After conquering the two countries, Yao Yun's [Molong Cauldron], [Zhenshan Seal] and other ritual vessels returned in triumph.
Madam Liusu, the second elder Wu Tong, the Prime Minister Sun Muyue, together with hundreds of officials, and all the people of Xidu, met twenty miles outside the suburbs. The scene was extremely grand and grand.
"Congratulations to the king on your triumphant return!"
In the midst of the celebration, Yao Yun and others welcomed the [Molong Cauldron], [Zhenshan Seal] and other broken ritual vessels back to the witch temple, adding to the national fortune of the Xi Kingdom.
The second elder Wu Tong smiled widely when he saw so many ritual vessels, including two national ritual vessels.
After many years, he was finally able to offer so many national ritual utensils again.
The second elder Wu Tong, who was full of joy, immediately started busy with the grand sacrificial activities.
He specializes in martial arts. After Yao Yun handed over the Zhenguo ceremonial utensils and a number of ceremonial utensils to the second elder Wu Tong, he ignored them and turned to discuss with the Prime Minister Sun Muyue to take over and govern many matters of the Mo Kingdom and the Shanyuan Kingdom.
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After taking over the two countries, the system of Xi Kingdom naturally needed a new place to continue.
Today, the Xia dynasties implement a feudal system. The world is owned by the emperor. The emperor enfeoffs the land and people to the princes. The princes enjoy extremely high regional autonomy and assume corresponding obligations.
In the vassal states, the princes were granted the title of ministers and officials, and the ministers were in turn assigned to the scholars, and they were granted titles at different levels.
The land in the world is called public ownership, but it is actually public ownership owned by the nobles. In Xi State, the land belongs to Yao Yun and the state. Yao Yun contracts the management rights of the land to the people, and uses them to collect rent, tax, and extract farmers.
The surplus of their labor was used to expand the Xi Kingdom.
Of course, farmers can trade land management rights to expand reproduction.
Yao Yun, a high-ranking Qi practitioner and important minister of the Xi Kingdom, also enfeoffed and rewarded land, but instead of enfeoffing the land ownership, he enfeoffed the beneficial rights of the land, and the land management rights were subject to the control of the Xi Kingdom.
This is similar to the "food city" implemented by many vassal states in the Xia Dynasty, but it is different.
Under the "food town" system, nobles could collect rent and taxes from the people.
However, the people on the fiefdom of Xi State still paid taxes to Xi State, and the land rent was also handed over to the treasury, which was then awarded to the emerging gentry of Xi State by the treasury.
Under this system, the income gained by the emerging gentry of Xi State did not decrease, but increased a lot. Especially in these years, the grain yield per mu of Xi State increased year by year, and the land income continued to increase. The income of the emerging gentry of Xi State increased.
Wealth also increased accordingly.
What's more, the Xi Kingdom's commerce was developed, and these nobles invested the income from their fiefdoms in shops and workshops, and their income was much higher than that of the "eating towns" nobles in other countries.
With the same large fiefdom, the emerging noble families of Xi Kingdom were much richer.
For example, Xiguo is a joint-stock company. Yao Yun and Guo~ are the major shareholders, who operate and manage the company and create profits. The nobles are the minority shareholders, who work hard for the country and enjoy dividends.
The advantage of doing this is that the majority of the people are linked to the country and detached from ordinary families, strengthen the centralization of power, integrate the resources of the country, and help encourage the people to work and produce.
Both the Mo Kingdom and the Shanyuan Kingdom implemented the "food town" system. The nobles of the two countries could collect rent and taxes from the people under their rule, which was different from the system of the Xi Kingdom.
Under such circumstances, the Xi Kingdom naturally needed to ban it and implement the Xi Kingdom system nationwide.
Most of the land and wealth of the two countries are in the hands of the nobles of the two countries. After conquering the Mo Kingdom and the Shanyuan Kingdom, Yao Yun used a "violent regime" with zero cost and ordered Xi's army to sweep the Mo Kingdom and the Shanyuan Kingdom.
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Once attached to Mo Bo, the big gentry families in Shanyuan Kingdom and Shanyuan Kingdom either had their homes confiscated and became prisoners, or they were exiled to other countries and traveled far away.
The farmland, house title deeds, and slaves that once belonged to the great nobles of the two countries were all confiscated by the Xi State, and all their wealth fell into the hands of the Xi State.
In order to stabilize the situation, Yao Yun's methods were much gentler and focused on appeasing the small and medium-sized nobles in the two countries.
As long as he surrenders to Xi State, Xi State will recognize the legitimacy of his wealth and the "food fiefdom" will still be retained, but there will be no ownership of the land, only the right to benefit from the land.
The other thing is slaves. The Xi Kingdom will buy slaves from small nobles and even ordinary people through redemption.
Of course, the redemption money is not a one-time payment. The name of Xiguo's wealth moved the people, but after all, there is not that much money. Xiguo will implement installment payments and issue IOUs in the name of Xiyun Hou Yao Yun, using the future generation of slaves.
The labor income was paid in installments to the original nobles of the two countries.
As a result, Xi State carried out institutional transformation and assimilation of the original Mo State and Shanyuan State.
What? The nobles of your two countries disagree? Are you questioning the credibility of Marquis Xiyun?
Believe it or not, your family will be destroyed immediately, just like Uncle Mo and Uncle Shan Yuan?
During the initial assimilation process, the small and medium-sized nobles of the two countries did have scruples. They were unwilling to give up their "food towns" in exchange for "fief gains", and they were also worried that their "slaves" would be "hacked" by Marquis Xiyun.
After all, the status gap between the two sides is huge. If Marquis Xiyun doesn't pay back, who will they find to reason with?
This worry did not last long. As the nobles of the two countries ransacked their homes and fled, under the "killing the chicken to scare the monkey", Xiao Jiujiu's heart suddenly disappeared.
Compared to those families whose families were ruined, Marquis Xiyun's methods towards them were quite mild, and he did not "rob" them. Moreover, with the lobbying of officials of Xi State, they explained how lucrative the gains from the lands of the ministers of Xi State would be...
..Under numerous comparisons, the small and medium-sized nobles quickly compromised and surrendered to Yao Yun one after another.
The common people of Mo Country and Shanyuan Country have no land, but many people have slaves in their homes. This is their private property. Naturally, they are unwilling to hand it over to Xi Country without taking any IOU.
For ordinary people, let alone the IOU issued by Marquis Xiyun, even the IOU issued by Emperor Mu is of no use.
When dealing with ordinary people who were powerless, Xi Kingdom naturally could not use force to force them to submit like the nobles of the two countries. Otherwise, Yao Yun would become a tyrant.
The most important thing is that the situation among the people is more complicated. Some slaves are tools for their work, and some are an important part of their reproduction. It is complicated. If the Xiguo system is implemented across the board, there will be trouble.
Therefore, for ordinary civilians, the slavery system needs to be developed slowly and step by step by relying on the officials.
Fortunately, Tianwen Academy can train many petty officials every year. When the time comes, they will be spread throughout the country and perfected step by step.
However, in general, the people of the two countries are very supportive of the rule of the Xi State. Because the Xi State distributed a large amount of land management rights to the people, realizing "land to the tiller", the people of the two countries naturally supported Yao Yun.
Not to mention, the reputation of Xi State's wealth is well-known throughout the world. Who doesn't know that Xi Yunhou is benevolent and loves the people, manages the country well, and the people under his rule are healthy.
And just when the Xi Kingdom was taking drastic measures to annex and assimilate the Mo Kingdom and the Shanyuan Kingdom, the wrath from the Emperor Mu came!