When Su Yan, Meihua, Eyue, and Xiangxiang handed over the last twelve exquisite bronze swords to the hands of Ping, An, Shesu, and Huyi, the coming-of-age ceremony officially ended.

After the early spring festival is over, the people of each city in the Xia Kingdom officially enter the new year's work, and after the lord of each city arranges the matter, he and the ministers of each part come to Zhongjing City by boat to carry out the annual routine court meeting.

Statistics of the past year, Xia has made great progress, and one of the main aspects is the increase in population.

At this time last year, there were more than 13,600 adult males, more than 23,100 adult females, and more than 89,800 Xia, and the total population of the Xia Kingdom had reached more than 93,400 with the addition of slaves and servants.

However, as a year passed, the number of adult male citizens in Xia increased to more than 16,900, the number of adult female citizens increased to more than 27,400, and the number of Xia citizens increased to more than 107,000, and the total population had increased to more than 112,000 with the addition of slaves and servants.

Over the course of a year, the number of Xia citizens increased by more than 17,000, and the number of slaves and servants also increased by more than 2,000.

Seeing the data summarized by the household department, Su Yan was just surprised, he had already been mentally prepared for the population growth of Xia Country in the past year.

One of the biggest reasons for the increase in population last year was that tribes outside the Xia Kingdom joined the Xia Kingdom, and the increase in population alone was nearly 10,000, you must know that the Xia Kingdom had increased nine clans in the past year, and most of these nine clans were less than 1,000 people, and there were more than 1,000 people.

Don't forget, there are also hunting tribes in the north of the Yellow River that migrated to the south because of the lack of cold winter, the number of tribes intercepted in the spring increased, there were six, and in the summer two tribes were intercepted, a total of eight small tribes, these hunting tribes are not very populous, the least is less than a hundred, the most is only about two hundred, and the total has more than a thousand.

With the size of the Xia Kingdom, at least a small tribe of more than 500 people can become a clan of the Xia Kingdom, and these hunting tribes with a population of less than 500 cannot become a clan of the Xia Kingdom, only everyone can be integrated into the Xia Kingdom, and the population of the eight hunting tribes together is too small, and the Xia Kingdom can easily accommodate and integrate into these eight hunting tribes.

The tribes that joined the Xia Kingdom were the main reason for the population explosion last year, which was the natural increase in the population of the Xia Kingdom, due to the cold winter, the natural population growth rate of the Xia Kingdom decreased slightly, but the decline was not much, and the last increase came from population trading.

In the late spring and summer of last year, because some tribes lacked food to start a food war, the tribes that had contact with the Xia Kingdom were forced to get involved in the food war, they defeated the incoming enemy, and even turned back to destroy the tribes of the attacking enemy, and most of the captives were traded to the Xia Kingdom in exchange for weapons and equipment.

Some tribes leave women to bear children for their men, while others don't even leave women, and they don't want to see the enemies who killed their people stay in the tribe, even if the enemies are only women.

With a population of 112,000, there are currently 16 cities in the Xia Kingdom, and Zhongjing City is counted as two "standard" cities, and there are a total of 17 standard cities in the Xia Kingdom, with an average of more than 6,600 people living in each city.

The standard city can accommodate about 10,000 people to live, and the city can accommodate about 20,000 people to live, and the current population of the city is about to reach 17,000, and the second place is the source city of the former capital, with a population of nearly 8,000, and the three cities built last year, the total population is just over 5,000.

Originally, according to Su Yan's plan, under normal circumstances, the standard city can accommodate a population of about 5,000, and the capital city can accommodate a population of about 15,000, but the population of Xia is increasing a bit fast, and last year Xia built three new cities, which normally live 15,000 people, but last year, the total population of Xia increased by more than 19,000 people.

The constant relationship between the number of new cities and the newly increased population has been destroyed, and the increase in population in Xia this year is not expected to be much less than the increase in population last year, but it is difficult for Xia to allocate more manpower and material resources to build more cities, and only three cities have started construction this year.

If there is no extreme climate change, with the current population of Xia Kingdom, there is no problem at all with four or five new cities every year, as for the routine holiday, the impact on the new cities is not too great.

Looking through the documents, by the way, the problematic places were raised to listen to the reports of the relevant people, and then Su Yan promulgated one thing after another in this year's Xia Kingdom, until the last two things.

The document of "Routine Holiday" mobilized all the high-level officials of Xia Kingdom, Su Yan briefly talked about the routine holiday, and like Snake Wisdom, most of the high-level officials of Xia Kingdom welcomed "Routine Holiday" very much, with the holiday, the high-level leaders had time to gather their descendants who were distributed all over the Xia Kingdom, did not meet for a long time, and only relied on correspondence, and the family affection gradually faded.

In addition to the ships of the Ministry of Commerce, the remaining Class A ships (including old and new) and Class B ships in the Xia Kingdom are assigned to the Ministry of Transportation, and the cities of the Xia Kingdom should also establish the Ministry of Transportation, and only the Ministry of Transportation can cover the cities of the Xia Kingdom.

The last thing left, the last thing is also a private matter.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Pinghe'an is an adult, and it's time to get married, I decided to put the marriage time after spring ploughing, and everyone will come over at that time." Su Yan said with a smile.

"Come over by all means." Everyone said.

"Wang, have you prepared any wine?" This is the voice of a fierce bear.

"There is wine, limited quantity." Su Yan replied.

"It's good to have wine, it's good to have wine." Xiong said with a smile.

Wine has already appeared in the Xia Kingdom, but because winemaking requires a lot of food, the Xia Kingdom did not make wine on a large scale, but Su Yan also gave a small part of the wine to the high-level officials of the Xia Kingdom to taste.

Many people are very interested in wine, Hu Biao and Xiong Han are the two of them who like wine the most, so Su Yan gives a certain share of wine to the top of Xia Guo every year, not too much, and stipulates the daily amount of alcohol consumed by everyone, and alcoholism is not allowed, and drinking a small amount of rice wine every day is good for the body.

In addition, Su Yan sometimes takes out wine and rewards it to meritorious people.

The juniors got married, and the nine people including Snake Zhi and Lu Yuan were the happiest, because their daughter was one of the protagonists, but it was a pity that Hu Biao couldn't see the day when his daughter got married.