Chapter 231
After the swing was released, Magic Wu often sat on it and shook it around. For some reason, she felt very relaxed. She didn't use her own magic power, just shaking it like this, which was very interesting.
The history of swings is very long. They were not invented by the countries in the Spring and Autumn Period, but were transmitted from the Xirong side. Yunyao's swing is very high, just three meters away, after all, it is used as an advertisement. It is located by the river, so when swinging, half of it is land and half water surface, and you don't dare to play without the courage.
Two large logs stand up straight here, attracting attention, because they are taller than all the surrounding buildings and can be seen from a distance. There is nothing better to promote than this, even the South Bank can be seen clearly, and the wood is sold on the North Bank.
"It would be great if I could still sell saplings." Shuzai was settled. The first batch of timber was almost sold, so he was inspired and thought of selling saplings.
Yunyao looked at Shuzai and thought that the minds of the people of the Western Zhou Dynasty were indeed very good. Many people could not accumulate ten pieces of cloth in their lives, so they bought saplings and planted them in their own homes. After ten or twenty years, their children grew up and they would have wood to build houses.
This is the simple idea of the ancients. Ordinary people also want to live in big houses, but they have less income and spend more money. They have no way to take out ten pieces of cloth in one go, so they can only exchange time for big trees.
"It's easy to deal with, you can also sell saplings." Yunyao agrees very much with this method. After all, you can't just cut down trees, but you also have to plant trees.
Shuzai nodded repeatedly, and the girl Zhu was really quick enough. As soon as she mentioned it, the other party figured it out.
The price of seedlings does not need to be too high, just a pot of millet is enough.
After finishing the account, Shuzai handed the bamboo slips to Yunyao for inspection. It was both millet and cloth coins. Moreover, the cloth coins were not completely silk, and linen.
In addition to these two currencies, some leather is also used as currency. In addition to the elixir currency in Yunyao, there are five or six kinds of currencies alone, which is a headache.
"Is the warehouse enough?" Yunyao asked.
Shuzai said: "The new warehouse has been put into use and half of it is used. The leader of Zhu is good and has a wealthy fief."
"I'm just a little richer this year. I have to take out the cloth to buy a large amount of ore in Xue Country next year." "By the way, how are the loss of the public instruments in the fief?"
"There are horses, one vehicle, and several tools in the fief. They can pass through the year-end inspection, without major damage. However, there are more and more cattle and sheep in the fief, and the dog and carriage people are a little too busy to take care of each other." "Mr. Zhu, shouldn't you ask the young master to send some staff?"
"After relocation, everyone is short of people, so it's better to promote it from the savages." Yunyao said, it's okay to promote a few retainers.
"Mr. Zhu, if this continues, I am worried that the savages will no longer have the intention to farm." Shuzai said worriedly: "If the savages are asked to do things for the Chinese people, then who will do things for the savages? If the savages want to become Chinese people, then who will do things for the Chinese people?"
Yunyao glanced at Shuzai and thought to himself that the ancients also knew that the trend of personnel flow was from hard jobs to relaxed jobs, and now the hardest job is farming.
In the past, savages were bound to the land, and only Chinese people could engage in easy positions. However, if Yun Yao really launched savages on a large scale, then savages would be impatient and unable to farm with peace of mind.
Shuzai has been worried about this issue a long time ago, but this time he really put it on it as an issue. Please pay attention to it.
In order to solve this problem, the ancients thought of many ways, but in fact they could not solve it completely. Later generations created many concepts and fresh systems. They either forced or tempted farmers to stay on the land and maintain basic grain production.
Food is the most important thing for people and agriculture is the most important thing for people, but human nature is lazy and hates labor, so people will concentrate on relaxed positions, from ancient times to the present, this is true.
Yunyao naturally couldn't solve this problem, but the current population of fiefs is very healthy, so there is no need to worry that no one is farming, so Yunyao said: "Let's do it this way first. As for the fewer people who farm in the future, we will raise more cattle and make more bronze farm tools, and there will always be ways to make up for it."
Seeing that Yunyao had also considered the future, Shuzai no longer objected. After all, the sharpness of bronze farm tools is obvious to all. However, Shuzai also had another question: "While Zhu Nu is kind-hearted and does not object to the savages saving effort on the public fields, and even made bronze farm tools, I am still worried that in the long run, they will become more and more lazy in the public fields. Should we find a way to suppress the number of savages raised by each household, such as stubborn households, only two chickens and two ducks, or one sheep and one pig."
Shuzai hopes that by restricting the number of savages’ breeding, they can save time on private matters and spend time on public fields.
"It's enough that the output of public fields has not decreased. Anyway, we still have transactions in fiefs. As long as the tax can be paid, the savages will not force the savages to spend time on the public fields." Yunyao had already thought that if the savages were so busy that they had no time to go to the public fields, the savages would be farmed, and the income from the five pieces of public fields would be distributed to the savages in the form of taxes. Just like Guan Zhong's future economic reform, it changed from a well-field system to a land tax.
Guan Zhong was the first son of the Spring and Autumn Period, the starting point of various schools of thought, Confucius' idol, and the first person in China's economic development. Yun Yao believed that he could do it by copying it.
"As for the candidate..." Yunyao originally wanted Shuzai to choose because it had always been like this before. After all, Shuzai was very familiar with fiefdom, and the savage promoted was naturally credible.
But now Yunyao feels that asking Shuzai to select people will breed dissatisfaction with other savages? After all, Shuzai must choose close savages, and those savages with average relationship with Shuzai may be angry.
Yunyao is not worried that Shuzai can undermine him. There are countless lords in history who have been undermined because they trust their subordinates too much. However, Yunyao's attention to the selection this time is not because he is worried that Shuzai can control the power of personnel appointments, but because he is really worried that the savages will be dissatisfied.
Of course, it may be too much of a concern. After all, Shuzai has been managing savages for so long, so the savages should be convinced.
However, Yunyao decided to ask Shuzai how to choose a candidate: "Shuzai, how are you going to choose a savage to serve as a position?"
"I know that there are a few savages who are abilities, so I'll just ask them to do it."
Sure enough, it is to appoint the savages that I am most familiar with and often communicate with.
"I think so, let the dog and carriage people make up a few questions, and then let the savages who are willing to take care of the livestock answer and choose the savages who answer the most questions. What do you think?" Yunyao proposed the method of selecting questions and answers: "In this way, all savages with ideas can come to participate in the Q&A, and secondly, fair Q&A, and the savages who fail to be elected will not be angry."
Shuzai looked at Yunyao strangely, not understanding why Yunyao came up with such a troublesome solution. He didn't think Yunyao was seizing his power, but he felt that the girl cultivating immortals had a wide range of ideas and complicated simple things to handle. But after thinking about it, he agreed and nodded and said, "This method is OK, it's just taking more time."
The Q&A selection is definitely a waste of resources, but it is Yun Yao who comes out anyway, and Shuzai thinks it can be implemented: "I'll do it like this."
"Let the wild people know that there is such a selection, so let them make some preparations." Yunyao said.
Chapter completed!