Xia's No. 1 trading fleet continued to trade westward along the main trunk of the Yellow River, the most important of which was to trade with nomadic tribes on the steppe.

The first nomadic tribe to contact on this trip is the "old friend" Pegasus tribe of Xia Kingdom, but this transaction is the last transaction between Xia and Pegasus tribe this year, and after the transaction is over, the Pegasus tribe will move and will not come back until next spring or the spring of the following year.

The white salt, copper knives, pepper powder, pottery and other things obtained from the Xia Kingdom are all materials needed by the Pegasus tribe, and the Pegasus tribe does not want to cut off this trading channel, and every time they move and change pastures for a period of time, they will return to their hometown where the pasture has been restored.

I still remember that the Dragon Tribe had its first contact with the Pegasus Tribe, when the Pegasus Tribe had only a population of five or six hundred, and it was only a relatively small nomadic tribe on the grassland.

Luck befell the Pegasus tribe, after contacting and trading with the dragon tribe, the development speed of the Pegasus tribe continued to increase, and today, the Pegasus tribe is already a medium-sized tribe with a population of nearly two thousand, and it also belongs to the middle and upper tribes on the grassland.

However, the cold winter that has just passed has caused a lot of losses to the Pegasus tribe, not the population, but the cattle, horses and sheep that the Pegasus tribe depends on for their livelihood.

The Pegasus tribe is a nomadic tribe, feeding on animal meat, and the animal skins in their hands are so much that they can't be used up, and the people of the Pegasus tribe are wrapped in several layers of animal skins one by one in winter, and there are very few people who are frozen to death.

But the cows, horses and sheep domesticated by the Pegasus tribe are not good, Xia Guo did not tell the Pegasus tribe about extreme climate change, the Pegasus tribe did not make much preparation, and for a time the Pegasus tribe froze to death many cattle, horses and sheep, and the main ones who were frozen to death were calves, ponies and lambs.

Seeing this situation, in order to prevent more cattle, horses and sheep from freezing to death, the Pegasus tribe had to tie animal skins to cattle, horses and sheep and put on a layer of clothing for the cattle, horses and sheep.

It is impossible to heat cattle, horses and sheep, because there is a lack of trees on the grassland, and the hay is not tolerant of burning, so the nomadic tribes often burn dry cow dung and horse dung for cooking or heating.

Even if the cows, horses and sheep are dressed, there are still cattle, horses and sheep that are frozen to death, and the people of the Pegasus tribe can only endure the pain to eat the frozen cattle, horses and sheep, well, the meat is still very tender.

The past winter has brought a lot of losses to the Pegasus tribe, but the transaction between the Pegasus tribe and the Xia country is going on normally, and even the scale has expanded a lot, after all, the Pegasus tribe will not be able to continue to trade with the Xia country in the next year to two years, and must trade more white salt, pepper powder or something.

After the first trading fleet traded with the Pegasus tribe and two other nomadic tribes in the steppe, eighteen of the twenty A-type ships in the entire fleet were loaded with cattle and horses, and the total number was close to four hundred.

The First Trading Fleet can be said to be the largest of the three trading fleets of the Xia Kingdom, the first trading fleet has twenty Class A ships, the second Trade Fleet has only seven Class A ships, and the Third Trade Fleet consists of four Class B ships.

The second trade fleet had arrived at the Japanese tribe, and when they learned of the arrival of the Xia country's fleet, the leader of the Japanese tribe strode to the river, taking it from the officials who received the second trade team of the Xia country.

"Thank you very much for the reminder of our tribe from the Xia Kingdom, if it weren't for your reminder, I'm afraid that many people in our tribe and our tribe's affiliated tribes would freeze to death this winter." The leader of the day gestured with his hands in joy.

As the head of the second trade team, Zhao Lin said with a smile: "The Japanese tribe and our Xia country are good friends, and in the face of natural disasters, we should work together to tide over the difficulties." ”

"Yes, we are friends, and we will always be friends." The smile on the face of the leader of the day did not stop.

Can the leader of the day not be happy, in the last winter, the various tribes of the Japanese tribe camp did not make much preparation, and many people were frozen to death, although because of the extreme climate change for several years, the Japanese tribe camp made some preparations, but not much.

If it weren't for the reminder from the Xia Kingdom, which caused the Japanese tribal camp to give up last year's war and go all out to prepare, I am afraid that the number of clansmen who died in the past winter would not be less than the number of clansmen who died in the previous winter.

What's more important is that the Japanese tribe camp is fully prepared, and the Night Bear Alliance may have some preparations, but it will never be too sufficient, even if most of the people who are frozen to death are minors and sick people, the impact on a tribe is also very large, and the more the population, the better.

Last year, the Japanese tribal camp and the Night Bear Alliance did not fight, a year has passed, and the gap between the two sides has opened up a little because of the cold winter, if it is not for the natural disaster has not passed, the Japanese leaders want to gather the army of the Japanese tribal camp to fight against the Night Bear Alliance again, but unfortunately the natural disaster has not passed, and the Japanese tribal camp has to continue to make various preparations for the natural disaster.

Not only the Sun Tribe, but also the Fishing Tribe and other tribes that have been in contact with the Xia Kingdom have sent words of thanks to the Xia Kingdom, and the content is roughly the same, they are all thankful for the reminders of the Xia Kingdom, without the reminders of the Xia Kingdom, their tribe will definitely freeze to death and starve to death in the past winter.

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The leaders of the six tribes or witches came to the Xia country as guests to discuss the matter of the six tribes joining the Xia country, and Su Yan met with the leaders or witches of the six tribes respectively, welcomed the six tribes to join the Xia country, and made a guarantee: "As long as your tribe joins the Xia country, I will treat your tribesmen the same as the people of our tribe Xia country." ”

The witches or leaders of the six tribes all believed Su Yan's words and asked when their tribe would move to the Xia Kingdom.

"Don't worry, your tribe's new home is under construction, and you can move after the autumn and autumn harvest, during this time, your tribe will also carry out spring ploughing, in the face of natural disasters, food is very important, our Xia country has been stockpiling a lot of food, even if the crops are not harvested in the future, the food stored in our Xia country is enough for all the people to eat for two years."

Knowing what Su Yan meant, the leaders of the six tribes or Wu were surprised one by one, they didn't know how much the population of the Xia Kingdom was, but it was definitely dozens of times the population of their own tribe, and the reserves were enough to eat food for two years, how much should it be, the strength of the Xia Kingdom was unimaginable to them, and joining the Xia Kingdom was the right step.

Su Yan also arranged for people to take the leaders of the six tribes or witches to the granary area of Zhongjing City to have a look, and when they saw the mountains of grain piled up in the granary, no one could keep calm.

After determining the matter of the next six tribes joining the Xia Kingdom, the leaders of the six tribes or Wu followed the three trading fleets back, and by the way, they also carried a large number of gifts from the Xia Kingdom, mainly copper weapons, rattan armor, white salt, etc.

Su Yan was also worried that the six tribes would be attacked by other tribes during the period when they did not join the Xia Kingdom, so he gave the six tribes a large amount of weapons and equipment to improve the strength of the six tribes.