This oath detailing Chen Jian's sins was strongly supported by the nobles, priests, and chiefs of the various cities, and the various policies within the Xia Kingdom had already made them feel panic, and the growing strength of the army had brought their panic to the highest point. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Some policies within the Xia Kingdom that they thought would cut out their roots made them even more uneasy, especially after the events of Dongyi in the forty-first year, and the cities saw the horror of the Xia Kingdom.

The Xia Kingdom did not treat those conquered leaders well, nor did it reduce those people to slaves, but directly used a set of methods of the Xia Kingdom to govern, and it was successful.

This made them feel a chill behind them, for fear that one day this kind of thing would also befall them.

As a result, the Dahe relatives, the Beidi people, and the Dongyi people, who had had contradictions, came together under the inspiration of Su Yue, and decided to gather everyone's strength to eradicate the Xia Kingdom.

They were not enemies at this moment, but slave owners and hopeful people who shared the same pursuit.

In the past few years, not only the Xia Kingdom and its allied cities have progressed, but also Sucheng and its vassal cities.

New walls were built, large farmlands were reclaimed, paths were opened to the rest of the cities, and escaped slaves were hunted down, and slavery was perfected to protect the interests of slave owners.

He married widely, used blood ties to bring some allied cities closer together, and with the help of Su Tang and other children who had returned from school in Yucheng, he began to create a more formal ruling order and train soldiers.

With the help of the priests and the young nobles who had returned from school, Awatake developed his own plan for the founding of the country, which was full of temptations for the clan leaders, and it was a system of peace and stability that was welcomed by most of the chiefs and priests.

Not only did Su Yue's allies come to the oath, but also the envoys of the Dongyi clan such as Qiongxi, and brought 2,000 Dongyi archers, promising that once the war started, Qiongxi would lead a large army to capture Xinhua City, and the two sides would not attack in the future.

In the past few years, Qiongxi has not been idle, since Chen Jian retired from Dongyi, Qiongxi's strength has been expanding day by day.

After the two sides exchanged prisoners, Qiongxi had 20,000 people in his hands who had lost those relatives and nobles, and his strength expanded rapidly.

First, he actively traded with Xinhua City, then built new cities, changed farming techniques, opened copper mines, and selected warriors to grant land slaves.

Marriage with close clans, no longer seeking a way to gain prestige in foreign wars, but opting for a more direct internal unity.

In order to ensure that this unification did not touch the nerves of the Great River tribes and would not lead to war, he chose to attack east and north first, using the cities adjacent to the Great River tribes in the west as a buffer.

Under the pretext of guarding against the Xia Kingdom, Qiongxi realistically required each nearby clan city to provide a certain number of soldiers according to the population, planting, hunting, and grazing in peacetime, and immediately bring their own weapons to go to war once the war started.

This high-handed attitude aroused the disgust of many clans, and Qiongxi commanded a large army to quickly pacify several clans, reducing the entire clan to slavery, and cutting off the heads of the chiefs and sending them to various cities as a warning.

In addition to the high-pressure attitude, he also actively encircled some large clan towns.

First, the method of marriage was used to maintain the blood relationship of the upper class, and the aristocratic method of political discussion was used to make them part of the nominal ruler, while maintaining their own strength advantage and provoking infighting between those clans.

Reduced some of the conquered clans to slavery, and the other part of the strong ones were incorporated into their own clans, and changed the land system of the clans.

Several small towns were built along the river from the east of the city as a means of connecting the tribes and maintaining rule, and a number of small bark boats and wooden boats were built along the river.

This is a kind of internal ethnic division, and Qiongxi became the leader of the armed robbery slave group, and expanded his power by using a part of the original Dongyi tribe as slaves as trophies.

On the whole, the strength of the entire Dongyi group has been reduced, but after the centralization of power, the strength of the Qiongxi group has been greatly enhanced, and there is gradually a shadow of the prototype of the country.

And on the side of the Great River Tribes, because there is such a-stirring stick as the Xia Kingdom, they keep saying things like the unity of the kinship, so that a big city like Sucheng cannot loot the cities of the same kinship, and it is more like a tribal alliance and a city-state union.

The reason for this situation is inseparable from the sudden rise of the Xia Kingdom: because of the great victory in Dongyi, after the exchange of prisoners, he helped Qiongxi remove the obstacles to centralization, so that Qiongxi's strength could surpass the rest of the cities; And because of the rise of the Xia Kingdom, Su Yue had no way to pull down his face to attack the nearby kinship cities, and once he attacked the Xia Kingdom, he could immediately take his place and occupy the righteousness, so as to unite many cities to destroy Su City.

If it weren't for the emergence of the Xia Kingdom, Qiongxi would still have a headache due to internal strife and could not centralize power, and it might take more than ten years to determine his supreme power; If it weren't for the appearance of the Xia Kingdom, Su Yue could use the form of a small alliance to continuously attack those cities that did not agree with him as the leader, and gradually unified.

It can only be said that Qiongxi learned centralization from Xia Guo and tried to use it; And although Su Yue learned and understood the benefits of centralization, he was powerless because Xia Guoheng was there.

And now, Chen Jian has driven Su Yue to a dead end, and can only use the ideology and aristocratic interests that he feared at the beginning as a banner to gather people from various cities; Qiongxi also understood that once the Great River Tribes were unified by the Xia Kingdom, he would not be an opponent at all, and the best choice was to support Su Yue and Chen Jian in their fight.

What Su Yue promised was the nominal unification of the autonomy of each small city, and the upper echelons of each city were relatives and united to protect the interests of the upper echelons.

He also knew that even if this alliance defeated the Xia Kingdom, it would also maintain the system of the right of each city to travel independently, and he was still the co-owner of the cities, and even had to maintain the bloodline inheritance because this was the biggest reason to oppose the Xia Kingdom.

But he can't care about it now, Xia Guo is growing stronger every day, and in his opinion, the longer it drags on, the more dangerous it becomes.

So after this oath detailing the various sins of the Xia Kingdom was released, the soldiers of various cities began to assemble in Sucheng and prepared to fight against the Xia Kingdom.

Qiongxi promised to capture Xinhua City once the war began, while the Beidi people vowed that they would attack the area around the Caohe River.

The cities around Aseong were well fed, the walls were repaired, a large number of ships were prepared, simple roads were built between the cities, and defensive drills were drilled for siege methods such as digging tunnels.

There are still a large number of clansmen left in the surrounding towns of Aseong, which serve as the defense force of the city.

Su Yue had 2,000 archers supported by the Dome, 1,000 infantry from Dongyi Castle behind him, 5,000 people from Ayacheng itself, and more than 3,000 people from nearby cities, making a total of 11,000 troops as the main force of the field.

A coalition of cities to the north was responsible for attacking the cities in the Xia system between Caohe and Yucheng, forcing them to surrender and cutting off the connection between Caohe and Yucheng.