The male birds chase and fly, then rest on a branch and build a nest with the female bird, singing happily. Spring is full of life, and the east wind blows warmly from the sea, making the armor also become hot. A continuous large camp was deployed outside Jinwan City, with patrolling legion warriors going back and forth alternately. They carried bronze spears and large bows on their backs, lowered their heads from a distance, and saluted the returning imperial guards. At the center of the imperial guard's personal escort was the king who had returned from his trip, and the captain of the guard who never left his side.
"Master, the alliance is stepping up its efforts to centralize power! The latest news is that before spring plowing this year, another group of great nobles from the seven traditional kingdoms will transfer their titles and move to the land of Tlaxcala with their families, warriors and some of the people! "
"Well. Since the Eastern Expedition, the king's centralization reforms have not stopped, but have become more severe. At present, the scope of royal centralization has expanded from the Texcoco Lake area to the seven traditional peripheral states. All semi-independent vassals have been eliminated. The country should establish an administrative system that can directly govern the country, and then extend the tentacles of the high priests in the capital to various villages in the alliance... It is not an easy task to implement this series of decrees, even if the king has outstanding prestige! ..."
"Yes! Currently, the five royal legions are stationed on the outskirts of the Texcoco Lake area to intimidate the alliance states. The legions of each city-state have either gone on an expedition or suffered a lot of casualties, and have been greatly weakened... The legions of each state have Even if the great nobles are unwilling, they can only obey the king's order, leave the inherited fiefdoms and tribes, hand over the towns and villages under their control, and go to the desolate land of Tlaxcala to develop!"
"Ecate, the four states of Tlaxcala, especially the holy city of Cholula in the south and the Tlaxcala Valley of the Four Snakes in the north, have always been the richest places in the world! The four states are crisscrossed by rivers, The land has been cultivated for a long time and the agricultural conditions are very good. The wealthy population of the Mexica Valley migrates to these newly conquered lands and assimilates the local Tlaxcala people, which is the long-term solution to governance!... In fact, the long-term management of our lake The kingdom is in the same situation, lacking the population of Mexica itself!”
"Master, the Prepecha tribes have followed you and won victory after conquest! They are also the foundation of the kingdom and your reliable headquarters! The loyalty and obedience of the Prepecha warriors to you even exceeds Mexica warriors..."
"Yes! Witness the Lord God! I am the His Highness of the Mexica people and the king of the Prepecha people. I have always regarded the loyal Prepecha warriors as the most reliable force, and I have also given them the fairest rewards. Even in the Guards Corps that protects me, they account for far more than half! However, after all, their loyalty is only to me..."
Having said this, Shulot paused and said no more. He knew that the Kingdom of the Lake had been established for only ten years. It was more like a "tribal alliance of emerging military nobles" than a "kingdom with orderly inheritance". This slave-military state he established with his own hands attracted skilled warriors from various tribes, and everything centered on farming and warfare! However, the military state in Huzhong was able to develop with the same desire from top to bottom, all thanks to the continuous foreign wars and plunder, and the promotion and enfeoffment of military merits without discrimination!
"Just like the story of the great chief... After unifying the grassland tribes and ending the internal disputes and fighting, he must continue to conquer for years, continue to expand externally, and use the newly conquered land and population to solve the internal distribution contradictions! Genghis Khan They have been fighting all their lives because they want to integrate the tribes of the grasslands and condense into a Mongolian nation that has never appeared. They cannot do it without fighting! And the system established for war also forces the war machine to keep running. All conflicts within the tribes will It can be resolved in victorious foreign wars, and even continue to absorb captured enemies and grow stronger! But once the war and conquest stop, internal class and national conflicts will break out one after another, and the cycle of doomsday is just around the corner..."
Thinking of this, Shulot reached out his hand and rubbed his swollen eyebrows. He was not worried about the war in front of him, but he had been thinking about how to absorb the coastal tribes thousands of miles away into the farming and warfare system of the Kingdom in the Lake.
"Conquered the six kingdoms, conquered Baiyue in the south, and attacked the Xiongnu in the north... There were no foreign countries in the world that could be attacked, internal conflicts could not be alleviated, and there was 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 will definitely be different from the infinite vastness of North and South America!..."
"The pressing issue now is how to rule the land of Totonak... I led my army eastward and arrived at the seaside, thousands of miles away from the Alliance and the Kingdom... It is impossible to stay in this remote and vast seaside land for too long. ..”
Shulot's thoughts were running wildly, but his face remained calm. He returned to the main tent, looked at the latest reports from the kingdom, and also checked the preparations for spring plowing in each county.
"Monkey Kuruca raided for several months, captured the shores of Lake Chapala, and captured 20,000 to 30,000 Prepecha young men. He returned from the Chapala Lake area again! Prince Feather led five thousand warriors to guard the Chapala that became the front line. The King of Pala did not dare to leave the city to fight. He moved tens of thousands of tribal people to the sacred ancient city more than two hundred miles northwest. It was said to be founded in the Teotihuacan era and has a history of more than a thousand years. The city of Techilan…”
"Huh? Ancient Techilan City? Lake Rock City?"
Seeing this, Shulot was slightly startled. The name of the city in the lake is Trochititlan, "the place in the lake of prickly pears and rocks". The Techilan here is quite similar to the name of the capital city in the lake, and can also be called "Lake Stone City". Lake Rock City has an amazing scale of shaft tombs, and many ancient boards have been unearthed, which record the myths and epics of the Teotihuacan era, and are also known to the Mexica Alliance.
"Eckart, get the map of Lake Chapala!"
"Yes! Master!"
Soon, the captain of the guard unfolded the map and found the location of Hushi City. Techilan Lake Stone City, as its name suggests, is located on the north side of a small lake, surrounded by a valley formed by stone mountains. It is located entirely on the outskirts of the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains. Not far from the west side is the towering sacred mountain "Quatpetl", also known as "Eagle Mountain" with an altitude of 2,600 meters.
"The location of Lake Rock City is about 600 miles away from the outlet of the west coast, and it is already close to the territory of the Northern Tekos tribes! Damn it! Prince Feather, you are leading your tribe to flee west again!... Ekart, If I remember correctly, there should be a large northern Tecos city-state just in the southwest..."
"Yes! Head of the family, a hundred miles southwest of Hushi City and south of the Eagle Mountain Sacred Mountain is the Ameka Valley! The Ameka city-state, which has been inherited for two hundred years, is located here. Strictly speaking, the descendants of the Ameka state , claiming to be descendants of the Eagle Mountain Condor, have long been intermarried with the Condor royal family of Prepecha. They have the blood of both Tecos and Prepecha people, but they do not consider themselves Tecos in the mountains, nor do they think I am the Prepecha people in the lake...but the people who call themselves the Sun Eagle, the descendants of the gods who walked down the Eagle Mountain..."
Hearing such a familiar description, Shulot raised his brows and suddenly understood.
"Descendants of gods who came down from Eagle Mountain? In this way, their ancestors are the same wilderness tribes as the ancestors of the Prepecha and Mexica people who came south from the wasteland to settle down? They have been inherited for two hundred years and claim to be gods. Eagle, that is, the one who went south at about the same time as the first generation ancestors of Prepecha, and may even be the same clan..."
"Well...that should be the case! That, the head of the family, the ancestor of our Mexica people...the elders have designated them as the ancient and sacred Toltecs..."
Hearing this, the guard captain Ekart opened his mouth and warned carefully. Xiuluo nodded, then reached out and pressed hard on the map, the location of Ameka Valley.
"Please ask the chief of the kingdom, Prepecha Sage Jatili, to write a letter to the descendants of Ameka City! The Kingdom of the Lake hopes to make a good alliance with them...ask them to send troops to stop Prince Feather from moving westward. !..."
"This is a request from fellow Prepecha Condors, full of good intentions. And if they don't respond, they must be prepared to face the wrath of the Mexica Jaguars!"
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