The defense of Tucheng was slightly better than that of ordinary tribes, but it was still quickly broken by Lin Jiang. Half of the people inside were killed, a small half were captured, and a few escaped.
Lin Jiang personally interrogated the people in Tucheng and soon came to the conclusion. After all, they were not the kind of people who would sacrifice their lives. After being tortured, they confessed everything and could not survive the honey trap.
These people in Tucheng really had some backgrounds. They were all descendants of immortal cultivators, or in other words, they were descendants of immortal cultivators who still remembered a little bit of the shadow of the immortal cultivation era.
From their mouths, Lin Jiang learned some things about what happened after he fell asleep. After Lin Jiang fell asleep, Yunzhou began to snow heavily, the kind that snowed for most of the year, and countless people starved to death or froze to death.
Moreover, this situation lasted for at least thousands of years. No one knew how long it had lasted. In short, in this natural disaster, 99% of the people had died. The
remaining 1% of people hid in some caves or underground caves to survive. As long as it was deep enough, it would have a certain insulation effect.
However, even so, people continued to die. Even those who did not die basically cut off the inheritance. After all, the first priority of civilization is survival, and only after survival can other things be considered. But there are
accidents in everything. Some people still tried to leave the inheritance, such as some immortal cultivators with long lifespans at that time. Although they did not have the magical powers of immortal cultivators, their lifespans were still there.
When the situation and environment were the worst, they abandoned all moral shackles, just for survival and inheritance. They plundered, killed, ate people, and ate their own people. Each generation left a seed as the inheritor, and they persisted miraculously. It was not
until the outside environment improved that they left the underground environment, and then relied on force to conquer some primitive tribes, and then met several other similar people. They united and created this super-large tribe with a population of over 10,000.
But they were different from Lin Jiang. They did not regard the primitive people as human beings at all. They were all slaves. They only recognized their own people, that is, the people inside Tucheng, so they were easily defeated.
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"Your Majesty, what are these characters? Why are they different from what we learned?"
"Your Majesty, their accents..."
"Your Majesty..."
Lin Jiang's men were very interested in the people in Tucheng. They were curious about why their accents and characters were different from what they learned.
"Kill all the people in Tucheng, and destroy the books."
Lin Jiang thought for a moment and made a decision. The inheritance of the immortal era in Tucheng was useless because they also lost 90% of it in the inheritance. Lin Jiang didn't care about the remaining ones.
But Lin Jiang didn't want to create an enemy for the young Chinese civilization, a powerful enemy. Chinese civilization has only been around for a few thousand years, while the immortal civilization has been around for hundreds of thousands of years. If they really fight, Chinese civilization can't beat it, so Lin Jiang decided to get rid of it and give Chinese civilization another period of development.
This matter has nothing to do with justice or sin. The crimes committed by the people in Tucheng in their survival are countless, and they deserve to be killed. Besides, isn't Lin Jiang trying to survive now?
The people under his command quickly did as he was told. They didn't care about morality. Killing prisoners was their habit.
But they didn't understand why Lin Jiang, who used to hate killing prisoners, did it now.
The traces of the earthen city were quickly wiped out. Yun reported the results of the battle to Lin Jiang. In this battle, the Xia Kingdom killed more than 500 enemies and captured nearly 2,000 prisoners at the cost of 34 deaths and 120 injuries, as well as countless supplies.
"Send people back to the Xia capital and draw troops from the Xia capital. There must be more than 3,000 people, including no less than 100 civilian families. The remaining slaves are also promised that as long as they stay here for ten years, they will be promoted to civilians..."
Lin Jiang said after thinking for a while. The captives here must be brought back to the Xia Kingdom. They must be dispersed and disposed of in various tribes. At the same time, people are drawn from various tribes. Lin Jiang wants to set up a big city here so that the influence of the Xia Kingdom can radiate to more distant places.
Yun quickly received the order and sent someone back to Xiadu to pass on the order, while his men continued to capture prisoners.
Without a camp, the tribesmen were in great danger in the wild. Not to mention the attacks of wild beasts, the wind and rain alone could take their lives, not to mention that the winter was still very cold.
Therefore, the tribesmen who lost their camps did not dare to run too far. They hoped that Lin Jiang and his men were bandits who would return the camp to them after robbing them. However, they would soon be disappointed because Lin Jiang and his men decided not to leave.
The prisoners were captured one after another, and soon reached five or six thousand people. It was not easy to feed such a large number, even if Lin Jiang got all their supplies. Lin Jiang had no choice but to choose to promote the slaves he brought to civilians on the spot, distribute them to them, and let them produce and develop here.
Moreover, there were many things that Lin Jiang needed, such as their silk technology. Lin Jiang had long been impatient with the linen clothes on his body, and fur could not be worn in summer, it was too hot.
"After more than a hundred years of development, it's still like this. It's really embarrassing."
Lin Jiang walked on the wall of Tucheng and looked around. He was even more disdainful of the people in Tucheng.
Although their inheritance was broken by 90%, they were better than those primitive people. But it has been like this for more than a hundred years. They are really not good enough. They are the kind who can't do anything. How can they have the enterprising spirit of
immortal cultivators? It took a full half a year before the second batch of people from Xiadu arrived. They were going to be stationed here permanently.
"Hua, Yun, you will guard here from now on. Yun will be responsible for all internal affairs, and Hua will be responsible for protecting the safety here..."
Lin Jiang chose two people to guard here, one is Yun and the other is Hua. Hua is his chief guard.
According to the confessions of those people in Tucheng, there may be people like them in this area who have retained some inheritance from the era of immortal cultivation, so Lin Jiang also left the chief guard.
However, Lin Jiang knew that the chief guard was not very good at internal affairs, so he kept Yun. For this, Lin Jiang also promoted their titles and made them the first batch of viscounts of Xia State. Needless to say, other benefits were all given in full.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Then Lin Jiang told them many things, such as promoting the national prestige of Xia State here.
"Remember this sentence, wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever the mountains and rivers are, they are all Xia land."
"Xia State is the most sacred country in the world, the proudest people, and everything in the world belongs to Xia State..."
"You must spread the glory of Xia State..."
Finally, Lin Jiang also domineeringly promoted the national policy of Xia State. Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever the mountains and rivers are, they are all Xia land. As long as Xia State still has the ability to expand, it must expand to the end. Even if it is the same solution as the Han Dynasty, Lin Jiang doesn't care, at least it has set the spirit of a nation.
Facing these words of Lin Jiang, the two were very excited. They were serious. They blindly worshipped Lin Jiang and thought these were the truth.
Before leaving, Lin Jiang asked someone to find a huge stone slab, and then he personally wrote on it with a knife, writing that in the thirteenth year of the Xia calendar, the Xia Emperor came here to conquer the rebellious and so on.
The stone tablet is only one of them, and in the future, the bronze tripod and the cliff carvings will have to be added, and they will be convincing only when they verify each other, right?
After doing all this, Lin Jiang led the team back to the capital of Xia with a large number of captives. Perhaps this was the return of the army. The people of all tribes along the way were very happy because they won the battle and had a lot of spoils and military exploits.
Lin Jiang was thinking on the way, whether to determine the official positions, and what kind of official positions to determine, and whether it would hinder the current development. After all, because of him, the times passed too fast. Would it take decades to transition to the feudal era?