The autumn breeze was blowing, the weather was getting cooler, and the hot summer finally passed, which lasted nearly three months, and Zhao Hao finally explored all the tribes in the south near the grassland.

The number of small tribes was more than he expected, but it was not so much that it was exaggerated, and in the end, there were only more than 60 tribes explored in three months, which was less than a hundred compared to the total number of last year, and most of these small tribes were concentrated in the east of the grassland, and the west of the grassland, the closer to the snow-capped mountains, the fewer the small tribes.

During this time, Zhao Hao only ordered people to investigate, and did not start to subdue, and even he did not let people contact these small tribes, because he had to wait for a suitable time.

This is the time to stock up on food for the winter.

The autumn wind blows, which means that the pace of winter is approaching, if these small tribes do not want their tribes to starve to death in winter, they must find a way to prepare food for the winter, and at this time, it is a good opportunity to subdue these small tribes.

Autumn is the harvest season, although there are no food crops and melons and fruits at this time, he can also harvest, but the harvest is only a small tribe.

At the beginning, he still followed the old routine of last year, first let people bring meat to tempt, and then, set conditions, send cattle, sheep, horses, and ask if you would like to join the Ministry of Salt!

This method is still quite good, many tribes are worried about the food for the winter, his condition, basically, as long as a tribal leader for the sake of the clansmen can not refuse, so, he just started to act, one after another some tribal leaders "took the initiative" to abandon their hometown, led all the tribesmen to the grassland, joined the salt department.

These people came for food, cattle, sheep and horses, naturally they couldn't be missing, and Zhao Hao couldn't go and collect the cattle, sheep and horses from the Salt Department or the Black Stone tribe to give away, he could only give away more than 100,000 livestock that originally belonged to him.

At this time, the cattle, sheep and horses under his name are like opening the floodgates and releasing water, watching and seeing, and sometimes, he even has to send out tens of thousands of heads a day!

Of course, he doesn't feel distressed about livestock, because there are still a lot of them on the grassland, as long as he leads the cavalry to harvest, it is not a problem to have more than 100,000 heads, but the population is not as easy to obtain as livestock, let alone 100,000, tens of thousands are very rare.

This time, he found that the total population of more than 60 tribes, large and small, was just over 10,000, which showed how scarce the population resources were in these years, so he was not distressed at all about exchanging livestock for population.

However, as more and more people joined the Ministry of Salt, he found a very embarrassing problem, that is, he did not have enough sheep in his hands!

You know, he promised to send a horse, three cows, and ten sheep to each new clansman, and in order to win over those tribal leaders, he sent more sheep, sheep, which are basically all about giving away, not to mention tribal leaders, just ordinary clansmen, ten is a hundred heads, a hundred is a thousand sheep, a thousand, that is ten thousand sheep!

And the number of cattle, sheep and horses in his hand is not one to three to ten, there are more than 10,000 war horses in his hand, more than 30,000 cattle, and the remaining sheep, that is more than 50,000 sheep.

Fortunately, the people of the Salt Department and the Black Stone Department are accustomed to trading, and horses and cattle are more sought-after than sheep, so he can directly exchange horses and cattle for sheep.

This time, there are more small tribes that have joined the salt department, there are more than forty, but the population of these more than forty small tribes is not very large, roughly about one hundred, two or three hundred are very few, and four or five hundred people are not even more.

That is to say, although there are many small tribes that have joined the salt department, there are not many new tribesmen in the salt department, and there are roughly more than 6,000 people, but with the original population, the population of the salt department has exceeded 10,000, and it can finally be called a large tribe.

There are many small tribes that have joined the salt department this time, and there are many small tribes that have not joined the salt department, and there are more than 20 small tribes left, all of which are leaders of stubborn people, and they would rather their subordinates starve to death than give up the power in their hands.

For these tribes, Zhao Hao was not in a hurry to make a move, because at this time, the livestock in his hands were almost divided, and there were only tens of thousands of war horses and thousands of cattle left.

Anyway, those tribes were there, and in order to protect the alien trees, it was impossible for him to run away.

At this time, the role of the map is shown, joining the small tribe with the salt department, he has drawn a circle on it, and if he does not join the small tribe with the salt department, it is a big black cross, and none of them will fall.

On this day, he called the leader of the eight battalions of cavalry to his tent.

He stared at the map carefully for a while, and then said in a deep voice: "The rest of the tribes have all confirmed, why don't they want to join our salt department, right?" ”

Without hesitation, the eight replied in unison, "Yes." ”

Zhao Hao nodded slightly, then divided his hands, pressed them on the map, and said loudly: "Okay, forget it this year, don't worry about them." Next, each of you will gather the new people you have recruited to test the strength of everyone, or the old rule, all those with more than three hundred catties of strength will be recruited into the cavalry battalion, how many, how many are recruited. ”

The eight people hurriedly arched their hands and said in unison: "Obey." ”

Zhao Hao nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Okay, you guys hurry up and go to the test, within three days, the test must be completed." ”

The eight of them bowed their hands again and obeyed the order, and then retreated.

Among this group of new clansmen, the proportion of strong people is also quite high, more than 6,000 people, and even selected more than 1,500 strong people with more than 300 catties, if it is divided into 311 cavalry battalions, there are five more cavalry battalions with salt department.

However, Zhao Hao didn't do this, because he didn't have any suitable cavalry battalion leaders under his hands, and he had other ideas, these cavalry, he was not in a hurry to divide them.

What's more, there is only a month before winter, the grass on the grassland has withered and yellowed, it is a good time to beat grass, these strong are the main force of grass, and it is impossible for him to gather all these strong together to practice.

This grass beating can be said to be a pure force work, the more personnel, the more grass will be beaten.

This year, with more than 6,000 new tribesmen joining, the salt department finally had enough forage, and when the first heavy snow fell, the hay near the cowpen, sheepfold and stable was already piled up, and in winter, everyone finally no longer had to brave the cold to continue to grass in the wild jungle.

At this time, Zhao Hao can also calm down and plan a very important thing.