In an era when national justice and national sentiments had not yet emerged and become popular, it did not make life more difficult. In fact, most people did not care at all who the ruler above their heads was.
In fact, it is the same. Rulers are too far away from ordinary people and will never have contact with them in their lifetime. Only the quality of life is closely related to ordinary people.
Under that current situation, life feels unbearable. Believe it or not, everyone is looking forward to a big change.
After all, life is really unbearable. Maybe changing the ruler can bring about some changes? Anyway, it won't be worse, right?
If they live a prosperous life and have more to look forward to, everyone will become a supporter of the current ruler. What they are guarding is not the ruler, but their own good life!
Guan was not from Jin, but came from the Donglai area of Qi State. He once had nothing and even became a slave.
Now Guan has his own house, two hundred acres of land to his name, and has become a "shi".
All this did not come out of nowhere.
Eight years ago, Guan was an ordinary person from Qi. Because he was not the eldest son in the family, he was destined to leave the family where he had raised him and fend for himself with meager things when he became an adult.
That is the rule under the eldest son system. The eldest son naturally inherits 99% of the family property of his father's generation, while the non-eldest son needs to leave home and start from scratch when he reaches adulthood.
It's hard to say whether that's fair or not, and not all parents just sit back and let their second son fend for himself. Knowing that life is difficult, they will still help from time to time.
Do you know why Liu Ji still hasn’t started a family in his forties? Because he knew that according to the system at that time, after getting married, as the third child, there was no possibility of him getting a share of the family property. He had not created any career, so he could just stay at home without getting married.
Continue to eat and drink.
For some people who have never separated their families, all their family properties are summarized in one person's name. There are a considerable number of clan members who have repeatedly created wealth, even if they have not grown like a snowball, and they want to decline unless they encounter major changes.
Anyway, right? Guan left home when he became an adult and lived with a group of people who were also not the eldest son.
It is generally like that in the contemporary era. Members who are not qualified to receive family property will gather with people of similar status after they go out. It is a bit hard to say what they will do. People like this in Qi State will choose to go to some big cities.
Either he sells himself to a certain family, or he wanders the streets.
To a certain extent, Qi State is ahead of other countries because of its developed economy and industry, and its social system is much more complex than other countries. What is the future for non-eldest sons? For example, the employment system has been established in Qi State.
In most countries, they are in a relatively conservative clan society. If the second son cannot inherit the property, he will not choose to separate the family. In a family with many brothers, only one brother may get married.
Many people may not understand the fact that only one of many brothers in a family can get married, but it was a norm in the land of Zhuxia a long time ago.
Guan's house is not far from the boss's, so he can go eat and drink if he doesn't have anything to eat. Even if the house is separated, the house is really divided. You can eat and drink, and you can get some things, but you can't go back to the past.
Guanhui became a slave, not because he was qualified to go to the battlefield, nor because he overestimated his capabilities and sought the displeasure of the Jin army. It was simply because he was sitting on the roadside, and disaster came from heaven.
To put it simply, he and his friends watched the fun and saw that they became part of the fun, and the whole village was packed away by the Jin army.
Guan originally thought that he would be a slave for the rest of his life. If he was lucky enough to have children, he would also be a slave. He would be a slave for generations to come.
Of course, the vast majority of slaves could not have descendants, and their misfortunes would end with themselves.
The lucky thing about Guan is that he was assigned to the Zhi family. What's even more lucky is that the Zhi family is accepting Zhi Yao's reforms. The slaves can rely on hard work to regain their freedom. After gaining freedom, they become qualified to become auxiliary soldiers and can go out with the army.
, you can accumulate merit and become qualified to become a soldier, or you can get lucky and make merit and become a soldier.
Why is the status of soldiers always emphasized? This is the case in the Jin Dynasty. If you want to get ahead, you must have the qualifications to pay taxes.
Under the rule of the Zhi family, it is far more important to obtain the qualifications to receive gifts than in other families. Everything is done just for meritorious service, and even small merits will be rewarded.
The rewards of the Zhi family are not aimed at a small number of people, such as someone who suddenly becomes a doctor who owns a city and receives an enviable reward. The prerequisite is that this person seems to be in poverty, but in fact his ancestors are definitely richer.
"What a lucky group of people! They don't know their luck yet and think it is very unfortunate to be a member of my family. I must tell them my experience!"
Guan has lived a very fulfilling eight years. From a slave to a free citizen, obtaining the qualification to become an auxiliary soldier is another turning point in his life that once again changes his destiny.
During the Battle to Destroy the Guards, although Guan was only an auxiliary soldier, he was assigned the task of cleaning up the guard villages. When he coordinated with the soldiers to capture a village, he killed three resisting guardsmen and suddenly turned around.
Already.
At present, Guan is already a "scholar" of the Zhi family, has obtained two hundred acres of land in "Tan", and has also become a village chief.
Of course, village chief is a pronoun, and the official position is "Xu", with "Zao" below it.
Guan did not come to a village in Qi alone to take office. There were seven people accompanying him. He himself served as the village chief, and the others took up positions such as encouraging farmers, water workers, and guards.
Among the people who came to take office, in terms of origin, they were from Jin, Qi, Chu and Zheng. They now only have one identity, that is, they are members of the Zhi family.
Because he can speak an authentic Qi accent, he can still easily break down the wariness of the local Qi people. If he takes the initiative to mention his origin, tell about his past experiences, and mention his current changes, there are too many facts that can be used as proof.
It is absolutely untrue, not to mention that the resistance of the Qi people to being ruled by the Zhi family was immediately dispelled, and the number of actions to resist was greatly reduced.
"There is a stream on the left side of 'Bang'. If you dig a ditch to divert water, it will become another piece of farmland."
"There are many people fleeing. You can ask the young and strong to obey the orders, and go to catch them with some weapons, drive them away, report them for meritorious service, and give them fields."
"Second and Third Son, we have a very important mission here, we must not slack off!"
Who would have thought that a street kid who could only bask in the sun all day and take calcium supplements would suddenly turn into the head of a village with a population of about 300?
Of course, those who received the instructions responded in unison: "No!"
They had received training before taking up their posts, and what the lecturer repeatedly mentioned was to keep the villagers busy, so busy that the villagers had no time to think.
Of course, busy work cannot be in vain, it must be able to benefit the village, such as digging ditches to irrigate farmland, and everyone will benefit, which will make it easier to drive the villagers.
There is another more effective way, which is to seize the opportunity to allow villagers to make meritorious deeds and reward them with some materials, which can be a bucket of grain and half a foot of cloth. If they are more generous, they can reward land.
To put it bluntly, when the situation changes, it is most important not to allow people time to think more. A person has a brain for thinking, and chaos in his thoughts can easily lead to turmoil.
A series of incentive measures can be seen as winning people's hearts, but in fact they are also invisibly eliminating barriers. Once the people of Qi get used to the rule of meritorious service and rewards under the rule of Zhi, they will open a new door and respond more actively.
Zhishi's various instructions, including becoming a soldier to fight for Zhishi one day.
Reward? A big killer is coming!
Today, the only family that is willing to establish a reward system to benefit everyone is the Zhi family. The other families or countries are still following the old path that their ancestors must have traveled. To put it bluntly, they have strict requirements for birth, and ordinary people have no way to advance.
, or the ceiling is really too low.
Because of the institutional superiority of the Zhi clan, even if it is only slightly more advanced than other current families or countries, the power it unleashes is still beyond imagination.
It took Guan and others a month to eliminate the hostility of the people in the villages they managed, and the decree was passed in less than three months.
Of course, it has something to do with the Qi people's accent, but more importantly, it's just because of the three principles of "benefiting the village, being rewarded for meritorious service, and not humiliating or harming others."
Today, an order came from a higher level, requiring Guan to provide twenty-five young men as civil servants, who may further join the army as auxiliary soldiers.
Guan called people in the village to a square and after announcing it, he received too many questions on the spot.
"Can we really gain land if we conquer it?"
"The food and drink you go there will be provided by Zhishi, don't bring it with you?"
"If I die, my family will get five acres of land?"
Too many people asked questions, and in the din, I could only distinguish a few questions.
Guan Yi answered the questions one by one. Seeing that the villagers were still half-convinced, he knew that this time he had reached the critical point. Once this was done, there would be no more problems in managing the village in the future. In the future, the village would truly be under the effective rule of the Zhi family.
In order to convince the villagers, Guan decided to lead the team himself and convened a meeting with the management team before leaving. The grown man became like an old woman, repeating the same thing over and over again.
A few days later, Guan and two of his colleagues set out with twenty-five young men from the village.
They first gathered in nearby cities and found that there were over ten thousand people recruited. After inquiring, they learned that they came from more than 500 different villages. Each village happened to have recruited twenty-five young men.
Most people actually don't understand what the top management is making.
Later, Guan heard that a close official of the eldest son, a man named Fu Liao, would take them westward to join the Jin army at Gema Mountain and fight back the invasion of Lu together. To be honest, his nervousness immediately eased.
The Lu army? The Qi army can all press down and beat them violently, let alone the Jin army who fights the Lu army. They will definitely win!
The Zhishi, Xu, and Zao who led the teams began to instill in the young men the idea that killing a Lu army would mean acquiring at least fifty acres of land. After the war started, if there was a chance to play, they must be brave enough to fight first.
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For those who have heard the story countless times in the village, the protagonist of that story was absolutely miserable at the beginning, and only after going under the rule of the Chi family did he have a chance to turn around.
People themselves yearn for beauty more. When they see the opportunity right in front of them, even if they still have doubts in their hearts, most of them will have the idea of giving it a try...