What the two cities of Wei'e need is peace of mind, so as to ensure the stability of the rear of the Xia Kingdom. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Those cities sandwiched between Yucheng and Caohe don't need their peace of mind, they only need to tie them to Xia Guoyong's interests.

It is nothing more than a cooperation model with the Xia Kingdom as the center, and each city has its own division of labor, striving not to let any city appear a small and complete complex model, so that they are incomplete and single, once they leave the Xia Kingdom City, the life will not be easy.

This method of harboring evil intentions did not attract the slightest resentment, but rather pleased the leaders of the cities. They had slaves and land in their hands, but the rest of the nobles in the city also had slaves, so these chiefs were eager for the things created by their slaves to be directly traded with the Xia Kingdom, and the slaves of those nobles did not have such a systematic means of trading with the Xia Kingdom.

Starting from Xia County in the north, along the confluence of the Cao River and the Great River, and then all the way to Yucheng, forming a riverside economic belt of more than ten cities.

In fact, at this time, it was nothing more than lead, tin, grain, fish and shrimp, pottery, cattle and sheep, wool and other goods, but after the integration of the Xia Kingdom, these goods became bronze, glue, thread and the like needed downstream and upstream, which were beneficial to each other.

Some small workshops whose interests are not too big or the demand is not too large have basically been transferred to these dozen cities.

The children of the noble families of these cities also began to study in Yucheng, and they needed to pay a certain amount of copper coins, so that they could go to study in those families of the noble families or those who had slaves in their families.

All kinds of signs of stability and prosperity cannot hide the tense atmosphere before, but after all, there has not been a fight for the time being.

Xia Guo did not turn his face because of the dispute with Sucheng, and still traded, and there were more and more ships in various cities, and there were even roads that could make carriages and ox carts easy to pass.

This period of peaceful and rapid development lasted for a long time, and the people at the bottom enjoyed themselves and felt stable and happy.

The development of the city is always so rigid and boring from the perspective of the chief, or this short golden age is only a preparation for future fratricide.

But for ordinary people, it's different.

Therefore, many years later, when the war really subsides, there will always be people who will remember these five or six years of good weather, prosperity and stability, and carefully experience everything in this era.

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A long, long time later, somewhere along the river, in front of a city, in front of a large masonry house with window paper on it, there was a man who told the story of the most peaceful time.

The courtyard was large, obviously not an ordinary house, a few bamboos grew tenaciously near the courtyard, there was a neighing of horses outside, a pair of ink-covered papers were pasted on both sides of the wooden door behind him, and picked wormwood hung next to the window paper.

The owner of the house was named Yak, and he was no longer young at this time, and when he was a child, the clan was still on the move, and at that time he shot a little rabbit with the son of the then chief, and played a game like a family.

Now he has changed his name to E, has his own surname, and has his own children. Of course, there are wrinkles and gray hair.

It was a long, long time after the five, long years since he had settled down, because his favorite child had grown up and was packing up for his education in distant Gyeonggi. As a tacit shadow for everyone, you don't need the harsh conditions of those civilian children to go to the military class of the best school, as a starting point higher than others.

A new generation of young people has grown up, and they have not experienced the five or six years of stability, and after listening to a lot of passionate stories, the most boring thing is everything in that stable era.

It's just that the conversation between father and son was unconsciously led to that temporarily stable era, as an era of few pens in the history books, for those who experienced those eras, it was hundreds of few strokes to tell a clear story.

The reason is that the child asks his father how he and his mother, who died young, met. So he remembered what he had seen in his eyes after the unhappy meeting a long time ago.

"At that time, our family was very poor. At that time, the monarch was still called the chief, and our old leader Eyue was still there, and our monarch was still studying with the king in Gyeonggi at that time. ”

"I wasn't very old at that time, but I was much stronger than you are now, after all, when I was a child, I suffered a lot more than you, when I was a child, I migrated all the way from the far east to the Caohe, and met the current monarch on the way."

"At that time, our family was on the edge of the Grass River, and as you know, you were born there, and you have drunk the water of the Grass River for a few years. At that time, we were very close to the king's city, but by then we had changed our name to Xia County. ”

"When the old leader changed the military system, our family was not separated at that time, and we needed to send someone to follow the expedition. The rich and slave-rich were to go out of the chariot, the richer were to be accompanied by bronze swords, and the poorer were to carry spears. ”

"I think it was the 37th year of the Huali calendar, when the old chief came back from Gyeonggi and gave an order to prepare for the autumn harvest and then prepare for service. At that time, the rich bought some leather armor and the like, and our family was poor at that time and had nothing, but my brothers and sisters still sewed a set of leather armor for me. ”

"At that time, your father could be regarded as the lowest soldier, and he had nothing but strength. The old chief gave me an iron-tipped spear and a wooden shield, which was my weapon at that time. ”

"The people who trained us were sent by the king, that's called a harsh, where did I need to walk so neatly when I used to fight, but I practiced this in an autumn and winter. At that time, I had a lot of strength, and I was also a good fighter, and I could really kill a calf with one punch, but I was also a leading soldier in the winter, and I had an extra layer of leather armor issued by the old leader than others. ”

"At that time, the old chief also told us that if the war was fought well, slaves, booty, or other rewards would be distributed according to merit. At that time, I was looking forward to fighting soon, and where would I get my reward if I didn't fight? I wanted to have a cow of my own, but where could I afford it? ”

"After returning from the old chieftain, those who had a lot of slaves in the family, they sent some slaves to Gyeonggi to dig iron mines, and the people who could exchange iron tools the best at that time were people. At that time, in addition to sending slaves to Gyeonggi to dig iron, the king also sent people to find tin ore from us, smelt it directly and transport it along the river, and then re-smelt the ingots in Gyeonggi. ”

"But at that time, your father didn't have the ability to do this, and he didn't have a single slave, so he could only watch those people make slaves, and the king and the old chief paid money and craftsmen to build some workshops, and watched some people build brick houses with window paper, and they were not afraid of the cold wind blowing in in winter. Watching those people buy cattle and horses, and prepare their own bows and arrows, chariots, spears, etc., I can only hold spears and hope for battle. ”

The child was a little stunned, from the time he remembered, he seemed to remember that he had cattle and horses, but he never expected that his family had such a poor life, recalling the hardships that his father said, and couldn't help but think of a sentence learned in the school.

"Sometimes, people's fate is unpredictable."

"In the second year, it happened to be the time of our Caohe big gathering, it was like that a long time ago, once every three or four years, everyone gathered in Xia County to compete in martial arts, bows and arrows, wrestling and other skills."

"Before that, we couldn't win much. At that time, the old leader wanted to win a few more games, and he also wanted to compete with the Xia people in driving and archery. At that time, the old chief was outside the city, let us show our skills, I didn't know how to ride a horse at that time, I was not allowed to shoot arrows, and wrestling was not one of the best in the city, but I used it to pull a stone pole very well, and I used that thing to beat rabbits when I was a child. ”

"It's also a coincidence, there happened to be an old eagle flying over the old leader's head at that time, I was also bold at that time, and when I heard the old eagle cry a few times, I deliberately shouted and scolded a few times, attracting the attention of the old leader."

"I squatted down and copied a round stone, and felt the bark and vine wrapped rope from my waist, everyone looked at my kung fu, I was a little panicked, but I also knew that this was a rare opportunity, so I steadied my hand and shook it hard."

"A stone knocked down the old eagle at once, and the leader immediately praised me a few times, and gave me a set of wool rope throwing ropes, and rewarded me with a dozen dollars and a jar of wine."

"That's why I followed those who went to Xia County to attend the party, I had only heard of it before, and I wasn't a relative, where did I go? It was really fresh at the time, I had heard Shi Cheng play twice in the old city before, and I watched it again when I went to Xia County that day, and I grabbed a cloth bag she threw down, which contained a bone comb. Later, this comb was the first thing I gave to your mother, that is, your mother's favorite one, and then the teeth were broken, and it was not without jade, but she was reluctant to change it, and she did not accompany the burial when she left, but left it to me. When I die, and you bury me, you must remember to bury this comb with me. ”

The child hurriedly said: "My father is still young, the child has just grown up, and I will see my meritorious achievements in the future, why do you say such things." ”

E smiled and said, "Just talk about it, who can not die?" It's nothing more than going to your ancestors, but you can see your mother too. The king has said, "There is no immortal man, so why deceive yourself." ”

"But at that time, I didn't think of dying or anything, so I wanted to perform well, in addition to letting everyone see my ability, it was also for reward, I was poor at that time, but the reward when I gathered to compete in martial arts was a good thing."

"At that time, there were a lot of people in Xia County, including people from the east and west, the three counties of Yangguan, nearby cities, and even Gyeonggi. There were a lot of new battles that time, but fortunately, there were also throwing stones, but compared to sword fighting, horseback riding, car battles, races and the like, the stone throwing competition was far worse after all, especially the new war spur grass target with stirrups attracted many women to watch. ”

"Especially when I was throwing stones, I wasn't seeing many people in the distance, but your mother was watching from the side. Later, I found out that it was because there were so many people going to see Kemari that your mother couldn't squeeze in. ”

"I didn't know it at the time, but I saw a girl sitting on a wooden stool with her hands on her knees and looking at us with a smile. At that time, the sun was a little dazzling, and your mother felt like she was melted in the sun, and it tickled my heart. ”

"As a result, my heart itched, and the first stone was thrown off, and I thought that your mother must be laughing at me, and my face was red for the first time when I grew so big, and I didn't dare to look back, and my heart was pounding. On the second stone, I gritted my teeth and threw the farthest target, and it was hit. ”

"I didn't listen to the cheers of others, I looked back at your mother first, and found that she was also looking at me with her mouth covered, and somehow my eyes saw a place, my face was hot, and I also saw your mother with her head down and rubbing the corners of her clothes with her hands."

"But I didn't have anything at that time, your mother was a girl from Xia Guo at that time, how dare I think about it. When the others called my name, I threw the bone comb over, and I didn't dare to see if she picked it up, so I ran away. ”

"Then I won the first place, a gold coin engraved with a dragon, and a small iron pot. Although the iron pot was expensive at that time, I thought about it again and didn't even have a cow at home, so I still didn't dare to look for your mother after all. ”

"When I returned, the old leader rewarded me again, and it just so happened that the little leader also returned. So I sold the iron pot, replaced it with a large brass axe, and bought a set of leather armor. ”

"The little chief came to me and said that the city was short of people, and that he had to build a city and build a workshop, and that he would have to open mines and plant, and that it was not enough to rely on these people in the city, and that he had to take all the settlements in the north into the city. When the little leader came back, he brought a dozen pairs of cloth armor, and chose some friends who knew him well when he was a child, and took some soldiers from the old leader, and then went to the north and began the expedition. ”

"I was also one of the first people to wear iron armor in the city at that time, and I said in my heart that I must be good, rob more people, make more meritorious deeds, and go to your mother."

"It was the thirty-eighth year of the Chinese calendar, and the most lacking thing in the city at that time was people. The king also said to the old leader and the little leader at that time, the more people, the better, and even if we don't want as many as he wants. At that time, not only our city, but also the Acropolis were also fighting with the Xirong people every day, either catching them back to farm, or catching them back to mine or work. ”

"At that time, there were more than 300 people from Xia County, as well as the riders of Yangguan, who went to Lin Zili with us to arrest people. When some of the settlements were weak, they were forced to move to the cities, and those who did not move destroyed their fields and burned down their houses. If there was a big settlement, I fought with them, and they all learned to plant at that time, so they couldn't hide in the mountains at every turn, and fought with us a few times. ”

"At that time, the cloth armor was incomparable to now, it was heavy and stupid, but it was better than nothing. We often rushed in with a dozen or so of the Xia Kingdom, and then they were scattered. And gunpowder, thunder, and so on, and those people are our opponents. ”

"I fought from summer to the following spring, and when I went back, I was a good hand who had hacked dozens of people to death. After I returned, the old chief rewarded me with six domestic slaves to farm the land, and accumulated meritorious deeds so that I could use cattle and horses for a single household. The house slaves farmed, I fought, and when I went out on the expedition, I chose one to carry armor and food on my back, and I also learned to ride a horse. ”

"In the second year, I went to the Acropolis, and the Marquis of Wei was in charge of the soldiers of Xia, Wei, and E, and broke through Xirong, and built a new city there, and the remaining Xirong people lived around and cultivated, and the sons of the clan leaders were sent to Xia County to study."

"That time it was a subduing of the Xirong people, they lined up in a military formation, and as a result, the thunder fire guard that the Xia people had just appeared killed a lot of them from where the bow and arrow could not reach. It was also the protection of the ancestors, there were a total of three copper cannons at that time, and it was a coincidence that Li Shilang put them indiscriminately, and he directly hit the leader of the Xijon people, and the iron ball broke his legs, and the Xijon people dispersed at that time. Afterwards, even he said that it was put indiscriminately...... Coincidentally, I made a great feat, and I robbed the Xirong people's Daxu, and I was still ranked behind him. ”

After that, a part of the Xijon people ran north, and several clans and tribes that had fought internally were also united, and they had to run north if they couldn't fight again. The rest also surrendered, otherwise they were really afraid that they would suddenly attack from behind after the fight broke out a few years later. ”

"That time, I made a lot of meritorious deeds, there were more domestic slaves, and my merits were also greater, and I was in charge of more than 50 people after the war."

"At that time, I thought that I would go to Xia County on the Pregnancy Festival, hoping to see your mother. That year happened to be the time when the leader of the city of Onozawa was discussed after the previous alliance, and it was said that they would all go to Sucheng, but the king, the old leader, and the marquis of Wei first invited the rest of the city to gather in Gyeonggi, which was still called Yuseong at that time, and it was said that now it can be seen who is more virtuous and who is more suitable to be the leader. ”

"That's obviously Ling Sheng, the king's capital is right next to it, and there are a lot of small officials to help manage it, where can his brothers compare?"

"At that time, it was rumored that there might be a war, because it was said that those cities might not keep their original oath and would not let Ling be the leader of that city. I didn't know much at the time, except that the old chief had already ordered the distribution of spears, bows and arrows, and stone ropes, and promised that the captured slaves would be given the status of countrymen as long as they made meritorious contributions to the expedition. ”

"At that time, wine was not allowed to be brewed, pottery was not allowed to be burned, grain was gathered, and ships were prepared...... But who would have thought that the other side would have kept the oath and didn't fight! But this incident can be regarded as the reason for the fight later, if it weren't for the matter of this city, alas, ......"