Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 369

The commune system is a gradual process from collective farms to villages and groups, and then to contracting production to households.

Xu Chen was unable to privatize and enter the small peasant economy model in one step, but he first divided the groups and gradually formed a piecemeal-to-ticket model within the tribe and family. As farming and various industries gradually took shape and expanded in the future, and the division of labor became clearer, it was not impossible to divide the fields into groups.

With the division of land to groups, if the establishment of a fixed husband-and-wife system can be completed, then the division of land to households will not be a problem.

Although privatization has many disadvantages, it is the best way to stimulate the development of productivity for a long time, and is far more competitive than eating big pot rice.

However, public ownership and private ownership are two completely different social systems, and the impact on social structure is self-evident.

For these primitive people who are accustomed to collective family life, it is impossible to fully realize without long development and adaptation.

But Xu Chen will still work hard to promote the development of privatization.

After all, this is a natural law of development. If it wants to obtain more sufficient productivity to promote the rapid progress of human society, so that diligent, smart, and capable people can obtain more wealth and even power, it is an inevitable path for social progress.

Any so-called fairness and equality that ignores individual differences will only hinder the development of society.

Therefore, Xu Chen decided to fix the system of the spring sowing group first and implement a fragmented and lump sum system within the tribe and family.

Although the decision of this meeting caused some great uproar and even controversy, many groups that work actively eat meat and wine every day agree with this method.

Each group contracts 100 acres of farmland, each responsible for weeding and field management.

If you are lazy, you can naturally see at a glance that too many weeds and not actively drive away wild animals and birds will lead to the final production reduction.

Of course, after the group was in charge, the tribe leadership did not let go. A group of family leaders such as Muba and Amu often conducted inspections. If they were not well managed, they would be criticized. If they were well managed, they would naturally receive more rewards.

"Please note that the final evaluation result of the group-free tidy items is the amount of food harvested in autumn. If we have the highest harvest, we will distribute fruit wine, bacon, salted fish, salted eggs, linen, pottery and other items in groups. These items are freely distributed within the group members and are personal items of the group members. You can even use them to exchange them freely with other tribes at the tribe conference..."

Xu Chen held the bark trumpet and stood on a pile of stones and explained loudly to everyone attending the collective conference.

The people below whispered to each other and exchanged their heads and ears, and the buzzing sound rang across the river beach.

Villagers' meetings have been an ancient custom of villagers' autonomy for a long time.

In Xu Chen's opinion, a tribe can be roughly regarded as a countryside.

All tribe members can actually be regarded as villagers.

However, the attributes of villagers have not been fully established at present, and further division of labor is needed.

Because grain is completely the most important, farming production was listed as the first issue by Xu Chen for reform.

In addition to farming management, these groups are still a whole in other tribal production activities. Hemp harvesting, weaving, making and repair tools, building houses, logging, digging, fishing, collecting, feeding livestock and poultry, and other activities are still carried out in a unified manner.

As the division of labor becomes clearer in the future, the kilns, fishing, transportation, trading, building houses, shipbuilding, car manufacturing, making agricultural tools and wooden furniture, hunting, and animal skin processing gradually develop and mature, and various functional groups will continue to appear, and eventually different industry groups are formed to be responsible for their respective categories.

At present, the only mature and independent industry in the entire Ba people is pottery making.

In the past, four kiln workers were responsible for it, but now they have expanded to ten. They basically do nothing else, and are responsible for firing pottery, cottage tiles and lime.

Because as Xu Chen continued to conquer more tribes and the population size controlled by him expanded exponentially, the demand for pottery became increasingly large, and the two fire kilns were continuously fired throughout the autumn and winter, but they could not fully meet the needs of the outside world.

Before Xu Chen came back, Feng had already taken people to the Yugong tribe and Gonghuo tribe twice, and sent a large amount of grain and pottery respectively, and sent the salt exchanged from the Mongolian tribe to the Thunder tribe and the Ba tribe back.

At present, such exchanges with obvious commercial nature are basically fixed once a month.

According to time, it's time for the wind to set off again.

In addition, this time Xu Chen promised to return the labor camps of the Gonghuo tribe and the Cha tribe. Now that the spring sowing is over, this promise should be fulfilled.

At present, there are only 40 prisoners left in the Gonghuo tribe, and there is another group of men and women of the Yugong tribe. Their departure will not have much impact on the production and life of the Ba tribe.

But almost all of these people wanted to stay in the Ba tribe, which gave Xu Chen a little headache.

It is good to stay, but it is afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among the Gonghuo Clan.

Therefore, this matter needs to be carefully arranged. It is unrealistic to leave all of them. It is still not a big problem to leave half of them at that time. At most, some compensation will be given to the Gonghuo Clan.

With the discovery of tin ore and lead ore, hundreds of kilograms of smelted tin and lead are brought back this time, and another new industry will be born, that is, professional metal smelting and processing.

Although it can be temporarily merged into the kiln factory, these are completely different industries, and it will be a matter of time before separation.

The pottery upgrade is porcelain.

Metal smelting and processing will be a complete heavy industry in the future, and it is a national important tool and cannot be shown to others. The skills need to be kept more confidential.

In addition, in order to smel up bronze casting processing, it is necessary to recruit craftsmen, which will form an independent operation of an industry group, which will also have some impact on the daily production and life of the tribe.

At this clan meeting, after announcing the management of the farmland in groups and contracts, Xu Chen proposed to expand the scale of the kiln factory. Finally, after self-recommendation and selection, he temporarily selected five men with strong bodies and familiarity in making stone tools to form a bronze smelting group.

The group to which these five people belonged was adjusted and allocated by Muba and Amu. They will work hard to smel and process metal utensils in the future and will no longer participate in most of the daily work within the tribe.

Seeing Xu Chen calmly arrange work with a group of noisy tribe members, the little witch stood not far behind him with a staff, full of respect and gentleness.

Xu Chen always looks confident in everything he does. Although he seems to have a creative idea every time, he actually only comes out to discuss and arrange it after careful thinking.

I don’t know what this smelting and processing is for?

Could it be that His Majesty the Witch King has another new idea that is more magical and mysterious than pottery?

The little witch felt her heart beating very quickly.

She felt that what appeared this time might bring about a huge change to the tribe and even all alliance tribes.

Because Xu Chen brought back two mysterious metals from a distant tribe this time, they were heavy and exquisitely shiny, and they felt very similar to gold.

"Therefore, the Mother God bless His Majesty the Witch King, ¥%#@..."

The little witch held the golden scepter tightly and began to whisper the ancient sacrifice words in her mouth, with an unparalleled fiery light flashing in her eyes.

The plan for the year lies in spring.

For the entire tribe, the end of spring sowing means that the busiest moment of the year declares a paragraph, and you can temporarily relax your nervous and tired body and enter a relatively leisure time.

Moreover, the sufficient grain and reserves of salted fish and bacon in the warehouse also prevent the entire tribe from collecting wild vegetables and plant rhizomes everywhere in winter and spring to solve the problem of food and clothing for the whole tribe.

Therefore, the entire tribe seems relatively leisurely in this spring. It either plant melons and beans in front of and behind the house to clean up the ditches, or continue to build river embankments and yards and cut down trees, and is relaxed and slow, no longer as busy as before.

Xu Chen, with a group of kiln workers and a newly recruited bronze smelting team, began a new round of renovation and expansion of the kiln factory.

The kiln factory area has now expanded a lot. The circle of low stone walls originally made of stone has no effect. Instead, simple wooden piles and fences have built a space of about seven or eight acres at the foot of the mountain, surrounding the ditches and some ponds, forming a new kiln factory.

After a simple renovation, the five stone huts built originally became a special place for kiln workers to rest and work.

A group of kiln workers at the foot of the mountain began to excavate a third kiln to burn charcoal.

After the small smelting furnace for smelting copper and lead built last year was stripped off, a spacious pergola was built on the original site and a special bronze smelting workshop was built.

The smelting furnace still adopts the traditional stove design, which is similar to the earth stove for cooking in the kitchen. However, a circle of closed furnaces with tiles and clay is built around it, so that the entire stove is completely embedded in it like an earth kiln. This can try to tie the flames into the furnace as much as possible and continuously accumulate and increase the temperature. The furnace opening of the furnace is very small, so you can just put a crucible that is not too much.

To quickly increase the furnace temperature to melt bronze, it is not enough to have a furnace alone, and special blowing equipment is also required.

But without metal knives, it is impossible to make precision wood tools, the bellows must be made. They can only use the oldest and simplest method to use a fan.

However, even with a fan, Xu Chen still thought of many ways. In order to speed up the input of oxygen, he built a trumpet at the air inlet of the heating furnace with ceramic tiles. When fanning, he could pour air into the furnace to the maximum extent.

Smelting is not Xu Chen's major, he just knows more about ores.

However, after all metals such as copper, iron, lead and other metals were successfully smelted under his barbaric guidance, he was now full of confidence in smelting bronze.

Now he has a kind of impulse that I have in my hands.

At this critical moment, if he still can't create a qualified bronze, he thinks he can make a piece of tofu... Well, it's too extravagant, so he'll just dig a lump of mud and kill him.

-------------------
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next