Perhaps he was surprised that Hua Xi took the tribe's rise and fall and shame so seriously just after he joined the Shennong clan. He couldn't help but admire him and sighed: "I really didn't expect that Patriarch Hua Xi understands righteousness so well. If those arrogant and fierce untouchables can also have Patriarch Hua Xi,
With such broad-minded views, why should we be afraid of those barbarians! Alas—"
The clerk sighed deeply and told the general situation. It turned out that the "infighting" within the Yan Emperor Shennong's regime created an opportunity for foreigners in remote areas. The Shaohao clan rose in the east, and the Shaohao clan in the north
The Jiuli clan, the Xuanyuan clan in the northwest, etc. have all been eyeing the Yan Emperor Shennong clan's regime for many years. They have been interested in the fertile land and superior scenery of the Central Plains.
The geographical environment has long been coveted, and they are always looking for opportunities to invade the Central Plains. However, in the past, the Yan Emperor Shennong clan was united and powerful. They had a thief heart but not the courage. Now they heard that the Yan Emperor Shennong clan was in civil strife. They thought an opportunity was coming, so they started training.
His own tribe formed an army, invaded the territory of Yan Emperor Shennong's clan, and robbed the residents and property on the border of Shennong's clan.
After some sighs, the clerk, Hua Xi, and Bai Zhan strolled to the corner of the north gate. This is a residential area. According to the clerk, the entire Changyang City is five thousand steps long and five thousand steps long, and is a square square.
type, divided into nine major parts by the great chief Yugong
The large block in the middle is the administrative compound of the great chief, the ancestral temple, and the place where the nobles live. The Changyang tribe now has more than 300 nobles and nobles (large and small tribal chiefs and elders in the Changyang tribe territory), living in Changyang City.
There are about a hundred nobles, who are basically officials at all levels subordinate to the great chief Yugong. They have salaries. In addition, there are a few relatively large tribal chiefs in the city who occasionally come to Changyang City to live for a period of time from their own fiefdoms.
There are four pieces of land in the four corners of the northeast, southeast, northwest and southwest, which are the residential areas of more than 5,000 ethnic groups.
The other four blocks are the military camp, workshop area, market, warehouse, and two rivers dug from the Changyang River and running through the entire process. The Changyang River can be said to be the life river and mother river of the Changyang tribe. It has nurtured people for thousands of years.
The children and grandchildren of this land
The aristocratic residential area is not much to look at. Although it is where the aristocrats live, they are all low-rise earthen houses and courtyards. The situation in the civilian area is similar to that in the aristocratic area. However, the earthen wooden houses are much more crowded and the sanitary conditions are much worse. In the civilian area,
If they want to get water, the ethnic minority people often have to walk a long way to fetch water and take it home for use.
Hua Xi went to see in person, mainly military camps, workshop areas, trade markets and other places, because these places can vividly reflect the current productivity status of the Changyang tribe.
Zhengbei District is where military camps and training grounds are located
The reason why the North District is a military zone is because there is a large mountain more than 20 miles north of the city wall - Jinshan. Jinshan is not too high or too big, but the complex terrain and the mountains covering it
In a dense forest, many people live
The Shanrong (uncivilized, unruly barbarians) tribe poses a greater threat to the security of the city than Xuanyuan and Jiuli thousands of miles away. In order to allow the troops stationed in the city to respond quickly, the military zone
Set up in the north of the city by the chief
Although this is a military jurisdiction, Hua Xi is already a member of the aristocratic class of the Changyang tribe and is allowed to freely enter and exit the entire military jurisdiction. It is surrounded by a thick fence and horses, and dozens of small arrow towers. Each arrow tower
There are two or three archers on guard duty.
After a round of chatting, the junior official was now quite familiar with Hua Xi and Bai Zhan, and his conversation was much more easy-going than before. He pointed to a more obvious building in the center of the military camp and said: "Chief Hua Xi, that's my Changyang.
The chief military officer of the tribe...the place where Master Sima handles military affairs. If you have enough meritorious service, you can take up the position of military commander of our tribe here."
Hua Xi nodded, thinking that the Shennong clan has multiplied to this day and has entered the stage of transition from clan alliance to state form. The word Sima actually appeared. It is thought that some official titles in later feudal countries have been passed down from now on.
However, his current priority is to obtain a piece of his own fiefdom. He is currently not very interested in this military officer position. If there is an opportunity to participate in the war between Yan, Huang, and Chi You in the future, and fulfill his long-cherished wish in life, he may consider it.
The three of them then came to the recruiting office not far from Sima's military tent.
I saw two wooden signs erected in front of the door. One is for the Changyang tribe to recruit civilians and slaves. Those who meet the conditions can join the army and be promoted to soldiers. Of course, the civilians and slaves have different origins, and the treatment after joining the army is also different.
The difference is that slaves are often used as cannon fodder by generals to consume the enemy's morale and military strength.
One is for the tribal chiefs in the territory. The chiefs can recruit or purchase from the recruitment camp (buy the soldiers' deeds of betrayal and become the chief's lifelong tribesmen in disguise). Of course, in theory, the soldiers can redeem their deeds before saving enough.
) Civilians or slave soldiers in the Changyang tribe’s territory. However, a certain amount of copper coins must be paid for this.
This is equivalent to a labor market, adding an opportunity for some tribal chiefs with strong financial resources to expand the tribal population. As for what they buy people back for, I guess Yu Zeng is not interested in knowing. Of course, with a large population, chiefs who want to exchange for some copper coins can also buy them back.
Tribe slaves are brought here to be sold, but the price of slaves is very low. One commoner can be exchanged for seven strong slaves. It can be said that the fate of slaves here is dark and miserable, worse than a wild dog.
Many slave owners or chiefs like to buy some slaves here, and then pay some money to let the officers here train these slaves. In terms of quality, the quality of the officers of the Changyang tribe is indeed much higher than that of the generals of the Yuxia tribe. Although the training
Slaves were often beaten to death or starved to death on the way, but the "consumers" still liked to train them here.
Just as Hua Xi and Bai Zhan were looking around, there was a man in gray cloth with an arrogant look on his face, leading a group of scoundrels, driving an estimated number of more than a hundred slaves into the military camp, and looking at the greetings of the minor officials.
Without even looking at it, he just glanced at Hua Xi and Bai Zhan and walked straight towards Sima Camp.
Seeing a trace of anger on the little official's face, but not showing it, Hua Xi asked on a whim: "Sir, who is this? He actually has so many slaves!"
"Hmph, he is 'Dingkou', Sima's distant nephew!"
"Dingkou?" Hua Xi asked confused.
"He is the official responsible for accepting and trading slaves in the military camp. If this guy hadn't..."
Suddenly someone summoned him and asked the clerk to go and see the chief immediately. After the chief said a friendly farewell, Hua Xi and Bai Zhan continued to wander around the military camp to observe.
Both Yu and historical records confirm that a fiefdom is independent and is a place where a clan of people have relied on for survival for generations. Under normal circumstances, as long as the lord (chief) of the fiefdom does not do anything disobedient or against the previous category, as long as this
As long as the political power lasts, then this fiefdom belongs to this clan.
Just like the Kuiwu clan and the Shennong clan, Emperor Yan of the two clan backgrounds, their ancestors are all descended from the Shaodian clan. The Shaodian clan has lived in their own fiefdom for thousands of years during the Fuxi regime.
Hua Xi understood this clearly and started to care about it. In this way, the Changyang tribe was undoubtedly his rear area. Even if he had an independent fiefdom, he still maintained a close relationship with the Changyang tribe.
Thousands of connections
The two left the recruiting office and came to the training ground
At the infantry training ground, hundreds of infantry soldiers armed with spears and bronze swords were practicing infantry battle formations under the leadership of a military attache. Infantry battle formations are very traditional training and very structured. Hua Xi took a quick look and saw that there seemed to be archers.
, sword soldiers, spear soldiers (pike soldiers) three arms
Swordsmen derived from swordsmen, and spearmen derived from spears, halberds and other long weapons. It seems that they have not yet appeared in this era.
At the archer training ground, more than thirty archers armed with wooden bows and stone arrows were practicing shooting at straw targets. The range could reach about forty paces. The power of these bows and arrows was inferior to the bows and arrows they used before.
Not one and a half liang
However, what surprised Hua Xi was that there were actually stables here. Could it be said that cavalry had already appeared in Emperor Yan’s tribe? This seems to be a bit different from history. For example, the Xuanyuan clan in the later stages of the War for Hegemony only had the help of a newly surrendered tribe.
The first cavalry in human history was formed, and with the help of the cover of heavy fog, Chi You mistakenly believed that even wild beasts were tamed under the Yellow Emperor's command. Jiuli's army fell into chaos, eventually leading to a great defeat.
However, after asking, Hua Xi realized that it was not a combat cavalry. Like the Getian clan, the prairie where Emperor Yan lived had a large number of horses. After hundreds of years of contact, he gradually learned how to tame wild horses and use horses to carry goods.
The horses of the Changyang tribe are only used by tribesmen to detect the enemy or prey, that is, scouts-detection horses or scouts.
Hua Xi took a look and found that there were only horse reins, no saddles and stirrups. It seems that any seemingly simple thing (knowledge) in later generations requires hundreds of thousands of years of in-depth contact by ancestors to understand. Just like today's aircraft and cannons, maybe in
Thousands of years from now, even children may find it easier to cook than to eat.
It can be seen from the bulletin board that tribal chiefs can buy horses here. It seems that the Yandi tribe does have a large number of horse resources. It seems that Chi You has a large amount of copper resources. So Huangdi based on the current situation and his understanding of history
, it seems that "timing, timing, and people" were used to conquer the world. So at least the Shennong clan is still strong now, even if it is full of internal and external troubles.
Hua Xi decided to go to the market to see if a tribe was prosperous. The market was also a standard of measurement. Although the supplies he brought from China were consumed a lot during the voyage, he still took a few imitated fish, insects and animals with him when he disembarked.
The small porcelain made is very exquisite. This kind of luxury product can be exchanged for a considerable amount of copper coins here.
If you can exchange a certain amount of copper coins, you can take in some refugees, slaves, etc., and a tribe has been initially established.