The first place of residence of the snake tribe

"Are you really going to Xia Kingdom?" The old high priest asked.

"Yes, High Priest, the Xia Kingdom can build such a large wooden ship and forge such a delicate copper weapon, which is much stronger than our tribe, I want to go to the Xia Kingdom to have a look, it is best to be able to get the technology that our tribe needs from the Xia Kingdom." The middle-aged woman beside the high priest replied.

"Okay, when you come back from the Xia Kingdom, you can take my place."

"I see."

It turned out that the middle-aged woman next to the high priest was the candidate for the next high priest of the snake tribe, and as the next high priest candidate of the snake tribe, it was indeed a very difficult decision to travel to the Xia country without caring about the danger, but she still made such a decision, all for the sake of the snake tribe.

The third trade fleet sailed to the farthest tribe in the east marked on the map, and after completing the transaction, it began to return home, stopping at several tribes' settlements on the way back, including the first residence of the snake tribe, and these tribes, like the snake tribe, all had tribesmen to visit the Xia kingdom.

In fact, at the beginning, the Xia Kingdom first invited various tribes to send their clansmen to the Xia Kingdom as guests, but because the tribes lived too far away from the Xia Kingdom itself, the tribes did not accept the invitation in the first few years, and it was not until the last two years that the tribes sent their tribesmen to the Xia Kingdom as guests.

Since the Third Trade Fleet opened a new route, every year, the Third Trade Fleet will make two steady voyages back and forth, trading with various tribes is only a small matter, but more to make friends with various tribes and collect information about each tribe.

Trading with various tribes, Xia Guo took out copper weapons, rattan armor and rattan shields, linen cloth, white salt and other things that were in short supply for various tribes, and Xia Guo could obtain very few things, at the beginning he could get some crops that Xia Guo did not have, but it was only at the beginning, after Xia Guo planted the crop seeds obtained, he no longer needed to trade those crops.

After that, the Xia Kingdom was able to obtain very few things from the various tribes, mainly animal skins, and there was a small possibility that the tribes would have wars with other tribes to capture a little population and use it to trade with the Xia Kingdom.

The benefits obtained by the Xia State from the grassland and from the various farming tribes on the battlefield on the Eastern Front were tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times that of the tribes on the new route.

Think of the cavalry town destroying a nomadic tribe, and you can get thousands of people, tens of thousands of cattle, horses, sheep, and countless animal skins, and the benefits from the tribes of the new route are pitiful.

But Xia did not give up communication with the tribes on the new route.

As in the previous case of trading with many tribes, the main purpose of trading between the Xia Kingdom and the tribes of the new route was to befriend the tribes, so that the tribes could feel the friendliness of the Xia Kingdom and the strength of the Xia Kingdom.

Inviting various tribes to be sent to Xia as guests is for this purpose, come to Xia to see for yourself, you can feel the strength of Xia more clearly, and then Xia can send invitations to some tribes to invite those tribes to join Xia Guo.

However, these tribes have all borne natural disasters, and the possibility of joining the Xia Kingdom is already very small, but the Xia Kingdom still has to give it a try, it is best to have a tribe join the Xia Kingdom, and there will not be many regrets if there are no tribes joining the Xia Kingdom.

Thirdly, the secondary purpose of trading between the trade fleet and the tribes on the new route was to gather information about each tribe, including the number of people, population composition, strength, culture, and other information.

Now the main trunk of the Yellow River from Yancheng to the fishing tribe area, only the fishing tribe is left, the previous war, Xia Guo has already collected enough information, according to this information, easily conquer one tribe after another, there are not many casualties, and there is not much waste of manpower and material resources.

In order to make the Xia Kingdom develop at a faster speed and make the Xia Kingdom more powerful, the Xia Kingdom chose war, and when the territory of the Xia Kingdom expanded to the new route, if the tribes on the new route did not choose to join the Xia Kingdom, then only war was waiting for them, and now collecting the intelligence of the tribes is to conquer the tribes more easily in the future.

The most powerful snake tribe on the new route is also within the Xia Kingdom's target.

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Su Yan just got a good news, the Ministry of Industry has extracted soda ash from a certain salt mine, and the raw materials for making glass are available, Su Yan has passed on the simple method of making glass to the Ministry of Industry, and it won't be long before the Ministry of Industry will try to fire glass.

"I hope to be able to fire the glass as soon as possible." Su Yan thought in his mind.

Glass, mirrors, telescopes, fired out of glass, is of great help to the development of the Xia Kingdom, think about it, the doors and windows of the house are replaced with glass, the sunlight can shine into the house through the glass in the cold winter, with enough light, the people of the Xia Kingdom can carry out more project work in the winter.

Putting down the glass, Su Yan checked the situation of the Xia Kingdom's foreign wars.

The war on the Eastern Front was personally led by Su Yan, and Su Yan himself knew more about the specific situation, and only needed to pay attention to when the expeditionary corps would be able to completely withdraw with the prisoners and booty.

The battle report of the battlefield on the Western Front has been sent to Su Yan, and the cavalry town has destroyed another tribe (the first one this year), and obtained a number of prisoners, cattle, horses, sheep, animal skins, etc.

This is a good thing, but Su Yan suddenly became worried, because there were not enough boats.

Third, the foreign trade of the trade fleet, the expeditionary corps needs to retreat, and the cattle, horses, and sheep on the other side of the city need to be transported to the cities of the Xia Kingdom, as a country that mainly relies on water transportation, the Xia Kingdom now needs to use a lot of ships.

It's just that now there are only 60 Type A ships and 15 Type B ships in the Xia Kingdom, and the ships are not enough and the transportation capacity is insufficient, which has affected the development of the Xia Kingdom.

Today, Xia has three shipyards, namely Yuancheng Shipyard, Zhoucheng Shipyard, and Licheng Shipyard.

Yuancheng Shipyard can build three improved A-type ships in one year, Zhoucheng Shipyard can build three B-type ships in two years, and Licheng Shipyard can build new ones, which will take time to reach the construction capacity at the time of design.

Su Yan calculated, and finally came to a result, even if the Licheng Shipyard reached the construction capacity at the time of design, with the development speed of the Xia Kingdom, the three shipyards would still not be able to meet the Xia Kingdom's demand for ships.

What to do? Build a fourth, fifth?

Su Yan thought about it, and crossed off the matter of building a new shipyard, it will take time to build a new shipyard, and it will take time for the shipbuilders to run in after the completion of the new shipyard, and Xia Guo will need to build more shipyards in the future, but in the past two years, Su Yan does not plan to build a new shipyard.

The only way to do this is to allow the Licheng Shipyard to reach its design capacity as soon as possible, and at the same time expand the production capacity of the Yuancheng Shipyard and the Zhoucheng Shipyard.

Yuancheng Shipyard is limited in size because it is located in the source of the Yellow River, a tributary of the Yellow River, but the Yuancheng Shipyard can still expand its production capacity a little, the easiest way is to increase manpower, speed up the construction of ships, now build three A-type ships a year, Su Yan is ready to set a goal for Yuancheng Shipyard - to build nine A-type ships in two years.

This goal is bearable for the Source City Shipyard and is a feasible plan.

Zhoucheng Shipyard in the design of the problem of the source city shipyard to take into account, now Zhoucheng shipyard every two years to build three B ship, Zhoucheng shipyard production capacity still has enough room to improve, Su Yan to Zhoucheng shipyard set a goal - three years to build eight B ships, that is, each batch of construction of four at the same time, one and a half years to complete.

The Zhoucheng Shipyard has set a larger target than the Yuancheng Shipyard, but it is achievable, and it will also take time to expand production capacity and require more manpower.

Manpower is the most important issue, and a number of carpenters can be mobilized from the various city ministries to shipyards, and the number of students studying shipbuilding knowledge will be increased every year in the advanced school of technology.

Su Yan clearly remembered in his mind that in his previous life, the Netherlands in the fifteenth century and the sixteenth world was only a small country with a population of more than one million and a narrow territory, but it was named the "sea coachman".

At that time, the world trade routes were mainly at sea, and ships were like carriages for land transportation at that time, and ships were carriages on the sea.

And the Netherlands, with a population of just over a million people, had more than 15,000 ships at its peak, an average of one ship per 100 people, what a horrific ratio.

The environment of the Xia country is different from that of the Netherlands, but the Xia country also needs a lot of ships, even if the Xia country now has a hundred B-type ships are not enough for the Xia country, as early as possible, Su Yan set shipbuilding as a key project, soon, the new ships will be built, and the ships will be faster at that time, but these are not enough, Su Yan has to pour more manpower and material resources into the shipbuilding industry.

"Maybe we can send a group of tame slaves over to help carry the wood."

The development of the shipbuilding industry of the Xia Kingdom was settled by Su Yan, and he continued to think about the foreign wars of the Xia Kingdom.

On the battlefield of the Western Front, the cavalry town will go deep into the grassland once every two months, there is not much of a problem, the grassland is very large, there are many nomadic tribes living on it, the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom are constantly expanding, go to the grassland to obtain more population, cattle, horses and sheep, at least in three years, things on the battlefield on the Western Front will not change much.

The future is uncertain, but Su Yan has already thought of a picture, that is, the population of Xia may have exceeded 500,000, and the number of Xia cavalry troops has exceeded 5,000......

On the battlefield of the Eastern Front, the war of the Xia Kingdom against the Japanese tribal camp has ended, the expeditionary corps, prisoners, and trophies have not yet been transported, and the war will be waged against the fishing tribe in the summer, and the result of the war has long been doomed, and the fishing tribe will disappear in the long river of history like the Japanese tribal camp.

After the end of the war between the Xia Kingdom and the fishing tribes, what should happen to the Xia Kingdom? Is it to develop on the new route?

No, no, no, Su Yan shook his head and gave up on the idea.

The current Xia State is along the main trunk of the Yellow River to the east and west direction at the same time, the Xia State of the city is built in the area on both sides of the main trunk of the Yellow River, a small number of cities are built in the area on both sides of the Yellow River tributaries, in general, the territory of the Xia State is long and narrow.

Don't count the storage area far away from the Xia country, just look at the Xia country's local area, the area on both sides of the main trunk of the Yellow River is located in a total of 24 cities, there are 12 cities on one side, the easternmost to the westernmost two cities are more than 700 miles apart, from the westernmost city of the Xia country to the west to establish seven or eight cities, the Xia country itself is almost connected with the storage city area.

The city was built on both sides of the main trunk of the Yellow River, which was convenient for water transportation, but there were also disadvantages.

The story of Dayu's water control is known to be that in the face of the surging flood, Dayu passed the door three times without entering, and led the clansmen to spend thirteen years to complete the great cause of water control.

Floods, Xia has encountered, but the city of Xia is not particularly close to the river, and the site is also located in a higher place, and the water of the Yellow River has soared many times without invading outside the city.

Who can be sure whether Xia will encounter monstrous floods in the future, and even the flood will wash away the cities of Xia Kingdom, performing a drama of Su Yan bringing the people to control the water.

In the past, there was a shortage of horses in the Xia Kingdom, and the two cities could only be walked by legs through land communication, which was very slow and far from being able to catch up with water transportation, which was the main reason why Su Yan built the cities of the Xia Kingdom on both sides of the river.

Now the cavalry troops continue to go deep into the grassland to plunder cattle, horses and sheep, as long as this year continues smoothly, at the end of this year, the Xia Kingdom will basically no longer lack horses, horse-drawn horses, horse-drawn carts, horse-drawn ploughing the land, riding horses or driving carriages, can allow the two cities to communicate quickly by land.

Even now, when the cities of Xia Kingdom have urgent matters to communicate, they directly send people to send the letters out on horseback, which is faster than shipping.

Farming has become the most important way to obtain food in the Xia Kingdom, the number of domesticated livestock, especially sheep from the grassland, has been increasing, and the problem of vegetarian meat has been solved.

There is also a way to use water for daily life by digging wells.

In this way, there was no difficulty in establishing a city in an area far from the river.

Su Yan wrote down the fact that Xia Guo would build a city in an area far from the river, and the construction of the city would begin next year, and the site would be selected after this summer.

According to the population growth rate of Xia in recent years, Xia will build four cities this year, and five cities will be built tomorrow, Su Yan intends to build two of them in the area far from the river, and the two new cities will be built in the area south of the Yellow River or south of Zhongjing, with Zhongjing as the center.

Without vital resources, a city far from the river would never have been built north of the Yellow River, after all, the farther north it goes, the colder it gets, and the farther south it gets, the warmer it gets.

However, there is still a problem to consider when building a city in the area south of Zhongjing, that is, where the tribes live, the tribes on both sides of the Yellow River are about to be wiped out by the Xia State, but there are still some tribes living in the area far from the Yellow River, which requires the Xia State to send soldiers to eliminate or drive away those tribes.