From Chief to Ball

Therefore, before the 40th year of the Chinese calendar, a large number of slaves had already fled to Xinhua City, but the journey was difficult and not scaled.

Therefore, after obtaining the permission from above, Ye and others used the power of Xinhua City to specially build various huts for slaves to escape, and at the same time, they were patrolled by riders.

After these huts and paths were repaired, the escape of slaves immediately became a scale.

This kind of warehouse with the purpose of overthrowing the original regime secretly developed in five or six nearby cities, and finally aroused the dissatisfaction of some leaders. It was already the autumn of the 41st year of the Chinese calendar when the signs of such dissatisfaction began to appear.

And this kind of dissatisfaction with Xinhua City has long been prepared. At the beginning of 41, more than 700 regular troops entered Xinhua City.

At this time, the internal affairs of the Xia Kingdom were stable, and enough money, food, and soldiers had been accumulated, and the first batch of formally trained young soldiers had also completed their training.

Enough petty officials, officials, accumulated agricultural tools, seeds... All these are enough to support more population to be transformed into wealth.

Everything is there, except for an excuse, so the warehouse is no longer as submissive and cautious as Xia Guo was when he was the weakest, but has become unscrupulous since he got the news in the spring of 41.

In autumn, some city chiefs began to expel Xia Guo's warehouses, which was regarded as a gift. After all, there was an aggressive Xinhua City not far away, and no one dared to go too far.

I thought it would be fine to drive away Xia Guo's warehouse and fight behind closed doors, but for the soldiers in Xinhua City, they couldn't wait.

So in the autumn of 41, in September, more than 40 slaves fled. When they fled to the first hut, they were caught up by the people behind.

According to the previous agreement between the two parties, the south of the hut is the land of Xinhua City, and the north has nothing to do with Xinhua City, and there will be no disputes in the trade between them.

However, when more than 40 slaves escaped, they were shot down by the pursuers with arrows. Those pursuers dared not go beyond the hut due to the pressure.

But the people did not pass, but the arrows shot over, so the riders who had been looking for a chance quickly dispersed the group of pursuers, killed a dozen of them, and captured the rest.

Perhaps for the people of Xiajun and Yucheng, the 41st year of the Chinese calendar was still a stable day, and they had the impression that the real war would come later.

But for He and others in Xinhua City, after the 41st year of the Chinese calendar, it is no longer a stable life-because they, high-level officials in Xinhua City, understand what they are going to do, and before Qiongxi gets involved, put Solve the nearby cities.

Either move everyone away, or burn it down, and defend Xinhua City to the death, ensuring that Qiongxi's army cannot get supplies from nearby.Before the internal settlement of Dahe's various tribes is completed, they will not fight with Qiongxi in the field, but just stick to it, blocking Qiongxi and not allowing him to get involved.

It is meaningless to win over those nearby cities. Once Qiongxi's army comes, it may not be reliable to rely on Qiongxi to provide food.Even if it is reliable, it will be besieged at that time. If you don't go to rescue, you will lose your credibility, and if you go to rescue in the field, you will lose too much, so you will take the initiative to provoke troubles and solve the nearby cities.

Without him, Xia Guo grew up and could fight.

Chapter 129 The Situation Before the War

The reason why Xia Guo was so aggressive with Dongyi in Xinhua City was because by the end of the 41st year of the Chinese calendar, the situation seemed to be very clear.

In the Caohe generation, the coalition forces of the three cities defeated Xirong and ensured the stability of the rear.

Weihe adopted Chen Jian's suggestion. After defeating Xirong, he built a city for defense there, appointed his younger brother as the sheriff there, and moved some people in the city to the new city.A large number of Xirong settlements were dispersed and moved to the vicinity of the new city to collect taxes.

Those who resist fiercely are captured as slaves, while those who resist not violently are regarded as savages, and the rule is divided.It not only meets the requirements of military nobles, but also transforms those populations into the power of cities, reducing the resistance of all slaves.

After a series of internal struggles and the last large-scale rebellion of the slaves that Chen Jian threw to prepare for rebellion in Echeng, there is no longer a large-scale slavery system. The slaughtered animals have given birth to a large number of soldiers and new classes who can be out of production: their children can enter the school to study, and those vassal domestic slaves help with farming and follow the expedition.

Most of the self-cultivating farmers are looking forward to the war and looking forward to having domestic servants and slaves, and even more looking forward to rewarding some farm tools, cattle and horses because of the deliberately supported model.

As the leader, Eyue and the emerging intellectual officials look forward to larger land and more population for their own management. They realize that with the popularity of iron farming tools and ox farming, population means tax and wealth, and also means more. It is a good thing for the military nobles to reclaim more land and use the captured people as slaves, but it is not a good thing for the leaders and officials.

During the first battle of Xirong, Xia Guo's artillery coincidentally broke the legs of the leader of Xirong and blasted away the army formation of Xirong.The reformed armored infantry cooperated with Xia Guo's gunpowder-throwing infantry, rushed through the gap opened, and won a complete victory.

This battle also gave the two cities of Ewei enough confidence and the ambitions that followed. With the popularity of cloth armor and some simple iron leather armor, the main force of the infantry in the two cities of Ewei has also changed, moving toward the Xia Guo has a different military system.

Spearmen became the main force to maintain the front line, and the main force to charge the battle line became armored heavy infantry, and a group of full-time small military nobles were born, who practiced martial arts every day, and farming was done by domestic slaves or vassals on the land. Serfs are in charge.

Chariots still played an important role in plain warfare, and the cavalry in the two cities of Ewei were also equipped with stirrups, which played the role of roaming the flanks and quickly circled behind to create chaos, but the main force of the decisive battle was still infantry.

For Xia Guo, these few years are also a golden period of development.

Xia also initially completed the development of land reclamation, assimilation, and industry and commerce. The strict organization under the control of officials has gradually increased agricultural output. The initial development of pig iron casting and wrought iron forging technology has led to a variety of iron wares, but there are no qualified iron swords. Instead of long knives, he focused on the primary guns.

Cannons are made of bronze and brass, and guns are made of wrought iron, so Xia Guo basically does not have large-scale steel except for some special tools.

Taking advantage of the convenience of ships along the river, the cities between Caohe and Yucheng were connected together, forming a strange situation that was cut off by Xia Guo but continued to develop.

More than a dozen cities jointly opened workshops for melting and casting copper coins. The copper coins of the Xia Kingdom became the common currency along the river. The promotion of new planting technology also brought a lot of benefits to each city. The rest of the cities promote communication and cohesion among the cities.

The pro-Xia kingdom's relatives and nobles who had been fostered gradually controlled the rights in various cities. The leaders basically set rules for those children who were studying in the Xia kingdom to inherit the leadership position. knowledge.

Relying on the top-down taxation system that directly governs every Lisi, the workshops directly under the state's jurisdiction, copper and iron smelting, and technological advantages in foreign trade, the Xia Kingdom relies on 4000 people and 1000 to [-] slaves, semi-slaves, etc. The Chinese, savages and colonial population supported a field army of [-] and more than [-] half-time civil servants.

Such a deformed structure is of course because the Xia Kingdom can afford it, and it is also because the Xia Kingdom has been preparing for a full-scale war from the beginning, otherwise there is no need to support such a large number of off-duty people.

Now the first batch of recruited soldiers have completed five years of training, and a steady stream of adults have continued to serve in the military, ensuring the stability of the military.

The high and middle levels of the entire Xia Kingdom are looking forward to a war, and now is the time when the Xia Kingdom's military strength is at its strongest.If they don't fight anymore, they will have to wait another ten years for the first batch of children born after Xia Guo's integration was completed to grow up, but they can't wait any longer.

There is no way to sustain the comprehensive system of noble and other benefits. If there is no war, the Xia Kingdom will change internally, from this system that has always been prepared for war to a peaceful system, otherwise the interior will collapse.And once the system is restructured, it will be too difficult to switch back to the wartime system.

However, in the spring of 41, when Xia Guo was ready for an all-out war, Su Yue backed down.

He didn't object to Ling being the leader of that city, but he didn't admit it either.As for the city where Ling is located, because of Xia Guo's full support and the land reform system, the middle and lower-level Chinese people strongly agree with Ling becoming their leader. As long as there is no external force to instigate Ling to become the leader, it is a matter of course.Suyue's non-objection is acknowledgment.

Chen Jian tried it out, and asked Ling to appoint those children who had returned from Yucheng as officials, and completely squeezed out those who were related to Suyue to the point where they had no rights and only land and a small number of slaves.

Su Yue still didn't object.

This made Chen Jian at a loss. He had already made preparations for a full-scale war within the Xia Kingdom. He believed that this was Su Yue's bottom line, and Su Yue who crossed this bottom line would lose the trust of all clans and towns.

An excuse is also needed to start a war, whether it is Auyake's denial of the original oath against Ling becoming the leader, or the fact that the city cleared out those who were close to Auyake's faction, causing Auyue to go to war in order to maintain others' trust in him. It was what Chen Jian expected.

The only thing that I didn't expect was that Su Yue backed down.

But before that, Chen Jian had already mobilized [-] soldiers to go to Xinhua City. In order to prevent Qiongxi from seizing the foothold of Xinhua City when the internal war broke out, he also told Xie and others in advance that they were planning to do something big in Xinhua City. action.

Abolish several nearby Dongyi cities to ensure that Qiongxi's army can only rely on further cities for supplies.

However, Suyue backed down in March. By the time the messenger went to Xinhua City, it was already in a tense state, and the warehouse had already been expelled by those Dongyi cities.

The matter has come to this point, so we have to continue, so in autumn, using the excuse of slaves fleeing, the garrison of Xinhua City besieged the Dongyi city.

The city was not big, and the slaves in the city were not stable. They quickly captured the city, demoted the priests and leaders to slaves, moved the slaves and civilians away, and burned the city.

Then he followed the same pattern and captured two small cities, and the remaining one was moved away.

The captured civilians and slaves were sent to the south bank of the great river, and the city was built and reclaimed on the south bank. They were governed by the officials of the Xia Kingdom, and the two sides were transported by boat. The slaves were liberated and gave them the identity of people and the obligation to become soldiers.

The population of these cities is not large, and then some of the original people in Xinhua City were moved to the south bank, and some of them were merged into Xinhua City. In addition, some people instigated the hatred of the slaves against their masters, and soon settled down.

So far, within two hundred miles of Xinhua City, there are no cities or villages anymore. Even if Qiongxi wants to besiege, he can only rely on distant cities to provide food and grass.

It has been 43 years since all this stabilized. During this period, Suyue still didn't make any big moves, and it looked like a peaceful scene.

But in this year, Su Yue violated the rules of the original alliance oath, bypassing Xia Guo and Xia Guo's allies, and held the alliance meeting alone.