From Chief to Ball

At the alliance meeting this time, Su Yue read out Xia Guo's crimes in front of many city leaders and clan chiefs.

Different from the previous ones, this time, in addition to some clans from the Dahe tribes, there were also some clans from Dongyi and Beidi.

"How spectacular, these people who came to Sucheng to meet the alliance."

"My allied leaders and priests, it's time for you to see clearly Jixia's crimes."

"When he was offering sacrifices to his ancestors, he only used grass dogs and horses, and he was reluctant to use some real sacrifices. He was not allowed to use gold, copper, jade, etc. when he was buried. This is fooling his ancestors. One day the disaster will come. Come down on our heads."

"He despised those brothers with the same surname and ancestor, but appointed women to be sheriffs and ministers, and let women weave counts and even govern the city. This is like a bitch lying on the body of a male dog. It violates the principles of heaven and earth."

"He slaughtered his own relatives and alienated his own relatives, but he respected and respected those who fled to the Xia Kingdom from all over the world, and even made some slaves who fled there become masters and generals, who killed his own people and oppressed his own people. dear."

"Who is poor and who is rich, who has talent and who has no talent, this is a preordained thing in the world, and it is impossible to change. But he made those who were working hard to learn words and counts, so that people were disturbed and tried to change Everything that heaven and earth have already decided is doomed to fail."

"The noble will always be noble, and the humble will always be humble. Get close to those who are close by blood, and alienate those who are distant by blood. This is what our ancestors wanted us to do."

"If a person can't even respect and appoint his relatives, how can he believe that he can be friendly to the entire family? Jixia is such a hypocrite. He can't use his own relatives, but he appoints those lowly slaves. That's why we're so angry."

"Jixia always said that the kinship is one, but if the kinship is one person, Jixia is a vicious abscess. When getting along with others, even if there are sometimes disputes, this kind of dispute can be resisted. And those vicious abscesses , is fused with the body, but it cannot be said that this abscess is a part of the body. Only by plucking out this abscess can one be healthy. Although it may bleed and leave scars, if it is not plucked out, one day this abscess will Vicious abscesses take over the whole body."

"So today, not only relatives from the Dahe tribes, but also friends and neighbors from Dongyi and Beidi come here to denounce Jixia's atrocities and recognize Jixia's hypocrisy."

"The ancestors imparted some knowledge to Ji Xia. The original intention was for him to teach every clansman with noble blood, many slaves in the land, and convincing morality. However, he taught these things to those slaves, common people, and people with low blood. It is contrary to the intention of the ancestors."

"And the ancestors have already punished him, hoping that he can understand what he did wrong. So far he has no heirs. Isn't this a warning from God and the ancestors? It is precisely because of this that people who have cut off their children and grandchildren don't know how close they are. reason."

"How can the world be stable?"

"Everyone abides by the arrangement of the ancestors of heaven and earth. The noble will be honored forever, the humble will be humble forever, and the labor will be labored forever. They will be handed down from generation to generation. Everyone follows the arrangement of heaven and earth and does not resist. How can there be wars in this way?"

"Ji Xia wanted the clansmen to fight against the heavens and the earth, and even thought that man was the leader of the heaven and earth, so he could move mountains and block rivers. It was because of this that he was punished by heaven and earth and cut off his offspring. If everyone is like this, then our offspring will be cut off too. Is this what the ancestors wanted to see?"

"We have to burn those books and keep some of them for our descendants to read, and not expose those books to the eyes of lowly people, so that they can conform to the world and not resist, and the ancestors can't bring disasters."

"The ancestors of heaven and earth have arranged everything since you were born. It's like a cat can't give birth to a dog, but Ji Xia wants to go against the principles of heaven and earth. ancestors, caused their wrath, floods and droughts."

"Everyone, if we don't oppose him, these disasters will befall us. That's why I'm here to ally with you, so that you can see clearly his viciousness, and know that what we are doing is something that will please our ancestors, heaven and earth. things."

1 Thirty Chapters Pre-War Situation

This oath detailing Chen Jian's crimes has received strong support from the noble priests and leaders of various cities. The various internal policies of the Xia Kingdom have already made them feel panic, and the increasingly powerful army has made their panic even greater. highest point.

Some of the policies within the Xia Kingdom that they thought would dig them out made them even more disturbed, especially after the Dongyi incident in 41, the cities and towns saw the horror of the Xia Kingdom. .

Xia Guo did not treat those conquered leaders well, nor did they reduce those people to slaves, but directly used Xia Guo's method to govern, and it succeeded.

This made them feel a chill behind them, for fear that one day this kind of thing would happen to them too.

Therefore, the Dahe family, Beidi people, and Dongyi people who had conflicts before came together under the inspiration of Suyue and decided to gather everyone's strength to eradicate Xia Guo.

They are not enemies at this moment, but are slave owners and people who share the same pursuit of hope for bloodline inheritance.

In the past few years, not only the Xia Kingdom and its allied cities are making progress, but Sucheng and its vassal cities are also developing.

A new city wall was built, a large amount of farmland was reclaimed, some paths leading to other cities were opened up, escaped slaves were hunted down, the slave system was improved and the interests of slave owners were safeguarded.

Widely married, used blood to make the relationship between some allied cities closer, and with the help of Sutang and other children who returned from Yucheng, they began to establish a more formal ruling order and trained soldiers. .

With the help of those priests and young nobles who returned from school, Awayake formulated his own plan for nation building, and this plan was full of temptations for those clan leaders. Some chiefs and priests are welcome.

Not only Su Yue's allies, but also envoys from the Dongyi clan, such as Qiongxi, who came to make an oath, and brought two thousand Dongyi archers, promised that once the war broke out, Qiongxi would lead the army to capture Xinhua City, and the two sides would never meet again in the future. attack.

In the past few years, Qiongxi has not been idle. Since Chen Jian withdrew from Dongyi, Qiongxi's strength has been expanding day by day.

After the two sides exchanged prisoners, Qiong Xi now has [-] clansmen who have lost those relatives and nobles, and his strength has rapidly expanded.

First, it actively traded with Xinhua City, then built new cities, changed farming techniques, opened copper mines, and selected warriors to grant land slaves.

Sworn marriage with close clans, no longer seeking ways to gain prestige through external wars, but choosing a more direct internal unity.

In order that this kind of unification would not touch the nerves of the tribes of the great river and would not lead to war, he chose to conquer east and north first, using the cities adjacent to the tribes of the great river in the west as a buffer.

Qiongxi used the pretext of guarding against the Xia Kingdom, and actually required the nearby clan cities to provide a certain number of soldiers according to the population, usually planting, hunting, and grazing, and once the war broke out, they immediately prepared their own weapons and went out.

This high-handed attitude aroused the resentment of many clans. Qiongxi commanded the army to quickly pacify several clans, demoted the whole clan into slaves, and chopped off the heads of the leaders and sent them to various cities as a warning.

In addition to the high-pressure attitude, he actively wins over some big clan cities.

First use the method of marriage to maintain the blood relationship of the upper class, and use the way of nobles to discuss government affairs to make them a part of the ruler in name, while maintaining their own strength advantages and instigating internal struggles among those clans.

Some of the conquered clans will be reduced to slaves, and the other part will be incorporated into their own clans to change the land system of the clans.

From the city to the east, several small towns were built along the big river, as a means of connecting the various tribes and maintaining the rule, and some small bark boats and wooden boats were built to travel along the river.

This is a kind of differentiation of internal ethnic groups. Qiongxi became the leader of an armed robbery slave group, and used some of the original Dongyi tribes as slaves as spoils of war to expand his own strength.

On the whole, the strength of the entire Dongyi ethnic group has been reduced, but after the centralization of power, the strength of the Qiongxi Group has been greatly enhanced, and gradually has the shadow of the country's embryonic form.

On the other side of the Dahe tribes, because there is such a shit-stirring stick like Xia Guo, who keeps saying that the kinship is one, so that a big city like Sucheng cannot plunder the cities of the same kinship, it is more like a Tribal confederations and city-state associations.

The reason for this situation is inseparable from the sudden rise of the Xia Kingdom: because of the great victory in Dongyi and the exchange of captives, they helped Qiongxi remove the obstacles to centralization, so that Qiongxi's strength can exceed that of other cities; and because The rise of the Xia Kingdom made it impossible for Su Yue to lose face and attack the nearby kinship towns. Once the Xia Kingdom was attacked, he could immediately replace it and occupy the righteousness, so as to unite many cities and towns to destroy Sucheng.

If it hadn't been for the appearance of Xia Guo, Qiong Xi would still be struggling with internal struggles and unable to centralize power, and it might take more than ten years to determine his supreme power; if Xia Guo hadn't appeared, Su Yue could instead use the form of a small alliance Constantly attack those cities that do not agree with him as the leader and gradually unify them.

It can only be said that Qiongxi learned the centralization of power from Xia Guo and tried to use it; while Su Yue learned and understood the benefits of centralization, but because Xia Guoheng was there, he was powerless.

But now, Chen Jian has pushed Su Yue to a dead end. He can only use the ideology that he feared at the beginning and the interests of the nobles as a banner to gather people from various cities together; Not an opponent at all, the best choice is to support Su Yue and Chen Jian in the fight.

What Suyue promised was unity in the name of self-government of each small town, and the upper echelons of each city were relatives, united to safeguard the interests of the upper echelons.

He also knew that even if this kind of alliance defeated Xia Guo, it would maintain the system in which each city exercised its rights independently. He was still the co-owner of each city, and he even wanted to maintain the blood inheritance because this was the biggest reason against Xia Guo.

But he couldn't care less now, Xia Guo was growing stronger every day, and in his opinion, the longer it dragged on, the more dangerous it would be.

So after the release of this oath detailing all kinds of crimes committed by the Xia Kingdom, soldiers from various cities began to gather in Sucheng, ready to fight against the Xia Kingdom.

Qiongxi promised to capture Xinhua City once the war started, while the Beidi people vowed that they would attack the Caohe area.

The cities near Sucheng have prepared sufficient food. During the previous preparations, they have built strong walls and prepared a large number of ships. There are also simple roads between the cities, and they have also done siege methods such as digging tunnels. Defense drill.

There are still a large number of tribesmen left in the cities around Sucheng as the city's defense force.

Suyue had 5000 archers supported by Qiongxi, 3000 infantry from Dongyi City behind him, 1000 people from Sucheng itself, and more than [-] people from nearby cities, making a total of [-] troops as the main field force.

The coalition forces composed of many cities in the north were responsible for attacking those cities in the Xia system between Caohe and Yucheng, forcing them to surrender and cutting off the connection between Caohe and Yucheng.

Chapter 131