It was the simple conversation about the simple difference between "heat" and "chosen", which made the sigh and chopsticks, who should have been in their eyes, meet again with everyone's safety.?

The chopsticks grew taller, but she still looked the same, so the chopsticks recognized at a glance that they were the uncle who gave him wool felt boots, and they were so happy.

"Uncle, can I join the army after I finish my studies? I want to follow you to fight."

The child looked at Ai, but Ai still shook his head and said, "I can decide whether he can go to war with me."

Alas, he could not make any promises. Even if he was a general, his personal guards could only be arranged by the superiors. It was strictly forbidden to raise private soldiers and even forbidden to appoint personal guards by himself.

"Why?" The child was quite puzzled.

"This is the rule." After using the simplest reason, the child did not ask more questions, and felt that this reason was indeed difficult to refute.

The two of them chatted for a long time and then they parted. They each had their own things to do. Xinhua City was a model for the entire Xia Kingdom to conquer the other cities in the future, so many new things must be tried here.

After that meeting, Kuao went to the school and began to learn simple scripts of enlightenment. The next time the two met was in the second year, the summer of the thirty-nine year.

The people from the Construction Department came to Xinhua City from Yucheng. They took advantage of the summer to build two rammed earth fortresses outside the city and built complete earth walls along the hillside, preparing to improve the defense system of Xinhua City.

This kind of labor can be exchanged for copper coins. Copper coins can be purchased instead of renting them, and many other things can be purchased. The purchase price of grain is very low, so most people with small land choose to come here to work.

It is said that children are not used, and they can’t get money if they come, but she saw the figures of chopsticks and a group of children. It is obvious that chopsticks have become the head of the children in the school.

From a distance, I heard Chorus saying to the children: "Although we are young, we can still move a few stones. The city wall was built, and those who wanted to capture us as slaves could not get in..."

Alas, it was funny, and walked over and scolded, asking, "Why don't you go to school? The taxes you pay are not something you can mess around. Go and go, it's not as high as a pickaxe, so what's up here?"

Kuaxi laughed and said, "Today we have rested, our husbands have all gone to bed."

"Then you can practice writing and counting by yourself. Do you know how to do it? Besides, in addition to learning to recognize words, don't you also practice holding spears in a queue?"

"I have already recognized a lot of words, and the new textbook has not yet been released."

"You recognize more, and everyone recognizes more? Now this matter cannot be used. If you really want to contribute to Xia Guo, you might as well teach your friends to recognize more words. How many of them do you know?"

He scolded a few more words and drove the children away, and the adults next to him laughed.

Although he scolded and laughed, he felt that everything this child did was very good to his taste, because his name was Ai, but this child was once angry about being fed. This was a person who survived the despair of being a slave.

Such people have their own understanding of the world, and some people seem ridiculously love and hate.

Not long after, Ai Li heard the name of Chorus again.

In July, we pick cotton wools. This is the trial-planting cotton. Only some of them are planted in public areas. Once it rains, it may be ruined, so some of them need to be picked as soon as possible.

After the chopsticks were finished, they helped pick cotton bolts. They never stopped every evening. The children were in the first half of the day and couldn't pick much in a day. However, they were well-made. The reason was probably because they were once a slave but now they have become human. In his heart, he believed that everything he did was for Xia Guo, the thing that made him turn from a slave into a human.

While picking cotton bolts, I haven't missed my studies yet. In the assessment, I was the best among the same group of children in middle school. As someone came here to inspect, the young chopsticks won a bronze labor medal that many people don't have, which was once a good story.

Many people believe that the fate of this child will turn, so they asked Kuao what he wanted to do in the future. Kuao said to go to war, and if he can get into the education class after the war, he will teach in Xinhua City so that more children can recognize words.

This answer made Li sigh for a long time, so another year later, Yucheng issued an order, requiring Xinhua City to prepare a group of excellent qualities, able to simply recognize words, count, and identify with Xia Kingdom. They perform well and speak some simple Dongyi dialects. It would be best when children who were originally slaves went to Yucheng to study, Ji immediately recommended Chopsticks.

Therefore, Kuao went to Yucheng during the forty years of Huali, and experienced special learning, mainly to promote and incite hatred.

When Kuao was studying in Yucheng, Yase led his people to build many small houses along the path of trading with the nearby Dongyi, which stored food in it, with the purpose of luring the Dongyi people in nearby cities to escape to Xinhua City.

Before this, with Xinhua City as the center, there were warehouses for trade with Xinhua City in the surrounding Dongyi City, and all kinds of goods except weapons were sold.

The purpose of this kind of warehouse cannot be pure. Most of them are to support some people who are dissatisfied with the leader and have the intention to replace them. At the same time, they are asked to send their children to Xinhua City for new education, and provide weapons, farm tools, small workshops and other technologies to expand their strength.

By the way, the people in the warehouse secretly encouraged the slaves to escape, and fabricated words such as freedom to escape to Xinhua City and spread them among the slaves.

Therefore, before the 40th year of the Huali period, a large number of slaves had fled to Xinhua City, but the journey was difficult and not large.

Therefore, after obtaining the permission from the above, Li and others used the power of Xinhua City to build various huts for slaves to escape, and there were riders patrolling them.

After these huts and paths were repaired, the slave's escape immediately became large.

This kind of warehouse that aims to subvert the original regime and secretly exhibited five or six nearby cities and towns, finally aroused some dissatisfaction. When this dissatisfaction began to appear, it was already the autumn of the 41st year of the Huali period.

And this kind of dissatisfaction with Xinhua City was prepared for this. At the beginning of the 41st year, more than 700 regular troops entered Xinhua City.

At this time, the country of Xia was stable, and enough money, food and soldiers had accumulated enough, and the first batch of young soldiers who were formally trained also completed the training.

Enough officials, officials, accumulated farm tools, seeds... all of this are enough to support more people to transform them into wealth.

There was everything, but there was an excuse, so the warehouse was no longer as timid and cautious as when Xia State was at its weakest, but became unscrupulous after receiving the news in the spring of the 41st year.

In the autumn, some cities and towns began to expel the Xia Kingdom's goods warehouse, which could be regarded as gifts. After all, there was an aggressive Xinhua City not far away, and no one dared to do too much.

I thought it would be fine if I drove away Xia Guo's warehouse and closed the door and fought, but for the soldiers in Xinhua City they could not wait.

So in the autumn of the 41st year, in September, more than forty slaves fled and fled to the first hut, and were caught up by the people behind them.

According to the previous agreement between the two parties, the hut is the land of Xinhua City to the south, and the north has nothing to do with Xinhua City, and there will be no conflicts between trade between each other.

However, when more than forty slaves escaped, they were shot down by the pursuers behind them with arrows. The pursuers were under pressure and dared not pass through the hut.

But before the person passed, the arrow shot, so the riders who had been looking for opportunities quickly dispersed the group of pursuers, killed more than a dozen, and captured all the rest.

Perhaps for the people in Xiajun and Yucheng, the 41st year of Huali was still a stable day, and they remembered that the real war would be afterwards.

But for those who were in Xinhua City, it was no longer a stable life after the 41st year of Hualien. The senior officials in Xinhua City all understood what they were going to do. Before Qiongxi got involved, they would deal with the nearby cities.

Either move everyone away or burn it to defend Xinhua City to ensure that Qiongxi's army cannot obtain supplies from nearby. Before the internal settlement of the Dahe tribes, they did not fight with Qiongxi, but just defended it to the death, and would not allow him to get involved.

It is meaningless to win over those nearby cities. Once the Qiongxi army comes, it may not be reliable to surrender to Qiongxi to provide food. Even if it is reliable, it will lose credibility if it is surrounded and not rescued. The loss of going to rescue field battles is too great, so it takes the initiative to provoke trouble and solve the nearby cities.
Chapter completed!