Chapter 823: Dragon Totem
Seven years after learning art with Chen Kan, Chi You, who was only nineteen years old, was promoted by the tribe as the eleventh co-master of the Xuanniao tribe by virtue of his strong personal strength and outstanding military exploits, which was the first person to become the co-master by virtue of his outstanding military exploits in addition to Chen Kan.
Of course, it is inevitable for Chiyou to become the co-master, because everyone can see that the war with the bear tribe is not far away, and the strength of the bear tribe is obvious to all, and now the Xuanniao tribe needs a powerful co-master to lead them to defeat the powerful enemy of the bear tribe.
Chi You became the co-owner under such historical conditions, this is the inevitability and accident of history, if Chi You was born early or twenty years later, maybe the position of the co-owner would not have anything to do with him.
As soon as Chi You came to power, there were no major changes in other aspects, and they remained the same, and he only made substantial reforms in the military aspect.
He first recruited the strongest of the eighty-one tribes, each of whom led a hundred strong warriors, a total of eight thousand one hundred and eighty-one people, to form eighty-one squads, and every nine squads formed a brigade, becoming the standing army of the Xuanyao tribe, in addition to the necessary cultivation and hunting, daily uninterrupted drills, crafting sophisticated weapons and protective gear, and hoarding food.
More than 8,000 young and middle-aged people are a great labor force in this era, even if a large tribe like Xuanniao loses this part of the labor force, it will have a great impact on production, in order to make up for the loss of labor, Chiyou began to squeeze the labor force of slaves in large quantities, so that slaves can do more things, the status of slaves began to decline rapidly, and the quality of life is even worse, and the situation of all the slaves in the family is fine, and all the slaves of those tribes are simply miserable.
Of course, no one said anything about slaves, because in this day and age, slaves were not human beings, and in the trading market, slaves were not as expensive as a lamb.
After Chi You ascended to the throne, there were more and more conflicts between the Xuanniao tribe and the alliance of the bear tribe, and the scale of the conflict became larger and larger, and there were even several local conflicts with more than 5,000 people (including slaves).
In the fourth year of Chiyou's reign, the war finally broke out, and Chiyou took the initiative to attack the tribe surnamed Jiang close to the Xuanniao tribe, and in the face of the well-trained army of Chiyou, the tribe surnamed Jiang suffered an unexpected fiasco.
His little brother was bullied, and the big brother naturally wanted to come out to speak, and the bear tribe summoned all the tribes in the alliance to send troops and assembled an army of more than 20,000 people.
Find a plain, the two sides set up a position, fought hard, and finally Chiyou won a big victory, and what happened then was like Liu Bang and Xiang Yu who were fighting for hegemony between Chu and Han.
The strength of the Xuanniao tribe is indeed strong, but there are too many members of the Bear Tribal Alliance, constantly causing trouble for the Chiyou army, the most important thing is that at the beginning, Chiyou strictly followed Chen Kan's earliest set of guidelines, those who obey me prosper and those who disobey me die, and the consequence of this is that no tribe surrenders, and all tribes are dying.
The co-leader of the Bear Tribal Alliance, like Liu Bang, constantly gathered troops to fight against Chiyou, and carried out six battles before and after, each time ending with the victory of Chiyou's army, and Chiyou was like the overlord Xiang Yu everywhere to fight fires.
After suffering many dark losses, Chi You came back to his senses and had to agree to the other party's surrender and form a tribal alliance, so that it was possible to defeat the bear tribe.
However, it was a little late for Chi You to come back to his senses, not that his combat effectiveness was not good, but that Chi You's image had been stereotyped in the Bear Tribe Alliance, and he agreed to surrender, but the other party didn't know, thinking it was a conspiracy, and then it was a dead knock.
In this era of low productivity, food is a very valuable resource, Chiyou has been fighting for more than a year, almost emptying the savings of the Xuanniao tribe for decades, as for the war and war, it is all nonsense, the so-called war is to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall, and the final bitter fruit still has to be swallowed by yourself.
Although the territory of the Xuanyao tribe has more than doubled, and there are hundreds of thousands of more slaves, the production capacity has regressed by several decades, and in desperation, Chiyou can only stop the army, and the war is over, the Xuanyao tribe has suffered heavy losses, and the alliance of the bear tribe is even worse, and both sides need time to recuperate.
After all, at this time, Chiyou was not the emperor of the feudal dynasty, he had no supreme rights, he was elected by the tribal citizens, and he was also subject to the supervision of the Council of Elders, so he could not act arbitrarily.
Chen Kan's only role in this war was that of a bystander, and Chen Kan watched the first real war in Chinese history from beginning to end without any moves.
Although the battle ended, Chiyou's prestige also spread in the Huaxia region, and he was known as the "Lord of Soldiers", the god of war.
This time the end was only the rest of the first half, and then there was the second half, which was just as tragic, and this time Chiyou learned the lesson of the last time and absorbed the surrender of some tribes.
The final result is still not to distinguish the winner, this time the problem appeared on the side of the Xuanniao tribe, the southern Baiyue tribe invaded the north, which is a tribe originating in the southern mountains.
Their invasion of the north is not to fight for territory, but to snatch supplies and slaves, the strategy is also very simple, that is, to snatch and rescue, Chiyou has no choice but to retreat, turn the front and these "bandits" decisive battle, in the face of these guerrilla experts who are familiar with the mountains, Chiyou also has no special good way, although there are a few big victories, but they can't be destroyed.
After Chiyou abdicated, the Xuanniao tribe and the bear tribe reached a consensus and formed an alliance to completely end the war.
When the alliance was established, the first thing was to establish a new totem, and finally decided to select some representative parts from the more powerful tribal totems in the alliance to form a new totem, which is the "dragon".
Regarding this totem, Chen Kan also intervened, originally the Xuanyao tribe wanted to draw a pair of wings in this new totem, because the most obvious feature of the bird is a pair of wings, and other tribes have no opinion, because the Xuanniao tribe is the most powerful, this is as it should be.
But after Chen Kan knew about this matter, he immediately rejected the plan, and finally turned his wings into claws, otherwise he thought that if he saw the symbol of Chinese civilization in the future, the dragon, with a pair of wings, the picture would not be too beautiful, Chen Kan said that he could not accept it.
No one objected to this, the Xuanniao tribe had no opinion, and the other tribes had no opinion, and finally the dragon had feet, and the claws were also a sharp weapon for bird attacks, which could also be used to symbolize the powerful combat power of the Xuanniao tribe.
The formation of the dragon totem means the formation of the Huaxia Alliance, and the entire Huaxia region has entered a period of relatively peaceful development, and the Chinese civilization has entered a period of eruption.