Chapter 0237 Tribe Class Division
The results of this policy are also remarkable.
The women in the tribe all grew bigger one by one.
In the past, it took three or four years for a woman to have two children, but now... one or two years.
Many women, whose children are only one year old, get bigger.
Ye Qing knew that such a policy was to overdraw the health and even life of the tribe, but this was also a helpless move.
In this era, people's lifespan is already short, and they are still in the fertility stage without taking advantage of it. If they have more children, how can the tribe grow stronger?
This is something that can't be done.
If you want to develop, you must make sacrifices in one generation or even several generations, which is inevitable.
Only when this generation makes sacrifices will the descendants be happier.
This is true in any era.
Because of this policy, all the soldiers who went to the battlefield and had priority selection were women with children.
The more children a woman is, the more popular she is.
If these women reward them, they will naturally give birth to children. This is also a child, and the women who have given birth to a large number of babies will receive more rewards!
Everyone will settle the account!
Moreover, the children of these women have grown up, and according to Ye Qing's other policy, it is also a big benefit.
The second place for the women brought back by Long Jiajun is to reward those village chiefs, neighbor chiefs, and those who hold various management positions.
Each of these people also rewarded a woman.
They also contributed to the stability and development of the tribe.
Need a reward.
In fact, this is Ye Qing who is trying to win over them.
As for those who have Ge's witches, they are women, or older people like the Canfeng witches, Ye Qing replaced them with other valuable items such as cloth, so that they could choose freely.
Like the Canfeng Witch, who is old, it is OK to give the rewarded woman to his son.
Or like the witch of Youge, as a woman, you can give the rewarded woman to your younger brother Ge Wu.
However, Ge Wu had already been rewarded with four women. If Ge's witch gave him one more, there would be five women.
So, how would you choose if you have Ge's witch?
Is she a crazy brother-supporting demon?
These tribesmen who live in management positions have additional wages paid by the tribe, and there is no problem in supporting the women who are rewarded and the children they brought with them.
These people are considered bureaucratic groups.
If you distinguish carefully, the tribe members had already divided into several classes without realizing it.
First of all, the largest group is the tribe who mainly grows crops and produces grain. These people are considered farmers.
The second is the tribe members who conduct professional production in brick and tile factories, copper smelting workshops, wood workshops and other workshops. These people can be regarded as craftsmen.
The third is the neighbor chief, the village chief and the heads of each workshop. These people are considered bureaucrats.
The fourth is the soldiers of the Dragon Armor Army. The duties of these people are to guard the tribe, resist foreign invasions, and participate in foreign wars, and are considered warriors.
The fifth is the witches from various tribes. They gathered in the Tiantai, the ancestral temple, and studied the world every day, the gods and man, the time, the origin of life, the inheritance of blood, and other high-level knowledge. They are knowledgeable people and are considered scholars of this era.
The sixth naturally means the ruling class led by Ye Qing, such as the patriarch, Taikang, Shaokang, Manniu, and Lie, who can be considered nobles.
After looking through this, Ye Qing found that there were all farmers, craftsmen, bureaucrats, warriors, scholars, and nobles...
A small society was formed unknowingly.
No, I forgot one, dozens of Youtu clans who were under supervision and were still mining coal. They were slaves.
There are also women brought back by the Dragon Armor Army this time, and they are also considered to be of the same class. At present, they are slaves, but after a while, their identities will change.
Ye Qing also formulated a policy for them.
Their status is slaves, but after they give birth to a Fengfeng child, their status can be improved.
Ye Qing invented a word that was not available in this era: concubine.
The concubine of Oracle is a woman wearing torture instruments. The original meaning is a female slave who is deprived of her freedom and forced to serve others because of being captured or committed a crime.
After giving birth to the Fangfeng family's children, these women can become concubines and have some of the identity and status of the Fangfeng family.
It is impossible to have all the identity and status of the Fengfeng clan members, and they are still the property of their masters.
They can't become wives.
A wife is a woman with a free status and is a normal marriage. She is registered by the tribe's ancestral temple. She is the wife.
Moreover, Ye Qing stipulated that there can only be one wife and multiple concubines.
The child born to the concubine has the normal status and status of the Fengfeng clan.
When they give birth to a second child, the children they bring can have a status as a slave and become servants.
The order of becoming servants starts with the youngest child of this woman.
If a woman wants her two former children to become servants, then she will have to give birth to at least three children from the Fengfeng family.
Her oldest child became a servant at the latest.
Pu, this is another word that Ye Qing invented in this era that did not exist.
The word "pu" in oracle bone script is a person wearing torture instruments, naked, exposed hair on his buttocks, and holding a feces on his hands. The original meaning is a slave who takes shit and urine for his master.
Compared with slaves, servants have more personal freedom and more life guarantees.
No one can decide the life and death of a servant for no reason.
If the servant commits a crime, he needs to be punished by the tribe and cannot be dealt with by the master at will.
The child born to the servant is no longer a servant, but a member of the Fengfeng clan with a complete identity and status.
If you give birth to children, you also enjoy the reproductive reward policy.
However, the reward belongs to the owner.
With this reward, the master will not curb the servants' children for no reason, which will also benefit the tribe's population.
In order to prevent some unscrupulous owners from receiving rewards but not willing to pay the cost of raising children, after receiving the rewards, they drowned the child, Ye Qing also made special regulations that these children died before the age of fourteen and need to be reviewed. If it is artificially intentional, the owner should be severely punished.
Letting the descendants of the servant become members of the Fengfeng clan with normal identities is naturally due to the consideration of accelerating tribal integration.
Letting the descendants of the servants continue for generations is not conducive to the development of productivity.
Any human power is precious.
If there is a person, you must try your best to show your value.
The biggest difference between servants and slaves is that servants have certain personal freedom and can also marry and have children.
Slaves do not have the right to marry and give birth, and the generation ends.
Ye Qing didn't want to let too many slaves in the tribe.
Generally speaking, slave society, relatively primitive society, can improve productivity.
But for Ye Qing, the productivity of slaves is not as good as that of a free person.
The productivity of a tribe is far greater than that of a slave society, and there is no need to go through this stage of a slave society.
Eliminating the slave class can enable the tribe to develop faster.
Chapter completed!