When he came, he had a lot of doubts, but when he went, he was full of harvest, Li Tianyang quietly thought about the harvest in the Lake tribe on the way back, and at the same time, he was also looking for Lake. Barton's choice.

The Raker clan can now be regarded as one of the few major clans in the Bengang Alliance, except for the Jura Mountain Society and the Yushan tribe, which have almost become vassals of Hongmen, the only tribes that can still withstand the pressure of the Hongmen are the two major tribes led by the Raike tribe and the Black Panther tribe, and their followers.

The members of the Bengang Alliance during the eighteenth year of Chongzhen have almost completed the annexation and integration of the surrounding tribes, and the membership system that has been flourishing and growing before has gradually begun to languish and shrink in the subsequent time, and now the official Bengang Alliance clan members have changed from nearly one hundred to thirty-three now, even if it is the smallest clan member, its population size has reached more than three thousand.

Except for the other four major tribes except Hongmen, each tribe has a population of more than 50,000, and its tribal cottages are no longer only one, but have as many as several, with its core cottage as the center of gravity, following the construction method of Bengang Satellite Village to establish an inherent territory.

Now that the Laike tribe is directly dependent, it means that the original inherent balance system of the Bengang Alliance is about to collapse, and what kind of drastic changes it will bring to the Bengang Alliance is unpredictable.

But for Li Tianyang and Hongmen, it is an extremely important good thing to get such help at this time, whether it is for their subsequent inland layout or for the development of Hongmen.

Thinking about it carefully, Li Tianyang also had to admire Lake. The decisiveness of Patton, an old rival, without the Leke tribe as his mainstay, wants to resist the invisible invasion from the Hongmen in the future and even the final dagger, the fate of their tribe is self-evident.

It's not Lake. Patton's unfounded worries, as the main leader of the resistance to the erosion of the Hongmen over the years, the real changes and invisible pressures he felt in the tribe actually made him feel deeply powerless in the dark countless times.

A few stubborn old men in the clan seem to be quite shrewd, but in fact they are not as good as themselves, and even when they feel powerless, what can they achieve when they die? On the contrary, the biggest possibility is that because of their troubles, they finally forced the Laike tribe to split, and then gave Hongmen more opportunities, resulting in the consumption of the tribe that had grown so hard to get here.

Rather than waiting for the future tribe to be continuously destroyed and finally go to extinction, it is better to take advantage of the current time when his prestige is still waiting to find a suitable home for future generations and clansmen, and it is not in vain that the old patriarch handed over the tribe to his own hands.

Iron and blood slashed and killed a few old stubborns, and it was also the biggest hidden danger of the tribe to disappear into this song world with Barton, so that they would not bring trouble to their children and grandchildren after their death, and let the infamy be borne by themselves, the dying man.

As for whether he can sit in the position of patriarch after returning to Hongmen, it is not Laike. What Barton could predict, but with Li Tianyang's wisdom and character, even if he really wanted to seize power at that time, he would ensure that his children would not be in danger of life, and there would be no problem in their rich and noble lives.

Li Tianyang asked himself, even if he was in Lake. In Barton's position, he may not be able to do as well as Lake. Patton is as resolute as he is to know Lake. Barton was of indigenous origin, and his wisdom was a testament to his own wealth.

But who would have thought that Lake, who was originally several years younger than Li Tianyang. Patton, but he will be jealous of heaven and suffer from a terminal illness, with the medical skills of this era, but he is also powerless, forcing Lake. That's the choice Barton had to make.

It's just that in secret, Li Tianyang may not be a little mentally prepared.

In order to maintain their own cultural system, the upper nobles of the upper class resisted the invasion of Hongmen's moderate culture, such as Lake and Black Panther, followed ancient traditions in their food and daily life, hunting, smoking and roasting meat, and some fruits and vegetables.

In their opinion, if they want to resist the cultural erosion from Hongmen, they need to take the lead in resisting to make a gesture, so that the tribesmen below can see their efforts and deeds, so as to persuade the tribesmen to follow them; However, they don't know that the reason why the average life expectancy of their tribe has been so short for hundreds of thousands of years is really closely related to their many living habits.

Li Tianyang, who came from later generations, knew that people who often eat charcoal-grilled food and smoked food are dozens or hundreds of times more likely to get cancer than ordinary people, so now they go to the Lake tribe to visit Lake. Barton, looking at his emaciated body and unbearable pain in his chest and abdomen, it was not difficult for Li Tianyang to guess that the other party was likely to be unfortunate enough to suffer from cancer, a terminal disease that was almost incurable in this era.

However, Li Tianyang could only hide these things deep in his heart, and he didn't dare to leak them out at all, otherwise it was very likely to bring hidden dangers to the alliance.

The wholehearted return of the Lake tribe soon spread among the Bengang Alliance, losing one of the thighs that blocked the assimilation of the Hongmen, and the only remaining pillar of the Black Panther Clan, as well as some small and medium-sized tribal alliances, after the balance was broken, it was followed by another fluctuation.

At the beginning, there were the swaying tribes secretly communicating with Hongmen, and there were also those black panther tribes with mana and below jumping in tandem in the alliance to win people's hearts, but in Li Tianyang's view, in fact, the overall situation has been decided, and the next thing is to go with the flow of annexation.

More and more indigenous tribes, with the return of the Laike tribe to Hongmen, had to choose to take sides, and finally brought a steady stream of people and villages to Hongmen, except for ensuring the status of the original patriarchs and elders of each tribe, the rest of the aspects were almost under the control of Hongmen.

The biggest change came from the expansion of the Hongtang military headquarters, because with the addition of indigenous warriors, there was no shortage of strong warriors, and more than 30,000 warriors were added at once.

Moreover, these warriors basically have extremely strong personal strength, and they are influenced by the Hongmen army system, and they also have some tactical foundations, and after being annexed by the Hongmen army, they only need a little training to become a qualified warrior.

Even most of these warriors still retain the style of a nomadic people, although they may not be as good as the archery skills of previous years, but they also have a good foundation, but they can also be used as long-range archers in wartime, not to mention the more convenient flintlock muskets.

Even in the mountainous and wooded areas where their living environment is advantageous, climbing mountains and wading through rivers is as common as eating for them, and the whole is a qualified mountain army, and it may not be worse than the well-trained Hongtang army in terms of footsteps.

(End of chapter)