From Chief to Ball

But now with the appearance of farm cattle and iron tools, Chen Jian can finally paint his blood-soaked hands.Slaves are still needed, but hundreds of thousands of slaves are no longer needed to keep the entire city running.

Slaves will exist for hundreds of years, and the new era does not appear out of thin air, but builds on the foundation of the old era, but every year the material wealth created by the slaves decreases proportionally, at least for Xiacheng.

There are still slaves in Xia City, and there will still be slaves for a long time to come.Therefore, Chen Jian wields the sharp weapon of slave resistance, not to ebb and flow, but to hurt each other.

It only hurts one thousand enemies and two hundred. Not using slaves is nothing more than a gecko cutting off its tail to Xiacheng, which will bleed but not fatal; head.

This is because Dongyi is not his own base, and this kind of mutual harm will become more beneficial to him as time goes by.

This can also be regarded as the propaganda tone within Dongyi for this expedition, which is to try its best to instigate class conflicts in the hinterland of Dongyi, divide the clan cities that are not too harmonious with Qiongxi, and try to downplay ethnic conflicts as much as possible.

The concept of ethnic groups is vague at this time, and it is more of a cultural concept, except for the group of people with different skin colors and different races in the north of Xiacheng that can be seen at a glance.

The skins are the same, the language is similar, and the difference may be that the clay pots used for cooking are three-legged or four-legged. Even many Dongyi ethnic groups migrated from the west.

Dongyi was originally the place where Chen Jian was going to be the basic plan after the unification in the future. The experience of his previous life was not to kill them all, but to invade the country by the colonial culture of the city and rush to have children.The state of Lu, a family member of the Zhou royal family, which implemented the most extreme policy, did not quell the chaos of the Dongyi for three years, while the state of Qi, which implemented a loose policy, became the head of the five tyrants within a few months. This is worth learning.

Burn its history, ban its words, and change its customs.A hundred years later, Dongyi is only in the history books, without history and historical memory, and even without language. The blood of this ethnic group is still there, but the soul is gone.

So this time, Chen Jian used ethnicism to stir up the fanaticism of the young people in the school, and used interests to lure the fanaticism of the clansmen in the city.

Ethnicity is a binary concept of blood and culture. Pure ethnic groupism is a booster for the weak. The strong side can do it too, but the side effect is that the weak will do it too, and it is more beneficial and less costly than the strong one.

He doesn't want to finish Dongyi with the boost of ethnicism, and then leave a seed of turmoil for hundreds of years. Sometimes aggression needs to be deceived. What should be used is not certain and certain, and needs to be changed.

With the emergence and transformation of Xiacheng, the power of the tribes of Dahe is gradually increasing.Since he is a strong man, there is no need for this shot. It is more suitable for the current situation to engage in cultural groups and ideologies; if the Dahe tribes are on the verge of being weak or exterminated at this time, Chen Jian will be the first to jump out to seek revenge for blood groups conceptual.

These captured miners are the cheap labor that cities need. The most important thing in this era is the population that can work. A little improvement in their living environment can always bring stability for three to five years.

These people may not all return to Yucheng to become the bottom people, but they need to select a group of strong people who can work. Xiacheng's welfare system will not support some people with too many injuries, which is a negative return.

After resting in the jade mine for two days, Chen Jian selected more than 600 of the strongest miners to go with the army. The rest and the captured Dongyi people were sent back to the foothold. A strong camp.

On the seventh day of August, Chen Jian arrived near Moucheng with more than 600 newly joined miners, and the journey was unimpeded.

The rest of the cities got the news from Mouhu, and they didn't dare to send large troops to harass, and the harassing by small groups of troops was useless. The Xia army walked very slowly, and there were so many scouts, it had no effect.

When I saw Moucheng again, Moucheng had already fallen into uneasiness and chaos. The city gates were tightly closed, and they dared not go out to fight, and only stayed in the city.

He chose a small hill two miles away from Mou City, set up camp and dug a well.

The army rested, and the miners, led by some black-clothed guards, went to the place outside the city wall where bows and arrows could not shoot, cursed at the top of the city with the most vicious language, and called on the slaves in the city to resist together.

Chen Jian also guessed that the slaves on the top of the city must be supervised by someone, and the shouting now will not have the effect of responding to everyone, because he has not yet shown his strength in front of these slaves, but once the people of Xiacheng show the strength that may win Finally, this group of slaves guarding the city will be the biggest factor of instability.

No matter how insulting and provocative the miners below were, there was no response from above, and no troops were sent out to harass them. Only feathered arrows fell occasionally, and it was difficult to hurt people if they were too far away.

A day later, several wooden towers were erected in the camp to observe the movement in the city.Xiacheng's troops were too small to besiege the city on all sides, but the people in the city did not dare to leave the city for a decisive battle, so they could only surround one side.

Simple shield carts made of wood were rolled out of the camp. The simple wooden wheels were not bent, but cut from logs. They were simple and easy to make, but they could not last long.

When advancing three to five hundred steps away from the city wall of Mou City, the army put forward a defensive position to prevent the city from coming out of the city to harass.

All the spearmen born as miners in Yucheng and the rescued jade slaves put down their weapons, picked up the picks and shovels they were familiar with or were not familiar with, and were given the task by Chen Jian.

The shield car approached under the cover, and dug a tunnel under the shield car to reach under the city wall of Moucheng.

Various people who had worked as overseers in the mine were found, and they were responsible for directing the rest of the people to support the tunnel with logs to prevent collapse.

This is the alluvial plain of the big river, the soil layer is extremely thick, and it will be effortless to dig with the tools at hand.A ship from the upper reaches delivered a ship of gunpowder, and the soldiers from the carpentry department received tools and were responsible for making large wooden coffins to hold the gunpowder...

Qiong Xi used the method of digging tunnels when attacking Fengcheng, and Chen Jian also used the same method to fight fire with fire.

City defense warfare is also constantly improving with the times. In this era, it is difficult to consider the attack methods of digging tunnels or blasting the city with gunpowder. Therefore, there is no extremely thick layer of rammed earth or stone slabs under the city wall to prevent such siege methods. .

The defenders of the city would not use the Tao Weng to listen to the movement of the underground, nor would they pour water into the tunnel to soak the gunpowder. These are things that have been continuously learned during the war.

Every progress is a lesson bought with blood.

In fact, since the appearance of iron tools and gunpowder, the defenses of all the cities on both sides of the river have fallen behind the times. It is time for this war to make the city-building thinking of each city take a big step forward.

He didn't have the kindest intentions to be this gentleman, he just wanted to force the rest of the cities to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to rebuild the city walls, so that cities like Sucheng would not be able to use their minds to contain Xiacheng or use force to solve the problem. thoughts.

At least after this battle, they will not turn against themselves until the new city wall is repaired, so this time the siege must be shocking enough to create a deterrent.

Deterring not only enemies, but also current allies.

Chapter 44 Dongyi Vibration ([-])

Outside the west gate of Mou City, an artificial small mound appeared out of thin air on the ground within a day.

The people of Moucheng on the city wall can see that the people of Xiacheng cut down wood from a distance and transported it to the vicinity of the mound continuously, as if they were building a camp.

Some people resisted some not too thick logs from a distance, and they seemed to be binding ladders.

Thousands of people were digging there with digging tools in their hands, piling up the soil continuously. Many of the diggers were the miners who scolded outside the city a few days ago.

The tools are used together, and the land ravaged by them has been devastated and changed in one day.

The upturned soil piled up and continued to grow.

The strange actions of the Xiacheng people made Moucheng deeply disturbed. Surrounded by his tribe, Mou Hu came down to the top of the city, looked at the Xiacheng people's camp, and frowned.

The camp a few hundred steps away was already in its infancy. While more than a thousand people were busy there, there were still more people guarding it at any time.

"The Xiacheng people are planning to build a high platform with earth and shoot arrows at the city? Is this how they attack the city?"

Mou Hu was a little puzzled. Although the Xiacheng people's siege method was a bit novel, it didn't make her feel that it was at stake.

It would take at least a month to build a mound and approach slowly, and after a month, Qiongxi's army would return, and by then, the group of Xiacheng people who were showing off their might at this time would be in a desperate situation.

She thought about it, and felt that these Xiacheng people might just want to attract the attention of the city to Ximen.Just in case, while focusing on defense on Ximen's side, he also strictly ordered the other three directions to pay close attention to the movement of Xiacheng people.

After watching for a while, Mouhu saw a very strange scene. A few strange birds flew up from near the mound and danced in the clear sky with the fresh autumn wind. The long tail makes it difficult to see clearly from a distance, but you can see a few Xiacheng people shaking something in the distance, as if they are controlling these birds.

The people of Moucheng on the city wall raised their necks to observe the weird birds, and they completely forgot about the soreness in their necks. Dozens of excellent archers bowed their bows and shot, but unfortunately they missed.

This strange scene finally came to an end in the evening. The cool wind accompanied by the damp mist caused the flying birds to fall on the city wall. Several people picked it up curiously and found that it was just a piece of cloth. I don't know what method was used to make these cloths fly into the air.

The other end of the thin rope tied to it was obviously in the hands of Xiacheng people outside the city. At this time, it fell to the ground, and it seemed that those Xiacheng people wanted to take it back.

The city guards didn't know what it was, and Mou Hu was playing with a fallen "flying bird" at the top of the city, feeling more and more strange in his heart.

This is a very simple piece of silk, with eyes and some scary pictures drawn with charcoal.

"Perhaps... the eyes of these birds can see everything in the city and tell the people of Xiacheng? Could it be that the witches or priests among the people of Xiacheng can communicate with birds and beasts?"

Thinking of this, Mou Hu's body felt a little cold, and he shivered unconsciously, feeling a little scary.