Sailing through the river section corresponding to the Yue tribe, the number of tribes encountered by the third trading fleet gradually increased, and almost every half day it could encounter two or three tribes, these tribes had a large population, basically more than 800 people, and even large tribes of 2,000 or 3,000 people.

These tribes have all survived the Scourge, and the Third Trade Fleet has found more "ruins" along the way, and those tribes have perished in the time of the Scourge being raging.

For the arrival of the third trade fleet, most of the tribes are vigilant, except for a few tribes who are a little too vigilant, shooting arrows directly at the ships to expel the ships, most of the other tribes The third trade fleet has successfully contacted it, more or less carried out some transactions, and the third trade fleet has obtained a batch of animal skins and more than a dozen kinds of crop seeds that the Xia Kingdom does not have.

Among the crop seeds, there is even the rice that Su Yan dreamed of, but this rice is not rice, but upland rice.

Upland rice, also known as land rice, is an ecological crop formed by the long-term domestication and evolution of rice in the dryland conditions without an aquifer, which is suitable for cultivation in the dryland, and can also be planted in paddy fields or depressions, mainly distributed in the dryland, hillside land with stable rainfall in summer but lack of irrigation conditions, or low-lying areas that are prone to waterlogging in spring and summer and autumn.

Compared with rice, upland rice has a lower yield, lower rice yield, and inferior rice quality, but the most important point is that upland rice can be grown in dry land, and paddy fields can be much more troublesome than dry land.

On the twenty-seventh day of the Third Trade Fleet's voyage to the East, the Third Trade Fleet encountered the first super tribe with a population of more than 10,000 on this trip, but the form of this tribe was strange to everyone in the Third Trade Fleet.

At noon on this day, the 3rd Trading Fleet discovered that there was a tribe settlement in the left front, and then the 3rd Trading Fleet approached the river corresponding to this tribe.

The people on the head boat looked far to the left and the front, and could see that there were people fishing on the bank of the river, and there were also people fishing in boats closer to the river bank on the river, and the boat was not a wooden raft tied with wood and ropes, but a wooden boat like the Xia Kingdom, but the wooden boats of the target tribe were relatively small, and even the smallest fishing boat in the Xia Kingdom could not catch up.

"This tribe is not simple." The head of the regiment, Zhao Lin, sighed.

Zhao Lin's idea is also the idea of the rest of the team, after seeing the situation in the distance, everyone can feel that this tribe is not simple, there are many tribes that can make boats, but most of the tribes make boats are wooden rows.

Up to now, Xia has only found two tribes to make wooden boats, one is the fishing tribe, the other is the tribe that has just been discovered, it is difficult to make wooden boats with stone tools alone, and if you want to make wooden boats, it is best to have metal tools.

The fishing tribe is definitely the most powerful tribe in the tribe that Xia has come into contact with, with a population of more than 15,000, able to smelt copper, and can also weave linen, of course, the linen of the fishing tribe is very rough compared with the linen of the Xia country, if the people of the Xia country wear the linen of the fishing tribe, they will feel very uncomfortable, and the linen woven by the fishing tribe is basically at the same level as the linen used by the Xia country to make sacks.

Things like copper smelting, weaving linen, and making wooden boats are definitely not something that a small tribe can do, and the small tribe has a small population, and is busy getting food every day, so how can it have time to study other things, only a large tribe with a population of thousands has time to study other things after solving the daily food problem.

Therefore, the people of the third trade team all think that the tribe in front of them is not simple.

The third trade fleet sailed towards the target tribe, on the other side, the people of the target tribe also found the figure of the third trade fleet, uncertain about the situation, the boat-fishing people on the river quickly rowed back to the shore, the fishermen on the river bank took up their weapons and came together, and a few people ran back to the tribe.

The third trade fleet is getting closer and closer to the river bank corresponding to the target tribe, and you can clearly see the three or four hundred people gathered on the river bank, and if you look closely, the clothes on their bodies are not animal skins, but clothes sewn from linen, and the weapons in the hands of some people are even shining with metallic luster.

The people on the Third Trade Fleet were discussing the tribe in front of them, and the people on the banks of the river were also discussing the upcoming Third Trade Fleet.

"It's a big wooden boat." "Is it an enemy?" "Uncertainty, hope is not the enemy. ”

Looking for a suitable area, the head boat slowly stopped, a thick wooden plank stretched to the river bank, Shan Lin and Xiong Yan accepted Zhao Lin's order, disembarked with gifts and some goods, and prepared to make contact with the people of the target tribe.

Seeing that the other party just sent two people over, the people of the target tribe were relieved, their tribe was not afraid of war, but they understood very well the horror of war, war always has to kill people, can there be no war or no war, and the other party can have such a big wooden boat, obviously not a small tribe.

According to the way of contact with other tribes, Shanlin and Xiongyan approached the crowd.

"Who are you? What do you want to do in our tribe? A rugged girl came out of the crowd.

Shan Lin and Xiong Yan couldn't understand the language of the target tribe, so it was no problem to tell if the voice was male or female.

"What's the situation? How is a woman talking? Shan Lin and Xiong Yan glanced at each other, and there were doubts in their eyes.

Shan Lin and Xiong Yan's doubts didn't last long, and they thought of the faint possibility.

Under normal circumstances, when you come to a strange tribe, you are all in contact with the male clansmen of the unfamiliar tribe and the officials of the Xia Kingdom trade team, and the male clansmen have a certain status in their own tribe, maybe they are the middle level of the tribe, or they may be one of the top leaders of the tribe.

Now it is a female clansman who speaks, this woman should be the middle or high level of this tribe, a woman can become the middle or high level of the tribe, which is simply impossible in a male-dominated tribe, even in the Xia Kingdom, women will not have too high a status.

The situation in front of us can only illustrate one thing, and there is a high probability that the tribe in front of you is a female-dominated tribe, and the leader of the tribe is a woman.

Female-dominated tribes, Xia Guo has not encountered for a long time, when Xia Guo formed a trade fleet, worried about encountering female-dominated tribes, two women were specially selected out of ten people to facilitate communication with female-dominated tribes, there was a female official in the third trade group, I didn't expect that after many years, Xia Guo once again encountered a tribe that may be dominated by women, and this tribe does not seem to be weak.

"Hello, we come from afar......"