When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 68: Close nephew and prospective son-in-law
The sudden appearance of the Chang Xin clan did not pose much of a threat to the You Xin clan for the time being.

During the noon break the next day, Xinqu went to find his uncle for dinner with a pot of chicken soup.

Along the way, I took out a more detailed distribution of forces from his mouth, filling in the spheres of influence of all ethnic groups in Shanxi.

Seeing the chicken soup and the attentive service of his eldest nephew, Yao Ce obviously did not think of the general principle that "showing courtesy for nothing is either an adultery or a theft".

He told Xin Qu everything he knew.

This time, Xin Qu roughly figured out how many people and clans there were in the mountains and rivers inside and outside Shanxi.

The population is no less than 30.

There are three Fang Kingdoms: Qiongfang, Tufang and Jiandi.

The subordinates of Fang State each have their own power, and are allied with six clans ranging from more than 3 people to less than [-] people.

The six are: Xingtian (surname Jiang), Tao Tang (surname Qi), Xuanyuan (surname Ji), Yourong (surname Hao), Youyi (surname "娀'sōng'"), and Qilong (surname Si).

Qiongfang formed an alliance with the Qilong clan and the Xingtian clan, and its core sphere of influence was in the Luliang Mountains, the western part of the Taiyuan Basin, Linfen, Yuncheng, western Guanzhong, and Luoyang areas.

Tufang formed an alliance with the Tao Tang clan and the Xuanyuan clan, and its core sphere of influence was in the large area from the Datong Basin to Yulin, Shaanxi.

Jian Di is composed of two large clans, the Rong clan and the Yi clan, together with a number of small clans. Its core sphere of influence is in the eastern Taiyuan, Jinzhong, and Changzhi areas.

Of course, the strongest among them is Jian Di, because they wear the same pants as the Dayi merchant next door.

Qiongfang is the life and death enemy of Dayi merchants.

Hijifang, the Tao Tang clan, and the Xuanyuan clan belong to the fringe areas and are the weakest.

What Xin Qu didn't expect was that Qi Longrong actually had the surname Si!
This refreshed Xin Qu's understanding of clans.

He always thought that the Qilong clan was from the Xirong tribe.

But on second thought, the boundaries of production were not clear at this time. The division of Rong and Di barbarians was also the division of spatial orientation after the Zhou Dynasty. Not all Rong and Di barbarians were truly barbaric.

Perhaps, it was deliberately misinterpreted.

Of course, after a little understanding of the whole story, Xinqu had a clear understanding of the inside and outside of Shanxi for the first time, and also understood why Dayi merchants had never been able to control it.

Shanxi is like a pocket, easy to get in and difficult to get out.After taking it down, only the core valley area of ​​the basin can survive, so the population in the core area of ​​the basin is huge and chaotic.

Once there is a natural disaster, we must fight.

By grabbing water sources upstream and downstream, nomadic outsiders can easily get in without the obstruction of the Great Wall.

Just one word - chaos!

The maintenance cost is too high. Xinqu was the ruler of Dayi Shang, so he probably left this place to his relatives to control the calculations. It is much cheaper to manage it by agent than to maintain it directly.

You can also serve as a slave to provide land, achieving multiple benefits with one stone.

"By the way, how do you think about what I told you yesterday?"

While chewing on the chicken leg, Yao Ce asked Xin Qu.

Xin Qu smiled in his heart, but there was confusion on his face: "Uncle, although I am the clan leader, but we have some rules of the Xin family, don't you know?"

"This..." Yao Ce clicked his tongue, finished chewing the chicken leg, wiped the animal skin on the table with his oily hand, and wiped his beard, "Ah! I also know that this is not easy to do. But as long as it is done, Now, we don’t have to worry about being chased here and there by merchants from Dayi. Zishan is from the Shang clan, and for this reason, life will be easy in the future."

"Yeah. Zishan is indeed very good." Xinqu put down the drumstick and said melancholy, "But you have also seen what the stock market is like. Tu told me yesterday that Aqi almost killed you when he saw you. .

The young men in the clan have gone to the east, but they are not dead.

If they come back and know that I casually accepted you into the hinterland, they will sacrifice me to the emperor immediately.

Uncle.

Ax and I are the only elders like you.

When my parents left, they even preferred not to mention your existence in order not to make you sad or to prevent you from traveling across mountains and rivers.

They thought, since we are all divided into clans, they won't let me bother you.But don’t drive me and the ax to a dead end.

We are a family, and Mom definitely doesn’t want to see this happen. "

"Your mother... Oops! Amei is always like this!" Yao Ce was annoyed, turning his head to one side and sulking, "Although she is always soft and weak, sometimes her will is stronger than anything else.

If he refuses to tell you, he must be angry.

When we separated, she advised me not to separate...but I didn't listen, so she angrily said she wanted to sever ties with me.

Otherwise, if I had taken you away earlier, you wouldn't have been so passive. "

Yao Ce murmured, annoyed.

Xin Qu has a panoramic view.

If the information and contacts he got were the same, his uncle was a total girl-controller. Whenever he mentioned his "mother", he would always point out his fault, regardless of whether his "mother" was right or not.

Of course everything happens for a reason.

I heard from Xingrenchun that when Yao Ce was young, it was OK to joke with him, but it was absolutely not possible to involve him in his "mother", otherwise he would fall out.

Yao Ce is ten years older than his sister, and Xinqu's grandparents also died due to migration and illness, so the parenting task falls on Yao Ce. He is both father and mother, so the relationship is naturally not as deep as usual.

"Okay, uncle. Otherwise, people can live in the Yanqing forest area next door. You ask the Changxin family to move here, and I will be in Changping. We will control the strategic areas of the river valleys from the west to the east.

It doesn't matter if there is a shortage of food. I will use my power to sell half of the food and half to give away some of it, and we will send troops to attack the earthworks along the way.

Take food from them.

In this way, I can also stop the crowd below. "

Xin Qu came up with a plan, but he actually wanted to trick Chang Xin into using him as a shield.

Yao Ce shook his head and said: "It's difficult. Let's not talk about what is happening in that area now. Let's just talk about Tufang. Those damn prairie people will expand eastward..."

"Uncle Ce..." The door was pushed open by Shao Shan. As a result, he saw Xin Qu and Yao Ce eating chicken drumsticks and talking. He was a little stunned and said, "Yao Qu, you are here too."

"Zishan, come and sit down." Yao Ce stood up and gave up the first place. "Just in time, I brought you some delicious chicken."

While helping Zishan to his position, Yao Ce said, "You are resourceful and come to discuss how our two clans will be reunited next. It's not easy for Qu to handle. After all, there are thousands more people all of a sudden. There are The opposition within the Xin clan is definitely not small, and this may affect your stability in the future."

Xinqu looked at his uncle who was obsessed and sighed secretly.

Let’s not talk about whether this Zishan is a direct descendant or a concubine.

Anyway, he had never heard of the Dayi Chamber of Commerce accepting a clan-controlled tribe with a foreign surname.

They have always been divided up, even sacrificed, and the men of a certain tribe have been killed little by little.

The game of Xia Jun Yimin did not start in the Zhou Dynasty, but had already started in the Shang Dynasty. Especially after the collapse of the first Shang Dynasty, the Dayi merchants were no longer able to effectively control the "Four Societies".

In order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, they chose to support relatives of peripheral merchant families as agents, and began an expansion policy of conferring meritorious officials and princes' descendants as vassals.

The life of the barbarians is not good. As long as the Shang nobles are angered, the consequences will be various sacrifices such as cutting off, barbarians, and executions.

In short, the Shang clan's internal and external services, unless you master the skills, cannot be learned by others for the time being, and merchants still need it.

Otherwise, you're just a bug!
Even nobles can be killed at any time.

Really, human life is like a piece of grass!

However, now that he is here, let's test this guy's methods. It is best to trick him into bringing the Changxin family to Yanqing and block it to the west of Taihang Mountain to become the first line of defense against Tufang.

In this way, my back can take a breather, so that the situation will not get completely out of control and suddenly be engulfed on all sides.

Shaoshan watched Yao Ce diligently pull the chicken and put it in a bowl for him. He picked up the dagger he carried and pricked a piece of it. After taking two bites, his eyes suddenly lit up: "This chicken is actually not astringent!"

(End of this chapter)