When the first foreign trade ends this year, it is expected to bring back information that some people in various tribes have frozen to death in the cold winter, and maybe there will be information that a small number of tribes do not have enough food to eat for the winter.

Those tribes still don't know that the duration of winter is increasing, as long as they tell them about this matter, it can even be said to be more serious, and talk about the Xia Kingdom's response to winter, I believe that some tribes will make the choice to join the Xia Kingdom.

This harsh climate and environmental change is considered an opportunity for the development of the Xia Kingdom, and at the same time, the population of the Xia Kingdom increases, the stronger the resistance to natural disasters, Su Yan really wants to let the Xia Kingdom explode a population of several million, and then climb the science and technology tree, think about those humans who live in colder regions, even if it enters the Ice Age, Su Yan can also take all the citizens of the Xia Kingdom to survive.

The population increased by 10,000 in a year, and no clansmen were frozen to death in the cold winter that had just passed, only a few elderly people and a dozen seriously ill people died, which was completely bearable for Xia Guo.

After reading one document after another, there are fewer and fewer problems, and it seems that the high-level officials of Xia Guo have adapted to the management system of Xia Guo.

Su Yan put down the file, opened another document of his own, raised his head and looked at everyone and said slowly: "The first thing this year, the city lord of Bincheng is taken over by the patriarch of Monkey Chong, the city lord of Zhoucheng is taken over by the patriarch of Yuwei, the city lord of Jicheng is taken over by the patriarch of Lufang, the patriarch of Snake Zhi, the patriarch of Tushen, and the patriarch of Shansong, you go back to Zhongjing City." ”

"Nuo" The six patriarchs said in unison, without any objections.

In fact, the arrangement of the three patriarchs of Monkey Chong, Yuwei and Lufang to take over the position of the three patriarchs of Snake Zhi, Rabbit Shen and Shansong had begun the year before last, and the three patriarchs of Monkey Chong, Yuwei and Lufang respectively went to the city where the three patriarchs of Snake Zhi, Rabbit Shen and Shansong were located to serve as deputy city lords to prepare for the position of taking over the position of city lord.

The three patriarchs of Snake Zhi, Rabbit Shen, and Shansong don't have much feeling that their position as city lord has been replaced by other patriarchs, and when they get older, the three patriarchs also feel that their bodies are not good, and they don't have the energy to deal with the affairs of the entire city, even if the king doesn't say it, the three patriarchs themselves will bring it up.

Not only the three patriarchs of Snake Zhi, Rabbit Shen, and Shansong, but also Hu Biao and Lu Yuan, the two patriarchs have long stopped going out with the fleet, and only sit in the capital, responsible for handling some affairs of the Ministry of War and Commerce, and the two will also train their deputies well, and when the two feel that they are no longer able to serve as ministers, they will take the initiative to ask the king to resign.

Among the five patriarchs, Hu Biao's physical condition is the worst, Su Yan once wanted Hu Biao to put down the position of the head of the military department and rest well, Hu Biao gritted his teeth and was unwilling to accept it, this is due to Hu Biao's character, Hu Biao does not accept old age, and does not want to be idle, Yan did not force Hu Biao.

The population of Xia is less than 100,000, the management organization is relatively perfect, the ministers do not have many things every day, Hu Biao still has a deputy, most of the things are handed over to the deputy, just walk around every day and take a look.

After the three patriarchs of Snake Zhi, Rabbit Shen, and Shansong returned to Zhongjing City, if the three patriarchs were unwilling to provide for the elderly, Su Yan could also arrange a very easy position for the three of them.

With the three patriarchs of Monkey Chong, Yu Wei, and Lu Fang taking over the position of the three Great Wall Lords of Snake Zhi, Rabbit Shen, and Shansong, there are fewer and fewer "old men" in the Xia Kingdom who serve as the lords of the eleven cities.

At present, the city lord of Yuancheng is served by the patriarch of Yan Teng, the city lord of Chicheng was taken over by Yue Mao, the head of the Chicheng household last year, the city lord of Zhucheng was taken over by the patriarch of Huoqian, the city lord of Yangcheng was served by the patriarch Yuze, the city lord of Bincheng was served by the patriarch of Monkey Chong, the city lord of Zhoucheng was served by the patriarch Yuwei, the city lord of Jicheng was served by the patriarch of Lufang, the city lord of Hucheng was succeeded by Li Rong, the head of the Hucheng household department last year, the city lord of Zhongjing City was served by Shejian, the city lord of Haocheng was served by Hu Nan, and the city lord of Pengcheng was served by Lu Shi.

Lu Yue, the lord of Chicheng City, and Zhou Ming, the lord of Hucheng, who stepped down last year, will lead the construction of the twelfth and thirteenth cities of the Xia Kingdom this year.

If there are too many tribes joining the Xia Kingdom this year, then the Xia Kingdom will start building three cities at the same time next spring, but these small cities are small in scale, and there are more and more adult citizens in the Xia Kingdom, and the construction of three cities at the same time will not affect the affairs of the Xia Kingdom.

Su Yan promulgated the things that need to be carried out in the Xia Kingdom this year, and in the end, Su Yan paused, the last matter is probably the most relevant thing for the high-level officials of the Xia Kingdom, after learning that the duration of the winter is constantly extended, all the high-level officials of the Xia Kingdom are paying attention to this matter.

"According to Deer Witch records, the water froze four days earlier than the previous winter, the ice melted three days later, and the duration of the winter increased by seven days to one hundred and nine days." Su Yan said a few data quickly.

"Shhh After hearing a few data from Wang Nian, the high-level officials of Xia Guo gasped one by one, and the winter time has increased again, which is not good news for Xia Guo.

In particular, the patriarch and Wu of the five clans of the Ri Clan, the Hua Clan, the (second) Snake Clan, the Fox Clan, and the Crow Clan, who joined the Xia Kingdom last year, were surprised and sighed, if the five clans did not join the Xia Kingdom last year, I am afraid that many clansmen will be frozen to death this winter, and after joining the Xia Kingdom, none of the clansmen will be frozen to death.

After joining the Xia Kingdom, even the people of the five clans in the cold winter were working hard to learn the language of the Xia Kingdom, the ten leaders and the witches, and they didn't know how to write much, but there were not many problems in communication.

"The power of nature is not something that can be resisted by manpower, we can only prepare as much as possible, hoping to survive this natural disaster smoothly, the plan of food reserves and firewood and grass accumulation continues, and in addition, domestic animals in various cities are frozen to death this winter, and a plan to renovate the animal circle is added, these domestic animals are what we have managed to accumulate, but don't all freeze to death." Su Yan continued, and all the high-level officials of the Xia Kingdom listened carefully and made a record by the way.

In fact, there is also a plan to build a waterwheel in response to a possible drought, this plan Su Yan did not rush to promulgate, first wait for the carpenter workshop to build the waterwheel, and then promote it to various cities, there are enough carpenters in each city in Xia Kingdom, and it can build enough waterwheels in a month.

After the last thing was said and the meeting ended, the high-level officials of the Xia Kingdom left the council hall one after another, but Lu Yuan was left by Su Yan.

"Yuan, this year's first foreign trade, the three trade fleets want to tell the tribes about the extension of the winter time, I hope that more than five tribes will join our Xia Kingdom this year."

"Guaranteed to get the job done." Lu Yuan said confidently.