In addition to the characteristics of the people's fierce style and the head like fine iron.

The main reason for their reluctance to join the Western Cloud Empire is that they can't unify their opinions internally.

The Si Yu State is said to be a country, but it is actually composed of large and small khanates, and countless Si Yu tribes.

Because the nomadic people have no fixed place to live and live in pursuit of water and grass, they are destined to be unable to gather together on a large scale and stay in a certain place for a long time.

Even if they had the will, the livestock they relied on would not allow them to do so, and it would not be long before a grassland would be nibbled away from the roots.

So over time, the Si Bi tribe has the custom of dividing the tribe.

When the population of the tribal group increases to a certain size, then among the descendants of the tribal chief, half of the population of the strongest successor tribe will be determined, and the other descendants will divide the remaining half of the population equally, and scatter to spread throughout the grassland to multiply and grow.

This is true even within a tribe, where an entire tribe does not live together.

Instead, they live in tents and are scattered in a certain area, and it is only when the pastures are moved that the whole tribe gathers together to act together.

Generally speaking, a tent is a family, and a family of about five to twenty people.

Five to twenty tents form a small settlement, five settlements form a small tribe, and five small tribes can make up a population of a thousand tents to have a chieftain and an exclusive totem.

When the population of a chieftain reaches "10,000 tents", the chief can call himself "Khan", and the grassland of the Khans under his command grazing is his khanate, and he is eligible to participate in the gathering of the khan.

Only 100,000 accounts can be called "Great Khan", only one million accounts can be called "Khan King", and 10 million accounts can be called "Feng Khan", which means "Khan King with a separate title".

Now there are 12 "Feng Khans", 108 "Great Khans", more than 1,000 Khan kings and tens of thousands of Great Khans, and there are countless 10,000 small Khans.

These Khans, Great Khans, Great Khans, and Waterfall Khans together constitute the decision-making level of the Si Yu Kingdom.

The regular meetings of the Khan kings to decide all the affairs of the entire tribe are very parliamentary, but it is also because of the large number of people that it is difficult to unify opinions.

Some Feng Khans felt that it was not a bad thing to join such a powerful empire, at least they could protect the tribal khans in an increasingly chaotic situation.

Some Feng Khan felt that when did their dignified Si Yu tribe ever be afraid of anyone?

You don't need to join the big forces to protect yourself, and you are reckless, and you resolutely disagree to join the Western Cloud Empire.

Some Feng Khan felt that it was impossible to join, but it was not bad to form an alliance with the Western Cloud Empire to help each other and strengthen their strength.

Of course, there are also Feng Khan who think, I'll just take a look and don't speak......

In this way, the envoy ship that sent the envoy to Si Yu Kingdom brought back all kinds of news.

There are those who agree to join, those who disagree to join, those who disagree to join but want to ally with the Western Cloud Empire, and those who disagree to join but want to exchange resources with the Western Cloud Empire, that's called a mess!

Bai Yuqi thought about it for a while, and felt that it seemed that there was no need to conquer all the Great Wilderness Native Kingdoms.

It seems that it is more in line with the interests and "personality" of the Western Cloud Empire to win over one or two "allies" that are not threatening, so as to hide the hidden identity of the "Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon" more deeply.

Besides, if we don't conquer by force, can't we "conquer" by other means?

For example, the one used by the Yanshi Shang clan in Xiyun was to encroach on the indigenous forces through economic means.

Compared to the Western Cloud Empire's slightly weak combat power in the Great Wilderness Realm, the production capacity of the Wuji System is truly invincible!

After deciding on the main line of development, Bai Yuqi, as the lord of the Western Cloud Empire, first met with the envoy of the Chaoyun Kingdom, which was relatively simple.

Chaoyun Kingdom's appeal is actually very simple, they don't want to offend the Western Cloud Empire, a powerful mysterious force that has just set foot in the Eastern Continent, and they don't want to become the people of the Western Cloud Empire.

However, due to their previous behavior of "seeing death and not saving them" to their allies, they were worried that the Western Cloud Empire would use this as an excuse to attack them.

Especially after learning about the strength of the Western Cloud Empire from the returning generals, knowing that it was absolutely impossible for him to resist the attack of the Western Cloud Empire, he could only retreat and express his willingness to become a vassal state of the Western Cloud Empire, but insisted on maintaining his own system.

Bai Yuqi didn't hesitate much about this, and said very magnanimously: After all, we are not devils, if we don't want to join, we don't want to join! But we must open up the land for the Xiyun Empire to collect resources, and at the same time cooperate with the Xiyun Empire in foreign wars!

When the envoy of Chaoyun Kingdom heard that the lord of the Xiyun Empire was so good at talking, he didn't even ask them to pay tribute, but was very surprised, and hurriedly thanked Dade for exchanging credentials with the Xiyun Empire and making a covenant.

If you want to say that you are thick-skinned to engage in diplomacy, as soon as you finished exchanging your credentials, you immediately salivated and asked the Western Cloud Empire to support Chaoyun Kingdom, and at the very least, it was not good to restore the food and material supply of the previous Biye Kingdom to Chaoyun Kingdom.

Regarding the rude request of the envoy of Chaoyun Kingdom, Bai Yuqi said with a look of embarrassment:

In the past, the Biye Kingdom provided free food support to the Chaoyun Kingdom, which was to let the Chaoyun Kingdom help the Biye Kingdom resist the invasion of Yu China.

Now the Western Cloud Empire doesn't need the so-called protection of Chaoyun Country, but has to provide shelter for Chaoyun Kingdom, and it is not like to provide food aid for free, after all, after Chaoyun Kingdom has become a vassal state of the Western Cloud Empire, we don't even want tribute.

However, out of the spirit of international humanitarian aid and for the sake of friendly relations between the two countries, the Xiyun Empire is still willing to supply the needs of Chaoyun Country with various food materials at a low price in the form of sales, but what does Chaoyun Country plan to use to pay for these food materials?

The Chaoyun Emissary, who had planned to sell miserably and let the Western Cloud Empire resume food supply to them, was dumbfounded.

Chaoyun Kingdom, which is not good at production and farming, what special products can make the Western Cloud Empire look at? Is it possible to exchange fish for fish?

You must know that before this, even the harpoons and fishing boats that Chaoyun Country used to catch were imported from the Biye Kingdom, as for the exchange of fish......

On the way they came, they saw the endless seafood processing factories next to Blackwater Bay, and people could fish in Blackwater Bay, where even they could not set foot in Chaoyun Kingdom, and they could exchange it for the fish they caught in small boats and harpoons?

Besides, even if people are willing to accept it, they can't solve it by themselves just by transporting it, so they can only pickle the catch into salted dried fish, and the value will be greatly discounted, so how many fish do they have to catch in exchange for enough food?