Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 628

Summer of the eighth year of Yan State 410 (628)
Goguryeo King City

It is located in the northern plain of the upper reaches of Heishui River, where the temperature in summer can reach that of spring in the Central Plains, making it suitable for growing wheat and soybeans.

The Goguryeo people who migrated here have developed for more than 40 years. They conquered many indigenous people/Sushen people/savage Jurchen/Yupi Jurchen/Sauron people here, and most of them became slaves of the Goguryeo people. A small part He was integrated into Goguryeo and became a Goguryeo native.

In order to resist the cold, the Goguryeo people imitated the local aborigines, killed crocodiles, and used crocodile skins to make warm clothes.

In order to prevent the Yan State fleet from attacking them along the black water, the Goguryeo people chose to build the royal city deep in the plain.

Soybeans with higher yields are the staple food of ordinary Goguryeo people, and wheat with better taste is the staple food of Goguryeo nobles. At the same time, there are many fishing villages established by Goguryeo people along the Black Water, and fishing is also an important source of food.

The current king of Goguryeo is Gao Wu, but at a young age, he has already led the Goguryeo warriors to fight everywhere, capturing countless indigenous slaves.

Compared with the surrounding indigenous people, the Goguryeo people have three biggest advantages: unity, iron smelting, and understanding of tactics.

When the aborigines in the outer northeast were still fighting crocodiles with wooden spears, the Goguryeo people had come to conquer them with simple iron spears.

The crude iron armor made by the Goguryeo people is simply horrible in the Central Plains, and may not even be able to block the crossbow arrows, but here, it is a dimensionality reduction blow.

The spears and bone arrows of the Sushen people could not pose much threat to the Goguryeo people, but the iron spears of the Goguryeo people could easily pierce their armor made of crocodile skin.

After years of development, the national strength and population of all parties in the Northeast are as follows:

【Goguryeo
Population: 10,000

Troop strength: 2000]

[Korea

Population: 10,000

Forces: 1]

【Swallow Turkic

Population: 10,000

Forces: 1]

【Buji

Population: 10,000

Forces: 2]

【Buyeo

Population: 10,000

Forces: 2]

[Nanshiwei Zhubu
Population: 10,000

Forces: 2]

【Yan Guo

Population: 275 million (of which: 175 nobles, 55 civilians, 220 million slaves)
Forces: 1]

Goguryeo's own clan has 3 people, and the remaining 15 people are all indigenous slaves. Among the 60 clansmen, as long as they are male clansmen who are over [-] years old and under [-] years old, they are all Goguryeo soldiers.

The men in the ethnic group are responsible for fighting on the battlefield and capturing more slaves from other tribes or countries. The women are responsible for taking care of the elderly and children, supervising the slaves, and the slaves are responsible for producing food for the ruling class. It is just a symbolic representative of the entire ethnic group. He has to consider the development of the entire ethnic group. The real power is in the hands of the elders in the ethnic group, which is composed of many respected elders.

This is a very classical form of social organization, as it was in the previous Yin and Shang dynasties.

The thinkers of Yan State called this form of social organization in the classical era "citizenship".

That is to say, one ethnic group oppresses other ethnic groups, and at the same time, within this ethnic group, there are no despots in the strict sense, but only symbolic representatives.

Unlike the ruling form of the imperial autocracy in the Central Plains, the imperial autocracy revolves around the power of a certain ruler, or the power derived from a certain ruler.

That is, the power of the emperor, or the power of the empress dowager, the power of the empress, the power of the prime minister, the power of cruel officials, the power of eunuchs, the power of powerful ministers, etc. derived from the emperor, no matter what its name is, no matter whether it is actually in power. The emperor himself is still the imperial power in essence.

Regardless of whether it is the emperor himself who actually controls the power, in fact, they only obtained the power of the emperor, exercised the power of the emperor on their behalf, and became emperors without the name of the emperor, which still belonged to the concept of imperial power and was derived from it.

Correspondingly, in today's Goguryeo, there is no individual who can represent similar imperial power. Whether it is the Goguryeo king or the generals, they only represent the entire Goguryeo ethnic group and squeeze the slaves.

In short, citizenship is the exploitation of other ethnic groups by one ethnic group, and absolute monarchy is the exploitation of all subjects by one person or a group derived from one person.

From this point of view, the State of Yan is undoubtedly a citizen system, because the authority of the State of Yan is not attached to the monarch. The family of the family exploited all ethnic groups other than the Wang family, and neither the monarch nor a group derived from the monarch could truly rule the entire country.

"Now the people of Yan and the Goryeo established by the traitors have broken up. The descendants of those traitors want to reconcile with us and join us to deal with Yan. Elders, what do you say?"

Gao Wu threw this question to the elders.

The Koryo people rebelled against the Yan State and attempted to establish the "Anti-Yan Alliance", which provoked the attack of the Yan State. The southern land of the Koryo State was all divided up by the Yan State and Yan State's younger brothers. Now Koryo only has the colder northern land.

Due to the obstruction of forests and swamps, the Yan people were not so fast in paving roads and building bridges, so the Koreans could survive.

"Those traitors deserve death!"

"No matter how you say it, they are our compatriots after all."

"It's better to pretend to agree to cooperate, and then annex their tribe."

After everyone's discussion, it was finally decided to annex the Goryeo tribe.

another three months later
Yan Guo's fleet entered the difficult water basin along the black water, and carried out the final massacre of the Koreans.

The Koryo royal city was vulnerable to the artillery of the Yan State and was quickly destroyed.

A large number of Koreans were captured. These Korean captives will be transported to the plantations of the Spice Islands to open up wasteland. At the same time, Yan will also transport the civilians of Yan from densely populated cities to settle down. On the one hand, this new occupation can be slowly digested. On the other hand, it can also reduce the burden on big cities.

There are too many people in big cities, and the consumption of resources is very terrifying. Therefore, the country of Yan deliberately disperses the population of the big cities to the newly occupied areas of the frontier to open up wasteland, so that the population of the country of Yan can be evenly distributed, so as not to die of drought or flood Flooded to death.

For example, Guanzhong in the Central Plains is too densely populated, and after thousands of years of development in the Guanzhong Plain, the land fertility has been excessively consumed. The originally fertile Guanzhong Plain has gradually become barren, and more and more fertile land has become barren. Loess, the total grain output in Guanzhong has been declining, but the population has been increasing because the center of the empire is in Guanzhong.

The final result is that the grain produced by the Guanzhong Plain cannot feed its own population, so it can only transport grain from Kanto to Guanzhong through water transport.

The population distribution is too concentrated, and the result is that some remote areas have not been well developed for a long time and cannot be digested, and the core areas have been over-developed, resulting in more and more barren land and land carrying capacity. come lower.

(End of this chapter)