After Xia Qi sat on the throne of the king, the Hu tribe was dissatisfied and raised troops to resist. The war was like a storm, and in the end Xia Qi defeated the Youhu clan, and the captives were reduced to slavery. Seeing this, the other tribes chose to surrender.
However, Xia Qi's death brought new variables. After his son Taikang succeeded to the throne, he indulged in safari all day long and had no interest in political affairs. Once, when he was returning home with a large number of prey, he was stopped by Hou Yi's army on the north bank of Luoshui. Taikang had no choice but to live in exile. Hou Yi took the opportunity to usurp the throne, and made Taikang's brother Zhongkang a puppet king, while he secretly controlled the power.
Hou Yi's archery skills were so superb that people worshipped him as the god of bows and arrows. There is a legend that in ancient times there were ten suns in the sky, and it was Hou Yi who shot down nine of them with his magic arrow; It is also said that the monsters in the river were also shot to death by his own hands. These myths all indicate that his archery skills reached a state of supernatural perfection.
However, after Hou Yi usurped the throne, he also began to become arrogant, and he relied on his unparalleled archery skills to make a fortune. He hunted everywhere and handed over all the major affairs of the country to his cronies Han Xun to deal with. But Han Xun was an ambitious person, he hid from Hou Yi to buy people's hearts, and finally sent someone to kill Hou Yi and seize the throne.
Han Xun was worried that the Xia clan would resist, so he decided to kill the Xiang who was driven away by Hou Yi. Xiang fled in all directions, but no matter how he fled to **, Han Xun could catch up. In the end, Xiang was killed while on the run. His wife gave birth to a son while fleeing to the Yusu tribe.
Shaokang grew up in a difficult environment and developed a super skill. When he learns that Han Xun is chasing him, he flees to Shun's descendant, the Yu clan. Shaokang gathered people from the Youyu clan and gradually gained his own power; At the same time, he also received help from ministers and tribes loyal to the Xia Dynasty. Together, they managed to regain the throne.
After the Xia Dynasty went through the mediocrity of Taikang, the usurpation of Houyi, the ** of Hanxun and the revival of Shaokang, history is called "Shaokang Zhongxing". But the struggle between the Xia Dynasty and the Yi people was not over. The Yi have many marksmen, and their bow and arrow skills are very high. However, Shaokang's son, Emperor Zhu, invented a protective garment that could avoid arrows, and with this artifact, the Xia Dynasty successfully defeated the Yi people, and Xia's power was able to expand eastward.