"That's right." Mang said proudly, "We eat meat soup three times a day, and we are full every time."
"Kuzhu, you too?" Su from Jiangyuan tribe looked at Kuzhu's round and plump face, feeling very unwilling.
Kuzhu and his men were once slaves, doing the heaviest work, eating the worst food, and starving to the point of being skin and bones. Now they are completely different from before.
"I'm no longer called Kuzhu, but Ganzhu," Ganzhu said proudly, "because our lives are sweeter than honey."
Seeing the jealous expressions of the cattle from the Su and Sifang tribes, he felt extremely happy: "Didn't you see it?"
He patted his face and raised his arms. "We are free men now, not slaves. There are no slaves in the Dragon Tribe. Everyone earns their food through labor. As long as you work hard, you can have your fill. No one beats or scolds anyone."
"You don't know, our tribe..." He began to describe their life in the Dragon Tribe.
After listening for a while, Su couldn't help but interrupt Gan Zhu and asked him, "How come you still have so much food to eat when there's a drought now?"
"Our leader is so powerful. You don't know..." Gan Zhu boasted about Qiao Yu's intelligence and foresight again.
Because the trade fair was really meaningless, everyone left on bad terms after staying there for a day.
The description of the Dragon Tribe's well-fed, equal and democratic life by Gan Zhu and Mang lingered in the minds of Su Heniu and others.
There were more than just these two people who heard what they said at that time.
So the news of how the people of the Dragon Tribe lived quickly spread among the lower-class people of the two tribes.
One night, when the hungry Jiangyuan tribe returned to their tribe from the mountains with nothing, they learned that their young children had died of illness and starvation, and all they had in their hands was a bowl of bitter and hard-to-swallow wild vegetable soup. They finally couldn't help but say, "I can't go on like this."
He said that he mobilized other people, sneaked into the leader's cave, killed the leader, and then ran towards the Dragon Tribe together to surrender to the Dragon Tribe.
Qiao Yuyin made preparations early, and the river water intercepted by the reservoir and dam has been irrigating the sweet potato fields. In addition, sweet potatoes are very drought-resistant, so the Long Tribe harvested a large amount of sweet potatoes in the autumn.
Although the production of other edible plants has decreased compared with previous years, the harvest is still considerable due to the wide variety of species and the deep roots of trees like chestnuts.
Combined with the tribe's raised animals, hunting trophies, and dried fish caught in rivers, ponds, and reservoirs, the Dragon Tribe had a considerable food reserve. As long as the drought didn't persist next spring, Qiao Yu was confident he could feed another two to three thousand people.
So she left the people of Jiangyuan tribe behind.
When the tribes in all directions heard the news, the ruling class was furious, but the working people at the bottom began to worry.
They are living the same life, but they are living in precarious conditions and suffering terribly here. Why don't they go to the Long tribe like the Jiangyuan tribe did?
The elders, stewards, and guards of the four tribes have bronze swords in their hands and cannot be killed easily, but they can learn from Mang and escape secretly!
In order to ensure that they would not be hunted down during their escape, they took the opportunity of hunting to contact Mang first and asked him to pass a message to Qiao Yu, saying that if Qiao Yu was willing to accept them, they hoped that he could send someone to the vicinity of the Sifang tribe to pick them up.
Ji Zhan and his companions woke up and found that all the civilians in the tribe had fled. They sent people to chase them, but when they caught up, they found that there were hundreds of people from the Dragon Tribe pointing weapons at them.
The pursuers thought for a moment and decided to take the Dragon Tribe members back to their own tribes, taking their families with them, and then fleeing as well. The thirty or so members of the ruling class of the Four Directions Tribes were left standing there staring blankly at each other.
For those who came to seek refuge from the Jiangyuan tribe and the Sifang tribe, Qiao Yu still followed the old method and chose a place outside the tribe to build houses for them.
She built these houses in the style of Fujian walled houses. Each brigade's house was a military defense fortress. There were sentries on top of each walled house, and they communicated with each other using flag signals, which greatly enhanced everyone's sense of security.
Moreover, wherever the enclosures were built, the tribe's maze defenses would be set up. Animals and strangers entering would get lost and fall into traps. She also planned to build outer walls and moats based on the terrain. This would ensure everyone's safety.
"Yu, the Sifang tribe and the Bahuang tribe all call their leaders the king. Now that we are a large tribe with such a large population, shouldn't we also change our name and call you the king?" Lu proposed enthusiastically at the meeting.
"Yes, yes, I also think he should be called Wang." Others also echoed.
The title of Wang sounds very noble.
"Alright," Qiao Yu said. "Not only will I be renamed King, but the tribe will no longer be called a tribe, but a country. We are the Dragon Clan, and our country will be the Zhou Dynasty."
"Next, we will improve administrative institutions and laws, establish schools, open paper mills and other factories, and mint copper coins as currency. The state will allow private property, and employment relationships between the rich and the poor will be permitted."
"I believe that our Zhou Kingdom's population will grow and its economy will become stronger. Once everyone in the tribe becomes literate, the country will hold an imperial examination system to select talents."
When everyone heard what she said, although they didn't quite understand it, they all looked envious.
They believed that what Qiao Yu said would come true because their king was Yu, a very powerful and smart woman!
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