Chapter 553: The Helpless Turks

Facing the powerful threat of the Xia Kingdom, the Turkic royal court was immersed in a tense and strange atmosphere for more than a month.

To the slight reassurance of Dulan Khan, the Xia army, after defeating the Qigu people and occupying a vast area west of the Beihai Sea to the Jianshui (Yenisei River) valley, and defeating the Daluo tribe by the way, seemed to be at ease and stabilized, and did not continue to attack Dulan Khan.

However, the fact that Xia did not attack Dulan Khan on a large scale does not mean that Xia has not taken any action, and in the whole summer, Xia has been gradually encroaching on the territory of the Turks in the south, and has taken away the entire land around the North Sea.

Even the Xia Kingdom has successively established a number of cities of considerable scale around Beihai.

The most important cities are Wucheng (Irkutsk) and Condor City (Ulan-Ude), Wucheng is not because Han Zigao, who led the army, needs to show his strength, it is still to commemorate Su Wu who was shepherding sheep in Beihai, so Wucheng and Shepherd City have left a strong mark in the east and west.

The Condor City is located in the lower reaches of the Suolingshui (Selenga River) in the east of the South of the North Sea, and the Turkic people worship the golden eagle, and the Xia army is to use such a name to fight the arrogance of the Turks.

Because of the importance of Beihai to the Xia Kingdom's development of the western territory, the two cities built by the Xia Kingdom are cities that can accommodate 100,000 people, and there are still conditions for continued expansion around them, which can be called a big city around Beihai, which is still sparsely populated.

Compared with Wucheng and Condor City, the other three cities in the west of Beihai and Jianshui are relatively smaller, but they are related to the further development of the Xia Kingdom to the west in the future, so Dingyuan City (Nizhny Uginsk), which is located between Beihai and Jianshui, can accommodate about 50,000 or 60,000 people, and Jianshui City (Krasnoyarsk) on the Jianshui River, as well as Yancheng (Abakan) are small cities that can only accommodate 30,000 people.

After the Qigu people were hit hard, they could only continue to migrate westward with less than 300,000 troops with serious losses, although the climate of the Great Plains west of Jianshui was very cold, but the Qigu people who were very adapted to this climate were not afraid, as long as those Xia people in the east did not come.

After the Xia Kingdom defeated and expelled the Qigu people, it did not attack further, after all, the west of Jianshui was too far and too far away from the Xia Kingdom mainland, and the distance of nearly 10,000 miles also made all the Xia generals lose the desire to attack further.

The war on the grassland can never exist independently, with the defeat of the Qigu people to the west, many other tribes on the grassland who did not take refuge in the Xia State have begun to be vigilant, and even the powerful Qigu people have been defeated and expelled in a battle, so when the Xia State pointed the butcher's knife at him, wouldn't it be even more difficult to resist?

Therefore, with the efforts of Dulan Khan, most of the more than 100,000 troops left behind after the defeat and death of Daluo went to defect to the Datou Khan of the Western Turks, but he also took in more or less 50,000 or 60,000 tribesmen who were mainly young and strong.

In addition, the envoys sent to contact the Qigu people also quickly got a reply, and although the Qigu people suffered heavy losses due to the sudden attack of the Xia Kingdom, the Qigu people were not convinced, and in their opinion, they were just unprepared.

It's not easy to live away from home, although the climate west of Jianshui is similar to their own home, and the Qigu people can generally tolerate the environment here.

However, there are no mountains in this vast plain that can stop the biting cold winds of winter, and the winter here will be even more difficult, so when the Qigu people learned that Dulan Khan wanted to unite with them, they readily agreed.

What made Dulan Khan even more pleased was that the Xue Yantuo tribe, who had led the Tiele tribes to resist the Turks, was attacked and moved west to the northwest of Jinshan, and was also very worried after seeing the news of the defeat of the Qigu people and the death of Daluo in battle, so he also agreed to the proposal of Dulan Khan's alliance.

Even the Western Turkic Datou Khan agreed that it would not be a problem for someone to provide food and food when they united against the Xia State in the future, and even sent hundreds of thousands of cavalry to help in the war.

Looking at the combination of a part of the Tiele tribe led by Dulan Khan, Qigu people, and Xue Yantuo, it seems that they are menacing, but from between the lines, you can see that they are actually afraid of the Xia Kingdom, just by looking at the joint resistance to the Xia Kingdom, rather than the joint attack, you can know the weakness in their hearts.

The news of the expulsion of the Qigu people and the opening of the territory for two thousand miles came back to the Xia Kingdom, and although the vast majority of the people were very happy except for a few people, they were not very excited, after all, the sword water was too far away, so far away that they didn't even know what was going on with the Qigu people.

With the rapid prosperity of the domestic economy of the Xia Kingdom, the living standards of the people in both the Xia Kingdom and the overseas territories are improving sharply, which also makes many people who like the prosperity of the Xia Kingdom lose their desire to continue to migrate, after all, the west of the North Sea and the current local Great Plains can never be compared.

Under such circumstances, after two years of immigration in the vast land west of Beihai, there were only about 100,000 people, and these people were the families of the soldiers in addition to herdsmen, and there were also some craftsmen and so on, which was not conducive to Xia Guo's control of the land west of Beihai.

After the news reached Wang Ze's ears, he summoned Liu Xin and Yang Ku, who were already in their seventies, after all, they all said that people are old and good, and if there is any good idea, the two old men should be the best to come up with.

Sure enough, Liu Xin frowned and didn't speak, but Yang Ku smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, this plan is very easy!" In the past, His Majesty migrated people from the East China Sea to the Beji land, which was still bitterly cold and barren at that time, although he used a lot of means, but it can only be summed up as the four words 'lure by profit'!

Now that the taxes of the Xia country are all dependent on more than 30% of the profits from industry and commerce, more than 50% of the profits from sea trade, and the taxes on agriculture are only 10% of the wind, in this case, why didn't His Majesty order that all the people who migrated to the vicinity of Beihai could reduce their taxes for ten years, plus various land rewards, there would inevitably be people who went. What's more, the Xia country is a million miles away, so why should you be stingy with the Ququ land! ”

"Mr. Sheep is right!" Liu Xin also smiled and nodded in support of Yang Ku's suggestion, anyway, the current Xia Kingdom's tax demand for land is very small, even if the local farming tax in Beihai is abolished, it will not affect the Xia Kingdom's control there.

"Your Majesty, I also have an idea!" Liu Xin stroked his gray beard and said, "In the past, when the Han people first came to the East China Sea, there were a large number of young and strong women of different races as wives and concubines, and now many of the children born to those foreign women are already young and strong over thirty years old, but because of their mothers, they have a low status in the family.

Although the law protects the interests of these people, and their fathers are all Han Chinese, these people are also of the same Han lineage, but there are some people who are biased towards the birth of Han wives and ignore the inheritance rights of these people, we can also encourage these people to migrate around Beihai! ”

"There is still such a situation!" Wang Ze's face sank, originally many people didn't think this was a big deal, but Wang Ze was very worried that it would affect the social stability of the Xia Kingdom in the long run, although Wang Ze had issued laws many times in the past to protect the rights of Han women, but these children born of Han people and foreign races must also be protected, they are also Han people.

"Let Mr. Xiao hurry up and formulate corresponding laws for this matter, our law gap cannot not protect the interests of our own people because of this excuse!"

In the summer of the 38th year of the Xia calendar, the Constitutional Court of the Xia State promulgated the "Inheritance Law", although it still mainly protects the interests of Han sons-in-law, but adds provisions to protect other concubines.

This law takes into account that the society has attached great importance to the most important custom of the eldest son since ancient times, no matter what the family, the eldest son, as the main heir, can only inherit 40% of the family business, the other 50% and a half of the inheritance is inherited by the other concubines, and the remaining 20% is inherited by the rest of the concubines.

This law seems to be extremely harsh, but in fact, based on the social status of the concubines, it is good that the concubines can get half of their hands, but even then they are already very satisfied, after all, the property they got in their hands when they became adults in the past is only a pitiful fraction.

Shortly after the promulgation of the Succession Law, His Majesty the Honored King once again issued a reclamation decree, and all the people who were willing to migrate to live and settle around Beihai not only did not need to pay any taxes for twenty years, but even their families could receive a stone of grain per month from the imperial court, as well as a subsidy of 5,000 yuan.

These are still secondary, and what makes everyone crazy the most is that the imperial court has raised the land reward for encouraging migration to 500 mu per person, which means that the current family of five people in the Xia Kingdom can get nearly 3,000 mu of land.

Although the land of Beihai is more bitter and cold than the mainland, and there is not much new gravitational force for many Xia people who have settled in the mainland, it is a lot of wealth compared to some Sui Dynasty immigrants who have just come to the Xia Kingdom, as well as some low-status concubines.

In just one month, more than 500,000 people have signed up, and the gallop road from Jiangzhou City to Shepherd City on the east bank of Beihai has been built for more than two years.

The migration of hundreds of thousands of people was really a big move 20 years ago, but after so many years, the migration of more than 500,000 people is not a big deal for the current size of the Xia country's population of 25 million.

In just over two months, 300,000 people have built their new homes around Beihai, and these people have basically settled in Xi'an, north of Beihai.

Although many people begin to regret it after walking for dozens of days, after walking five or six thousand miles, these people don't care about walking another two or three thousand miles.

Hundreds of thousands of people from the Xia Kingdom poured into the area around Beihai, and the cities built before had allowed the Xia Kingdom to firmly control this land.

Although Dulan Khan was unwilling, he couldn't beat Xia Jun at all, so he had no choice but to ask his cheap father-in-law for help.