() This is exploitation.

Full of the pleasure of fooling fools, making them voluntarily pay the IQ tax without realizing it. Marx died early, and his exposing and critical works on the cannibalistic social system have long since been destroyed in the catastrophe, and not a single word has survived to the present day. In this emerging city, everything is a blank slate, and Tianhao plays at will, smearing his own pictures.

Laws and regulations for farmers are also being revised and promulgated one by one.

In a few years, Panshi Village will have to pay taxes to Thunderhorn City. Thirty percent of the grain harvest quota for the year is a rule set by the ancestors of the Niu clan and is non-negotiable.

As a vested interest, Tianhao doesn't want to hand over a single piece of grain. But there is no way, this kind of thing is at most when no one is around, close the door and think about it yourself, it is not okay not to pay, the king of the thunder horn can call the city lord who lowers his posture and is powerful, but he can't tolerate the behavior of not paying taxes to challenge the authority of the king.

Tianhao could only find a way from the inside of Rock City.

In addition to the normal 30 percent, there are two other taxes for farmers in Rock City.

The first is a "fertilizer tax" of 10% based on the annual harvest.

The second: a "comprehensive tax", also based on the annual harvest, at the rate of 15 percent.

As the name suggests, the fertilizer tax refers specifically to the things that are sown in the fertile fields. Tianhao's experiments since the time of Panshizhai have been very successful, and people have gone from rejection to half-believe, and now they have accepted the dirty new gadget of manure. At present, this is the secret of Rock City, and even the farmers do not know the specific process of making manure, only that this thing comes from the public toilets in the city, and sprinkling it in the crops can increase the harvest, and one acre of land can harvest a lot of grain.

Human excrement cannot act directly on farmland and must be fermented.

The Rock City Fertilizer Factory is a very large fertilizer factory, which emits a foul smell all year round, and is divided into three workshops according to different fertilizer treatment principles. Among them, the "manure disposal site" is the largest and the farthest from the urban area. In addition to transporting a large amount of manure from the city every three days, it is also responsible for handling chicken manure from chicken farms. Here, they are piled up, fermented, dried and then shaped in special molds, and finally appear in the form of dried cakes.

Dung cake, this is a specialty of Rock City, the only one in the mainland.

Two other small fertilizer disposal sites, one for the collection of plant ash and sawdust, and one for the recycling of seafood waste. The former is not difficult to understand, and the latter refers to substances such as shells, crab shells, and fish bones, which are crushed and dried, which are also significant fertilizers.

In just one year, experienced farmers can understand whether fertilization is important for crop growth. So the 10 percent fertilizer tax seemed very reasonable to them, and no one objected to it.

The comprehensive tax is actually a general term, which covers dozens of sub-items: excavation and cleaning of canals, artificial storage of water in the dry season, organization of manpower to drain floods in case of flooding, cleaning and sanitation of the city, and various conveniences for farmers...... According to Tianhao's explanation, all these things have to be done manually, and at present, Rock City is still based on a primitive economy, and no real currency is used, and all consumption can only be converted into grain or cloth.

The two major taxes, together with the 30 percent of the intra-clan contribution amount, make the annual levy as high as 55 percent, more than half of the income of the peasant households in the current year.

Tianhao carefully calculated this number. He knew very well that this would not break the bones of the farmers in Rock City, and the remaining forty-five percent was enough for them to eat, and even a little surplus. This is largely due to the fact that they have brought advanced farming methods and large-scale use of fertilizers, and that the harvest of other barbarian farmers in the same piece of land is at most two-thirds of that of the farmers in Panshi City, or even less.

In contrast, with the same 60 percent of the grain levied, other barbarian villages would starve to death, but Rock City was able to ensure nutrition, and was supplemented by a large amount of meat from the fishing grounds and the Bighorn Deer pastures.

Tianhao doesn't intend to make the people of Rock City too wealthy at this stage. A high standard of living is a good thing, but it depends on the specific situation and environment. The city of 100,000 people is indeed powerful, but compared to other surrounding tribes, it is just a small grasshopper that can jump. Seeing that you have meat in your bowl, I can only eat chaff, and the jealousy that comes from it will soon turn into anger, and conflict and war will be inevitable.

The levy quota of 55 percent is a warning line, and if it is more ruthless, 60 percent is not a big problem. But Tianhao must leave some benefits to the farmers in Panshi City, and he can't save nothing all year round, in that case, who will listen to himself in the future? Who wants to follow a tyrannical city lord?

Saving $10,000 a year is very different from saving $1,000 a year.

The former accumulate wealth too quickly, and it is easy to form a new exploitative class. They will use their wealth to buy farmland that has been cultivated, and if a strong pig can be a mercenary, why can't he become a hired farmer who does things for me? The more land I buy, the more people I hire, and the more wealth I had, the more energy flowed into my pocket like water.

As long as society is progressing, this kind of thing is inevitable. No matter what decree Tianhao issued, it would be difficult to stop it, and he could only try to slow down the emergence of this situation and avoid more social contradictions.

For the new village approved by the national teacher, the policy is naturally different.

To put it simply, there are two sentences: encourage migration, encourage land reclamation.

Displaced people were given material subsidies for the construction of dwellings, which could be food, building materials, or peat.

Go to Xinzhai to reclaim farmland, and the tax holiday period is up to three years.

Rock City doesn't need to have too many people. The city was previously defined as a fortress, and now it is no different. Of course, no one can say what will happen in the future, but as long as the situation around the tribe remains unchanged, the development route of Rock City will always be half-military and half-civilian.

Headed by Changlin, Tianhao selected more than 80 Niu people and pig people respectively to form a study class.

White clay mixed with a certain proportion of lime to make long strips of about ten centimeters, which were burned dry in an earthen kiln, and the first chalk of the barbarian era appeared.

The carpenter is very good, the smooth wooden planks are spliced together into a single piece, painted with black paint made of pot ash and peat, and treated with glue to make a blackboard.

The city lord taught in person, and no one dared to ask for leave to be absent. In the spacious new classroom, tables, chairs and benches were neatly arranged, and more than eighty burly men and women sat under the podium, not daring to come out, and stared at the young city lord who had just entered the classroom with wide eyes.

"How to be a good village leader."

This is the title that Tianhao wrote on the blackboard, and just looking at it makes people's blood boil.

The students quickly understood the young lord's intentions: this was to teach the secret of how to become a great man, and to make the leap from the lower to the upper ruler.

In fact, they think too much and think wrong. What Tianhao needs is just a group of ordinary village leaders and a group of hard-working grassroots cadres.

Ten new villages will be built in the northern part of the city, and settlements will be built on a vast expanse of land. Each village currently has only 500 people, which is an ideal number that can develop steadily and will not put a greater burden on Rock City.

The problem of food and security is only the biggest difficulty that Xinzhai needs to face, and as a village leader, he also needs to master more relevant skills, at least have a certain amount of experience in agricultural production, master certain engineering skills, and be familiar with military ...... Tianhao plans to continue the same study class, and he needs a large number of qualified grassroots officials, especially the heads of the ten and the hundred. Personal competence is more important than the vague concept of "prestige". The priests played an important role in this, and it was their credit that the barbarians in the audience could read the words written on the blackboard.

The first lecture is over.

Changlin left his seat with all the students, walked quickly to Tianhao, and knelt down with indescribable gratitude and solemnity.

"Thank you for the grace of the city lord's reconstruction, I, Changlin (other people's name), swear that I will never betray in this life and this life!"

Swearing allegiance is common in Rock City, and similar thoughts arise whenever you feel it. Chang Lin was one of the earliest followers of Tian Hao, but even so, after listening to this class, Chang Lin still couldn't control the excitement in his heart, and with indescribable excitement and impulse, he quickly rushed to Tian Hao and bowed down.

Xu Kun, Ping Jun, Tian Mad, Mu Tuo, Si Yu...... Like me, they were followers of about the same age, and they had sworn allegiance to the lord in public. But the meaning of this study class is completely different, except for me, the other people in the class are all the leaders of the bottom ten, not to mention the pig people, they are all fresh faces. This means that the city lord has given me a heavy burden, if I am not mistaken, among the ten new villages that will be set up, it should be the most important and significant of the new villages I am in charge of.

Tianhao smiled and helped them up one by one from the ground, and he specially told Changfeng, who was extremely moved: "Study hard, listen more and remember more." During this time, I will prepare well, and I hope you can come up with a satisfactory result at the end of the course next month. ”

Changfeng, whose face was red with excitement, nodded heavily: "My subordinates understand." ”

……

North of Rock City, Dragoon Training Ground.

When Tianhao pushed the door and walked into the room, Yifeng stood in front of the window with his back to him, looking up at the sun hidden by the haze clouds.

There is a cloud of light in that direction in the sky, which can be seen directly with the eyes, and it feels very blurry, and the brightness is also as if it were nothing.

Tianhao casually pulled a chair and sat down, and asked lightly, "How do you feel?" ”

Yifeng slowly turned around, staring at him with guarded and fearful eyes.

The facts show that Tianhao's previous speculation is indeed not unreasonable.

The spore transplant to Yifeng was a complete failure for two months, and he showed no signs of mental obedience. I had a fever for the first and second weeks, and the spores caused the same side effects to the implant as the curved teeth. However, it did not really integrate into Yifeng's body, and the wound quickly suppurated, and Tianhao had to treat Yifeng with medication. After a week of treatment, instead of getting better, Yifeng had a more serious infection in the implanted wound, and the spores sewn into the body swelled sharply, increasing in size by four times. Tianhao cut the weaving thread and looked closely, and found that the spores had festered, and the destroyed cells and tissues had rapidly divided and died, and instead of entering the transplant person's body like a curved tooth, they adhered to it in the form of polyps, becoming a terrible lesion.

The patient is the patient! Anyway, it's just an experiment, and Yifeng is not the type that can't be lost.

His hands were tied behind his back, so that he would not be forced to pick out the festering spores that had been hidden under his skin again. In fact, the last time he checked, Tianhao had already given up hope, he just wanted to observe for a while longer, maybe the situation would change again and develop in the direction he wanted.

Now it seems that this is impossible.

"What did you put in my body?" Yifeng glared at him with bloodshot eyes, a terrible question he had been searching for answers to for months.

"Do you think I'll tell you?" Tianhao, who was sitting in the chair, shook his shirt and smiled indifferently.

"That's not what a sorcerer should do." After not shaving for a long time, Yifeng looked like a wild man who had just run out of the forest, he looked haggard, but his eyes were fierce: "I have a feeling that the piece you stuffed into my leg is moving, and even speaking." ”

Tianhao's smile tended to be formulaic: "Oh, what did it say to you?" ”

"You're not from us." Yifeng dragged the shackles that tied his ankles, took a few steps forward with difficulty, and made a "whoosh" sound: "Many things show that you are different from us. ”

As he spoke, he lowered his head and glanced at the leg that had become visibly swollen: "It tells me that I must obey, and the only way to refuse is death." I've never encountered anything like this before, and I'm pretty sure you're not a messenger sent by the gods, you're a servant of the devil. ”

Tianhao laughed silently.

After a few seconds of silence, he said lightly: "I didn't expect you to know this, it seems that this experiment did not fail as completely as I imagined, and there is still some merit." ”

Yifeng didn't understand the word "experiment," and he didn't want to explore its meaning. Slowly, dragging heavy steps, he came to the chair and sat down. At a distance of more than three meters, it took him nearly two minutes. The room was filled with the stench of rotting flesh, but the smell was lighter and less intense.

"I've figured out a lot of things."

"There has never been a young man like you in the history of the Ox Clan. No...... There should be no precedent for any tribe. The great teacher once said: Age is experience. Panshizhai has been in the hands of Fu Song for so many years, and it has not improved. Later, you became the leader, and the village suddenly became prosperous, and you won the battle against the deer people, and the pig people, which is not normal. ”