Chapter 349 The Journey to the North (asking for votes and subscriptions)
"And not only that, our leader said that some of the people who used to work for the Han tribe have decided to join the Han tribe. After they join the Han tribe, the original tribe will become a clan, and these tribesmen can still find their original tribesmen by name.
Our leader saw that those people really lived a good life after joining the Han tribe, and they were not treated differently. They also got what the old tribesmen should have, so he wanted to take us to join the Han tribe. He came back this time to discuss this matter with me, and I agreed.
Now I understand that if we can live such a life without worries about food and clothing, what does it matter what the tribe is called? What matters is that the tribesmen are alive and well. Besides, don’t we still have a surname? The previous tribe was not considered to have disappeared, so I agreed to his request.
"Leader Lu, we may be members of the Han tribe next time we meet. We will be on our way after this meal. I saw you asked someone to drive a few pigs here. If I am not mistaken, you want to exchange things with us.
If you want to exchange for white salt, I advise you to forget it. We don't have much white salt. The leader didn't bring any back this time. He said that he would join the Han tribe in the future, and the white salt would be distributed by the tribe according to the number of people. He didn't need to save it himself, so he didn't bring it back."
The elder ate his meal very seriously while looking around the appearance of the place where he lived, as if he wanted to remember this place where he had lived for most of his life firmly in his heart. Who knows if he can come back alive to see it in his lifetime?
And the leader of Lu, Ju, who was sitting opposite him, was so shocked that he completely forgot to eat. A neighboring tribe close to his tribe was actually going to join the Han tribe with all its people. This news was simply a bombshell, which shocked the leader of Lu Ju.
"Your tribe has more than 300 people, so you just joined the Han tribe? Didn't you make the decision too quickly? If you feel that there are not enough people and you have to join other tribes, you can also come to our Lu tribe. In this way, we will have more than 1,000 people together."
Lu chief Ju suddenly said excitedly. He didn't know why, but he always felt that he should keep this neighbor. Maybe it was because he knew that his neighbor next to him had moved away, and he felt a little unsafe. After all, people are social animals, and what they like to do most is to get together.
As soon as this sentence came out, the elder looked at him in surprise. The elder did not directly refuse, but asked Lu chief a few questions.
"If you join the Lu tribe, can Lu chief let us have enough food every day, and we don't have to go out hunting? If we join the Lu tribe, can we eat white salt every day in the future?"
Sure enough, as soon as these questions came out, Lu chief Ju became speechless. He said this in excitement. He also drove the pigs to exchange white salt with them. Where can he give them white salt every meal?
"This, this..."
"Leader Lu, don't think so. If you listen to my advice, you might as well send some people to go with us to the Han tribe. Even if you don't plan to join, it's good to send some people to work and bring back some white salt for the people in the tribe." The elder interrupted Ju's defense and took the initiative to give him advice.
When Leader Lu Ju heard it, he immediately became interested. Didn't he come here just to exchange for some white salt? Although he didn't exchange it, he got an important news from the elder, that is, the Han tribe used white salt and materials as rewards, and was recruiting a large number of laborers, all kinds of people, men, women, young and old.
This undoubtedly gave him a new source of materials. Although it was still the goods of the Han tribe, the channel was different. This time they didn't sell pigs, but relied on physical labor to make money, so it was understandable.
"Well, I will consider the elder's idea, but even if I find someone to work in the Han tribe, it's too late now, and we can't find their city. How can we get there then?" Lu leader Ju asked in confusion.
"This is easy to do. Just go north all the way. It won't take long before you find a dirt road in the mountains. The dirt road is very flat, and there are deep wheel marks on it, which were left by the vehicles of the Han tribe when they passed by. There is very little grass on that road now.
If you want to go, just go north all the way, find that dirt road, and then just keep going down it." The elder continued to give him advice.
Lu leader Ju also nodded in agreement, indicating that he remembered the elder's words, and then the two of them parted ways after dinner. The elder led the people of their tribe on the journey of migration to the north, and heard that their leader had brought people to wait for them at a rest point halfway ahead, so when he came this time, Ju didn't see the leader of the neighboring tribe.
After the neighbors left, Ju led his people back to his tribe, and drove back several pigs that were originally intended to be exchanged for salt.
Ju returned to the territory of the Lu tribe with mixed feelings. He saw the road that the Han tribe caravan often took not far away. The two deep ruts seemed to tell the harvest of the caravan every time.
The Han tribe was powerful and was still growing rapidly. There were more and more of them. Now even their neighbors were going to join them. What about the Lu tribe? What should they do in the future? Otherwise, they would listen to their elders and go over to have a look. Even if they didn't join them, at least they could gain some experience. Seeing what the old man boasted to him, he actually hadn't been there himself.
After making up his mind, the Lu leader immediately decided to go to the Han tribe to have a look. Although they always dealt with the Han tribe caravans, they really didn't know enough about the Han tribe. For example, the things that the neighbors told him today were all the first time he had heard of them.
The Han tribe had so many good things, so many planting and breeding techniques, and raised thousands of livestock. There must be a lot to learn. It would be nice to learn some useful techniques when you go to the Han tribe.
With such curious thoughts and longing for excellent production technology, the leader of Lu, Ju, personally led 50 people to the Han tribe. Among these 50 people, there were 40 adult men and 10 adult women, which was nothing for the Lu tribe with a total population of more than 700 people.
After the tribe members heard from the people who had just visited their neighbors, they also learned more about the Han tribe. They were looking forward to learning some skills, or working hard, and using their physical strength to exchange for some things. In short, they wanted to bring back more good things to improve the living standards of the tribe.
But what they didn't expect was that Luo Chong didn't open those key technologies to them at all. For example, when building a house, the work of digging the soil was done by laborers, and collecting firewood was also done by laborers, but the work of kneading mud and burning bricks was done by their own people, and finally the work of moving bricks to build a house was still done by laborers. As for the most critical brick-making technology, it was still firmly in the hands of their own tribe.
In fact, there was no point in doing this. Even if Luo Chong let them participate and let them learn how to make bricks, when they returned, they were not in sufficient numbers and did not have the right tools, so they couldn't even think about making bricks by themselves. Just digging the soil would tire them to death.
(End of this chapter)
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