In the north, one of the nineteen tribes of the Allied Army, the Yunman Department is distributing supplies.

It was a very small tribe with a total population of no more than 500 people. More than 2,000 cattle and sheep. The number of horses was smaller, just over two hundred. But as long as there are sufficient supplies and time to rest, the tribe will grow and grow.

Their leader went to a meeting. Many of the men and women in the tribe didn't know what the meeting was going to be, and they didn't understand it themselves, but what they did know was that as long as there were more supplies, it would be fine.

The IRA generously provided the first supplies.

The main function of this batch of materials is to buy people's hearts. The IRA provided only the bare minimum, which could only be supplied to the nineteen tribes, each of which had about 500 people in the amount of supplies, which was given according to the per capita needs. For a small tribe like 500 people, this is a very sufficient batch of supplies, but for some large tribes, this cannot solve the problem at all, because the materials are directly distributed to the hands, and many tribes are very dissatisfied with this.

They think it's too average. Small tribes do not need such a large number of things, and should be distributed according to the average number of people, that is, those with more people are more points, and those with fewer people are less points.

Unfortunately, the IRA still proceeded on its own terms, because the supplies came from the IRA, not from the Confederate Parliament. Fortunately, there are not too many materials in the first batch, the focus is, how to distribute the materials in the second batch.

The first batch was mainly focused on food, table salt, part of iron, some arrowheads. The second batch was mainly focused on the distribution of iron, armor, as well as weapons resources. That's the most important thing.

But these things are not something that ordinary people can think about. For example, the Aman's family.

The Aman's family is a fifteen-year-old child, and the children on the grassland can go to war at the age of fifteen. But Aman can't go to the battlefield yet. The situation in his family is not good. He had four younger brothers. Mother was married by Uncle Ada. His family was poor. There is not a single pot in the house. Their food is basically roasted, and the latter is cooked in a cowhide bag. And there is very little table salt. The younger brothers were hungry.

What's bad is Aman's weapon. He only had a broken knife, which he had picked up on the battlefield. The horses are all foals. Malaysia is lost. The younger brothers had to ride a cow to migrate, but there was only one cow left in the house. Usually, Ah Man helps others to graze in order to have food.

He had his own bow and arrows. Unfortunately, the arrowheads are all cut wooden arrowheads, or stone arrowheads. His penetration is very limited, and he can only shoot by aiming his prey in the eye. Otherwise, there is no way to shoot arrows into the prey.

But today, they have good news, the IRA has brought them iron pots. It is a real iron pot. Ah Man doesn't know what iron is anymore. He just remembered that when he was a child, his father's bows and arrows were made of iron. That's the best arrow.

Ah Man waited anxiously. The men and women of the tribe are discussing the future of their tribe. The amount of iron directly affects the future hope of the tribe.

Because their food methods are very backward, one of the biggest effects of food production is their military rations. Without iron tools, the survival of the tribe would be in serious danger. This is one of Aman's own realizations.

But now, they're in a much better situation. At the very least, every household has iron tools.

All they discussed was about their chieftain meeting, and how much salt there would be. They're going to make more jerky. Iron pots make food more delicious, and most importantly, sheepskins, wool, and other things, they can be sold for more ironware, and they need more and more things they want.

"Woo. Whining. But just when the crowd was full of hope, the sound of a hurried bull's horn sounded. It was the sound of an enemy attack. Ah Man ran back nervously.

Their younger brothers seemed to have become accustomed to enemy attacks. They quickly packed up their things. Put it on the back of a cow. That's what they have to do.

"Whoosh." The whooshing sound of arrows cutting through the air. Many of the tribesmen's cavalry came at them before they could mount their horses. The arrow pierced the man's neck. Then he fell to the ground. The women fled in terror into the tents, and only the men would stalemate. Their scouts must have been killed. Otherwise, the other party would not have approached such a close distance all at once. It seems that it is too late.

Men will resist desperately, while women and children will hide.

Ah Man gathered all his younger brothers as much as he could, and then took advantage of the chaos to escape and hide. This is how many times I have avoided the past. Otherwise. It's not a good family for them. Aman knows very well that many tribes are a disaster for men, and men who are taller than the wheels will be killed. Even though his brother was still very young, there were people who would do it, and killing was normal in war.

Ah Man knew that he couldn't beat them, so he could only ensure his safety as much as possible, there was no way, they were very weak.

The scene was extremely chaotic. But he gave Ah Man some opportunities, for example, he would take away some weapons. By the way, I also got two horses. Speed them up this time.

The younger brothers are ready. Nothing can be taken care of anymore. A lot of places have been breached. The men who resisted were killed. If you don't run, you won't have a chance.

The younger brothers got on a horse. He took his second brother to run as much as he could. Draw the bow and release the arrow. He didn't know who he had shot, but it was all something they had to do, and only then could they keep their lives safe.

"Da-da-da-da." The horse's hooves make a pleasant sound. And behind them, the tribe is in the midst of a catastrophe. Ah Man knew that their tribe was gone. The billowing smoke attracted more people into the tribe. A tribe is gone.

Aman just knew to get out of here as much as he could, and then join another tribe and continue their poor life. Their cattle are gone. But with two horses, maybe life isn't so bad. His brother also brought an iron pot, which was the richest thing they had.

What Ah Man didn't know was that all this could have been avoided, and the original purpose of the alliance was to ensure the safety of their tribe and to have a reasonable range to ensure their lives.

This is the case for all nineteen tribes, but on the issue of forming a confederate army. A lot of people are divided.

Large tribes naturally have more responsibilities when they send more troops, and they want more power, for example, the second time to occupy the absolute distribution of supplies. But this is extremely unfair to small tribes, which means that they lose their right to distribute.

around this issue. The chiefs were noisy. But the Huns and Wuhuan people acted together, they attacked several of the nineteen tribes, and some small tribes suffered directly from the catastrophe, they would not care about such a small tribe, this was dispensable. This meant that the Confederates were weak in strength.

The IRA had already issued similar warnings. But the North was indifferent. It's the result of their own making, and they can't blame others. If they could understand some of their own circumstances, perhaps they would not have encountered such things. War, sometimes so cruel, if they themselves can understand this, this is the best outcome.

Lijiazhuang.

"We're infamous enough. But as long as we get concrete benefits, nothing else matters. But the problem is that under such public opinion, it is difficult for us to open our market, and most of our trade is based on shady smuggling. This is extremely detrimental to our market expansion, and there are hundreds of thousands of people in Luoyang. It's a big market, but what do we do about it? Nothing can be done. It's terrible for us. Shang Wu said very dissatisfied.

According to the latest economic report. Of course, most of the data lacks some reliability, because many of the numbers are shady and you can't count the scale of smuggling. The size of the scale can only be measured by means of transportation. The data is basically not too far apart. This is something that everyone understands.

"But the data shows that the scale of our trade has not expanded, on the contrary, there has been some contraction, and considering that this is an element of war, our situation is not too optimistic." Shang Wu said.

Jia Xu also expressed helplessness. The IRA's business model is not based on agriculture. They relied on commerce, and their industry, and their innumerable handicraft workshops, and without the development of trade, these factories behind them would not be able to operate and continue, and this result was a very terrible thing, and it was an extremely unbearable result for anyone.

But this situation is still going on, and such a situation makes them very helpless and extremely bad.

"So, we need to make this kind of thing good for our further development." Jia Xu said.

"How to open up and expand a larger market is the key to the problem, and obviously, this problem is still extremely troublesome for us." Shang Wu said.

Yes, how they expand their market, Dong Zhuo's ability is still limited, although he has received great support, however, the market has not opened up much. This made Shangwu very puzzled. He doesn't even know where to start expanding the market, can they just watch the situation develop further? This is clearly not what they hoped it would be.