After returning to Xia Cheng, Jian Chen looked at the demographic statistics made by Yu Qian'er before, and prepared to check out the people who went to build the road. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yu Qian'er's statistics are very simple, according to the separation of each tribe, according to the matrilineal map is drawn, and the age is arranged.

The names of the clansmen are generally some common things, with the name of the object, the surname already has graphic text, and most of the names Yu Qian'er can't be written, so they can only be drawn.

It's not because she's slow learner, but because words like poplar and oak can only be distinguished by leaves, which are the names of most of the clansmen.

Fortunately, the new baby names have made great progress, and the names of girls have begun to appear in the names of "flower", "red", "silk", "pheasant" and other words that represent beauty. Except for the very awkward tanuki and bluegrass's children, who have their mother's surname plus their father's surname and their first name, the rest of the children also follow their mother's surname.

Chen Jian looked through it, and this year, the population of the tribe began to develop greatly, and the survival rate and mortality rate in previous years were basically the same, especially the infant mortality rate was extremely high. This year, thanks to the use of herbs, forceps and some basic disinfection methods, more than 50 of the more than 600 pregnant women and their newborns in the entire city have died so far, and the mortality rate has dropped to 10 percent, which is really a huge improvement.

In addition to the excitement, Chen Jian also felt a huge pressure.

The reduction in infant mortality and the new hygienic living conditions, the absence of marital restraint and contraceptive relations between men and women will inevitably lead to a rapid population growth in the entire city.

Rapid population growth can lead to prosperity in the city, but it will inevitably lead to a demographic crisis in the whole city in about a decade: the newborn children have not yet grown up, and the adult ones are beginning to grow old, and children under the age of 14 may make up two-thirds or more of the entire population of the city.

This means that in the two or three years when the newborn in the city is about to reach adulthood, less than one-fifth of the people in the tribe will have to support four-fifths of the elderly and children, and they will have to bear various obligations.

And this kind of thing is not too long, at most three or four years, and the huge problem caused by the imbalance of population will appear.

From now on, about ten years will be the most dangerous time for Xia City. Danger often coexists with opportunity, and as long as we survive the three or four years of population imbalance, there will be a steady stream of large numbers of reservists who have been disciplined since childhood and the "high-quality" population of this era.

Chen Jian picked up a charcoal pen and calculated on the bark that with the current average production level of the city, it would be necessary to naturalize about 2,000 young and strong people and about 5,000 slaves within a few years.

The results of the calculation were temporarily put away, and the population to be built in the city was re-circled on the demographic table, and the number of people from each tribe was not much.

After the circle, Chen Jian did not consult with the clan leader, but in the dual name of Sikong and Situ, he asked a few people from the Qinwei clan around him to notify each tribe directly according to the list.

Those who were requisitioned did not refuse, but only slightly strange, in the past, this kind of thing was notified to them by the clan chief, but this time it bypassed the clan chief.

Since the public property controlled their eating and drinking, and it was requested by Ji Xia, these people didn't think too much, and after saying goodbye to the clansmen, they prepared tools according to the requirements and gathered in the square of the city.

When several tribal leaders heard about it, they immediately found Chen Jian, and Chen Jian simply convened a meeting, which was not allowed to be attended by non-council members.

At the beginning of the meeting, before the leaders questioned him, Jian Chen told them his inferences about the population, and directly asked them if they had any solutions to solve them.

Although the original purpose of these leaders was to question Jian Chen, they still broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this data, and no longer thought about what they wanted to ask before.

"How so? In the past, the ratio of children to adults in the tribe was not like this. Ji Xia, are you saying that in ten years there will be 6,000 children in the city, and there will only be 1,000 adults working? ”

Even though they don't know the principles of population structure, they know that such a tribe will be dangerous, and that the slightest problem will cause the whole tribe to collapse.

Jian Chen glanced at these slightly older leaders and asked, "I am still a child in your eyes, think about it, ten years later, are you still there?" How many people over the age of thirty in each tribe will be left in ten years? Man is going to die. ”

The leaders didn't care about Jian Chen's outspokenness, they knew very well that their age was already very old in the clan, and ten years was too long for them.

After thinking about it carefully, the leaders finally panicked, not worried about their own death, but worried about what the city would do when there were really more than 6,000 children in ten years.

In times of crisis, the group will be united like never before, especially when they see the great difference between slaves and their countrymen, and think of the abundance of the cities, if there are not enough young people, they will be swallowed up by the rest of the cities, and the people may be reduced to slavery.

"How so? This has never happened before. ”

"How so? Now we are planting in Xia City, there are forceps to deliver babies, there are herbs to cure diseases, and we don't need to starve. I heard my grandmother say that there was a great drought in the spring, because there was not enough food, and many children starved to death that year, because it was necessary to ensure the survival of adults, and your tribe has experienced it, right? ”

Several leaders had painful looks on their faces, they were also mothers, and they had drowned their children when they were most helpless, and they had also watched their newborn children die in their arms due to illness......

In the past, when the snow melted every year, it was the time when the tribe's mothers were most worried, and the fate of those unborn children was in the hands of heaven and earth, but now, the city has enough food, at least they can not worry about their children being taken away by heaven and earth.

Chen Jian knocked on the clay pot and said, "More and more children are being born, and some old people are living older and older. I've heard the number nine say that some tribes will throw old people into the mountains, but we can't do that in our cities, because we can all get old. Since the old man can't be thrown and the child can't be drowned, then our tribes can only twist together like hemp rope and get through this most difficult decade. Ten years from now, you may be there or not, but the city and the children will have children, and we must think about them. ”

He looked around at the leaders and said, "If I hadn't spoken out about this, would you have thought of it?" ”

The leaders shook their heads, and Jian Chen said, "That's why the city needs a leader, I think I'm doing a good job, what do you think?" ”

"We never said you did a bad job, it just ...... It's just that we came to you because of the matter of the levy tribe, and we agree to other things, but you always have to talk to us. ”

"This is a matter for Situ to take care of, as you said when you elected me as the leader of the city. Besides, this road was built for public property, so where is the public property used? The tribal children had to go to school, they had to eat, and they had to have enough midwives. Let's take your tribe for example, in ten years your tribe will have nearly 300 children, and there will only be more than 60 young people, will your tribe be able to support these children alone? ”

Jian Chen stared at the leader and asked angrily: "Now which of you said that in ten years, you will all raise these children by yourself, and you don't need the help of the city, so you don't need to leave people for this conscription." ”

The leader bowed his head, and said in his heart that he would definitely not be able to raise it, even if he didn't pay any food, he couldn't afford it at all. The rest of the leaders didn't speak, one was that they rarely saw Chen Jian angry, and the other was that no one dared to say such big things here.

Jian Chen looked at the silent hall, took a long breath and said, "Look, none of you dare to guarantee it, I ask you who has a way to solve it, and you can't help it, so what do you let me do?" In this way, since our city wants to talk about the rules, you might as well explain the rules clearly today. ”

"If you live in a city, unlike the wild people on the banks of the river, you pay less food, so you can do less servitude. Every tribe from the age of sixteen to thirty years of age shall be subject to conscription, but it shall not interfere with your cultivation, and the wild people outside the city shall be subject to conscription from the age of fourteen to forty years, and I will try to levy them. ”

"But the beans are about to be harvested......

"There are not many beans planted, the city will let the slaves help you harvest, and I will also deploy some people if the tribe has a small population, so you don't have to worry about this."

The leaders discussed for a while, and then got up and said: "In this case, we abide by this rule, we didn't know these things before, and we contradicted Ji Xia, and we are willing to punish some food according to the previous rules." ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "The rules can't be messed up, you can hand over the food as soon as possible." Starting from next year, the newborn children of each tribe will be rewarded with some grain or sheep in the city, and those slaves on the northern grassland have already arrived in Yangguan, and they have brought a lot of sheep. You have worked hard to give birth, but you cannot afford to raise it, and the cities will feed you. ”

The leaders all laughed, and in the midst of the laughter, Jian Chen said solemnly: "Today's incident, even the closest clansmen can't tell me about this matter after going out, this is a major matter that concerns the entire city, if someone hears and tells me, then this tribe must leave the city." ”

"We're not going to say that."

"That's good. Another thing, Ji Song resigned from the position of Sikou, let's elect a new Sikou. The priest is in charge of the law of the tribe, and he must choose one who can serve the people, and the others are too small, so I think he should choose from among the leaders. However, it is still the original rule, if you become a priest, you can't continue to be the head of the clan. ”

This was a concession, and the hearts of several chiefs were on fire, and they knew very well that the power of the clan leader was getting smaller and smaller, and the position of the priest was in charge of the entire city.

In the distribution of rights, it is impossible to only take advantage of the advantages and not suffer losses, and sometimes it is necessary to appropriately transfer some benefits. Although the power of the priest is great, it is not as great as the law, and in fact he is only the enforcer of the law.

It doesn't matter who you choose, even if it's not the leaders of a few close clans that Jian Chen can control, the important thing is that these leaders have begun to realize the redistribution of power, and they have begun to follow the footsteps of the times. (To be continued.) )