and more things. ”

Jian Chen turned around and looked around, and said in a low voice: "After the autumn, I will follow Su He to the tribes on both sides of the river, and the affairs of the city are in the hands of you and Hongyu, and I don't worry about handing it over to others." ”

Yu Qian'er pouted, "I want to go too." ”

"There will be opportunities in the future."

Yu Qian'er thought about it for a while, and knew that this matter was very important, so she said helplessly: "Then my work over there will be stopped for a while, give you more slaves, and build a few more ships, this ship is so big, you take such a boat to those tribes, they must be very surprised." ”

"Not too much, your business is also important. Farm tools, grain, and warehouses are satisfied, Xia Cheng is naturally strong, even if there are no sailboats, it is still a big city. But if the warehouse is insufficient, even if there is gunpowder for sailboats, it is only for others. Let's go, I'll take you on a boat for a cruise, I've got a bunch of things to do after dark. ”

On the boat, Yu Qian'er sat on the bow of the boat with her cheeks up, looking at the broken water, and the laughter of Chen Jian and the clansmen chatting in her ears, she sighed faintly.

"It's always so busy, there's always so much to do."

"Perhaps...... It's always good to be busy, but when you're busy, you don't have the heart to think about anything else. ”

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Three days later, on the thirteenth day of July, Summer City became busy, and those who had never left Summer City saw many new faces, but because of the similarity of clothes and hair, there was not much strange feeling.

The streets were swept away, temporary shelters were erected, many clay pots and pottery were cooking all kinds of food, and the public produced grain and money, and all expenses were paid from the public property, and it was the first time for these people in Xia City to enjoy this kind of festive festival.

There are a lot of outsiders, and many people have naturally seen a lot of things, but everything in Xia Cheng is still impressed by these people who have seen a lot of things. Food has conquered their taste buds, kites have conquered their imaginations, and sailboats have conquered their common sense.

The power of two great victories a year, the exchange of slave trade, and the military deterrence of the Tri-City Alliance...... Many small settlements within three or four hundred miles of the surrounding area sent people to offer their own tribute to show their submission.

These tributes can't get into the eyes of the people of Xia Cheng at all, and according to the price of the purchase and exchange in the Fang City, the gifts returned become dozens of times that of these tributes.

Chen Jian was not tired of this, personally receiving the leaders of those small settlements, talking to them, or asking them about their lives, or asking about the surrounding terrain or specialties.

The leaders of the small settlements were very fond of the pottery, salt and other goods they gave back, but the amount of feedback was simply not enough, so they asked Jian Chen if he could exchange it for something else.

There were also several leaders of the settlements who took the Taobei and bronze shells that Chen Jian gave back to them and asked about the usefulness of these things, and were deeply skeptical that these things could be exchanged for things.

Chen Jian stood up, called Yu Qian'er, and accompanied the leaders of these tribal settlements to check the warehouses and workshops in Xia City.

For the people of Echeng and the Acropolis, Chen Jian would not take them to visit those handicraft workshops, but for these tribes who are still drinking blood, Chen Jian has no worries.

Opening the door of the warehouse, the two black cats arched their bodies, meowed a few times, and disappeared with a whoosh, and several small bats were awakened from the cracks in the warehouse, looked at the sun and hung upside down on the wooden beams to sleep.

"So much food...... How long will this be enough for Xia Cheng to eat? ”

"So much pottery...... How long will it take for the people of Xiacheng? ”

Chen Jian laughed and said, "You have also seen that all the things in the warehouse and the Fang Market can be exchanged for those pottery shells and copper shells." There are a lot of Taobei that will be given back to you, and for the entire Xia City, this little grain is less than a year for winemaking, so you can rest assured. ”

The people clenched the shellfish in their hands and asked, "Then isn't it good for us to exchange the grain directly?" ”

"The food is too heavy for caravans to carry that much when they go to your village. You can change things for Taobei first, you can go to Yangguan, Mall and other places to change, as long as it is the land of Xia City, these Taobei can be exchanged. In the future, all kinds of goods in Xia Cheng can only be bought with shellfish, and they will no longer be exchanged directly. ”

"The goods in these warehouses are the promises of our Xia City. As long as you have the pottery shells and copper shells fired by Xia Cheng in your hands, you can exchange them for everything you want in Xia Cheng at any time. ”

"What you eat, wear, and use is what Xia Cheng doesn't have, and other cities won't have it."

The people who listened to Chen Jian's boasting basically had never seen other cities, there was no horizontal comparison, only the comparison between their own settlement and the Xia Cheng Cangxiao, and they were convinced of Chen Jian's boasting, and they also dispelled their doubts about Taobei Tongbei.

"Can we live like this?"

Jian Chen smiled: "Of course, as long as you stand with Xia Cheng, we will teach you to plant, but you have to serve Xia Cheng and pay a part of the grain." This fall, I will send some people to your village and stay there for half a year to teach you all this. ”

He had already selected the manpower, that is, those who passed the simple examination of the academy and those who were elected by the people but did not yet hold official positions, they were all sent to the villages outside for a year to experience and teach those villages the techniques of planting, fishing, weaving, etc.

These lowly industries do not need a technological monopoly, and if Xia Cheng's handicraft industry wants to sell, it must have a market. If there is no market, then support them and create their own market, this kind of hidden exploitation of scissors is far stronger than directly catching them as slaves.

With the help of the first increase in demand caused by this separation, Xia Cheng had to use three years to develop the handicraft industry rapidly, and the rest of the villages needed to ensure that things such as grain and linen cloth were used, otherwise it would not be possible to develop at all if the manpower was used for farming.

In the previous life, a very expansive religion was also sent to various villages in the early days to help the villages to build houses, farm land, and preach, so as to gain people's trust and then spread their faith, so that the people of faith could see the improvement of the quality of the real event, so that they would be more likely to convert.

There was no religion in Xiacheng, and the emergence of formal religion was not until the dissolution of slavery, and people could not think of a solution in the face of the changes of the times, so they could only restrain the people who were changed by the times from the moral point of view.

Whether it is enlightenment under the Bodhi tree or the holy light in the stable, they are seeking "what to do" in the great changes of the times, idealistic towards the moral paradise, and began the debate of good and evil, believing that everyone with morality can make up for the darkness brought about by the changes of the times.

The people that Jian Chen wanted to send out were actually similar to missionaries, and the main purpose was to unify beliefs and myths.

In the previous life, there were actually very few Chinese paternal ancestors, and the bloodline was very pure, but it took thousands of years of accumulation and development, from the corner of the Yellow River to the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it took thousands of years to occupy the best land in East Asia.

Time can guarantee the purity of the ethnic group, but it does not apply here, Chen Jian cannot wait for thousands of years of population development before expanding outward, he can only continue to use cultural advantages to absorb more people, after all, this is not the history of the previous life.

The leaders of these settlements were unaware of Jian Chen's sinister intentions, but instead thanked him, promising that after learning to plant, they would pay food in accordance with the laws of Xia Cheng, and would also send people when Xia Cheng needed to levy labor.

This is not only an exchange, but also because of the deterrence of Xiacheng's powerful force, the leaders of these tribes know very well: a certain tribe near Yangguan because of its proximity to Xiacheng, has a bronze weapon to capture slaves and accumulate wealth, and now it has begun to grow near Yangguan, and those tribes who do not submit to Xiacheng do not need Xiacheng to appear, and those tribes who plunder slaves and exchange with Xiacheng will be happy to help Xiacheng solve those who are not convinced.

"Don't be in a hurry to swear an oath, tomorrow the Acropolis, Echeng and more settlements will come, and then after sacrificing to the ancestors, let's swear again."

ps: I've been busy measuring the land these days, the land is circulating, and the update is unstable, forgive me. (To be continued.) )