The so-called hegemony of kings is nothing more than continuous conquest and expansion, gathering more people, occupying larger territories, and then educating and guiding them to achieve the integrated development of various tribes, and finally reach the point of prosperity and strength.
Population is the most critical factor.
It is said that history is created by people. Without a sufficient population, any king's plans and hegemony will be castles in the air.
Only those races with a large enough population can eventually create history, otherwise it can only become history.
As for the failure of the conquest... Xu Chen never considered it at all.
Bows and arrows plus war horses, this is already the most powerful war machine configuration of the feudal era empire. Although the current hunting skills of hunters are average and the quality of bows and arrows is also very poor, they are tens of thousands of years ahead of this era. As long as they do not seek death, they are completely
invincible.
A tribe of just a few hundred people can basically be dealt with in one face-to-face encounter, and they may be frightened without even having to fight.
Because in addition to bows and arrows and horses, there are also magical things like horns, leather drums and flags that are also beyond the times.
Not only is it powerful, it can also scare people.
For Xu Chen, the more tribes around, the faster his plan will be realized.
This strange tribe upstream is just like the poor tribe. It is so close that they must all be dragged into the bowl. No one can escape.
When to conquer and how to conquer depends on his mood.
But as the saying goes, it is better to rush early than to rush late.
Now that we have met and there happens to be a shortage of people, Xu Chen doesn't mind taking a chance first. Anyway, it will be a matter of time.
What's more, there has been no war for almost a year, and the team of hunters who insist on training every day should be pulled out for a while. After all, they have just been issued with new bronze weapons and dozens of more horses. They cannot be fed and trained every day.
After all, driving piles with nothing to do consumes energy.
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The Ji clan rested for a night, and the next day Xu Chen led a group of people on horseback to go downstream to survey the road leading to the Cang clan. There were several more hunters from the Ji clan in the team, so the team became larger and larger.
Xu Chen is still very familiar with the road from the Ji clan to the Cang clan, having walked back and forth three times.
This section of the road runs along the south bank of the Jicang River. Although there is no road, the terrain is very flat. Only one section of the road is narrow, which is the section of the river valley where the Gonghuo and Qia tribes were blocked last time.
This valley is relatively narrow. The mountains on both sides look like they were split in the middle, leaving a canyon about fifty meters wide. The mountains on both sides are relatively steep and covered with thorns, ancient vines and some weeds.
, it is basically impossible to climb. In some places, due to the year-round impact of summer floods, a large number of collapsed and broken rocks fell into the canyon, forming a huge boulder beach within the canyon and several miles downstream.
Nowadays, in autumn and winter, the river water drops and exposes dense rocks. It is not difficult to pass through on foot, but you must be extremely careful when riding a horse, otherwise you may injure your horse's hooves.
Rock Valley, this is the name Xu Chen gave to this section of the canyon before.
This section of the road looks very difficult.
Xu Chen looked back and forth here several times and found it very tricky.
For this reason, he also climbed up one side of the mountain under the leadership of the Ji tribe hunter to observe the terrain, hoping to find another path. However, unfortunately, the mountains on both sides of the canyon were all rock structures. Although they were only tens of meters high, the drop was
It completely cuts off the possibility of finding another way.
As for places farther away, Xu Chen didn't plan to look for them. Looking at the nearby mountain topography, even if he could go around, he would have to go around for at least seven or eight miles or even more than ten miles. The gain would not be worth the loss at all.
So after observing back and forth several times, Xu Chen had to go back to the canyon to observe carefully. In the end, he felt that there was only one way, and that was to use the same method used by the Ba people to open a road on the hillside at the entrance of the valley. After planning the route, he used
The method of burning fire and pouring water is to forcibly dig a road on the cliff. At the same time, the large rocks scattered in the valley are moved as far as possible under the cliff to form a roadbed like a river embankment. At the same time, the river can be dredged. It can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.
However, this project is much more difficult than the Ba section of the road, requiring at least ten times the workload.
Moreover, it is not easy to excavate and transport these huge boulders in the river. The small ones are useless as roadbeds and are easily destroyed by floods. The larger ones weigh several tons or even ten tons, making it difficult to handle them by manpower alone.
Of course, it's not impossible, it just takes a lot of manpower and time.
These boulders have been washed away by floods all year round, and their appearance is relatively smooth, and the surrounding sediment has been hollowed out. They are basically exposed in the river water. You only need to dig out some sediment to pry them off, and use horsepower.
In fact, rocks weighing several tons can also be moved.
In order to successfully build this section of road, Xu Chen went back and forth to carefully observe every cliff and even every big stone and carefully consider the treatment plan.
While he was observing and trying to think of a solution, the hunters from the Ji tribe had also gone to the Cang tribe to report. The leader, Heng, and several hunters quickly came over on horseback. A large group of people followed Xu Chen, listening to his careful gestures and narration.
How to deal with difficult situations and almost never let go of any trouble.
Xu Chen stayed in the 100-meter-long river valley for nearly three hours before riding his horse and continuing down the Cangzu.
After passing the Rock Valley, the journey less than ten miles downstream is even flatter. It is basically a flat river beach. You only need to find a place where the river cannot be flooded in summer and level out the roadbed. Overall, the amount of work on this road is huge.
It is much smaller than the Bau Avenue, but the section of the Rock Valley is quite difficult. It is estimated that one-third of the manpower and time will be spent in that area of only a hundred meters.
However, as long as that section of the intestinal obstruction road is opened, there will be smooth traffic and no barriers between the two Ji Cang tribes.
After staying one night with the Cang tribe, Xu Chen took Feng and a group of hunters on horseback and continued downstream to the Qia tribe.
The people from other tribes who followed Long and others all returned to their tribes and mobilized their tribesmen to start building roads.
The road currently being planned was named Bagong Avenue by Xu Chen.
From the Ba tribe to the Gonghuo tribe, it passes through the two major alliances and is more than two hundred miles in length. The final plan will extend from the Gonghuo tribe to the mouth of the Jicang River. A dock will be built on the bank of the Wulong River to connect with the Yugong tribe on the other side and the upstream.
The Ba ethnic group and the U ethnic group raft and boat docking.
This road connects eight tribes including Ba, Wu, Muya, Ji, Cang, Qia, Lei and Gonghuo, connecting almost more than half of the tribes of the two major ethnic groups.
However, although the plan is simple, it is not easy to actually implement it and complete it.
The more than 30-mile Bawu Avenue took more than a month with the cooperation of the two most powerful and wealthy tribes. There is no need to think too much about other sections. The difficulty and time-consuming construction will be greater and longer. Within a year
Absolutely impossible to fix.
But everything is difficult at the beginning, this must be done, and Xu Chen will never give up just because it is difficult.
Because once this road is built, it will be like an artery has been opened between the entire Ba ethnic group and the Gonghuo ethnic group. The exchange of people and goods will be greatly improved. The entire northwest bank of Wulong River and Jicang River
The river basin will be completely revitalized, instead of the current situation where each ethnic group develops independently and never interacts with each other.
Fifty miles downstream from the Cang people is the Qia people, passing by the Yinlong Gorge and the Golden River. Most of the terrain along the way is very flat, with only a few places that are difficult to navigate, and those places will be more troublesome for road construction in the future.
However, construction on this stretch of road will not start this year.
First, this section of the road is quite long, as much as fifty miles, and there are not enough manpower and time.
In addition, this section of the road is a transportation artery connecting the two major ethnic groups, the Bameng and the Gonghuo Meng. It is an overall project and needs to be developed jointly by the two alliances, rather than burdening the two small and medium-sized tribes of the Cang and Qia tribes.
Therefore, on the way from the Cang Clan to the Qia Clan, Xu Chen basically just walked by and looked at the flowers without stopping much to observe.
This time his main goal is the regional transportation planning of the Gonghuo Alliance.
In the next half month, Xu Chen led more than a dozen hunters of the Ba tribe to ride back and forth among the seven or eight tribes surrounding the Gonghuo Basin.
Traveling at sunrise and resting at sunset, we climbed over mountains and ridges and waded across rivers under the guidance of hunter guides from different tribes. We constantly improved the road plans on the transportation plan. While leaving various place names and marks, we also targeted these plans.
Careful guidance and solutions were given to difficult construction areas on the path, and only after the accompanying hunters understood them did they go to the next place.
At the end of September, the mountains and fields are already turning red and yellow.
But the temperature in Gonghuo Basin is not cold, and you can even see large green trees and wild grasses in many places.
You can also see wild flowers blooming on some valleys and riverbanks.
In this lush autumn color, there are fewer snakes, insects, rats and ants, but there are more sweet-tasting wild fruits, and the wild animals are even fatter and stronger. It is the best time for hunting.
Therefore, this journey seems tiring, but in fact it is also very rewarding. You can eat different fresh meat almost every day.
And every time Xu Chen visited a tribe, he would inevitably attract warm cheers.
All the tribes regarded him as the most distinguished guest and entertained him with all their hospitality. Although there was no fine wine or food, any food they had would be brought out for worship.
Even in order to win the favor of His Majesty the Witch King’s gods, almost all tribes will arrange for the youngest and stockiest women in the tribe to sleep with them.
However, these arrangements were rejected by Xu Chen.
He refuses to sleep with a woman he doesn't know and has no emotional basis for.
The last stop of the Gonghuo Alliance's inspection was the Gonghuo Clan.
Another year has passed, and the changes in the Gonghuo Clan have become even more obvious.
Last winter in December, Xu Chen returned from exploring the lower reaches and stayed here for half a month. Not only did he inspect and guide the joint construction planning of the five large and small tribes including the Gonghuo Tribe, the Lei Tribe, and the Five Ghost Tribes, but he also went there
A poor man finally got the tin he dreamed of.
Now, most of the original plans have become reality.
Near the foot of the mountain outside the Gonghuo Mountain Col, within four miles up and down, several large houses have been built one after another, including mud-brick courtyards and stilted wooden buildings. Although they all look simple and rough, it is undeniable that these are
A house where real humans live.
A two-meter-wide dirt road undulates along the terrain at the foot of the mountain, connecting all five nearby tribes together. There are ditches on the roadside with water flowing in them. There is a pond near each house.
, and the water is rippling inside.
In front of and behind several houses, you can still see several slender bamboos standing upright, with green branches and leaves swaying in the autumn wind, which looks unique.
The wooden platform where the great shaman inheritance ceremony was held in the past is no longer there, and has been replaced by two rows of thatched sheds, surrounded by a wall made of mud and stones.
A group of children were chasing and playing inside, and a few horses were tied around the wall, wagging their tails and eating hay.
This is the trading area originally planned by Xu Chen, but it hasn’t been put to use yet.
Xu Chen rode a horse and stood on a slightly higher slope, looking around at everything in front of him.
There is a sense of strangeness in the familiarity, but we can no longer see the wild and wild scene with weeds everywhere when we first came here two years ago. Instead, there is a somewhat familiar rural scenery.
The old witch from the Wu tribe, the little witch from the Five Ghost tribe, as well as a large group of tribe leaders and hunters who had captured the Fire Tribe's army surrounded him, all of them with excited faces.
They have all experienced and witnessed the changes and prosperity of this river beach.
And the one who changed everything was the young man in front of him who was covered with dust.
His leather armor was stained with mud, and the red cloak billowing in the wind had begun to fade, and was even damaged and stained with other colors.
But his body exudes an aura that is incomparably awe-inspiring, and his calm and indifferent face always carries a calm and breezy persistence.
Every word he said was profound, and everything he did became reality.
"Everyone, Wuqia Avenue must be repaired this winter. I hope everyone will work together!"
Xu Chen pointed with his riding whip to the northwest of the upper reaches of the Jicang River.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty the Witch King, we promise to repair it!"
The old witch, the little witch and a group of clan leaders nodded almost simultaneously.
"Well, I'll leave it to you. In fact, I hope to be able to come by carriage to next year's witchcraft conference, and the trading market in front of me will welcome carriages and horses from various tribes and countless goods. In the future, this place will definitely become
The most prosperous and lively place..."
Xu Chen's unreasonable words made everyone feel a little dazed. Lei reminded him with confusion: "Your Majesty the Witch King, the Witch Blessing Conference is in Bazu Ga!"
"No, starting from next year, the witchcraft conference will be held here. After all the roads are repaired, this will be the most suitable place to hold the gathering. The valley of the Ba people is too small. From now on, only the Spring Mother's Day will be held, because
The Mother Goddess lives there!" Xu Chen explained with a smile and shook his head.
There was a violent uproar and commotion from the crowd. The old witch was so surprised that she almost dropped her staff. After coughing violently for a while, she grabbed Xu Chen's arm tremblingly and asked with excitement and surprise on her face: "Is your Majesty the Witch King really good?"
"Well, I have already discussed this matter with the great witch, and she also agrees with my idea. Therefore, I hope you will speed up the construction of this road, and also build as many roads as possible between the Qia and Cang tribes, so that
Only then will more carriages come with various goods. I'm leaving, so take care, I'll come again in the spring!"
Xu Chen nodded with a smile, then knocked the horse's belly, and led a group of hunters such as Gu Heju and others, raising flags and whips, and rushed down the slope, along the edge of the large farmland, and upstream along the Jicang River.
Several long and low horn sounds came from the clatter of horse hooves, and a burst of cheers instantly broke out among the crowd who came to see him off.
His Majesty the Witch King has moved the venue of the Wu Zhu Conference to the Gonghuo Clan. This is undoubtedly great news.
This place will definitely become more prosperous and lively in the future.