After three months and two days of absence, he set out in early spring, and when he returned, it was already early summer, and the third trading fleet finally returned.

On the second day of his return, Lu Yuan met Wang with Zhao Lin, Shan Lin, and Wu Han, and Su Yan met the four of them in the study.

"King, the Third Trading Fleet sailed for a total of ninety-two days, and after passing through the fishing tribes, it sailed eastward for twenty-four days, and encountered a total of sixty-seven tribes, and successfully came into contact with fifty-nine of them, and traded to obtain a variety of crops that our Xia Kingdom did not have." Zhao Lin reported to Su Yan.

Su Yan nodded, opened the navigation log of the third trade fleet, compared to listening to the reports of his subordinates, Su Yan preferred to watch the written information directly, some things can not be explained by words, and the speed of reading the written information is faster.

The logbook of the Third Trade Fleet in Su Yan's hand was carefully revised by the Third Trade Fleet on its way back, and the main content was that the Third Trade Fleet entered a new area after leaving the fishing tribe, came into contact with the new tribe, and recorded some information about the tribes it came into contact with.

Su Yan quickly flipped through the logbook, and while reading, he would ask Zhao Lin some doubtful questions, many of the contents in the logbook were similar and could be skipped, only the records of the snake tribe let Su Yan read carefully.

"The Snake Tribe, a powerful tribe with a population of more than 15,000, a matriarchal clan, believes in a false god with a human head and a snake body, and the Snake People Tribe has a total of five residences, all of which are located on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the two adjacent residences are very close to each other, and it takes about an hour to take a boat.

The main dwelling area had the largest population, probably more than four thousand, and the four secondary dwellings all had a population of more than three thousand, and the snake tribe was able to smelt copper, make small wooden boats, weave linen, and grow a variety of crops...... The overall strength of the snake tribe may exceed that of the fishing tribe. ”

There is also a picture of the snake tribe worshipping gods on the logbook, which was drawn by Wu Han, when Wu Han and Shan Lin went to the residence of the snake tribe lord as a guest, and saw a stone statue carved with the appearance of a god.

"Nuwa?" Looking at the picture, a name popped up in Su Yan's mind.

The name "Nuwa" Su Yan is very familiar, he is the goddess of creation in ancient Chinese mythology, also known as Emperor Wa, **, the historical record of Nuwa, is the ancestor of the Chinese nation and humanities, and is the righteous god of the blessed society.

Legend has it that Nuwa created a human being, transformed in the middle of a day, and used yellow clay to create a human being by imitating herself, creating human society and establishing a marriage system; Because the world collapsed, the molten stone was used to make up for the sky, and the turtle was enough to set up the four poles, leaving the myth and legend of Nuwa mending the sky.

Nuwa is not only the goddess of mending the heavens and saving the world and the goddess of creating people from the earth, but also a natural god who creates all things, with vast supernatural powers and incarnate all things, and can create at least seventy things every day.

"The deity that the snake tribe worships is Nuwa? It can't be such a coincidence, right? Su Yan was speechless.

The specific situation Wu Han and Shan Lin were not clear, the two went to the residence of the snake tribe lord as guests, and only saw the appearance of the god believed in by the snake tribe, and knew that he was the god believed in by the snake tribe, and the snake tribe did not introduce other things to the two.

After all, it is the god that the snake tribe believes in, and the people of the snake tribe are in awe of the gods, and they dare not do it and will not do it when they introduce the gods to others, and they will not do it, and the same is true for other tribes.

If Su Yan knew the description of the gods believed by the snake tribe to the gods of his tribe, he would find that the gods believed in by the snake tribe had many similarities with Nuwa, both of them were human heads and snake bodies, and the external appearance of human heads was female, both of them were creation gods, creating this world and creating all things in the world.

The god with a human head and a snake body, Su Yan has a special feeling for this deity, and in the future, the Xia Kingdom can have more contact with the snake tribe, but Su Yan is not very optimistic about the development of the snake tribe, the snake tribe is a matriarchal clan, and this alone will definitely have a big problem in the future.

The development of history, from matrilineal clans to patrilineal clans, this is a law, men's physical fitness is naturally superior to women, men are the main force of hunting, farming, and war, even if women have strength, they cannot replace men's positions, probably at the end of the matrilineal clan era, men revolted, subdued women weaker than themselves, and gained the dominance of the tribe.

In today's era when the patriarchal clan is thriving, the snake tribe is still dominated by women, and even Su Yan is not sure when the men of the snake tribe will rise up and overthrow those women.

The matter of the snake tribe was put aside for the time being, and Su Yan read the logbook to understand the matter of the third trade fleet's trip, but this is also the case, for the more local tribes of the fishing tribe, the Xia country has just touched there, it is too far away, the Xia country can send a large army over, but it will not do so, the cost is too great, it is better to subdue the tribes in the area around the Xia country earlier.

It takes three months to make a round trip, and you can make two round-trips a year, so it is good to contact and trade in contact, laying a foundation for the future development of the Xia Kingdom, and one day the territory of the Xia Kingdom will expand to that side, which will not be too long, at most ten years.

"Give you half a month to rest, and then set off after half a month, contact those tribes more, reveal the situation of our Xia Kingdom to those tribes, and try to attract those tribes to join our Xia Kingdom."

"Yui"

In the afternoon of the same day, Su Yan came to the Ministry of Agriculture, and the crops traded back by the Third Trade Fleet were sent to the Ministry of Agriculture, which would try to plant them, and if necessary, they would be planted throughout the Xia Kingdom.

"This is rice?!" Su Yan grabbed a handful of rice in surprise, Xia Guo already had wheat, just short of rice, but he didn't expect the third trade fleet to bring back rice in one voyage.

Su Yan didn't know that the rice brought back by the Third Trade Fleet was divided into rice and upland rice, but upland rice could also be planted in the way of rice, and it didn't matter if there was upland rice among them, if the rice was planted in the way of upland rice, it would not work.

There was a lot of rice back from the transaction, close to two hundred catties, Su Yan couldn't resist the idea of taking away some of the rice and eating it, just like he had just gotten the wheat, Su Yan also waited until the wheat grown by the Dragon Tribe himself was ripe before eating, no one dared to be sure whether it was poisonous or not, anyway, it had been so many years, and it didn't matter if he waited for another year or two.

Originally, Su Yan planned to give Zhao Lin second-class merit, and several people with outstanding performance in the third trade fleet were given third-class merit, but he didn't expect the third trade fleet to bring back rice, Su Yan was happy, and the merit was directly promoted to one grade, Zhao Lin was first-class meritorious, and then four second-class merit places and ten third-class merit places.