Invincible urban management

Chapter 15. A small country with few people

After night fell, sitting around the burning bonfire, Wen Desi introduced the current situation of the country to Ma Tong and Wang Qiu.

At present, the exiled regime of the Hunxiutizgan Kingdom under the rule of Chief Awaha still has a population of about 2 and a control area of ​​thousands of square kilometers.It is a kingdom in name, but if it is placed in the modern China of later generations, it is only the population size of a town.The number of students in the university where Wang Qiu is studying is more than the total population of this country!

——After hearing Wen Desi's introduction, Wang Qiu immediately gave the chief of Awaha, who had not met, the title of "Hongxiutizgan Township Chief" in his mind, and Wen Desi This door-to-door son-in-law is the next "Hongxiutiz Gan Township Chief" appointed by default...

Among them, Chief Awaha brought nearly 1 people to live next to a small lake inland, relying on the wood obtained from felling forests, and built a relatively simple central city-state (in modern times, it is an ordinary village. scale).

As for the remaining six villages, they are all distributed along the coastline in a belt shape, stretching for nearly fifty kilometers.Between the city-states and the villages, they are connected with each other by paths paved with sand, and the roadsides are scattered with newly reclaimed farmland, where corn, cotton, and other fruits and vegetables are grown.

The village where Wen Desi lives is the largest among the six fishing villages, second only to his father-in-law's central city-state, with about [-] residents.The villagers basically make a living by planting corn and fishing. Occasionally, they organize themselves to hunt in the forest with stone spears and knives.At the same time, relying on the export of sea salt and salted fish, they can also exchange some necessities from other tribes through the caravans organized by themselves in the tribe.

Since the history of this village is not long, it was only built by burning wasteland more than two years ago.Relying on the moisture from the plant ash during the burning, the fertility of the arable land is not bad. Therefore, although the labor force is somewhat insufficient, the corn production in the past two years is basically enough to make a living.

About two years ago, in the north of this regime in exile, near the ruins of the old capital of the Hunxiutizgan Kingdom, there was once a 1000-strong Aztec Empire Expeditionary Army stationed in charge of defending the Aztec Empire. Extort tribute from surrounding tribes.Although the number of this enemy army is small, and it is not the elite main force, it can still pose a serious threat to this unstable regime in exile.

However, as the Aztec Empire suffered a disastrous attack on the Tlaxcalans for the fourth time, rebellions broke out in the Valley of Mexico. This army has been transferred back to Gyeonggi by Emperor Montezuma II to calm the chaos. Since then, there have been no enemies in the territory.

Currently, the biggest problem within the Hongxiutizgan Kingdom lies in the serious imbalance in the sex ratio of the population.

To be more precise, the ratio of men to women is extremely imbalanced, with too few men and too many women.

——As I said before, the Hongxiutizgan Kingdom at this time has a total of seven villages and towns with a population of 2.But among them, women accounted for 3000, while men only accounted for [-].Moreover, even among these three thousand men, more than half of them are young boys or old men, and there are only about one thousand real young and middle-aged men.Whether it is the strong labor force for farming and fishing, or the soldiers who can go to battle, there is a serious shortage.

Therefore, under the current circumstances, it is very common for a young man to marry ten wives.

Although Chief Avaha has been working hard to gather those who were separated in the war for the past two years, but the total number of Hongxiutizgans was originally small—before the invasion of the Aztec Empire, Hongxi The Hutizgan Kingdom is a remote country with a vast land and few people.

In the temperate zone, early human civilizations generally appeared on the alluvial plains of coastal areas in the lower reaches of large rivers, because it is most suitable for the development of agricultural production there, such as Chinese civilization, Egyptian civilization and Mesopotamian civilization.However, in the tropics, compared with the plateau mountainous areas with a cool climate, the coastal plains, which are humid, hot and rainy all the year round, with barren and acidified land, are not very suitable places for human settlements.

Therefore, in Central and South America, the territories of the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire were basically located between plateaus and mountains, but they dismissed the humid and sweltering tropical rain forests—the Aztec Empire had never I thought about conquering Panama, and the Inca Empire was also persistently expanding northward along the Andes Mountains. It just stretched the territory into a thin strip, but it never conquered the vast Amazon jungle to the east.

In short, in the ancient tropics, plateaus and mountains were densely populated places, while coastal plains were desolate and remote places.

For example, the Aztec Empire, located in the southern valley of the Mexican plateau at an altitude of more than 2000 meters, had a territory of only 10 to 15 square kilometers at its peak, equivalent to about three It's only one-tenth of Japan, which is similar to the area of ​​modern South Korea.And the core territory that can really be effectively ruled is only the tens of thousands of square kilometers of the most fertile land in the Valley of Mexico.

But such a small "empire" had a population of 1500 million in the Stone Age!Similar to China in Qin Shihuang's time!

The Hunxiutizgan Kingdom, located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, is not as vast as the Aztec Empire, but it also has 3 to 5 square kilometers of land, which is equivalent to half of Zhejiang Province.Unfortunately, due to the country's low-lying terrain and the barren land between the tropical rainforests, the total population of the country has never reached 100 million... No wonder it couldn't defeat the densely populated and numerous soldiers of the Aztec Empire.

However, on the other hand, fewer people also have the benefits of fewer people.Due to the large land and sparse population of the Hongxiutizgan Kingdom.Therefore, the potential enemies around are all very far away from this regime in exile in space—the capital of the Aztec Empire in the later Mexico City is 300 kilometers away; The Chimeks generally move about 500 kilometers away.On the southern coast, Tehuantepec, a large Mayan city-state closest to the Hunxiutizgan Kingdom, is also five days away.

Although there are often trade exchanges between the city of Tehuantepec and the Kingdom of Hunxiutizgan - Mayan merchants with large canoes appear on the sea basically every month - but in this era With the technical conditions, it is basically impossible to launch a cross-sea expedition.

What's more, today's Tehuantepec city has also been conquered by the Aztec Empire and has become a vassal city-state of the Aztecs.Before obtaining the permission of Emperor Montezuma, the Mayans in this city had no right to launch foreign wars unless they rebelled.

Therefore, after the expeditionary force of the Aztec Empire withdrew and Emperor Montezuma agreed to negotiate peace, the country was free from foreign troubles for the time being.

And within this dilapidated kingdom, Chief Avaha, who currently controls a population of 2, is also the most powerful force.The remaining small tribes that were dispersed generally had a size of no more than 3000 to [-] people. At most, they wanted to continue to be du li politically and refused to listen to the orders of Chief Awaha, but they had no strength or ambition to commit crimes. Make a rebellion and replace Chief Avaha, a legitimate descendant of the royal family.

However, in order to avoid irritating the Aztecs, and because there are still many forces in the country that have not yet been conquered, Awaha has never dared to formally inherit the throne, and only ordered his troops in the name of "Great Chief" or "Great General". public only.

Generally speaking, unless the Aztec imperial army returns, there is no survival crisis for the kingdom yet.

And in real history, the army of the Aztec Empire never set foot on this land again—because the Spaniards came!