On the grassland about a quarter of a day away from the city, Snake Jiao led his own army of four warriors and five women from the Wind Tribe to graze together, ten people were divided into five groups, each group was matched by a man and a woman, the cavalry could not graze, the task of grazing was given to these five women from the Wind Tribe, and the task of the five cavalry was to guard these five women.

The first choice is to find the woman who behaves well in the captivity, and then find the woman who has children, and then eliminate the women who have always belonged to the Wind Tribe, and then find the women who do not belong to the Wind Tribe and still have children, such a woman is relatively unlikely to choose to escape when grazing.

No matter how small the possibility is, the cavalry guarding them must be cautious, once the women they are guarding want to escape, they will choose to shoot them as soon as possible, killing chickens and monkeys, there is a precedent, and there are even fewer women who want to escape.

Snake Jiao is the captain, and the snake is the commander of the army, and the "most beautiful" young woman among the five women who cooperate with him is assigned to his own group, when the snake is the first time to do this, the four subordinates of the snake Jiao booed together, and they all understood the intention of the captain.

Wu Chang performed relatively well in the two battles, at least a third-class merit, and possibly even a second-class merit, just in the two battles a large number of women were captured, and some of the women would be rewarded to the meritorious soldiers, and the Wu Chang and the others had already begun to choose the women they liked.

Wu Chang Shejiao's age is younger than them, he is only sixteen years old this year, and he has made meritorious contributions, but the performance of the four of them in the two battles has reached the level of third-class merit, which is a pity, and at the same time they also admire Wu Chang, who is young and strong, and when the cavalry unit is expanded, the worst is also a long one.

Now they only hope that a new battle will come sooner rather than later, and then take credit for the battle, and the erotic sex also, who does not want their women to be a little more.

For many years, Xia Guo did not acquire women through war, Xia people did not have women as rewards for their achievements, the number of new adult men and women was not much different, Xia Guo almost began the era of monogamy, but men all want to have more women for themselves, women are more is a thing worth showing off, their wives will not mind having more women in the family, even if they mind, they can't show it, this is a male-dominated society.

Snake Jiao gave a simple name to the "beauty" he fancied, Ayu, no surname, Ayu is about the same age as Snake Jiao, and has a two-year-old daughter.

After more than half a month of grazing together, Ayu has been able to understand a lot of Xia Guo's language, and can also speak some simple daily language, but if you want to communicate a little more complicated, you must use gestures and language.

It's been more than half a month, and Shejiao and Ayu have become acquainted with each other, Shejiao often asks Ayu about the nomadic tribe, Ayu has been silent from the beginning, to a reply from time to time, and now they can chat with each other like friends.

Ayu can sometimes feel the blazing gaze behind him, Ayu knows who that gaze is coming from, even if he directly asks for his body, he is powerless to resist, let alone dare to resist.

She had thought about death since she was first captured by the Wind Tribe, but she had a daughter who she could choose to die, what about that daughter.

When he was in the Wind Tribe, Ayu has been silently bearing, after coming to the city, Ayu continued to bear silently, after a few days, Ayu felt the difference between the Xia Kingdom and the Wind Tribe, even if he was a prisoner, the men of the Xia Kingdom would not bully themselves at will, especially this man called Snake Jiao, who was very good to himself.

"If only Snake Proud could be his own man." A thought appeared in Ayu's mind, but this thought was relatively light, after all, the two had only been together for half a month, and it was impossible for her to know everything about Snake Jiao.

Time passed day by day, and the king's order arrived in the city, and the city lord Hu Nan, the head of the military department, Lu Zhe, and the cavalry town guard Mu Shi had already determined fifteen first-class merit places, thirty second-class merit places, and sixty third-class merit places.

The snake is proud of the third-class merit, and it is only a little bit close to being included in the second-class merit quota, and the third-class merit rewards a woman.

The quota has been determined, and it will be announced soon, and when it is announced, the people who have made the merit will choose their favorite woman together.

On that day, all the women in the captives who were able to continue to bear children would be gathered together and selected by the meritorious warriors, among whom two or more people would inevitably like the same woman, and it was up to the woman to choose who she could follow, and no coercion or threat was allowed.

Snake Jiao was worried that Ayu, who he liked, would be favored by other comrades-in-arms, and Ayu did not choose himself at that time, and the efforts in the previous time were in vain, so before the announcement was issued, he directly said to Ayu: "Ayu, you follow me in the future, I will be good to you and the child." ”

Snake Jiao's "confession" made Ayu stunned, and after Ayu was silent for a few breaths, she immediately nodded vigorously to express her willingness, and Snake Jiao reached out and pulled Ayu over and hugged her tightly in her arms.

On the third day, the city lord Hu Nan personally "awarded" the one hundred and five meritorious soldiers on behalf of the king, and after the "award" was over, Hu Nan gathered all the women who could continue to give birth to children among the captives, and selected them by one hundred and five warriors, and there were a total of eight people who selected Ayu plus Snake Jiao, and Ayu did not hesitate and directly chose Snake Jiao.

After the end, Snake Jiao immediately went to the captive residence with Ayu, took Ayu's daughter and all the belongings, and came to Snake Jiao's home in the city, where Snake Jiao's wife had prepared a table of food and waited for her husband and sister to come home.

In the future, the cavalry troops will be stationed in the city, and all the families of the cavalry troops will move to the city, and the snake is no exception.

"Sister."

"Sister, you're welcome."

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In the blink of an eye, winter is coming, and Xia Guo enters the final busyness, and then begins the winter break.

This year's Xia country has three joys, the first joy, the Xia Guolong clan has branched out, and it can finally show some of the "majesty" of the first family in the Xia country.

The second joy is that in the spring, the Xia Kingdom issued an ultimatum to the stubborn tribes from Yancheng to the fishing tribes, first two tribes decided to join the Xia Kingdom, and then when the autumn was coming, another tribe decided to join the Xia Kingdom, a total of three tribes joined the Xia Kingdom, and the Xia Kingdom had three more clans, and the total population was more than 3,700 people.

The third joy was something that made Su Yan even happier than the first two joys, the city sent troops to wipe out a nomadic tribe with a population of 3,000, captured more than 2,000 people, and obtained a large number of cattle, horses, sheep and animal skins.

The more than 2,000 captives are nothing, most of the captives are minors, and they do not play much role in the development of the Xia Kingdom, and the most important thing is that the more than 38,000 cattle, horses and sheep, sheep are only used to eat meat, but cattle and horses can make the Xia Kingdom develop more rapidly.

Using oxen to plough the land, horses to plough the land, pull carts, and form cavalry, there are those cattle and horses in the Xia Kingdom that can cultivate more farmland, harvest more grain, and be able to feed more people.

Food, no matter how much you harvest, is a good thing, the natural disaster that is about to pass is the best example, no one knows when the natural disaster will come, as long as there is enough food, even if the natural disaster comes again, the Xia Kingdom will not be afraid, and those tribes with little food reserves are most likely to die in the natural disaster.

However, the matter of using cattle and horses to plough the land should be put to the next year, and next year can not be carried out, and the cattle and horses that have just been harvested still have a certain amount of training before they can be put into spring ploughing, not to mention that the cattle and horses are in the city, and they must be transported to the cities of the Xia Kingdom.

The unexpected destruction of the wind tribe with a population of 3,000, the time of the Xia Kingdom's large-scale march into the grassland is several years in advance, as long as the expansion of the cavalry town is completed next year, the year after tomorrow you can go deep into the grassland to find and attack the nomadic tribes, leather armor and strong bows are the best magic weapon for the Xia cavalry to defeat the enemy, even if they encounter more than three times the enemy, they can defeat the enemy at a very small cost.

Don't look at the Annihilation Wind Tribe, Xia Guo has obtained more than 38,000 cattle, horses and sheep, and the number of cattle and horses that can actually be put into spring ploughing may not exceed 5,000, Su Yan's goal is that every family in Xia Country has a big horse or big ox to plow the fields, obviously there is still a long way to go from this level.

This depends on the efforts of the cavalry tribe in the future, destroy more nomadic tribes, obtain more cattle and horses, and the more cattle and horses, the faster the development of the Xia Kingdom.

Three joys are coming, Xia Guo celebrates together, and each family has an extra share of animal meat.

Just as winter was approaching, the construction of the city was finally completed, and 2,000 prisoners lived in the city, making the population of the city close to 7,000, and the 7,000 people needed to consume a lot of food in winter, so the Ministry of Transport had to arrange more ships to and from the city to transport food and various household utensils.

The first winter of the city is a very test moment for the city, as many as more than 38,000 cows, horses and sheep need to be taken care of by the people who live in the city, which is a difficult thing for a farming tribe, but fortunately there are those captives from the wind tribe, especially the women who have joined the Xia family, so that things can be carried on, so that there will not be a winter that has passed but a large number of cattle, horses and sheep have died.

According to the usual practice, the water freezing world was postponed again, but this was no longer Su Yan's concern, and it was only handed over to the Ministry of Rites for record, and only when there was an accident, the Ministry of Rites would report to Su Yan.

Staying in the study, Su Yan listed next year's matters one by one.

The most important event of the next year is the foreign war of the Xia Kingdom, and there are still thirteen tribes living on both sides of the Yellow River from Yancheng to the Yu tribe.

These thirteen tribes are very stubborn, unwilling to join the Xia Kingdom, and can not bring much benefit to the Xia Kingdom, now only the war is left to conquer these thirteen tribes, women can give birth to the men of the Xia Kingdom, and the men are reduced to slaves to mine or build cities.

Among them, there are two tribes (camps) as powerful, the fishing tribe and the Japanese tribe camp, both of which have a population of more than 14,000.

It is a troublesome thing for the Xia Kingdom to want to destroy the Fishing Tribe or the Sun Tribe camp at one time, so temporarily put the Fishing Tribe and the Sun Tribe camp aside, and clean up the other eleven tribes first.

Eleven tribes, including the Jianmu tribe and the flying squirrel tribe, are much worse than the Fishing Tribe and the Japanese tribe camp, with the largest population not exceeding three thousand, and the least being less than a thousand, and it is relatively easy to destroy these eleven tribes.

Eleven tribes such as the Jianmu tribe and the flying squirrel tribe have traded a large number of rattan shields and rattan armor bronze weapons from the Xia Kingdom, which has indeed improved the strength of the eleven tribes a lot, but for the Xia army, the weapons and equipment of the Xia Kingdom have formed a generation gap with other tribes, leather armor, bronze weapons, strong bows, especially strong bows, the Xia Kingdom has never traded bows and arrows.

Only a certain number of archers are needed, and they can shoot the enemy one by one from a dozen zhang away, and the enemy has a bow and arrow, but there is not enough range, even if he wears rattan armor and holds a rattan shield, he will be pierced by powerful longbow arrows.

It will not be a problem to destroy the eleven tribes such as the Jianmu tribe and the flying squirrel tribe, and when the time comes, the first trading fleet and the second trading fleet of the Ministry of Commerce will transport two conquest teams, and the personnel of the conquest team will be recruited from the field/battle army and city defense army in each city, and all the eleven tribes must be destroyed by next winter.

By the way, it is necessary to do a good job in the resettlement of prisoners in advance, even if there are 20,000 prisoners, there are now 28 cities in the Xia State, and one city houses 6 or 700 people, which is gently solved.

The foreign war is the most important thing in the Xia Kingdom next year, followed by the task of building a city that is carried out every year, and four cities will still be built next year, namely the twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first, and thirty-second cities.

Among them, the twenty-ninth city is built in the area of Yancheng and Chucheng, located on the east side of Yancheng on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the finished glyph of Yancheng and Chucheng, the city is in front, and Yancheng and the twenty-ninth city are one left and one right.

With the already built Yancheng and Chucheng, the construction speed of the twenty-ninth city far away from the Xia Kingdom mainland will be faster than when Yancheng was built.

The remaining three cities are in the Xia country along the main trunk of the Yellow River to the east and west, next year's four cities are ordinary cities, unlike the city built this year, the city is located in the grassland edge area, the need to build a tall city wall, Li City needs to build the third shipyard of the Xia country, the construction period of the two cities is longer than the ordinary city.

Expansion of cavalry units with personnel selection, compass, manufacture of glass...... One plan after another was written down on paper by Su Yan, waiting to be carried out next year.

In winter, Su Yan will not work too long every day, this year Xiangxiang and Eyue have given birth to a daughter and a son, after the two have given birth to a child, Meihua conceived a child as she wished, and the child will be born next year, and Su Yan's two sons who have become a family are basically the same.

With more children, the palace has become more lively, and Su Yan, who is about to enter the forty-fourth year of his life, has become a grandfather, although Su Yan's appearance only looks like he is in his twenties.