Chapter 275 Defection (Please vote and subscribe)
"This?" The leader of the other team hesitated for a moment. He had never thought that the Han tribe would propose such a solution. They had not studied such a situation in the tribe beforehand, so they didn't know what to say.
"Of course, if the people of your tribe don't want to separate, I have a better way, that is, let your entire tribe join the Han tribe together.
As long as you become a member of our Han tribe, you can have a solid and warm house, endless food, and endless animal skins. How about it? You can go back and discuss it with the tribe members. If they agree, you can move here immediately." Luo Chong said to them again.
"This, we can't make a decision, but we will go back and tell the leader. I don't know whether he agrees or not. Although I really want to stay in the Han tribe, you are really good here. I will definitely tell the tribe members about the Han tribe. I believe they will like it." The leader of the other team said.
"Well, very good, then I won't keep you here. I hope you can make the right choice. If you are willing to come, the Han tribe will always welcome you."
After the conversation, Luo Chong stood up to see the guests off, and the soldiers guarding the city quickly let a few people out.
One of the soldiers who did not leave stood beside Luo Chong and suddenly asked Luo Chong: "Chief, do you think they will agree to join the Han tribe? Then they will come?"
"How do I know if they will come, but there must be some of them who want to come. Who doesn't want to live a better life? As for how they decide in the end, it has nothing to do with us. It doesn't matter whether they come or not. We don't lack those people."
Luo Chong shook his head, left the soldier, and turned back to Dazui to watch them cast the iron pot. As for those people just now, Luo Chong didn't take them seriously at all. As he said just now, if they come, the Han tribe welcomes them, and if they don't come, it doesn't matter. This is no longer the Han tribe with only dozens of people. Luo Chong doesn't take those people seriously now.
In the following days, the Han tribe was still building rapidly, and the equipment of the oil mill was soon completed. Luo Chong had already led the tribe to start squeezing tung oil.
The dried tung oil seeds are first ground into powder, fried in a large iron pot, and then wrapped in linen into round cakes. Then they are put into the oil press one by one, and the wooden hammer hanging on it is slowly lowered. Many large blue bricks are dropped on both sides of the wooden hammer to increase the weight.
Wooden oil barrels are also placed at the oil outlet of the oil press to receive the pressed tung oil. The tung oil just squeezed out actually looks the same as soybean oil in color, light yellow, and it is really hard to tell the difference except for the unique smell of tung oil.
This kind of tung oil is called raw tung oil. It is not the best to use as varnish. The best effect is cooked tung oil, which is made by mixing raw tung oil with rosin. The finished product is more viscous and the color becomes darker amber. It is the best natural paint for making furniture.
However, raw tung oil is not useless. Although it is not the best varnish material, it can be used as lamp oil.
The emergence of tung oil also immediately solved the lighting problem of the Han tribe. Although the oil lamp was not very bright, it was a good start. Before the Han tribe had light-transmitting doors and windows, having an oil lamp in the house definitely brought great convenience to life. Now at night, the Han tribe is no longer pitch black.
When Luo Chong used the oil lamp to brush up his reputation in the tribe again, several people who had come to borrow food before also returned to the tribe. The tribesmen who were looking forward to it saw that they returned empty-handed, and they all showed disappointment. They were already on a diet. It was very difficult to have only one meal a day. In order to reduce consumption, many people stayed in the mud house motionless, just like animals hibernating, looking forward to the cold winter to end soon.
"Why, didn't you get any food? Did the Han tribe not want to give it to you, or did you not find the Han tribe?" the leader asked the few people who came back.
"Leader, we found the Han tribe, but there were some changes there. We also met the leader of the Han tribe, but he did not agree to lend us food. However, he also said a way to let all of our tribe join the Han tribe, so that we can get more food than we can eat."
Then, the leader of the team told everything he saw and heard in the Han tribe, but he concealed the other option mentioned by Luo Chong, which was to trade people for food.
This was discussed by the eight people who went out on the way back. These adult men were the main force in the tribe that could not be separated. If they really wanted to trade people with the Han tribe, the most likely ones to be traded would be their women and children, which they did not want to see.
Instead of exchanging their relatives for food, it would be better for everyone to join the Han tribe directly. In order to avoid the tragedy of separation of wives and children, they simply concealed this matter and only told the leader the option of everyone joining the Han tribe.
When the leader heard the news, he was very surprised at first, but then he felt that the Han tribe was not a good tribe. They had more food than they could eat, but they were unwilling to lend them some. They also took advantage of the situation and threatened them to join the Han tribe.
Such people have disgusting ideas. Even in modern times, there are still many people who think that others are better than themselves and should help themselves as a matter of course, as if it is natural for others to
help themselves. Moreover, if the request for help is rejected, he will scold you for not being a good person. There are simply too many such people. The final result is naturally imaginable. The leader did not agree to the unreasonable conditions of the Han tribe. He felt that his tribe would be able to survive the winter at most, and he would not be threatened by the Han tribe.
The leader's decision spread throughout the tribe immediately, and the food that had been reduced to one meal a day suddenly became one meal every two days, and they had to go out to find food every day in the cold weather.
The tribesmen were not happy with this. Life was already difficult enough, and now it was even poorer. Although the tribesmen did not dare to speak out against the leader's opinion, they felt very uncomfortable.
Originally, the leader thought that the matter was over, but what he didn't expect was that a collective defection suddenly occurred in the tribe.
It turned out that the eight men who went to the Han tribe spread what they saw and heard in the Han tribe among the tribe members, as well as the various benefits of joining the Han tribe, which made the tribe members suddenly yearn for it.
So under the planning of several people, they quickly attracted a group of tribe members who were willing to follow them to join the Han tribe. One night when everyone fell asleep, nearly half of the tribe members quietly got up and followed the eight men to escape at night, all the way to the Han tribe.
(End of this chapter)
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