Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 176 The time has not come yet
Now that Xiqi has moved Mount Qi to the east, Ji Dan and Nangong Shi are leading their troops to resist the Yin and Shang army. They can easily "look down from a high position and be unstoppable". The army of Dong Bohou is far away from their hometown, is not used to the climate and water, and has low morale. So far, they have suffered more defeats than victories.

Crown Prince Bo Yikao coordinated all parties, allocated supplies, and handled internal affairs.

The second son, Ji Fa, led his elite troops to the west to fight against the Western Rong people. It was said that he won six battles in a row, defeated the nomadic people, and brought back a large number of horses, cattle, sheep and prisoners.

Chong Yingbiao, the son of Chong Houhu, the Northern Marquis, said that Ji Chang, the Western Marquis, "only knows how to plow the fields. Even if he wears armor, he's still just a farmer from Xiqi, and he reeks of manure!"

This statement may sound sarcastic, but it also indirectly illustrates a fact, that is, King Ji Chang of the Western Zhou Dynasty was very concerned about farming and was good at farming.

After Mount Qi was moved, Ji Chang used his strengths to lead his people in farming.

In the past year, Xiqi has recovered some of its decline, and its national strength has slowly risen from the bottom.

After the harvest, there was surplus grain to make wine. Some of it was drunk by the people themselves to boost national morale, and the rest was sold. It was a good plan, but no one expected that King Zhou would go crazy and want to ban alcohol. This was too hurtful.

Now Xiqi sent San Yisheng here just to find a sales channel.

Deng Chanyu was ready to eat it all. She had many generals on her side, and how could a fighting man not drink?

The Deng family governed Nanjun for three years. They purchased a lot of grain from outside and vigorously reclaimed the land. There was a trend of a small ice age in the north, but it was not so serious in the south. Now the army was well-trained and the food was sufficient.

General Deng did not ban alcohol, but he did not encourage brewing either. Now they just happened to be drinking the wine from Xiqi, and if there was any surplus, they would sell it to the State of Shu.

Not to mention later generations, even in the Shang Dynasty, many records about the previous dynasty, that is, the Xia Dynasty, are actually vague. Where the capital was, how many years and generations it lasted, and what major events happened are all "guessed" with eyes closed. However, everyone remembers very clearly that Du Kang brewed wine in the Xia Dynasty!
True. Word of mouth.

In the eyes of many nobles, fine wine is much more important than the history of the Xia Dynasty!

The wine-making technology in the Central Plains has a history of more than a thousand years, from Du Kang in the Xia Dynasty to the time of King Zhou. This technology is beyond the reach of Shu Kingdom.

Selling fine wine to Shu is like selling liquid gold.

"Everything depends on the governor."

San Yisheng has no objection to who the wine is sold to. If you have the ability, you can sell it to aliens. I just want my share of the profits.

After seeing San Yisheng off, Deng Chanyu wrote a letter to Deng Ai in Hanzhong, asking him to try to establish a trade route to Shu.

The surrendered old priest Jiu still has some relatives and friends who can be used. In Deng Chanyu's view, the slave state of Shu is full of sieves. It will be no problem to build up connections and sell some wine there.

Ten days later, Deng Ai personally rushed back to Nanjun.

To show his familiarity, he even used the old name: "Miss, Hanzhong already has 30,000 soldiers stockpiled, and food and fodder piled high like a mountain. We've already explored two routes to Jinsha City under the guise of escorting a caravan. Why not..."

Deng Ai's words and actions meant only one thing: What business are we in? Can't we just rob them?
These days, the various states of China are very aggressive, and it is common for them to annex backward civilizations with their own powerful civilizations.

Chaoge has no demands on Shu. If you want to fight, then fight. Whether you win or lose, it’s your own business.

Deng Chanyu never launched a large-scale war to conquer Shu because she wanted to practice and had no time.

She also worried about the embarrassment of future generations who, while painstakingly excavating the Jinshadui and Sanxingdui ruins, would unearth a stone tablet inscribed with the words "Eternal Sinner, Civilized Executioner, Vanguard of the Destruction of Shu, Deng Chanyu." However, the present moment presented a good opportunity. The plague that had previously ravaged Nanjun had spread southwestward, driven by the climate and the presence of mosquitoes and flies.

The nobles and priests of Jinsha City did not want to see slaves spread the plague, so they chose to exile and kill them.

Disasters plagued the Shang Dynasty, leaving the people destitute and plagued by war. Shu was in even worse shape, plagued not just by one disease but also by earthquakes, floods, and locust plagues.

Deng Chanyu looked at the crude map and said, "No, the battle line is too long. We can't kill them all with one strike. So, I'll allocate another 100,000 menial workers to you. Under the guise of selling alcohol, you must build me a city west of Hanzhong."

She picked up her pen, drew a circle on the map, and wrote the name of the city, Yinping.

She continued, "I will give you another 3,000 kilograms of gold and 5,000 kilograms of silver. Use them to bribe the nobles of Jinsha City and Sanxing City, and set them on a war. The more brutal the fight, the better. At the same time, find the leaders of the slave uprising in Jinsha City and tell them that if they fight for me, the Han will give them their freedom, and even give them official positions."

After Deng Jiugong obtained the title of Duke of Han, Nanjun regarded itself as Han to the outside world.

San Yisheng had hinted at this several times before and after, and now that the Deng family had surrendered, the Zhou State would also recognize the title of Duke of Han.

This is much better than the treatment Huang Feihu, the King of Wucheng in the original time and space, received when he surrendered and became a "minor general".

Deng Chanyu was not exaggerating when she said that many ethnic groups in the south had been sinicized. The seal of the Han Dynasty's Grand Commander Deng was much more useful in the south than the banner of the Shang Dynasty.

Thousands of mountains and rivers separate us. Where is the Shang Dynasty? I don’t know. I’ve never heard of it!

I only know about the Han Dynasty, but not the Shang Dynasty.

Before we knew it, it was the eleventh year since King Zhou ascended the throne.

King Zhou's eldest son Yin Jiao was born five years before he ascended the throne, and his second son Yin Hong was born three years before he ascended the throne. Now Yin Jiao is sixteen years old and Yin Hong is fourteen years old.

It has been five years since Deng Chanyu traveled through time, three years since Wen Zhong conquered the North Sea, Nezha is already two years old, and more than half a year has passed since Deng Jiugong went to Chaoge City.

The original plan was for Deng Jiugong to go there, and Deng Xiu and Huang's sister-in-law to return to Nanjun. However, half a year has passed, and King Zhou has been reluctant to release them.

Deng Chanyu immediately went to Chaoge. She wanted to see the situation. The Deng family was too powerful and could hardly hide. If it really didn't work, then let's go through all the difficulties and rebel!

By the way, she also had to deal with Li Jing's affairs. To the Lord Haotian, it could be said that the ancestor of the Styx used his supernatural powers to destroy Chentang Pass, but the memorial to King Zhou could not be written in the same way.

If it were really written, King Zhou would definitely ask: "The Styx? Where is the Styx? Call out, will there be a response?"

When King Zhou was angry, he even killed his own son, let alone Li Jing, who was a distant relative.

Deng Chanyu was prepared to help smooth things over and replace Li Jing's general from Chentang Pass with the general from Sanshan Pass.

The land of Chentang Pass was polluted by the sea of ​​blood. Now, not only is there no grass growing, let alone farming. Deng Chanyu wanted to relocate the local people to Nanjun.

She didn't think this was a big problem. King Zhou would often "send" a thousand or ten thousand human sacrifices to his ancestors. He didn't care about the population at all.

(End of this chapter)