Perhaps it was the abnormal climate in the winter of the first year of Hongwu, the summer of this year was not calm, and the floods were frequent, which caused the already fragile agricultural civilization in the Central Plains to be dealt an extremely serious blow.

However, primitiveness has primitive benefits, which makes the human beings of this era not like the agrarian countries of later generations, overly dependent on the output of the fields.

Therefore, the flood in the first year of Hongwu did not cause the phenomenon of corpses all over the field and starvation.

And the country of Qi, which was already an agrarian country, suffered a certain loss because of the anger of this god.

However, this kind of loss is still within the scope of Qi State, and the fruits of collective farming are far stronger than the resistance of yeoman farmers in the feudal era in later generations in the face of natural disasters.

Although many villages and towns have been seriously affected, the territory of Qi is small, and the speed of rescue is also extremely fast, and the epidemic prevention propaganda work has been publicized in various villages and towns since the beginning of summer.

Only a few malaria patients appeared in the flood, and the spread was curbed in time, and everything was just a false alarm.

It was difficult to survive the most frightening season, and when the autumn wind blew, God's anger seemed to have subsided.

Blue sky and white clouds, high autumn and cool autumn, Qi Guo has waited for a delightful autumn.

Although the autumn tiger is menacing, the large areas of golden farmland and vegetable fields outside Chang'an City mean that although there are some small twists and turns this year, when you see these in front of you, those small twists and turns are nothing.

Yang Hao is very relieved, knowing that no matter how much manpower was spent to build water conservancy projects before, it was worth it, and compared with paying, the joy of a bumper harvest always makes people feel comfortable.

On the day of cutting the grain, Yang Hao held a ceremony to sacrifice to the sky at the altar as if he was plowing in early spring, and took the civil and military officials to harvest some grain in person.

And the grain that Yang Hao cut was given as a reward to those important ministers in the court.

Although the millet cut by Yang Hao is not as delicious as that cut by others, the symbolic meaning in it is very great.

The ministers who were rewarded were naturally grateful to Yang Hao, which showed that their work was recognized by Yang Hao, in other words, Yang Hao's ministers of the humerus.

The bumper harvest is not only a gratifying thing for the farmers of Qi country, but also a season worth looking forward to for those wild people who have been caught since winter.

This year, they saw the strength of the Qi country, and thought that as long as they arrived in the second year of Hongwu, they would be able to have their own land, and they could also have their own land like those real Qi people, and their lives suddenly had hope.

In the middle of September in the first year of Hongwu, I don't know if this day is the Mid-Autumn Festival of later generations, and the moon is extremely bright.

Yang Hao feasted the ministers on this night to celebrate the completion of the autumn harvest.

When there were only some vegetables left in the field that had not yet been harvested, the Qi court made a decision to prepare to start a war against the Youxin clan at the beginning of October to open the road with the Youyu clan.

This decision was made by Yang Hao a long time ago, and at this time, it was just implemented according to the original plan.

The young and strong savages near Chang'an City were captured by the Qi army at the end of September.

It's just that these people are not qualified to be soldiers, and their role is only to transport grain and grass.

On the tenth day of the first month of October, the Qi army was assembled in Chang'an City, and Yang Hao stood on the city wall to hold a simple military parade before the expedition, this time counting the logistics troops, the Qi State used a total of nearly 6,000 people.

As the saying goes, there is no limit to a person, although the expedition of the Qi country is far less than 10,000 people, but the long queue is also like spreading to the edge of the sky.

For this expedition, the slogan played by the court of Qi was to punish the crime on behalf of heaven and punish those evil forces.

Of course, the slogan is only used to fool the common people, and the real bigwigs know what the purpose of this operation is.

Yang Hao rode a war horse, wore a woolen coat made by textile women, led the army, called a raft, to cross the Jishui, and slaughtered to the south.

When the Qi State set out on the expedition, the Youxin clan, whose strength had been greatly damaged, was worried about how to survive the coming winter, and this year's ghost weather made them not gain much, and the number of slaves also dropped to the lowest point in history.

In last year's war, the Youxin clan can be said to be the clan with the heaviest losses.

The current strength can only barely maintain the first-class power, and even the Shang tribe, which they despised before, dare to plunder their own territory.

Not to mention capturing prisoners of war as slaves, it is already a blessing that he is not captured by others to sacrifice to heaven.

You Xin only hopes that this winter can be calmer, and when he has passed the most difficult time, he will recover his vitality and then cut off the heads of those jumping clowns to relieve the hatred in his heart.

The Qi army that crossed the Jishui in the north quickly moved south, and in front of the iron hooves of the Great Qi, those tribes who were originally subservient to the Xin clan were suddenly frightened.

There was no courage to resist at all, and in the face of an enemy of this level, the Qi army was like a bamboo, like an armed parade.

In less than ten days, most of the northern part of the Xin clan had already fallen.

When those tribes who fled to Xincheng in a panic brought the news of the Qi army's attack to Xi Bian, the Xin clan suddenly felt as if the end of the world was coming.

In the accounts of those fleeing tribes, Qi led tens of thousands of troops all the way south, killing people when they saw them, and they couldn't resist at all.

What is the concept of tens of thousands of troops, the average person in this era may not understand, how the left and right leaders do not know what a powerful force it is.

He couldn't help but think of the amazing combat effectiveness of the Qi army last year, when the Qi army was so few people that it blocked the footsteps of the Zhuxia coalition army.

And now there are tens of thousands of such powerful enemies, and Bian Bian's first thought is to escape, as far as he can.

But when he calmed down and thought about it, if he didn't even dare to fight and ran away, then having the Xin clan would mean destruction, and he was unwilling. Very unwilling.

Ji Bian panicked and wrote that his subordinates could have countermeasures.

These nobles of the Xin clan are the same as the forces that are about to perish in human history, some advocate surrender, some advocate fighting to the death, and the rest are those who don't know what to do and plan to run away.

And the point of view of this part of the people is that Yang Hao will not let go of these people, after all, there is a Xin family who has abused Yang Hao for a period of time, if he is replaced by himself, when he has the ability to take revenge, how can he let go of his enemy, blood for blood and tooth for tooth, is the most basic moral concept in this primitive era, the naked law of the jungle.

The surrender faction believes that as long as they take the initiative to surrender, maybe the Qi State will let them live, and if they are lucky, they can still maintain a vassal relationship, they used to be vassals of the Xia Dynasty, but now the Qi State is powerful, what does it matter if they change a boss.