Chapter Seventy-Five: Digging a Pit
After Yu Qian'er left, Chen Jian hid in the room, ready to chat with Hongyu. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Hongyu pointed to the small sack of linen cloth with grass and wood ashes that was dried and washed outside, smiled and didn't speak, and he had to leave in a huff.
Three days later, Chen Jian taught the Pythagorean theorem and the measurement method of similar triangles, a rectangular ruler and a wooden stick are sufficient.
Shu Jiu also told Chen Jian what he wanted to know the most-today was twenty-eight days away from the day when the day was the longest and the night was the shortest, and that day was the summer solstice. Ninety-one days from there, and the days will be as long as the nights.
This is a very important day, the cornerstone of the calendar, and if you don't know this, even if Jian Chen knows that there are 365 days in a year, it is meaningless.
In addition, a series of methods of exchange were also reached, such as seeds, planting techniques, struvite stones, herbs, gelding pigs, jade carvings, linen silk and silk.
After harvesting the wheat, Jian hopes to meet with Eyue at the newly built mall to discuss the future development of the two tribes, and the date is set for two months.
At that time, in addition to meeting, it was also necessary to discuss the expedition to the north and the various tribes in the lower reaches of the Caohe River.
He only heard a rough idea from the number nine, and knew that the grass river would flow into a river called Dahe three or two days later, and there were hundreds of tribes belonging to the same cultural circle distributed near the riverbank, and he also knew that the Huasu Alliance was once strong, and expressed regret that the Huasu Alliance had almost evolved from a tribal alliance to a rudimentary state.
History is written by the people, but after the cornerstone is enough, sometimes a heroic figure is needed to promote.
Hua is dead, but the rudiments of the cultural circle have appeared, and the rudiments of the state will still appear in tens or hundreds of years, and they will not change due to human will; But if he lives, he can be decades or hundreds of years in advance, and this is the meaning of heroism.
Since they decided to integrate into the cultural circle, in addition to a large number of technical exchanges, some cultural exchanges have also gradually begun, and Chen Jian and Shujiu agreed to send their respective clansmen in the future mall.
Anyone who enters or leaves the two clans must pass through the mall, and those who enter and exit from other places and do not have tokens will be put to death, but those who come and go from the mall are not restricted.
The exchange of technology between the two clans will continue, and in this era when there is no hard currency of precious metals, it is certainly bartering.
If there is no conventional world currency or precious metal, then if you want to increase the flow of goods, you must gradually increase the productivity with the rest of the tribes, otherwise the things produced cannot be exchanged, and the technology of your own tribe cannot be realized, which is equivalent to nothing.
If you are hungry and you have to eat when you are hungry, you have to wear it when you are cold, and in the era of precious metals, you can exchange products for hard currency, but in this era there is no hard currency, under the premise that food and clothing are not guaranteed, they have no exchange, and currency has no meaning.
Two days later, Shu Jiu took his people and drove away with two ox carts. It was two geldings that pulled the cart, and the number nine left two bulls, and there were finally real bulls in the city.
After sending away the number nine, Chen Jian folded a few handfuls of wheat ears and rubbed off the wheat mang, and bit it lightly, it seems that there is still half a month to harvest.
This will be the busiest season of the year, and the monsoon that is blowing from the southeast and carrying the rain is about to come, and if you don't harvest before the monsoon rains arrive, the wheat will sprout, and half a year's hard work will be in vain.
Except for the four tribes that had been in the city, the men and women of the rest of the tribes had returned to the caves in the mountains, where they had planted their wheat, but it was too late to regret it.
Chen Jian promised to deploy some people to help them transport the wheat back after the harvest, which was also the first benefit that the few who opposed him to become the head of the council and enjoyed the benefits of the city government.
The leaders of several tribes did not go back, because Chen Jian was going to divide the land on the south bank of the Caohe River, which was related to the interests of various tribes in the future, and even more important than harvesting wheat.
The eyes of these leaders have finally gotten rid of the barbarian era, and they can see with their eyes what will happen in a few years, instead of thinking about what to eat this winter in the barbarian era, and they can think about the things of a year at that time, they are qualified leaders.
A dozen men sailed together to the south bank of the Grass River, with the central axis of the city as the dividing point, and the lands of seven tribes on the east and west.
According to Chen Jian's requirements, when these lands are reclaimed in the future, all the ditches must be oriented in the same direction.
One was to facilitate irrigation and the large-scale use of slaves.
The second is that if there are really other tribes on the south bank of the Caohe River, it will be useful when fighting.
The wheels have appeared, the horses are in the north, and the chariots will always appear. Ditches in the same direction facilitate chariot combat, and in such a flat land with the same furrow orientation, the chariot is the strongest class of the era.
These are the things that the leaders don't need to think about, they just need to know the first reason.
As for how much each tribe divides, Chen Jian proposed another method.
"In the future, the land will no longer be divided according to the population of the tribe, but according to the number of men in the tribe."
To Jian Chen's surprise, there were almost no opponents to this proposal, because all the leaders understood that the living women who cultivated the land could not do it, and only men could do it.
Moreover, a large number of slaves used in the future to reclaim the land were also stolen by men in war.
Inadvertently, the status of men has been silently elevated, if not yet dominant in the entire city, but at least in the land and in war.
This time the land is divided according to the men, but it is just to put what everyone knows on the bright side, just like the discussion when the tanuki and Lancao decided to be together, men and women gradually began to divide with the change of the times.
In addition to this change, Chen Jian also set aside a large area of land near the central axis as public land for the city.
The chiefs were initially opposed because they preferred to pay a portion of the harvest rather than plant public land and then go back to their own private land during the busiest time of the year.
But Chen Jian still insisted, because the city government is now an empty shell, and the power still belongs to the parliamentary alliance of the various clan leaders.
If there is no land, there is no population, then there are no rights.
Therefore, after consulting with his own people, Chen Jian divided 200 slaves as the direct jurisdiction of the city, responsible for cultivating this piece of land owned by the city, and did not need the jurisdiction of the people of the other tribes, and may also have to set aside a part of the slaves when fighting in the future - these slaves belong to the city government, not the tribe.
He hoped that the leaders of the various tribes would soon understand the difference between the cities and the tribes, and this was also a model for them to understand and figure out on their own, rather than trying to explain them with words.
Since there is no need for various tribes to farm, there is nothing unacceptable, just a personal favor.
On the south bank, the amount of land of each tribe was set, and it was divided according to the width of ten paces of each man, and it was easy to reclaim it to the south, but things were not good, and all tribes accepted it.
Each tribe contributed some of the population, built some houses on the south bank of the city, and in the future may also build low walls to take care of the land on the south bank.
Not the caretaker, but the deer who have tasted the sweetness of the grain sprouts.
Lu Mingyouyou, who doesn't eat wild apples at all, is full of interest in grains and bean sprouts. Before the wildfires, a large herd of red deer roamed the land on the north shore every day, and the deer chirping was not nice in this era, comparable to the buzzing of flies on dried fish.
As for the name of the third city in the plan, Chen Jian named it Heyin.
The south of the mountain and the north of the water are yang, the north of the mountain and the south of the water are yin, he hopes that his tribe will be able to develop and grow in the future, in the previous life, Luoyang was the Shang and Zhou Dayi, and now there is no Luoshui, it is too ugly to call Caoyin, and it sounds strange to call Henan, so he had to take such a name.
Having agreed on what to do with the south bank, the chiefs returned to the council hall, where fourteen planks had been prepared were placed on tiger skins, and turned over to see that they were all the same.
The side with its back to the people is painted with different grids, which is the extent of each tribe's land, bounded by the central axis, one on the left, two on the right, and two on the right.
According to the number of male populations, the least tribe is caught first, and Chen Jian's tribe can only be caught last because it has the largest population because it integrates two or three tribes.
The fertility of the land is the same, but the difference is the distance from the city.
The tribe that caught first was naturally full of joy, and the tribe that caught it later was full of sadness, in fact, it was all the same, and in the end, the position on the board that the old grandmother grabbed was the fourth on the right side of the central axis, not too far and not too close, just right.
After the location was determined, each tribe divided a certain number of copper rings as a proof of land according to ten steps, and now it can only be according to the distance, and in the future after the weights and measures are determined, it will be according to the area.
"These lands are owned by the tribes, and each copper ring represents ten steps of land, which can be exchanged with the rest of the tribes, slaves and salt for others, or not. Whoever is to be exchanged shall come to the hall of the city and be witnessed by all the members of the council, and there shall be no repentance after the exchange. ā
"Now the population of the tribes is not large, and you can't reclaim these lands. These lands belong to you, and the rest of the uncultivated land is from the cities, and the population is large, and the land is not enough, so let's discuss it again if we go to reclaim other places. ā
The leaders looked at the copper ring thoughtfully, and said that the land can be exchanged for things now? If I had known this, I should not have gone back to the mountains in the first place, and I would have planted wheat directly near the city, and the land that had been cultivated was now much more useful than the acorns in the mountains.
Although the rest of the land was owned by the city, it did not affect them much, and there was enough land for them, and no amount of land could be cultivated.
In their opinion, although the leader of the city owned a vast land, in fact, what was really meaningful was only a little public land on the central axis of the south bank, and no matter how much land no one opened a pit, it was the same as a barren mountain.
Chen Jian naturally didn't think the same as them, at least nominally, the leader of the city became the largest landowner, and for the time being, there was not too much fierce opposition, he couldn't see the benefits now, it would be useful in the future, the population of the city could not be only so little, and those wild people who had the rights of the countrymen through their military exploits would also be tied to him.
In return, he and his tribe also gave up part of the land to the west of the city in exchange for a small piece of land that several tribes had cultivated in the east, and eventually his four tribes owned a large area of land to the east of the city, and the land to the west was divided among the tribes.
Half-give-and-half-for-for, of course, Chen Jian would not be so kind, but divided the land of the two more populous tribes who opposed him the most.
The land given to the two tribes is intertwined, and the dividing line in many places is not clear, and part of the land suitable for irrigation by the fork of the small river is also divided on the irrigation port, and there is a piece of land that has not been cultivated for the time being, which is a perfect clan powder keg.
Chen Jian estimated that in a year or two at most, the two tribes would have to accumulate enough contradictions, and it was very likely that they would fight.
For the sake of a foot of land, for irrigation, and for the silt land after the lake water was moved, several villages in the green onion province and the north-south Neidou province near Weishan Lake in the previous life fought until liberation from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and several villages never intermarried.
Now that the two tribes had not yet thought about the future, they were excited about the land they had acquired, and claimed that Jian Chen was really a qualified city leader, and their gratitude was overflowing.