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Xiang Ye had his back to King Yan's Palace, and behind him was a group of heavily armed Xia troops.

The civilians in Jixian County, the Yan army captured by the Xia army, and the remnants of the Yan Kingdom were all around, standing quietly one by one.

"The people of Jixian County, the soldiers of the Yan Army, and the ministers of the Yan Kingdom, I know that your feelings are very complicated at this moment!" Xiang Ye 'licked' his lips and lips, opened his voice and shouted to the people around him: "If it were me, I would also have mixed feelings, because my former country is gone, and now someone is coming to take over my country, of course I have to consider whether to resist or surrender!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the Yan people below were boiling, and many people were talking to each other, but their boiling did not last long, because they saw that the Xia Jun standing behind Xiang Ye all 'drawn' the long swords on their waists one by one.

Xiang Ye looked around at the people around him, smiled slightly, and said: "I only want to say one thing to you, that is, whether it is Xia or Yan, they are both from the Central Plains, the same descendants of Huaxia, and all descendants of Yan and Huang!" For so many years, we have been pouring into each other, killing each other, but we don't know that there is a nomadic tribe in the north that is gradually encroaching on our land and enslaving our compatriots! ”

Hearing his words, everyone below fell silent.

Many of them have lived here for generations, and they have suffered from the Xiongnu for not a year or two.

Whenever the people of the Central Plains were busy harvesting, the Hun cavalry would always go south, they would not only grab grain and goods, but also kill people and rob people, and the people of Yan were also miserable.

"Our enemies are the Huns, and I am not here this time to annex the Yan Kingdom, but to integrate the Xia Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom. Whether you were from Xia or Yan before, you are all the people of Xia from today onwards, and you have the same equal rights! Xiang Ye raised a hand and shook it, shouting to everyone: "The farmers of the Xia Kingdom do not need to donate rent, and every year the state will give you some rewards for farming, whoever grows well will receive more rewards!" ”

As soon as these words came out, all the people of Yan were stunned, they had never heard of such a country, farmers do not donate rent for farming, but the state will give rewards.

Before the people of Yan came back to their senses, Xiang Ye said even more shocking words: "Merchants who do business in the Xia Kingdom only need to 'pay' one percent of the net profit as a tax, as for the blacksmiths, potters and other handicraftsmen, the state does not take a penny, you just have to operate!" ”

"Great King, how will the country survive without tribute?" An old minister of Yan State didn't understand these policies that Xiang Ye said, and he thought that Xiang Ye was deceiving the people of Yan State in order to get the hearts of the people.

"Without tribute, the country can also survive!" Xiang Ye smiled slightly, and said to the old minister of Yan Kingdom: "Don't forget, we still have a 10% tax on merchants, as long as the policy is open, there will be as many businessmen as cattle and 'hair' who come to Xia Kingdom to do business." Although the craftsmen of the country were not required to pay tribute, the merchants who ordered goods from them had to pay the corresponding customs duties when they left the country. What we want is to spread this amount evenly among many people, not to overstock this huge number on our own subjects! ”

Xiang Ye didn't say one thing else, that is, since Chi Xue'e came to Xia Kingdom, Xia Kingdom has set up a team of officials and businessmen.

All the income of this group of officials and businessmen belongs to the state, and they are also engaged in the purchase of their own goods from various countries and the transportation of their own goods to various countries for sale, and the profits are quite considerable, which is fully sufficient to support the normal operation of the whole country.

"Now I want to ask you, who still doesn't want to be a citizen of our Xia Kingdom?" Xiang Ye knew the truth of throwing the 'lure' bait out and then pulling the hook, and looked around at the black crowd and asked loudly: "If someone is unwilling to be a citizen of the Xia Kingdom, they can leave the Xia Kingdom and join another country!" ”

"King, we have lived for so many years and have never heard of a country that is so good to the people, if we don't be the people of the Xia Kingdom, whose people will we be?" The crowd was silent for a moment, and after a while, an old man with white hair walked out of the crowd and knelt on the ground and shouted to Xiang Ye: "Long live King Xia!" ”

When the old man knelt, the crowd first moved for a moment, and then more people knelt down and shouted: "Long live King Xia!" ”

Soon, all the people in Jixian County knelt down, and the shouts were deafening and resounding in the sky.

Xiang Ye had a smile on the corner of his mouth, looking at the old Yan subjects who were kneeling on the ground in front of him, he was a new 'tide' surging, a country that was not weak, it only took his army to break through in one night, but he only took half a month to conquer the hearts of the people of this country.

A large flag embroidered with a goshawk on a dark blue background is hunting and flying in the wind.

Rows of Xia troops with spears in their hands stood straight on the city wall, guarding the city that had just been incorporated into the territory of the Xia Kingdom.

"King, Jixian is far away from the Xiongnu, should we move the capital here, so as not to fight with the Xiongnu in the future, and the Huns will attack our capital!" Xiang Ye subdued the subjects of Yan State, and Li Xinpeng followed him towards the palace, and as he walked, he put forward a proposal to move the capital.

Xiang Ye shook his head and said to Li Xinpeng: "I said that our enemies are the Huns, and if we want to destroy the Huns, we must build the capital in a dangerous place, only in this way can we always remind me that on the side of my couch, there is a sharp knife that can kill me at any time!" ”

Li Xinpeng frowned, but still insisted on his opinion and said to Xiang Ye: "The Huns' attacks are often without warning, and I am afraid that one omission will cause Jiuyuan City to be besieged. ”

"At that time, General 'Meng' Tian led 300,000 Qin troops to the west to conquer the Xiongnu and drove the Huns out for more than 700 miles." Xiang Ye pursed his lips and said with some disapproval: "He can lead the army to take the initiative, why can we only defend?" Xin Peng, you have to remember the sentence 'Kou can go, I can also go!' ’。 We are a powerful Xia state, not lambs to be slaughtered by the Huns, they can slaughter our subjects, and we can also let them exterminate their species! ”

"What should I do if Di Yu is second?" Li Xinpeng nodded first, and then said to Xiang Ye: "Do we want her to watch us slaughter the Huns?" ”

Xiang Ye was silent for a moment, then raised his head and said to Li Xinpeng: "You have to remember that in the future, when you fight against the Huns, anyone who is willing to surrender to Di Yu will not be killed!" Whoever does many evils, young and old, will be killed! ”

"No!" Li Xinpeng answered, and followed Xiang Ye towards the main hall of Yanwang Palace.

Just a few days before Xiang Ye conquered Yan Kingdom, a tragic song of blood and tears was being staged in Linhe City.

The 100,000 troops of the Xiongnu Right Valley Liwang arrived at Linhe, and only 5,000 Xia troops were responsible for guarding Linhe City.

These Xia troops were somewhat different from the armies of Li Xinpeng and others, they were not heavily trained iron troops, but a group of improvised troops composed of residents near the river.

Their equipment was poor, and many were even using the Changge, which was commonly used during the Warring States period.

What's more, some people didn't even receive Changge when they distributed weapons, so they took out their heads, sickles and other farm tools from their homes as weapons to guard Linhe City.

The Huns had already launched five attacks, and the Xia army in the city had repelled them again and again with arrows, boulders, and boiling oil.

Now that all the stones and boiling oil were gone, and there were only two or three arrows in each archer's quiver, the Huns would face the end of hand-to-hand combat with the enemy on the city if they attacked again.

A man wearing the armor of a partial general of the Xia army walked around the city wall a few times, his right hand clutched the long sword tightly, three of the five fingers had been lost in the battle, and only two mobile phones were left clasped on the hilt of the sword.

On the left cheek of the general was a terrifying sword wound like a large earthworm, and from the blood still oozing from the wound, it could be seen that this scar was left in a battle to stop the enemy not long ago.

The exhausted Xia army lay on the head of the city in twos and threes, and when the general walked past them, they did not get up and salute, but looked at their general with full eyes.

"Soldiers!" The general walked up to a group of Xia soldiers, pressed the hilt of his sword and shouted to all the Xia defenders on the city wall: "We have nothing!" Reinforcements have not yet arrived, in the 'Yin' Mountain, the Xiongnu Dadan Yu is marching with an army of 100,000 to our capital Jiuyuan City, and in Guyang, the 60,000 troops of General Li and General Wei are fighting a fierce battle with the 100,000 army of the Xiongnu Zuogu Liwang! We may have no reinforcements, and if the Huns attack again, we will all die here! ”

After several battles, the remaining one or two thousand remnants of the Xia army listened quietly to the words of the general, and each of them had a dead ash in their eyes, knowing that if there was another battle, their lives would be forever drawn on the riverside city wall.

The general wiped his face, turned his head to look at the city, and turned to the Xia army and shouted: "When the Huns came, we transferred all our relatives to the city, and now there are our parents, our wives and children, and our brothers and sisters in the city!" Once the city is broken, the iron hooves of the Huns will drive them in, and our relatives will be ravaged, can you allow such an end to happen? ”

His words pierced the hearts of every Xia Jun, and all Xia Jun stood up and shouted, "Can't!" Swear to defend Linhe to the death, and don't let the Huns step into Linhe half a step! ”

"Good, very good!" The partial general nodded, a smile appeared on his face, and shouted to all Xia Jun: "We will all die, I am ready to die, are you ready?" ”

"People are in the city! People are dead and the city is broken! All the Xia troops raised their weapons and shouted loudly, and their shouts spread far and wide, and even the Xiongnu army stationed under the city couldn't help but feel a chill when they heard this earth-shattering shout. ~