A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 604: Saving supplies and preparing armor

Regarding Liaodong Kingdom, the Wang family is very concerned about them. Even more attention than the Xiongnu and Xianbei back then.

The Huns did develop the Hun Empire in the past, but as a nomadic people, their foundation was far weaker than that of the Central Plains. The threat to the Central Plains is not too great, but the Liaodong Kingdom is different.

The Liaodong Kingdom was a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural country, and it absorbed the craftsmen, nobles, officials, etc. who were dispersed after the defeat of Jizi Korea. Later, they took advantage of the fall of the Daqian Dynasty and plundered it. Finally, during the Liu and Song Dynasties, they brought Le Langjun was annexed.

After acquiring a large number of craftsmen, officials, and nobles, the Liaodong Kingdom combined its own habits and integrated a Liaodong Kingdom culture.

The culture of the Central Plains first started in the Yanhuang Dynasty, but it is too far back, and then passed through the Xia, Shang, Zhou Dynasty, and all the way to the Zhou Dynasty. Through the enfeoffment system, many princes continued to develop, allowing the Xia civilization to continue to develop and grow on this land.

When the Zhuxias opened up, in addition to expanding their territory, the most important thing was to expand their civilization. Now the Liaodong Kingdom began to threaten the Northeast of the Sui Dynasty, and it has become a threat to the Zhuxia civilization.

In this case, it was natural to destroy them, but the Sui Dynasty was caught in a dispute for the crown prince, and they did not have the energy to attack and destroy the Liaodong Kingdom in a short time.

"The Liaodong Kingdom is now full of wings, and it will not be easy to solve it in a short time. It depends on how Yang Guang acts next."

"The world looks prosperous, but in fact it is plagued by internal and external troubles." Wang Xuanze shook his head and said.

"If the family wants to participate in Fulongting, then prepare in advance. As the saying goes, before the troops are moved, food and grass go first. Let the family accumulate various materials first. In the future, the world will be in chaos. If there is a suitable destiny true dragon, then directly Just come out and support it.”

The Wang family occupies many places overseas, which are good places for food production, including Borneo, Champa, and the Lancang River Basin. It can be said that in some places where the land is fertile, as long as you sow some seeds, you will be able to harvest next year.

Of course it's just a small amount, but when the actual calculation is done, the food alone is enough to feed 200,000 people for three years. Millions of stones of grain were all collected by Wang from warehouses overseas.

In two hundred years, the Lancang River has become a large granary. The Wang family built this into Tiannan City, another overseas base of the Wang family.

The Wang family vigorously developed this area, and as for the local natives, they were dealt with according to the royal way of naturalization during the Zhuxia pioneering period.

At that time, Wang's eyes turned red when she learned that there was such fertile land. If Dagan had such fertile soil, how could the Huanghuang Dagan collapse?

More importantly, although this land also has a hot climate, it is easy to develop because of its flat land and convenient water transportation. So the Wang family moved most of the Wang family's accumulation and population in Lingnan here.

Although the Wang family has a strong foundation and capital overseas, those foundations and capital are the foundation of the Wang family and cannot be easily used. After all, the Wang family needs to maintain a vast overseas territory.

It can only support some money, food, equipment, and some soldiers.

These natives, who have barely even developed a decent civilization, are naturally willing to accept Zhu Xia culture. As for those who are unwilling to accept it, they are naturally barbarians. When the time comes, just drive these barbarians away or kill them.

Tiannan City on the Lancang River is thousands of miles away from Lingnan in a straight line. If you go by land, the road is full of steep mountains, which is extremely difficult to walk and can be said to be isolated from the world. In the mountains between Tiannan City and Lingnan, there are many scattered native tribes scattered.

The Wang family spent a hundred years clearing out the native tribes around Tiannan City, growing and occupying this fertile plain.

There are hundreds of direct descendants of the Wang family living here, as well as tens of thousands of collateral clans, and some followers of the Wang family. The total number is about 150,000.

It is also the largest city controlled by the Wang family besides Guanhai City. Tiannan City is located here, within a radius of several hundred miles. Tiannan City is the king of this land, and all the surrounding native tribes submit to Tiannan City.

Just like the tribute system of enfeoffing foreign vassals in Daqian back then. The tribes around Tiannan City come here every year to pay tribute and conduct transactions.

The Wang family is superior to all natives in many aspects such as technology, agriculture, education, medicine, handicrafts, and military.

If the native tribes here want fine cloth, salt, sugar, iron farm tools, ceramics, tea, wine, and even weapons, they can only buy them from Tiannan City.

The natives here still practice slash-and-burn farming and have very few bronzes. How can they be Wang's opponent? Moreover, Wang's rattan armor is surprisingly useful here.

Iron armor is easy to rust here, and because of the hot weather, you will be sweating after wearing it for a while. If it is exposed to direct sunlight, the armor will be broken. Therefore, light and breathable rattan armor is better to use here.

Although land transportation is inconvenient, water transportation is very convenient. It is easy for Wang to raise millions of stones of grain.

You must know that Daliuqiu Island alone can produce three to four million shi of grain a year, and today Nancheng's production is even more.

Wang's mobilization of various resources from overseas did not come all at once. After all, the Sui court's jurisdiction over local areas was somewhat weak, but it was not blind.

The movement of these millions of stones of grain and a large amount of materials and equipment would definitely alarm the court, so Wang could only take his time.

After deciding on Fulongting, Wang began to build some small warehouses in various places. They didn't need too many, just enough to store supplies for hundreds of people.

At the same time, some common people who fell into disgrace began to be selected and controlled.

The Huainan Wang family does not have many private soldiers. Although all the powerful families in the world have private soldiers, they are very low-key.

This time, the Wang family planned to use the common people who fell into danger as cover to train some soldiers. As for why they are not mobilized from overseas, it is because this will easily expose the Wang family's power overseas.

The Sui Dynasty court prohibited the private storage of armor, but almost all wealthy families and wealthy families hid armor, and not just one or two sets, but hundreds of sets.

Especially the Guanlong nobles. If these Guanlong nobles lead troops into battle, they will start with at least two hundred personal soldiers. These two hundred personal soldiers are the general's personal soldiers. They are all armored and well-trained elites.

On the battlefield, he can follow the general to charge and kill the enemy and protect the general. The aristocratic families in Jiangnan and Guandong are much weaker, but they still have one or two hundred bodyguards.

These are the unspoken rules between the imperial court and the aristocratic families.

If Wang wants to prepare more soldiers, he can only rely on the bandits who have turned into bandits. In fact, it is not the Wang family that does this, but other wealthy and aristocratic families do this as well.

(End of this chapter)