At the end of the banquet, some of the people couldn't help but be lively, and they all approached a certain one, and the soldiers who were happy to eat, and some directly called the people to come and enjoy together, but only women and children could, and the adult men and their soldiers thought that those who had hands and feet were not worth charity, and for a time the soldiers and the people mingled, and they were happy and laughing.

After Ji Fa saw it, he was very happy in his heart: "Happy with the people, the military and the people are a family, the military and the people are in the water, it seems that this is the truth, I am finally fortunate to see it today, it is really a very good concept, and it is also worth implementing and promoting." ”

So Ji Fa asked the soldiers to toast the people around him, so the soldiers of nearly 2,000 people completely mingled with the people, played together, respected each other and laughed at each other, so the people were no longer so polite to the soldiers of the Zhou State, no longer so strange, but really regarded as a person of a country, a family of people, and got along very well, which is exactly what Ji Fa wanted to see, so these soldiers were easier to mix in the border city, and the soldiers without the support of the people would be destroyed sooner or later.

Shi Feng'er waited for Ji Fa, Ji Fa also happily saluted with Zhu Wanyue and others, Ji Fa at this time, more and more felt that his order was too correct, so many people, even Jing Shui was so busy, if it was a toast, then it would be okay, I am afraid that after all, some people will drink and make trouble, and they will fight directly, which will lead to some disasters, so that it is good, no one drinks, and they take the lead in drinking water, so that the conference can go smoothly.

"Bring me the book of rewards and punishments." Ji Fa said.

In an instant, the soldiers and generals below became quiet in an instant, and they all stretched out their heads to watch, so Ji Fa found ten pro-soldiers, stood in various positions in the audience, and loudly announced that the compensation for the dead soldiers, as well as the rewards for the soldiers and generals who had made meritorious contributions to the enemy, would be strictly implemented in accordance with the laws of the Zhou State.

"It's great, I've got more food and grass."

"Hehehehe, my family doesn't have to serve in conscription this year, it's great, my family can take a break."

"I'm going to send all my rewards back to my mother, so that she can live a good life at home and don't have to worry about me."

"Bring me the letter from home."

The generals and soldiers of Zhou who heard the reward were very happy, but when they heard that Ji Fa asked them to write a letter to their families, it instantly became a sea of joy, and they knelt down to thank the king.

Ji Fa thought to himself: "Fenghuo even March, family letters worth 10,000 gold, rewards have been said, and then let the soldiers write a letter to the family, to say something from the heart, so that the hearts of the soldiers have also been received, so that they can better protect the border city." ”

This is also why Ji Fa asked Zhu Wanyue to recruit soldiers and horses in the border city, so that no matter how close it is, there will be no homesickness, because he was already a soldier in his hometown, so that his heart will be stable and stable, and all the surrounding environment and people are very familiar, if he fights, it will be easier for this team of soldiers to condense into a rope and work together to make a force, so that the combat effectiveness will be greatly improved!

"I can't write, you can write for me." The soldiers of the Zhou State below, some of them can't write, so they ask other soldiers who can write for help, and some won't ask for help, and even ask the literate people to help, anyway, they also eat, so they are naturally willing to help with this.

And Ji Fa is even busier here, he is helping several generals write letters home, although these generals are good at leading troops to fight, but in terms of talking to their families, they are stumbling and stumbling and looking very hesitant, and some simply don't know what to say.

"You can ask about the situation of your family, tell me about your current situation, and then talk about what you have experienced during this period, haven't we won the battle, you can also talk about it, ask if there are any difficulties in the family, these are all things that can be said." Ji Fa said as he inspired them.

In the end, it became Ji Fa, and every time they wrote a letter to their home, they had to help them think about it so that they could write it smoothly, so basically Ji Fa didn't stop.

But Ji Fa was very happy in his heart, at this moment he and the generals did not seem to be the relationship between the king and his subordinates, but really became a family, a country, their hearts were tightly connected, so close, so that their cohesion was greatly improved.

In fact, the real meaning of this sentence is to eat and live with the soldiers, only when you are really with the soldiers, can you truly feel the hardships of the soldiers, and can you really let the soldiers feel their own good to them, the good of the Zhou State to them, and the expectations of the people for them, so that they can fight for this Zhou country!" Ji Fa thought to himself.

Ji Fa ordered the captain of his own soldiers to lead the soldiers of the Zhou State who brought back, and all returned to Xiqi City, and the soldiers defending the city were still led by Zhu Wanyue, and there should be no mistake in guarding the border city.

"The king, our headquarters has been replenished with grain and grass, you can rest assured, we will be with the border city in life and death." Zhu Wanyue led the soldiers and said.

"Well, your loyalty, the people of my Great Zhou Kingdom see it in their eyes and believe in you, but there are too few soldiers defending the city, and it is not easy to defend it in the face of an enemy who is superior in numbers."

Ji Fa thought about it, although there were already a lot of 2,000 dog Rong people before, and it was also in this era, it was a relatively large-scale battle, but it is very likely that people from other countries, or other tribes, took advantage of the emptiness of the border city and came to attack the city, and at that time it would take a few days to support, once the city was broken, it would be difficult, we could wait for strategic support, but the people couldn't wait.

After Ji Fa thought of this, he instantly felt that the current military affairs of the border city should be the most important thing to recruit and train soldiers, but training soldiers requires money, food, armor and cloth, and with the current state of the border city, it must be impossible to supply, so he has to find a way from other places.

"General Zhu ordered you to train 2,000 soldiers within three months, and I will send money, grain, cloth and armor from Xiqi City to come, and deliver them all to you for use, you only have one thing to complete, that is, recruit soldiers to train them, and then strengthen the guards of the border city." Ji Fa said.

Zhu Wanyue hurriedly said: "Oh king, the king can rest assured that he will be trained even if he is broken to pieces, these two thousand soldiers will definitely be brave and tenacious!" ”

Ji Fa nodded, so the arrangement went on, so he asked the captain of his own soldiers to lead the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers to set off back to Xiqi City, and handwritten a royal decree, asking him to bring it back together, and wait until the day the soldiers returned to Xiqi City, that is, when they sent money, food, armor and cloth.

After dealing with the affairs of the border city, Ji Fa and Shi Feng'er got on the horse, left the border city, and advanced towards the Qiang tribe. The Qiang Kingdom was located in the northwest of the border city of the Zhou State, so the two of them advanced all the way to the northwest.

On the way, Ji Fa was a little curious, so he asked about the Feng'er family, their customs there.

Shi Feng'er said: "Actually, there are two ethnic groups in our Qiang country, the clan and the Qiang clan, but the two ethnic groups live together for a long time, and they will settle down after a long time." Later, the ancestors unified the two nationalities and obeyed the orders of the king of Qiang, so our Qiang country was born. ”

When Ji Fa heard this, he couldn't help but think that he had read the records in two books. "Poetry, Shang Song, Yin Wu" said: "Since the other side of the Qiang, don't dare not come to enjoy, don't dare not come to the king." Kong Yingda Shu: "The Han Dynasty still exists, and it lives in Qinlongxi. ”

"Xunzi Da Luo" said: "The captives of Diqiang are not worried about their bases, but they are not burned." Yang Liang's note: "The base is read as 纍." The custom of Diqiang, if you die, you will burn your corpse, and now you don't worry about capture, and if you don't burn it, it's foolish. ”

After thinking for a while, this is the introduction of the Qiang clan in the book, and thought: "In fact, the origin of the Qiang clan, maybe the Feng'er himself will not believe it, and the experts of later generations learned that the Di clan is named after breeding and breeding new sheep breeds."

Ji Fa thought about it again, in the map, it first merged with the Rong, Beidi, Donghu and other ethnic groups that had already been distributed here in the foothills of the Taihang Mountains in the north of the Yellow River to form a new Di ethnic group, and then migrated southwest to the Gannan area, where they lived together with the Qiang and merged with each other.

Shi Feng'er continued: "Hey, let's talk about it we are miserable enough, originally our clan Qiang country had a large population and was very strong, until the ancestor of the Shang country began to invade the army, and gradually lost the battle and ate too much, the strength of our clan Qiang country became worse and worse, and it became worse and worse day by day. ”

Ji Fa thought to himself, it seems that he used to be in the real society, read some of the information about the Qiang country, now after the confirmation of the family Feng'er, it is basically true, the poem about Shang Song Yin Wu is clearly recorded, at that time, the ancestor of the Shang State Cheng Tang clan, let the Qiang attack worship, the Qiang country refused, so the Shang State Cheng Tang led the army to crusade, at first it was just a soldier of the Shang State to crusade, but gradually the Shang State led other vassal countries, together to send troops to crusade against the Qiang State.

After all, the Qiang State is only the power of one country, and it is certainly impossible to fight against several countries, and gradually the national strength begins to weaken, just to cope with the invasion of the Shang State, it is exhausted, let alone develop and grow, and from the oracle bone words unearthed in the Shang Dynasty, the Shang State often leads 3,000 soldiers, or 5,000 soldiers, directly leads troops to attack, and basically sends troops to crusade every year, and sometimes even the king of Shang personally leads troops to crusade against the Qiang State.

"If you continue to fight like this, it is no wonder that the national strength of the Qiang Kingdom is getting worse and worse, which also leads to the current scene, the lord of the Qiang Kingdom was directly killed by the neighboring countries." Ji Fa thought to himself.

Shi Feng'er said sadly: "The Shang State sent troops to attack us again and again, not for money and food or for our jewelry, but only for the sake of our people, they not only attacked us, but also attacked the small tribal countries around our Qiang State, after they defeated us, they went directly back to the court, took our prisoners, and left until no one remembered them anymore." ”

Ji Fa looked at Shi Feng'er, and couldn't bear to tell her the real situation.

"According to the historical knowledge I have learned, the Shang State is often the king himself with troops to conscript, fighting the Tufang Ghost Country, there are also Qiang States, within a few decades of time, there have been hundreds of wars, and these are all recorded in the oracle bone inscriptions, some are even recorded in the divination, and the Shang people are very warlike, every time they win a battle, they will bring the captives of the enemy tribe over, and then sacrifice to the ancestors, the heavens, the mountains and rivers, or catch up with the famine year, pray for the country to be in good weather, They will kill all these captives and sacrifice to the heavens. So they never saw the captives again, and that was the reason for the captives. ”

Ji Fa thought to himself: "It seems that the records in the divination and oracle bone inscriptions are not all false, and some of these facts have been confirmed, but I think that the Shang State may not know the whole process of the Qiang Kingdom, and it is possible that all the tribes in the northwest of the Shang Kingdom, such as the Fang people, the Ba people, the Tufang people, and the Xia Wei people, are all unified as the Qiang people." ”

Shi Feng'er couldn't bear to talk anymore, and Ji Fa comforted her.

"Shangguo has been robbing you for many years, organized robbery, you have suffered, it is really not easy, you can rest assured that I am here, I will definitely help you, and I will not let you go back to that day."

Shi Feng'er looked at Ji Fa with emotion and nodded, Ji Fa was a little curious and wanted to know more about the life of the Qiang people.

"This, it may be different from your Zhou people, our people rarely use bronze, basically the Wang family can use it, most of the people are herding for a living, not much farming, the key is that there is land, it can't grow food can only grow grass, so for a long time, most of the people have made a living from grazing."

Ji Fa thought to himself: "Judging from the map, the Qiang Kingdom is in the west or east of the Meridian Ridge in today's Shaanxi, a range around here, I heard that the Qiang people love swords, is it true?" ”

Ji Fa asked Shi Feng'er this question, Shi Feng'er nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, how to say it, mainly our people, most of them are hunting, or grazing for a living, sometimes bows and arrows are not easy, and the long sword is small and lightweight, you can wear it directly on the body, after you enter our Qiang country, don't be surprised, most of our hunters and people here are swords, because they must protect the safety of livestock at any time, or take care of their own health." ”

Ji Fa nodded, indicating that he understood that he must follow the customs of the villagers and sing what songs he sings on what mountain, otherwise he will be very virtuous.