Winter has just passed, the four member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance immediately carried out the first alliance of the year, and there are no new member tribes to join the Anti-Black Alliance for the time being, but the efforts of the last period of time before the winter have made several tribes have some ideas, continue to work hard this year, maybe these tribes will join the Anti-Black Alliance.

Inviting new tribes to join the Anti-Black Alliance is one thing, and the second thing is the matter of the four member tribes moving, in a year, the grass around the residence is almost eaten, and it needs to be changed to another place, but because of the matter of the Anti-Black Alliance, the four member tribes have not moved too far away, which is convenient for contact.

In order to make the Anti-Black Alliance more united, the leader of the withered grass put forward a new proposal: the member tribes of the alliance are not allowed to attack each other, and the violators will be besieged by other member tribes; If there is a conflict between the tribes of the alliance members, it can be resolved by fighting, and the loser needs to take the initiative to apologize.

The Withered Grass Chief's proposal was once again endorsed by the other three leaders, who all said that the proposal was very good, and that it effectively reduced the wariness among the member tribes of the Alliance, and helped the member tribes unite against the Black Tribe.

Not long after the four member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance ended their first meeting this year, the first court meeting of the year was also held in the capital of the Xia Kingdom, and the city lords and ministers of all the cities in the Xia Kingdom rushed to the Zhongjing City to participate in the court meeting.

This year is the thirteenth year of the Xia calendar, the thirteenth year of the Xia country, and the last year of the first five-year plan of the Xia country.

Thanks to the continuous destruction of the Japanese tribal camp and the fishing tribe by the expeditionary corps last year, coupled with the natural population growth of the Xia Kingdom itself, the total population of the Xia Kingdom has increased from more than 226,500 people in the early spring of last year to more than 273,000 in the early spring of this year, and in the past year, the total population of the Xia Kingdom has increased by more than 46,000 people.

At present, there are more than 42,300 adult male citizens in Xia State, and each man represents a family, which means that there are more than 42,300 households in Xia State, and there are more than 65,600 adult female nationals, and the number of adult citizens alone has exceeded the 100,000 mark.

And the most powerful tribe encountered by the Xia Kingdom was the Snake People tribe with a population of more than 20,000, which was far from being comparable to the Xia Kingdom.

The 273,000 population of the Xia Kingdom also included more than 15,100 slaves, and the number of adult slaves was about the same as the number of juvenile slaves.

All Xia needed to do was to send enough people to guard the slaves, not to let the slaves escape or riot, and by the way, to provide the slaves with enough food and shelter from the wind and rain to reduce the resistance of the slaves.

As the Xia Kingdom continues to fight abroad, the number of slaves in the Xia Kingdom will continue to increase, and they will be able to make more contributions to the Xia Kingdom.

The construction of the city, the expansion of the Yuancheng Shipyard and the Zhoucheng Shipyard, the batch construction of C-type ships, and other things were promulgated by Su Yan one by one, and finally Su Yan focused on arranging the foreign wars of the Xia Kingdom.

The cavalry units will continue to go deep into the steppe once every two months, and this year the cavalry units will be expanded to ten teams; The cities on the south bank of the Yellow River marched to the south, and the cities on the north bank of the Yellow River marched to the north, exploring and recording the terrain and properties, as well as looking for other tribes to attack.

Hearing Wang say that this year's Xia Guo's plan for foreign war, the Minister of War Lu Chen and Deputy Minister Snake Shou's eyes lit up, as the chief officer of the Ministry of War, the two of them did not want the Ministry of War to be leisurely, and they wanted the Ministry of War not to be leisurely, only war.

After Su Yan finished speaking, Lu Chen immediately assured Su Yan that the military department would definitely complete the king's plan, and Lu Chen decided to wait for the end of the court meeting to convene the ministers of the soldiers in each city to discuss the matter, and they must do things beautifully, and it is best that this year's harvest is no worse than last year.

The court meeting was over, but Su Yan found a problem, only the city lords, ministers and sub-ministers of the city entered the council hall to participate in the court meeting, and the council hall was already crowded.

At present, Xia has a total of 12 departments, including the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Medicine, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Slaves, the Ministry of Servants, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Transportation, and there are 36 cities such as Zhongjing City, Yuancheng, and Chucheng, and it is difficult for the departments to increase in a short period of time, but the number of cities has been increasing rapidly, and only four cities were built last year, and five will be built this year.

The more cities there are, the more troublesome they are to manage, and it's time to come up with a new system of local administration.

The county system of the Qin State is the object of Su Yan's thinking, but Su Yan thought about it carefully, the population of the Xia State is less than 300,000, and it is too exaggerated to make a county system, it is better to take a standard city as a town, and set up a county from six cities to ten cities, and now there are thirty-six cities in the Xia State, which can be set up in four to six counties, and there are only three cities in the storage area, but it can also be set up in a single county.

The central, county, town, this is the county and town system, in the future, when the population of Xia exceeds one million, you can add counties to the county, and when the population of Xia exceeds 10 million, you can increase the state on the county.

Su Yan took a paper note of the local administrative system of the prefectures, counties, and towns, and the prefectures and counties did not care about it first, and they must prepare the affairs of the counties and towns this year, and they will start to implement them in the spring of next year.

It is not a simple matter to implement the county and town system, and it is necessary to consider how many counties can be set up in the Xia Kingdom, which city can be used as the county seat, and who will be the county commander or county governor.

The county and town system appeared, and by the way, the twelve ministries of the Xia Kingdom would also be changed, and after Su Yan was ready to determine the rough plan, he would convene the twelve ministers to discuss.

The population of Xia Kingdom is less than 300,000, and even if there are only 41 cities at the end of this year, it will take a year to basically come up with a complete plan for the county and town system, and wait until next spring to start implementing it, and then hold a court meeting every year in the future.

The officials of the city returned to the city by boat, and the cavalry troops were about to set out, at this time, the anti-black alliance on the grassland held the second alliance of the year, this time the member tribes of the alliance were no longer four, but seven, and one of them had also been in contact with the cavalry of the black tribe.

The so-called contact was an encounter between a herding squad of this tribe and a cavalry of the Tunxia Kingdom, because this nomadic tribe had a population of less than 1,000 and was relatively weak, so they did not dare to send people to snatch back the stolen cattle, horses and sheep, so that this nomadic tribe could survive.

The other six tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance were silent when they learned of this, especially those from the nomadic tribes of the Dry Grass Tribe who had been destroyed by the Black Tribe, several tribes were attacked by the Black Tribe by showing weakness to the enemy, and finally were destroyed by the Black Tribe in two consecutive battles.

"Only our seven tribes can barely resist the black tribe together, but we must gather the clansmen together, with the situation of our various tribes, we have no way to move to an area, once the black tribe suddenly attacks, it is difficult for us to rescue in time.

The only way is to gather the strength of various tribes, attack the residence of the black tribe together, and completely wipe out the black tribe, the anti-black alliance needs more members, let's go together to invite more nomadic tribes to join our anti-black alliance. ”

At the second meeting of the Anti-Black Alliance, the leader of the withered grass once again made a proposal, and then it was approved by the other six leaders, and the seven leaders knew that the strength of the Anti-Black Alliance was not enough, and the Anti-Black Alliance needed more than ten member tribes, and each member tribe sent a part of the adult clan to fight, and only when they gathered together could they be sure to destroy the black tribe.

At the end of the second alliance, the seven member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance continued to search for other nomadic tribes and issued invitations, and the day after the end of the second alliance, the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom left the city and marched towards the depths of the grassland.

Almost at the same time, far away in the local area of the Xia Kingdom, the joint expedition team of Zhoucheng and Hucheng found a farming tribe located in the south of Zhoucheng, this farming tribe only had more than 500 people, and its strength was very weak.

The head of the Zhoucheng army immediately led the expeditionary team to attack this farming tribe, and only five minutes later, this farming tribe was wiped out by the expeditionary team, and no one escaped, and nearly 500 people were captured by their own side.

This farming tribe did not have copper weapons, and the damage to the warriors of the Xia Kingdom was very small, and the number of enemies killed by the warriors decreased sharply, and the number of prisoners increased greatly, knowing that capturing an enemy can be more than killing an enemy.

After a battle, even if no one has made a first-class merit or a second-class merit, the number of people who have made a third-class merit will definitely not be less than ten, and the soldiers can still accumulate their combat merits until they have accumulated enough combat merits to reach the standard of third-class merit before receiving rewards.

This skirmish was just the beginning, starting with the construction of new cities in the southeast and southwest of Zhongjing City, marking the official expansion of Xia to an area far from the river, and the abundance of horses allowed Xia to communicate quickly and quickly transport supplies on land.

As the expeditions explored far from the river, finding the tribes to attack was only one aspect, and mapping was also a very important task in preparation for the construction of the new city in the future.

In addition, each conquest team, including the cavalry troops, has a new gadget in their hands - the compass, the compass and the needle are installed separately, when the compass is used, take out the disk and the needle, put the needle on the small tip of the slightly bulging in the middle of the disk, the needle will point to the north, and then determine its own direction, and then according to the map, you can know your approximate position.

In particular, the cavalry troops go deep into the grassland, the grassland is endless, the cavalry troops are more likely to lose their way, they can only determine the direction according to the position of the sun, and when they return to the east, they have to go all the way to the east, and many times they deviate from the position of the city, and when they go to the junction of the grassland and the jungle, they will continue to advance to the south.

With a compass, the cavalry troops can basically return to the city in a straight line without having to walk a little longer.

However, the ships of the Ministry of Commerce and Transportation do not need to use the compass, after all, the fleet is mainly in the main trunk and tributaries of the Yellow River, basically will not lose their way, if the ship goes deeper into the sea than the grassland, the compass is a must-have, the lack of a compass, the ship lost its way in the sea, the consequences are very terrible.

Compass and glass are two important items to be made by the Ministry of Industry in the first five-year plan of Xia Kingdom, and the compass has been successful, that is, the production takes some manpower and time, and the disc and needle of the compass need to be carefully polished by craftsmen.

The glass was barely successful, a process from scratch, the project of studying and firing large pieces of glass continued, and Su Yan added a task to the Ministry of Industry, using the fired glass beads, selecting larger specifications, and grinding out convex lenses for manufacturing telescopes.

The task of polishing convex lens concave lenses with glass beads is as labor-intensive and time-consuming as the task of polishing a compass, and it is expected that even if you make a telescope, the effect will not be good.

However, the firing glass technology is still developing, and now grinding convex lens concave lenses with glass beads is also regarded as technology accumulation, and when the firing glass technology is upgraded to a certain level, Xia Guo can quickly manufacture suitable telescopes.

Su Yan paid great attention to the research of the Ministry of Industry, and often went to the Ministry of Industry, and often visited various shipyards and smelting areas to inspect.

Xia Guo's research on copper smelting technology has reached a bottleneck, bronze is the pinnacle of copper research in this era, and it is impossible to have a more obvious breakthrough in a short period of time.

It takes almost thirty years to study copper smelting technology, and ironmaking technology has just started, and it takes a long way to make iron that is better than bronze, but the iron production of Xia Kingdom has greatly increased, which is several times that of bronze, and the iron smelted is mainly used to make agricultural tools, and the agricultural tools cast in blister copper are reused to smelt bronze.

Because of iron smelting, Xia Guo has a new profession, blacksmith, blacksmith uses iron hammers to forge iron to make utensils, which seems to be more troublesome than casting utensils directly with bronze, but in the future, copper will be a precious metal, and iron is not a precious metal, even if it seems that using iron forging utensils is more troublesome than using bronze to cast utensils directly.

In fact, many Xia citizens couldn't understand why they wanted to make iron, wasn't copper better than iron? Finally, Yue Qi, the Minister of Industry, asked Su Yan, who explained, "There is much more iron than copper in the earth. ”

Just a word from the king, the people of Xia no longer doubted, although the people still did not understand very well, but the king's words were the truth for them, the king said that there is more iron than copper in the earth, that is, there is more iron than copper, and copper has been smelting, and one day copper will run out, and iron is more than copper, and it will not run out.