Molten iron rolled and surged, solidifying into iron stock, then was forged into the shapes of all manner of tools and farming implements. The iron hammers and Iron Axes for roadbuilding, the Iron Plows, Iron Hoes, and Iron Sickles for opening up wasteland, were all loaded onto the fleet in one go. Some of the tools were shipped back to the harbor of Purple Grass City and issued to the civilian settlements and Banner Units conscripted for roadbuilding, land clearing, and farming. The rest continued upstream along the Great Lake, then passed over the fully built Lime-soil Mixture roads of the Three Rivers and were transported on to Apa City on the Apa Plain.
"Praise the Main God! They're handing out farming tools!..."
"Stand properly! The High Priest has come in person to issue your farming tools!... All of you, behave yourselves!..."
"Ah! Praise the Main God! Praise the priest lord!..."
At the sight of the wheelbarrow convoy bringing in farming tools, a burst of noisy cheers rose outside the city. At this moment, several hundred Militia from more than a hundred villages in Apa County were gathered outside the city by village Banner Unit, led by their respective Village Priests. According to the kingdom's rules, these iron farming implements would never be sent to the city market. Instead, they would be distributed directly to the villages as public property of the village shrine, then lent out for the able-bodied men of the village to use.
The village community system at the kingdom's lowest level actually came from Mesoamerica's traditional "Calpulli" system, then had been adjusted by some mysterious eastern force according to the Canon Law that referenced the Qin Code. A "Calpulli" was the Nahua people's traditional clan commune. The ownership of all cultivated land in a village belonged