As soon as the method of building a city to control cultural aggression was proposed, E Yue and Wei He agreed, they may not have thought so far-reaching, but they knew that someone had done it twenty years ago and succeeded. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Until those small settlements of Xirong and Beidi are united, it will be difficult to fight against the Three-City Alliance. Planting a wedge around those settlements to sow discord, help the weak, and weaken the strong will make those settlements exhausted.

Chen Jian pointed to the simple silk map and said: "How to build the city, where to build the city, let's discuss it again, and I will also send people to check the terrain there." After the city was built, we helped those weak tribes to plant, and those strong tribes we often fought with them, and divided the captured slaves to those small settlements that sent troops, and after a long time, there were no more tribes that could entangle thousands of people. ”

"Those tribes that are within two hundred miles of our three cities, we will levy their grain; The tribes of 200 to 400 li were to be requisitioned for the wood and stones they used to make feather arrows, and the logs for their wheels. All the tribes within these 400 miles must learn our language. Four hundred miles away, it is impossible to effectively control them, and they must be expropriated for their skins and special products, or exchanged with them for salt, pottery, and wood, and establish a fang market in the two cities they have established. ”

How to manage and how to collect this is also what Chen Jian has thought about carefully.

There are not enough management talents, and even if the annexation is temporarily uncontrollable, the benefits of the annexation are too small. Jian Chen's plan is very long-term, and the children of Xia Cheng who are still learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in the academy are the basis for future expansion, and it will take at least ten years for them to grow up.

Under the present conditions of transportation, the range of grain as a tax can only be within 200 li, and perhaps along the river can be extended some distance. But if it is further away, the levy of one pound of grain may consume one pound of grain on the road, and the income is not much, and it is easy to cause one after another resistance.

Settlements 200 miles away levied some arrow shafts that were not heavy but required to be polished by hand, so that transportation could be easier.

Four hundred miles away, that is, scare and scare, or control with handicraft transactions. With the current strength of the three cities, the battle of the expedition 400 miles away can be fought at most once a year, and no matter how much it is, it can be regarded as a boiling of military resentment among the people.

This method of tribute is also very convenient to kill chickens and monkeys, once there is a settlement does not pay tribute there is an excellent excuse, in this era of the need to set up a memorial arch is still very useful. The three cities united, entangled a group of servant armies to kill the past, and the settlements of those servants were very happy to divide the slaves, and also taught those servant settlements a lesson on what the consequences of not following the rules were.

Jian Chen doesn't know the details very well, it took the **** in his previous life a thousand years to find a perfect system, even if he knows a little bit alone, he can't think of everything.

Wei He and E Yue also put forward some opinions, although there are still many deficiencies, but Wei He and E Yue heard a lot of conspiracies from Chen Jian's words, and they didn't really want the rest of the people in the city to know about this, so they didn't propose to discuss it with the elder council and council in the city.

Chen Jian said again: "Since our three cities have sworn not to move the spear, and if there is something between the three cities, the other two cities will send troops to help, I think we still need to build a road that can allow carriages and horses to pass, which is the most important thing for us in three years, even more important than building a city near a barbarian settlement." There is a road from Xia City to Heyin City, and there is also a thirty-mile long road to the south of Heyin City. With roads, soldiers were able to travel fifty miles a day without getting too tired. After leaving the thirty miles, the soldiers walked thirty miles a day, and they were so tired that it was difficult for cattle and horses to keep up, and the grain transportation had to be carried on the backs of cattle and cattle. ”

Eyue had personally experienced that section of the march, and knew very well how convenient this seemingly simple rut could bring. Wei He knew that Jian Chen would not talk nonsense, and if he could put the matter of road construction in the first place, he could realize the importance of this matter.

Chen Jian didn't say that the cars were on the same track and the same road, although the two cities of E and Wei also had that kind of simple log wheels, but they were not strong and practical, and they were far worse than the wheels with rutted hubs in Xia City.

Xia Cheng has always monopolized the technology of wheels, so the width of the road to be built and the distance of the rutted pad will inevitably follow the standards set by Xia Cheng, which is the embodiment of technological advantages.

Chen Jian took out his pen and drew the direction of the road again, the three cities are not the three corners of the triangle, but an intersection with Xia Cheng as the center as a transit station.

The reason is that this can save a lot of manpower, but the internal reason is that in order to effectively control the two cities of Wei'e, Xia City is the intersection of roads, and any connection between E City and Acropolis needs to pass through Xia City.

The Three Cities Alliance seems to be an equal brother and ally, but in fact it is still an emerging force centered on Xia Cheng, which Chen Jian will never retreat, and it is impossible to waste so much effort to only gain an equal right to speak, so in terms of road construction and city building, Xia Cheng must be the leader.

Wei He didn't think there was anything wrong with this, E Yue looked at the silk for a while, and said strangely: "Ji Xia, how can the road between Echeng and Xia Cheng be with Caohe?" Are you going to build a road along the Grass River? ”

After finishing speaking, he said with some frustration: "It's a pity that the grass river flows from west to east no matter what, and never flows backwards. If it flows eastward in ten years and then to the west after ten years, and so on, this road can be repaired in a small way. ”

Jian Chen smiled: "It's not difficult. This road was not built along the Grass River, but simply the Grass River itself. ”

E Yue frowned and said: "The grass river is frozen in winter, and it can pass through people and horses at that time, it is wide and flat, which is indeed better than the road." But when it melts in summer, it can only be transported from Xiacheng to Echeng, but not from Echeng to Xiacheng. ”

The frozen river of grass is flat and flat, and the walking and climbing plough is indeed stronger than the best rutted road now.

However, people can't control the rotation of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, after saying this, E Yue suddenly thought of what Chen Jian said just now, "It's not difficult", although he knew very well that people couldn't control the four seasons, but thinking of all the weirdness that Chen Jian made, his heart suddenly moved.

"Could it be that Ji Xia has a way to freeze the grass river? Or let the grass river go east and west? ”

If someone else said this, the most likely performance of E Yue and Wei He would be to angrily reprimand a nonsense, but Chen Jian said this, and with the legend of controlling thunder and lightning, they actually had a trace of trust.

Jian Chen smiled bitterly: "How can I have such a ability? Has the leader of Eyue seen the windmills of Summer City? ”

"I've seen it, you can push the stone mill and save a dozen slaves, but what does this have to do with the grass river?"

"The grass river can be frozen in winter, and although it does not freeze in summer, the wind blows from east to west. Since Xia Cheng can let the wind blow the windmill, he will naturally have a way to let the wind blow the boat. ”

E Yue smiled: "Since Ji Xia said it, I believe it." In that case, we only need to build a road from the Acropolis to Xia Cheng for the time being, and if we can only pass cars and horses, I don't think it will take three years to build it. The three cities are connected to each other, and it is also convenient to send troops. Echeng could send 300 slaves to build this road, just hire them as Xia Cheng did when he harvested wheat beans. ”

"Hire?"

Wei He was a little strange about this word, Chen Jian explained with a smile, Wei He nodded and said: "This method is very good, the Acropolis is short of manpower after the war, and Echeng doesn't have much work for a while, it's nothing more than corn, and the Acropolis still has it." ”

Chen Jian saw that the two did not object, and he was secretly happy in his heart. It seems that the problem of the communication route between the three cities has been solved peacefully and justly, but he still has selfish intentions. Summer City ...... In the upper reaches of Echeng, when it is really time for the soldiers to meet, the army of Xia Cheng can go down the river to Echeng overnight, but the soldiers of Echeng need to march against the current for a long time.

Chen Jian dug two pits and buried the Acropolis and Echeng in them, Wei and E didn't know it, and they were grateful to Chen Jian in their hearts.

Because Chen Jian was very impartial in saying that the tribute of those tribal settlements who were forced to pay tribute was divided equally among the three cities; The two newly built cities were to be administered by the three cities for a period of three years, after which they were rotated. Each newly built city needs to govern a radius of two or three hundred li, with three cities as pillars, and they can do whatever they want there, but as an armed colony, they must have the support of three cities, and they are not qualified to develop independently.

Each planned colonial city was garrisoned with 300 men, and each of the three cities had 100 men, which rotated for two years.

Chen Jian meant to let these 300 people become-stirring sticks, but usually try to set up a memorial arch to treat the nearby tribal settlements fairly, once there is any trouble, you can directly send troops to suppress it, and strive to use three or five years to make those settlements do: if there is anything to judge, if you want to exchange with the city, if you want to get rid of the life of Ru Mao and drink blood, you can learn the language and writing of the three cities.

Wei and E have no objection to this, and now that Xia Cheng is powerful, they handed over the candidates for the first three-year term to Chen Jian to decide, and after three years, they will change the people of the two cities.

Chen Jian also said very intimately that the two cities could elect one person to follow him as a deputy and study for three years.

In the early days of the colonial city, it must have been beyond his means, and Jian Chen also calculated the expenses needed, counting the wear and tear expenses on the road.

But then Chen Jian gave them another reassurance: as long as they can stand on their feet, they can maintain a balance after three years, and they can earn back the population food invested in the first two years in about five years, and the long-term benefits are even more limitless.

After discussing the matter of dividing the spoils, the three leaders all smiled, as long as the three cities did not guard against each other for the time being to maintain this strange balance, after three or four years, they could exploit a large amount of grain, furs, arrow shafts, etc. from those settlements every year, so that the exploitation of the basic plate within thirty or forty miles of their rule would be much less, and the contradiction between the people and the people with and without surnames could be temporarily alleviated.

Transferring internal contradictions and internal exploitation to the outside, so that those who were originally exploited can also drink soup, is the easiest and most effective way to obtain support.

After dividing the spoils, Wei He and E Yue glanced at each other, and the two said at the same time: "Ji Xia, this time to defeat the Xirong people, the new army in Xia Cheng has made a great achievement, killing the leader of Xirong, the center broke through the Xirong front, and defeated more than 4,000 people in Xirong with a force of 1,080 troops, Ji Xia's command and training is the greatest credit." ”

Around the top hat, Jian Chen was quite alert in his heart, laughed dryly, and the two of them said: "Now that the three cities have become brothers and relatives, I wonder if Ji Xia can train the soldiers of the three cities into warriors like the new army?" Can methods such as wooden cannons and taurles teach us? Can we learn the art of chariots and bows? ”

The two of them had been making concessions to Jian Chen before, just to wait for this moment, and if they wanted to take it, they had to give it first, this was their very simple morality, and they didn't think about what to do if Jian Chen just didn't agree.

Chen Jian smacked for a while, nodded and said: "It's not impossible, but the tactics of the new army are different from those of the tribes, and they need to be trained hard, and they can't farm the fields on weekdays and serve as soldiers in wartime......"

E Yue hurriedly said: "I heard this, the new army in Xia Cheng does not farm, although Echeng is not rich, but it can support 100 people not to plant, and the public property can also be used for these 100 people." ”

"It's the same with the Acropolis."

Chen Jian rolled his eyes and said: "Chariots, Taolei, and wooden cannons all need to be practiced hard, and not everyone can explain them clearly." Since the three cities are brothers, these methods can certainly be taught to you. In this way, a hundred people from each city will train hard in Xia Cheng for three years, and after three years of learning to use wooden cannons, tapotets, and chariots, Xia Cheng will be able to exchange these things for you. I can swear to my ancestors that as long as you don't break the covenant, I will definitely exchange these things with you. Now, even if I give it to you, those people may not be able to use it. ”

The two also knew that what Chen Jian said was right, even if they were given these things now, they would not be able to use them, not to mention the wooden cannon Taolei, even if they could charge by car, they might not be able to find a single person in the two cities.

E Yue has already planned in his heart, this soldier must be managed by Chen Jian, the hundred people he selected must be his own relatives, and it is impossible to betray the young people of his own people, and then let E Huang take the lead and stay in E City for three years, and he will know the severity of counting nine, and he will not cry.

Wei He's thoughts were similar to E'e's, but he thought more far-reaching, knowing the horror of the new army, he knew very well that in three years it would be a powerful force in his hands, and with the support of these people, he could no longer worry about the opposition of his relatives surnamed Wei, otherwise the change between himself and Wei Yuan would never be realized.

Therefore, Wei He's candidates are some relatives who are loyal to him, and some people who have no surnames, and when these people come back after three years, they can let go of their hands and feet.

In order to convince the two, Chen Jian also said on the spot the exchange method of chariots, taurlei, wooden cannons, etc. three years later, and how much corn was exchanged.

He was not worried about the leakage of technology, because the core of these three things was gunpowder and geometry, just like those Indians in the previous life, it took three years to learn to shoot and maintain, but after thirty years, they still can't configure gunpowder themselves.

Three years is enough time for Chen Jian to do enough ideological work, and he will not break his oath, but the world is changing, and no one can say what will happen after three years.

The best covenant is always that the three parties to the alliance feel that they have earned it, and the covenant of the three cities of Xia, Wei and E is concluded in this situation, the main things are agreed clearly, and the rest depends on their abilities, and whoever can achieve the greatest benefits within the scope of the alliance is the real winner.

After the three of them had determined the main terms of the covenant, Jian Chen proposed: "The oath needs to be in front of everyone, so that everyone knows this oath, and everyone knows the consequences of betrayal, so that it will work." Now there are not many people in Xia and E, and some soldiers have returned to the city first, and the Acropolis also has many things to deal with. ”

"Half a year ago, I invited the warriors of the two cities to go to the summer city to compete in skills, and now it is just a big victory, capturing many and beheading more than a thousand, it is the ancestors who can sacrifice to tell them that we have won, and the ancestors like to see the bravery of the tribal warriors, you might as well put the sacrifice in the summer city, so that the warrior competition skills will also become part of the sacrifice, and it is also convenient for the warriors between the three cities to be familiar with each other, and they can support each other in the future in the army. When the time comes, I will prepare wine, food, songs, and plays in the summer city and wait for the warriors of the two cities. ”

Wei He took a deep breath and said, "What Ji Xia said is excellent, I also agreed half a year ago...... But now that the Acropolis is unstable, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to leave. ”

Jian Chen laughed and said, "Now that the Three Cities Alliance swears to me, it is the leader of Weihe who swears to me, not others. If someone wants to cause chaos, the Xia and E coalition forces can defeat thousands of Xirong people, can't they defeat these troublemakers? As long as the leader of the Weihe River abides by the oath, no one dares to mess with the Acropolis! ”

These words were loud and sound, relying on the previous great victory and the majestic armies of the two cities, Chen Jian had something to say, and the two leaders naturally understood it.

Perhaps, an additional clause can be added to the covenant in the future: ensure that the leaders of the three cities are all immediate relatives of the three or their own chosen candidates, otherwise the two cities have the right to interfere......

Jian Chen didn't have much interest in this, but Wei He and E Yue were full of interest, and they heard the sound outside the strings, and their hearts were full of joy.

Since Jian Chen said this, Wei He knew that as long as he said this, within three years, those clansmen with bad intentions would be dormant, and no one wanted to be tied to a wooden cannon by the people of Xia Cheng in the future to enjoy a criminal punishment more terrible than the corpses of cattle and horses.

After receiving such a guarantee, both of them also agreed that they would bring the best warriors, the most beautiful wine, and the best sacrifices of the tribe to Xia City at that time, and sacrifice together on that day.

After counting the next day, Chen Jian set this day on July 15.

"Our messengers have set out to inform the cities that fear the Sijon, and their messengers will arrive before the fifteenth day of the seventh month. When the time comes, in addition to the warriors to show them our strength, we must also dance spears to line up the military formation, so that they can be convinced, and they will admit that they will pay tribute at that time. ”

"I will also send emissaries to some of the settlements that are closer to me, so that their leaders will also participate."

"On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the three cities will sacrifice together, and swear an oath before all the people, so that the ancestors and the heavens and the earth may hear it, and those messengers and the leaders of the settlements will see it." (To be continued.) )