When the day dawned, hearing the sound of the rooster crowing, Snake Cheng slowly opened his eyes, no sorrow or joy, revealing only the vicissitudes of the years, Snake Cheng is no longer young.

In the seventeenth year of the summer calendar, Su Yan is fifty years old, and Snake Cheng is fifty-six years old, once a mighty and majestic warrior, but now he is just an old man who is about to enter the earth, but Snake Cheng is not afraid of death, the two wives have already accepted the call of the dragon god one step ahead of Snake Cheng, and only a third wife who is nearly ten years younger than Snake Cheng is still with Snake Cheng.

Sometimes how much Snake Cheng wants to die early so that he can accompany the two wives who have passed away, but thinking of the third wife and children and grandchildren who are by his side, Snake Cheng gives up again, not caring when he will be summoned by the dragon god, he just wants to watch his children and grandchildren live well while he is still alive, and watch Xia Guo continue to grow and develop under the leadership of the king.

After breakfast, Snake Cheng slowly walked out of the house with a cane, and walked to the place where a group of old guys were active on weekdays, Snake Cheng used his somewhat dizzy eyes to see that there were already a few old figures sitting under the tree in front of him, and a few children were jumping and playing together not far away, and several old guys' eyes were on the children, revealing a nostalgic gaze.

There is no shortage of food in Xia Kingdom, and the level of medicine is also constantly improving, making more and more elderly people over fifty years old in Xia Kingdom, of course, compared with newborns, the number of old people is pitiful.

Considering that people's physical fitness declines rapidly after they get older, they can no longer do much heavy work, and Xia Guo is not short of food, so Su Yan added certain regulations to Xia Guo: All citizens of Xia Guo who are over 50 years old do not need to work, and Xia Guo will raise them.

However, most people do not have the idea of being idle after the age of 50, busy for most of their lives, busyness has become their habit, suddenly idle, feel very uncomfortable, and many people think that they are in good health and can continue to work.

Su Yan couldn't force himself in this regard, so he could only make supplementary provisions: If you want to continue to work after the age of fifty, you can arrange a relaxed position, and according to her physical condition, she can continue to work for Xia Guo for one to three years.

Snake Cheng is fifty-six years old, even if he still wants to work, his aging body can no longer support him to continue to work, so most of the day, Snake Cheng gets together with the same old guys, everyone plays chess and chats, and reminisces about the old days.

The other old guys looked at the children playing with nostalgia, and so did Snake Cheng, who slowly sat under the tree, looking at the children playing, and the picture in Snake Cheng's mind had shifted to his own childhood.

It was Seren's first home, and he lived in that home for twenty-one years.

At first, the home was so small, just a cave, and at night, all the people of the snake tribe were crowded into the cave to sleep, it was so crowded, and the air was so turbid.

Snake Cheng's childhood was spent in the cave and in the small open space outside the cave, a group of unclothed leather children playing together in the open space, everyone piled sand together, caught insects together, learned to roar wild beasts together, whenever they ate, they would gather around the fire in a swarm, saliva at the corners of their mouths, and their eyes stared straight at the food by the fire.

As a hard generation, all the hard life snake Chengdu has personally experienced.

Tribesmen who froze to death, people who starved to death, tribesmen who died of disease...... It's so close to Snake Cheng, Snake Cheng himself is also on the verge of death several times, to survive in that era, everything depends on luck, good luck can survive, bad luck, death will come soon, there are too many ways to make people die, and it is impossible to prevent it.

So many relatives and clans died in front of themselves, from the initial sadness, to later Snake Cheng has been able to accept it silently, at that time Snake Cheng had a dream, become the leader, and lead all the people of the Snake tribe to live a happy life, the happy life at that time was very simple, just to be able to eat enough every day, not to be frozen to death, no enemies and beasts, no disease.

Slowly, the snake grew up to adulthood, the adult standard of that era was very low, as long as the height reached the standard, it was considered adulthood, people with fast physical development could reach the adult standard at the age of eleven or even ten, people with slow physical development needed to be fourteen or even fifteen years old to barely reach the adult standard, and the snake adult belonged to the ordinary level, and the adult standard was reached at the age of twelve, that is to say, in the year of the range of twelve years old, the snake became an official adult.

Coming of age means that Snake Cheng can join the hunting team and go out hunting under the leadership of the leader, but because hunting is a very dangerous thing, the newly adult clansmen need to learn some common knowledge before they can officially go out hunting, and it is not until Snake Cheng is thirteen years old that he officially goes out hunting with the hunting team.

In the past year, Snake Cheng also had the first woman in his life, the person who came of age with him that year, for which Snake Cheng defeated several opponents and snatched his wife home.

Every time I think of this, Snake Chengdu will smile, in the past, the strong were respected, and when I saw the woman I liked, I could snatch it back, provided that the woman was single, and now Xia Guo pays more attention to the relationship between men and women.

After the smile, there were bitter tears, Snake Cheng's first wife was about the same age as him, but she died ten years ago, the reason Snake Cheng knew that his wife gave birth to children for him at such a young age, leaving too much pain on his wife's body, and even Xia Guo's medical level could not make Snake Cheng's wife live longer.

Snake Cheng officially followed the leader out hunting, after this hunt, Snake Cheng felt that it was so difficult for his dream to come true, but Snake Cheng did not give up, and worked hard to absorb all the knowledge and target the position of the leader of the snake tribe.

To the surprise of Snake Cheng, only a year has passed, and his dream has actually been realized by the former god and the current king of the Xia Kingdom.

At that time, the king was very ordinary, just like other children, playing around every day, until that day, everything changed, the king himself knitted a fish cage, and used the fish cage to catch fish from the small river, from that day on, the snake tribe no longer lacked food, no more people were starved to death, and it was also from that day that the snake tribe strode forward.

In the hands of the king, all kinds of miraculous things kept appearing, pottery, brick houses, white salt...... Snake Cheng seems to have seen the scene of his dream coming true.

Time passed day by day, the snake tribe became more and more powerful, and under the leadership of the king, the snake tribe and the tiger tribe united to form the dragon tribe, the predecessor of the Xia Kingdom, and the snake tribe and the tiger tribe became the snake clan and the tiger clan of the dragon tribe respectively.

The newly established dragon tribe has successively annexed the deer tribe, the rabbit tribe, and the mountain tribe, and the population has increased suddenly, and the first home of the snake has been unable to meet the needs of the dragon tribe, and soon the dragon tribe has a new home, which is now the source city of the Xia country, and the source city is the place where the Xia country officially set sail.

As a warrior himself, Snake Cheng constantly followed the patriarch to participate in battles, and his body was also injured many times, but fortunately, they were all minor injuries and would recover soon.

It can be said that Snake Cheng watched the snake tribe develop into a dragon tribe and then become the current Xia Kingdom, compared with the current Xia Kingdom, the gap between the former Snake Tribe and the current Xia Kingdom is not more than a thousand times, but the powerful Xia Kingdom is under the leadership of the king from the weak Snake Tribe.

At that time, Snake Cheng only thought about that simple happy life, and didn't expect that that simple happy life was so easy for Xia Guo, and the people of Xia Country are now living a better life.

How much Snake Cheng wanted to make more contributions to Xia Guo, but unfortunately his body was no longer able to make more contributions to Xia Guo, and he was even suspected of dragging Xia Guo down.

There have also been people who could not continue to work and chose to die, but they were severely reprimanded by the king, there is no shortage of food in the Xia country, why should people seek death if they can live, you still have wives and children, grandchildren, you can also look at the increasingly powerful Xia Kingdom, and the snake who had the idea of seeking death also gave up seeking death because of the king's words, and tried to live every day.

An old man came with chessboard pieces, several old people got together, two old people played chess, others watched, the old people who watched did not speak, just watched quietly, and Snake Cheng was also one of the old people who quietly watched the chess.

Until a few children ran over, the quiet chess game was broken by the children, the children shouted to take this step and that step, the old people blew their beards one by one and stared, driving the children away, the children played and ran away, the old people looked at the children who went away with a smile, and continued to turn back to play chess when the children's figures disappeared.

However, their chess game did not last long, because the king came, and the king always liked to walk around the city of Zhongjing, and often sat down with them old men to reminisce about the past.

The king is still so young, and they are all old, Wang Feiren is already the common idea in the hearts of all the people of the Xia Kingdom, and all the people of the Xia Kingdom believe that under the leadership of the king, the Xia Kingdom will continue to move forward and defeat all the enemies.

The king is gone, leaving behind a few old people who are still reminiscing about their past lives, of course, nostalgia for the past does not mean that they want to go back to the past, only that they miss the process.

"Let's go, let's go home for dinner." Snake Cheng shouted, his voice no longer loud.

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The foreign wars of the Xia Kingdom continued.

On the battlefield of the Eastern Front, whenever the population of one tribe is removed, the expeditionary corps will concentrate some forces to attack the next tribe, with the intelligence collected by the Ministry of Commerce over the years, conquering the tribes on the new route is only a very simple matter, the expeditionary corps is now mainly pursuing to reduce its own number of casualties, and as far as possible not to let go of an enemy.

In order to transport the population and booty back to the Xia Kingdom more quickly, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Transportation have gathered as many ships as possible to the new route area, but the new route is still too far away from the Xia country mainland, and the transportation capacity is not enough, so the expeditionary corps can only grind and wait, waiting for the fleet to come and go.

Fortunately, the tribes on the new route are not like the nomadic tribes on the steppe, and the cavalry troops want to block all the nomadic tribes without pulling one person, which is basically impossible.

The tribes on the new route could not be like the nomadic tribes, where several farming tribes united against the Xia Kingdom, unless it was a large tribe or a large camp such as the Fishing Tribe and the Japanese Tribe Camp.

On the battlefield of the Western Front, the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom once again went deep into the grassland, and the recruits in this year have completed their training, so that the number of cavalry troops has increased to more than 2,600 people, and the cavalry troops have also increased from four towns to five towns, and the redundant team is still under the command of Mu Shi himself.

Considering that the Grassland Country had fallen apart and that there were almost no tribes living in the Grassland Country, Mu Shi gave up advancing towards the west of the city and returned to the previous northwest direction, going up to the northwest direction, and could encounter the nomadic tribes faster than Wang Zhengxi.

However, the real situation confirmed that Mu Shi's thinking was wrong, the cavalry troops entered the place where the nomadic tribe should have lived, but did not find a single figure, the cavalry troops scattered to search for two days, there was still no figure, so they could only gather together and continue to move forward, and after another three days, they found the figure.

The disintegration of the grassland country has a very big impact on the nomadic tribes on the steppe, the peak of the grassland country has twenty-seven member alliances, one hundred and fifteen tribes, 160,000 people, and can gather more than 50,000 cavalry, which is almost one-third of the power of the entire steppe, even the tribes in the remote corners know some things about the grassland country.

Such a powerful grassland country fell apart in just such a short time, and the reputation of the black tribe that led to the collapse of the grassland country became loud again in the prairie, and this time the vast majority of nomadic tribes attached great importance to the black tribe, and even the grassland country was not the opponent of the black tribe, and their alliance or even a tribe was not the opponent of the black tribe.

The next grassland country doesn't know when it will be born, and those alliances and tribes who know that they can't reach the black tribe have moved to distant places, either to the west or the north, anyway, to stay as far away as possible from the black tribe, but there are also many alliances and tribes who move not far, just a few days away from the distance, thinking that this will not be found by the black tribe.

Needless to say, the cavalry troops of the Xia State swept towards the grassland with the city as the center, from near to far, and swept away the nomadic tribes in the vicinity, and then marched towards the nomadic tribes in the distance.

Su Yan once thought about what the Xia Kingdom should do if the nomadic tribes were wiped out by the Xia Kingdom or moved far, far away, and the Xia Kingdom could no longer obtain cattle, horses, and sheep from the nomadic tribes.

The method is very simple, that is, the Xia country itself built pastures on the prairie to graze cattle, horses and sheep to meet the needs of the Xia country itself, and one of the needs of building pastures on the prairie is to drive away or wipe out the nomadic tribes, so as to prevent those nomadic tribes from affecting the pastures of the Xia country.

This is a stable source of cattle, horses and sheep.