Chapter 515
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Chapter 515: The Sun and Moon Shine Upon
The defense of the earth city was slightly better than that of a normal tribe, but it was still quickly broken by Lin Jiang. Half of the people inside were killed, a few captured, and a small number escaped.
Lin Jiang personally interrogated the people in the earth city, quickly getting results. After all, they were not willing to die for their cause. Under torture, they confessed everything without holding out for long.
These people from the earth city had some background. They were descendants of cultivators, or rather, they were descendants who remembered a little bit of the shadow of the era of cultivation.
From their accounts, Lin Jiang learned some things that happened after he fell asleep. After Lin Jiang fell asleep, Yun State began experiencing heavy snowfall, lasting for half of the year, leading to many people starving or freezing to death.
This extreme weather lasted for at least a few thousand years; the exact duration was unknown. In this disaster, ninety-nine percent of the population perished.
Only one percent of people survived by hiding in caves or underground caves, as long as they were deep enough, they provided some warmth.
However, even so, people continued to die constantly. Even those who didn’t die, basically stopped passing on their knowledge. After all, the primary focus of civilization is survival, and only after surviving can other things be considered.
However, unexpected things happen. Some people still tried to pass on their knowledge, like some long-lived cultivators at the time, although they lost their special abilities, their longevity remained.
During the worst times, they abandoned all moral restraints just to survive and pass on their knowledge. They raided, killed, ate people, even their own kind, leaving one seed in each generation as the successor, miraculously persevering.
It wasn’t until the external environment improved that they left the underground. Relying on force, they conquered some primitive tribal people, then encountered a few similar groups, united, and created this huge tribe with over ten thousand people.
However, unlike Lin Jiang, they didn’t consider the primitive people as equals, only as slaves. They only acknowledged their own people, the people inside the city, so they were easily defeated.
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"Your Majesty, what kind of writing is this? It’s different from what we have learned."
"Your Majesty, their accents…"
"Your Majesty…"
Lin Jiang’s followers were very interested in the people of Tu City, curious about their accents and language being different from what they had learned.
"Kill all the people in Tu City, destroy their books."
After thinking for a moment, Lin Jiang made a decision that the heritage of cultivation in Tu City was of no use, as they had lost ninety percent of it in their legacy, which Lin Jiang didn’t value.
However, Lin Jiang didn’t want to create a powerful enemy for the young Huaxia Language. Even though Huaxia Language had only been around for thousands of years, while the Immortal Language had been around for tens of thousands of years, in a real fight Huaxia Language would lose. Therefore, Lin Jiang decided to eliminate it, giving Huaxia Language more time for development.
This matter had nothing to do with justice or evil. The people in Tu City had committed countless crimes in their struggle for survival, so killing them was justifiable. Besides, wasn’t Lin Jiang also fighting for survival now?
His followers quickly followed his orders; they had no regard for morals, and it was their habit to kill captives.
They didn’t understand why Lin Jiang, who used to detest slaughtering captives, was now acting this way.
The traces of Tu City were quickly erased. Yun reported the results of the battle to Lin Jiang: Xia Kingdom lost thirty-four people, with one hundred and twenty wounded, but they killed over five hundred enemies, captured nearly two thousand people, and seized countless resources.
"Send someone to Xia Kingdom and gather people and horses from there. We need at least three thousand people, with at least one hundred common families, and the rest can be slaves. If they guard this place for ten years, we will promote them to commoners.
After thinking for a while, Lin Jiang said. The prisoners here must be taken back to Xia Kingdom. We need to scatter and distribute them among different tribes. We also need to bring people from these tribes here. I will establish a big city here to expand Xia Kingdom’s influence further.
Yun quickly took the order and sent someone back to Xia Kingdom to deliver the command, while the others continued to capture prisoners.
Without a camp, the people of the tribe were in great danger in the wilderness. Apart from the threat of wild animals, just the wind and rain could take their lives, not to mention the extremely cold winter.
Therefore, the tribe members who lost their camp dared not venture too far. They hoped that Lin Jiang and his people were just bandits who took their things and would return the camp to them. However, they would soon be disappointed because Lin Jiang and his group had decided not to leave.
The captured prisoners were brought in one after another, reaching five to six thousand people in no time. It was not easy to feed such a large number. Even if Lin Jiang had all their resources, it was still difficult. Lin Jiang had no choice but to promote his own slaves to commoners on the spot, dividing the slaves among them and letting them produce and develop here.
In addition, there were many things that Lin Jiang needed here, such as their silk-making technology. Lin Jiang had grown tired of his linen clothes and fur which were too hot to wear in summer.
"After more than a hundred years of development, it’s still a mess. It’s really embarrassing."
With nothing else to do, Lin Jiang walked on the city wall of the earth city, looking around disdainfully at the people of the earth city.
Even though their heritage was mostly lost, they were still stronger than the primitive people. However, after more than a hundred years, they had really fallen behind and lacked ambition like those cultivators.
Half a year later, the second group of people from Xia City finally arrived, they were going to stay permanently here.
"Hua, Yun, from now on, both of you will guard this place. Yun will be in charge of all internal affairs, while Flower will protect the safety here…"
Lin Jiang chose two people to guard this place, one was Yun and the other was Hua, Hua was his captain of the guard.
According to the testimony of the people in the earth city, there might be people in this area who still have some inheritance from the immortal cultivation era. So Lin Jiang decided to keep the captain of the guard here.
However, Lin Jiang knew that the captain of the guard was not good at internal affairs, so he decided to keep Yun as well. Lin Jiang even promoted them to the rank of viscount in Xia Kingdom, providing them with many other benefits.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Then, Lin Jiang instructed them on many matters, such as promoting the national prestige of Xia Kingdom here.
"Remember this phrase, wherever the sun and the moon shine, wherever the mountains and rivers are, all belong to the land of Xia."
"Xia Kingdom is the most sacred country in the world, with the proudest people. Everything in the world belongs to Xia Kingdom…"
"You should spread the glory of Xia Kingdom…"
Finally, Lin Jiang boldly proclaimed the national policy of Xia Kingdom. He believed that as long as Xia Kingdom had the ability to expand, it should expand to the fullest extent possible. Even if it meant resolving conflicts like the Han Dynasty, Lin Jiang didn’t mind. He believed in establishing the spirit of a nation, at the very least.
Hearing Lin Jiang’s words, both of them were extremely excited. They idolized Lin Jiang blindly, thinking that what he said was the truth.
Before leaving, Lin Jiang had someone bring a huge stone slab and personally inscribed on it with a knife. He wrote about the 13th year of Xia calendar, when Emperor Xia came here to conquer the rebels, and so on.
The stone stele is just one part of it, in the future, bronze tripods and cliff engravings will need to be added as well, to corroborate each other, right?
After completing all this, Lin Jiang led a large number of captives back to the capital of Xia. Perhaps this was considered a triumphant return, and along the way, people from various tribes were very happy because they had won, gaining a lot of spoils of war and achievements.
On the way, Lin Jiang pondered whether to solidify the official positions as well. He wondered what kind of official positions should be set, and if it would hinder the current development. After all, because of him, the era was progressing too quickly. Would it only take a few decades to transition to a feudal era?
