The primitive and wild environment greatly restricted transportation, making communication between various gathering places extremely difficult, which resulted in each city being basically autonomous.
Although he nominally has a common king, in fact, this king's ability to control the major vassal states is close to none, and even the ordinary subjects living in these vassal states do not even know their own
There is also a king above the head of the king.
And this is the situation created by the wild environment. For example, if a prince no longer obeys the king's rule and launches a rebellion, then when the news reaches the king's ears, it will take several months if the news reaches the king.
It might take more than half a year, and when the king mobilizes his army to quell the rebellion, a year or even two years will pass.
Of course, this is still the most ideal situation. At least the message can be conveyed in this wild land. The most likely situation is that when the princes rebel, the king may not even get the message, and even if he does, he will not bother to
He mobilized his army to judge, but ordered the nearby princes to suppress it.
Therefore, after Feng Bingwen conquered more than twenty vassal states in less than half a month, he still did not find the royal master who would attack him as he expected.
Even so, this did not affect the enthusiasm of the tribes ruled by Feng Bingwen for foreign conquests, because the cities that could stand in the wilderness ranged from tens of thousands to more than 100,000 people.
Capturing a city means gaining a lot of wealth, more delicious food, more comfort, more beautiful clothes, stronger and more durable weapons, and even armor forged from metal.
Everything outside the mountains intoxicated the barbarians who walked out of the mountains under the leadership of Feng Bingwen. Everything outside the mountains seemed too beautiful to them. Some even felt that they should have walked out of the mountains earlier.
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Because these people outside the mountains who have abundant resources and huge wealth are really too weak, even those warriors with special names cannot compete with their ordinary warriors.
"King, we have captured another city, and this is the seal held by the lord of that city!"
Feng Bingwen stood on the city wall, looking at the wilderness in the distance that was still full of primitive and wild atmosphere. Beside him, a tall warrior wearing metal armor knelt on the ground with one knee, holding a jade plate in both hands.
On the jade plate, there is a small square seal made of jade and a ring finger, which are symbols of the power of a certain prince.
After walking out of the mountains and coming into contact with the civilization outside the mountains, the barbarians, who were still no better than the primitive people despite being cheated by Feng Bingwen, finally changed.
They know that after being made into specific shapes with some rare substances, the people with the highest power will be given some special attributes, and holding these special symbols of power in their hands can reduce a lot of trouble.
"Um!"
Feng Bingwen turned his head and glanced, then responded lightly without taking it seriously.
"Get rid of it!"
"yes!"
Feng Bingwen has no special collecting habit. In his eyes, these things are not even as good as ornaments. However, if any of these things are left outside, it will trigger a rebellion. Although the rebellion is suppressed, for his soldiers,
, it’s not a big deal, but it is still a trouble after all, and the fewer things like trouble, the better.
"Where does that king live? Have you found out?"
After the soldier who brought the good news left with the symbol of power of a certain prince, Feng Bingwen asked the people standing beside him.
In the barbaric era, there were too many inconveniences. Wang Qi's nickname, which was respected by hundreds of princes, has been preaching in this land, but even those rulers who were high in the eyes of ordinary people were not many.
No one has ever truly seen that king.
They don't even know where the king is, because most of their positions were taken over from their fathers. They only know that the power they received was handed down by the prince at that time.
Of course, there is a more reasonable possibility, that is, the vassal states he is currently conquering are still in the border areas compared to the territory ruled by that king.
Therefore, even if he contributed to these vassal states, it would be difficult to get news from them, because most of them did not have the qualifications and ability to go to the audience.
"Your Majesty, we have found out that the false king lives in the south. I think it won't take long for us to find out the specific location for you!"
Upon hearing Feng Bingwen's question, a chief priest who followed him immediately answered respectfully.
Originally, among the many tribes in the mountains, theocratic power generally dominated the mainstream. However, after Feng Bingwen came to power and unified everything with powerful means, theocratic power became his vassal.
Because, the powerful ferocious beast that was enshrined by many tribal priests, had special abilities, and even possessed high enough wisdom, and was regarded as a god and worshiped by sacrifices, could still only wail under his hands and become a meal.
Under such circumstances, the so-called sacrifices that can communicate with the gods will naturally no longer be able to control the power of the tribe. Even such sacrifices in the mountain tribes will not be completely useless.
These priests all know some methods of curing diseases and saving lives, and they know the herbs that can cure diseases, which are the results of countless people in the mountains trying them with their own bodies.
Identifying herbal medicines is a very important knowledge inheritance for ethnic groups where injuries are a common occurrence. However, when the sacred spring is nearby, the sacrifice that is based on curing diseases and saving people has ceased to exist in name only and has become a witch doctor.
"South? What's the use of this kind of news? Go and find out more, I hope you won't keep me waiting too long!"
After receiving this kind of news, Feng Bingwen had no choice but to shake his head, but what could he do.
He admitted that under the current situation, his idea of successful in a battle seemed a bit unrealistic. After all, in this wilderness, the speed of message transmission was too damn fast.
He could even imagine such a situation. He tried his best to find the king, kill him and replace him. However, the vassal states scattered all over this wild land did not even know that the king had changed.
People's news.
Under such painful traffic conditions, it is still a long and arduous task for him to promote his own practice. This is not something that can be accomplished overnight or in a short period of time.
Fortunately, although the main body has not yet obtained the path to immortality, it is only one step away. This gives him a long enough lifespan. Even if he is only transformed into a drop of blood, he still has thousands of years to spend.
, and in such a long time, all problems are no longer problems.
"King, we will do our best and will never let you down again!"
"Well, everyone, please step back!"
Feng Bingwen waved his hand casually. He didn't have much feeling about his promotion from a leader of a wild tribe to a king, because he didn't care about it.
This was just something that the guys under him forcibly added to him after they knew that he had a more distinguished title. This seemed to give them a higher sense of honor.
Three days later, a giant eagle riding on scales appeared in the sky, and the warrior who stepped off it brought news that surprised Feng Bingwen.
The seemingly unstoppable pace of expansion of the tribe finally encountered a hard nut. They suffered a defeat for the first time, and the country of Fang, which left them defeated, seemed to have special domestication skills. The citizens living there seemed to be able to drive wild beasts for their own use.
Such a special opponent allowed the warriors, who had won successive victories and thus inevitably developed arrogance, to taste defeat for the first time.