"How did Xia Guo's fleet go over there?"

The fishermen who were fishing by the river looked at the Xia fleet in the distance in a daze, and were puzzled, originally they saw the fleet of the Xia country heading towards the fishing tribe, thinking that the target of the Xia country fleet was the fishing tribe, which was the experience of many years, but they didn't expect that this time the Xia fleet did not stop at the fishing tribe, but went to the east of the fishing tribe.

"I guess I'm looking for more tribes to trade." After learning of this situation, the high-ranking members of the fishing tribe roughly guessed what Xia Guo wanted to do.

The time has come to the spring of the ninth year of the Xia calendar, after the improvement of the "First Five-Year Development Plan of the Xia Kingdom" was officially implemented in the Xia Kingdom, the third trading fleet of the Ministry of Commerce was reorganized, with Zhao Lin as the leader, and the scale of the three trading fleets was changed to a certain extent.

The First Trading Fleet, consisting of sixteen A-type ships, led by Li Zhi, carried out the foreign trade mission of sailing westward along the main trunk of the Yellow River, ending in the grasslands, with the main goal of finding nomadic tribes on the grasslands to trade cattle and horses.

The second trading fleet, consisting of four B-type ships and four improved A-type ships, with Lu Ran as the leader, carried out the foreign trade mission of sailing eastward along the main trunk of the Yellow River, ending at the fishing tribes, and on the return voyage to the Japanese tribes located in the tributaries of the Yellow River, the main task was to trade in people and animal skins.

The third trading fleet, consisting of seven B-type ships, with Zhao Lin as the leader, carried out the task of opening new routes from the fishing tribes to the east and reaching out to more tribes, and the voyage lasted up to three months at a time, that is, it took one and a half months to sail east along the main trunk of the Yellow River from Zhongjing City to the east.

In the ninth year of the Xia calendar, the three trading fleets went out for the first time, and the third trading fleet carried out the important task of opening up new routes, and the first and second trading fleets were not easy.

In addition, the First Trade Fleet also carried out the task of transporting the city builders to the Yan clan's hometown.

In the past winter, the freezing time of water was delayed by five days, the melting time of ice was six days earlier than that of the same period last year, and the duration of winter was shortened by 11 days, and the duration of the whole winter has dropped to 114 days.

The natural disaster has been in a state of decline for three consecutive winters, and it is almost certain that the natural disaster is in a constant recession, and the rate of decline is very fast, and it is expected to return to a normal year within ten years.

After determining the situation of the natural disaster, Su Yan couldn't wait to take out the "First Five-Year Development Plan of the Xia Kingdom" that had been perfected and implement it throughout the country.

This year is the forty-second year of Su Yan's life, Su Yan knows that his life is limited, he just wants to make the Xia Kingdom stronger in his limited life, so as to protect his children and grandchildren and other Xia people.

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The east of the Xia Kingdom, a tribe of thousands of people with scorpions as their totem.

"Happy New Year, leader of the Scorpion Tribe." The official named He Chao, who was in charge of docking with the Scorpion Tribe, sent New Year's greetings to the Scorpion Leader and gave him New Year's gifts.

It should be noted that He Chao's words were spoken in the language of the Xia Kingdom, the scorpion tribe has been in contact with the Xia Kingdom for many years and is relatively familiar, and the scorpion leader can understand some of the language of the Xia Kingdom and can also say a few words.

"Happy New Year! Happy New Year! The scorpion leader said with a smile, and took the New Year's gift handed over by He Chao, although there are not many New Year's gifts, but who is unwilling to accept the things given for nothing, not to mention that the white salt, pepper powder, weapons, etc. of the Xia Kingdom are all needed by the Scorpion Tribe, but the Scorpion Tribe cannot exchange for too much.

In the food war for several years, the scorpion tribe has also been attacked many times, killing and wounding more than 200 people, if it were not for the scorpion tribe to equip a batch of weapons and equipment from the Xia country to increase its own strength a lot, the scorpion tribe may have perished.

The scorpion tribe did not hang the white flag, which means that the scorpion tribe did not think about trading with the Xia country, He Chao did not leave in a hurry, and talked with the scorpion leader about the winter that had just passed.

"This winter is too difficult, more than a dozen people in our tribe have frozen to death, and we can't eat too much food every day, worrying that we won't be able to support this autumn's harvest." The scorpion leader sighed and gestured.

He Chao said with a smile: "It's okay, winter is just colder than other seasons, even in the coldest years, few people in our Xia Kingdom were frozen to death." ”

"If only our tribe could be as strong as your Xia Kingdom, we don't have to worry about our clansmen being frozen to death, and there is endless food to eat, let alone the enemy." The scorpion leader looked at him with envy.

The scorpion leader, as well as many clansmen of the scorpion tribe after learning about the situation in the Xia country, are full of yearning for the beautiful and happy life of the Xia people, but most of the high-level leaders of the scorpion tribe do not have the idea of letting their tribe join the Xia country, even in the most serious period of natural disasters, the scorpion tribe still gritted its teeth and persisted.

Probably the high-level leaders of the Scorpion Tribe have an idea to make the Scorpion Tribe as powerful as the Xia Kingdom, but this idea is too difficult and difficult for the Scorpion Tribe.

After He Chao talked with the scorpion leader for a few more words, he turned his words to the main topic.

He Chao: "The leader of the Scorpion Tribe, in addition to the matter of giving New Year's gifts to the Scorpion Tribe this time, there is also a very important thing for our Xia Kingdom and your Scorpion Tribe. ”

Scorpion Leader: "What's the matter?" ”

He Chao: "The king of our Xia Kingdom has a saying, 'There is great strength in the number of people', which means that the more people in a 'tribe', the stronger the strength of the tribe, and the better the people of this tribe can live."

The leader of the scorpion tribe, you know some things about our Xia country, our Xia country used to be very weak, the population is not as large as the scorpion tribe, under the leadership of the king, one tribe after another has joined our Xia country, the population of our Xia country has increased rapidly, and now it is many times the scorpion tribe, it is precisely with so many populations that our Xia country has such a strong force today. ”

The scorpion leader agreed with He Chao's words, it is indeed the case, if the scorpion tribe has a population of two thousand or three thousand, under this natural disaster, the loss of the scorpion tribe will be less, if it can have so many people in the Xia country, the scorpion leader feels that his tribe will hardly lose in the natural disaster.

He Chao: "The Scorpion Tribe has a small population, and it has suffered heavy losses in this natural disaster, if it encounters another natural disaster, I am afraid that the Scorpion Tribe will die out like other tribes."

Your scorpion tribe and our Xia country are good friends, my king does not want to see 'good friends' struggling in such a difficult environment, so he decided to send an invitation to your tribe and invite your scorpion tribe to join our Xia country, as long as you scorpion tribe join our Xia country, you can get rid of those difficulties, and the people of the scorpion tribe can live the happy life of their dreams. ”