From Chief to Ball

Now that he is in such a mess, it is naturally not because someone fled for the position of leader. After the chaos in Dongcheng two years ago, many powerful people stopped thinking about taking the position of leader. Even if the secret agreement was not made public, they all understood this. what's going on.

But just looking at the haggard and preoccupied appearance on his face, it was exactly the same as when he fled because of this two years ago.

After wiping the wound for a while, Feng Zhuo caught fire and moistened the scorched wound, and said distressedly: "Two years ago, because of my father's death, someone seized the position of leader. I came to Sucheng once, and at that time I could only run , but now you can ride a horse. Although the flesh is blurred, it saves time, but I don’t know if the city can be defended.”

The entourage was silent for a long time, and said with emotion: "No one would have thought that the old leaders of Dongyi's tribes died only two years ago, and there would be a leader who could unify the tribes. Dongyi is good at archery, and now I don't know where I learned it. In the city, although two places are blocked, I am afraid it will not last long."

"Boss, there will be a road ahead tomorrow morning. One leads to Sucheng, and the other leads directly to the wharf, where there is a boat to Yucheng. Which road should we take tomorrow?"

Feng Zhuo shook his head, staring at the light of the bonfire in thought for a long time, and everyone was waiting for his answer.

If it was two years ago, this would not be a matter of consideration at all. Naturally, they would go to Sucheng, the place where the clans of Dahe met and was elected as the leader to resist the barbarians.

But two years ago, Xiacheng soldiers sailed eastward by boat, and the speed with which they broke through the city in a few days left a deep impression on these people.Coupled with all the incidents that happened last year, such as food and aid shipments, Jixia's fierce remarks about relatives, etc., these people subconsciously felt that it was better to seek Jixia than Auyue for such matters.

It's just that despite this subconsciousness, it is still difficult to make a choice.Since Suyue is honored as the leader of the tribes of Dahe, it is not good, even extremely bad, for Fengzhuo to go straight to Yucheng instead of Sucheng if he wants to.

However, due to the power of last year's great victory, Suyue once again joined the alliance to attack several clan cities that had withdrawn from the alliance a few years ago, and was not in Sucheng, which finally allowed this matter to be flexible.

The city settlements in the Huasu Alliance were different from the barbarians.If you capture three, there may be five surrenders, because the same relatives are less awkward, and surrender is a matter of course.But if you use troops against the Yi and Di, and capture the three cities, even though you get the slaves of the three cities, you will lose a lot, not to mention that it is difficult for the tribes of the Yi and Di to submit, and even if they surrender, they will not be able to work together. .

Fengzhuo's city is too close to Dongyi and needs to be guarded against, and it is not the foundation of the Sucheng League, so this time the expedition to Fengcheng did not send troops, but only provided some symbolic warriors with feather arrows and wooden branches.

The entourage who followed Feng Zhuo actually hoped that Feng Zhuo could go directly to Yucheng. The speed of soldiers is precious, and when the crisis is at stake, they believe in the speed of those people in Yucheng.

Feng Zhuo hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind.

"Tomorrow I will go directly to Yucheng, and the three of you will go to Sucheng to report this matter. Now that Sucheng's army is out, even the leader of Suyue will need some time. I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on."

The followers heaved a sigh of relief, they still had family members in the city, at this moment they subconsciously trusted the leader of Xia City even more.Aside from the fact that he is usually the one who shouts the loudest slogan about the unity of kinship, what is more important is that Yuxia has been in the limelight in the past two years, which also gives them the capital of trust in terms of strength.

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Compared with Feng Zhuo and others who were frowning in the damp cave, the beginning of the 35th year of the Chinese calendar in Yucheng seemed to be peaceful.

At the beginning of February, a new batch of children who had completed the school initiation entered Yucheng. After selecting five students who followed Chen Jian, they were still divided into six teams according to the previous method, and assigned to various workshops for half-time study.

Following them are a group of old Chinese from Xia City and some powerful managers in Xia City. They will study here for half a year.

Yu Qian'er left Xiacheng and came to Yucheng as she wished, because some people from the Planning and Statistics Department went to Xiacheng to start managing Xiacheng's affairs.The civet cat is in charge of Xiacheng's affairs in the name of a false Sikong, but in fact it is those young people from the planning and statistics department who are not high-ranking but powerful.

In March, a few pigeons that had been raised in Xiacheng for three or four years flew back to the pigeon house in their hometown from Yucheng, and brought a few pieces of cloth with only a few words written on the cloth: All is well.

Soon after, many pigeons were also transported to Yucheng with the ship, and some liberated female slaves in Yucheng began to raise pigeons to collect pigeon dung.

At the end of March, two explosions occurred in an experimental workshop in Yucheng. The explosions injured three people, but fortunately the injuries were not serious.

After the explosion, granulated black powder replaced the original powdered gunpowder. The reason is that the soldiers acquired the prelude to shaking the powder keg before using it.If the powdered gunpowder is left for a long time and moved a little, it may cause some sulfur and other substances to delaminate. If you want to use it, you have to shake it and re-stir it. This is very inconvenient. This is the reason why Chen Jian asked for improvement, but other things He didn't say either.

Of those two explosions, only one was related to black powder, and the other was related to a soap making workshop. Chen Jian obtained a lot of emerald stones from Tongshan in Xiacheng, and after heating them, he obtained some strange liquid wastefully. Mixed with potassium nitrate, and people mixed the sweet water left over from making soap with this weird stuff, and made some... very dangerous pain-relieving drugs, the yield is extremely low and extremely dangerous, because it was fried once.

However, the sales of this drug are good, and it is very popular in other cities as an expensive luxury drug mixed with starch sugar coating and the like, comparable to a elixir.After all, many old relatives and nobles died of heartache, but this thing can effectively relieve them from sudden death, especially when they are old and have heartache, and when they are old, they will always have poor intestinal tract, which is inevitable when they go to the toilet It often happens that you have to use a lot of force to induce heartache. Although you can't live forever with one, it's better than dying in the toilet.

The two explosions could not be concealed even if they wanted to, and the two things appeared in everyone's field of vision very quickly, so everyone knew about it.

But many people don't know that some weird things were made in March, but they were not made public because they didn't have much relationship with the public and kept secret.

As early as last year, the "Bud" department built a small kiln according to Chen Jian's request, and mixed the white powder, quartz stone, plant ash and filtered potash and lime brought back from the grasslands, and began to try firing A strange thing.

This thing is very similar to the slag glass that flowed out of the copper smelting furnace back then. They thought that there would be another workshop in Yucheng, but Chen Jian directly vetoed it.

The reason is simple, this item is an expensive luxury with no market at this time, Xia Cheng will not use limited manpower on it, if it cannot be sold, it is worthless.

But they are required to keep trying and experiment with different ratios, and the city will give them the greatest support.The only requirement is that each firing must record the ratio of various mineral materials and keep improving.

In the past few viscous, strange and opaque test products, Chen Jian used a blowpipe and a ceramic rolling pin to make a few containers and small pieces of glass, and told them to just make these things, as long as they are smooth and not broken. Passes, not at all required to be able to be made into a large piece that can be mounted on a window.

Although the cylindrical short tube and the round glass sheet the size of dumpling wrappers are fragile and will burst when poured with boiling water, any one of them is shocking to the rest of the city.

But these astonishing things did not arouse the shock and admiration of the world, but were thrown in the Yucheng warehouse to be frozen, and most of the unqualified ones were smashed to pieces by Chen Jian with a sledgehammer.

The only function of these shattered glass slags is to let those people see a very interesting scene at night. After a thick copper strip full of burrs rubbed violently in the broken glass powder, a spark like lightning flashed in the dark sky. Blooming in the room - of course, the simple friction does not have such a bright flash, but the sparks after the friction ignite the gunpowder on it.

There is no confidentiality requirement for this matter itself, even if many people are willing to watch it, they can continue to demonstrate it to them, brainstorming for everyone to think about what they can do.But how those glasses were fired behind the event is kept secret.

These few things are not considered major events, at least at this time it does not seem to be major events, so Yucheng ushered in the 35th year of the Chinese calendar with a step-by-step calm, and spent the previous four months with this calm.

This peace was broken on the last day of April, when a ship carrying Feng Zhuo and bad news about his city arrived at the wharf of Yucheng, and then the whole of Yucheng knew that Fengcheng, hundreds of miles away, was The matter of being besieged by the Dongyi people.

Chapter 12 Big Heart

The news spread as soon as the man arrived. Obviously, this was Feng Zhuo's own propaganda, trying to win over the public opinion in Yucheng. After all, Chen Jian talked about things that people might not believe all day long. If he didn't send troops, he would be slapped in the face.

Regarding this kind of small plan, Chen Jian smiled brightly, and didn't say much, so that he treated Feng Zhuo nicely.

"Chief Jixia, Fengcheng is dangerous, and it will only be broken overnight. I also ask Jixianian to send troops to rescue because of the love of the Dahe clan."

"The tribes of Dongyi were integrated so quickly?"

"Yes, there is a very powerful person among the sons of the old leader of Dongyi. At the beginning, he separated to form a city of his own, with Qiong as his surname and Xi as his name. It is said that there were several chaotic battles in Dongyi, but many The clan leaders all support Qiongxi."

"Dome?"

"Dongyi people are good at archery, and the sky is like a bow. Qiong is an honorary title among the tribes of Dongyi, meaning the person who is the best at archery. Qiongxi means that he can shoot prey even in the evening. I just heard that he is good at archery." Well, I never thought that there is such a way to govern the city and integrate the ministries."

Feng Zhuo let out a long sigh, and said again: "Now the leader of Suyue is away on an expedition, I have come to seek leader Jixia before I have time to go to Sucheng, there are still thousands of clansmen in the city, please ask Jixia to remember the family relationship!"

Chen Jian helped Feng Zhuo up and asked about the military strength of the Dongyi people this time. Feng Zhuo only said that he thought Dongyi was powerful, so he didn't think about sending troops in the wild, but directly retreated to the city.

"There are at least 8000 to [-] people in the alliance of various ministries, and there are many archers. We were shot to death more than [-] people in one day of siege. Their bows... are strange, they are bent on both sides."

Feng Zhuo drew an ugly recurve bow on the ground, and Chen Jian wasn't too surprised.The tribes of Dongyi have bamboo and ox horns, and there must be a lot of fish gelatin near the sea, so it is most suitable for making this kind of bow.

I'm afraid that the leader named Qiongxi is not only good at archery, but also made this kind of bow with a recurved bow to get such a name.With the same power, the bow used by Yu Xia must be one foot longer than the recurved bow.

A weapon can't change anything, Qiongxi's political skills must be good, but relying on bows and arrows may not be able to force this, so I asked another question.

It turned out that the place where Fengcheng was located was thick with silt, so the Dongyi people dug a tunnel into the city. Although it was blocked, they turned to dig the foundation of the city wall.

Feng Zhuo also knew that it might be difficult to defend, so he rushed out of the siege quickly with the help of the horse to ask for help, otherwise the only possibility of being killed after the city was broken.

Chen Jian persuaded Feng Zhuo a few words, then let him go to rest first, and then called people in the city to discuss countermeasures.

Several officers of Xiacheng's young black guards, headed by Ji Bo, quietly approached Chen Jian and said, "Ji Xia, a good witch doctor never points out when a person's illness is cured. Instead, he waits until the illness is gone. Seeing that you are about to die, you will be given medicine, and your reputation will be revealed."

"Now that Xiacheng is fertile and Yucheng is rich, it is the time to be rich and powerful. It is better to take advantage of the opportunity of Suyue's expedition to let the Dongyi people enter and capture three or five cities. When the time comes, the Zhuhua will panic, and we will send troops again to make the tribes Amazed and admired, Jixia's reputation is not weaker than Suyue's."

"Jixia likes the long-term. In our opinion, making Jixia the leader of the tribes is the best for the relatives in the long run. Those relatives who have been taken away are like... sacrifices, and it is worthwhile in the long run."