When the population of the Huaxia tribe
reached more than 8,000, various problems began to emerge, such as food. Now the prey within two or three hundred miles around the tribe has long been hunted. Even the prey in the distance seems to know that there is danger in this area and dare not come. The hunting team has to go for several days each time, which greatly increases the danger and the casualty rate.
As for the problem of grain planting, it also stands out. There are no modern fertilizers and pesticides, nor the various spiritual planting techniques of the Xiuxian era. The productivity has always been very low. The fields are opened dozens of miles away. It is very difficult for ordinary people or slaves to go out to plant.
Other problems also gradually stand out, which makes Lin Jiang ready to change his thinking.
In fact, the idea has long been there, that is, to popularize the concept of the country, and it is the concept of a great country, not the city-state system.
Lin Jiang is very efficient. Not long after, he began to make arrangements. The first thing is to establish private ownership. Before, it has always been public ownership. But once there are more people, public ownership is not suitable because it is easy to support lazy people and dampen the enthusiasm of some people.
So Lin Jiang quickly promulgated some rules of private ownership, such as determining private property. The hunting team only needs to hand in 50% of the prey they kill, and the remaining half belongs to the hunting team members. The same applies to other items, including slaves. There
is also the inheritance system. Private property can be inherited, and the children of the tribe members can inherit it, so there will be a stronger motivation to obtain property.
After another two years, some people in the Huaxia tribe began to emerge. They gained a lot of wealth with their smart minds or strong skills, and it became difficult to integrate into the whole. Lin Jiang took the opportunity to encourage them to go out and set up their own business and establish a tribe.
"You are all the elites of my Huaxia tribe. It is a waste of talent for you to stay in the tribe now, and it is not conducive to the growth of others..."
Lin Jiang persuaded them kindly, not afraid that they would not understand, because they are really elites. Not only can they survive in a cruel environment, but they are also outstanding when Lin Jiang gives them universal education.
In short, they are all talents with both civil and military skills, the elites among the primitive elites.
"Chief, we don't want to leave the tribe, we just want to follow you"
"Chief, I want to continue learning martial arts from you, the kind that can kill a tiger with one punch"
"Chief, I..."
Several people didn't want to leave Lin Jiang, because they were smart, they realized that there were still many things they could learn from Lin Jiang, such as martial arts, such as those wonderful ideas.
"After you go out, you can also come back, you are also people of the Huaxia tribe..."
Lin Jiang was very patient and told them the rules after the separation. They would be separated in the form of branches of the Huaxia tribe, but they would need to pay something to the tribe every year as taxes.
The tribe would continue to protect them. For example, if they failed to annex the tribe, the tribe would send people to help them, and they could continue to come back to learn some advanced technology and martial arts. Lin Jiang even decided to train a team of people and take turns to teach them in each tribe in the future. In
fact, this is the initial concept of the country. After they go out, they still call themselves the Huaxia tribe, speak the Huaxia language, and abide by the rules of the Huaxia tribe. In the future, they can smoothly put forward the concept of the country. Now, just take it step by step.
After rounds of persuasion from Lin Jiang, someone finally decided to be the first to leave the tribe and start his own business.
This person was the captain of a hunting team in the tribe. He had more than a dozen women, twenty or thirty children, and fifty or sixty slaves, which could form a small tribe.
Lin Jiang gave him generous treatment and support, equipped him with the best weapons, the most advanced agricultural tools and seeds, and promised him that when he settled down, he would help him to reclaim land and even build some farmland water conservancy projects. The only requirement
Lin Jiang put forward to him was that the place where he settled should be 500 miles away from the tribe. Of course, he didn't know how far 500 miles was. Lin Jiang told him that it would take more than three days to walk from the gate of the tribe, and this was also a set rule. In the future, all tribes that were separated would be more than 500 miles away from other tribes.
In the second year, Lin Jiang took a group of elites from the tribe to inspect the first tribe that had set up its own business, and the result was quite satisfactory.
In one year, the population of the tribe increased threefold. The additional population was of course slaves, and a large amount of land was reclaimed. Although they did not save much food in the first year, they had a large amount of wild animal furs.
Lin Jiang agreed to trade with him, and he could exchange the fur with the food of the Huaxia tribe, so that he would have enough food to feed the people of the tribe.
Seeing that the first tribe to set up its own business had gained a lot of benefits, the elites in the same group were immediately tempted. In the next two months, more than a dozen people applied to Lin Jiang to set up their own business, and Lin Jiang agreed to all of them.
And intentionally or unintentionally, Lin Jiang guided them to expand northward, because Lin Jiang knew that there was a vast world to the north, and when the human race once again filled the former world of immortal cultivation, Lin Jiang would come back to visit the old place.
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"Huh"
"Ha"
In the Huaxia tribe, one hundred teenagers were practicing martial arts. The cold air made their breath form a white mist, but they were all shirtless, showing strong muscles.
These one hundred people were the guards newly selected by Lin Jiang. He would personally teach them to read, practice martial arts, practice boxing, kicking and swords, and practice martial arts and internal strength.
Before them, Lin Jiang had a hundred-man guard. They had been studying and practicing martial arts for four or five years. They were all full-time martial artists. They did not need to work or hunt. They only needed to practice martial arts and be loyal to Lin Jiang. They only went out to deal with some large beasts occasionally.
Lin Jiang had already dismissed most of the first batch of hundred-man guards. It was all Lin Jiang's deliberate act. He rewarded them with a large number of slaves and women, but did not give them sufficient supplies. If they wanted to continue to support their families and enjoy the service of slaves, they had to start their own business, because most of the income after starting their own business would belong to him.
By various means, the Huaxia tribe had been divided into dozens of families, with as few as thirty or fifty people and as many as hundreds of people. Now the population of the Huaxia headquarters has dropped to only about four thousand.
The remaining people of the first batch of hundred-man guards became Lin Jiang's messengers. They patrolled the tribes to get them used to the ruling habits of the Huaxia tribe, such as paying taxes, etc.
"Yun has met the leader."
A boy of seventeen or eighteen years old walked up to Lin Jiang and saluted him. The etiquette was the etiquette of the previous Xiuxian world.
"Yun, are you ready for the things I asked you to prepare?"
Lin Jiang said to him in a friendly manner. Yun was a talent he had discovered in the past few years. He was also a versatile person
in both literature and martial arts, and was very smart. The primitive people in the tribe were actually not low in IQ, similar to those in the world of immortal cultivation. They looked stupid because of the social environment. After Lin Jiang's teaching, many smart people emerged.
Yun was his name, which also showed his status. After all, there were not many people in the Huaxia tribe who had names now. This was exclusive to the nobles.
"It's ready, chief."
"Okay, then you can take people out tomorrow,"
Lin Jiang said. His arrangement for Yun was to let him set up a business to trade with various tribes.
Huaxia headquarters now has the most advanced technology, weapons such as swords, some pottery daily necessities, some farm tools, salt and the like, all of which are hard currency.
Yun would take these goods and wander around the tribes, exchanging the tribes' furs, food and other things, in order to strengthen the headquarters and keep the headquarters dominant.
Lin Jiang has not yet introduced the concept of currency, and is still in the stage of barter, but currency has already begun to be produced. It will be proposed when productivity is improved and materials are more abundant.
Yun accepted the order and left the Huaxia headquarters with a caravan the next day. The caravan had more than 200 people, and there were 20 to 30 guards alone, fully armed, enough to deal with most dangers.
When Lin Jiang established the Huaxia tribe in the twentieth year, Lin Jiang learned through Yun's business that the population of each tribe had exceeded 30,000 people. He then decided to establish a country, named Xia, and positioned the Huaxia headquarters as the capital, and erected a monument to commemorate it.
At the same time, many new concepts were also introduced, such as currency. Lin Jiang found a gold mine and used pure gold to make gold coins and bronze to make copper coins, which were the currency of the Xia country. People
were also sent to formulate the calendar, summarize the climate, and teach agricultural development. At the same time, this year was designated as the first year of the Xia calendar.
In addition, there are also the naming of territories, which are all named after the names of some powerful tribal leaders. For example, the leader's surname is Qin, and his generation is the Qin land.
In addition, Lin Jiang formulated laws suitable for the current situation, engraved them on a huge bronze tripod, and gave them to some tribes. He also taught some young men to understand the laws and sent them to various tribes to supervise each tribe to abide by the Xia law.
In this way, the first country on this land, Xia State, officially appeared. Everything in Xia State will forever affect the people on this land. Lin Jiang also had his first imperial title, Emperor Xia.