Inuhill City.

The city under the setting sun is a dull yellow, and the rammed earth walls exude an indescribable earthy yellow; Flags torn by the west wind whirl in the wind.

---At dusk, the shepherds drove the sheep into the ruined city of Inuhill, and the sheep walked by, pulling down the sheep along the way.

The sheep followed closely behind the horses, trampling and shouting, and poured into the city. Behind the team is a wrangler, who is rustic and unpretentious, but still has a simple smile on his face. Watching his horses enter the city, the Wrangler smiled knowingly. Everything is so natural, so grizzly.

Disgraced?

This word is used too accurately, and the Dog Hill City of the Qin people in the Western Zhou Dynasty was not only rustic, but also disastrous and dilapidated. There are signs of collapse everywhere on the city wall, and some places have just been filled with rammed earth because they have collapsed so badly.

City?

Is this also called a city?

That's right, it's really called a city, Inuqiu City, that's not wrong at all.

It's just that such a city can't be compared with the city in the Central Plains. The cities of the Central Plains are tall and thick, and the furnishings in the city are readily available, and those who herd sheep, drive horses, and even farm people are generally not allowed to live in the city.

The city in the Western Zhou Dynasty had a great role, and the people who lived in the city were called "national people", and the people who lived outside the city were called "savages". The people of the country have the right to participate in politics, and the savages have the obligation to obey orders.

I understand, those who can live in the city have status, and not everyone can enter the city if they want to. It can be seen that the road to eliminating the gap between urban and rural areas is too long, and thousands of years later, the differences still exist.

But the Central Plains is the Central Plains, and the West is the West Fall.

The land of the Central Plains was inhabited by those countries that were close to the royal family; Xitui was inhabited by the Qin people. Although they are all members of the royal family, the treatment is absolutely different.

Although the gap is very large, the Qin people don't seem to care about these for hundreds of years. It's not that the spiritual realm of the Qin people is high, it's really because the Qin people are very clear about their origins and the achievements they have made today.

I am not poorer than the rich, and I am not cheaper than the rich.

It is really appropriate to use this sentence to describe the Qin people at that time.

The low-born Qin people worship and respect their own suzerain, the Zhou royal family, and the Qin people, who are the courtiers of Zhou Tianzi, are a hundred willing, because the Zhou people's background is really good.

The paternal line of the Zhou people comes from Ji Xuanyuan (Yellow Emperor), and the maternal line comes from Jiang Shennong (Emperor Yan), and the descendants of the Tai family can be said to be the descendants of the long-term intermarriage between the surname Ji and the surname Jiang, and the descendants of the standard Yan and Huang.

But what about the origin of the Qin people? Horse breeders.

What about the ancestors? Bird breeders.

This is not hearsay, but fact. The ancestors of the Qin people really dealt with birds, beasts, horses and other animals, which was equivalent to the domesticators of the zoo.

Boyi, the earliest ancestor of the Qin people, assisted Emperor Shun to tame many birds and beasts, and Emperor Shun gave him the surname Ying. From this day on, the Qin people had a surname.

Later, the descendants of Boyi made a contribution to pacifying the rebellion of King Xu Yan, and King Mu of Zhou gave Zhao Cheng to the father, and the clansmen of the father took this as the clan, called Zhao, that is, the surname Zhao. From this day on, the Qin people had a clan.

Distant ancestors raised birds, close ancestors raised horses, can such a Qin person be among the Central Plains countries, become a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and have their own land and titles in the rich Central Plains?

Think about it or forget it!

During the Western Anniversary, which was very particular about their origins, the Qin people knew very well where they came from and where they should go. As a result, the Qin people who got the land honestly stayed in the west of Longshan, in this place called Xizhui by the Central Plains country. Of course, the Zhou royal family is still very skillful, although it did not directly seal the country to the Qin people, nor did it give the Qin people an official, but when Qin Zhong succeeded to the leadership of the Qin people, he still gave the Qin people a little favor and named Qin Zhong as the doctor of Xitui. After all, let a horse breeder guard the royal family, Zhou Tianzi's face also felt dull.

Dr. Citto? What a meaningful official position! Xi is the meaning of the west, and vertical means the border, which together is the doctor who guards the western border.

Dog Hill or West Hang.

From a horse breeder to an official of the royal family all of a sudden, the Qin people still felt that their status had risen a lot.

Therefore, in order to express their gratitude to the Zhou royal family, the people of Xitui Qin not only handed over a lot of good horses for the royal family every year as a reward, but also imitated the appearance of the Central Plains country and built the Dog Hill City here, which has expressed their determination to guard the border for the royal family in their own times.

After all, it is a parrot, and if you can learn the appearance, you may not learn the substance. In addition, the Qin people fought and repaired the city at the same time, and they could not delay the royal family's great cause of herding horses. So the city that was built became what it is today.

It is broken, and although the hut is broken, it can shelter from the wind and rain.

The Qin people who had the city suddenly felt that they were different from the surrounding Rong Di, dozens of levels higher than them, and their voices were louder than before.

With the city, there were protection facilities, so the Qin people, who were originally grazing in the wild, grazed in the wild during the day, and drove cattle, sheep and horses back to the city at night.

At first, the Qin nobles were very unhappy with the people's behavior, and they really regarded Inuqiu City as your sheepfold, so they rushed in everything?

But that's the way it is, you can't let people drive cattle, sheep and horses into the city! At this time, the main identity of the Qin people was the horse breeder of the royal family, so they couldn't let people live in the city and throw all the royal horses in the wild. What if Rong Di snatches it away?

You must know that at this time, there were very many Rongdi tribes around the Qin people. What Xunyu, Xunfu, Kunyi, Mianzhu, Chuanyi, Rongrong, Darong, Lynx and so on are too numerous to mention.

And Rong and Di are not the same thing.

In the West, it is said that Rong, who is clothed and skinned, has no grain eaters.

In the north, it is said that Di, the clothes and feathers live in caves, and there are no grain eaters.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand, it is actually a truth, whether it is Rong or Di are ethnic minorities in the northwest, and the Rong tribes in the west wear hair and animal skins, and do not eat granular grain; The Di tribes in the north wear clothes made of birds and beast feathers, dig holes and live there, and do not eat granular grain.

If they don't eat granular grain, are they drinking the northwest wind?

Obviously not, people are actually carnivorous tribes, eating beef and mutton.

It's not that they don't want to eat millet rice and sorghum from the Central Plains, it's just that their living conditions are limited, and their crops have no harvest, so they can only eat meat.

Understand, the non-Chinese tribes west of the Central Plains are called Rong, and the non-Chinese tribes north of the Central Plains are called Di.

The Qin people, who lived far away from the Central Plains, could be said to be surrounded by Rong and Di. Moreover, at this time, the Qin people had not yet established a country in the real sense, and it was actually no different from the surrounding Rong Di, which was called the Qin tribe.

The Qin people are a tribe, and Rong Di is also a tribe, although they are both tribes, there is still a difference between the two, that is, the Qin people are a tribe under the jurisdiction of the Zhou royal family, and Rong Di is his own tribe.

Although the Qin people who have the suzerainty live in Longxi, where Rong Di gathers, and live a different life from Rong Di, of course, it will cause Rong Di's dissatisfaction.

Hmph---, are all horse breeders in the northwest, you still want to be different, do you really think of you as a member of the royal family?

As a result, several neighbors of the Qin people, such as Feng Rong, Bo Rong, and Mian Zhurong, joined forces to deal with the Qin people.

Today lead troops to rob your cattle, sheep and horses, tomorrow lead troops to rob your women, maybe the day after tomorrow to rob what to rob?

When the Zhou royal family was strong, Rong Di in the northwest still had some scruples, afraid that the Zhou royal family behind the Qin people would settle accounts with them, and now that the royal family is in decline, Rong Di has no scruples.

Not only did they rob things and kill people, but they also sent troops to attack the cities of the Qin people, intending to completely drive the Qin people out of Longxi, or completely wipe them out.