"Even the charlatans trust you, so why should I worry? Haha!" Luo Bai said with a smile. Of course, Gray Wolf was the best at understanding the prairie. So, within two weeks of Gray Wolf's arrival, Ma Yue had already appointed him the leader.
It's hard to say which of the three leaders at the Hai Tribe headquarters holds a higher position. There's no need to talk about chief, second, or third chief, and so on. Anyway, Ma Yue has always been the boss, and the rest can be discussed among the group.
What is Big Bad Wolf going to do?
They've already attacked us, so why not retaliate? Taking advantage of the enemy's disastrous defeat, of course we have to continue looting.
The Hai tribe suffered heavy losses, with nearly 200 casualties. Gray Wolf Chen Sheng attacked and took away 400 troops, which was already the limit.
There were only one hundred teams left, plus less than fifty reconnaissance cavalrymen. They were very busy searching for spoils, recovering flying rifles, and taking care of the wounded.
"Let's go home!"
The mighty army returned triumphantly. Their greatest reward was the capture of several hundred orphaned donkeys and some captives. The seriously injured were basically left alone, and the hundred or so captives they brought back were enough.
"We won, haha..." On the top of the city wall, the two priests were so excited when they saw the nearly four hundred donkeys that were captured.
"Let's have donkey meat tonight and celebrate." A lot of donkeys were captured, and the dead ones couldn't be wasted, so all the ones they could carry were brought back, and of course they had to eat the meat.
"I hope Gray Wolf and the others are doing well too."
"Basically, all that's left is to beat the downtrodden dog. I don't believe that Gray Wolf can lose like this? Haha!"
Luo Bai is back, and several senior executives gathered together excitedly.
"What about the prisoners? The charlatan is not here."
"Then tie him up first. Just make sure he doesn't starve to death."
"That's right, there are only about a hundred prisoners, it's not enough to cause any trouble."
"What the charlatan said is correct. The truth is that it is within the range of the flying gun."
"Yeah, we can still win if we fight."
"After this battle, let's see which grassland tribe dares to covet our Stone City? Humph!"
"This is so cool! It saves us so much salt and salted radish, haha!"
This battle eliminated the threat posed by the grassland cavalry, and the Hai tribe's leaders breathed a sigh of relief. Outside the city, there were eight hundred mu of radish farmland, which could yield nearly two million kilograms of radishes in late autumn (the current yield per mu was over two thousand kilograms). How painful would it be to lose any of it?
The delicious taste of salted dried radish has been deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The east side of the city was relatively safe, so a lot of onions and sunflowers were planted. This was Ma Yue's request. Without green vegetables and onions, how could life be possible? Therefore, in the east side of the city, only 400 mu of arable land was actually planted with radishes. The remaining 100 mu was planted with onions, sunflowers, and garlic. As for the corn, it was simply given to the jungle branch.
The two tribes in the jungle each planted fifty mu of corn, which was already a lot, mainly to feed the livestock during the winter. The people of the Hai tribe were most fond of radishes, because they were delicious and had a high yield per mu.
The Hai Tribe itself had a large population, and domestic demand was high. Even during the winter, salted radish was primarily supplied to migrant workers, and most of the elderly and the weak rarely had access to it.
The headquarters has a population of about two thousand, and the two distributed areas have a population of sixteen to seventeen hundred, and they all need to eat.
Fortunately, the current Hai tribe has a lot of large livestock and arable land, and production is gradually increasing.
Since they weren't going to build a city with the Aries Tribe this year, the main task left for the Sea Tribe was to boil large quantities of salt before the autumn harvest. The demand for salt was never met. Indeed, the Sea Tribe's own salt demand was enormous.
No matter how stingy Ma Yue was, the people of his tribe had to have their basic salt needs met. Without salt, life would be lifeless, so how could you expect them to work? Ma Yue said that even the disabled people in the Hai tribe could make contributions and were part of the labor force.
In autumn, herding, hunting, and boiling salt are the main themes of life in the Hai tribe. Boring? What else can they do to survive?
"Great! A great victory, haha!" Ma Yue finally emerged. Four hundred more donkeys in the tribe—what else could it be but a great victory? It doesn't matter how we won, the outcome was a good one. Besides, wasn't the Hai Tribe's initiative to attack also Ma Yue's original plan?
"Tie Shi and Wu Qi are also itching to come here, haha!" said the second priest with a smile.
"Let them farm well and perform well. We will let them come back when there is a chance in the future." The leaders of the sub-tribes should be rotated, but the sub-tribes here are close to each other, so the rotation is not so frequent.
"Our reconnaissance cavalry has been on guard outside." Luo Bai said.
"Good, Luo Bai, you are not arrogant after winning. You have the demeanor of a great general." Ma Yue was very satisfied with Luo Bai's performance.
"Grey Wolf has gone to chase the Divine Bull Tribe. It's very far away and I'm afraid he won't be back for a month." Shuichong said.
"Grey Wolf is familiar with the prairie. It's not winter, so he won't get lost. It shouldn't be a problem." The prairie is really big. This time, the prairie people organized a large army to attack the Sea Tribe. It was the Divine Bull Tribe, which was considered to be the closest to the Stone City of the Sea Tribe. It would take them half a month to run. Do you think it's far?
"We already have a lot of large livestock. In our headquarters alone, there are nearly 1,500 wildebeests and donkeys of all sizes. Do we still need to go out to trade?" asked the high priest.
"The difficulty of winter feeding...are you prepared enough?"
"Every time we go out to graze, we collect a lot of grass. There shouldn't be any problem with storing the hay left over for the winter. Of course, we need enough corn to supplement it." The second priest said. Generally speaking, he was still in charge of the animal husbandry of the Sea Tribe.
"We have a large area of radish cultivated land this year, and there will be a lot of leftover salted radish..." said the high priest.
"Has Hai's trading team not returned yet?" Ma Yue asked.
"It should be soon. The Flying Donkey Tribe is halfway there. Hai, I haven't been to Sun City for a long time, haha!" The second priest said with a smile. Trading with the Flying Donkey Tribe is more cost-effective than going to Sun City.
"Well, high priest, you can do a rough calculation. In winter, the elderly and the weak can also be provided with some salted radishes..." They are all people from the Sea Tribe. Although they are old and weak, the work they do seems easy. Whether it is weaving ropes or sharpening tools, in fact, the value they create is not small.
Ma Yue still had the people-oriented thinking from his previous life, and he still had some good qualities of respecting the elderly and loving the young. He always felt bad about mistreating the elderly and the weak.
"Okay!" The high priest felt a little pained. Primitive people didn't agree with Ma Yue's ideas. Good food should be provided to able-bodied men. How could such an important food as salted radish be eaten by the old and weak? What a waste.
"As for the trade, the salt and salted radish are in our hands. In the future, if they want to trade, they should come to us on their own initiative, right? Haha!" Why should we mobilize a large army to go out and trade, and waste the labor force of the Sea Tribe?
Whether it's coarse salt or salted dried radish, it's a seller's market after all.
Stone City has become powerful and no longer needs to be as humble as before.
It would be best if Stone City could become a trading center in the future.
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