From Chief to Ball

"The grasslands don't grow food, and the vast grasslands can't be planted, and they can't go deep. Every autumn, our three cities need to send troops to the north, burn the grasslands, and plunder sheep and horses every year. The grasslands don't know how to grow. They will only plunder, if they are strong, they will attack us when we are planting and harvesting, even if we can defeat them, it will delay the farming time, this is the biggest enemy.”

Chen Jian salivaly explained the strategic direction of the Three Cities Alliance in the next few years. E Yue and Wei He looked at each other, and the two nodded involuntarily. Although they agreed with Chen Jian's opinion, this time the nod was not It is a tacit understanding between the two.

The two couldn't help but think that when the relatives on both sides of the river gathered to elect the leader 20 years ago, Hua's approach was so similar to Chen Jian's approach... Let the weak tribe pay tribute, send troops when going out, and build a city near the settlement of Yidi ... This is not something that a person who is only the head of a city will do!

The meaning of the two nodding was that they were agreeing with each other, thinking that Chen Jian was plotting something big...

In fact, Chen Jian just reproduced the practice of the Celestial Dynasty in the previous life, using the concept of the previous life as an armed colonization and tributary system.

The scope that the Celestial Dynasty can really control is very small. It is a large tribal alliance. Everyone benefits from grouping together to subdue those unconvinced tribes, intimidate those weak tribes, and kill those rebellious tribes.

Fortification and colonization gradually expanded the scope of control, and used the superior culture to aggressively invade and assimilate, so that in the Zhou Dynasty, armed colonization was brought to the extreme, and several relatives were divided into Zhou's basic board as a basis. Screen protection, the rest of the marquis with such outstanding merits as Jiang Shang, will throw you some soldiers and horses, draw a picture on the map, build a city and colonize there, and a bunch of square countries nearby. Everyone lives in peace.

The Chinese ancestors in the previous life were the most aggressive ethnic group. They used armed colonization, national separation, cultural aggression and other means to spread civilization quickly, allowing the ethnic group to spend hundreds of years from a corner of the Yellow River. Expanded to the most fertile land in East Asia.The land of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period was never the basic territory of Zhou, but was seized by colonial expansion... At the beginning of the founding of the Qi State, there was not even a city, it was just a concept on the map; the ancestors of the Qin State ran from Penglai, Shandong to Shaanxi was involved in a rebellion again and became a slave. From raising horses, he became a vassal without even a title. Low angrily refused to follow the Haojing system, because thatched grass who was worried about wine was beaten up by the Central Plains countries...

This is the reason why Chen Jian has always wanted a status, and also the reason why he is planning to build a city. This is an effective method in the experience of his previous life, and of course it can be used.

The balance of the Three Cities Alliance, with one strong and two weak, will not change for several years. It is time to use this period of time to expand the land and population.

It seems that any one of the three cities has [-] to [-] square kilometers of land, but these are theoretical. In fact, the real control is only the land of [-] miles around the city.

Looking at the scribbled map, Chen Jian thought, "It's time to bring the fire of civilization to those groups that are still in the wild. It's nice to say it in another way."

Chapter 97 Tri-Cities Alliance (End)

As soon as the method of building a city to control cultural aggression was mentioned, Eyue and Weihe agreed. They might not think so far-reachingly, but they knew that someone had done it 20 years ago and succeeded.

Before those small settlements in Xirong and Beidi united, it would be difficult for them to fight against the Three Cities Alliance.Inserting a wedge around those settlements, provoking conflicts, helping the weak, and weakening the strong will make those settlements exhausted.

Chen Jian pointed to the crude silk map and said: "How to build the city and where to build it, let's discuss it later, and I will also send people to check the terrain there. After building the city, we will help those weak tribes to plant, and those strong tribes We often go to war with them, and distribute some of the captured slaves to the small settlements that send troops. After a long time, there will be no tribes that can entangle thousands of troops."

"Those tribes within [-] miles around our three cities, we will expropriate their grain; tribes within [-] to [-] miles, we will expropriate the wood, stones, and wheels for making arrows from them. The tribes within four hundred miles must learn our language. Outside four hundred miles, they cannot be effectively controlled. To confiscate their furs, special products, or exchange them with salt, pottery, and wooden utensils, Establish Fangshi in the two established cities."

How to manage, how to collect, this is also Chen Jian's deliberation.

There are not enough management talents, even if the annexation is temporarily unable to be effectively controlled, the benefits of annexation are too small.Chen Jian's plan is very long-term. Those Xiacheng children who are still learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in the school will be the basis for future expansion, and it will take at least ten years for them to grow up.

With the current transportation conditions, the scope of collecting grain as a tax can only be within [-] miles, and perhaps a further distance can be extended along the river.But if it is farther away, a catty of grain expropriated may cost a catty of grain on the road, and the income is not much and it is easy to cause resistance one after another.

The settlements two hundred miles away collect some arrow shafts that are not heavy but need to be polished by hand, so that transportation can be more convenient.

Four hundred miles away, that is to scare and scare, or use handicraft transactions to control.With the current strength of the three cities, a battle of four hundred miles away can be fought at most once a year.

This method of paying tribute is also very convenient to scare chickens and monkeys. Once a settlement does not pay tribute, it will be an excellent excuse. It is still very useful in this era when memorial archways are needed.The three cities united, and a group of servants were entangled to kill them. Fangguo, the settlement of those servants, was very happy to carve up the slaves, and also taught those servant settlements a lesson about the consequences of not obeying the rules.

Chen Jian didn't really understand the details. It took thousands of years for the Celestial Dynasty in his previous life to figure out a perfect system. Even if he knew a little, he couldn't think of everything.

Weihe and Eyue also put forward some opinions. Although there are still many deficiencies, Weihe and Eyue have heard a lot of conspiracy from Chen Jian's words. They don't really want the rest of the city to know For these, there was no proposal to discuss with the elders and councils in the city.

Chen Jian said again: "Since our three-city alliance vowed not to use spears and spears, and one city between the three cities has an emergency and the other two cities have to send troops to help, I think we still need to build a road that allows vehicles and horses to pass. The most important thing within a year is even more important than building a city near a barbarian settlement. There is a road from Xia City to Heyin City, and there is a thirty-mile-long road from Heyin City to the south. With a road, soldiers It is possible to travel fifty miles a day without being too tired. After leaving the thirty miles, the soldiers only walked thirty miles a day, and they were exhausted. It was difficult for the cattle and horses to keep up, and the grain transportation had to be carried by the cattle.”

E Yue has personally experienced that road-ridden march, and knows how much convenience this seemingly simple rut can bring.Weihe knew that Chen Jian would not talk nonsense, and if he could put road construction first, he would realize the importance of this matter.

Chen Jian didn't say that the cars were on the same track and the same track. Although the two cities of E and Wei also had that kind of simple log wheels, they were not strong or practical, and they were far inferior to the wheels with rutted hubs in Xia City.

Xiacheng has always monopolized the wheel technology, so the width of the road to be repaired and the distance between the rut pads must comply with the standards set by Xiacheng. This is the embodiment of technological advantages.

Chen Jian took out a pen and drew the direction of the road again. The three cities are not the three corners of a triangle, but an intersection with Xiacheng as the center of the transfer station.

The reason is that this can save a lot of manpower, but the internal reason is that in order to effectively control the two cities of Wei'e, Xiacheng is the intersection of roads, and any connection between Echeng and Acropolis needs to pass through Xiacheng.

The Three Cities Alliance seems to be equal brothers and allies, but in fact it is still an emerging force centered on Xiacheng. Chen Jian will never regress in this regard, and it is impossible to waste such a lot of effort to get an equal word Therefore, in matters such as road construction and city building, Xia City must be the leader.

Wei He didn't think there was any problem with this, E Yue looked at the silk for a while, and wondered: "Ji Xia, why is the road between E City and Xia City the same as Cao He? Are you going to build a road along Cao River? "

After finishing speaking, he said somewhat disappointedly: "It's a pity that the Cao River flows from west to east no matter what, and it never flows backwards. If it flows eastward for ten days, and then westward after ten days, it will go back and forth like this. There is a road that can be repaired cheaply.”

Chen Jian smiled and said: "It's not difficult. This road is not built along the Caohe River, but is the Caohe River itself."

E Yue frowned and said: "The Caohe River is frozen in winter, and people and horses can pass through it at that time. It is wide and flat, which is indeed better than roads. But when it melts in summer, it can only be transported from Xia City to E City, but not from E City to Xia City."

The frozen Caohe River is extremely flat, and driving on a sledge is indeed better than the best rutted roads.

However, people cannot control the rotation of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. After saying this, E Yue suddenly remembered what Chen Jian said just now, "It's not difficult". All kinds of weirdness, suddenly moved in my heart.

"Could it be that Jixia has a way to freeze the Caohe River? Or make the Caohe River go east and west for ten days?"

If someone else said these words, E Yue and Wei He's most likely performance would be to denounce nonsense angrily, but Chen Jian said so, and the legend of controlling thunder and lightning gave them a little trust.

Chen Jian smiled wryly and said, "How can I have such abilities? Chief Eyue has seen the windmills in Xiacheng?"

"I've seen it. You can push the stone mill and save a dozen slaves. But what does this have to do with Caohe?"

"The Caohe River freezes in winter and you can use chariots and horses. Although it doesn't freeze in summer, the wind blows from east to west. Since Xiacheng can make the wind move the windmills, it will naturally have a way to make the wind move the boats."

E Yue smiled and said, "Since Jixia said it, I believe it. Then, for the time being, we only need to build a road from Acropolis to Xiacheng, and if it can only pass vehicles and horses, I don't think it will take three years." It can be repaired. The three cities are connected to each other, and it is very convenient to send troops. E City can send [-] slaves to repair this road, just hire them like Xia City did when harvesting wheat beans."

"Hire?"

Weihe was a little strange about this word, Chen Jian explained it with a smile, Weihe nodded and said: "This method is very good, Weicheng is short of manpower after the war, and there is not much work in Echeng for a while, it is nothing more than corn, Weihe The city still exists."

Seeing that the two did not object, Chen Jian was secretly delighted.It seems that the problem of communication roads between the three cities has been solved peacefully and fairly, but he still has selfish intentions.Xiacheng... is in the upper reaches of Echeng, when it is time for the battle of armies, Xiacheng's army can go downstream to Echeng overnight, but the soldiers of Echeng need to march upstream for a long distance.

Chen Jian dug two pits and buried Acropolis and E City in them. Wei and E didn't know it, and they were still grateful to Chen Jian in their hearts.

Because Chen Jian very justly stated that the tributes of the tribal settlements that were forced to pay tribute will be shared equally by the three cities; the two newly built cities will be managed by people jointly selected by the three cities for a period of three years, and they will be rotated after three years.Each newly built city needs to govern a radius of two to three hundred miles, with three cities as pillars, where they can do whatever they want, but as an armed colony, they must have the support of the three cities, and they are not qualified to develop independently.

300 people will be stationed in each planned colonial city, and 100 people will be sent from each of the three cities, which will be rotated every two years.

What Chen Jian meant was to let these 300 people become shit-stirring sticks, but usually try to set up archways to treat the nearby tribal settlements fairly. If you have something to do, you can go to the city to judge, if you want any handicraft, you can go to the city to exchange, if you want to get rid of the life of ruthlessness, you can learn the language of the three cities.

Both Wei and E had no objection to this, and now that Xiacheng was in great power, they handed over the candidate for the first three-year term to Chen Jian, and after three years, they would change to the two cities.

Chen Jian also thoughtfully said that both cities can choose one person to go with him as a deputy, and learn a lot so that he can take over in three years.

In the initial stage of the colonial city, it must be difficult to make ends meet. Chen Jian also calculated the required expenses, including the loss and expenses on the road.

But then Chen Jian gave them another reassurance: as long as they can stand firm, they can maintain a balance of income and expenditure after three years, and they can earn back the population and food invested in the previous two years in about five years. As for the long-term benefits, they are even more limitless. , it is just one that expands the real rule of the city from thirty miles to three hundred miles, and any leader understands the power of it.

It is Chen Jian's style to list the facts and reason, and it is also the style that is most likely to be believed. After discussing the spoils, the three leaders are all smiling. Four years later, he could exploit a large amount of grain, fur, and arrow shafts from those settlements every year. In this way, the exploitation of the basic land within thirty or forty miles of his own rule would be much less, and it could temporarily relieve the savages and nobles of the country. No conflict between surnames.

Transferring internal conflicts and internal exploitation to the outside, so that those who were originally exploited can also drink soup, this is the simplest and most effective way to obtain support.

After the loot was divided, Weihe and Eyue looked at each other, and they said at the same time: "Jixia, this time defeating the Xirong people, Xiacheng's new army has made great achievements, beheading the leader of Xirong, breaking through the Xirong line in the center, and using a thousand Eight troops defeated more than [-] people from Xirong, and Jixia's command and training are the greatest credit."

In Gaomao's area, Chen Jian was quite vigilant, he laughed dryly, and the two said again: "Now that the three cities have become brothers and relatives, I wonder if Jixia can train the soldiers of the three cities to be warriors like the new army? Can wooden guns, Tao Lei and other methods teach us? Can we also learn the skills of chariots and sticking bows?"

The two had been making concessions to Chen Jian before, just to wait until this moment, and to take what they want must be given first. This is their very simple morality, and they never thought about what to do if Chen Jian just refused to agree.