When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

"Wrong." Xin Qu shook his head, "I originally came from the Xin clan, and we are of the same lineage as the Shang clan. Later, in order to disintegrate the Si clan lineage, the Shang clan threw us into the Si clan tribes, hoping to disintegrate them from the middle.

But in the end, as you can see, we were forced to migrate all the way west and north, and eventually I, a member of the Yao clan who was incorporated during the migration, became the Youxin clan.

Afterwards, I established a country in Youzhou and created a surname.

The purpose was to avoid being involved in the struggle in the South.

We are all family, and it would be really boring to fight each other every day.

If you want to trade or technology, I welcome you at any time.

But they want us to directly participate in the melee in Central Plains.

I refuse.

Although our Yan State was founded on military power, we will never fight a meaningless war.

The Hungarian side participated in your Central Plains War without actually saying hello to me.

My Lord, I have already ordered them to be arrested and sent back. After that, the Huns will move north and graze their livestock in the Black Water Basin. They will not easily interfere in the war in the south. "

"This..." The two young masters of the Zhao family wanted to say something, but Gui Xuesheng stopped them and said, "I wonder where Bei Bo is going to fight this time?"

"Clean up the various northern Di tribes." Xin Qu replied, "Also, move the descendants of the Xia Dynasty who were left behind on the grasslands inland. Previously, the Xia clan from the southern Qiang came and reported the news from the north, including the news from the Xuanming clan and others.

I have to go and gather them together.

Although the State of Yan could not directly go to war with the Central Plains, it was still able to provide them with a stable environment in which to live.

Just think of it as me, the king of many generations, doing my part to improve the lives of the remaining Xia people."

"In that case, then please ask Beibo to open the market in the General Anxi's Mansion. After all, the Zhao family has returned to Bindi."

"Yes." Xin Qu said, and then looked at him, "Are you interested in joining the army? Just to broaden your horizons?"

"This... is of course excellent. However, I still need to discuss this with the two gentlemen."

After saying that, Gui Xuesheng looked at the two young men and said in their native language: "Leave one to accompany the army on the expedition, and one to go back and inform the Zhao family. Make preparations for both situations. This time we will follow the army and choose a stronghold in the north as a trading place to facilitate the continuous purchase of resources.

By the way, find out where the descendants of the Xia Dynasty in the north are.

Maybe you can even win over a group of people."

The two young masters exchanged glances and quickly agreed.

Since they were chosen by the Zhao family to be trained as heirs, they could not be fools. At most, when they first arrived, they had never seen prosperity and were corrupted to a certain extent.

But the IQ is still online.

Xin Qu talked about his own bloodline, saying that it was not an exaggeration to say that he was the essence of the entire Central Plains.

Using the clan name of the remaining tribes of the Xia Dynasty, being influenced by the Shang witch culture, inheriting the Youyu bloodline, they also opened up the future of the Yan surname.

It is clear that you and I have a karmic connection. If you can't figure it out and want to fight, don't drag me into it. I have created my own surname, and I live in the borderland, free and unfettered.

If you are worried that I will send troops south and want to reap benefits from behind.

That's fine. I'll go to the northern desert to bring back the escaped descendants of the Xia dynasty, and wipe out the Semites in the northwest, making the area my own.

Now that my main force has moved north, you won’t be able to find an excuse to cause trouble.

As for how many of the remaining followers of the Xia Dynasty the Zhao family can persuade to join the anti-Shang camp, that all depends on their own abilities.

Anyway, I only do business and don't get involved.

So the army rested in Datong for a few days, and Zixun's delegation arrived late.

"Bei Bo is really in a good mood. At this time, he still has the mind to hunt in the north."

The delegation was composed of old acquaintances.

Zi Ping, Che Zuo of Zi Xun, now he has a surname.

He was given the title of Marquis: Xihou, hence the name Xi.

As for the origin of the title, it was his armor, which was made of rhinoceros skin.

That’s right, there were rhinos in the Central Plains at that time, and there were quite a lot of them.

Seeing that it was Zi Ping, Xin Qu ignored his teasing and said with a smile: "I don't want to intervene in the fight between you and the remaining tribes of the Xia Dynasty, nor can I intervene.

I have a close blood relationship with the various ethnic groups in the Central Plains. In the final analysis, we are one family. But because the blood relationship is too close, I can only be forced to create an independent surname, establish my own country, and guard the periphery alone to prevent foreign invasion.

The main purpose of this trip north is to eliminate the foreign Semu forces. They have expanded a lot recently, plundering the grasslands everywhere, and many descendants of the Xia Dynasty have been killed. But you are still in the civil war and don't care about the invasion of the surrounding Rongdi barbarians, so let it be.

What I have to do now is to deal with them.

In the following three years, I would organize a hunt in the north every year.

As long as the Shang people don’t go north to Taihang and cross Zhuodi, you can do whatever you want in the Central Plains.”

Zi Ping's face darkened: "Shangdang is our territory, but the Tufang invaded and occupied it, and even the State of Yan sent troops."

"Given the geographical environment, it would be difficult for the isolated Yan State to feel safe without the Taihang Mountains.

Therefore, what the Shang clan needs to do now is to improve their internal governance and change their mindset instead of just killing people blindly.

If the Shang clan really wants to force Yan into the anti-Shang alliance, I don’t mind, but I’m afraid that Zixun will get your head as soon as he finds out.”

"You!" Zi Ping looked grim and clenched his fists several times.

But the size of Yan State is indeed not to be forced to revolt. More importantly, the speed of development is too fast.

Behind Xin Qu were five thousand Jinwu and imperial guards, all wearing armor. Such a configuration was enough to flatten any country in the world.

Even the Shang people did not have so much armor.

terrible!

Xin Qu ignored his anger, shook his head and said, "Okay, you arrange for someone to go back and tell Zixun. As long as the business alliance continues and trade is smooth, everything can be discussed. Otherwise, in order to protect the trade line, I may send troops.

But politically, you can do whatever you want.

As for you, follow me north and see the evil deeds of the Semites, and you will understand why I have to send troops on such a long expedition."

"..."

Zi Ping finally weighed the pros and cons and nodded.

He really wanted to know why Xinqu raised an army at this time.

In fact, Xin Qu was also quite helpless.

It's not just because the ethnic sentiments in the Northwest are complicated, but also because the traveler from the Xia family came last time and told him a bombshell news.

The remaining troops of the Xia Dynasty returned westwards across the quicksand and the impassable mountains.

What this means is that they walked all the way to the northwest, probably the Pamir Mountains area, and turned back because they couldn't go any further.

But later on, we learned about it through correspondence with other tribes.

This group of people, including the Xia clan, split up their forces when passing through Liusha, and went all the way through the Beishan Mountain, and no one knew whether they returned or not.

In other words, the Xia family went to the southern border, but were blocked by the mountains and forced to return.

The other group went to northern Xinjiang, which has an exit.

There is a high probability that they walked out.

And recently more and more Semites have appeared in the Northwest.

Xinqu further speculated on the time and concluded that the next few decades were the period of Wu Ding in history.

In the tomb of Wu Ding's daughter-in-law Fu Hao, there were human sacrifice pits containing a large number of white people's bones.

It can be basically confirmed that this group of people did not appear in the northwest for no reason and were captured by Fu Hao.

Instead, it was a group of remnants of the Xia Dynasty who returned and forced Wu Ding to kill them.

Because they have been away from home for too long, their bloodline has gradually been assimilated by the outside population and they have become something else.

In order to form a large scale and number and finally be worshipped, it must be a population of a certain size, and it was only possible to form it through gradual migration inland.

In this way, Xinqu combined various intelligence and calculated that it is highly likely that a group of people from these tribes have already appeared and lived near the Altai Mountains.

Intelligence gathered from the North does suggest this is a possibility.

He didn't want the grassland boundaries he had worked so hard to organize to be invaded by foreign forces that passed through the vacuum area and occupied the northern grasslands he had worked so hard to organize.

You know, the nomadic empire is the absolute enemy of the agricultural empire, and the risk must be eliminated.

At least he could clear a vacuum zone in advance to ensure that there would be no invasion for 20 to 30 years, making it easier for him to run the country later.

So the army set out to the north. (End of this chapter)