After shooting a few prey at random, Su Tang took Chen Jian to the vicinity of the riverbank, and heard the rumbling sound of water several miles away. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the snow has fallen, the ice has not yet ended, this is not the first time Chen Jian has seen the river, riding a horse and walking around the riverbank, the river has left a lot of man-made traces on the riverbank, this river has nurtured this ethnic group, and this ethnic group has to spend thousands of years to fight the flood.

Su Tang thought that Chen Jian was just coming to see, especially after Chen Jian saw the big river, he sighed again and again, and told a few stories about the pride of Hebo in the autumn water, which made Su Tang immersed in it and didn't think much about it.

Looking at the rushing river, Chen Jian looked at the situation around him, the river here is straight, even so, the various things left by the flood are still indelible.

The puddles are full of reeds and cattails, and in the winter they are covered with mallets, all because of the summer floods.

The silt in the puddles is rich in nutrients, but it is difficult to cultivate, and there is no need to reclaim these troublesome places when there are few people and a lot of land.

The villages began to sparsely settle in Sucheng, located far away from the river bank, and there were not many villages in those reedy places, and a few cooking smoke could be seen in the distance.

It is already the middle and lower reaches of the great river, and the course of the great river changes every few decades due to frequent breaches, leaving behind a lot of rich land, but also a lot of saline land, swamps and lakes, which are good land for future generations, but at this time it is difficult to reclaim because of the constraints of productivity and tools.

Looking at it from afar for a moment, Jian Chen asked for advice on the terrain around Sutang.

"There are two more cities three hundred miles to the east, and beyond those two cities are the places where the Dongyi clan haunts. 100 miles to the west, named Ohno. When my ancestors walked out of the mountains and forests, they saw that the boundless wilderness was extremely flat, so they got this name. There is Osawa in Ono, which is connected with the Great River, and is hundreds of miles wide, and is called Onozawa. ”

"There are many towns around Onozawa, and there are many fish and shrimp in the area, and there are many water chestnuts, water chestnuts, and lotus roots, but there are also many mosquitoes, insects and beasts, and there are some places where you will drown in the mud when you step into them, and the water level changes every year, so few people go there."

"It's just that most of the escaped slaves from the surrounding cities have fled there, and they are difficult to pursue because of the quagmire of the water. From here, I learned how to plant and so on, and I made a living by gathering and planting in it. ”

"A hundred miles to the north of Onozawa, is the salt pond of Sucheng, which originally belonged to Hwaseong, but after the death of the leader of Hwaseong twenty years ago, Hwaseong was defeated and divided, and my father also had half of Hwaseong's bloodline, so he took Hwaseong to keep it, and waited until the various clans of Hwaseong rebuilt the city before returning it."

"To the east of Yanchi and northwest of Sucheng, there is a big mountain called Yue. This is where the father's name comes from, not the name of the mountain that comes from the father. The mountain is thousands of steps high, and the sea of clouds rises, which is a dangerous place. Ji Xia, if you have time, I can take you to have a look. ”

Jian Chen smiled and thanked a few words, jumped off the horse, and drew a few strokes of the general terrain with a wooden stick in the snow, all of which were simple lines, but Su Tang knew that Chen Jian was not just looking at the river.

He pointed to one of the long lines and a small circle on it and said, "This is the big river?" Is this Awagi? Ji Xia leaned on a wooden stick and painted thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in his eyes. What Ji Xia wants to see is not a big river with rough waves, but this big river that winds like a hemp rope on the snow. ”

Jian Chen said with a smile: "The big river in your eyes is a big river, isn't it a big river that you can't see with your eyes?" ”

Perfunctory, after calculating the topography of the mountains and rivers, the location of Sucheng is very good, about the east of the center of the entire cultural circle, adjacent to the big rivers and fields, and there are salt ponds and the like, extending in all directions and the accumulation of heritage decades ago, there is not much strange about the strength of today.

But the location of Xia Cheng is quite bad, it is thousands of miles away from the northwest, and it is difficult to integrate quickly. But it can't be moved away, where you can block the grassland tribe and Xirong, this is Chen Jian's bottom line. Moreover, being in the northwest also has the advantage of being in the northwest, and the area to the west is a vacuum of civilization, which can quickly spread culture in order to assimilate and expand the population.

Between gains and losses, Jian Chen thought for a moment, and his eyes were fixed on the circle representing Onozawa on the snow map.

If you want to be recognized by all the clans, you must contribute to the whole clan, and at the same time, you must make the clan identify and familiarize, and it takes a month or two to travel to and from the northwest all the time, which is not possible.

It is even more impossible for the entire clan to move away, not to mention that these clans will not agree to a clan with gunpowder, bronze and other technologies as their neighbors, even if Xia Cheng has accumulated three years of land wealth and prestige, it is impossible to move away.

After pondering for a while, he had a plan in his heart, raised his foot to erase the traces of the painting, and decided to fight for Xia Cheng to gain a foothold on both sides of the river in this alliance.

Nowadays, there is no clear dividing line between cities and clans, and unlike later countries, most of the cities only control the surrounding area of a few dozen to a hundred li.

Onozawa had a large number of escaped slaves, and it was not suitable for the rest of the clans to cultivate, so it was a good enclave.

The geographical location is in the center of the cultural circle, close to the middle and lower reaches of the wide river, suitable for boat navigation, convenient water transportation, as a trade transit point and a trading town is a good choice.

When the hydrology is clear, and then the sailboat is improved, it will only take more than ten days from Onozawa to Kusakawa, which is completely under control.

There is no need to cultivate too much land, just to build a city with a well-developed handicraft industry and trade, accumulate wealth and become the economic center of the entire cultural circle.

It is closer, even if it is a-stirring stick, it is more convenient, and it can be more convenient to connect vertically and horizontally.

The mainland of Xia City is in the northwest, and it is swimming upstream, and the water transportation in the rest of the cities is not developed enough, the wheel technology has not expanded rapidly, and there are almost no roads.

Xia Cheng can use ships to intervene in city disputes, but it is difficult for the rest of the cities to take revenge on Xia Cheng.

Don't show hostility to any of the towns in the early stage, treat everyone equally, quickly establish the importance of this enclave with handicrafts, and then slowly interfere in the internal affairs of the rest of the cities.

This was not his temporary idea, it was only after yesterday's conversation with Su Yue that he understood a very important issue: two ethnic groups with different worldviews and customs, even if they are aligned because of interests, will eventually have a great sense of separation.

There are so many things to say about the way of sacrifice alone, and so much more so than the rest.

One person cannot create a civilization, because civilization is not only copper and iron guns, but also more cultural customs are believed in by all the people of the entire race, and Xia Cheng must gain a foothold here to overcome the habitual barriers brought about by this geographical location.

It's like pinching a clay figure, two pieces of mud are broken and re-kneaded, you have me, I have you, instead of one accusing one party of not knowing how to sacrifice and having no rules, and the other accusing the other party of not knowing how to change the world with both hands, even if the same skin and hair, the same clothes and the same crown, it will be difficult to come together without any gaps in the future.

It's just that...... What reason or excuse should be used to get the nearby clans to agree to the establishment of a new city in Onozawa by Natsujo? (To be continued.) )