The rules for selecting the next patriarch are temporarily set, first the former patriarch chooses among his sons, if the former patriarch does not make a decision before his death, then Wang and Wu summon the adult sons of the former patriarch to campaign, and the best one is the next patriarch.

Thinking about it carefully, the patriarch only has a very high status in his own clan, in the era when the clan is about to be replaced by the family, the clan patriarch only has one name left, the patriarch wants to have a higher status in the Xia Kingdom, and he has to have his own ability, and if he is not capable enough, he still wants to serve as the city lord or minister, which is simply impossible.

The hereditary status of the clan patriarch is not hereditary status at all, and the only real hereditary status in the Xia Kingdom is the throne.

The next day, ships carrying the lords of each city, the head of the branch and the descendants of Hu Biao left the dock of Zhongjing City and sailed towards the cities.

During this period, the news of the death of the first patriarch of the Tiger Clan, Hu Biao, has spread throughout the cities of the Xia Kingdom, and suddenly learned that the patriarch died, and the elderly Tiger Clan people who came step by step from the Tiger Tribe era shed tears of sadness one by one, they thought of the old era The Tiger Tribe struggled to survive under the leadership of the patriarch, until the Tiger Tribe and the Snake Tribe established the Dragon Tribe together, and the difficult life was finally gone.

Only the older generation of the Tiger Clan will be sad to tears, the younger Tiger Clan will be sad, but they will hardly shed tears, and the younger Tiger Clan will not even have sadness, and the presence or death of the patriarch will have little impact on them.

Of course, there is still respect that should be there, Hu Biao has served as the patriarch of the Tiger Clan for so many years, and he is the Minister of War, as well as the influence of the older generation of the Tiger Clan, the Tiger Clan people have great respect for Hu Biao, in addition to respect, there are not many other things.

In addition, when the patriarch dies, the Tiger Clan will inevitably select a new patriarch, and many adult male clansmen of the Tiger Clan will prepare for it.

When the ships sent the people back to the cities, a new news spread throughout the cities of the Xia Kingdom, and the people of the Tiger Clan were even more interested in this news.

"What? The position of patriarch is only selected among the adult sons of the old patriarch? Why is this so, I also want to participate in the selection of the patriarch. ”

"This is the decision of the king and the witch, and I abide by the decision of the king and the witch."

"It is acceptable to select a new patriarch from among the adult sons of the old patriarch."

The news spread, and the people of the Tiger clan were immediately divided into three camps, the first camp was those adult male clansmen who wanted to participate in the selection of the patriarch, the second camp was the clansmen who obeyed the decision of the king and Wu, and the third camp was the clansmen who approved the selection of a new patriarch from among the adult sons of Hu Biao.

When the three camps were just formed, the third camp had the fewest people, the second camp had the most people, and the number of people in the first camp was in the middle, but the number of people in the second camp accounted for more than three-quarters of the total number of people in the Tiger Clan, and most of the people in the Tiger Clan didn't care about other things, they only knew to obey the king's orders.

There is no need to doubt that Wang's status in the hearts of the Tiger Clan is far higher than that of their old patriarch Hu Biao.

Think about it, the various clans are scattered in the cities of the Xia Kingdom, and it has always been the king who gives orders to the cities, and the people of the Tiger clan have only heard the king's orders, and have never heard the orders of the patriarch, and the status of the patriarch in their hearts has been declining, and the status of the city lord is not as high.

When the matter went deeper, everyone learned that the position of the original patriarch was not decided by force, and the number of people in the first camp decreased rapidly, and the people in the second camp slowly felt that it was not impossible for the son of the old patriarch to serve as the next patriarch, especially some elderly people of the Tiger Clan, who slowly transferred their "feelings" for Hu Biao to Hu Biao's son.

The other descendants of Hu Biao have not become patriarchs, and they still have the "legacy" left by Hu Biao, and when necessary, the people of the Tiger clan and even people from other clans will give some help to Hu Biao's descendants.

What kind of support, life-saving grace, friendship, all kinds of connections will allow people who have a relationship with Hu Biao to take care of Hu Biao's descendants, including Su Yan, Su Yan takes the most care of Hu Biao's descendants, and will directly let Hu Biao's descendants inherit the position of the patriarch of the Tiger clan.

As time passed, the people of the Tiger Clan no longer talked about "the new patriarch being selected from among the adult sons of the old patriarch", but talked about which son of the old patriarch would eventually serve as the second leader of the Tiger Clan.

Hu Biao is the first leader of the Tiger Clan, this sentence is true, the Tiger Clan was the Tiger Tribe, Hu Biao was the last leader of the Tiger Tribe, the Tiger Clan is the new beginning of the Tiger Clan, of course Hu Biao is the first patriarch of the Tiger Clan, and the same is true for other clans.

Hu Biao's twenty-three adult sons are all going to participate in the election of the second patriarch of the Tiger Clan, and the content of the exam is roughly known, everyone works hard for it, it is better to be able to become the patriarch or the patriarch, it doesn't matter if you don't become the patriarch, your ability is the most critical, even if you are not the patriarch, you have the opportunity to become the city lord or minister.

Except for the people of the Tiger Clan, the other citizens of the Xia Kingdom are also more interested in the affairs of the Tiger Clan, and some people even think that the next patriarch of their clan will be elected among the sons of the old patriarch, it doesn't matter, anyway, they are living a happy life now, it doesn't matter if they are not the patriarch, even if they become a certain minister, it is better than being the patriarch.

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The three trading fleets of the Xia Kingdom had already set off, driving along their own voyages all the way, and a white flag was fluttering on the banks of the corresponding rivers of many tribes, as if they were worried that the fleet of the Xia Kingdom would not be able to see it, and these tribes hoisted the white flag as high as possible.

Regardless of whether those tribes hoisted the white flag or not, the three trading fleets of the Xia Kingdom stopped at all the tribes in turn, gave New Year's gifts, and traded with the tribes who wanted to trade, and continued to sail forward if they didn't want to trade.

As for those tribes that flew the white flag, most of the tribes said that their tribe wanted to join the Xia Kingdom, and the witches or leaders of their tribes wanted to go to the Xia Kingdom to discuss their tribe's joining the Xia Kingdom.

Obviously, these tribes have lost a lot of people in the past winter, and this cold winter is no longer something their tribe can resist, they can only choose to join the Xia Kingdom.

The three fleets did not rush to pick up the guests of the various tribes on the ship, but only said that they would pick them up and go to the Xia Kingdom when the fleet returned.

Until the three fleets sailed to the end of the trip, a total of six tribes wanted to join the Xia Kingdom, you must know that last year there were seven tribes to join the Xia Kingdom, this year's first foreign trade, there are six tribes to join the Xia Kingdom, I don't know how many tribes will join the Xia Kingdom at the end of this year.

The leaders of the three trade teams were also very lamented by this, and the cold winter had too much impact on the various tribes.