Many days ago, a large army passed through the Qichun Society.

During his stay here, Qiu did not commit any crimes, and he would also give some cane candy cubes to the children of the village community to eat, and some soldiers named "sappers" helped the village community dig a drainage canal before leaving.

The people of the village community were both familiar and unfamiliar with this army.

Strange because there has never been such an army stationed here.

The familiarity is due to the fact that the women in this army wore witch costumes, and some men and women dressed in similar costumes had come here and given them some seeds for food and some herbs for healing.

This kind of witch costume is the clothing of the Mo family's doctors and priests, and it is a fusion of the sacrificial clothing of Huaiyi and Chu people, which is easy to identify.

There are a lot of witches in the Chu country, and many witches are doctors in the village community, and the more backward the place, the status of women is slightly higher, because this is a remnant of a long time.

When the army left, the people of the village community were quite uneasy.

Because this army is very good people, although the language barrier, only a few people can communicate with them, but the attitude is kind.

It was also because many of the young men of their village community had been drafted to participate in the battle, and the object of the battle was the army that had passed by here not long ago.

This army is good, good people; But the object of the battle is the relatives of their own village community. In this way, there is a great deal of uneasiness, both in the hope that victory will be able to live like the ballads sung by those who are able to communicate with them in that army; I was worried that my loved ones had died on the battlefield.

The sun and the moon are not known in the village, and it is more than 20 days after the uprising in Yicheng outside the village, and the people of the village community are worshipping and praying in front of the community.

The shrine is the god of the land, and the original place of worship of each village and community.

This kind of blessing is not something that is done casually.

After the Qin State changed the law in later generations, the King of Qin fell ill, and some people from the village community bought a cow and killed it as a sacrifice to pray for the King of Qin, but at that time, the Qin State had changed the law, and the village community sacrifices should also be in accordance with the Basic Law, and they could not be sacrificed casually.

So King Qin said: They violated the law, although the original intention was to love me. But I can't not punish them for loving me, because they may not love me in the future, so I have to rely on power and the law for a long time, whether they love me or not, I will abide by it, so according to the law, I will fine the village community with two sets of leather armor.

However, the state of Chu is still far from changing the law at this time, even if the previous king of Chu changed the law, it is just those places near the capital, and it is impossible to effectively govern here.

The men, women and children of the village community gathered here, and instead of following the season, they slaughtered a dog and prayed for blessings under the leadership of the village elders.

1. Pray that the young people of the village community will not die in battle; And pray that the strange army and the people they trust in witch costumes will make the good world come true.

Halfway through the sacrifice, someone suddenly shouted, "They're back!" ”

The shouts of surprise alarmed everyone in the village, and when they looked at the sound, they saw more than 100 people walking towards this side, and it was the people from their village who went out to fight.

Next to the people who went out from the village community, there were seven or eight people carrying muskets, and they recognized, although they did not recognize them twenty years ago, but over the years muskets have gradually become a tool that military personnel need to practice, and they are certainly not too surprised.

Those who carried muskets were clearly from the army that had passed before, and their special military uniforms were obvious.

I saw that some of the people in the crowd had said something to the people who had gone out from the village, and then the crowd dispersed.

The sacrifice that was originally going on was no longer continued, and the dog could eat it at night anyway.

It is all too obvious that the family members are jubilant when they come back, and the family members are crying silently when they don't come back.

And those who did not come back also included the master of the feudal town and the slaves around the master, and I don't know if they died or what happened.

In the open space of the shrine, a woman stroked her husband's arm wrapped in a white cloth and asked, "What's wrong with your hand?" Wang Shangxingshi, was he defeated or won? ”

The man with the white cloth wrapped around his arm had a strange expression, and it took a long time before he said, "In the future...... There is no king. ”

Although the village community is closed, people are not stupid, and they can still distinguish the difference between not having a king and changing a king.

Hearing this, everyone was not too surprised, the king himself was far away from them, and besides, changing one today and changing one tomorrow was far less than the master in the fiefdom.

But where has the king gone? Why is it gone? Is it dead? Or what's going on?

The soldier who came back said: "Twenty days ago, we retreated with the army, retreated to one place, and were surrounded. Those soldiers of the Mo family rode horses, and the gentlemen rushed but did not rush away, and heard that the city of Yi was captured, and there was nowhere to retreat. ”

"In the evening, the opposite side sang songs, all of them were sung in Chu language, and they all understood it."

"There are those who sing, and there are those who preach the great victory, saying that the retreat is cut off, and the king of Chu will be defeated. He also said that he would grant 100 acres of land to the people, and ban public land labor ......"

As soon as the song was sang, we discussed fleeing. He hid in the woods while it was dark, thinking that he would go to the opposite barracks the next day. ”

"I went to the Mojia military camp, there was food and drink, and we gathered together according to the township. It soon became known that the king had surrendered. ”

"So we listened to the preaching in the camp for a few days, listened to some food, and selected some of the able-bodied, and we might return."

A great battle seemed to be ordinary in the eyes of the soldiers who fled that day, and there were so many people fleeing on the night of the siege that there was no large-scale battle at all.

When they heard this, they did not care where the king had gone, but were concerned about the words such as "grant land and ban labor on public land," and asked in amazement, "But is it true?" ”

The soldier pointed to the inkers who followed behind him and said, "Really, that's what they said. said that he wanted to divide all the fiefs of the gentleman. ”

The old man of the village community asked suspiciously, "Those people are not taxis?" After dividing up the land of the gentleman, what will those people eat? You didn't hear it wrong, you resealed the fief to someone else, right? ”

This has always been the case, and the mu tax system was implemented in the Central Plains several decades earlier, but in Chudi, this system was only implemented in some places of Jianghan and Han reforms.

Originally, they were all working with stones and bronze, and the tools of production were placed here, and it was impossible to collect land taxes in kind, so they could only choose to exploit the land rent of labor.

This is a simple question of cost, under the feudal system, the backward level of productive forces, there are not enough grassroots officials, it is impossible to effectively collect taxes in kind.

It is better to directly distribute the landed population to the large and small nobles, and adopt the system of public land labor.

All ethnic groups have had primitive village community eras, and the remnant of clan village community is the public ownership of land, and this remnant is combined with the feudal system, and it is easy to form a labor land rent system.

Sishang has now begun to levy a monetary tax instead of rent in kind; Some of the vassal states of the Central Plains also began to levy rents in kind and cloth taxes, while labor rents were still practiced in more remote areas.

Labor rent has many disadvantages, but it is the most suitable under the level of productivity in the remote areas of Chudi.

Its biggest disadvantage is the problem of fleeing, after official work is to dare to govern privately, the work of the public land, the labor of the feudal lord, these are all unpaid, and it is better than their own land, so they can flee of course choose to flee.

That is, the farmer has no iron tools or muskets, and even though there is a large area of wasteland, there are too many wolves, insects, tigers and leopards and they need to eat salt, which makes the cost of escape too high.

Under these circumstances, when the people of the village community heard the news that they would be exempted from public land labor, that the land would be redivided, and that land would be granted, they would immediately become excited.

This is a long-standing tradition in Yitian, the whole world is not the king's land, the land is not the farmer's, the farmer only has the right to use.

Moreover, because of the backward cultivation technology, the land must be properly fallow, and the tradition of the village community is to redivide the land every few years, but it does not include the land borrowed by the gentleman.

If everyone is not surprised by the division of the land, then the rest of the matter will be much simpler.

"Have you heard how to divide it?"

The people of the village community asked one after another, and the soldiers who returned from the village community said, "I heard." The borrowed field and the home field are uniformly measured, and the upper field is divided into the lower field, one easy field, three easy fields, and so on. ”

"After the cultivated land is divided equally, a part of the barren land will be added, and each household will have 100 acres."

"After seven years, everything can be bought and sold. Within four years, only the tax on cultivated land will be collected, and the tax will be one for ten. Four years later, the tax on cultivated land and wasteland was collected. ”

"A man shall serve only three years of military service, regardless of military service. Three years of service, lifetime exemption from military service, if there is a requisition, daily pay. Those who do not work will be harvested. ”

Speaking of which, the people in the village community don't believe it anymore.

The tax is not high, tithes, and within four years only the tax on the existing cultivated land, compared with the previous various types of labor, it is really heaven and earth.

And what they don't believe the most is that they only need to serve for three years after seventeen, regardless of military service, which is simply unimaginable.

This kind of thing has been done since ancient times, and everyone has long been used to it. But this kind of thing is the most terrifying.

Today's conquest is to serve; Tomorrow to repair the city, to serve...... All this, coupled with the labor for the owner of the closed field, made the people in the village a little unbearable.

If you can really be exempted from military service after three years of service, it is really a benevolent and righteous policy.

I don't know if this matter is true or not, but the land of the owner of the fief is there, and you only need to see if you can divide those lands to know.

Tithes have abolished the former public land labor, and there is no longer a need to undertake work that is not counted in the service period, such as horse equipment and timbering.