In fact, in addition to the change of Taobei for copper coins in July, there was another equally important event, but this incident did not cause much turmoil in the Xia City system. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Su Yue and more than a dozen city clans jointly sent troops, and under some pretext, they crusaded against several cities that had withdrawn during the oath the year before.

With the help of the bronze soldiers and iron arrowheads of the summer city and the gunpowder of the chariot leather armor, he set out in April, broke the city in June, and returned with a great victory in July.

A total of 15,000 slaves were plundered in this battle, and three cities and six clans expressed their submission, which was a great victory, and for a time Suyue's prestige was skyrocketing.

Every clan within the alliance had to celebrate, and Chen Jian also recorded this in the history books in the name of the secretary, and copied a four-character short song praising Su Yue's bravery, so that Shi Zong and others who came back performed a drama of singing praises and virtues, and praised them greatly.

Many leaders noticed that with the advent of bronze and iron cavalry, the intensity of the war increased. With the advent of new weapons such as gunpowder, wooden ladders, and rushing carts, siege warfare could easily be turned into a city-breaking battle, and the duration of the war was shortened.

This expedition didn't even give the clan cities that had invited Chen Jian to join the Anti-Su Alliance a chance to react.

According to previous experience, it should have besieged the city for several months, and the reinforcements from both sides fought on the plains, but this time the previous experience was completely useless.

Such a major event was just a talking point in Yucheng Xiacheng, and after everyone calculated whether the plundered 15,000 slaves were enough to exchange for a year's output of the Yucheng workshop group, they didn't have much interest.

Instead, they prefer to talk about a new set of rules and regulations, as well as some new things. For example, the money village established in Xiacheng, such as the new covenant of the Caohe tribes, such as the white horse got back a lot of horses on the grassland, so that the city liberalized the control of cattle and horses, and allowed private individuals to buy cattle and horses.

Any change requires someone to take the first step.

A few years ago, in order to break the clan system, Xia Cheng implemented a new system of private land in order to prevent the clan leaders from rebelling, and easily deprived the clan leaders of their rights.

The new control system of Wu, Shi, and Lisi filled the power vacuum after the dispersion of the clan, and the first person who took the first step was the man named Muma, who took dozens of people and swore to pay the grain needed by the clan and the public property on time, and then he had to divide it out.

At the beginning, because of the shortage of cattle and horses, only five or six families could share one horse or cow. Nowadays, with the increase in the number of cattle and horses and the issuance of copper coins, some regulations have begun to be relaxed, allowing private purchases of cattle and horses, but the price is still high and not everyone can afford it.

Now, as a lisi, casa leads the cultivation of fifty households in one mile, regulates the relationship between the fifty households, and the order of who uses the ploughshare first and who uses it later during spring ploughing.

Everyone was very convinced of him, because he was very conscientious as a lisi, never made trouble for himself to use first when the spring lottery was drawn, and never kept it privately when distributing public property benefits. And when they encounter things like labor and military service, they will also bring people to help those people cultivate the land well.

For several years in a row, the people of this place were always commended in the summer city every year, and a flag made of white cloth with some words of praise written on it was always hung near the courtyard of this lisi, hanging high so that people could see it at a glance.

At the end of July of the thirty-fourth year, the news of the currency reform had also spread in Summer City for a month. On the night of the end of the month, Muma went door-to-door to ask if everyone had exchanged Taobei for copper coins.

After receiving an affirmative reply from everyone, he invited everyone to come to his courtyard tomorrow night to discuss something.

The next day was the beginning of the month, and any adult man had to go to the pasture outside the city for military training, which was not to be moved, but the time to rest was relatively early, and it would be disbanded before dark, and he could not do work, so he could discuss some things.

As soon as it gets dark, the men and women of each family hold a large pottery bowl, the corn is underneath, and the vegetables of each family are poured on it, and a big hand holds it very steadily, and the mosquito smoke mixed with wormwood rises in the courtyard, so they will find a place to sit or squat, and talk while eating.

"I brought you here today to tell you a few things."

Mu Ma put down the dishes and chopsticks, added a handful of grass to the mosquito smoke, and said casually with his back to everyone: "There are now fifty families in our village, with a total of more than 4,000 acres of land. Today, the company found our company, and in the future, there are really not so many people staring at how much food we produce per acre, so we changed it later. One acre of land is not one out of ten, but a fixed annual payment of thirty catties of grain. ”

The crowd did not object, but said, "Not much, the same as before." The manure used last year grew quite well, and I collected a lot more. Even if you change copper coins, it is not as good as changing Taobei before. It turns out that food is quite expensive, why has it become more and more cheap in the past two years? ”

Mu Ma nodded and said, "What I said is that the grain is only afraid that it will become more and more cheap." I've been thinking about one thing for the past few days, and I'm going to discuss it with you today. ”

"I pondered that if we had enough carts, oxen, and ploughshares for these 4,000 acres of land, it would be practical for less than 50 households and 100 people to be busy cultivating. Nowadays, every family has some copper money, but every family cannot afford to buy a set of carts, ploughshares, and oxen, so they want to save up for seven or eight years before buying, or rent public property first. ”

"If you want me to say...... Let's scrape together the money, buy more oxen, horses, and ploughshares, plant this land together, and then divide it when we harvest the grain. I've calculated, if we have the money in each family, we can buy ten sets if we buy a full set, if we have ten sets of columbrow carts and ploughshares, you say that planting these 4,000 acres of land will not be busy in three or five days? How much work has been saved? ”

He is fair on weekdays, and there are a lot of things to work together on weekdays, everyone hesitated for a while and agreed, only someone asked, "Then what are we doing the rest of the time?" The land near the city has been almost reclaimed, and if you go farther away, you have to drive there, and you can't come back for a day. ”

Mu Ma smiled: "Didn't you say it before? I'm afraid that the food will become cheaper and cheaper, and I'm thinking about what we can do. You see, the money in the hands of a family can't do anything, and if we get together fifty families, it's not a small amount of money. Last time, when Ji Xia established Yucheng, he was still short of money, didn't he want everyone to get together together? We can learn too. ”

"Today, the company told me that maybe Yucheng will have a batch of wool next year, and we can't do this alone. One is that wool shearing is too expensive, and then raise one head at a time, where is it good to make a separate person to raise a group? In addition to sheep, if we can finish the work in the field early, we can also work together in a carpentry factory, I estimate that the columbus can sell very well, and the rest of the cities and towns also need to, one person will definitely not work, the goods said that only more than 30 people can come to carpenter teaching. We can also get fish from another pond over there, but we can't make so much money if we can't be busy alone......"

He listed a lot of things that have been deregulated, although the control has been relaxed, but there are still people who review and approve, some of the obviously excess capacity is not allowed, in fact, it is not liberalized but relaxed, and the inside is still regulated by the city.

It's just that these deregulation things are far away from these people of Xia Cheng who are not highly meritorious, and not everyone has so many land slaves and surplus property that can be used for this.

But by cleverly grouping these scattered copper coins together, Muma can do something big. The people in Yili have a good relationship on weekdays, and there is a lot of land.

Mu Ma took a wooden stick and shouted, "Old Seven, call your child over, doesn't he know how to count?" Let him calculate how much our fifty households can make up in total. ”

The man called his own child, squatted beside the fire, and several families did not hide the money in their hands, and they had just gone to the money village to change Tao Bei a while ago, even if they wanted to hide it, they were a little embarrassed.

The child counted for a while, and said a number that everyone was a little surprised by.

Mu Ma roughly calculated and said: "In this way, let's buy eight sets of cocoon carts and ploughshares, and count the land of each family together, and divide the grain according to the amount of land and other harvest time." After that, let's open a small carpentry workshop, spend money to hire a carpenter at the public property, and we will do it at home when we are not working, and hire some more people. Nowadays, many slaves have become human beings, but they have no land, so they are just allowed to work in our carpentry workshop, and we also do it when we are not working. ”

Everyone knows that the chariot is in great demand now, and the two cities are purchasing it, but it is impossible to make it without the guidance of the carpenter. And the company also clearly told everyone that unless the scale is enough for a carpentry workshop with more than 30 people, he will not give guidance to carpentry.

A few people couldn't help but mutter: "It's a pity that the charity decree is only valid for Yucheng, otherwise we will have to save a lot of money for our hired workers." Just give them something to eat. It's different now, there are more workshops in our summer city, and there are fewer hired workers. ”

"What if...... If only our slaves in Xia City could have their own piece of land, I don't pity them, but if they had their own land, our cocoons would be sold even more. ”

Mu Ma smiled: "Don't think about this." But even if we hire fewer people, we can't get enough money, I think, let's put together, mortgage a thousand acres of land to borrow some money from the bank, and estimate that we can earn it back within a year. Now I can still make some money, and I am afraid that I will not be able to earn it in a few years, but in a few years, we will be considered rich here, and we will do something else. But if you want to do something alone, I'm afraid it's very difficult, unless your children are lucky enough to learn well, and in the future, they can save a lot of manpower Ji Xia will reward a lot of ......"

Everyone laughed, although there are a few smart children in their own country, but this is a bit far away, and they don't know what it will be like when they grow up.

After discussing some details, the fifty families swore to use their land and property intensively as the night was cool.

Completely different from the clan era, except that Ris replaced the clan leader, the land is not public, but privately owned, and it is just a matter of working together to save labor time.

On the second day, they went to the bank, mortgaged the land, lent out a large sum of copper coins, and ordered some utensils and tools, and Mu Ma went to the hall of the council to discuss the matter with the treasurer.

The clerk didn't say anything, but when he asked them about the size of the carpenter, he agreed to hire a carpenter, but told them not to lose the grain they had to pay each year, and that the land should not be wasted. Mu Ma agreed to it.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was still half a month before the autumn planting, 50 families happily bought back the ploughing cattle and horses, and divided 20 households to prepare for the autumn ploughing, while the rest of the people built the big houses of the future workshop, and some people took the lead in buying wood and fish gelatin.

At the end of August, 20 families easily completed their autumn ploughing with the help of a columbladder ploughshare, and prepared hay for the winter.

By the beginning of October, the first batch of cars had been made.

It could have been earlier, but in mid-September everyone had to go to repair the summer canal, no matter who it was, otherwise the punishment would be severe. After the main trunk is repaired, there will be special people to inspect the canals near the farmland, and it must be repaired to be qualified, which is more than half a month.

Those who have been slaves for a long time but have nothing have a good year, and the charity decree is written on wooden boards rather than special clay tablets, so it is only applicable in Yucheng and not in the entire Xia City system, they do not need to be forced to be sent to the workshop to work, they can have their own choice.

The newly established workshops knew that they would make a lot of money next year, so they urgently needed a group of hired workers, so the price of hired workers could not be almost cheaper than slaves like in Yucheng, and the new regulations required that the workshops could only hire people but not slaves, so such a comfortable life made them quite happy.

After the first batch of cars was made and sent to the government office for inspection, the company sent an order for 200 sets, requiring it to be delivered by February next year, and if it was overdue, it would be punished with a heavy fine.

And the requirements must be as qualified as the samples, and the only exceptions to the order are the occurrence of war and forced conscription.

Everyone summed it up, and it happened to be okay in winter, so they took the order. After going back, they couldn't stop smiling, and if they did well, by February next year, they would not only be able to repay the loan of the bank, but also make a good profit.

For the city, it is also a profit. It is not the price difference, but the people at the bottom of the country, who were originally bound to the land, but now they can make use of the long winter and agricultural leisure time, which is equivalent to the city has an invisible increase in population.

Muma and the others went back with an order of 200 sets to celebrate, bought some meat and had a good meal with the hired workers.

Their deepest memory of the 34th year of Huali is not the currency reform, not the new covenant of Caohe, nor the great victory of the great river tribes.

Their deepest memory is tonight's meal of wine and meat, where everyone happily sat around and fantasized about next year's life.

They were not happy every day of the year, crying, laughing, angry, and enduring, but all this will fade after many years, and this night feast will always be remembered.

It's just life for them, but it's a different way for Xia Cheng. The policies of the cities affected them, and they in turn affected the cities.

As one of the first very special collective workshops in the Xia Cheng system, Chen Jian did not hype up as he did when he implemented private ownership for the dismantling of the clan, nor did he support the model.

On the contrary, all workshops with more than 30 employees must be approved by the Programme and Statistics Division before they can be established, while technical support is not provided for those with less than 30 employees. Therefore, it seems that the control has been relaxed, but in fact it is still a strict control.

The signing of the new covenant of Caohe and the promotion of currency allowed such a collective workshop to exist and more people were tied to the chariot of Xia Cheng's interests.

Uncontrolled production capacity will have a big deal, more markets need war, and Xia Cheng is not ready for a protracted war in the rising sun.

Future wars are inevitable, and no matter what the reason is, the result will be the same, and even as the change deepens, it will be bound to the entire country.

It's just that it's far from ready now, Xia Cheng's chariot is now only a few thousand people, and those seven or eight thousand people in Yucheng are still alienated, when they really join the Xia City system, Xia Cheng will be considered ready. (To be continued.) )