It's strange to say.

In the early days of the Jin Kingdom, as long as their fiefs were in the north, they would generally turn their eyes to the north and repeatedly occupy land from other races.

Later, the desire of the Jin state to expand to the north became less and less, until now, almost no northern nobles have occupied foreign lands.

This is because the Zhengzhi environment within the Jin Kingdom has changed.

If the early Jin nobles were looking outward, at a certain time they were looking inward.

Several Qing families are staring at the surrounding nobles, and they will always pounce when they find an opportunity, causing the small and medium-sized nobles to have the heart to consider opening up their territories and preventing them from being bitten.

And the "secretaries" are jealous of the monarch, and they are jealous of each other, and individual secretaries do not dare to move lightly if they have that mind.

Another factor is that the pioneering spirit of the first is slowly forgotten, and no one is willing to run a barren land from scratch.

In fact, it is very difficult to build a piece of land from scratch.

Without that safe environment, who would dare to pull in the strength to do it?

They found that it would be more beautiful to grab a piece of land that had been built from whomever they wanted, and they could directly enjoy the fruits of the hard work of their predecessors.

Lu Wu patrolled the wilderness without human traces, and his eyes were greedy and greedy.

Now there is a lot of land, especially the alien races do not have much combat power at all, and it is quite easy to occupy, but it is difficult to operate.

"I've actually reached a limit to what I can actually control." Lu Wu restrained the greed in his heart and thought, "The 'Yin' has not been built yet, so don't think about expanding the territory for the time being." ”

He set up a cordon to the north of the "Lu" land, which played a role in the occupation of the land, and the problem was that for a long time it could only be left barren, which could only be regarded as a buffer zone.

"Lord?" Song Bin reminded: "There has been news that Gallo is less than five miles away from here. ”

Lü Wu patrolled the frontier with his family's armed forces and sent people to find the Hu tribe.

It took nearly a month for the old Lu family to find the tribe they were looking for.

This tribe was the one that Lu Wu had attacked.

On that occasion, Lü Wu killed their leader and captured all the family except for the chief's eldest son.

Lu Wu nodded and said, "Count him as acquaintances." ”

Song Bin smiled and said disappreciably: "The lord is already the lord of the 'Lu' land, how dare he not come if he has a trick." ”

It's also quite fascinating.

The rest of the tribes could have run as far as they could, and the only tribe dared to stay in the area near the Great River.

After Lu Wu asked, he learned that it was not that the Wei family had not met, but the other party mentioned the relationship with the old Lu family.

It's not anything else, it's that the old Lu family is still waiting for the other party to pay the ransom and then take their relatives back.

This turned into some kind of talisman for Gallo.

The Wei family knew that there was such a thing, and because the other party was the "prey" of the old Lu family, the relationship between the Wei family and the old Lu family was there, so they didn't move.

Lu Wu had already received information from his own scouts.

It's hard to know what happened to this tribe, but the current population size is nearly 6,000, but there is an unusual scarcity in terms of herds.

Lu Wu has been reminiscing, if I remember correctly, last time it was because they were temporarily huddled together to keep warm that it was more than 10,000 people.

This kind of temporary huddle will definitely break up after the crisis is lifted.

The tribe of the Hu people can be regarded as a medium tribe if the number of people exceeds 1,000, and more than 10,000 can be called a large tribe.

At present, there are very few tribes with a population of more than 10,000, and more people are less than 1,000.

There are dozens or hundreds of tribes, and the number is very large, and it is the norm on the Hu people's side.

The Hu people that Zhu Xia can know are generally those who inhabit the surrounding areas, and the Hu people who are farther away can not be interested in it, so naturally there is no understanding.

Lü Wu went to the National Library once when he was in Xintian, trying to find information on the Hu people in northern Xinjiang.

He found some information, but it was limited to the Di and Rong people, and the records were still quite one-sided and vague.

Most of them are some tribes that appeared in a certain year and passed through whose borders.

Either he became a victim of the Jin State showing off his martial arts, or he was already destroyed.

If it is said that in the future, such as the dynasties after the Qin and Han dynasties, Lu Wu will be more aware of the alien races.

The current era?

Isn't it because those aliens are not strong, and they are beaten by Zhuxia, that they are not famous?

The reason why the alien races after the Qin and Han dynasties became famous was precisely because of the great damage they brought to Zhuxia!

In Lu Wu's memory, the young man named Gallo looked cowardly, and he had to be surprised how Gallo allowed his tribe to keep so many people.

These confusions were not until a group of Di people arrived, and their leader Garo saw Lü Wu, and after approaching alone, he turned over and dismounted and knelt on the ground, and was explained.

This guy named Garo deceived the other Hu people when there was no Jin nobles to co-opt!

"Is there an old example?" Lü Wu asked his retainers and said, "Accept the surrender of the Hu people." ”

Liang Xing was stunned and said, "The Lord and Zhao Meng are in-laws?" ”

That's right, the Zhao clan of the Jin State is the most obvious old example.

To this day, the Zhao clan has not parted with the Di people, but the Zhao family, which has been destroyed, has temporarily lost contact with the relatives of the Di people.

In history, the Di people who were related to the Zhao family, relying on their relationship with the Zhao family, were able to move around the border of the Jin State at will, and they could also trade with the Zhao family, and they repeatedly developed and grew.

If there was no deviation, when the main sect of the Zhao clan was destroyed, they were also attacked by several Hu tribes, and their strength was greatly reduced.

This Di tribe of the old Zhao family, afraid that the Jin State would even fight them, jumped to the territory of Beirong. (Hebei region near Inner Mongolia)

Lu Wu didn't ask the Zhao family, and said, "Except for the Zhao family, is there such an example?" ”

Several retainers looked at each other for a while.

Song Bin was puzzled and said, "Why does the Lord ask this? ”

They didn't understand what Lu Wu was worried about.

Whether or not to accept it is the old Lu family's own business, and it is about other family birds.

Here is another misunderstanding that Lu Wu can only produce as a traverser.

I will always subconsciously use the concept of the future to consider, and inexplicably have unnecessary concerns.

It's just that Lu Wu is like this, but he makes the retainers satisfied.

They knew that Lu Wu was unbridled in his thinking, and he also understood the construction of fiefdoms and military development.

If the head of the family understands everything, they will be relieved and disappointed, and they will feel that their talents are difficult to find a shining point.

From time to time, Lü Wu would be confused in some basic attempts, and the retainers only guessed in the direction that Lü Wu had not received a serious education, but had no other ideas.

Now, Lu Wu was thinking about a question, and secretly thought to himself: "How despised are these Hu people? ”

Before he could make a condition, the other party couldn't wait, and came directly to bow down.

If this kind of thing is obtained, it will become a very rare case, and it will be more that the Hu people are fierce in the face of Zhu Xia.

The Hu people in the distance had already dismounted, and they looked at each other with worried and expectant eyes.

Gallo crawled forward, first touched the tip of Lu Wu's shoe with his forehead, then raised his head slightly to look at Lu Wu, and then knelt down again.

If Lü Wu accepted Gallo's submission, he should have ordered someone to bring a piece of meat and cut off a part of it with a sharp weapon as a reward.

Gallo, who received the reward from Lu Wushang, should have people give the gifts that had been prepared a long time ago.

This process belongs to the etiquette of accepting allegiance on the Zhuxia side.

Now the Hu people worship Zhuxia very much, and they have their own set of etiquette, but they will not show it when facing the nobles of Zhuxia, and use the set that belongs to Zhuxia.

In other words, if the Hu people form an alliance or surrender to each other, in fact, they all want to see blood.

That is, the two leaders cut off their palms and then held each other, indicating "you and me", and from now on they will have a common fate.

Fortunately, Lu Wu had already received the education that a nobleman should have, and he did not draw his sword and put it on Gallo's shoulder to complete this ceremonial process.

Otherwise, Gallo's jump is a sure thing.

The retainers and soldiers of the old Lu family may directly attack this group of Di people.

Lü Wu expressed his acceptance of Gallo's submission.

The people from the old Lu family haven't done much yet.

The Di people who had been watching with their eyes all the time let out excited cheers as if pies had fallen from the sky.

"Lord." Gallo smiled stiffly and asked expectantly, "When will you enter the country?" ”

Lu Wu didn't want to take them in.

Although the current incorporation has increased the population, it has also increased by 6,000 mouths to eat.

He asked, "How many people in the tribe can fight?" ”

Gallo said a number.

When Lu Wu heard that there were more than 6,000 people, and there were less than 500 people who could fight, he couldn't help frowning.

Actually, this is normal.

This tribe did not dare to run, and if it ran further west or north, it would only end up being swallowed up by other tribes.

The annexation between the Hu people was peaceful at all, on the contrary, it was unusually bloody.

As the leader, Gallo is definitely dead.

The rest of the men in the prime of life will almost die.

But women and children can live.

For this reason, Gallo is very clever, relying on the Wei clan not to exterminate, carefully wandering in the area close to the Jin Kingdom, under the guise of having a backer on the Jin State, constantly absorbing small tribes that have no time to escape, or some scattered Di people.

On several occasions, he was actually able to peacefully annex several medium tribes, but the key was that he did not have a backer in the Jin Kingdom, so he did not have the courage to do so.

He was barely maintaining the situation, and he was not sure whether he wanted to continue to mix like this, or if he also ran away quickly, when the person sent by Lu Wu arrived.

He must have thought about developing on his own and becoming a big tribal leader or something, otherwise he would not have repeatedly absorbed the population into his tribe.

However, compared to becoming a leader of a large tribe, being able to be accepted by the nobles of the Jin Kingdom is simply a good thing for the ancestral tomb to smoke from the green smoke, so how can there be any hesitation.

Let these people into the territory?

It's impossible.

It's not that they're afraid of a threat when they enter.

I'm afraid that if they go in, they won't want to live a life of drinking blood, and they won't leave!

Lu Wu originally wanted Garo to take the tribes that could fight to annex the rest of the tribes, but when he heard that there were only so many people who could fight, he knew that the plan should be changed.