Chapter Seventy-Six: News from Far Away (3)

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"Where's your home?"

"Summer City."

"Hah! Are you from Xiacheng? Do you know Sister Yu Qian'er? She used to give us pastries to eat, and you see this bone flute, she gave it to me. She and her brother went back to Xia Cheng, we missed her very much, she said that when I learned to count, I would give me pastries to eat, and you can tell her when you go back, Shu Yan can count to a thousand. ”

Ji Song nodded and said, "Okay, I'll tell her." ”

It was only a ten-year-old child in front of him, Ji Song still couldn't help but want to ask about Xia Cheng, and the child laughed: "How long have you not been home?" Isn't your mom in a hurry? ”

Ji Song touched the pendant on his chest, and a smile squeezed out of the corner of his mouth: "Mom won't be in a hurry, but other family members will be in a hurry." ”

"Well, then let me tell you, before the snow, Ji Xia led people to defeat the grassland tribes, captured more than a thousand slaves, and took Sister Yu Qian'er away, I don't know anything else."

Yu Qian'er left Echeng and Xia Cheng captured more than a thousand slaves, but in the eyes of the child, maybe the latter is more important, and in addition, she doesn't know too much.

Su He had heard the name Yu Qian'er, and the unit of measurement of Jin was set by her, which was a bit nonsense, but she could see that the elder brother who was the leader favored his sister.

But he is not a child, and he cares about another thing naturally, capturing thousands of slaves?

A few years ago, Su Yue gathered the strength of the three clans and only captured a few thousand slaves, could it be that the strength of Xia Cheng was really so strong? The child will not lie, let alone brag, Su Yue glanced back at the corn fields that had been lined up, and half believed Ji Song's previous words in his heart.

Since he arrived in Echeng, he always had to enter the city, and he had to inform Eyue, Su He thought, maybe he could listen to Eyue's evaluation of Xia Cheng and their leader.

When approaching the city wall of Echeng, Su He saw the ox cart, and before he could ask, Ji Song had already excitedly told him that it was from Xia Cheng.

When he walked into the city, Su He saw the words, but he still didn't wait to ask, and Ji Song excitedly told him that it was from Xia Cheng.

When passing by the wine store, a group of people went in with beans and exchanged for white tofu from it, Su He gritted his teeth and asked, "What is this?" This is also passed from Xia Cheng? ”

"Of course. You go and see Eyue, I saw my people, you can come here to find me in a while, don't be afraid of getting lost, everyone in Echeng knows what kind of place this is. ”

Ji Song had never seen tofu, but since this thing came from a liquor store that didn't sell alcohol, it must be something from the city. Someone in the wine shop had already seen Ji Song, shouted his name, and hugged him into the wine shop.

Soon, E Yue asked Shu Jiu to bring people to greet Su He, the two had known each other, and they had not seen each other for more than ten years, which was quite a bit of a sudden separation, after all, E Cheng had left the river for too long.

At the banquet, Su He, as a guest from afar and the reason for his identity, first congratulated Eyue and Echeng on the left side of Eyue's head, and explained his intentions.

E Yue raised her glass and shook her head and smiled: "I didn't expect Su Yue to do such a big thing, when I left Huacheng, Su Yue was still crying." ”

Su He also laughed, although his status in the clan is also noble, but it is still much worse than E Yue, E Yue is the leader of the original seventy-one clan, and the leaders outside Huacheng are all brothers, Su Yue is not the leader of the name of the right, of course this kind of joke is open to E Yue.

"The leader of Eyue, eleven tribes such as bears, fish, and pheasants have elected Su Yue as the leader of the alliance, and more than ten small tribes have also bowed down. There has been too much blood shed between our relatives, and over the years, the Dongyi and Nanban have attacked again and again, and Su Yue asked the leaders to go to Dahe Winter Hunt during the Winter Festival to discuss the major matters of resisting foreign tribes. ”

E Yue's heart shook slightly, the tribes that Su He said were all very powerful, at least about the same as his own tribe, if it was really eleven tribes who elected Su Yue, it seemed that Su Yue's strength was strong enough.

The Su tribe was originally one of the largest tribes on both sides of the river, and they fought for years after the split, but the heritage still exists and cannot be underestimated.

As for the winter hunting, it is just for the various leaders to recognize the status of Awadake.

"How many tribes have you passed along the way?"

"Nine. Eight of them agreed to go. Another...... It's the Niu clan, I didn't go. ”

E Yue smiled, this is a thing of the past, when the first division was divided, the blood of the Niu and Su clans flowed too much, and the meaning of not going is the same.

Since the eight clans are determined to go, E Yue knows that she will also go once, and see the situation when the time comes, anyway, her city is far away in the northwest, and if something really happens, she will not be able to burn herself for the time being.

It's just that it seems that more than a dozen clans have agreed, but this time the alliance will not be so simple, and many clans will never agree, especially the powerful ones.

The prestige of Suyue is in the east, and these tribes in the west do not have great pressure, and it is difficult to accept.

Seeing that Eyue did not refuse for the time being, Su He knew in his heart that he had actually agreed, and asked, "Leader Eyue, is there a summer city in the west of you?" ”

"Yes, the leader's name is Xia, and the surname is Ji. Didn't you come back with Ji Song all the way? ”

"Yes, I heard him talk about a lot of things in Xia City, and I felt strange in my heart. Sister Shujiu, your mother and my cousin know about all ethnic groups, have you ever heard the surname Ji since you were a child? ”

Shu Jiu shook his head and said, "I've never heard of it, and we only learned about the existence of Xia City after we migrated here. But they are in this city...... It's weird, it's powerful, the leader is young but convincing, the city is the same from year to year, and we've learned a lot from it. Listening to the legends of their tribe, it seems that they were our relatives a long time ago, but they hated the flood of the great river, separated from our ancestors, and migrated here. ”

Su Yue frowned and said, "This is strange. At the beginning, the seventy-one clans gathered in Huacheng to communicate with each other, so they planted millet to settle in the calendar astronomical cattle herding to build a city, and Xia City was just a city, how could there be so much? I've heard people say, you also learn to plant in Summer City? Ji Song said that they farmed like that, with a yield of 2780 catties per mu, is there really such a thing? ”

E Yue nodded and said, "It's not fake, the number nine has seen it with your own eyes, and you can't fake it." One acre is as much as we produce two or three acres, that is not the most, my son is in Xia City, and the most I have heard of ten acres of land is more than 3,000 catties, which is really terrifying. ”

Su He secretly smacked his tongue, E Yue is the leader of a city, it is impossible to say nonsense, and asked: "What about the ox cart outside...... You also learned? ”

Number Nine smiled bitterly: "Learn? Where is so easy to learn, exchange it for corn. The clansmen did a few, but they couldn't, and the wheels would shatter as far as they went, and it was difficult to make them so round. ”

"This is also made by their leader named Xia?"

"Yes."

"What kind of person is that?"

"Young, intelligent, and able to fight."

After counting nine briefly, he shook his head and said: "I feel that I am very good at counting, but compared to the young leader, it is still much worse, he counts hundreds of thousands, but for a moment, I have to use the calculation." ”

In the previous grain borrowing incident, Shu Jiu saw the speed of Chen Jian's addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within tens of thousands, and his heart palpitated, and he was faintly difficult to accept, but he had to praise.

Su He was taken aback, he can understand the clan of the Niang family, he is proficient in calendar arithmetic to have such a surname, the number nine has rarely played outside since he was a child, and was locked in the house by his mother to practice calculation, looking at all the clans, only talking about counting, there are only more than ten people who are close to the number nine, and the number nine actually surrenders on the count?

Shu Jiu looked at Su He's expression, sighed and said: "It's not just terrifying, as far as I can see, ten years later, I'm afraid that even the children in Xia Cheng may not be able to compare with the children now." It's a nursery rhyme that has benefited me a lot. ”

Su He looked at Eyue again, and his heart became more and more strange, and Eyue smiled: "You don't have to be surprised, when I heard Jiu'er talk about this, I was also strange." There are many strange things, not only this one, he is only sixteen years old, and he seems to know everything since he was born. ”

Such a high evaluation made Su He no longer have any doubts, and asked instead: "What is the population of Xia City?" How much grain is stored? How many slaves are there? Can it be considered a big family? ”

"Two years ago, the people of Xiacheng fished and gathered for a living; A year later, the wheat beans were enough for the people in the city, and the slaves still had to eat acorn grass vegetables; Another year later, Lu'er said that she was afraid that she would have three years of food in one year. ”

"There were not many slaves, but two thousand, but this year they used the method of oxen and ploughshares, and one was light enough to serve a hundred acres of land, and two thousand slaves were enough to feed the whole city. There were 200 men in their city, and they did not need to plant and work, but they trained their armies every day, and they had the method of chariots, and they met on the ground, and one was five. ”

"Xia Cheng is not a clan with a surname, more than a dozen clans have elected Ji Xia as the leader, and there is no opposition, it is no different from a clan, and it is worthy of a big clan."

"In the three cities around the Grass River, the Acropolis has many people and slaves, and the warriors are tenacious, but if they meet and fight on the flat ground, the Acropolis is not as good as the summer city. The black pottery silk silk tribe of my city is famous, but compared to the goods in Xia City, it is not enough to see. In the past, Hua used bronze to cast soldiers, I don't know if you can use bronze in Sucheng? The hundreds of soldiers in Naxia City all have bronze weapons, which can't be compared. ”

Su He hurriedly said: "Xia Cheng also uses bronze weapons? Ji Song didn't tell me. ”

As soon as the words were used, E Yue understood that Su Cheng was afraid that he had also found the method of melting and casting bronze, and said in his heart that he could not complain that Su Yue would be able to have more than a dozen tribes to support him in a short period of time.

I'm afraid that more than ten years after his tribe left his homeland, there are also many things that he has not seen before, and if he stays away from there, the advantage will not be affected by the tribal conquest, but it will take longer for new inventions to reach here.

After the two talked again, Su He finally decided to invite the leader of Xia City to go to the Great River for winter hunting at the beginning of winter, if these things could be spread to his own clan, the strength of the tribe could be improved.

After the feast, E Yue prepared an ox cart for Su He, and sent an envoy in advance to inform Chen Jian of the news that Su He was about to go.

Chen Jian, who was still preparing the venue for the Games, was excited when he heard the news, this news from afar was too important to Xia Cheng.

What Xia Cheng lacks now is a title, a title that is regarded by the cultural circle as a relative rather than a barbarian in the northwest, which is more important to Xia Cheng than the gunpowder chariot. (To be continued.) )