Chapter 1139 The smooth joining of You Qiao Clan
Because of their living habits and food sources, You Qiao Clan did not have a particularly large settlement. They were more like a clan-based tribe, with family and blood as the main relationships. Then when there were more people, they split up and gradually formed a dozen villages in this area. The one Ye Ying and his team found was one of the villages closest to the lake.
Moreover, even in this small village near the lake, the people in it have not yet learned the skills of fishing.
This is not to say that they don’t know there is food in the water, but that the river is different from the lake. The width of the river is limited, and how far can the fish in it run?
But the Hong Lake in front of them is big, and the fish in it can’t foolishly wander around the lake, and they don’t know how to build boats, so they can only sigh at the lake, even if they know there is a lot of food in the water.
However, compared with the small tribe that Shi Quan had contacted before, the situation of You Qiao Clan is much better.
The Qiao clan is currently in a period of reform and development. They have mastered the techniques of making traps and hunting in teams, so the population has begun to rise rapidly. At the same time, due to the increase in population, the living space of wild animals has begun to be squeezed, which has caused serious consequences.
With the increase in population, there is not enough prey in one place to eat, and the land per unit area can only support a very limited population.
Therefore, they have to continue to split up and migrate the population outward.
There are two purposes for doing this. One is to reduce the pressure on the tribe headquarters and allow the tribesmen to open up a larger territory.
The second is that the elders of the Qiao clan also hope that those tribesmen who have migrated out can find a better way of life outside, and then feed back to the Qiao clan, so that the Qiao clan can successfully complete the reform of the way of life from hunting and gathering to farming and breeding.
In fact, they have already achieved this goal. The year before last, or the year before last, a young man named "Biao" brought back the news from the Tang tribe at that time that "there is a valley in the east, which can survive 10,000 people."
However, the man was injured on the way back and died soon after. No one led them, and no one knew how far the east was, what that valley was, and why it could feed tens of thousands of people.
Fortunately, Qiao Yan and his tribe, who were migrating outward, happened to meet the Han tribe. After being recruited by the Han tribe, they learned more advanced planting and breeding techniques.
Therefore, they were actually willing to share with their original tribesmen and persuade them to join the Han tribe.
With Qiao Yan, a member of the original Qiao clan, and many branches that left from various villages of the Qiao clan, the entire Qiao clan soon got in touch with the fleet led by Ye Ying.
After half a month, everyone finally agreed that each village would send out an elder and bring a few capable young men to gather in the village by the lake. At that time, the Han tribe would entertain them in the village, let them taste various crops, tell them about the lifestyle of the Han tribe, and persuade them to join the Han tribe.
If the Han tribe could convince them all, they would actually be willing to join. One of the biggest reasons was not only because the Han tribe had advanced technology and no worries about food and clothing, but also because the Han tribe's system or structure was more inclusive.
The Han tribe called all the tribe members common people. Literally, it was composed of many clans and tribes, so even if the You Qiao family joined the Han tribe, they would not lose anything. They would still be surnamed Qiao and would always be called You Qiao. The leader of the Han tribe even allowed them to set up a clan temple to worship their ancestors.
By joining the Han tribe, they lost their old life of hunger, lack of clothing, poverty and backwardness, but what they gained was something they had never dared to think about before, a life of being able to eat every meal, three meals a day, and every meal had meat.
In half a month, the main branch of the You Qiao family was nearby, and all the villages that could be contacted sent people.
During the past half month, Ye Ying had already made a lot of preparations. Not only did he have people prepare various kinds of food, he also had people come up with many cooking methods. He even sent a boat to Kaiyuan County on the west bank of Honghu Lake to transfer a batch of goats to tell everyone in the Qiao family that animals can not only be obtained by hunting, but also by breeding. As long as you give them food, they will reproduce faster than humans, so that you can't eat them all.
The elders and hunting captains of the Qiao family villages were all amazed. For the first time, they saw that human power could actually make a behemoth like a three-masted sailing ship, and it could float on the water freely.
There were also those tribesmen in the Han tribe, who were wearing exquisite clothes all over their bodies. Although some people only wore coarse linen clothes, that was because they couldn't weave them in the Qiao family. Even if you threw a rag to them, they would have to admire that this thing was exquisite and wonderful.
Of course, these are still secondary. What they care most about is the problem of survival.
What is the problem of survival? It's nothing more than those few things, food, water, shelter, and fuel.
The most important ones are food and water.
Fortunately, Ye Ying had already made preparations. Just by displaying all kinds of food, the people of the Qiao family were stunned.
The crops of the Han tribe now add up to a lot.
In terms of staple food, there are rice, glutinous rice, barley, wheat, millet, yellow rice, corn and other things; there are more supplementary food, sesame, various beans, especially soybeans, that is, yellow beans, as well as black beans, mung beans, peas, etc. In terms of seasoning, the Han tribe also has peppers, cumin, star anise, salt and sugar.
Other important supplementary food, there are corn, potatoes, taro, these important crops with high yield and relatively good taste.
Although potatoes can replace staple food, they are not easy to store. In addition, the Han tribe does not have the habit of using potatoes as staple food. In the past two years of promotion, they have always been eaten as vegetables, so potatoes are not included in the list of staple food in the Han tribe.
In addition, breeding technology is not easy to demonstrate. After all, these living things cannot be brought in at will, but the group of goats that Ye Ying got from Kaiyuan County perfectly demonstrated what breeding is.
A group of elders and young men who came from various villages did not leave immediately. They all stayed in the village by the lake temporarily, eating all kinds of food given by the Han tribe every day, and listening to Ye Ying telling them about the various lifestyles and systems of the Han tribe.
Even when he was free, Ye Ying took those young men with him to teach them how to herd sheep, what to feed the sheep, how to milk the sheep, how to make cheese, etc.
After four or five days, when those people found that these sheep really ate some wild grass every day and were still alive and kicking, they finally believed in the breeding techniques of the Han tribe.
Since sheep can be raised, can other animals that eat grass also be raised?
These livestock can not only provide meat for people, but also provide dairy products, leather and fur, and even some large livestock can be used for servitude, driving them to help humans work!
Such production and living technology is too advanced compared to their Qiao family, okay? Who can resist yearning for it?
Therefore, after seeing the strength of the Han tribe, as well as the structure and system of the Han tribe, the elders of the villages with the Qiao clan finally unanimously decided to lead their clansmen to join the Han tribe.
Ye Ying, as the representative of the Han tribe at the meeting, promised to give them houses and land, and find someone to teach them various production and living skills of the Han tribe.
Therefore, Ye Ying absorbed more than a dozen villages with the Qiao clan without bloodshed, with a total population of about 3,700 people.
Those who agreed to join the Han tribe will not be transported away for the time being, but let them lead the population of their own villages to gather here by the lake.
People who come here don't have to worry about having no food. Those who are willing to come will be people of the Han tribe in the future. Before they get the land and have their own harvested food, all their living needs will be taken care of by the tribe.
At this time, all the villages have no worries and began to gather here at the boat stop.
At the same time, Ye Ying also sent more teams ashore, with small flags as units, under the guidance of local guides, to find other villages of the Qiao clan in the outer areas, and even other tribes.
There is no doubt that there must be other tribes here. After all, there are so many people in the Qiao clan, and they all need to get married and have children, so there must be other tribes of the same size as them, otherwise it will be a problem to reproduce.
In this way, it took two months, and Ye Ying not only caught nearly 7,000 people from the Qiao clan in this area, but also got 4,000 people from other tribes by either winning over, trading, or abducting.
This action alone brought more than 10,000 people to the Han tribe.
Ye Ying couldn't help but secretly smack his lips. He searched such a large area, but he actually got so many people.
You have to know that the area on the east bank of Honghu Lake, north of Tuohai County and the capital, and south of the northern mountains is very large. They have only explored so far. If they continue to search, Ye Ying even thinks that they can add another 100,000 people to the Han tribe.
(End of this chapter)
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