Founding the Xia Dynasty

As the three Human Race leaders declared their support, the Human Race below roared along with them, their voices deafening.

Watching the Human Race's soaring morale, Zhang Yang felt a little heartened. It was like watching children he had raised for a million years now preparing to fight for their planet.

To bring glory to their world.

Looking down at the Human Race below, Zhang Yang continued in a majestic voice, "Very good. The Human Race's unification is imperative. Only by clenching your fist can you open and close it at will."

"In ten years, I will grant the Human Race a racial talent: Beast Taming and beast speech."

"As for the fighting strength of apex beasts, I believe the Chiyou Tribe knows it best."

"Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Human Race was weak. To help the Human Race develop, I imposed a law that suppressed the wild nature of the beasts across the Central Province."

"This was both a blessing and a curse for the Human Race. In ten years, I will grant the Human Race the ability to communicate with beasts. By taming them, the Human Race's strength will skyrocket."

"Final victory will surely belong to Blue Star."

As he finished his last sentence, the giant in the sky slowly faded away. The dark clouds dispersed, leaving clear skies and brilliant sunshine.

And so, the Human Race's three great leaders shook hands and made peace, bringing their three tribes together.

In truth, all three tribes were descendants of Fuxi's regime, so there were no issues of bloodline.

The Chiyou Tribe was merely a tribe that had gone north to develop the wild frontier during the reign of the fourth Yan Emperor.

Over the next few years, the three tribes drew on one another's strengths to offset their weaknesses, developing together, intermarrying, and living side by side until each had become part of the others.

In year 3145 of the Blue Era, the Yan Emperor, feeling that his abilities were unremarkable and that he could not lead the Yan Emperor Tribe, announced that it would join the Xuanyuan Tribe and honor the Yellow Emperor as the Human King.

The Xuanyuan Tribe grew stronger than ever, consolidating its troops and military supplies while producing bronze equipment through the night to arm the Human Race.

In year 3147 of the Blue Era, external pressure united the Human Race as never before. Admiring the Yellow Emperor's wisdom, Chiyou led the Chiyou Tribe into the Xuanyuan Tribe and honored the Yellow Emperor as the Human King.

Chiyou was appointed the Human Race's God of War by the Yellow Emperor, placing him in command of the Xuanyuan Tribe's troops.

With that, the three great tribes completed their unification, and the Human Race honored Xuanyuan Huangdi as the Human King.

Zhang Yang also used his divine abilities to help the Human Race. He told Xuanyuan Huangdi the locations of several copper deposits and passed along some of the knowledge he remembered from his previous life, covering a very mixed assortment of subjects.

Among them were imaginative ideas about beast taming, cavalry, and air forces.

Cavalry needed no explanation. Wouldn't dragon-riding warriors be fierce, riding Velociraptors and hurling javelins?

Wouldn't commanding a Tyrannosaurus Rex to charge through enemy lines be fierce?

As for an air force, hehe-riding Quetzalcoatlus and giant dragonflies, shooting arrows from the sky, dropping rocks, or even throwing jars of primitive gunpowder...

At that moment, Zhang Yang put on no airs, chatting as though they were friends. His own knowledge was very limited, so he could only pass some ideas along to Xuanyuan Huangdi.

Deeply inspired, the Yellow Emperor adapted those ideas to the circumstances and divided the land into territories: eight households formed a well unit, three well units a neighborhood, three neighborhoods a fellowship, three fellowships a ward, five wards a settlement, ten settlements a district, ten districts a division, and ten divisions a province.

This also amounted to a census in its most primitive form, helping not only to unite the people but also to administer the realm.

Next, he began appointing officials: well chiefs, neighborhood chiefs, fellowship chiefs, settlement chiefs, district chiefs, division chiefs, and provincial governors.

A well chief managed roughly thirty people, a fellowship chief roughly two hundred, a settlement chief roughly thirty-five hundred, and a district chief roughly thirty-five thousand.

A division chief managed three hundred and fifty thousand people, while a provincial governor's jurisdiction covered three and a half million.

The Yellow Emperor ultimately divided the realm into the Nine Provinces: Ji Province, Yan Province, Qing Province, Xu Province, Yang Province, Jing Province, Yu Province, Liang Province, and Yong Province.

Leading his officials to the summit of Mount Tai, the Yellow Emperor offered sacrifices to the Father God and requested permission to establish the Xia Dynasty.

The blue sky suddenly flashed with golden light. A jade seal slowly descended into the Yellow Emperor's hands. Turning it over, he saw several large characters inscribed on its underside: "By Heaven's mandate, may you enjoy long life and eternal prosperity."

A majestic voice resounded through heaven and earth: "Granted."

"With the founding of the Xia Dynasty, the Yellow Emperor shall be appointed Human King."

"The sages of the Human Race have rendered great service to the Human Race. Let these titles be bestowed posthumously: Suirenshi as Heavenly Sovereign, Fuxi as Earth Emperor, Shennong as Human Emperor, and Nuwa as Empress. They may receive the Human Race's incense offerings and sacrifices."

In the end, the Yellow Emperor founded a nation named Xia (please don't flame me; this is an imaginative fantasy alternate history), establishing its capital in Yu Province.

From that day onward, the Yellow Emperor changed the Blue Era to the Xia Era.

In year 1 of the Xia Era, the founding of the Xia Dynasty ended the tribal conflicts that had lasted for thousands of years throughout the Three Sovereigns Period. A nation was established, and tribal cultures were unified.

Later generations honored Huangdi as the foremost of emperors.

In the three years after the Xia Dynasty's founding, its national strength rose noticeably, its population flourished, and every trade prospered. Though strange beasts frequently attacked various regions, the Human Race killed them all.

As large quantities of copper ore were mined and refined, more and more bronze goods appeared.

Those bronze goods gradually found their way into countless households, changing the people's living conditions.

People began paying more attention to their food and developed different expectations for eating, drinking, relieving themselves, and sleeping.

Wheat, chestnuts, millet, beans, rice, melons, fruits, and many other agricultural products were already available. Thanks to Blue Star's high oxygen content, crop yields were enormous. People could afford three meals a day and even began brewing alcohol.

On the military front, under Chiyou's leadership, the Human Race's elite troops were selected through successive rounds of screening. They received large quantities of meat every day, underwent intensified training, and devised many battle formations.

As the warriors were equipped with large quantities of bronze weapons, their fighting strength soared. Chiyou began large-scale military training, using beasts as their targets.

In the blink of an eye, the promised ten years had passed.

Xiao, ahem.

In year 10 of the Xia Era, the Yellow Emperor led his officials in offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and a giant slowly took shape in the sky.

At the sight of the giant overhead, every member of the Human Race in the Xia Dynasty knelt on the ground in deep devotion.

Every settlement and larger community had a temple enshrining the Father God and several of humanity's sages.

Looking down at the kneeling Human Race, the white giant in the sky swept his great hand. Golden light glittered, and golden flecks slowly drifted down over Blue Star.

They vanished upon touching members of the Human Race, as though absorbed into their bodies. In truth, these were all special effects created by Zhang Yang.

F-Rank Creature Card (can grant one species on the planet an F-rank ability: Beast Taming, beast speech)

In reality, Zhang Yang took out the F-Rank Skill Card and activated it with a thought.

"Please select the species to receive the ability."

"Human Race."

"Ability granted."

Every member of the Human Race felt that something profound and mysterious had appeared in their mind.

It was like learning a passive skill in a game, except it was added directly to the Human Race's genes, as though they had suddenly acquired a skill.

This passive skill was called Beast Tamer.

The giant in the sky slowly vanished, leaving behind a sentence only Xuanyuan Huangdi could hear: "Well done. Keep working hard. There are twenty years left."

Another object appeared in the Yellow Emperor's hand, round and marked with a countdown.

When the sacrificial ceremony ended, every member of the Human Race suddenly discovered that they could understand beast speech and felt a natural affinity with animals.

The emergence of this skill transformed Human Race society. People used oxen to plow fields, sent beasts to hunt, and even began riding pterosaurs through the sky.

One general rode a Quetzalcoatlus. Reins fitted to its back made it easy to control, and it could travel a thousand li a day.

And so, Human Race society as a whole underwent a change that turned heaven and earth upside down.