The reason why Xia Guo was aggressive against Dongyi in Xinhua City was because by the end of the 41st year of the Chinese calendar, the situation seemed to be very clear. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the Caohe generation, the three-city coalition army broke through Xirong and ensured the stability of the rear.

Wei He adopted Chen Jian's suggestion, built a city to defend there after defeating Xirong, appointed his younger brother as the county guard there, and relocated some of the people in the acropolis to the new city. A large number of Xirong settlements were dispersed, and they moved to the vicinity of the new city to collect taxes.

Those who resist violently are captured as slaves, and those who do not resist violently are regarded as savages and divide and rule. It not only satisfies the requirements of the military aristocracy, but also converts those populations into the power of the city, reducing the resistance of all slaves.

After a series of internal struggles and the last wave of large-scale revolt of the slaves that Chen Jian threw out to prepare for the rebellion, there was no longer a large-scale slavery system, but instead the slaves were regarded as vassals rather than animals to be slaughtered at will, giving birth to a large number of soldiers and a new class that could be freed from production: their children could enter the academy to study, and those vassal domestic slaves helped to cultivate and follow the expeditions.

Most of the yeoman farmers are looking forward to the war, to having domestic servants and slaves, and even more to rewarding some farm tools, cattle and horses.

As the chief, Eyue and the new intellectuals looked forward to a larger land and a larger population for their own management, realizing that with the spread of iron farming tools and ox farming, population meant taxes and wealth, as well as more cultivated land, and that the use of captured people as slaves was a good thing for the military aristocracy, but not for the chiefs and officials.

In the First Battle of Xirong, the artillery of the Xia Kingdom coincidentally broke the legs of the leader of Xirong and blasted away Xirong's military formation. The reformed armored infantry and the gunpowder-throwing infantry of the Xia Kingdom cooperated to rush through the gaps and won a great victory.

With the popularization of cloth iron armor and some simple iron armor, the main infantry force of the two cities also changed, moving towards a military system that was different from that of the Xia Kingdom.

The spearmen became the main force to defend the front, and the main force of the charging line became the heavy infantry in armor, and a group of full-time small military aristocrats were born, who practiced martial arts every day, and the cultivation was taken care of by domestic slaves or serfs attached to the land.

Chariots continued to play an important role in the plains, and the cavalry of the two cities were equipped with stirrups to roam the flanks and quickly weave around the rear to create chaos, but the infantry was still the main force in the decisive battle.

For Xia Guo, these years have also been a golden period of development.

The Xia State also initially completed the development of reclamation, assimilation, and industry and commerce, and the strict organization under the control of officials gradually increased agricultural output, and the initial development of pig iron casting and wrought iron forging technology made iron tools varied, but there were no qualified iron swords and long knives, but the focus was on the primary guns.

The cannon is bronze brass, and the gun is wrought iron, so there is basically no large-scale steel in Xia except for some special tools.

Taking advantage of the convenient passage of boats along the river, the various cities between the Caohe River and Yucheng were linked, forming a strange situation that was cut by the Xia Kingdom but continued to develop.

More than a dozen cities jointly opened workshops for smelting copper coins, and the copper coins of the Xia Kingdom became the common currency along the river, and the promotion of new planting techniques also made each city a lot of benefits, and some low-end workshops were also transferred from the Xia Kingdom to the rest of the cities, promoting exchanges and cohesion between the cities.

The pro-Xia noble class gradually controlled the rights of each city, and the leaders basically set up rules for those children who studied in the Xia Kingdom to inherit the position of the leader, and a large number of pro-noble children went to the Yucheng Academy to learn preliminary knowledge.

Relying on the top-down tax system directly under the jurisdiction of each Lisi and the technical advantages of workshops and copper and iron smelting and foreign trade under the direct jurisdiction of the state, the Xia State relied on 70,000 nationals and 450,000 slaves, semi-nationals, savages and colonies of various kinds, supporting a field army of 4,000 men and more than 1,000 semi-full-time civil servants.

Such a deformed structure is certainly because the Xia Kingdom can afford to support it, but also because the Xia Kingdom has been preparing for a full-scale war from the beginning, otherwise there is no need to support such a large number of off-duty people.

Today, the first batch of conscripts has completed five years of training, and a steady stream of adults have continued their military service, ensuring the stability of the army.

The entire upper and middle levels of the Xia Kingdom are looking forward to a war, and now is the time when the Xia Kingdom's military strength is at its strongest. If they don't fight again, they can only wait for another ten years, and wait for the first batch of children born after the integration of Xia Guo to grow into adults, but they can't wait anymore.

The system of comprehensive benefits will not be able to survive at all, and if it doesn't fight again, the Xia Kingdom will have to change internally, from this system that has always been prepared for war to a peaceful system, otherwise the internal will collapse. Once the system is restructured, it will be too difficult to change it back to the wartime system.

However, in the spring of the forty-first year, when the Xia Kingdom was ready for a full-scale war, Su Yue retreated.

He did not object to Ling becoming the leader of that city, but he did not admit it either. And the city where Ling is located, because of the full support of the Xia State and the land reform system, the middle and bottom people strongly agree with Ling becoming their leader, as long as there is no external force to instigate Ling to become the leader. Su Yue's non-objection is also recognition.

Chen Jian tried it out for a while, and asked Ling to appoint those children who had returned from their studies in Yucheng as officials, completely squeezing out those who were related to Su Yue to the point that they had no rights and only land and a small number of slaves.

Su Yue still did not object.

This made Chen Jian at a loss, he had already prepared for a full-scale war within the Xia Kingdom, he believed that this was Su Yue's bottom line, and Su Yue who crossed this bottom line would lose the trust of various clan cities.

Provoking a war also requires an excuse, whether it is Su Yue's denial of the original oath against Ling to become the leader, or the city's purging of people close to Su Yue's faction that causes Su Yue to go to war in order to maintain the trust of others, this is what Chen Jian expected.

The only thing I didn't expect was that Su Yue retreated.

It's just that before this, Chen Jian had already mobilized 700 soldiers to go to Xinhua City, and in order to prevent Qiongxi from seizing the foothold of Xinhua City when the internal war started, he also told Yu and the others in advance that they were going to make some big moves on the side of Xinhua City.

Uproot several nearby Dongyi cities to ensure that the army of Qiongxi can only be supplied by the cities farther away.

However, Su Yue retreated in March, and by the time the messenger left for Xinhua City, it was already in a state of tension, and the warehouse had been expelled from those Dongyi cities.

At this point, it had no choice but to continue, so in the autumn, under the pretext of fleeing slaves, the garrison of Xinhua City besieged the Dongyi city.

The city was not large, and the slaves in the city were not secure, so they quickly conquered the city, reduced the priests to slavery, removed the slaves and commoners, and burned the city.

Later, two small cities were captured in the same way, and the remaining one was moved away.

These captured civilians and slaves were sent to the south bank of the river, and the city was built and cultivated on the south bank, and it was governed by the officials of the Xia Kingdom, and the two sides of the river were exchanged by ships, and those slaves were liberated, and they were given the status of human beings and the obligation to become soldiers.

The population of these cities is not large, and then the original part of Xinhua City was moved to the south bank, and some of them were merged into Xinhua City, and some people instigated the hatred of those slaves for their masters, and they quickly settled down.

At this point, within 200 miles outside Xinhua City, there are no more cities and villages, and even if Qiongxi wants to besiege, he can only rely on the distant cities to provide food and grass.

When all this stabilized, it was already the forty-third year of the Huali calendar, and Su Yue still did not make any big moves during this period, and it seemed to be a peaceful scene.

But in this year, Su Yue violated the rules of the original oath, bypassed the Xia Kingdom and the allies of the Xia Kingdom, and held a separate alliance meeting.

At this alliance meeting, Su Yue read out the guilt of the Xia State in front of many city leaders and clan chiefs.

Different from before, this time in addition to some clans of the Great River Tribes, there are also some clans of Dongyi and Beidi.

"What a magnificence, these people who have come to Sucheng to meet the alliance."

"My friends, chiefs, priests, it's time for you to see Ji Xia's guilt clearly."

"When he was a priest to his ancestors, he only used some dogs and horses, and was reluctant to use some real sacrifices, and he was not allowed to use gold, copper, jade, and the like when he was buried, which was fooling his ancestors, and one day disaster will befall us."

"He despised those brothers with the same surname and ancestry, but appointed women to be county guards and scholars, and let women weave and count and even govern cities, which is like a female dog lying on the body of a male dog, which is spurned by the ancestors and contrary to the principles of heaven and earth."

"He slaughtered his relatives and alienated his relatives, but he respected and reused those who fled to the Xia Kingdom from all around, and even let some slaves who fled there become smelters and generals, mutilating his own clansmen and oppressing his own relatives."

"Who is poor and who is rich, who has talent and who does not, this is a predestined thing in heaven and earth, and it is impossible to change. But he made those who had been laboring to learn words and arithmetic, so that people's hearts were uneasy, and they tried in vain to change everything that had already been set by heaven and earth, which was doomed to failure. ”

"The noble are always noble, the cheap are always cheap, get close to those who are close by blood, and alienate those who are estranged by blood, this is what our ancestors want us to do."

"If a person can't even respect and appoint his relatives around him, how can he believe that he can be friendly to his entire family? Such a hypocrite is that he cannot appoint his own relatives, but appoint those lowly slaves, which is the reason for our anger. ”

"Ji Xia always says that the relatives are one, but if the relatives are one person, Ji Xia is a vicious abscess. When getting along with others, even if there are sometimes disputes, such disputes can be resisted. And those vicious abscesses are fused with the body, but it cannot be said that this abscess is a part of the body. Only by removing this abscess can we be healthy. Although it may bleed and leave a scar, if it is not removed, one day this vicious abscess will take over the whole body. ”

"Therefore, today, not only the relatives of the Dahe tribes who came here, but also the friends and neighbors of Dongyi and Beidilai, came to denounce Ji Xia's atrocities and recognize Ji Xia's hypocrisy."

"The ancestor passed on some knowledge to Ji Xia, with the intention of letting him teach every clansman with noble blood, many slaves and convincing morals, but he taught these things to those slaves, commoners and people of low blood, which is against the intention of the ancestors."

And the ancestors have sent down punishment to him, hoping that he will understand that he has done wrong. He has no children so far, isn't this a warning from Heaven and his ancestors? It is precisely because of such a person who has cut off his children and grandchildren that he does not know the truth of intimacy and alienation. ”

"How can the world be stable?"

"Everyone abides by the arrangement of the ancestors of heaven and earth, the noble eternal honor, the lowly eternal low, the eternal labor of labor, the descendants of descendants, everyone obeys the arrangement of heaven and earth and does not resist, so where will there be war?"

"Ji Xia wants his people to fight the heavens and the earth, and even thinks that people are the heads of heaven and earth, and they can move mountains and rivers, and it is because of this that the punishment of heaven and earth is touched and his heirs are cut off. If everybody is like that, then our offspring will also be cut off, is that what our ancestors wanted to see? ”

"We must burn those books and leave some of them for our children and grandchildren to read, and not expose those books to the eyes of the lowly, so that they can conform to heaven and earth and not rebel, and our ancestors will not be able to bring calamity."

"The ancestors of heaven and earth have arranged everything since you were born, just like a cat can't give birth to a dog, but Ji Xia wants to go against the principles of heaven and earth, which is bound to touch the earth and ancestors, cause their anger, and rain floods and droughts."

"Ladies and gentlemen, if we do not oppose him, these calamities will befall us. That's why I'm here to make an alliance with you, so that you can see his viciousness clearly, and know that what we are doing is something that will make our ancestors happy in heaven and earth. ”