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It's time for the peach blossoms to bloom again, and Xia Cheng takes a day off as usual, with the wild combination of the sky and the earth, the itchy singing, and the figures of men and women washing...... The waves along the grass river, just like the peach blossoms falling on it, made the entire grass river blush.

The wind blowing the red peach blossoms to wake up the frogs blew from the east, and also brought news from the east, a piece of news that I don't know good or bad.

In previous years, because the river was frozen or thawed, a large amount of ice siltation led to the blockage of the river, and there will be a flood breach every three or five years.

This is a good thing, but good and bad depend on each other, and a good year means having the strength to fight.

The person who brought the news also conveyed Su Yue's request: he hoped that Xia Cheng would build some bronze spears and transport them down the river after the river thawed, and the exchanged corn and the like had been piled up in the barn that belonged to Xia Cheng in Su Cheng. I hope that Jian Chen will bring some gunpowder and people who can practice gunpowder as soon as possible.

Of course, this kind of trade was done, and the bronze gunpowder could be exchanged for a lot of corn, and it did not need to be shipped back, so it could be used to build the castle of Onozawa.

The people of the two cities also knew about this transaction, and with Chen Jian's previous promise, they also fulfilled their promise, sending a large number of people and slaves to participate in the labor of the summer city workshop.

It is impossible for the people of the Acropolis of Echeng to come into contact with the core things now, but the extra manpower still alleviates the lack of manpower in Xia City, and the copper smelting furnace is produced every day, and on the premise of ensuring the use of agricultural tools, as much bronze as possible is produced.

It was not cast, but loaded in bronze ingots, accompanied by several bronze craftsmen who did not know the core of the bronze alloy, but knew how to cast it.

These bronzes will be re-melted into weapons near Sucheng to save the manpower of Xia Cheng, and Suyue will definitely send people to help.

Jian Chen asked the people who left by boat to bring a message to those who stayed in Sucheng that they might have to go in June or July, and let them continue to do what they had set before.

The city has settled down for the time being, and most of the people are busy with the cultivation of the new year, and there is not much change from last year, except that the same grain can be exchanged for less.

The best-selling goods in the market these days were slaves, and the private slave trade was also going on, and Chen Jian's idea for those who were divided was to use semi-slavery, family-like private soldiers, and bring the villagers in the village with simple training to seize the civilized vacuum.

The fate of many slaves has also changed because of this, originally there was only one way to become a subordinate peasant, but now there is another way out, but the fate of this way out is not in their own hands, but in the hands of their masters.

The slaves of Xia Cheng have been divided into three, six, nine and so on, and those who can speak the language of Xia Cheng and those who are close in blood to the Red Fish tribe are counted as the first rank, and they are also the slaves that the lords who have divided the feudal ones most want to exchange.

As a designated place for slave trading, a similar scene is staged every day: open the slave's mouth to check the teeth, take off the slave's clothes to see the strength of the slave, and ask the slave some common conversations. Those warriors from the original clan are the best-selling and can also be exchanged for the most food.

The private slave trade was permitted, but it had to be impartial in the city, otherwise the laws of Xia City would not recognize the new owners of the slaves, and in exchange for a symbolic portion of the grain received by the city.

Chen Jian will not give these slaves as private soldiers the status of nationals, which he said very clearly, otherwise it will cause extreme dissatisfaction among those public slaves, which is a violation of fairness.

However, in the territory of their respective lords, these slaves can have certain privileges, but no matter how many privileges they have in the territory, they are still slaves once they enter the summer city: including the need to give way to the countrymen on narrow roads, and some detailed and extremely superficial rules that highlight the distinction of status.

With the prevalence of the slave trade this time, which led to the sale of many daily necessities, farm tools, weapons and other goods, Yu Qian'er was surprised to find that the city had not yet been harvested, but there were more and more goods in the public property.

This is also one of Chen Jian's purposes, to take advantage of the opportunity of the division of the seal, the food and goods that were awarded to everyone last year are returned to the public property in this way of exchange, and a large amount of materials can be accumulated in the short term, so that the public property, which was originally somewhat stretched, is a little more comfortable.

It was a subtle twist to divide it and then collect it. A direct increase in taxes or compulsory collection will cause a lot of dissatisfaction, but taking advantage of the opportunity of this land division to slightly raise the price of production tools, and using a hidden tax can reduce some contradictions.

In the short term, some of the people in the cities who did not have great military exploits received large sums of money by selling slaves, which they used to repair their houses outside the city or marry back women; Those who have made great achievements in the war have changed the wealth accumulated in the past few years to the owners and redistributed them, driving those ordinary people who have not made great achievements to have surplus food to buy handicrafts, and those people will not praise those who exchange with them, but in turn praise Chen Jian's policies.

The gap between the rich and the poor and the hidden high and low has actually widened because of the division of land, but in the short term it has created the illusion of narrowing, and the stability brought by this redistribution can last for three or four years, and at the same time, many young people can see the model of their dreams. Chen Jian told the crowd that there were still many villages that had not been divided, and those who had already been divided were not allowed to attack as a reward in the future.

In the new year, many old people died, public property in the expenditure on supporting the elderly, a large number of babies were born because of the emergence of the family system so that the pressure of raising from public to private, at most another ten years, a new batch of children can grow up, the old people who can not work will also die, Xia Cheng will usher in about ten years of the lightest burden, the most light and strong labor, a large number of soldiers trained from childhood, that is when Xia Cheng is at its peak.

By the time the group of young and strong children in ten years later begins to grow old, Xia Cheng's population will gradually stabilize, and after calculating that the first batch of children born in Xia Cheng will grow up in ten years, to the life expectancy of the first batch of children in thirty years will reach a life-and-death balance, Xia Cheng will have about twenty years to support Chen Jian's ambitions.

In other words, in the ten years before the twenty-year golden age, Xia Cheng could not become the target of public criticism, and could only gradually improve his reputation on both sides of the river by helping Sucheng make wedding clothes, and secretly provoke Sucheng's reputation.

"Five years of honeymoon, three years of disagreement, two years of rebellion."

This is the goal that Jian Chen set for himself, if Su Yue can die in ten years, Su Tang's brothers and sisters die or be sterilized due to lead poisoning, and Su Yue's family will be extinct, this is the most perfect ending.

If you don't die, you will inevitably have to repeat the story of the battle between the Huasu and Su tribes in the river valley.

During the honeymoon period, what is needed is to consolidate this small alliance, and support the power of the alliance leader to be slightly expanded, but not to support the hereditary power of the alliance leader. Conquer those who disobey, instigate powerful clans that are qualified to compete for the position of leader, and build a castle in Onozawa as a center of technology and academic culture to expand the influence of Natsujo on both sides of the river.

The safest way is to stay in Xia City by himself and send the most trustworthy person to Onozawa, but Chen Jian has no heirs for the time being, and even if he is born, he is only a baby, and the people around him are difficult to take on such a heavy responsibility, so they can only rely on the advantage of river transportation to temporarily connect the two cities.

This kind of strategic deployment across thousands of miles is very dangerous in this era, and in the previous life, Yin Shang of the Western Zhou Dynasty also had a similar strategic deployment, but the effect was not good: King Wen's two elder brothers ran to the land of Wu Yue, nominally Tai Bo Dayi, and did not want his father to be embarrassed by the rules of establishing a grandson or not establishing a child, so he and his second brother ran to the wild land of Wu Yue to give up the throne to the younger brother Ji Fa.

Chen Jian divides the wisdom of this past life into two halves: half builds a city in the hinterland of the great river, using the advantage of ships to obtain a support point for future civil wars; The other half is to let the clansmen expand westward: the two Taibo brothers ran from Shaanxi to Jiangsu, they were not familiar with the place, and it was estimated that they brought 100 people with them, and it still took three or five years to establish a country in the civilization vacuum, and it would not be too difficult to expand westward with Xia Cheng as a basis.

The reason why he had to wait until May and June to go east was that Chen Jian was also waiting for some models to appear in the west that would make the clansmen red-eyed. (To be continued.) )