The labor force used in this process is very large, and it is the heaviest hard work. It is the kind that can easily lead to death.

Without adequate nutritional supplements and rest, it is absolutely normal to build a city and kill a lot of people.

Fortunately, with Zheng Xiaoming's status, he can ensure food supply.

He has his own caravan, which can continuously sell various goods from Zong Zhou, and transport large quantities of supplies...

You must know that Zheng Xiaoming is no longer Zheng Boyou in the original history, but Zheng Boming. Now he is no longer enshrined in the Zheng State in history, but has come to Xiangshui Yang. Why is he still called Zheng Bo? The country is still called Zheng

country?

That is naturally because Zheng Xiaomingzong also had a fiefdom called Zheng on the outskirts of Zhou Haojing.

Therefore, the city originally built by Zheng Boyu in Zheng Guo between Heluo and Heluo in history was called Xinzheng.

Therefore, the city now built by Zheng Xiaoming in Xiangshui Yang can also be called Xinzheng.

However, Zheng Xiaoming felt that since the city was built on the Yangtze River, it might as well be called Xiangyang!

So the newly built city is now called Xiangyang.

This Xiangyang City cannot be built in a year or two, especially the city wall, which will take much longer.

Therefore, when building a city in this era, one must first build a palace city, which is the palace where the king lives. These palaces must be protected by city walls and are called palace cities.

Then after the palace city is built, we will build the inner city. After the inner city is completed, we will finally consider the outer city.

Of course, only cities with very complete functions can be so organized. Most cities, even the capitals of some small countries, can build a palace city and an inner city, which is already great.

The palace city chosen by Zheng Xiaoming is located on the mountainside, facing the river, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

His troops and citizens are now stationed on the plains below the palace city.

But now the biggest role of Zheng Xiaoming's army is to attack everywhere, attack the surrounding savages, capture enough prisoners to serve as slaves, and build a city for himself.

You can't follow your own countrymen to do this kind of hard work, right?

Of course, there are also some fortification slaves sent from surrounding countries.

In addition, well fields should be designated around the city for slaves to cultivate.

These well fields are also called public fields, and they are nominally owned by the king of Zhou. Isn’t the whole world the land of the king?

But in fact, because it was enfeoffed to Zheng Xiaoming, Uncle Zheng, these public lands belong to Zheng Xiaoming... However, this is also nominal. In fact, it belongs to all the citizens.

This is the well-field system that later generations of Confucians envied very much and always wanted to restore. No one has private property, and the world is for the common good!

However, in fact, the situation of this well field is similar to that of ancient Greece and Rome in the West. The Chinese did not cultivate the fields themselves and forced slaves to cultivate them.

Ida just doesn't exploit his own people, but he has to have someone to exploit.

It has to be said that the production level of public fields, that is, mine fields, is still very high. At any time, intensive large-scale production is the best trend for agricultural development, and the small-scale farmer economy has no future.

The production efficiency of unified sowing and farming in well fields is still very high!

However, human nature is selfish, and everyone likes to gain personal benefits from the public and poach the public.

In fact, in addition to public fields such as well fields, there are also private fields. Originally they were small and sporadic fields of low quality.

But now everyone, mainly nobles at all levels, are working hard to secure their own private lands and secretly divide public lands.

So in fact, by this era, the mine fields were already somewhat difficult to operate. In a few decades, the Central Plains countries began to carry out privatization reforms. They divided the land and began to recognize private ownership of the land, but they needed to pay taxes to the monarch.

This is from the well-field system to the initial taxation of acres!

Zheng Xiaoming now simply takes one step and is ready to carry out the initial taxation of acres.

However, during the construction of the city, it would be more efficient to build well fields.

After the city was built and settled, the land and slaves were directly distributed.

As for liberating slaves, it is still early in this era. Half a step ahead is a genius, one step ahead is a madman.

Zheng Xiaoming didn’t want to be regarded as a madman and ganged up on him!

However, we can't free slaves, but we can try to establish the county system in a secret way to increase the scale of the king's actual control of the land.

So that decades later, like other monarchs, one by one would be faced with the embarrassing situation of having no territory, no money, and no manpower available.

At that time, it was also the beginning of the troubled times of the Spring and Autumn Period, the beginning of the collapse of rituals and music that Confucius lamented!

Because by that time, the system that had maintained the great Zhou Dynasty had begun to decline in an all-round way and could no longer be controlled.

Zheng Xiaoming is now lucky enough to have traveled through Zhou Li on the eve of its complete decline.

In a few decades, after King You becomes King, even if he travels through time and becomes the King of Zhou and the Emperor, he will still be sitting in a trapped city with nothing to do!

As for the name of Prince Zhou, it is even more worthless.

The era of King Xuan was the last glorious era of the Zhou Dynasty.

Of course, King Xuan fell into a coma in his later years and was defeated repeatedly in battles. Then there was the legendary King You who played tricks on the princes with beacon fire, and then there was King Ping who moved eastward.

Dazhou completely lost the core area of ​​Zongzhou, and Chengzhou was surrounded by vassal states, large and small. With no one and no money, they could only watch themselves weaken little by little.

Of course, Zheng Boming's good grandson Zheng Zhuanggong also kicked Da Zhou, accelerating Da Zhou's decline even faster.

Of course, in this historical time and space, everything has changed because of Zheng Xiaoming's arrival.

The state of Zheng is no longer even near Chengzhou, and there should be no "good grandson" like Zheng Zhuanggong anymore.

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In the dead of night, Zheng Xiaoming seemed to be sleeping in the hut where he temporarily lived, but in fact he was wandering around the land around him in a dream.

His movements alarmed Taishi Boyang, because Taishi Boyang had the same ability.

However, after Taishi Boyang saw clearly that it was Zheng Xiaoming, he stopped pouring more and started carving words on the bamboo slips with a carving knife.

What he recorded was the history of the city-building of Zheng.

In this era, less important documents would be written on bamboo slips with a brush.

The important things will be engraved on the bamboo slips!

The most important ones, those that need to be passed down to future generations and shown to future generations, must be engraved on bronze vessels. Later generations of people will call the characters engraved on bronze vessels found inscriptions on bronze vessels, which are the most important ancient documents.

Now Taishi Boyang records these. After the city is built, a batch of bronze vessels will be cast, then engraved on those bronze vessels, and then hidden in the ancestral temple, becoming the ancestral temple treasures worshiped by future generations from generation to generation. That is, bronze vessels.

The inscription on it is "Forever a treasure".
Chapter completed!