The unhappy alliance ended so quickly that few people, with the exception of a few cities, had no idea the intensity of the war that might ensue. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even though Jian Chen and Su Yue quarreled so fiercely, they still maintained their dignity at the end of the alliance, as if nothing had happened.

It seemed that all the unhappiness had passed, and the various towns elected representatives to go to the city that was about to be divided in harmony, and passed on the proposal of all the chiefs of the great river tribes after consultation: divide into two, and each of them will do its own thing, so as to see the aftermath.

In fact, this matter was the same as the result that many cities wanted when Xia Yu was divided, but Chen Jian showed his strength in Dongyi, so it could not be divided. And this city is too weak, too far from the wilderness, too far from the elm city, and only this sad inability to control itself is left.

In addition to this incident, the high priest's jade is still on the altar and no one dares to pick it up, and the theocracy has been reduced to a philosophy that explains the world, and its status has dropped sharply, because the important thing is to change, and interpretation is far less powerful than change, unless the one who wants to explain the world actually wants to change the world.

But the high priest's jade was not in Chen Jian's hands at this time, but it had been in his hands before, so at the banquet before the leaders left, Chen Jian and Su Yue sat on the top, and the two of them tacitly did not say those unpleasant things again, respected each other, sang in public, and a hundred people laughed.

During the banquet, the price of Xia Guo's iron ware was also determined in the cities, and Jian Chen repeatedly promised that he would make friendly transactions with the cities of his relatives and would not change anything because of the previous unhappiness.

It seems that all the previous unhappiness has been smoothed out, but this covenant that violated the Huasu Alliance as a whole in the first place has already had the seeds of division.

When Jian Chen was leaving, the clan towns that had spread the word when Hongyu went north, as well as those cities sandwiched between Yuxia, walked with Jian Chen on the pretext of passing by.

There were also many city leaders who stayed in Sucheng, participating in the small banquets held after Suyue, discussing some things that Chen Jian had no way of knowing.

The more remote cities did not choose immediately, but quietly returned to their respective cities at this time, but on the way back, they sent envoys to Yucheng and Sucheng, respectively.

The leaders of the eleven cities traveled west with Chen Jian, escorted by riders. Behind them were the nobles of the various towns that had gone to the city of Lingna, who were in charge of overseeing the division of the city into two at one time.

Compared to the city leaders who remained in Sucheng, the westbound team of twelve people seemed weak when Chen Jian was included, but it was precisely because of this weakness that Chen Jian had the confidence to trust them enough.

Except for the two cities, none of the remaining nine cities are considered big cities, so there is no need to promise too many things, and there is no need to worry about the dispersion of power in the future.

The only thing that needed to be promised was that Chen Jian was also relieved, not because of their oath or the friendship of sending troops to help him put down the rebellion, but because of the changes within the two cities.

If, after the rebellion was put down, Echeng chose to minimize trade with the Xia State, eliminate the influence of the Xia State in Echeng, adjust to a separate farming policy, and dare not have too deep ties with the Xia State economically, even if they said another 10,000 oaths, Chen Jian would not believe it.

This need and trust in interests brought the three of them together at night, surrounded by soldiers and guards arranged by Ji Bai.

In the firelight, Chen Jian took out a piece of paper, on which he roughly drew the general distribution of each city on both sides of the river.

The ambition to say has been said with great fanfare before, so there is no need for too much nonsense, only some specific methods need to be said to reassure the two.

In fact, Wei He and E Yue have always been very relieved, otherwise they would not have proposed a quick victory as the leader of the alliance.

Chen Jian pointed to the three cities in the northwest corner of the map and said, "These are our three cities, once there is a real fight one day in the future, this is the most important thing." ”

"There is such a wedge as Yucheng stuck near Suyue's vassal city, and there is the ability of the big river to ship, just like a fish bone stuck in Suyue's throat. When the fight breaks out in the future, Su Yue has only one choice, to level the farms and small towns on the other side of Yucheng, and then shrink back to Sucheng to defend or fight me here. ”

"Yucheng is downstream of Xiacheng, and I can only lead the crowd to confront Su Yue here, and I don't dare to walk away. With me here, Suyue's army can only stare at me here. ”

"At that time, we can only rely on two soldiers with Xia County to go south to fight and force Su Yue to rescue. If he doesn't save him, he will lose the trust of his allies. ”

"When the time comes, either fight me in a decisive battle, or have more troops to deal with you. When the time comes, I'm afraid I can only turn to Dongyi for help. ”

"The harder you fight over there, the more likely he is to turn to the Dongyi people for help. So what the two of you have to do is to help me force Su Yue to ask for help from Dongyi, and force him to break the original oath of the Great River Tribes. ”

E Yue was puzzled: "Except for Ji Xia, I'm afraid that everyone may not really care about the words of the Great River Tribes." There must always be a reason for the previous battle. For example, if one city steals cattle and sheep from another city, or cuts corn from other cities, it is either a blood feud between the two sides. Could it be that Ji Xia has to use this reason to fight Su Yue? ”

"Besides, Dongyi is after Suyue, if we temporarily form a good alliance with Dongyi, and then fight in Dongyi after defeating Suyue, it will be better. Eat the rice one bite at a time. ”

"Xinhua City is far away in Dongyi, will Ji Xia really want to fight in three places at the same time?"

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "Other cities can do this, but I can't." Because I was the first to shout the words of the unity of the kinship, this is how I can use it to stabilize the kinship after I become the leader of the alliance in the future, and no more bloodshed in war for a while. ”

"Nowadays, there are not many literate people in various cities, and when there are more literate people in the future, more people will agree with this seemingly ridiculous reason."

"What's more, Qiongxi won't ally with me. Su Yue is old, I'm still young, Xinhua City is still wedged in Dongyi, I must abide by the oath, otherwise how can I convince everyone? If it is not convincing, how will the rules of the future be obeyed by everyone? If you can't let everyone obey it, then there will be thoughts of violating the rules in your heart, and there will be endless chaos, how can you put an end to these chaos and conquests? ”

Wei He nodded, agreeing with Chen Jian's statement, the Acropolis has been fighting against Xirong since it moved to the west, and he still agrees with this truth to some extent.

He thought about it for a while, and finally asked the most crucial question.

"Ji Xia, if you become the leader of the alliance in the future, how will you treat us people?"

Jian Chen laughed and said, "The rest of the cities may be able to worry about this problem, but the two of you are the least worried." Is it really as I said at the beginning, can I really manage things thousands of miles away? There are only so many people, what is the use of me asking for so much land? Hundreds of years from now, where can we predict that? Even if I make too many promises now, it may not be impossible that in hundreds of years, our children and grandchildren will be incompetent, the cities will be chaotic, and even the sacrifices will be cut off. ”

"Besides, in the future, the two cities of Wei'e will each have their own land, so that the clansmen can learn the language, and the government decree will come from the leader and stop from the small officials, isn't it better than if there is anything that needs to be discussed with the relatives and nobles before? There aren't many relatives in the city who can oppose you, so what are you two afraid of? ”

"Besides, if the two of you really have a land of thousands of miles in the future, will they still allow the rest of the cities within the territory of a thousand miles to do their own thing and disrespect orders?"

Chen Jian pointed to Yucheng on the paper and said: "Take Yucheng as the heart, a radius of 800 miles, and the order will come out from the king and end at the small officials." That's what I want. ”

"Eight hundred miles away, even if I want to govern, can I govern?"