Dou Peng nodded and said, "Yes, and farming is not only about fertilizers, land reclamation, farming, and water sources, but also involve warehousing, flood control, water conservancy facilities, etc. The larger the manorization and collectivization.
The lower the cost and the higher the output, the more people there will be, and the bigger the place, the reason why our former Wu family could dominate the country was because they occupied Wu.
The manor is a commonplace, and the farming is unified, using the people and expatriates from the north as the tenants of the village. There are many people. With these conditions, they quickly made the agriculture in Jiangnan more than before.
If you have the same grain production, if you are in charge of each family, small farmers and small households, it will be a problem to support yourself."
The ancestor smiled slightly and said, "The Lord Dou Peng talked about the key point. Farming actually requires more collectiveization and scale than nomads, and requires more territory and more population. Therefore, this is destined to expand farming.
Even the Shang Dynasty, after entering the farming period, ended the era of nomadic tribes, and began to settle down, and then quickly began to conquer other tribes and princes around.
Because they know very well that only farming methods can feed more people, and as capitals and royal cities, there must be a large amount of farmland around them. Of course, most of the people who cultivate these farmlands are slaves."
Black Rou touched his goatee and said, "According to the meaning of the ancestor, it is impossible for the Zhengdao Taoist to live in a village without contacting outsiders? But why do they want this?
What do you think? Is it completely impossible to keep a distance and not pursue too much population growth?"
The ancestor said calmly: "The land is vast and sparsely populated, and the population in the world is no more than one million. It takes hundreds of miles a tribe to engage in farming. These things can happen, but this is just a very ideal.
In fact, if it is too far apart, only the hundreds and thousands of people of this tribe will not be able to confront the nature of the world at all. To engage in farming, a series of projects are required, digging canals, digging water, clearing wasteland, and fertilizing.
Sowing seeds and harvesting, these are not something that hundreds of people can do, but thousands of people. Nowadays, more than a hundred households, or four or five hundred people, can survive, because river embankments and canals have existed.
The predecessors repaired it, and they only needed to farm. But in ancient times, where did these water conservancy projects come from? Just a flood broke the dam can not only flood most people's lives, but also make the harvests throughout the year.
Within a few years, the farmland became a terrible country. At this time, the surviving tribes could only be forced to migrate everywhere like nomadic tribes.”
"But they have no cattle and sheep, and they have lost food in the flood, so how can they survive? It is impossible to go out to another village for hundreds of miles. This is the second thing I want to say, that is farming, and farming.
There may be disasters, which may be floods, droughts, or locust plagues, which will lead to no income throughout the year. To provide relief to the victims, there must be a unified and powerful country, based on the income from the official warehouse.
To save people, you either have to go on the road to escape from famine and escape from nearby tribes or villages. In either case, you need to contact the outside world, or be under the rule of a regime or country, then
It is impossible to be isolated in every village.”
Black Rou gritted her teeth and said, "Let me say it another way. If these tribes engaged in farming, or the towns that were converted after settlement, can unite together and become a unified country with a unified chief, then
Is there no need to fight or conflict?"
Dou Peng laughed: "Your Black Robe, you think very well. If you are unified and become a country, there is no need to conflict. However, the problem is that every tribe originally had a lord.
, Those dozens and hundreds of tribes are unified into a country, who will be the king of this country? What should the other kings do if a king becomes a queen?"
Black Rou sighed: "But the tribes finally united to become countries. That's how they came about. Ancestor, do you think this question asked by the disciples are ridiculous?"
The ancestor shook his head calmly and said, "The question you raised is very good. Regarding how tribes from the ancient times were combined and become a country, I can answer you today, that is, there will always be a powerful tribe.
The leader can abide by many other tribes with kindness and power. The so-called world needs to be a virtuous and capable person. This is the reason. If it is based on strong war ability or the ability to support the people, it makes people sincerely and actively surrender.
If a capable tribe leader can make several or dozens of other neighboring tribes willing to actively or passively submit, then the tribe will become a huge tribe alliance and then develop into
When a country arrives in its era, it can conquer and accumulate other countries."
"As for the question where the king of the other tribe asked by Master Dou Peng, this is easy to explain. Since he was to surrender, or surrender to this powerful tribe, the original tribe leader had to abdicate through the method of abdication.
, take the initiative to give the virtuous and let the two tribes unite, and there is only one king leader, that is the virtuous and capable tribe leader. Of course, if it is a tribe conquered and destroyed by force, then the tribe leader will have only one way to die, or
He was forced to abdicate. In either way, this is an merger model. From then on, the two parts were united, and there was only one king. This model can be called the unified model."
"In addition, there is another model of vassals, that is, a relatively weak tribe, pays tribute to powerful tribes, and follows them as the main force, in exchange for the virtuous and capable monarchs, and enthrone the original leader of the small tribe as vassals.
Just like the Shang Dynasty enthroned the leader of the Zhou tribe as princes, this situation was only nominally integrated. In fact, the two tribes were still ruled and managed by the original ruler and did not interfere with each other, but they only confirmed the master and slave.
In different ways, small tribes often need to pay taxes and tributes to large tribes in normal times, while large tribes are responsible for protecting small tribes from foreign enemies and also need to provide relief to them when encountering disasters. This model of vassals was the mainstream before Qin.
It can also make sense to explain the fusion between tribes in ancient times. Are you satisfied with the two veners?" (End of this chapter)