Chapter 159: We Are Slaves
After so many years, the Qianlong River has never been truly peaceful, because of the continuous wars, the Qianlong River has always maintained such a form, it is difficult to develop, and even many people are living more and more hard, survival is becoming more and more difficult, and the mortality rate is getting higher and higher.
This unstable environment will attract dissatisfaction, and in order to change the status quo, there will be conflicts, but every time the impact of contradictions intensifies to a certain extent and a large-scale war is about to be formed, the people of Qingmangshan will appear and prevent the war from really happening.
The people in the Qianlong River Basin are not stupid, but in the past, the news was closed, and they didn't know the situation outside, but later with the increase in population, they slowly explored and communicated with the outside, and some well-informed and more intelligent people in the Qianlong River Basin also slowly knew the reason for the formation of the current form of the Qianlong River Basin.
The resources near the Qianlong River are very abundant, and it can be regarded as a treasure land.
The people of Qingmang Mountain discovered this treasure land and wanted to get the resources they wanted from here, but for the big force of Qingmang Mountain, the Qianlong River is still too small, whether it is animal skins or minerals, they are some ordinary things, and it is not worth the Qingmang Mountain's big fight, so Qingmang Mountain took advantage of the cold temperature near the Qianlong River and the crops were difficult to grow, so the lack of food characteristics transported the worthless grain outside to the Qianlong River in large quantities, and let the natives of the Qianlong River collect various materials in exchange for food.
Originally, it was considered a fair trade, after all, grain was a scarce resource near the Qianlong River, but there was no shortage of animal skin minerals, so it was understandable that grain could be sold at a high price near Qianlong Mountain.
But it's not that simple.
With the development of time, after the passage of time and year after year, the population of Qianlong River became more and more, and the prey obtained by Qianlong River was no longer enough to maintain the survival of the original population, and the maintenance of Qianlong River was all dependent on the grain transported by the caravan of Qingmang Mountain.
In other words, Qingmang Mountain has captured the lifeblood of the people living in the Qianlong River Basin, and the life and death of the Qianlong River Basin are all in the thought of Qingmang Mountain.
The clans and tribes near the Qianlong River Valley also slowly knew that the food they exchanged for precious mineral animal skins and other materials was actually not precious in the outside world, but after being transported to the Qianlong River Valley, they could easily exchange for a large amount of materials.
In this case, the people of the Qianlong River Basin naturally want to try to change, on the one hand, each clan has the ambition to unify the Qianlong River, so they need to change the status quo, and the way to change the status quo is to no longer rely on Qingmang Mountain.
On the other hand, the people here are really living in poverty, risking their lives to hunt in the forest, risking their lives to go to the mines to mine, and as a result, the food is very limited, so they want to seek more profits.
Therefore, the people living in the Qianlong River Valley tried many methods, including forming caravans, trying to transport the supplies of the Qianlong River and buy food, but all of them were gone.
People in the Qianlong River Valley can go out and bring back some things from the outside, but the people who want to bring back a lot of things have disappeared without exception.
The people of the Qianlong River Valley were also unable to trade with the outside world, and those who wanted to trade disappeared.
After telling the story of the vicinity of the Qianlong River Valley, the old man of the Wolf Tooth Clan sighed: "Many of us here have lived around a mine since birth, and they have been busy in the mine with their parents since they were children, helping to carry some ore, and when they grow up, they also enter the mine, and they are busy every day, and all they can get is some food, just enough to feed their stomachs, and if they have children, they can barely feed their children to work in the mines, and generations of people have come over like this." They feel that they are free, they feel that they are working hard for their own survival, they feel that they are working hard for future generations, but in fact they are doing the hardest things, but they do not get paid accordingly, the most terrible thing is that they themselves are not aware of this, I have been outside before, the outside world is really completely different from here, my parents are miners, originally I would also become a miner, but then I was lucky, and I was able to become a warrior. Later, I also went outside and traveled and saw the outside world, those magnificent walls made of huge stones, those crowded and bustling streets, all of which have never been seen here. What impressed me the most was not these things, but the slaves in the outside world, who worked day after day, and their descendants worked hard day after day, and all they could get was some food that could just be satisfied. After I saw those slaves, I realized that we had always thought that we were free, and we had always thought that our ancestors had lived freely, but in fact, we had already been bound by the people of Qingmangshan with the iron chain of grain and became their slaves. ”
"I see, we understand that you are all in a situation. It seems that this harvest array is the thing you found outside that can solve the dilemma of the Qianlong River Valley. ”
After the old man of the Wolf Tooth Clan explained the matter clearly, Zhao Honglurong and Ming Che all understood the situation here in the Qianlong River Valley.
To put it bluntly, in fact, Qingmangshan plundered and controlled the people near the Qianlong River Basin by means of controlling food, but the people of Qingmangshan were a little too ruthless, so the people in the Qianlong River Basin couldn't stand it and wanted to resist.
In fact, the people of Qingmangshan originally traded with the natives of the Qianlong River Basin, and exchanging food for materials was beneficial to the natives living in the Qianlong River Basin, and it was with these benefits that the people of the Qianlong River Valley could slowly increase their population.
But all this was expected by Qingmang Mountain, with the increase in population and Qingmang Mountain's control of food, the people of the Qianlong River Valley completely fell under the control of Qingmang Mountain.
Of course, the people in the Qianlong River Basin also thought about resisting, but Qingmang Mountain was too powerful, and the people in the Qianlong River Valley would definitely not be able to defeat it.
Moreover, Qingmangshan also used the means of differentiation to divide the people in the Qianlong River Basin very badly, and the Qianlong River Basin could not be the opponent of Qingmangshan in the first place, and it was not united, and the infighting was very serious for the immediate interests.
Those who have insight can see what is going on, and those who have the power in the Qianlong River Basin probably also know what is going on, but no one will sacrifice their own interests and status to fulfill others, and they will all guard their own interests to the death.