When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Zisong didn't care about the news about the Huns' presence.

There is no need to care.

They are just descendants of a remnant of the Xia Dynasty. How can they turn the world upside down?
So, Zisong just sent a routine letter to inform Dayi Shang that he had discovered a new tribe migrating westward, and that was all.

Then Zisong continued to observe the State of Yan.

In his observation, time passed by like a white horse. In the blink of an eye, Zisong had lived in Yan for a year.

Zisong discovered a lot. For example, the clothes of Yan State were very beautiful and even had sewing patterns. After asking carefully, he found out that Yan State had a jacquard machine, which was extremely complicated but very powerful and could easily make clothes very beautiful.

He also discovered that Bei Bo had not paid attention to state affairs in the past year, and spent all day studying things with a group of old witches and craftsmen. Or he had babies. It was said that at the request of the elders in the clan, especially Bei Bo's uncle Yao Ce, Bei Bo's wife Wu Xiaoye helped him find a group of virgins to enter the palace.

It is said that she had seven or eight pregnancies in one year. Yu Yangzi was also very capable and gave Xin Qu a son.

The name was Xin Shangqiu. I don't know why, but Xin Qu always liked to name his children after places.

As for state affairs, they are basically handled by the various government offices. Only when they are unable to handle them will they go to the Northern Earl for help.

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The ruling team of Yan State can be described in one word - efficient.

It seemed that everyone in Yan State knew what they wanted to do.

Even slaves knew that the fastest way for them to escape the existing class was to come up with ways to iterate production technology.

Slaves and naturalized people, as front-line laborers, have the most say in whether many infrastructure tools are useful or not.

In addition, years of accumulated experience and word of mouth from the tribal era have enabled some smart people among them to put forward suggestions, which are adopted, and they are able to sever their citizenship and become naturalized, or be raised to become commoners, and begin to fight for their own future.

Although there was no absolute fairness in the State of Yan, the governance system formed by the military merit system still fully stimulated everyone's ambition and greed in a very short period of time.

The Yan State was brave and good at fighting, which almost became the philosophy of the Shang clan and princes like Zisong.

After all, who would want good people and slaves to participate in training?

Moreover, as the number of fiefs in Yan State increased, many young men who had just reached adulthood took their land tickets and went to the local areas to cooperate with the government in reclaiming wasteland.

After all, the Haihe River Basin was originally a large area of ​​swamps and forests before it was developed. Now that it has been fully developed, we have to worry about soil erosion. Therefore, the maintenance and repair of the river channel has to be handed over to the government office at the county level to integrate the strength of all the towns and villages to cooperate and benefit as many people and forces as possible.

Therefore, the population of Yan State changed frequently in cities and villages. And with the large-scale use of slaves, in order to prevent Xin Qu from directly withdrawing public slaves and leaving them with no one to farm the land, the nobles of the Zi clan quickly got a group of tenant farmers.

Yes, sharecroppers appeared.

These noble families usually have one donation quota every three years, but their descendants are generally not old enough or do not need to obtain such a high title.

So someone came up with an idea to sign a contract with the naturalized people.

The masters, that is, the nobles with fiefdoms, donated money to them to help them escape from slavery. This was considered as money loaned to them so that they could become naturalized citizens.

Under normal circumstances, naturalized people can only rent public land, but the rent for public land is very expensive.

Basically, after the harvest, there is not much income.

The clan-granted nobles had a bunch of blank household land tickets in their names, and they used these tickets to support the naturalized people's farming. In this way, the naturalized people did not have to rent public land, and only had to pay 30% rent to the master every year, plus 20% as interest, and receive military training from the master and become the master's followers.

In the future, when you go to the battlefield, your followers will be able to gain military merits.

Of course, if one wanted to be a retainer, one had to be of the same clan as the master's family. In other words, these naturalized people were equivalent to leaving public slaves and becoming private servants under the mercenary system.

Xin Qu tacitly agreed to this progress.

The reason is very simple. The tenants that the master wants to recruit must be those who are pleasing to the master, either tall, young and strong, or loyal.

Moreover, the imperial court could gain population and tax revenue, and did not have to spend time teaching slaves to integrate into Yan society. It was simply a no-cost business.

As for whether there will be large-scale tenants in the future, Xin Qu can only say that it depends on fate. After all, he has no idea what will happen in the future, but he knows that as long as enough manpower and development are mobilized, it will not be a problem for the Central Plains to easily accommodate 20 million people.

If that’s not enough, you can continue to expand outward.

Take advantage of the warm period now and explore vigorously.

Of course, Zisong admitted that this system might be of some use in helping slaves rise up, but it was unnecessary for the Shang clan, because it was a typical case of the main ethnic group being forced to make an absorption choice because they were not strong enough.

In his opinion, if Xinqu was the king of the Shang clan, his system would definitely not be implemented. After all, if people with different habits lived together, they might clash for various reasons.

Although the State of Yan seemed peaceful, Zisong had witnessed many private fights.

The result of everyone being militaristic is that people will resort to war over a disagreement.

While he was strolling around Tong County, he saw seven or eight street fights.

As a result, I found out that many noble families in the same county had made enemies in the past because of tribal affairs. Now that they were placed in neighboring villages, it was easy for them to fight for various reasons.

For example, priority in the allocation of water sources and slaves, and even fights between people because some people arrived earlier than others at the market and were dissatisfied with the other party getting a good stall first.

On the Yan side, many people were cheering and making noises, and not many people tried to stop it.

Some people even died, and then these people were stripped of their titles and exiled to the frontier.

Not only were they not angry, but they looked excited.

It's as if going to the frontier would give you the chance to chop off the enemy's head and then continue to advance.

After so many observations, it is now spring again. Zisong, who has lived in Tong County for a year, opened the window as usual and looked towards the northwest corner.

There was a building rising from the ground over there, and he could see it clearly from his high vantage point, after all, his eyesight was pretty good.

This house is in the form of a garden. Its owner is the chief of the Baima clan, a nomadic tribe that has been annexed from the grassland.

The chief of the Baima tribe was called Gui. He donated money to get a clan title and was given the name Luo, which means a white horse with black mane and tail.

Luo Gui is a man who knows how to enjoy life. Ever since he came to Juyongguan, he has had the idea of ​​changing his future.

Then he sold more than 700 of his clansmen to a dozen noble families in the interior of the country in accordance with the tenant farmers' method. They paid a joint guarantee and helped him move into the clan fiefdom. Then he obtained a piece of land on the outskirts of Tong County to serve as a village, plus dividends that were enough for his family to live a lifelong life.

As a result, when Luo Gui came here, the first thing he did was to build a garden.

He himself was engaged in the sheepskin trade both inside and outside the Great Wall, and it was said that he made a lot of money, so his garden could be said to be quite luxurious.

The craftsmen were from Xinqu Palace who helped design it. The stones were traded with the clans in Taihang Mountain when he went there for trade. The lake was dug very well. More importantly, he also had a greenhouse building. The thick black smoke showed that the charcoal was not burned thoroughly.

Zisong saw the building rise from the ground with his own eyes.

He didn’t think it was that great when it was first built, but when spring came, he was a little stunned.

"This... is indeed beautiful!"

The garden architecture offers a new scene at every step. There is a world of its own inside, with winding corridors and fish ponds that complement each other. There are also birds flying and falling on the trees, birds chirping, and misty rain falling on the eaves, which is connected with the not-too-dense clouds in the sky. It is like a dream, like looking at a landscape painting, relaxing the chest and expanding the mind, as if it is the residence of a banished immortal.

This kind of beauty simply made Zisong, who had endured hardships and been beaten with various paintings, jades, and poems for a whole year, aroused his itch.

"Master." Just as Zisong was admiring the beautiful scenery, a servant came up hurriedly and handed him a scroll while saying, "The king is in trouble."

Zisong's expression froze, and he quickly turned around to take the scroll, unfolding it and reading: "He and Yu Mangshan were ambushed by the Xiong clan (Xiong people), Zhao clan, Qilong clan, and Danshan clan, and were seriously injured and on the verge of death.

Upon hearing the news, Xun sent 3,000 soldiers from Donglai to seize Dayi, blocking Fengfu and preventing the army from returning east.

Quickly ask the Su family to send troops south to stop Xun's ambition. In addition, appease the State of Yan and never let him go south to interfere.

My younger brother has the name Lian. " (End of this chapter)