As for building the house, there's no rush. It'll take them 20 to 30 days to go back and forth. By the time they return, the weather will warm up and spring will have arrived. By then, the ground will have thawed, and we can start laying the foundation. Even if we let them out now, they won't be able to do much.
Because the tribe had been using dried meat to buy mud bricks from those with less labor, they still had some in stock. While it wasn't enough for so many people to build houses, it was still enough to build a batch. The mud bricks needed to be dried, so those who were using them to build houses could use them between construction sessions to make mud bricks and return them to the next group.
When the old, weak, women and children from the God Tribe arrived, they could live in the cabins that the Dragon Tribe had built first. By then, the weather was warmer, so living in cabins was not a big deal.
The days passed and everything was peaceful.
The prisoners' weapons were confiscated, and they were fed little each day, leaving them too hungry to cause any trouble. Even if some tried to use their conflicts to cause trouble, they were quickly dealt with.
After two attempts, they found Qiao Yu's tough attitude and his decisiveness in dealing with them. He would take the troublemakers to another room, deprive them of food, and starve them for two days. This way, no one dared to cause trouble again, and everyone gradually accepted their fate.
Man and his group successfully brought back the elderly, the weak, women and children from the Divine Tribe.
On the day these women and children arrived, Qiao Yu did not arrange for them to meet their husbands, but instead asked someone to take them to visit the Dragon Tribe first.
"Wow, your house is so nice, isn't it? This kang is actually warm. It's so comfortable to sleep on it in the snowy season. Can we live in a house like this too?"
"Wow, you raise these wild animals? Does that mean we don't have to go hunting in the mountains and have plenty of dried meat to eat?"
"How do you have so many hairy potatoes? Do you have a lot growing on the mountain here? We went up the mountain to look for them last year and didn't find any. What? You grew them yourselves? You're amazing."
"What's going on with this water? How does it flow down by itself? So you can use it at home and don't have to go far to get water anymore?"
As members of a large tribe, the women of the God Tribe had a sense of superiority, but they followed the Dragon Tribe out of helplessness.
But when they saw the neat houses, raised animals, and various facilities of the Dragon Tribe, everyone felt like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and felt that the God Tribe they were proud of was far inferior to the Dragon Tribe.
They live such a comfortable life these days.
They also wanted to live in such a neat and warm big house, have water available directly in the yard, and grow sweet potatoes and raise wild animals in the tribe, so that they would have food and clothing without having to go out hunting and taking risks.
In addition, you can go to the toilet without leaving the yard. The whole tribe is clean.
After joining the tribe, Qiao Yu arranged for the captives to go out in batches to see their wives and children the next day. Naturally, everyone burst into tears.
Women were less ambitious, simply wanting their families to live in peace and contentment, with enough food and clothing. They had also heard from the Dragon Tribe that if their husbands surrendered and remained captives for a while, they would be released and reunited with their families.
After visiting the Dragon Tribe again yesterday, they were even more willing to become part of it.
Therefore, when they met, they all tried their best to persuade their husbands to surrender directly, and excitedly described to them what they had seen and heard in the Dragon Tribe.
The men had already expressed their willingness to surrender after being starved for two or three days. In the face of starvation, loyalty to the tribe was worthless. They had only insisted that they wait until their wives and children were brought back, and they hadn't been allowed to leave.
Now that their wives had persuaded them, they naturally expressed their willingness to surrender.
"Okay, let's arrange for them to train in the morning, dig tree stumps and plow the land in the morning, and build houses in the afternoon. Women and children will make mud bricks every day. You will arrange how to assign people to manage them." Qiao Yu said to Man.
All the prisoners' weapons were confiscated, and food was distributed daily. Without weapons and extra food, even if they escaped, they would not be able to survive in the mountains. Without weapons, they could not defeat the men of the Dragon Tribe who were armed with swords and guns.
This time, during their visit to the God Tribe, they also confiscated a considerable amount of dried meat. Large tribes are rich. This amount of dried meat was enough to feed the entire tribe for a while. Since the male captives were released and had been working every day, she had ensured they had a full meal and no longer went hungry.
Had they not experienced those twenty-plus days of being cooped up in their houses, starving and worrying about their families day and night, perhaps the men of the God Tribe would still have had their own petty concerns. But now that they've experienced hunger, they're content with just a full meal each day and their wives and children safe by their side. Even the former leadership of the God Tribe seems to have recognized the reality of the situation.
Qiao Yu still adopts the model of separate management for men and women. Men still live in the rabbit breeding house, and there are people guarding them every day when they go in and out, work, and sleep; women and children live in the cabins.
She had a good plan: once the men had finished building the house, they would let the women and children move in. The vacated cabin would be for the men, and the rabbit breeding house would remain for the rabbits that had entered their breeding season.
The hill where they had originally built their house was no longer large enough to accommodate so many people, so Qiao Yu chose two other locations and built rows of courtyard houses.
She then divided the captives from the Shanyin tribe and the Shen tribe into two groups, letting them live together in the two houses, trying to prevent them from forming small groups.
"Yu, spring is coming, and the people of the Sun Tribe will soon discover that the people of the God Tribe are missing. They will definitely chase us by following the traces. What preparations should we make?" The next day after Man came back, he came to find Qiao Yu.
They brought so many women and children with them. Not to mention the things they dropped along the way, even the excrement alone would be enough to attract people from the Sun Tribe to come looking for them.
"How many of us are there now?" Qiao Yu asked instead of answering.
Man was stunned for a moment before he said, "One thousand two hundred people."
"How many people are there in the Sun Tribe?"
"A thousand people." Man said, suddenly realizing it.
Yes, their tribe already has more people than the Sun Tribe. Even if the Sun Tribe comes looking for them, what are they afraid of? The ones who should be afraid are the Sun Tribe.
"When they come, it will be time for the tribal trade fair to reopen." Qiao Yu said.
"Are we not going to attack them?"
"We're evenly matched in numbers, so it's not worth it. Besides, are you willing to let most of our tribe be killed or injured just to win a victory?"
Mitsuru shook his head: "That's definitely not possible."
They are brothers who live together day and night. How could he bear to let these people die?
In several battles, Qiao Yu did not cause any casualties in their tribe, which is why the entire tribe admired and respected her.
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