When the princes are divided, it is the New Year's festival.

At this time, of course, it is impossible to urge people to go to their own fiefdoms, and everyone has their own things to deal with, and as freshly baked princes, they also have a large number of relatives and friends who need to have a banquet, so the princes only need to leave the Xia Kingdom before the winter of the thirty-third year of the Xia calendar.

That is, the big guy has a full year to prepare, which is not a short time, so then the big guy fell into a state of fanatical celebration, and even with Wang Ze's family, he continued to accept everyone's invitations, and he didn't know how many banquets he attended.

After all, these princes have been fighting with themselves for many years, and the big guys are not young, once they leave the Xia Kingdom and go to the Fengguo, they don't know if there is time to meet next time, so every prince will participate in the banquet Wang Ze as much as possible, and if he really doesn't have time, he will show it.

When Wang Ze divided the ten princely states for the first time, the movement caused within the Xia Kingdom was not small, and this time it was even more disturbing to seal the twenty-five princely states in one go.

Every day, a large number of young people with ambition and desire run to these freshly baked monarchs, although many young people's ideas still look very immature, but these old generals have followed Wang Ze for decades, and their vision is not ordinary old and spicy, as long as they are still talents, they will not refuse.

While recruiting talent, these princes were also busy selling most of their estates in Xia in order to finance the construction of their new territories.

After all, what they want to build in the future is their own country, and Wang Ze, as the suzerain's king, will definitely not be able to pay the Xia country's own pocket for the princes' country, and in turn, these princes will have to pay five percent of the country's taxes for the suzerain's country every year after two years.

However, these generals have followed Wang Ze for decades, and there are a lot of military exploits, rewards, and plunders in battle, and each family alone has no less than 20,000 acres of land.

The shares in the workshops of other counties, the shares in the Tokai Commercial Bank, the Nanyang Commercial Company, and other commercial houses, the vast estates and plantations in the Nanyang counties, etc., are not something that can be dealt with in a short period of time.

In addition, there are some generals who are also prepared for the worst, once they can't gain a foothold in the feudal country, they will definitely have to return to the Xia country, so the family's property in the Xia country can be sold part, but it is impossible to sell all of it.

Moreover, some of their sons and grandsons who stayed in the Xia Kingdom also need these industries to make a living, and the ancients have long understood the truth that eggs cannot be put in one basket, especially during the Three Kingdoms period, the practice of major families betting separately is not new.

Throughout the thirty-third year of the Xia calendar, the shipyards of the Xia Kingdom were busy, not only vigorously building new steamships, but also building ships for these princes who were about to enter the country, after all, their future contact with the Xia Kingdom was dependent on sea routes.

At present, many things in Kunlun Continent cannot be produced by themselves, so everyone still has to buy a lot of materials from within the Xia Kingdom, and if you don't have your own ships, you can wait to lose your pants.

However, there were also some princes who could not afford or did not want to buy ships, so they simply joined forces to lease some ships, although the cost was not small, but they were waiting to buy the steamships that Xia was vigorously producing.

All the princes who paid such attention were finally disappointed, and for the sake of protecting the advanced technology of the Xia Kingdom, all machines, locomotives, and ships related to the steam engine were not sold to the outside world for twenty years, even if these people were the princes of the Xia Kingdom.

Since this thought was broken, all the princes were busy managing various affairs in the Xia Kingdom, inviting some planning experts to plan their own territories, and they also sent their henchmen to the fiefdom to carry out the initial pioneering work.

In the thirty-three years of the Xia calendar, the busiest people in the Xia State were the first batch of envoys sent by the ten princes who were about to take up the country, except for those who were about to take up the country.

Originally, after these ten princes learned that Xia Guo had developed locomotives and sea ships that could use steam engines, they also sent people to prepare to study, and by the way, to see if there was any possibility of making them.

Of course, the request of these princes was rejected by Wang Ze in order to protect the interests of the suzerain, although these princes' envoys were disappointed, but they did not have much hope for this action, but Wang Ze divided the twenty-four in Kunlun in one go, which stimulated these ten princes.

After all, they have been away from the Xia Kingdom for ten years, although everyone had a good relationship in the past and was a family, but when it comes to national interests in this world, it can no longer be evaluated by family affection, even if the vassal states have envoys stationed in Zhenhai.

They didn't know if Wang Ze's attitude towards the vassal states of Kunlun Continent would change in the future, so the ten major princes continued to send several groups of envoys one after another, just to find out what Wang Ze meant, after all, there were twenty-four competitors at once, and they also needed to consider the relationship with their neighbors in the future.

In fact, these princes don't need to worry about anything at all, after all, the first batch of feudal princes are all people who have a very close relationship with Wang Ze, whether it is Cheng Chong, Zhu Rui, or Wang Ze's two younger brothers, or other Zhou Tong, Sun Xing, Qu Liulang and others, the former are relatives, and the latter is also from the old department of the Wang family for generations, and these feelings cannot be passed by time.

This time, although Wang Ze divided the twenty-five princes in one go, but still could not threaten the ten princes, after ten years of development, the strength of the first ten countries has not been underestimated, even in the future vassal competition will have a great advantage.

In particular, the country established by Wang Ze's second brother Wang Hui and third brother Wang Yu was supported by many people either explicitly or implicitly, and the strength of the two countries was the strongest among all the princes, and the population and army were also the largest among the princes.

In particular, after Wang Hui established the country on both sides of the Red Sea, he was divided into the Marquis of Wei, so he took Wei as the name of the country, and the Wei State has a population of more than 300,000 after ten years of development.

Because the climate here belongs to the relatively arid tropical grassland, under the advice of Wang Ze and experts from the Agricultural College, this Wei State, which is located in the Horn of Africa in the later generations, did not develop much agricultural cultivation in agriculture, mainly focusing on animal husbandry and animal husbandry.

Of course, the Wei State also had sporadic agricultural cultivation and planted a small amount of vegetables and grains as a supplement, and the traditional fishery that had always been very developed in the Xia State was also inherited by the Wei State and became a very important food supplement for its people, and other edible grains basically relied on purchasing from surrounding countries, especially from the South Seas.

Although the purchase of food from outside in this way is very costly, Wang Hui is not worried at all, because his good brother Wang Ze has handed over the geographically important Yemeni land into his own hands from the beginning.

As the most important navigation route between the East and the West, the Yemeni waterway carried almost ninety percent of the merchant ships connecting the Roman Empire, and the annual tax levied from the Yemeni waterway alone to and from the merchant ships was a large amount of income, which could be used to buy grain and support the political and military activities of the Wei State.

It is precisely because of this that it took only ten years for Wei to have more than 300,000 people, and this merchant ship with many exchanges is inseparable.

At this time, the indigenous people in the Horn of Africa had not yet established their own state, and the basic form of government was still in the form of tribes, and after defeating several powerful tribes around him, Wang Hui basically controlled nearly half of the territory of later Somalia, and hundreds of miles around Yemen were also his territory.

Such an area is nothing compared to the Xia Kingdom, but compared to the population of the Wei State of only 300,000, it seems very empty, in order to control this huge territory, Wang Hui is a small cow to learn from the big cow, almost copied many methods of the Xia Kingdom.

While encouraging the people to mount and shoot, he vigorously developed armaments and carried out the policy of all the people being soldiers, because Wang Hui always remembered in his mind what his brother said to him before leaving, that he would face a very terrible enemy in the future, and Wang Hui would never doubt his powerful brother.

His achievements over the years have not been in vain, because the immigrants of Wei are like the newly established Xia State, mainly young and middle-aged men and women, and at least 200,000 of the more than 300,000 people are young and strong men and women, and once something major happens, the 300,000 people of Wei can mobilize 100,000 cavalry.

Even in the current peacetime, Wang Hui maintained a guard army of 10,000 people and a standing army of 20,000 people at any time, with these 30,000 troops, as well as the guarantee of sea control of Du Sheng's Fourth Fleet on the Zhiyuan Islands, he no longer had to fear that anyone would dare to invade him, even the nearby Aksumes and Daqin.

If the Wei State established by Wang Hui became the most powerful vassal state with the support of Wang Ze's policy, then the Wu State established by the third brother Wang Yu became the second most powerful vassal state with the support of Wang Ze's mother, Gongxi Wenqi, with a population of more than 200,000.

The treasure of the eldest and the little old lady, as the young son of the family, Wang Yu has been favored since he was a child, although under the persuasion of Wang Ze and Wang Yong, the Gongxi clan still agreed to divide Wang Yu to the distant Kunlun Continent, but her love for her little son has never stopped.

No matter what it is over the years, it will be remembered, the farther Wang Yu is from Xia Guo, the more the Gongxi clan will miss it, and Wu Guoneng's current scale is inseparable from her support.

However, after all, Wang Yu's Wu State is located in the south of Kunlun Continent, and he is under the care of the Xia Army, a territory directly under the Xia State, and no one dares to provoke him except for the resistance of the local natives, so Wang Yu has only maintained an army of 10,000 people over the years to deal with the local natives, and his small life is much better than Wang Hui.

Except for Wei and Wu, the other vassal states are far behind, even Cheng Chong's Cheng State and Zhu Rui's Ning State are far inferior to them.

Although Xia has a population of more than 25 million, it is still a serious lack of population resources relative to the land area, and Xia itself has a large number of land resources, and the people do not need to leave their hometowns too far to obtain a large amount of land, so their lives are very rich.

It is precisely because of this that it is difficult for the major vassal states located in the remote and wild country to recruit the people of the Xia State to settle down, and Kunlun Continent is really far away from the Central Plains, so the population growth rate of these vassal states has always been very slow.

Under the constraints of various complex conditions, in addition to Wei and Wu, there are more than 1780,000 other vassal states, most of which are only 1450,000, and Zhou Tong is only in his early 100,000s because he is not good at management, which is still a situation that his son Zhou Baolai has made great efforts.