As soon as the caravan passed the Linwu Pass, it gradually saw the village community.

The caravan did not stop at the village community, nor did it retail in the village community, but would choose to sell a large number of them in the center of the city to local merchants, and then the local merchants of Chu would resell them.

As the upper reaches of the Xiang River and the upper reaches of the Pearl River, an important watershed in the Nanling area, the caravan needed to transport goods to the upper reaches of the Xiang River in Linwu, and from there along the river to the farthest Dongting area, and the fleet also had a duty-free festival.

When passing through the village, many local residents stopped to watch on the road.

There are not many real Chu people here, and most of them are still Yi people from Cangwu and other places.

Linwu is a typical frontier city of Chu State, although Linwuyi was only established for more than ten years now, it is a new city, but when it comes to the way of governance, it is very old.

The change of the law after the king of Chu trained the new army was to reinstate the central power on the one hand; On the one hand, it was similar to the Western Zhou Dynasty, which drove many feudal monarchs to the border areas.

For the fiefdoms of some deep-rooted big families, the king of Chu could not move lightly, and could only adopt a compromise approach.

On the one hand, it recognized the hereditary power of those big family fiefs, and on the other hand, it built counties on the basis of fiefs, in a vain attempt to extend the hand of the central government into the fiefs of those big nobles.

And some soft persimmons, in the early stage of the reform, directly rushed to the border areas, in the border areas it is impossible to implement effective direct rule, so they have to delegate power, so that they have the right to govern, law, tax, war and so on in the border area, and it can be regarded as a country within a country.

Because of the strong power of the aristocracy, the centralization of power by the king of Chu was very compromised and a three-level organization was formed.

The central government implements military merit and rewards for obvious non-hereditary military nobles such as Tonghou, Zhigui, and Zhuguo; The big aristocratic family, the county duke, the feudal monarch, similar to the Han Dynasty, constantly mixed sand into it; The frontier is similar to the feudal state in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it can't be managed, and it doesn't matter, so you can toss it.

Linwu is more than ten years ago the Mo family people out of the army to help the Chu State to train the new army to change the law before the troops were stationed, relying on the dual advantages of the Chu State military and culture, the border area of the Cangwu Dongting is still using stone, wood and bronze Yimin is a crushing advantage.

Linwujun is also the new feudal monarch of Chu State, the original fief was in the Jianghan Plain, and he was not originally a feudal monarch, but there was also a food estate.

In the process of conquering Cangwu and other places, Linwu Jun made meritorious deeds, was able to become a feudal monarch, took back the original food town, and gave Linwu to him.

Exchanging bad land for good land in the central jurisdiction can not only strengthen the centralization of power, but also expand the frontier, the abacus of the king of Chu has played well, and in general it is still the same as Shang Xian, the so-called "meritorious service is rewarded, and three generations of merit are rewarded".

However, in the early stage of the reform, he can only do "meritorious reward" first, not "meritorious reward", if he dares to do this, Qu, Jing, and Zhao will immediately rebel against the Qing monarch's side, even if it has been compromised enough, there is still such a major event as Qu Yi's defection to the Three Jins.

Linwujun is the Zhuang clan of Chu State, named Qi, a distant branch of the royal family, and surnamed Mi. The name is derived from the king of Chuzhuang, and it is normal for the surname to be a side branch.

When Linwu Jun Zhuang Qi came to Linwu, there were also 3,000 Chu families who migrated with him, constituting the main body of Linwu City.

Relying on theocratic sacrifice as the basic structure of the grassroots organization, fifty households in the city are one li, and each li has its own land temple, the so-called sacrificial shrine.

In the rich areas of the Chu State, the jurisdiction of Li was larger, so the sacrifices offered in each Li were also different.

The big one uses a cow, the middle uses a pig, and the small one can use a pig if it can be used, and if it can't be used, it won't be used.

And in the city there is a large "Ji" altar, which is the god of grains, from each li to offer tribute and then by the nobles to preside over the sacrifice.

Fifty households are one mile, and the original organizational structure is still formed, similar to the system of village communities, where public land must be cultivated first, and then their own private land can be cultivated.

In wartime, you need to join the army, and you also need to fulfill feudal obligations for the feudal lord, including hunting, building cities, repairing, and so on.

Outside the city, the rule of Xia Jun Yimin was still adopted, and the originally backward clan communes were maintained, but the leaders of the original village communities were bribed, given them economic privileges, and allowed them to occupy more land in the village communities, so as to maintain their rule in the local area.

The main ruling power of the Rinwu Monarch was inside the city, and outside the city, his orders could not reach the lowest level, but he could carry out activities such as taxation, conscription, and labor through the bribed village leaders.

In some more remote areas, there are even cases where local rulers directly "lead the crowd to vote" and are directly crowned as feudal kings.

Linwu City is also a standard classical colonial city, similar to the situation when the Western Zhou Dynasty divided the world, and in the long run this is the best way to assimilate, but it may take too long.

It has only been sealed in Linwu for ten years, and with the introduction of iron, ox farming, gunpowder and other technologies, the situation of land annexation has been quite serious in ten years.

The rate at which this land was annexed to the Bronze Age was negligible, but with the spread of iron tools such as cattle farming, the speed of annexation increased dramatically.

For as a nobleman, what is needed is not a servitude rent, a controllable population for military service, not local wealth.

Therefore, it is impossible to relax the shackles of the peasants, and there are some wastelands, but if they are allowed to flee, the people will live, but the power of the nobility has been weakened, and this is an intolerable situation as a nobleman.

It is the most perfect aristocratic rule to maintain the peasants in a situation where they "cannot afford more means of production, flee without money or tools, and flee without surplus food".

However, with the premature emergence of standard iron tools and ox farming techniques, Lin Wujun was not only a nobleman, but also had another identity.

He had money, the income from the fief, the ownership of the fiefdom, and a steady stream of goods from Sishang.

So he used the power of the aristocracy to expropriate the people to reclaim wasteland, buy iron tools to plough cattle, go deep into the remote mountains to plunder the population, and constantly expand his own land, and then either operate or rent the land or divide his subordinates, constantly expanding his power.

The opening of land, mining, gold panning, monopolizing the income from the salt industry in the fiefdoms, and the purchase of weapons formed a completely different development mode from the South China Sea controlled by the Mohists.

Once the situation in the north was pacified, the Mohists in the South China Sea were relocated through immigration, adopting the development method of Sishang as the village community ruling under the joint direct government, lending cattle and iron tools, and eliminating the local cultural class and aristocracy, treating the people as part of the people, relying on the huge bureaucratic system and the number of cadres, and quickly completed the land reform, integration, and political power construction in the South China Sea region. While the South China Sea was built as a raw material production area, it also existed as a huge market, and the people had no surplus food and money, and there was a lack of market for industry and commerce.

Linwu, on the other hand, was completely dependent: the farmer was attached to Linwujun and Linwujun's subordinates, and the merchant spent money to get a salt franchise and relied on Linwujun's power to maintain a high price; Outside the city, the village community relied on the original leaders of the village community, and now the wealthy class that emerged due to the gap between the rich and the poor exercised indirect rule.

The organizational strength of these two models is naturally not the same, and the aristocracy is outdated, but they cannot and dare not learn from the new regime, let alone have the ability and enough cadres to learn it.

Neither want to, nor can to.

The special location of the Linwu area also doomed Linwu Jun to only adopt this method, and it was impossible to adopt the model of centralized commodification of enclosure of those nobles of the Song State - there was a lack of an industrial and commercial city circle in urgent need of raw materials and grain near Linwu, and there was also a lack of good transportation environment such as canals, Surabaya, and Heshui between the Song Kingdom.

In order to maintain his rule and increase his power, from the perspective of his status as a nobleman, Linwu's model was the most suitable for him: it bound the peasants, so that the peasants could not flee, under his rule they could obtain labor rent, and they could be conscripted when needed, and without enough cadres, there would not be enough grassroots control ability, which made him only use this serf feudal way to maintain system governance.

This is also an important reason why the emerging industrialists and businessmen in Sishang support the Mohist slogan of "benefiting the world".

Without land reform and overthrow of the aristocracy, the peasants were tied to the land, paid the rent of labor, and they were busy working for a year without much surplus food.

If you can't have any food left, you can't afford to buy iron tools to plough cattle.

If you can't afford to buy iron tools to plough cattle, you won't have much surplus food left.

If there is no surplus food, there is no money, and we cannot afford to buy all kinds of handicrafts.

I couldn't afford to buy handicrafts, so I had to continue to farm and weave for men and women, grow some hemp in the fields, and weave cloth by myself.

It's even more unsellable.

If you can't sell something, you can't make money.

It's an endless loop.

Five years ago, when Sishang had not yet obtained Huaibei, Jucheng and other places, the sales volume of cloth in Sishang was more than seven times that sold to Chu State, and the nobles did have enough spending power, but the problem was that they only had one body and one mouth, and they couldn't buy too much.

There are some things that cannot be solved by taking a step back.

If the nobleman takes a step back, then he will not be able to control the fief, and he will have to perish. The aristocracy, without the system of servitude rent and feudalism, would not be an aristocracy, and would either die in centralization or revolution. It was not only the industrialists and merchants and the landless peasants who wanted to kill the aristocracy, but also their monarchs.

If the industrialists and businessmen take a step back, there will be financial problems in Sishang, which will lead to a large number of unemployment, and civil strife in Sishang.

The conflict of interests, life and death, this is no longer just a group of idealists who "aspire to the world" to try to benefit the world, but a new class to kill another conservative class, and the Mohists are only the spokesperson of that emerging class.

Many of the people in the caravan were not coming to the caravan for the first time, only one mountain was separated, and the land systems on both sides were completely different, so it was inevitable that many ideas would arise.

It is said that the autumn wind has not yet reached the cicada, but not many of the old nobles in the world can see this.

Even if some people see it, they are helpless.

Four years ago, the Sishang Great Controversy, and four years ago, the Heze Alliance, the Mo family has almost written on their faces that they want to overthrow the old world.

But there is nothing that can be done about it.