The male birds chase and fly, and then stop on the branches, building nests with the female birds and singing happily. Spring is full of vitality, and the east wind blows warm from the sea, making Jiayi hot. A continuous camp spread out outside Jinwan City, and teams of patrolling legion warriors alternated back and forth. They carried bronze spears and big bows on their backs, bowed their heads far away, and saluted the returning imperial guards. And in the center of the imperial guards' guards, there is the king who has returned from his trip, and the chief guard who is inseparable.

"Patriarch, the centralization of the alliance is stepping up! According to the latest news, before the spring plowing this year, another group of great nobles from the seven traditional kingdoms will bring their families, warriors and some of the citizens to transfer to the land of Tlaxcala! "

"Well. Since the Eastern Expedition, the king's centralization reform has not stopped, but has become more stringent. Right now, the scope of the royal family's centralization has expanded from the Texcoco Lake District to the traditional seven outer states. Cut off all semi-independent vassals Bangguo, establish an administrative system that can be directly controlled, and then extend the tentacles of the high priests of the capital to the various villages of the alliance... To implement this series of decrees, even if the king has great prestige, it is by no means an easy task! ..."

"That's right! Right now, the five royal legions are all stationed in the outskirts of the Texcoco Lake District, deterring the states of the alliance. And the legions of the city-states are either going out, or have suffered a lot of casualties, and they have been greatly weakened... the states of the states Even if the great nobles are unwilling, they can only follow the king's order, leave the inherited fief tribes, hand over the towns and villages they control, and go to the barren land of Tlaxcala to develop!"

"Eckart, the four states of Tlaxcala, especially the area around the holy city of Cholula in the south, and the Tlaxcala valley in the city of four snakes in the north, have always been rich in the world! The four states are full of rivers, The land has been reclaimed for a long time, and the agricultural conditions are very good. The wealthy population of the Mexica Valley migrated to these newly conquered lands and assimilated the local Tlaxcala people, which is the long-term governance method!...In fact, in our lake The same is true for the Kingdom, which lacks the population of Mexica itself!"

"Patriarch, all the tribes of Preepecha have followed you and won one conquest after another! They are also the foundation of the kingdom and your reliable headquarters! The loyalty and obedience of the warriors of Prepeca even surpassed Mexica warriors..."

"Well! The Lord God is witness! I am His Royal Highness of the Mexica people, and I am also the king of the Prepecha people. I have always regarded the loyal Prepecha warriors as the most reliable force, and I have given them the fairest rewards. Even in the Imperial Guard Corps that defended me, they accounted for far more than half of the number! However, their allegiance is, after all, only me..."

Having said that, Shulot paused for a moment, and didn't go any further. He knew that the Kingdom of the Lake had only been established for ten years, and it was not so much a "kingdom with an orderly inheritance" but a "tribal alliance of emerging military nobles". This slavery military country he established with his own hands absorbs skilled warriors from various tribes, and everything focuses on farming and warfare! And the military state in Huzhong can achieve the same desires and flourish, all thanks to the continuous foreign wars and plunders, and the promotion and distribution of military achievements without discrimination!

"Just like the story of the great chief... After unifying the tribes of the grassland and ending the internal strife and fighting, he must conquer year after year, continue to expand externally, and use the newly conquered land and population to resolve internal distribution contradictions! Genghis Khan I have been fighting all my life because I want to integrate the tribes of the grassland and condense into a Mongolian nation that has never appeared before. I can’t do without fighting! And the system established for fighting also forces the war machine to run continuously. The contradictions within all tribes are It can be solved in a victorious foreign war, and even continue to absorb captured enemies to grow stronger! Once the war and conquest stop, the internal class and ethnic conflicts will break out in turn, and the doomsday reincarnation is just around the corner..."

Thinking of this, Shulot stretched out his hand and rubbed the swollen eyebrows. He wasn't worried about the battle in front of him, but he kept thinking about how to absorb the seaside tribes thousands of miles away into the farming and warfare system of the Kingdom of the Lake.

"Conquer the six kingdoms, conquer Baiyue in the south, and attack the Xiongnu in the north...There is no foreign country to attack, no internal conflicts can be eased, and there is no reform of the new system, so Qin II died..."

"However, I have a monotheistic religion that integrates people's hearts, and a divine inspiration that develops productivity. It is bound to be different from the infinitely vast North and South American continents!..."

"The immediate problem now is how to rule the land of Totonac...I led the army eastward and arrived at the seashore, thousands of miles away from the alliance and the kingdom...It is impossible to stay in this remote and vast seashore for too long. ..”

Shulot's thoughts were spinning, but there was no wave on his face. He returned to the big tent, looked at the latest report sent by the kingdom, and also checked the preparations for spring plowing in various counties.

"The monkey Kuluka plundered for several months, captured the coast of Lake Chapala, captured 20,000 to 30,000 young and strong Prepecha, and returned from the Chapala Lake area again! The Prince of Feathers led 5,000 warriors and became the frontline Chapala. The royal city of Pala did not dare to go out to fight. He moved tens of thousands of tribal populations to the sacred ancient city more than 200 miles northwest. It is said to have been established in the Teotihuacan era and has a history of more than a thousand years The city of Techitlán..."

"Huh? The ancient city of Techitlan? Lake Stone City?"

Seeing this, Xiulot was slightly taken aback. The name of the lake capital is "land of prickly pears and rocks in the lake", Trochtitlan (Tenochtitn). Teuchitlán here is quite similar to the name of the capital city in the lake, so it can also be called "Lake Stone City". Lake Stone City has an astonishing scale of shaft tombs, and many ancient drawing boards have been unearthed, which describe the myths and epics of the Teotihuacan era, and are also known to the Mexica Alliance.

"Eckart, get a map of Lake Chapala!"

"Yes! Patriarch!"

Soon, the chief guard unfolded the map and found the location of Hushi City. Lake Techitlan Stone City, as the name suggests, is located on the north side of a small lake, surrounded by valleys formed by stone mountains. It is located on the periphery of the Sierra Madre Occidental as a whole, and not far to the west is the towering sacred mountain "Cuauhtépetl", which is the "Eagle Mountain" (Cuauh-Eagle tépetl-Mount) at an altitude of 2,600 meters.

"The location of Hushi City is about 600 miles away from the mouth of the sea on the west coast, and it is already close to the territories of the tribes of Northern Tekos! Damn it! Prince Feather, this is going to flee west with the tribe again!... Eckart, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com If I remember correctly, there should be a large northern Tekos city-state in the southwest..."

"Yes! Patriarch, a hundred miles southwest of Hushi City, and south of Yingshan Mountain, is the Ameka Valley (Aca)! The city-state of Ameka, which has been passed down for two hundred years, is located here. Strictly speaking, Ameka's The descendants of the gods, who claim to be descendants of the Eagle Mountain Condor, have long been intermarried with the Condor royal family of Prepeca. They have both Tekos and Prepeca blood, but they don’t think they are Tekos in the mountains. I don't think I'm the Prepeca people in the lake...but the people who call themselves the Sun Eagles, the descendants of the gods who descended from the Eagle Mountain..."

Hearing such a familiar description, Shulot raised his brows, and suddenly understood.

"The descendants of the gods who descended from the Eagle Mountain? In other words, their ancestors were the same as the ancestors of the Prepecha people and the Mexica people. They settled down from the wilderness to the south of the wilderness tribe? It has been passed down for two hundred years, and they call themselves gods. The eagle, that is, went south at the same time as the first ancestors of Prepeca, and may even be the same group..."

"Uh...it should be so! That, Patriarch, the ancestors of our Mexica people... the elders have been designated as the ancient and sacred Toltecs..."

Hearing this, Eckart, the head of the guard, opened his mouth and carefully reminded him. Xiuluo nodded, then stretched out his hand on the map, and pressed **** the location of the Ameka Valley.

"Please the chief of the kingdom, Jadiri the sage of Prepecha, write to the descendants of the gods in the city of Ameka! The Kingdom of the Lake hopes to make good alliances with them...Please send troops to stop the westward migration of Prince Feather !..."

"This is a request from the Prepeca Condor, full of good intentions. And if they don't respond, they must be prepared to meet the wrath of the Mexica jaguars!"

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