Chapter XXVI

During the frosty season, three new clay tablets appeared in the square in the center of the city, and the people of the city learned about the new priest and the three new rules. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The age of conscription was set, and the people of this city did not care much, and they who had just been freed from the life of the mountains and forests still had for the time being the concept of collective labor of the old times, and considered it to be a matter of course.

The second rule is about the distribution of power between the clan leader and the six divisions, and it clearly tells the clansmen what matters are under the jurisdiction of the six divisions, and what punishment will be imposed if they exceed them.

The people in the city don't feel anything about this, anyway, the six divisions have Ji Xia and the goods are all Ji Xia, and no one can replace the goods management workshop and exchange, and now the city is thriving, and the relationship with Ji Xia is inseparable, Ji Xia can always choose the right path, he is like a sheep, telling the sheep behind how to run, there is nothing wrong with this.

However, the third rule is very interesting, in the future, every year in the spring, summer, autumn and winter, a general meeting of the people of the city will be held, and the people in the city will elect some people who will contribute to the city and can serve the people.

Once more than half of the people agree, these people have the qualifications to become officials, and if there are officials who do not do well, those vacated positions will be selected from these people first, and Ji Xia can only choose from them, but he can't decide who has this qualification.

There is also a rule in the third rule about those children in the school, who have passed the assessment in the school, and have the same qualifications as the people elected by everyone.

The people discussed the new rule with curiosity, wondering if they might have a chance to become officials, and the children were certainly eligible, after all, some of the things the children had learned were no longer within their comprehension.

The leaders of the various tribes also liked this rule, and in the past, it was directly proposed by Chen Jian, but now Chen Jian's proposal power is limited to a certain range. They did not object to the people proposed by Chen Jian, but they had to consider how to restrain the rights of the leaders when the city elected a new leader in case something happened to Jian Chen, and how to ensure that the elected leader did not favor his own clan.

The leaders kept the secret of the council a few days ago, and only said that it was the election of a new priest.

In fact, in addition to the population matter ten years later, these people also bargained with Chen Jian that day, and finally Chen Jian proposed a third rule to regress to ensure the passage of the second rule, and at the same time to increase the rights of the council members rather than the clan leaders - during the period when the city leader left the city, the council was normally responsible, and only when there was a major disagreement in the council, the final decision was made by the city leader designated by the city chief.

At this time, the city was in the absence of the leader, and Chen Jian took the more than 400 people who were requisitioned to the mine to start building roads.

Most of the people who were requisitioned had served as auxiliaries, and on the way to the mines, these people were scattered from the tribe and redistributed, and a team of fifty people was selected to be in charge.

Chen Jian set a quota for them to repair the prototype within a month, each team is responsible for their own meals and finishing time, and the task of each team is 2,500 steps, and after repairing in advance, they can receive the full amount of one month's food to return to the city.

It didn't take much trouble to build the road, so after cleaning up the firebreak, lighting a fire to open the passageway, and carrying a large amount of earth and stones from a distance to smooth out the potholes.

Every thirty paces a large amount of earth was piled up on both sides of the road, and each team was divided into an ox cart to crush the burned pads.

The rut will leave a deep pit in the soft land, and fill the soil on the deep pit that is rolled out, which can save a lot of time, and there is no need to build the whole road very hard, only need to ensure the position of the rut, as long as the car is on the same track, the car can be passed.

The road is not built in a day, and if the car walks every day after it is completed, the rut position will become harder and harder, and the earthwork left behind is to pad the horseshoe prints and rut position.

After the completion of this batch, dozens of people will be requisitioned every month to be responsible for filling and maintaining, and in about three or two years, the rutted position will not grow tall grass, and only those strong plantain will survive.

It took Chen Jian three days to clearly assign the tasks of each team, and he clearly told these people that the food they received belonged to them, and they didn't need to give it to the tribe, and they could go to Fang Market to exchange for what they liked.

Although this road is still in the plan, it can be completed one day, and Chen Jian returned to the city after allocating these things.

In the days since he left, everything was running normally, which was a good sign and a sign that the city was starting to get back on track.

Because of the large amount of ore, roads need to be built, and another industry far away from the city does not need such a large amount of transportation, so Chen Jian just sent people to burn a small road, using donkeys to transport the boiled salt, and at the same time send food supplies to the salt village.

Every day, donkeys carrying salt would enter the city, weigh them and pile them up in warehouses. The food that needs to be transported back is prepared by the person in charge and the donkeys are carried back.

Every day, there were ships on the wharf to carry all kinds of goods to Echeng, and the first caravan to the Acropolis had already set off, carrying salt, sugar, honey, linen, farm tools and other relatively light but high-value goods, which Chen Jian asked them to exchange for slaves.

In addition to going to the Acropolis to exchange slaves, the slave market in Yangguan also often has a group of slaves sent in exchange, that tribe can continue to conquer smaller tribes after getting the weapons and food of Xia Cheng, and their own strength is increasing day by day.

Chen Jian gave them crushed wheat grains, not a single seed, and tried to tie the survival of their tribe to the exchange of slaves, and also promised that if they were retaliated by those tribes, Yangguan would send troops to help them.

There are always more than a dozen squads of soldiers stationed in Yangguan, and the rule is to rotate once every two months, because it is not too far from Xia City, so there is no big problem with supply.

The herdsmen who escaped from the grassland also settled near Yangguan, and when they returned, the heads in their hands had already rotted and maggots, but they still did not throw them away, they remembered what Chen Jian had said at the beginning, and these heads would be the guarantee of their new life.

Chen Jian sent some people to appease them, and also fulfilled his original promise, those sheep brought back were divided into those people, the rest of the sheep were driven back half of the sheep, and the rest were raised in Yangguan, and provided forage and food for the new herdsmen.

There are more than two hundred people who have returned, none of them are from the same clan, and Jian Chen has also saved a lot of trouble, and there is no need to consider the division and disintegration, these people will become a member of Xia City as wild people.

These people had been raising horses and sheep on the grassland for a long time, and Chen Jian selected a few people from them to be responsible for raising livestock.

The whole city was like a wind-up toy, running in order.

More and more rules let the tribesmen know what to do and what not to do, and also let the tribesmen have a new hope and pursuit after they have eaten enough, a spiritual pursuit that is beyond the desire to survive and longs to be respected.

The newly stepped road also gradually extended around Xia City as the center, connecting the three cities of Xia, E and Wei, and radiating to the tribes in the surrounding mountains and forests. (To be continued.) )