At the northernmost end of Longting Road, there is a lonely city called Fuli, and less than 100 miles north of Fuli City is the land of Great Xia. In the eyes of the people of the border counties of Dashang, these elite cavalry of the Great Xia Kingdom with beastly faces and hearts come and go like the wind like horse thieves on the border, but these cavalry of the Great Xia Kingdom are far more terrible than the horse thieves.

Fu Licheng to the north of another two hundred miles, is the southernmost city of the Great Xia Kingdom, called Xiye City, said to be a city, compared to the magnificent and tall Fuli City, Xiye City is simply a tattered small county town. The Great Shang and the Great Xia are not exactly the same, the Great Shang is called the county or the government, and the Great Xia is called the state. Xiye City is the capital of the Western Ye Prefecture of Great Xia.

The population of the Great Shang Kingdom is 40 million, and the population of the Great Xia Kingdom is only more than 3 million, it stands to reason that the Great Shang occupies an absolute population advantage, and it should not be bullied so badly by the Great Xia, but the problem is that although the population of the Great Xia is only more than 3 million, the cavalry that can go on the horse to fight is not more than 5 or 600,000, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as almost all the soldiers.

Although the Bactria people have also built some cities in recent years, they are still not comparable to the Great Shang, and the overall population is still mainly nomadic. The Bactria people had to practice riding and archery when they were still children, let alone when they became adults, and it is said that the combat effectiveness of a Bactria cavalry is about equal to three Dashang infantrymen, so the Bactria people are called warriors on horseback. Of course, saying that one Great Xia cavalry is equal to the combat effectiveness of three Great Merchant infantry, most Great Merchants probably do not agree.

Xiye City is three hundred miles to the north, is Helan City, further north is Wending City, and then north there is Bamboo Fence City, and when it is 1,500 miles away from Fuli City, there is the largest city in Great Xia, called North Wolf City, which is the royal city of Great Xia. The style of the North Wolf City is completely modeled after the Yong'an City of the Great Merchants, but although the style of this city is there, it is ridiculed by the Great Merchants as soulless, and it is called the Turtle City.

The center of the North Wolf City is a palace known as the forbidden city, this forbidden city is the palace of the Great Xia Kingdom, there are three miles long from north to south, more than two miles from east to west, there are five zhang high city walls, and there is a moat more than ten zhang wide. The Forbidden City is also like the Forbidden City in Yong'an, divided into the Outer Dynasty and the Inner Court, the outer court is centered on the Extreme Heaven Palace, the Yingtian Hall and the Zongtian Palace, and the inner court is centered on the Pilgrimage Palace and the Shenlong Palace.

coincided with the Great Xia Dynasty Meeting, in the pilgrimage palace of the North Wolf City, Mo Di Shan Yu sat on the embroidered pier embroidered with a green wolf, and the rest of the civil and military generals sat on the embroidered pier regardless of the size of the official position, and there was no difference between the embroidered piers, all of them sat around Mo Di Shan Yu, and a large circle was vacant in the middle.

The court meeting of the Great Xia Kingdom was held once every half month, and it was slightly different from the Great Shang Kingdom in that the monarchs and ministers could sit and discuss matters. When the current Mo Di Shan was still a prince, he had the ambition to establish himself as the emperor, and when his strength was enough, he killed his father and became Shan Yu and proclaimed himself the lord of the country. After becoming the lord of the country, Mo Di greatly strengthened Shan Yu's power.

Before this, Shan Yu of the Great Xia Kingdom was not as powerful as the Great Shang Emperor, Shan Yu was only the leader of the alliance of the various tribes of the grassland, and the princes under him could not be appointed and dismissed by themselves like the Emperor of the Great Shang Kingdom, and those big and small princes were only nominally bound by Shan Yu, in fact, Shan Yu could not directly mobilize their cavalry. Matters big and small must be discussed by the clan leaders before the final decision can be made.

Since Mo Di Shan Yu came to power, even the appointment and dismissal of the most noble kings of the East and West Academies must be approved by Shan Yu, which was simply impossible to do in the previous Great Xia. Mo Di Shan Yu in order to Liwei, also

For this reason, he killed a king of the Eastern Court, who was his half-brother.

However, Mo Di Shan Yu can even kill his own father, Hu Sun Shan Yu, and what is a half-brother in his eyes? Mo Di Shan Yu very much believes in the words of Zhang Dongyuan, the mastermind of the Great Shang, and those who achieve great things do not care about their families. Therefore, what kind of family affection, what kind of brothers and sisters, in the eyes of Mo Di Shan is not as real as power.

At this time, Mo Di was sitting on the left hand side of the mastermind Zhang Dongyuan, the thin Zhang Dongyuan was squinting his eyes, wrapped in a mink fur, his hands were on his sleeves, and he had an expression that seemed to be asleep. In the past few years, the civil and military officials of Great Xia have been accustomed to seeing this guy's face, and they are not surprised. It's also difficult for him, such a hot summer is still wrapped in a thick mink fur.

At this time, the news of the Great Xia Swordsman's defeat to the Great Shang Martial Arts people has already come back, and there are voices of dissatisfaction inside and outside the Great Xia Palace, and there are also many officials who think that this is purely based on their own shortcomings, attacking their strengths, and not losing to see the hell!

Na Shi Yu, the king of the Eastern Courtyard with a meaty face, sat on Mo Dishan's right hand, and scolded angrily: "What a bunch of waste! Known as the elite of the Great Xia martial arts, but even the few martial arts people who were temporarily put together by the Great Shang Kingdom couldn't handle it! Especially Tuweiba and Murong Guanfeng, the two of them joined forces and didn't even win against the little rabbit cub of the Tang family! The faces of my Great Xia warriors were all lost by this group of waste!"

Farther away from Mo Di Shan Yu than Na Shi Yu was the right minister Almihu, one of the few people who wore a hat instead of a beard at the court, and he was one of the few scholars in the Great Xia Kingdom. Al rolled his eyes disdainfully, and sneered: "You just don't have a backache when you stand and talk, I heard that the little cub of the Tang family is not ordinarily high in martial arts, if you change to the king of the Eastern Courtyard, it is estimated that you will only lose even worse!"

That Shi Yu just wanted to have a seizure when he heard this, and the king of the Western Courtyard, Murong Tongling, spoke angrily, Murong Tongling was born with divine power, hair and bare feet, with a pair of big maces, known as the second warrior of the Great Xia Kingdom, in the court of the Great Xia king, who believed in the respect of force, spoke quite weightily, second only to Zhang Dongyuan and Na Shiyu and a few other people.

Murong Tongling glared at Tongling's big eyes, "Al Mi ignores you scholars, you just can't do it! You can only play lip service one day, let you do something, you can only collect holy land, what kind of curse technique, curses are useless? You just sit here every day and curse, and those birdmen of Dashang will not lose a single hair! If you let Lao Tzu do this, you will trample all the way with the cavalry, and pick up a big stick to fuck him! What a little rabbit cub of the Tang family, a mace will be full of meat mud! I heard that he still has two beautiful women, so he snatched them together! and then took the throne of the Great Shang Emperor, and our Da Dan Yu will be the biggest king in the world!"

Al's face turned pale with anger, "Reckless man's move! I know how to fight and kill all day long, the country of the Great Shang is large, there are many cities, no matter how elite our cavalry of Great Xia is, how many cities can we occupy? Even if we occupy it, how many cities can we defend? We are a nation on horseback, we can't farm land and can't do business, what's the use of asking for cities? Now the encounter of the Swordsman Mission has proved that it is impossible to conquer the Great Shang by force alone! We just need to rob, and it is enough!"

At that moment, a few officials agreed with Al Mihu's words, and Hong Tiezhu, the lord of Zhuli City, said even louder: "Yes, in terms of population, our Great Xia is not as good as one-tenth of the Great Shang, if we fight hard for the population, we will only lose the war, and it is the consistent strategy of our Great Xia people to grab it! Anyway, if we want something, just go to the city of the Great Shang and grab it! Their things are ours!"

Mo Di Shan Yu

Apparently very unhappy with these old quarrels that are repeated day after day, but there seems to be no better way. Mo Di suddenly moved his eyelids and asked, "Zhang Dongyuan, what do you think of this matter? Since the mission we sent out has already tested the depth of the Great Shang Martial Arts, what should we do next? Is the curse technique feasible?"

Zhang Dongyuan opened his squinted eyes at this time, and a wolf-like light shot out of his triangular eyes, "Da Danyu, the slave thinks that the Xia and Shang countries are fighting each other, and it will definitely not work to rely on the wizard's curse technique alone." More than 300 years ago, the Rongdi tribe in our north once used witchcraft to curse the Yanhan Empire, causing more than ten cities in the north of the Yanhan Empire to run rampant with plagues and everything to wither, as a result, the Yanhan Empire sent more powerful warlocks to set up Luo Tian Dajiao to kill the elite wizards of Rongdi, and Rongdi's witchcraft has declined since then, and it has not improved until today!"

Mo Di Shan Yu was a little impatient, "Zhang Dongyuan, you also know that I have always been not interested in anything like wizards and warlocks, I just want results." You just say it bluntly, what should I do? Should I send troops directly to war with the big merchants, or should I do it? Also, should I use this curse technique? You give me a happy word!"

Zhang Dongyuan smiled, "Da Danyu, we are mainly nomadic in Daxia, living in pursuit of water and grass, and there is no permanent place to live, but the big merchants are different, they build cities, mainly farming, the slaves think that the farming people have more advantages than our nomads, when they become strong, they can also have cavalry, and they can also be nomadic, but it is difficult for us nomads to learn their farming, we can only plunder like robbers." I think we can take a semi-agrarian, semi-nomadic approach to the big merchants, and eventually go to farming. ”

Mo Di Shan Yu was a little puzzled and shook his head, "Zhang Dongyuan, I don't understand what you said!"

Zhang Dongyuan said: "To put it simply, we nomads do not grow grain ourselves, and often have to go to the big merchants to loot, or exchange markets with them, barter, and be restrained by people. And if we can grow food ourselves, we will solve a big logistical problem. If you have a city, you can attack and retreat, you can seize the city of big merchants, and you can also train talents to manage the country, and gradually eat away at them, so you will not be called a barbarian like now. Barbarians are not terrible, but they are afraid that barbarians are cultured!"

The military officials below began to talk to each other, and many people looked at Zhang Dongyuan with hostility in their eyes, obviously they opposed Zhang Dongyuan's statement, but in the summer, Zhang Dongyuan, who was still wrapped in mink fur and had a thin body, had his hands on his sleeves and was indifferent to this at all. Mo Di Shan Yu looked around and said angrily: "This Shan Yu thinks that what Zhang Dongyuan said is very reasonable, any of you can say anything against it, and you can even quit, I have no opinion, but once this Shan Yu decides, you must implement it!"

Right Prime Minister Erlin stood up and said loudly: "Da Shan Yu, I object to Zhang Dongyuan's statement of farming, we are born on horseback, people who die on horseback, Daxia people live by water and grass, this is the will of the Holy Spirit, if you have to farm and farm, then I would rather withdraw from this court!"

Mo Di Shan Yu nodded, "Erlin, I allow you to withdraw from the court!" Erlin put his left hand on his chest, bowed to Mo Di, and then withdrew from the pilgrimage palace and walked away. Mo Di looked around again, "Who among you are still going to withdraw from the court meeting?" After looking at each other, more than a dozen people got up and withdrew, and then some people withdrew one after another, totaling about one-third of the number of people attending the court meeting.

When these people all withdrew from the pilgrimage palace, Mo Di sank his face, snorted coldly, and said to himself: "These people who are not loyal to me will have to be eliminated sooner or later!" Zhang Dongyuan listened to Mo Di's words, and suddenly became bright.

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