The strength of a tribe is divided into two types: hard power and soft power.

Hard power is the most intuitive, how many adult men can fight in a tribe, the more adult males there are, the stronger the tribe, and adult women and children close to adulthood are also considered part of the combat power.

Soft power mainly refers to food, if you want the tribe to survive, you must have enough food, without food, how can the tribe survive, with enough food, the tribe will be stronger, indirectly enhance the tribe's force.

In addition, shelter, utensils, and weapons are also soft power.

Because the deer tribe often trades with the snake tribe, they know the snake tribe better than the rabbit tribe and the mountain tribe, and they know the strength of the snake tribe, anyway, no matter what happens, the deer tribe does not dare to be an enemy of the snake tribe.

The communication between the rabbit tribe and the mountain tribe and the snake tribe is not too much, but after the uncovered meeting came to the snake tribe this time, they can also personally feel the strength of the snake tribe, the total population of the rabbit tribe and the mountain tribe together cannot catch up with the snake tribe and one tribe, and the gap between the three tribes is too big, which has made the leaders of the rabbit tribe and the mountain tribe unable to compare.

In fact, the uncovered conferences held in other tribes or snake tribes before were not provided with food, and the food of their own tribe was not enough to eat, so how could they take out food for outsiders to eat.

The purpose of this decision is to let the various tribes see the strength of the snake tribe, see that the snake tribe is not short of food, and can also take out food for outsiders to eat at will, planting a seed in their hearts that the snake tribe is very strong and cannot be an enemy, and laying the foundation for the snake tribe to conquer and annex other tribes in the future.

In some dark houses, Su Yan grabbed the hand of the Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters and sat on the kang together, Su Yan didn't want the scene outside the house to pollute the young hearts of the Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters.

"Brother, I want to go out and play."

"Brother, let me out." (That's right, it's all called brother)

Sister Xiaohua Xiaoyue kept begging Su Yan, but Su Yan resolutely disagreed.

"No, you two are not allowed to leave the house and go outside today."

Because Su Yan kept holding the hands of the Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters, they couldn't break free, and after a while, they gave up struggling, sat next to Su Yan, and used Su Yan's soft hair as a toy, fiddling with various looks from time to time.

Su Yan also let the Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters fiddle with their hair to pass the time, while he was thinking about how to annex other tribes and make the total population of the snake tribe increase rapidly.

If the Serpent Tribe had a larger population, it would not take as much time to complete a project such as building a wall and building a house, and there would be time for other things.

Now the population of the snake tribe is too small, relying on natural growth to increase ten people every year, even if it is too much, every year the snake tribe has many newborns, at the same time, every year there are children who die young, adults die because of various things, overall, the population of the snake tribe does not increase much every year.

There is no better way to quickly increase the population of the Snake Tribe than to annex other tribes, and it is obviously not easy for the Snake Tribe to annex the surrounding tribes.

The easiest way to annex other tribes is to conquer them by force, but there is a high chance that they will be fiercely resisted in the process of conquest, since the two tribes have different languages and worship different gods.

The most likely scenario would be to kill all the adult males of the other tribe, leaving the women and children to join the conqueror's tribe, and because of the use of force, there would be casualties among the conqueror's tribe.

Conquest by force is the fastest method, but it is also the most undesirable method for the snake tribe, so Su Yan temporarily ruled out the method of conquest by force, and then Su Yan thought of Jian and his people.

Jian and his people have been joining the Snake Tribe for more than half a year, and now they have fully integrated into the Snake Tribe, treating themselves as a member of the Snake Tribe and working hard to contribute to the Snake Tribe.

I still remember that when the winter was the coldest, there was very little food left for the Jian tribe, and it was impossible for the Jian tribe to survive this winter, and the outside world was too dangerous, and it was difficult to succeed in hunting for food, and there was a very high possibility that it would be used as prey by other wild beasts.

For the sake of the clan, Jian can only come to the snake tribe to ask the snake tribe for food, how can the snake tribe easily give food to Jian, food is very important to each tribe, and Jian can't give the snake tribe any benefits.

Without food, the Jian's people would starve to death or be killed by wild beasts during the hunting party, and eventually the tribe would die.

In the choice of life and death, Jian can only choose life, and bring his clansmen to join the snake tribe, they successfully lived, although their tribe is gone, but Su Yan gave another statement that can make the firm believe, that is, the continuation of the bloodline, the tribe is equal to the bloodline, as long as Jian and his people live well and have offspring, the bloodline of his tribe will never be broken.

In Su Yan's view, the best way to annex is to "take the initiative" to join the snake tribe like Xiang Jian's tribe, but if you want other tribes to "take the initiative" to join the snake tribe, the most important problem must be that the other tribes are facing a life and death crisis in order to continue to survive in order to "take the initiative" to join the snake tribe.

Life and death crisis, it is difficult to say, simple and simple, living in this era, no matter which tribe may face a life and death crisis.

The deer tribe, the biggest crisis is the cold winter, the people of the deer tribe have no caves to live in, they can only live in their own simple houses built with branches and leaves weeds, once the winter comes, it is easy for the deer tribe to be frozen to death, a very cold winter is the biggest crisis for the deer tribe.

Both the Rabbit and Mountain tribes have caves to live in, but the Rabbit Tribe, the Mountain Tribe, and the Deer Tribe all have food crises.

They are not like the snake tribe who have enough food, if the three tribes can't get enough food to survive the winter in the fall, then they can only brave the cold and danger to hunt outside.

The situation is similar to that of the Jian tribe, except that the three tribes of them can participate in the hunt with more people, even if they encounter a small wolf pack, they can fight, and they don't need to be afraid of a single beast at all, and they will even take the initiative to hunt.