Chapter 556: Just Waiting for the Chu Army to Go Northward
"His father, after Xia's affairs are over, he will go to the capital to serve the king?"
"Yes. I heard that this time we will start a war with Chu State."
"this……"
"How could a dear man do this? My family is here today because of the great favor of the king. Besides, we are all members of the royal territory. If we are not enthusiastic, how can we be worthy of the king setting up a capital and classifying it as the land of the royal territory?"
"The child is still young, please cherish your lives."
Faced with his wife's instructions, Wa Pei should not say anything at once.
There is only one pillar of their family, and if something goes wrong with Wa Pei, the living wife and children will indeed be in trouble.
Needless to say, sixty acres of farmland has lost its man. Just a woman with a seven-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl will definitely suffer for her wife.
Speaking of which, during the busy farming season, everyone is not busy with their own work. They usually help each other with planting or harvesting, and they are responsible for the usual care.
Under the premise that help is mutual, and others are couples and older children, how can I be embarrassed to go alone? Even if I am embarrassed, others will have opinions.
Furthermore, once a family is without a man, there is no telling what will happen to the seemingly harmonious neighbors.
"Why do our ancestors have private property? Pei didn't do any merit. He was given land by the king. If he doesn't obey his orders, he will feel uneasy." Wa Pei was very melancholy, but he chose to speak out what was in his heart.
The wife has no surname, her name is Bu.
The husband's prefix is actually not his surname, it's just the name of his place of residence.
There are so many people like this now that it’s hard to count them.
Therefore, in the household register of the original country, men do not have their surname prefixed by their place of residence, while women do not have to pay much attention to it.
It's not that the original country discriminates against women, it's just that they don't have surnames, so they can't be forced to have any surname, right?
The couple each had their own worries and stopped talking.
The younger brother and sister were playing in the yard, and their laughter from time to time added color to the ordinary yard.
Wa Pei remembered his own childhood, when he was a subject of a certain noble. He was assigned various tasks at the age of six or seven. No matter how many years he worked, he never had any property of his own. What he had to eat, drink and wear on a daily basis all depended on the subordinates.
The official's mood.
"The baby had a good time," Wa Pei said happily.
Bu couldn't refute, because she also had her own childhood and could make a clear distinction.
"The king has issued a law. The third child can get ten kilograms of food per month. How about... having another child?" Bu said shyly.
The two couples are nearly thirty years old this year. They have lived under the rule of the Zhi family for more than ten years. Not only did their children grow up in a good time, but also the two couples. If the historical trajectory has not been changed, they will be thirty years old.
, the body function may be that of a person in his fifties or sixties.
Last year, Zhiyao promulgated a new national policy. Every household, regardless of gender, can receive five kilograms of grain from the local government for every second child, ten kilograms of grain for the third child, and twenty kilograms for the fourth child.
For the fifth child, the amount of grain will be increased to forty kilograms. Regardless of whether the child is male or female, he or she can receive it until the age of thirteen.
The repeated doubling of incentives is very eye-catching. In fact, it has become a state that helps every family raise newborns.
This was built on the Zhiyao Plan to start a new five-year plan after the Unification War, which included launching several new large-scale water conservancy projects in Qin and Wuyue areas.
The construction of the Zhengguo Canal in the Qin Dynasty turned the 800-mile Qinchuan River into a land of plenty. There are very few people who don't know about this, right?
The Wuyue area refers to the plain area of the Yangtze River Delta. After the development of this area, "Jiangnan is good" became a well-known fact.
The first fact is that the original country destroyed those countries, and most of the land became under the name of Zhiyao. The construction of water conservancy projects will definitely benefit the Zhishi family the most, and the surrounding land owners will definitely also benefit.
Only when the state-owned assets are sufficient can Zhiyao have the courage to promulgate multiple incentive national policies, and the initial implementation areas are temporarily limited to Wangji and Jin, and are not implemented in other places.
The people of the original Wei State knew very well how they were treated equally with the Jin Territory. They were simply divided into Wangji areas, otherwise they would be treated the same as Qi Territory, Yan Territory, Qin Territory, etc.
Those areas will also implement it after learning about it. It is impossible to say that they have no objections in their hearts, but they know that it is natural to treat them differently.
It’s just natural!
Zhiyao doesn't care about his own base first. Instead, he lets other areas get any good things first. It's time for him to feel resentful about his base. If the base collapses, it won't matter if nothing happens. If something goes wrong, he will get Qin Er.
When the world is facing a national crisis, it is like the fate of the people of the old Qin Dynasty who just watched it with cold eyes.
Because of the joint execution of Wei and Jin, the local people's support for Zhi's rule immediately surged, and they knew that all the benefits were not obtained for nothing, and they could not lose to Jin in terms of loving the king and serving the country.
People on the side.
To put it bluntly, the people in the Jin region have paid so much for the Zhi family's hegemony, so it is natural that any benefits will fall on them first. Since the Wei region is classified as a royal territory, they also enjoy many benefits, so there is no reason to say that there is no performance.
When did the capital move?
Moving the capital was very common in the Spring and Autumn Period. Many countries with long histories even moved their capitals no less than ten times. There is no such thing as setting a place as the capital forever.
"Do you think the two of you in your family need to serve during the summer harvest?"
"Of course."
"Service? Military service or corvée service? Why hasn't my family heard about it?"
It is not the season of sowing or harvesting, and women do not sit together and chat. They talk and are busy with other things.
Looking around, only three families out of a dozen or so have received military service, while many more have not.
Women who were originally worried that their husbands would be in danger when serving in the military service heard other women complaining about not being drafted, and talking about how they could go to the battlefield and get land and other rewards if they were drafted. Although they were still worried about their husbands' comfort, they would inevitably have a feeling of anger.
Emotions of vanity, and other expectations.
Why was my husband drafted? He must be better than others during training, otherwise why weren't the others drafted?
In the original country, there is a "clear price tag" for military service. If you participate in a battle, what is your personal gain? It also depends on the size of the participating parties and what kind of results they achieve. The rewards you should receive have already been clearly stated.
A long time ago, an individual could obtain a title by killing an armor-piercing enemy. With a title, one would have land, houses and slaves.
Later, some modifications were made, retaining the incentives for individual achievements and adding standards for collective merit.
If there is anything in it that some people have criticized, it is that only when the title is promoted to a certain level and the official position reaches a certain level, if you want to progress further, you need to study. During the training, you must pass the assessment before you can be promoted.
The vast majority of people are already very lucky to have received a title and have never thought about gaining greater wealth.
Some people who want to go further are faced with the lack of education. Just literacy makes many people stuck. After working hard to learn literacy, they really cannot compete with those with better backgrounds. There are only a few who are from low backgrounds and have enough.
Smart and hard-working people really soar when they get opportunities.
Bu identified two men who were also recruited. After a special comparison, he found that the two men were equally good as his husband, and his mentality changed.
"Qiongfu is a powerful man like Hong, so the government's recruitment seems to be aimed at such people? With them as partners with Pei, it is not so dangerous?" Bu thought to himself.
At this time, a passage of words made Bu Xinger listen.
What I'm talking about is that the people in the Chu country are usually not tall, with a height of only 1.6 meters. The barbarians further south have even worse physical conditions.
The speaker's name is 乸(nǎ) Gui. Just by looking at the name, you can tell that she has a family background. As for how she became a member of the general public, so many vassal states have perished in less than fifty years, and many nobles have left their ancestral life.
In Habitat, the vast majority of nobles have actually become ordinary people.
It's just that the descendants of down-and-out nobles still have an inherent advantage over real ordinary people. At least they can read and have some skills inherited from their families.
Yi Gui was full of expectations for her husband to be recruited. She was more knowledgeable than the women talking together, and she knew very well that if she wanted to gain fame, she would inevitably have to go through battles.
There are many down-and-out nobles and their descendants who cherish the opportunities brought by conscription more than real ordinary people, and work hard to establish merit and revitalize their families.
Bu had always envied Yi Gui, not only for her surname, but also for other things.
Therefore, when Bu saw Yi Gui talking about things that he had never thought of, and then saw Yi Gui looking longingly, he couldn't help but have some wild thoughts.
"Nowadays, when our ancestors are pioneering, there is not much time left to gain fame and wealth. If you don't seize the opportunity, you will regret it for the rest of your life." Yi Gui refers to the fact that there are not many enemies in the original country.
The ancestors pioneered? I’m not from a noble family, so I really don’t understand what it means.
So what does it mean? This starts from the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty. To put it simply, they are some charismatic people. They lead more people into the wild, compete with the heaven and the earth, and also compete with the wild beasts, and slowly develop
One piece of habitat after another.
During the Shang Dynasty, they were one of the ancestors who fought hard in the early stages of the various "fangs". Later, they recognized the king of Yin and Shang as the co-owner and became one of the "Eight Hundred Princes". Lao Ji's power was the "fangs"
one.
Because the collapse of the Yin and Shang rule was also related to the beginning of Ji Zhou's Taixu, various "Rong", "Di", "Barbarians" and "Barbarians" emerged one after another, which made Ji Zhou need to enfeoff and re-explore, and the three thousand princes
Most of them died under the attack of the aliens, and it took hundreds of years for the surviving princes to suppress the aliens again. Among them, the Jin State destroyed the most alien forces.
Therefore, Guan Zhong assisted Zuo Qi Huan Gong and Lu Xiaobai had the merit of re-creating the Zhuxia, and the contributions of several generations of Jin to the Zhuxia were actually not bad.
Because there are so many examples to pursue, Zhiyao will inevitably continue to enfeoff in the future, but the new enfeoffment area will be very particular. The most likely enfeoffment is to Monan and the north, west of Longxi, and Lingnan.
Northeast region.
After Zhiyao completes the unification, everyone should be promoted to emperor. In the new round of enfeoffment, those with direct bloodline will be enfeoffed as kings, while those with different surnames will be enfeoffed as marquises.
Duke? When the marquis dies, he will be granted the title of duke. This will return to the customs of the early and middle Spring and Autumn Period.
Things that are too high-level, Yi Gui's original family has not reached that level, and she can't talk about it even if she wants to show off in front of a group of women.
Yi Gui actually just wanted to let Wa Pei and Hen follow her husband Qiong Fu to unite and help each other and make progress together.
People who think like Yi Gui must be descendants of down-and-out nobles.
This is because the territory of the original country is very large, and it has also annexed too many countries, and factions are inevitable.
Factions that are too high-level are not visible for the time being. After all, the descendants of the destroyed countries need time to climb up slowly, and it is difficult to obtain high positions in a short time.
Is there such a thing as forming a township party based on regions? They already know each other, so they inevitably stick together when they go to a strange environment. This is an inevitable thing.
Some nobles or descendants who were down and out and had known each other before, even made an agreement to select one person to be a special assistant to the left, and agreed to wait until that person became prosperous before helping the others.
This kind of agreement would seem ridiculous in modern times, but until the Song Dynasty, similar agreements were still common, and those who were really prosperous also fulfilled the agreement truthfully.
At the end of the summer harvest, you can see wives taking their children to see their husbands off. Naturally, there are also scenes of parents and children saying goodbye.
This time, the areas subject to conscription were relatively concentrated, with Jin being indispensable, followed by Wang Ji. Other areas such as Qi, Yan, Qin, Zheng, etc. did not issue conscription orders again.
In the Jin region alone, six full-formation regiments were assembled at once. They would first assemble and form formations on the outskirts of "Chaoge", and then walk across the bridge and cross the river into Wangji.
Wang Ji, on the other hand, assembled two full-scale regiments, and they were also the first batch of troops to set off for "Xinzheng".
In this case, Zhiyao issued a recruitment order after the summer harvest, and a new batch of legions were assembled, totaling eight, reaching 300,000 soldiers.
In other areas, a Manchu Army Corps has been stationed in Shang Yu Land; there were originally two legions fighting in the Wuyue area, and later two Manchu Army Corps were mobilized from Qidi for reinforcements. Suddenly, there were four legions in the Wuyue area.
of military strength.
Zhiyao, who was in "Xinzheng", was still waiting for the Chu State to make a decision. He expected that since the Chu State was gathering, there would be an army of 500,000 in one assembly, so he wouldn't let so many people just eat, right?
Since Zhiyao has transferred the newly assembled legions to "Xinzheng", the arrival of the first two legions is a signal, telling the Chu king and ministers to fight faster to prevent more troops from the original country from coming.
The six legions assembled from Jin will wait in the mountains and forests near "Chaoge" and will rush to "Xinzheng" after the Chu army really moves north.
Zhiyao still hopes that the war can start this year. It depends on whether the Chu State will give him face or not.
