Chapter 75: Back to Before the Change One Night
In mid-July, the carnival caused by part of the division of the other part reached its peak. A National People's Congress that determined the fate of Xiacheng officially started, and all public property was to be given to "real Xiacheng people" at low prices, and everyone had a chance.
The large amount of public land confiscated and the people in Xinxia City belong to the clan. In the future, the land distribution rights will be divided by everyone, capable and prestigious clans, and the promise will be fair.
They also promised that in the future, the real Xiacheng people would not need to pay any taxes, nor would they need to cultivate public fields, and would be completely free.
Since there is no need to pay taxes and since the Lisi system has collapsed, the people in Xiacheng think that it is better to be with the clans and help each other with each other. After all, the same clan is related to blood.
The vast majority of the land and slaves were concentrated in the hands of the conspirators' families, nominally clan, but jurisdiction and distribution were in their hands.
Most Chinese people look forward to the public land slaves becoming their own private property, and excitedly look forward to the day of distribution.
As for workshops, salt fields and other things, I didn’t feel that there were too many benefits when I was managing public property before, and I couldn’t feel that those public property belonged to me. It would be better to turn it into money and everyone would share one part. This is what really belongs to everyone.
When that day came, Muma, like most people, took all the coins to the center of the city.
The first day was allocated land. When the Chinese people had sufficient land, these land was only used as property and needed to be distributed to each Chinese in Xiacheng.
The people of Xiacheng were exposed to currency very early, and because of the strict control of the city before, the currency was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it can be regarded as the political and credible heritage of the city several years before it.
From paying taxes to completing money, no one can figure out what the money is, but they just think it is magical. Sometimes this thing itself is very strange. In the past life and in the Song and Ming dynasties, some senior officials still didn't understand why prices rose every winter when the imperial guards issued their wages in the capital.
In the land link, Mama took out almost all the coins and about 600 acres of land that was very close to the city. The price was relatively reasonable, basically the land price stipulated by the previous Planning and Statistics Department. He also left some money and planned to buy a few more public slaves tomorrow.
But the next day, there was a problem with the slaves. The price of slaves continued to rise. Kama originally planned to buy ten slaves, but in the end he could only buy four of them with his money.
The price of ox ironware in the afternoon is even higher, and most people can't afford ox ironware at all. Kama looked at the four slaves he bought, one ox, and two plowshares in his family, and was very excited. He would live a better life next year, have so much land and slaves, and have part of the collective workshop, so he will have a lot of money in the future.
"Did Ji Xia really do something wrong? In just two months, the people in the council made everyone's lives better than they had accumulated in previous years."
He was a little confused, a little confused, and completely confused.
After the land slaves were divided, everyone was very happy and began to lose various workshops and declared that the money would be distributed to everyone according to the people.
Salt, copper mines, smelting and other workshops changed during the National People's Congress. Camaru could not afford so much money, so he could only be jealous.
Furthermore, it is impossible for me to buy these workshops. When the lisilicon system was still there, with his prestige, he might be able to gather the power of fifty households to buy some small workshops, but now everyone is only concerned about the individual, and it is impossible.
But when the conspirators' families kept carrying the earthen baskets containing money, a salt field and the slaves, tools, etc. contained in the salt field were at an astonishing price.
Muma was even more confused because it was not finished yet, and he, including every Xiacheng native, could get a large amount of coins, which was even equivalent to the copper coins income of the family in the past one or two years.
The money was placed in Xiacheng before, so you could live well for three or five years without any work, and you could live well.
"Sure enough, once the system changes, everyone's life is getting better! Not only are they rich, but they don't have to pay taxes!"
Many people praised the wise decision of the Council, and the people of Xiacheng all started to revel in the carnival.
In this way, the copper coins stored in the money house, the copper coins in the public granaries, and the copper coins that were minted in a month that were not qualified and even had not even worn out, gathering a large number of slaves, workshops, minerals, and iron tools in Xiacheng into the hands of several big families.
It's a family, not a clan.
But indeed, everyone has more money in their hands, so they cannot envy others for their better life. They can only agree that they are not working hard enough or have no good luck.
In Kama's memory, those days were simply carnivals. Many people had never seen so much money in their hands, and they had never even thought about it. This carnival even temporarily diluted the sad rumors that Ji Xia was killed by an arrow.
But since that carnival, only bitterness remains in Kama's memory.
By late July, the large amount of production accumulated before had been consumed. First, the price of food was rising steadily, and it rose to a price I dare not imagine. In the past, I could only eat copper coins for one month and only earn five or six days of food.
This price increase can be truly considered as the people of Xiacheng who welcomed the price increase, because most people in Xiacheng don’t have many slaves, they used to farm and stored a lot of grain. Once the price of grain rises, it is a good thing for most people in Xiacheng who used to make a living by farming. Kama never thought that life would be so good. Every day, they would spend more money on the food they store. Those who own a large number of slaves and workshops could only buy grain from the Chinese, and the money was given very much.
After the news that Qiongxi had broken through the two cities in a row in early August finally reached Xiacheng, the conspirators of Xiacheng finally let go of their last trace of reserve.
The price of salt has increased by eighty times in just ten days, and the price is still rising. Some people found the families who bought the salt fields with some dissatisfaction. The answer was that food is so expensive now that those slaves who started mining always have to eat.
Besides, this salt field belongs to mine, and I will price whatever I want. If you think it is expensive, you can ignore it.
The city government is gone, and these people who think the salt price is expensive naturally found clan leaders or relatives of the council, but relatives of the council think the increase makes sense because the person who controls the salt field is a new council member and is also a relative of the clan.
This is really considered to be the one who sued me? Several people were angry and wanted to resist, but were arrested. There was no law in the city. Everything was based on the clan's decision. The clan leaders appeared and put these people back.
Some people dislike the high price of salt, and naturally some people get salt that is almost worthless. As long as they stand aside with the clan leaders, the people of Lao Xiacheng split again.
However, the relatives of the clan do not need so many people to surrender, only one-fifth of them are enough to suppress the remaining people.
Anyway, the system has been broken and there is no government that surpasses all classes. Whoever has a big fist makes sense. Moreover, the system of the Lishu system has collapsed, and no one can organize so many people to resist. It is meaningless to resist alone.
After the price of salt increased, the price of accumulated ironware was even higher than that of plowing oxen, and the price of copperware was also rising rapidly.
Apart from paying money, everything is short of everything, everything is expensive, everything is changing. Even the two cities of Ewei ended all trade with Xiacheng on the grounds that the chaos in Xiacheng has not yet been settled.
It was already the end of July, and autumn plowing is about to be about to be in autumn. Catrus can still be afforded to be eaten salt, but the autumn plowing begins to cause headaches.
I now have six or seven hundred acres of land, but only one cow, two sets of plowshares, four slaves... I can't grow it at all. What's the use of this land?
Not only him, but many people face the same problem. On the first day, the land had already exhausted a lot of people's money, and the next day, when buying slaves and ox plowing iron tools, there was not much money.
After all the money was paid, it was impossible to buy those things at the previous price.
So some people started to think about it, and decided to lose their own 300 acres of land. After all, the price of grain, salt and farm tools is rising, and raising slaves is also costing money. Moreover, those lands are empty and no one is growing, which is wasteland.
Some people naturally take over, and sometimes they don’t even need money. Just a bag of salt can be exchanged for a hundred acres of land. Those who buy land naturally have enough slaves and enough oxen to plow, and there is no shortage of salt.
Salt is the most affecting everyone's life. When it comes to public property, it does not seem to be visible or touched. When it is now private and gets the money in hand, it can't afford the salt itself.
Before autumn planting, someone finally stood up and suddenly the people of Xiacheng Kingdom took back the salt field as public property. However, after discussion, the meeting asked: "Since the salt field is taken back as public property, it means that the previous system has been restored. So, should slaves take back the land and the public property?"
"Then can we buy it back and use it together?"
"Yes, as long as you pay enough money, of course. This is private. Why should you take it back when someone spent money?"
People calculated it and thought that everyone had just bought the money from Yantian again and again, so they went to discuss it with the person, and the answer was: "What was the price of salt at that time? What was the price of grain? What was the price of slaves? You want to buy it back with the money you used, isn't this ridiculous?"
After thinking about it, it was reasonable. People begged again, and the clan leaders also represented the clans and finally got a compromise solution.
"I want 60,000 mu of good land close to the city and give me 60,000 mu of land. As long as I am our Chinese, I will take care of the salt for the rest of my life."
Since this is the case, everyone had to gather together, and each of them gathered a hundred acres of land to exchange it for the salt field and returned to the public. At least one copper coin could be eaten with enough salt without spending at least one copper coin.
After going back and forth, in mid-August, Muma suddenly realized that his nightmare had come.
He looked at the small box filled with copper coins in his house, and suddenly found that money could not be spent.
Before, there was little money, but money could buy a lot of things. Now that money is too much, people have started to trade in exchange for goods, and no one knows what the price will become tomorrow.
Some of the 600 acres of land I bought myself were lost, and I contributed 100 acres to redeem the salt field. Now only 200 acres are left, and there are no four slaves at all, so I enslaved two more slaves.
I am pretty good. After all, I had a wooden workshop before and could share some money, and I lived a little better than most people in Xiacheng. Those who were not as good as me before were running around the city and after experiencing the carnival, I found that I had returned to my previous situation, even worse.
The land is still the same, and the prices are soaring, and slaves cannot afford to support them. Except for the money in their hands, everything is not as good as before. But the money cannot be spent. At the current price, I am afraid that the amount of money I will not be able to support next year's summer collection will be thrown in. What should I do then?
Xiacheng's fragile, just steadily and strictly controlled monetary economy almost completely collapsed within a month.
The currency issued exceeded the production level of the entire Xiacheng several times, and a large number of once powerful people became slaves again. The foreign trade did not have the control of the Supply and Marketing Department and the seclusion policy of Ewei City were completely cut off. The lack of daily necessities and the hoarding of those who were interested...
As an ordinary Chinese, Kama does not know all these things.
But he knew something closely related to him, the wooden workshop he and everyone built together... is over.
Even if you hire a bowl of rice, the price of rice and salt is rising every day, and the expenses are consuming the money you have raised every day.
The sash is already saturated in Xiacheng, and now the land has shrunk a lot and not used so much. Without the Supply and Marketing Department, the Transportation Department, there is nowhere to be transported out. Wei'e and the two cities have cut off trade with Xiacheng and are still waiting for winter, because new news came again, Qiongxi was forced to retreat by Ji Xia, and Ji Xia seemed not dead yet.
The wooden workshop would pay for every day, but he had no choice but to do it. The hired workers who had nothing to do it surrounded Kama and first begged Kama to let them continue to do it, otherwise they would starve to death, but Kama said that he didn't eat much...
Then the wooden workshop was smashed, and more than a hundred hired workers revolted and resisted. They were not slaves, so the collapse of currency had the greatest impact on them. At least the slaves and their masters gave them food.
Chapter completed!