Chapter 338: Semi-private ownership of the Xin tribe (please vote and subscribe)
In fact, there are many benefits to doing this. It is very similar to militarized strategic expansion. Taking the construction of a city as an example, it can actually be regarded as a garrison fortress. First, build such a fortress in a key position. Then, even if it is built in the center of the enemy group, the fortress can still survive firmly.
Then from point to surface, when there are more fortresses, three or more fortresses are connected, so that a sphere of influence that can actually be controlled by one's own side can be circled. To put it bluntly, it is to draw points, connect lines, and enclose land with towns on the map.
After enclosing the land, the line formed by the outermost circle of towns is equivalent to the border, also called the border defense line and the national defense line.
After enclosing a piece of land, several towns will start to sweep into the territory, kill all the ferocious beasts and tribes that are not under their jurisdiction, or incorporate them or demote them to slaves.
After the territory within the defense line is cleared, more people can be stationed in the territory, villages can be built, the area of crops can be expanded, and natural resources can be developed.
At this time, the soldiers stationed in the towns are useless. Some public security police or a small number of city defense troops can be left in these inland towns, and then most of the remaining troops can be transferred to the border to form a border defense army. Its main responsibility is to patrol the border, prevent all enemy invasions, and keep possible dangers out of the country.
In addition to drawing border troops from the inland, field troops should be drawn to continue building cities outside the border while meeting the border defense force, pushing the defense line outward, and gradually expanding the territory.
When the territory is large, the original town as the largest administrative unit is not very suitable. At this time, integration can be started. For example, three or four towns form a county, three or four counties form a county, which is equivalent to the current city, and three or four counties form a state, which is equivalent to the current province, but this is all later.
In the current state of the Han tribe, it is nonsense to talk about states, counties and prefectures. At most, it would be good to have a few mayors of towns, and there are only two cities at present. The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is to take one step at a time. It can be summed up in four sentences:
do things down to earth, develop steadily, get rid of poverty and become rich through hard work, and prosper
the country and secure the country through trade. The idea of founding a country has been sorted out, and the next step is a long wait. Luo Chong is waiting for the construction of the new urban area, waiting for the manufacture of goods in Hanyang City, waiting for Youye to bring over those alliance leaders who are willing to surrender to him, and those prophetic slates used to build momentum for his ascension to the throne. That is the evidence that he has become the son of destiny. In fact, this is the same as Liu Bang's killing of the white snake, just a gimmick for himself to become emperor.
The Han tribe is developing in an orderly manner and preparing for the empire to be established. On the distant southwest island, the Xin tribe is also working hard for the great cause of car manufacturing. On the one hand, it prepares seeds to exchange vehicle samples with the Han tribe, and on the other hand, it strives to develop its own vehicles.
It is worth mentioning that the internal structure of the Xin tribe has entered a semi-private ownership model. Under the Qingquan Valley of the tribal headquarters, there are many small villages with one or two thousand people, which are uniformly governed by the headquarters. The reason why it is called semi-private ownership is that they do not have to hand in the food and vegetables they grow, and the livestock they raise, but they are all distributed by themselves, but they do not have private land and real estate. The Xin tribe has not yet developed into a land private ownership model.
Although these people do not have fixed land and real estate, whenever someone gets married and starts a business, they will build a new bamboo house outside the village to live, and private occupation of land is not restricted.
The reason is that there are not enough people. Although they have nearly 30,000 people, there are still plenty of wastelands compared to the area they occupy. If they want to build new houses, they can find a place to build them. The tribe will not build houses in a unified way.
When ordinary people want to build houses, they will ask their neighbors in the same village for help. However, the owner of the house will also have to pay some food as compensation. It is not much, but it is certain that the helpers will eat during the construction period. If they want to reclaim new fields, they will reclaim them around the existing fields. If they need livestock and metal farm tools for farming, they will have to exchange them with the government with food.
In other words, the Xin tribe does not collect agricultural taxes, but the government monopolizes livestock trade and metal smelting. If the people want to obtain meat, animal skins, and metal products, they can only exchange them with food from the government. However, the government does not care how much land you occupy or how much food you grow. Ordinary people can grow as much as they can. The more food, the better life, and they can exchange for more things.
In addition, regarding livestock, cattle and horses are controlled by the government. There are only cattle in the folk, no horses. If you want cattle, you have to exchange them with grain. And if the cattle raised by the people give birth to calves, they have to hand them over to the government. Of course, the government will also give corresponding compensation. In short, you just don't have so many livestock.
Pigs and sheep can be raised by themselves, but the skins must be handed over. This should be considered as a breeding tax. Then the people have no clothes to wear. If they want skins, they have to exchange pigs, sheep or grain with the government. People can exchange meat, such as exchanging grain for meat, but they are not
allowed to exchange live livestock. These systems can be said to have big problems, but they are not a country yet. The huge tribe in the primitive era, the leadership can think of these ideas to control the tribesmen below is already excellent. However, it can also be seen from these systems that the Xin tribe is a tribe that attaches great importance to business. Basically, the government's fiscal revenue is all obtained by relying on cattle and horses from foreign trade, as well as the metals they smelt themselves.
Just at the northwest end of Zhudao, in a village near the southwest coast, several elders of the Xin tribe are developing vehicles here.
Under several bamboo buildings not far away, there were women and children sitting in the open space working. In front of them was a large bamboo winnowing basket with a split bamboo tube placed diagonally inside. The woman held the bamboo tube in one hand and the dried corn in the other hand and rubbed it on the bamboo joints inside the bamboo tube. Every time she rubbed it, she could rub off a lot of corn kernels.
The children next to them were doing the same thing, as if this was their usual game, but today there was an exception. Many children ran to watch the elders develop wheels.
If you want to build a car, then the most critical part is the wheel. In this era, the material for making wheels is naturally wood. Metal is too heavy, and pottery wheels are too hard, not wear-resistant, and brittle. Wood is naturally the best choice, but without bronze and iron tools, what can you use to deal with wood? This is unrealistic.
However, this did not bother the elders of the Xin tribe, and the captain of the caravan who had heard of ox carts. In just a few days, they have developed two types of wheels.
(End of this chapter)
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