The commune system has evolved from collective farms to village groups and then to household-based production contracts. This is a step-by-step process.
Xu Chen was not yet able to achieve privatization and enter the small-scale peasant economic model in one step, but he first divided into groups, and gradually formed a fragmented and lump-sum model within the tribe and family. As farming and various industries gradually expanded in the future, the division of labor became more and more
Once it becomes clearer, it is not impossible to divide fields into groups.
With the distribution of fields into groups, if the establishment of a fixed couple system can be completed, then the distribution of fields into households will not be a problem.
Although privatization has many disadvantages, it is the best way to stimulate the development of productivity over a long period of time, and is far more competitive than eating from a big pot.
However, public ownership and private ownership are two completely different social systems, and their impact on the social structure is self-evident.
For these primitive people who are accustomed to collective family life, it is impossible to fully realize it without a long period of development and adaptation.
But Xu Chen will still work hard to promote the development of privatization.
After all, this is a natural law of development. If he wants to obtain more sufficient productivity to promote the rapid progress of human society, it is the inevitable path for social progress to allow hardworking, smart, and capable people to obtain more wealth and even power.
Any so-called fairness and equality that ignores individual differences will only hinder the development of society.
Therefore, Xu Chen decided to first fix the system of the spring sowing group and implement a shareholding system within the tribe and family.
Although the decision of this meeting caused some commotion and even controversy, many labor groups who actively eat meat and wine every day agreed with this method.
Each group is responsible for one hundred acres of farmland and is responsible for weeding and field management.
If you are lazy, it will be obvious at a glance. Too many weeds and inactivity in driving away wild beasts and birds will eventually lead to a reduction in production.
Of course, after the group contracting, the tribal leadership does not just leave things alone. A group of family leaders such as Mu Ba and A Mu will conduct inspections from time to time. Those who do not manage well will be criticized, and those who manage well will naturally receive more rewards.
"Everyone, please note that the final evaluation result of the group quota is the amount of grain harvested in the autumn. To the one with the highest harvest, we will distribute fruit wine, bacon, salted fish, salted eggs, linen, pottery and other items to the group members.
It is distributed freely and belongs to the personal belongings of the team members. You can even freely exchange it with other tribes at the tribal conference..."
Xu Chen held a bark loudspeaker and stood on a pile of rocks to explain loudly to everyone attending the group meeting.
The people below were all whispering to each other, and the buzzing sound echoed throughout the river beach.
Villagers' meetings have been an ancient custom of villagers' self-governance for a long time.
In Xu Chen's view, a tribe can be roughly regarded as a village.
All tribesmen can actually be regarded as villagers.
It's just that the attributes of villagers have not yet been fully established, and the division of labor needs to be further determined.
Because food is absolutely the most important, agricultural production was also listed as the first topic of reform by Xu Chen.
In addition to farming and management, these groups are also integrated in the tribe's other production activities, such as picking hemp, weaving, making and repairing tools, building houses, logging, digging trenches, fishing, gathering, feeding livestock and poultry, etc.
The activities are still carried out in a unified manner.
As the division of labor becomes more clear in the future, industries such as kiln burning, fishing, transportation, trading, house building, shipbuilding, car building, making farm tools and wooden furniture, hunting, and animal skin processing will gradually develop and mature, and various functional groups will continue to appear.
, eventually forming different industry groups responsible for their respective categories.
At present, the only mature and independent industry among the Ba people is pottery production.
In the past, there were four kiln workers responsible for it, but now it has expanded to ten. They basically do nothing else and are responsible for firing pottery, pottery bricks and lime.
Because as Xu Chen continued to conquer more tribes, the size of the population under his control expanded and expanded exponentially, and the demand for pottery became greater and greater. The two fire kilns continued to fire throughout the autumn and winter, but they were still unable to fully meet the needs of the outside world.
Before Xu Chen came back, Feng had already taken people on rafts to visit the Yugong and Gonghuo tribes twice, sending a large amount of food and pottery respectively. He also sent the salt exchanged from the Mongolian tribe to the Lei tribe and the Dai tribe respectively.
Huiba people.
At present, this kind of obviously commercial nature is basically fixed once a month.
According to time, the wind should start again.
In addition, this time Xu Chen promised to return the labor camp prisoners of the Gonghuo and Qia tribes. Now that the spring sowing is over, this promise should be fulfilled.
At present, there are only forty Gonghuo Tribe prisoners left in the Ba Tribe, and there are also a group of Yu Gong Tribe men and women. Their departure will not have much impact on the Ba Tribe's production and life.
But almost all of these people wanted to stay in the Ba tribe, which gave Xu Chen a slight headache.
It's good to stay, but I'm afraid it will cause dissatisfaction from the Gonghuo Clan.
Therefore, this matter needs to be carefully considered and arranged. It is unrealistic to leave all of it. It will not be a big problem to leave half of it by then. At most, it can give some compensation to the Gonghuo Clan.
And with the discovery of tin ore and lead ore, bringing back hundreds of kilograms of smelted tin and lead this time, another new industry will be born, that is, professional metal smelting and processing.
Although it can be temporarily merged into the kiln factory, these are two completely different industries, and it will be a matter of time before they separate.
The upgrade of pottery is porcelain.
In the future, metal smelting and processing will be a proper heavy industry. It is an important weapon of the country and cannot be shown to others. The skills need to be kept more confidential.
In addition, in order to smelt bronze and cast it, it is necessary to recruit more craftsmen. This will form an industry group to operate independently, which will also have some impact on the daily production and life of the tribe.
At this family meeting, Xu Chen proposed to expand the scale of the kiln after announcing the complete farmland management of the group. Finally, after self-recommendation and recommendation, he temporarily selected five men with strong bodies and familiarity with making stone tools to form a new kiln.
Bronze smelting group.
The group to which these five people belong will be re-adjusted and assigned by Mu Ba and Amu. From now on, they will specialize in smelting and processing metal tools and will no longer participate in most of the daily work within the tribe.
Seeing Xu Chen calmly arranging work with a group of noisy tribesmen with a big horn, the little witch stood not far behind him with a staff, her face full of reverence and tenderness.
Xu Chen always looks confident in everything he does. Although it seems that every time he comes up with an idea, he actually comes up with it after careful consideration before discussing and arranging it.
I don’t know what this smelting process is for?
Could it be that His Majesty the Witch King has another new creation that is more magical and mysterious than pottery?
The little witch felt her heart beating very fast.
She felt that what appeared this time might bring about earth-shaking changes to the tribe and even all the alliance tribes.
Because Xu Chen brought back two mysterious metals from a distant tribe this time. They are heavy and have a delicate luster. They feel very similar to gold.
"The Mother Goddess bless His Majesty the Witch King, ￥%#@..."
The little witch held the golden scepter tightly and began to whisper ancient sacrificial words in a low voice, her eyes shining with unparalleled fiery light.
The plan for the year begins with spring.
For the entire tribe, the end of spring sowing means the end of the busiest time of the year, where they can temporarily relax their tense and tired bodies and enter a period of relative leisure.
Moreover, the sufficient reserves of food and salted fish and bacon in the warehouse also prevented the entire tribe from having to collect wild vegetables and plant roots everywhere in winter and spring as in previous years to solve the problem of food and clothing for the whole family, old and young.
Therefore, the entire tribe seems to be relatively leisurely in this spring. They are either planting melons, beans, and cleaning ditches in front of and behind the houses, or they are continuing to build river embankments and dams and cut down trees. They are relaxed and slow, no longer as busy as in previous years.
Xu Chen led a group of kiln workers and a newly recruited bronze smelting team to start a new round of renovation and expansion of the kiln.
The kiln area has now expanded a lot. The low stone wall originally built with stones has no function now. Instead, simple wooden stakes and fences have been used to build a space of about seven or eight acres at the foot of the mountain.
, surrounding the ditch and part of the pond, forming a new kiln.
After simple renovation, the five stone huts originally built became a special place for a group of kiln workers to rest and work.
At the foot of the mountain, a group of kiln workers began to dig a third kiln to burn charcoal.
After the small smelting furnace built last year for smelting copper and lead was demolished, a spacious pavilion was built on the original site and a dedicated bronze smelting workshop was built.
The smelting furnace still adopts the traditional stove design, which is similar to the earthen stove used for cooking in the kitchen. However, it is surrounded by a half-person-high closed furnace surrounded by clay bricks and clay, so that the entire stove is completely embedded in it like an earthen kiln.
This way, the flame can be trapped in the furnace as much as possible, and the temperature can be continuously accumulated and raised. The mouth of the furnace is very small, just enough to put in a small crucible.
If you want to quickly increase the furnace temperature to melt bronze, it is not enough to have a furnace alone, you also need special blast equipment.
But as there are currently no metal tools that cannot make precision woodware, there is definitely no way to make a bellows. We can only use the oldest and simplest method, which is to use a fan.
But even if he used a fan, Xu Chen still thought of many ways. In order to speed up the input of oxygen, he built a trumpet with ceramic bricks at the air inlet of the heating furnace. When fanning, he could pump in the air to the maximum extent.
into the furnace.
Smelting is not Xu Chen's major, he just knows a lot about ores.
However, after copper, iron, lead and other metals were successfully smelted under his brutal guidance, he was now extremely confident in smelting bronze.
Now he has the same impulse that I have when I have copper and tin in my hands.
At this juncture, if he still couldn't get a qualified bronze, he thought he could get a piece of tofu... Well, it was too extravagant, so he might as well just dig up mud and get hit to death.
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I received a bag of vegetables today. It was the first time I took advantage of the government. I feel like my life has been sublimated. I will try to add another chapter and continue to show off tomorrow.