With the arrival of Shaoyan and the rest of the "civil officials", Sanyucheng gradually returned to the right track.

Production and life gradually stabilized, and the slaves were exempted from their lowly status and promoted to the savages of the Daqi tribe, and could live freely in the city or in the area controlled by the Daqi tribe.

Although there is freedom, it also needs to bear the labor of the Great Qi tribe, such as the slaves who used to be in the mine, Yang Hao continued to let them stay in the mine, but compared to the Sanshu Kingdom, Yang Hao chose a more gentle way.

In the form of hiring, these idle people are allowed to mine copper for themselves, and the remuneration is only two full meals a day.

In order to prevent these people from working and not contributing, Yang Hao made a rule that if he wanted to eat these two full meals, he had to mine a certain amount of ore every day.

The slaves were naturally dissatisfied at first, thinking that this Daqi tribe was no different from the former Sanshu Kingdom, but slowly they found that the practices of the Daqi tribe were indeed very different from the Sanshu Kingdom.

Near the mine, although soldiers were stationed, no one had a whip to whip themselves, nor were they beaten and abused at will.

When someone did carry enough ore on their backs and received their share of food, the slaves were finally sure that they were truly free.

Not only can it be food, the Daqi tribe also allows them to build houses for themselves, but the materials and tools for building houses need to be rented from Daqi officials.

It's a new word for everyone.

Under the explanations of the officials, the slaves learned the meaning of lend-lease.

To use these tools, they had to exchange their own labor, such as renting an axe, which required an additional basket of ore for a day of use.

This fresh way, which the slaves found very interesting, did not realize in the slightest that it was a new way of exploitation.

For their own houses, the slaves worked very hard, and the efficiency of their work was many times higher than when they were slaves.

When the ore was transported to the smelting place, Yang Hao showed a meaningful smile.

"This is the productive forces, what is the use of slaves, the rulers of this era are really stupid, only for a little petty profit, and the mountains of gold and silver will only turn a blind eye in front of them, and they deserve to be smashed by the wheels of history."

Wei inspected the ore and nodded with satisfaction: "Chief, these are the best ores. ”

Yang Hao nodded and said: "These ores are really good, but I see that your copper smelting is just to dissolve the copper and change its shape with a mold, without mixing tin?" ”

Wei was puzzled: "Dare to ask the leader, what is the tin!" The methods of copper smelting of all races are like this, I have never heard of other things! ”

Yang Hao was stunned for a moment, and secretly said This shouldn't be, since bronze has been developed in this era, and the short sword he uses doesn't look like pure copper at all, if Wei really knows how to smelt copper, it is impossible not to know this truth, is this era not called tin?

In order to confirm his guess, Yang Hao asked, "Have you ever seen white things mixed in when smelting copper?" ”

Wei thought for a moment and said, "There are indeed some. ”

Yang Hao suddenly realized when he heard this, if his guess was correct, the copper that should be used to make the short sword was mixed with the rest of the metal, and it was very likely to be tin.

If the copper and tin ore here is simply a treasure given by God, although he does not know how to smelt copper, he knows very well that copper-tin alloy is the peak of the Bronze Age.

If other tribes have not mastered this technology and have mastered it themselves, then the Great Qi tribe will increase their advantage.

Thinking of this, Yang Hao was very excited in his heart, and hurriedly instructed Wei:

"Pay attention in the future, if there is any rest of the metal in this copper mine, you must stay and send someone to inform me."

"Wei obeys!"

At this time, a soldier hurriedly reported: "Enlighten the chief! The little man of the household asks you to return to the city. ”

Yang Hao hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

"My subordinates don't know!"

Yang Hao frowned, hurriedly explained a few words to Wei, and hurried back to the city in a carriage.

Seeing Shaoyan, Yang Hao hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

"Chief, there are small tribes that have defected to our people! He was waiting outside the temple at the moment. ”

Yang Hao nodded when he heard this, and said, "Let them wait for a while, and I'll come over later." ”

"Yes!"

Yang Hao changed his clothes, came to the palace, and ordered someone to bring up those small tribes who had come to see him.

The leaders of more than a dozen small tribes, after entering the temple, bowed their heads and bowed.

Yang Hao was a little surprised, he didn't expect that there were so many people.

"Who are you waiting for?"

"Back to the leader of Qi, we were originally a vassal clan of the Three Provinces Kingdom, and we have come to meet the new lord this time! Send tribute, hoping to get the protection of the Shang clan. ”

The first one said respectfully.

Yang Hao glanced at the man and said, "Have I seen you somewhere?" ”

The man said respectfully: "When the leader of Qi was crusading against Sanshu, after passing through our clan, the villain was fortunate to witness the leader Tianyan. ”

Yang Hao thought about it, as if he felt that there was such a thing, so he said: "I see! I am very relieved that you can take the initiative to come and visit, and you will come and sit for your patriarchs. ”

When everyone heard this, they were immediately frightened, and they didn't dare to say anything.

Half-pushed and half-pushed, everyone knelt down nervously, extremely nervous.

"I have accepted your tribute, and you have come just in time, otherwise I will send someone to invite you."

When everyone heard this, their hearts sank, and they didn't know what Yang Hao meant by this.

Yang Hao said with a smile: "Now that my Daqi is in charge of this place, you will be a part of my Daqi in the future, what do you think?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces changed wildly.

"Great Qi leader, your clan is as dazzling as the sun, and our small clan is like a mustard, don't dare to defile the upper clan, just give us a place to stand."

The man at the head said cautiously.

Yang Hao sneered, "Oh, you don't agree with that?" ”

The sweat on their foreheads was evident in the crowd, and they thought of taking the initiative to pay tribute and establish good relations with the new owner of the land, saying that they were praying for protection, but they were afraid that the new conqueror would go and conquer them.

Honest surrender and hope that life will remain the way it is. It's just that I never thought that Yang Hao actually wanted to annex them, which was inconsistent with their wishes.

After all, no matter how small the tribe is, at least it is free, and the result after being annexed is not easy to say, maybe his identity as the patriarch will also be wiped out by Yang Hao.

Seeing Yang Hao's cold eyes, these people's hearts suddenly burst into their hearts, knowing that as long as they didn't say a word, they wouldn't want to get out of here alive.