When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 260 The wheat turns green and the spring famine begins
Just as Xinqu thought, some slaves got some food and went out for a special wander back.

Then one by one they pretended to be happy in front of people who had not yet had their turn.

People are like this. When facing guys from a certain class, they always want to dress up to make themselves look like they are living a good life.

He pointed out which shack was good, and then after going out, the women asked him how he had joined the Xin family.

If they see outsiders, they will scold them as barbarians, or secretly scold them for not understanding the rules.

This set has a proper term - colonization.

The population of the Xin family is already sufficient, and no amount of Xinqu can be accommodated, because food can only support so much.

So how do you make slaves willing to do things for you? You have to give them the food they deserve.

You also have to push down the ranks of the surrounding tribes who have taken refuge, and let the slaves in your own land humiliate them. Artificially creating class gaps can easily create attraction and centripetal force.

Of course this is just a transition.

Xinqu wanted to stabilize the slaves and let them complete what they wanted to do before spring.

No, with the bonus vacation system and the show off, the motivation of the slaves immediately increased several times.

Originally, everyone was still dawdling in the winter, but now one or two are fighting for the lead.

Slaves have been at the bottom for a long time and have been artificially deprived of reproductive rights.

In fact, many of them have already become gay quietly.

Now that Xiaotangshan has given them an outlet, the energy of the slaves at the bottom has been further reduced and consumed.

Xin Qu looked at the series of good news sent from Xiaotangshan Market, pondered for a moment, and then asked Xing Xingchun to come over and discuss with the chiefs of some medium and large tribes near the forest area, asking them to send some women to places where there are many slaves of the Xin family. place to do that kind of work.

As long as you are willing to come over, the Xin family will not be subject to this tax.

Ping Xingchun went there and quickly took away more than 300 women and set up shacks in places where there were many slaves.

This persisted until February [-], the second year of Quli.

Mr. Xin began to water the wheat back to green. In order to solve the problem as quickly as possible, Xin Qu mobilized 3000 manpower to water the wheat fields that had been prepared to turn green, and then began to prepare for the reclamation of other fields.

Spring plowing is coming, but this month is also the beginning of spring famine.

No matter how much food Xin had, he could not continue to support so many men and women.

When the labor intensity of spring plowing begins to increase, human energy is consumed on a large scale, and the business of shacks decreases.

At this time, the small tribe that relied on the Xin family began to have problems.

If there is not enough food, we must either rob it externally or attack internally.

But surrounded by big forces.

The Xin family even took advantage of the four-month winter to build a bunch of small towns. Their defenses were not as good as the fortress of Changping, but they were more than enough to defend against sneak attacks.

In addition, the Xin family has a curfew policy, and you have to go to bed at that time. If you wander around, you will be hung up, beaten, or even demoted.

Therefore, most people are in the city as soon as they arrive, and they have weapons, and no one dares to mess around.

So it was mainly civil unrest.

……

"Chief, there is still a little food..." Cang Geng came to see Xin Qu.

Although there is now a lot of meat supplement within the tribe, spring plowing itself is high-intensity work, which is terrible for the human body.

Spring famine has also come.

In previous years, during the spring famine, we could pick some young leaves and weeds to satisfy our hunger.

But last year Xinqu set off several fires, and the entire wild forest near Changping was turned into charcoal and plowed fields. If you want to find young leaves, you have to go up the mountain.

But the problem is that the greening time is different on the mountain and down the mountain.It will take another ten days and a half for the young leaves to appear on the mountain, and famine has already begun to appear below the mountain.

Therefore, Cang Geng felt panicked as he kept consuming the clan's food.

"Well, it is indeed a problem." Xinqu looked through the report and found that he had indeed underestimated the food consumption of spring plowing.

It’s not that ancient humans ate much, but that there was a problem with Xin’s rationing system.

In order to increase the labor force during the spring famine, Xinqu increased the food ration, and the original four taels per day became one pound per day.

It seems that the increase is only for the strong laborers, but the problem is that the strong laborers will eat a little more of the canteen ration every time to reduce the consumption of their own food savings.

Yes, savings.

Before the Xin family annexed the Changxin family, they carried out a round of distribution. Many families actually had a lot of food on hand.

Xinqu's original intention was to add a little more to help poor families, but he underestimated that in a human society, how much you eat depends entirely on whether your seventh aunt or eighth aunt is the one who cooks.

In this way, there are many and there are naturally few, the food is rationed, and the kitchen is empty.

In an era when private property begins to rise, public property will also be scooped into their own pockets by all levels.

If Xin's current food reserves continue to go according to consumption, they can only last until May.

It can be followed by the spring and summer flood seasons, the season when animal populations begin to recover.

Moreover, as spring begins, nearby wild animals will gradually move south. The Xin family owns the largest wheat field nearby, which is definitely the favorite of these herbivorous wild animals.

After that, you just need to hunt around and basically catch one and hit it.

Of course, Xinqu likes to prepare with multiple hands.

"Convene a meeting and I'm going to implement the grain bank system so that Xin's grain can be traded and distributed more fairly."

Xin Qu raised his head and said to Cang Geng: "Didn't I keep my salary last year in the warehouse? Move it out and put it on the altar."

"okay……"

Cang Geng scratched his head, not quite understanding what Xin Qu meant by the food bank system.

But in fact, Xinqu was also thinking about whether the food bank system could work.

Because the grain bank system he designed himself is actually more similar to a bank.

Those who are rich in food can put it in for storage and withdraw it at any time, and Xinqu plans to pay interest.

Because overall, Xin's grain production is in positive growth, and privately owned grains are generally not all consumed, because there are still kitchens to cover the bottom line. These surplus grains on hand are new capital growth points.

"In the future, as a shelter for people with title promotions, the food bank system is now built and can also become the second card in my hand, independent of the warehouse system. Let's add a layer of fault tolerance."

Xinqu made up his mind.

After all, the public property of the Xin clan has not yet been disintegrated, and people's understanding of private property is actually not in place.

If the Xin family really ran out of food, Xin Qu would just say a word and the clan members would come up with food to tide over the difficulties together.

But this is only limited to the headquarters of the Xin family. The Chang Xin family and other naturalized people who joined later came for the development of the Xin family.

If you can betray your own clan and join in, it's just for profit.

If they cannot be tied up in other ways, they are likely to run away with the money.

So the grain bank system is their second insurance lock, and they want to take away a huge amount of grain in one go?

The Xin family is only so big now, and there are only so many people. Can Xinqu allow you to take the food away?

Don't even think about it!

(End of this chapter)