Chapter 454: Finally Joined
Want to wear clothes, want to live -
what a low and outrageous request, but even with such a low request, it is difficult for the Taro Tribe to meet it. However, there is more than one Taro Tribe in the world. The Taro Tribe can still meet the food needs, I am afraid that other wild people are even worse.
The child's mother is also very uncomfortable, but she is from the Taro Tribe, and her leader has not said anything. Can she take the initiative to join the Han Tribe with her child?
In the one month of contact with the people of the Han Tribe, did they really not envy the life of the Han Tribe?
Looking at the people of the Han Tribe eating white rice and vegetables every day, did they really not feel greedy?
When they walked barefoot and were stabbed by stones, did they really not envy the shoes on the feet of the people of the Han Tribe?
How is it possible!
As the saying goes, those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes, but there is another saying that I didn’t remember, that is, those who are barefoot also want to wear shoes!
It’s just that they don’t have the conditions, otherwise they wouldn’t be barefoot.
The child's mother turned her head to look at her leader Yu Tu, who was still staring at the herd of animals, and then looked at the vast herd of livestock of the Han tribe, and finally looked at the child at her knees.
He was the flesh and blood of her heart, who she had risked her life to give birth to after ten months of pregnancy. His young body trembled in the autumn wind, and his eyes were full of tears and helplessness. He had only one simple request in
the world, he wanted to live. Tears blurred the woman's eyes, making everything she saw hazy. Animals still have the love of licking their calves before their death, and humans who have awakened their spiritual wisdom are even more so. Motherly love has no borders and does not distinguish between species. It is an innate instinct.
If there were really extra animal skins in the tribe, no one would want to let their children wait to die naked in the cold wind, but the Yu tribe really didn't have any. What should I do? Now the opportunity is right in front of me. Thousands of livestock are flowing in front of me. Those tall four-wheeled trucks are full of animal skins. My tribe doesn't have them, but the Han tribe does.
Joining them is just a matter of words. If you say it, you will have a good life in the future. If you don't say it, how can you be worthy of the child who begs you for help? He is your own child. Who can love him more than you?
"Let's let this child join your tribe. Chief, we will stop him. You take him away." The child's mother suddenly made up her mind. Tears burst out. She pushed the child to You Fu fiercely and turned her head to the side.
She knew that if she let the child follow her, he would definitely have no clothes to wear. Instead of doing this, it would be better to hand him over to the Han tribe. Although he might never see him again, at least the child can survive.
The child staggered after being pushed by his mother, and he fell to the ground holding the lamb. When he heard what his mother said, he immediately burst into tears. He didn't want the lamb anymore, and instead hugged his mother's thighs and cried loudly.
"Mom, we don't need to wear clothes anymore. We'll follow you. We won't leave."
"Go ahead. You can live with them. They have everything. Go ahead!"
The child cried so hard that he couldn't bear to leave his mother. His mother pushed him away fiercely. Every time she pushed him away, the child would get up and run back crying. The mother and the child went back and forth, but in the end they couldn't bear to separate. They hugged each other and cried.
The other children and adults holding lambs seemed to be affected as well. They abandoned the lambs and hugged their parents' thighs to wipe their tears secretly.
The compassionate crying here finally attracted everyone's attention. Yu Tu, who had been staring at the herd in a daze, also came back to his senses. He watched this scene quietly without saying a word. The young figure wearing a golden crown appeared in his mind again. The words that man had said to him seemed to have just happened, lingering in his ears.
"You are also the head of a tribe, the leader of a tribe. If you can make your people live a better life, but you don't do it, then are you still qualified to be a leader? Are you worthy of your people?"
Huh -
after a long time, Yu Tu seemed to have figured something out, and he let out a long breath, his shoulders drooping weakly. It seemed that he could no longer bear the things he had insisted on for so long.
After what happened today, if he didn't agree to join the Han tribe, someone might pick up a shovel behind him and chop off his head with one shovel, and then stand in the camp of the Han tribe openly, or those little guys without clothes, don't look at them as small, maybe they will stone him to death at night.
The Yu tribe was on the verge of exploding. Although there were no soldiers shooting at their superiors from behind at this time, there were still some people who would do something dirty. Who told you to stop us from joining the Han tribe? Who told you not to let us live a good life? If I don’t kill you, who will I kill? I don’t care if you are the leader or
not. I am not one anyway. Whoever stops us from joining the Han tribe is our enemy. This sentiment has quietly spread in the Yu tribe. Maybe not everyone thinks so, but there are always dozens of people. However, Yu Tu simply cannot bear this risk, because even if there is only one person, it is very likely that he will not see the sun tomorrow.
Therefore, between continuing to persevere and then being killed by his own people, or taking them to join the Han tribe and then winning a position as a patriarch, Yu Tu had to choose to follow his heart.
Under the gaze of all his tribesmen, he walked up to the mother and son and Youfu. The child's red and swollen eyes were full of anger and sinisterness, which really scared him. This child might really want to kill him. Yu Tu pretended not to see it, then looked at Youfu, his face straightened, and immediately said righteously.
"I am their leader. I am willing to bring all my tribesmen to join the Han tribe. Please give these children a set of clothes."
The tribesmen looked at their leader in surprise, listened to what he said, and finally fell into ecstasy. Now, they are also members of the Han tribe.
Youfu smiled while twisting his beard, calm and composed; Shu Da was so angry that he almost fainted. He had been busy for almost two months just to earn this credit, so that when he stood in front of the leader with Youfu, he would not be embarrassed, but now.
"Fuck, where's my knife? Damn it, I'm going to chop that bastard to death. I finally got some credit, and it looked like I was going to succeed, but you came and kicked me out. How can we live like this?"
The news was quickly passed to the Han tribe by wooden boat. Luo Chong was not particularly excited. He had experienced too many such things. In the past two years, the Han tribe had absorbed countless tribes. It was just a Yu tribe, nothing worth paying attention to. Besides, Luo Chong had expected such a result long before, so he didn't pay too much attention to them.
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You Fu came back with thousands of cattle and horses. It sounded a lot, it looked a lot, and it was actually a lot.
When they went there, they had nearly 300 horses. Although there were not so many people, the 70 heavy cavalrymen all had three horses each, so the number was naturally more.
After arriving at the grassland, we don’t need to calculate how much we got in exchange. Just the time we robbed the Xin tribe, we got a lot of cattle and horses. One reason is that they didn’t have a car, so the cargo was all carried by cattle and horses. In this way, the cattle and horses needed were a large number. The Han tribe might not be able to fit a car with ten cattle and horses.
In addition, the cattle and horses that the Xin tribe exchanged with various tribes on the grassland along the way were even more numerous.
Another group was the Snow Wolf Tribe. 500 riders attacked the caravan. The first time the Han tribe killed more than a hundred people and seized nearly 300 horses. You have to know that no matter how old they were, each person had two or three horses.
Although they didn’t continue to fight, the day the team caught up with them, they extorted hundreds of horses from them. In this way, the harvest was considerable. The two battles brought countless benefits to the Han tribe.
Of course, these are all living things, and the captured dead things must also be counted, especially the large amount of sea salt seized from the Xin tribe, plus the goods brought by the Han tribe. This is equivalent to gathering the resources of the two tribes, gathering the exchanged livestock in one place, and the size of the herd is naturally larger.
Such a large number of livestock naturally expanded the strength of the Han tribe, but it became a problem to raise them. First of all, the scale. The Han tribe has thousands of horses in total, and it is difficult to raise them in one place now because there is no feed.
Unlike cattle and sheep, cattle, sheep, donkeys, alpacas, and other things are more tolerant of roughage, which means they are easier to raise. They don’t have to avoid eating anything, as long as they have food, especially corn stalks. Although they are not valuable, cattle and sheep love to eat them.
But if you put the same thing in front of the horse, it may not even bother to look at it. It needs to be fed with fine feed. What is fine feed? The best alfalfa, even if it is straw, it must be wheat or barley straw. Rice straw is also OK. In addition, according to the exercise situation, it is best to add some seasonal fruits and vegetables, or high-energy, high-calorie crops such as beans, so that good horses can be raised. However, such harsh conditions are difficult for the Han tribe to meet now.
However, in the current situation, regardless of whether the horses are well raised, at least they must be kept alive. Hanyang City has stored a lot of rice straw, but it is still not enough, so some of these horses must be sent to Liuyang County, where there is also a lot of straw. Even in the Babaoshan area to the north of Liuyang County, the edge of the swamp there is very lush with water and grass, which is also a rare forage reserve. In addition to the unharvested corn straw, the two counties are almost enough to survive the winter.
However, in order to save the stock of fodder, they still had to eat outside in the two months before winter. If they could avoid eating at home, they would not eat at home. In winter, the mountains were closed due to heavy snow, and it would be impossible to eat outside.
Luo Chong immediately gave an order to divide You Fu's caravan into two parts. One part took half of the horses and went north out of the pass. They would go to the hilly grassland outside Fuma Pass to graze for two months, and wait until it snowed before bringing the horses back to the city to eat straw, otherwise they would have a hard time in winter; the other half of the caravan took the remaining cattle and horses to Liuyang County, grazing along the river, going north from Linze Township to Babaoshan, eating once and then coming back, until it snowed in winter and then entering the city. After
arranging the winter management of the herd, Luo Chong called You Fu over and asked him to tell him about his experiences along the way, the customs and people of the grassland, the geography and climate, and the attitudes of the tribes towards the Han tribal caravan, so that Luo Chong could formulate future strategic policies for the grassland. This was a national policy and could not be sloppy.
"Chief, it will snow in two months. We definitely can't go to the grassland this year. So what should I do in these two months? Chief, please arrange something for me." You Fu said with a smile.
"Well, what else can I do in two months? Otherwise, you can take the tribesmen to collect crops. We need to collect chestnuts from Ruyang County, tung seeds from tung trees, sisal from the west mountain, ramie from the southwest, and the man-eating tree from the back mountain. That's all. Don't be tired when the time comes." Luo Chong looked at You Fu with a playful look on his face.
"Ah? So many places, okay, I'll go tomorrow, but our tribe has changed a lot. I've only been away for half a year, and so many new things have come out." You Fu said, and then suddenly took out a few letters from his body. These were all written by Luo Chong himself, and he was indeed the one who sent them to You Fu.
"Chief, what is this? It doesn't look like animal skin. And what are these words written with? This thing didn't exist when I left, but when I came back, it was everywhere." You Fu asked curiously. "
It's nothing special. You should have seen a brush. It's similar to a brush. It's made of animal hair. You've also seen the ink used. It's just that it was used for carpentry before. As for paper, it's indeed a new thing, but the output is very stable. A lot of paper is produced every day." Speaking of this, Luo Chong's face was full of pride. I'm a time traveler. See if I'm awesome (smug).
So, after You Fu flattered him and said that the chief was really awesome, Luo Chong rewarded this guy with a set of stationery, a set of five pieces of pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and pencil. Of course, there were many other things, such as a pen washer. Luo Chong spread his hands and said he could do nothing. If you have the ability, ask the lame man to bring you one, or just keep quiet and find a porcelain bowl instead.
You Fu was already able to write. From the letters he had exchanged with Luo Chong in the past, it could be seen that he was just interested in these new things. But if he was allowed to go to the classroom to teach, it would be impossible. It would probably be more painful for him than killing him.
Luo Chong ignored this playboy and only asked him to collect chestnuts and tung trees as soon as possible. Then he continued to teach the students in the classroom. As the days passed, the words Luo Chong taught became more and more complicated. However, ordinary words were no longer difficult for everyone. After all, they had been learning for such a long time.
But on that day, when Luo Chong was giving a lecture, a giant eagle circled back and forth outside the window, making constant calls, as if looking for Luo Chong.
Luo Chong looked closely and saw two black strips of cloth floating on the eagle's legs. He immediately understood that it was news from Liuyang County.
He quickly went outside to receive the envelope. After opening it, there were only a few words inside, but Luo Chong frowned tightly.
"Chief, winter is approaching, and the autumn food storage of the southern tribes is insufficient, so many tribes have taken the opportunity to join our army. The population of Liuyang County has exceeded 20,000, but the number of barbarians is still constantly coming to us, and it is expected to exceed 30,000 before winter. The food storage in Liuyang County may be insufficient. What should we do? Should we allow a large number of livestock to be slaughtered to prepare for winter needs?" - Lin Shu.
(End of this chapter)
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