Xiangcheng to Chen Ying is only more than seventy miles, starting in the morning and arriving at noon, but because it is only seventy or eighty miles, the boat travels very slowly. When he was about to arrive in Chen County, Xiong Jing was not in the cabin, but stood on the deck and listened to the right history talk about Chen County.

"Chen, the ruins of Taihao are also." The right history is like a number of family treasures, "Taihao Fuxi, following the sky and the king, the surname of the wind, like the name of the sun and the moon, so it is called Taihao, the capital is in Chen, and the real capital is in Wanqiu, eight miles southeast of Chen Ying......"

"Shi Qing, I heard that Taihao is a person from Dongyi, right?" Xiong Jing Road. Compared with Chen County, he is more interested in Chen people.

"Yes, yes." Right Shi nodded, "At the time of Yin Shang, there were many Yi people in Jiangbei, Qiang people in the northwest, many Yue people in Jiangdong, and many Miao Barbarians in Jingshan, and the ancestors of Miao Barbarians were Jiuli, and Jiuli also originated from Dongyi. ”

"It turns out that even the country of Chen is a land of people," Xiong Jing sighed. According to ancient historical records, in the plain area east of Bashu in the northwest, most of the people in the north of the Yangtze River were Yi people, Jiuli or Sanmiao even migrated to Hunan east of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Yue people started from the Yellow Sea in the east and reached Dianchi Lake in the west, bypassing Hunan and occupying a crescent-shaped area.

"The east of the river is full of people." Right Shi Dao. "I, the Chu people, are relatives of the Zhou people after the Qiang."

"Because of this, after the Zhou people entered the Central Plains, they practiced the township system?" Xiong Jing said again, in his opinion, the township system is the colonial system, with the township system and the countryman controlling the savages.

"Yes, yes. The king of Zhou lost his morality, and Weizi lobbied the Zhou people, wanting to make the Zhou people chase the king, and the Zhou people allowed it, but the minister of the king of Zhou, Fei Lian, was not angry, and then reversed, and Zhou Gong Kezhi. "Right Shi doesn't understand what colonization is, and his understanding is completely different from Xiong Jing.

"Really?" Xiong Jing has seen this kind of rhetoric in the history books, but it is not as concise as the right envoy said: it was not the Zhou people who replaced the merchants, but the Zhou people who intervened in the merchants' nest under the persuasion and suggestion of Wei Ziqi.

"Yes, yes." Right Shi looked at Xiong Jing with some doubts, he felt that this should be common sense. "Although the king is a Yi person, but he lost his morality, the hen Si Chen, and attacked the same clan, so the Muye Zhou people won the battle. The system of the township is the system to prevent the remnants of the king from rebelling again. It is a pity that most of them no longer exist today, and they do exist, and they also have their appearance but not their inside, and I only hope that the people of the dynasty can replace them. ”

The well field system in the countryside is read as a production team system. 'When the field is made, the father and the elder and Li Zhengdan open the door and sit on the school, and those who come out are not allowed to come out, and they are not allowed to enter without holding the wood at dusk...... Men and women are in the same alley, and they follow each other from the night, and as for the ...... in the night'. At that time, the village was all earthen enclosures, and there were only two exits, and the security room at the exit was called a juku. The well field is a public field, so it is necessary to rush people to work.

So the people are like this, and the villagers are free people. Five are compared, and one is compared; Five Wu is Lu, and one Lu is two; Four Lu are clans, and one clan is pawns; Five ethnic groups are the party, and one party is the brigade; Five parties are the state, and one state is the division; Five states are townships, and one township is the army. The organization is extremely high, but unfortunately now all the organizations are scattered.

"That's Chen Ying?" The two big wings had just arrived at Chen Ying, and Xiong Jing had already seen it in Lu Lijing. He saw not only Chen Ying, but also a city on the east side of the chasm, not one, but two.

"Yes, yes." Right Shi also saw Chen Ying on the shore of East Lake in Lu Lijing.

"Chen Ying's east and south are full of lakes, aren't you afraid of water attacks?" The more Xiong Jing looked, the more worried he became. But I also felt that the old Ying was washed away by the water, and the king of Xiangxiang, who had just moved to Chen Ying, couldn't think of the possibility of a water attack.

"Tell the king, Chen Ying's southeast is full of water, and there are also rivers in the northwest, unless you build a fortress, you can't rush the city with water." Xiang Yan came up. Chen County is the front line, and he knows best how Chen Ying should defend it.

"It's really hard to build a fortress." Hu Ze is vast, and it is indeed difficult to build a fortress and storm the city.

"Chen Yingzhou is thirty miles, the highest part of the city wall is four zhang eight feet, the lowest point is three zhang six feet, and the city is more than four zhang wide. And there are Xiangzi cities in the east as horns for each other, and there are Zhanghuatai in the west to rely on. There are 10,000 households in the city, as long as ...... There is no shortage of corn, and the city cannot be broken. When Xiang Yan spoke, Yang Wenjun also came up, and when he saw him coming, Xiang Yan's eyes blinked.

Zhou Ji was walking with the wind, Yang Wenjun obviously heard Xiang Yan's words, and he said: "The minister respectfully tells the king: the terrain around Chen Cheng is flat, and it is indeed not possible to build a fortress and then rush the city with water, however, if the enemy builds a fortress and immerses the city, it must not be guarded. ”

"Dip City?" Xiong Jing was puzzled, but he thought that the city wall was just built of rammed earth, and the foot of the wall was soaked in water for a long time, and there was indeed a risk of collapse.

"After the first king moved to the king, he used 100,000 horizontal logs to solidify it, even if the city was immersed, the city would not be bad within half a year." Xiang Yan emphasized. "Half a year later, the minister can move to save the ......"

"The minister is just worried about the king." Yang Wenjun said with a smile, although Xiang Yan didn't say who to save, Yang Wenjun still guessed something. "The king is the most important of the Chu State, how can he live in Chen Ying for a long time?"

"You!" Xiang Yan felt that he was being tricked by Yang Wenjun, and immediately looked at it.

"I'm just worried about the king." Yang Wenjun's smile did not decrease. "The New Deal has just been implemented, and there are many opponents. If the king lives in Chen County for a long time, what should Yingdu do? What about the state of Chu? ”

Dazai has no right to know about the military arrangement of the Great Sima Mansion, and now Yang Wenjun seems to have guessed something. Xiong Jing didn't mind, he only asked: "Then in Yangqing's opinion, the Qin and Wei coalition forces are coming, who is Chen Ying stationed?" ”

"Naturally, it's the general." Yang Wenjun looked at Xiang Yan, who was glaring at him, and smiled again.

"What if the Qin people go out of Chengyang again?" Xiong Jing asked again. Under the horizontal line, the Chu army will fight on three fronts. If there is a problem on any of the three lines of the eastern, northern, and western fronts, all the land of Huaibei will be lost, at least most of it will be lost, and Shouying will become the frontline.

"This ...... Aren't the Qin people allied with me, the Chu State? "After losing contact with Changpingjun, Yang Wenjun's news became extremely lagging behind. The Qin army has entered Wei, and he is still trying to make peace with the Qin state.

"The minister retired." Xiang Yan smiled and bowed and retired.

"King, the Qin people really want to ......," Changping Jun hurriedly asked after Xiang Yan left. Diplomatically, there was no sign that Qin was going to attack Chu.

"One hundred thousand Qin troops have entered the Wei realm, does Dazai think they want a day trip to Daliang?" Xiong Jing said the news three days ago, although there was a smile on his face, but there was bitterness in his heart.

"Qin Wei really colluded?" Yang Wenjun's face finally changed, "Changping Jun is ......"

"Changping Jun is already at home, and his messenger has arrived in Chen Ying a few days ago." Xiong Jing said. He didn't know what news Changping-jun had come from, but it certainly wouldn't be good news.

The speed of the boat was very slow, so slow that the boat team arrived at Chen Yingdongguo Wharf when the car was suspended. Chen Ying's people greeted each other in the city, standing in front of the wharf was the county prince Chen Jian and more than a dozen village elders, the bell was loud, everyone knelt down with joy and bowed their heads, not knowing that the king was not staying in Chen, but to stay in Chen.

There are no mountains like the Purple Mountain around Chen Ying, and some are just Daze. The city with a circumference of thirty miles is half smaller than Shouying, and from the east, it is only three kilometers long from north to south, and about three kilometers wide from east to west. The highest wall is in the north, four zhang and eight feet, and the rest is three zhang and six feet, but the wall height of the city wall in the south of the city is all four zhang and eight feet, and the regulation is smaller than that of Shouying Wangcheng.

As with Chengyang, as long as the waterways remain unobstructed, it will not be easy to capture such a city. Even if the waterway is cut off, the city is surrounded by Huze, and the section that can really be put on a posture to attack the city is less than 20 miles, and the tunnel cannot be dug - the water level in Chen County is very low, and the water seeps into it when digging five or six feet, so that the Chu people are all hiding in Wanqiu, which is nine miles southeast of Chen Ying, where the terrain is five or six meters higher than the flat ground, so it is called Qiu.

Last year, the Wei army invaded the territory, and they did not attack the city properly, but only robbed and harvested corn and rice outside the city, but unfortunately they ate more than they robbed, and they immediately retreated to the Wei realm when they heard that the Qin army was defeated.

"Greetings to the king." Under the leadership of Chen Jian, officials and village elders saluted Xiong Jing.

"No courtesy." Xiong Jing looked at these people. Peng Zong is familiar with it, and he has seen it when the county Sima Chen can't be knighted, except for the two of them, the others are seeing each other for the first time. Chen Jian is a prince, with many beards, white cheeks and beard, although he has been carefully combed, he still looks rough. This is nothing, the most laughable thing is that he has a red rosacea, May is the month of poison, you can't drink alcohol, probably because of this, Xiong Jing didn't smell alcohol.

Chen Bi, the county leader, is a little old man, his eyes are flickering, and he and Chen Jian follow suit, and they have a tacit understanding. The rest are fourteen or fifteen village elders, among these people, the most eye-catching is the Zheng family, and the temperament is different from that of ordinary village elders. Chen Jian said that after he was originally a member of the Zheng Guo clan, he moved to Chen a hundred years ago and was already a Chen person.

"The king is the king of the sages, and the contemptible people have the privilege to meet him, and they are not afraid of it." Zheng said, "I can't be respected, I offer ten pairs of jade." ”

is obviously a village elder, but in a blink of an eye, he has become a local tyrant. Xiong Jing didn't refuse, just looked at him twice. The Zheng family was polite, and everyone else was also polite, so that before it was dark, the servant came to report that he had received ten thousand gold.

"Wanjin? There are thousands of gold? Xiong Jing was surprised, Chen County was the richest county in Chu State, but he didn't expect it to become like this.

"Tell the king, it's not ten thousand gold, it's eighteen thousand gold. Ten pairs of jade presented by the Zheng family have 5,000 gold, and the rest have more than 13,000 gold. "Servant said." Chen people's dedication, is Xie Wang Xing Dynasty people's government, Chen people heard this government, are very happy. ”

"Really?" Xiong Jing was suspicious. "Didn't you get this thirteen,000 gold?"

"Apportionment?" The servant was puzzled, this was a famous hall that only came in later generations.

"It is in the name of dedication, so that every household pays. The apportionment gets the big head, not the small head. Xiong Jing explained.

"To the king, no. The 13,000 gold is mostly produced by the selection of Chinese people, and Chen County is not compared to other counties, there are 125 Chinese people, and one person 100 gold is 12,500 gold. The servant said, he helped the king collect the money, and he also got the money.

"The other gifts were accepted, and the twelve thousand five hundred gold ...... It was divided into three parts, one for the lonely and widowed people in Zuolu in Chen County, one for the county witch, and one for the private school in Chen County, so that they could buy more chairs, pens, ink, and paper, and collect more students. "Xiong Jing didn't want to collect this kind of money, so he had to go out of Chen County and use it in Chen County." As for Zheng's ......, Zheng's will see you another day. ”