Mountains and seas can be flat

After leaving the main peak area of ​​Kunlun, the speeding car of the Qizhi tribe chose to go further north.Stay away from Xiazhu's airspace.Yu Yi does not border Zu Jiang.Yu Yi is in the east, Zu Jiang is in the west, and between them is the mighty Xia Zhu.Although Xia Zhu is not as good as Zu Jiang and Yu Yi in taming animals, he has some typical air-controlling animals, but the two armies of Flying Badger and Kaiyong have always been low-key and powerful, and no one knows where the bottom line of their strength is.Fang Zheng didn't want to cause more troubles, so he asked the flying car to drive as high as possible in the clouds and away from the crowded areas.

The gateway to the east of Zujiang is bordered by Xiazhu, which is called "Yongguan" by Zujiang people, which means steep valley.Zu Jiang has always been strictly guarded.Because it is backed by natural dangers and easy to defend but difficult to attack, there are not many guards.Even though Zu Jiang was almost paralyzed by the shock this time, the people guarding the pass had to wait a long time to receive the news—with Fang Zheng taking over the control, it didn't take much effort.For these soldiers who have been stationed on the uninhabited land for many years, whoever sits there will never be seen for a lifetime, as long as they are fed, their equipment is delivered on time, and their weapons are not affected.

Fang Zheng replaced their great country master with a man this time, and also announced the abolition of slavery.The spirits of people in the most remote places have also been shaken.However, under Fang Zheng's swift and swift control, the impact was at best turned into a few lip service, and they were very happy, "The road to the south has been opened up, and I have the opportunity to go there for a rotation. not enough".

As for destroying the so-called culture, traditions, and laws and regulations... In this precarious and primitive era, most people would not give their lives to defend such things.Fang Zheng secretly rejoiced that if he traveled to the era of developed feudal culture and overthrew a regime, he would meet a large number of rebellious parties with unquenchable ambitions to restore the country.

Since there was no trouble in Ziguan, Xia Zhu didn't take advantage of the opportunity.

On the way to Yuyi this time, Fang Zheng also took the deputy envoy of Yuyi with him, solved many mysteries that Fang Zheng had speculated before, and also described many customs of Yuyi to Fang Zheng, preparing for their infiltration.

Fang Zheng had been pondering about the history of Yu Yi ever since he heard the story of Prince Yu Yi Tang Hai and the sinner servant Niu in Sanmiao's tomb.The founding monarch of Yu Yi was Dayu's minister Boyi, who was also his candidate for abdication, and he had excellent skills in manipulating ferocious beasts.He once served as an official under Shun and Yu in charge of managing wild beasts in mountains and rivers (this official is called "Yu" in ancient books).

"Yiqian ascends the throne, Qi kills" recorded in the "Shangshu" means that Dayu originally wanted to abdicate to Yi, but the ministers "challenged Qi" (supported Xia Qi) one after another, so Yi was not reconciled and intervened. Qi's succession to the throne, the past of being killed by Qi.

However, in this time and space of mountains and seas, Yi did not die. Instead, he split up and established a country that was equal to Qi, which lasted for decades.But Fang Zheng thought about it, from the ancient times to the Xia Dynasty, the lower limit of the time line is 400 years, and the upper limit is 1000 years.There are only a few limited written records, "Shan Hai Jing" appears as a myth, "Shang Shu" is only a few words, and the experience is unknown. Who knows if such a country really existed?

After all, in this era of mountains and seas, 10 people are considered a "big country".But in later generations, 10 people are not enough for a county.The written records are completely different from place to place. There have been so many changes in history where classics were burned and destroyed. It is quite normal for a tribe to be destroyed without leaving a single word in the history books.

In Fang Zheng's opinion, the number of 10 people is really small, Zu Jiang is about the same number, and Yu Yi is slightly more, about 15 people.But it is far from the splendid and huge dynasty of later generations.The population of Xiazhu is about the same as that of Yuyi.According to the normal historical line, the "Xia Dynasty" will have a population of more than 100 million.But since Fang Zheng has traveled over here, he doesn't know what changes will happen to the historical timeline. Whether "Xiazhu" can successfully develop into a huge "Xia Dynasty" has also become a mystery.

As for the so-called system and civilization, Fang Zheng thinks that if the statistics are based on sociological data, the population must reach more than 100 million to have the most basic soil of civilization.Before this number, it means that people's main energy is still fighting against nature, disease, hunger, and poverty, and living a life struggling on the line of food and clothing.The attributes of social settlements are only to resist natural disasters.

Thinking of this, Fang Zheng couldn't help but spurn Zu Jiang's group of greedy and short-sighted nobles. If they continue to toss like that, Zu Jiang's 10 people will soon be broken into pieces, split into a mess, and one foot straddles the ground. On the threshold of slavery, it will regress back to a more primitive and ancient society, maybe it will be like the degenerated underground people of Yumin.

As for Yu Yi's population growth, I heard from the messenger that Yu Yi's slave owners had at least three or four female slaves who were responsible for giving birth.A large slave owner can have at most a dozen female slaves to give birth.

"Then he will have many children." Fang Zheng said with emotion.

But Yu Yi's envoy said, it's actually hard to say.Because the baby survival rate is too low.As soon as Fang Zheng heard it, he understood that there are no vaccines and medicines in this era.Even in later generations approaching the eighteenth century, the survival rate of infants was not optimistic.Not to mention that resources were so limited in ancient times and so little was known about diseases.

"Our current monarch of Yu Yi has 89 female slaves who have given birth to hundreds of children, and only four princes have lived to be over 20 years old."

The age of 20 is more than half of life for people in this era, and Fang Zheng was so shocked by this loss that he was speechless.King Yu Yi didn't set up any "queen", no matter how careful care and high status are, the children born may die young, and it is useless for King Yu Yi to improve the status of the reproductive machine.

Fang Zheng also understood why the sages of the three ancient generations liked abdication so much, because it was so difficult to cultivate heirs.

Fang Zheng thought again, how could Zu Jiang's women be able to support them?Perhaps the high altitude of Kunlun Mountain is not suitable for the spread of many bacteria?Their physiques have adapted to the more difficult geographical conditions, and the children born have stronger immunity?

"The children in Yu Qiangying have survived the wave of illnesses when they were young, and it is already very rare." Yu Yi's envoy told Fang Zheng, "Healthy children are very precious, but Yu Qiangying still needs to undergo cruel training. Selection, out of 3000 people, there are only a hundred or so left. Mr. Zifeng is one of the top ones, you can experience how precious it is.”

Fang Zheng suddenly said: "You Yu Yi, are you also an inheritance system?"

Yu Yi's envoy smiled bitterly and said: "Yes. Emperor Boyi, who founded the country back then, was probably stimulated by Qi Jun, coupled with various concerns, and finally gave up the abdication system and chose the successor system. But in fact, the emperor's descendants It's hard to guarantee that you can live to the end without disease or disaster. Even if you live long enough, you still..."

Fang Zheng suddenly understood, "It's not as strong as the top fighters selected through cruel training in Yu Qiangying."

The envoy of Yu Yi didn't speak, Fang Zheng asked again: "Zifeng is wearing a white robe, why can he practice both martial arts and literature?"

Yu Yi's envoy said: "Because Master Zifeng is the closed disciple of Lord Yi, you know the generation of Lord Yi... He is a subject of Emperor Yao Yu and Emperor Chongyu, and Emperor Boyi and Lord Qi should respect him three points." , the current king of Yuyi is the grandson of Emperor Boyi. At the beginning, one of the ten witch leaders took the initiative to teach Master Zifeng the knowledge of medicine and stones, and the other leader taught Master Zifeng the knowledge of litigation. Putting on a white robe. The head shaman also said that Master Zifeng received the blessing of the Luanniao in Shoutong Mountain when he was a child, if Master Zifeng was not busy with training, all the head shamans would probably want to teach him."

Fang Zheng shook his head and said, "No wonder your monarch..."

A young hero with a great reputation and numerous military exploits was tortured and imprisoned overnight, and almost died. It turned out that the monarch had long been afraid of it.

"Did the shamans exert any influence on your monarch? They just watched Zifeng..." Fang Zheng couldn't help asking.

"They have been protecting Master Zifeng before." The envoy of Yu Yi said, "So the monarch didn't do anything. But since the envoy of Xia Zhu secretly reported that..." The envoy of Yu Yi lowered his voice and swallowed, "Flowers and dragons .Our Ten Witches dare not protect Lord Zifeng anymore."

Fang Zheng's eyes turned cold, and the monarch might even secretly rejoice at this legitimate opportunity to get rid of Zifeng.However, this also allowed him to see the checks and balances of Yu Yi's political system-the successor system was not stable in implementation, and the theocracy represented by the ten witches and the secular power of the monarch were horns of each other.This is one of the important information to act after sneaking into Yu Yi.

Fang Zheng thought endlessly: If Yu Yi inherited the abdication system of the ancient sages, then Zifeng, who has both secular combat power and the light of divine power, must be the candidate for abdication.But Yu Yi chose to take another path.Fang Zheng shook his head and thought, cultivating heirs by blood relatives in a country with a population of less than 20 is like a large family business, which will easily weaken after a few generations.The feudal dynasties of later generations can last for hundreds of years because the population size exceeds a certain number and there is a complete set of civilized normative systems.Yu Yi still can't do it now.

The flying car drove for three days, bypassed Xiazhu, and approached the border of Yuyi, from where they started walking on the ground.Because the surroundings of Yu and Yi are guarded by luan birds, the sky is even more dangerous.According to Fang Zheng's instructions, the Qichi tribe hid the flying car in a cave on the border and waited.

According to the previous plan, Fang Zheng waited on the western border of Yuyi to wait for the second copper tooth belt Xie to come to meet up.Relying on the authority granted by Sikong, the Yuyi envoy sneaked into a small village with Fang Zheng and Zifeng, pretending to perform a "secret mission", and obtained an empty warehouse as a foothold.

The village is a concept that only appeared in later generations. This place is actually just a supply station for the frontier army, guarding the warehouse, farming the land and vegetables, and stacking the copper ore collected and turned over.

The envoy introduced that in addition to the capital of Raowo, Yu Yi also divided six "fortresses", which are equivalent to the cities of later generations.This is the edge of the fortress called "Dafen" in the west.The terrain is complex, bordering on Xiazhu in the west, dominated by hills and lakes.The village grows millet and hemp, and also preys on fish.The climate here is humid and full of poisonous insects.

People here don't know Zifeng's face, they only know the copper voucher carried by Yu Yi's envoy.They don't know the official status, anyway, for them, they are big figures that they can't reach in a lifetime.They will also take the initiative to deliver three meals a day, I just hope that the "executive mission" and "the wounded adults" will not be disgusted.

Fang Zheng can't evaluate these foods with modern eyes. They really tried their best. The fish was boiled in a copper pot, and even added the unique "Polygonum" here, which tastes a bit like pepper.But food without oil and salt really doesn't taste much better.But in this era, eating warm meat is already a very happy life.

Fang Zheng carefully picked out the thorns in the fish meat, a bit like the crucian carp of later generations, although it is delicious, it has many thorns.It was hard to pick off a small piece of the nail cover.Fang Zheng gently opened Zifeng's mouth, fed him in, and then gave him a mouthful of soup to swallow.The kung fu of picking fishbone is enough for him to eat several meals by himself.

The Yu Yi envoy had already hid far away.These days on the speeding car of the Qigongren, Fang Zheng took care of Zifeng's food and water in a meticulous manner, which made him suffer from various shocks of opening up new worlds.

Although Zifeng didn't eat much, since he was still holding his breath, he had a need for metabolism, so he had to maintain water.But you must be careful when eating, after all, the injury involves the heart organ.Sometimes ingredients that were too hard, Fang Zheng would crush and mash them into a paste for Zifeng to feed, which was almost like taking care of a huge baby.

Sometimes, the two little golden lizards also ate a few mouthfuls of Zifeng's food, but it seemed that they just wanted to taste the taste, and then fell asleep around Zifeng's heart.Fang Zheng gently lifted Zifeng's head, held it in his arms, and talked to him to himself.

"We've arrived in Yuyi. I don't know if you've been to Dafensai. Crucian carp has good ingredients. If you fry it in oil and sprinkle it with salt, it will taste good. I'll make it for you then."

"Is this seasoned 'Polygonum' the ancestor of chili? I'm going to take some seeds back to figure it out. If you have chili, you can make more delicious food. You must try it."

"I don't know what's wrong with my fields. The millet here is exactly the same as my few clumps of dogtail grass. I hope to harvest more this year..."

"Xiaofeng, I found that people's thinking is really strange. Before, I always wanted to come to Yuyi to see Jianmu, but now that I really come here, I really want to go back to Qinglongling Valley and guard my acre of land Now..." Fang Zheng gently stroked Fuzifeng's peaceful and handsome face, sighed, and murmured what he thought no one would hear, "But then I thought again, if I don't stay with you , I don’t want to go anywhere.”

Zifeng's fingers moved slightly, but the range was too small for Fang Zheng to notice.

Fang Zheng thought of how he felt during the time when he was blind.During those days and nights when he was just blind, he could only rely on Zifeng.Sometimes I have to be carried on his back, sometimes I have to eat with his hands, not to mention being hugged and buried in his arms at night to fall asleep.

Fang Zheng once hated himself who had to rely on others, but the trust in Lian Feng that he completely opened up in his heart also began at that time.

So now Fang Zheng is doing his best to take care of Zifeng instead.His heart was filled with tenderness that he had never released to another person.He lay down carefully, leaned into Zifeng's uninjured side, hugged him and closed his eyes.

Fang Zheng's heart is also changing little by little, those cynical spikes are melting, but that doesn't weaken him.Once you learn to like someone, you will have a place to return to.The newly added backing winds around Fang Zheng like flowing water, and his heart becomes softer and stronger at the same time.