Yuerong: "Yuan, how can we trade with other tribes?" ”

Lu Yuan: "This is simple, in our situation, it is very unlikely that other tribes will take the initiative to attack us, as long as we don't show hostility when we contact other tribes, and send some gifts, we can make a deal." ”

Yuerong nodded in understanding.

On the bow of the ship, Lu Yuan and Yue Rong chatted without a word, mainly about the first time the dragon tribe tried to contact other tribes for trading.

It is now the middle of the first month of spring, after the end of the spring festival, Su Yan summoned Lu Yuan to the source city, handed over the foreign trade of the dragon tribe to Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan accepted the task given to him by Su Yan, and soon Zhou Ming arrived, Lu Yuan took out his time to devote himself to the foreign trade of the dragon tribe, of course, Lu Yuan did not forget the most important item in foreign trade - slave trade.

When the king told Lu Yuan about the slave trade, Lu Yuan's first reaction was surprise, it turned out that he could also exchange slaves for trade, there was no need to doubt, Lu Yuan believed all the king's thoughts wholeheartedly, and resolutely carried out any orders of the king.

In just a few days, the dragon tribe's foreign trade team was formed, and there were not many people, only eight male clansmen and two female clansmen, a total of ten people.

They are all enthusiastic and talkative people, and their language skills are more precise, sign language expression skills, after all, the dragon tribe does not understand the language of other tribes, and basically has to use gestures to communicate.

There are not too many female clansmen to choose, after all, the dragon tribe and other tribes are patrilineal clans, men occupy the dominant power in society, women are just vassals of men, and the dragon tribe cannot send female clansmen to trade with other tribes, so the other tribe will also look down on the dragon tribe.

Although there are few matrilineal clans, this situation must also be considered, so two female clansmen were selected for the team of Luyuan.

Su Yan considered that if the foreign trade was successful and the trade team continued to expand, the dragon tribe would set up a Ministry of Commerce, with Lu Yuan as the minister.

After some preparations, the first month of spring had just ended, and a fleet of five A-boats set out from Chicheng, passing through Yuancheng, Zhucheng, and Yangcheng, and then sailed eastward along the Yellow River, that is, towards the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

Every time they arrived at a city, the fleet would stop, and the hunting party in each city would divide into a tun to board the ship, four cities and four tuns, a total of one hundred and eighty-four people, who boarded the ship mainly as a convoy to protect the fleet.

Half a day ago, the fleet sailed through Yangcheng, and is currently heading east along the Yellow River, targeting a tribe that is about two or three days away from Yangcheng, and it only takes less than a day to take the waterway, and it will be able to reach the destination tomorrow morning, and there is also a protomouse tribe residence between the target tribe and Yangcheng.

That tribe is also the first tribe of the dragon tribe to prepare for contact and trade, the first time to try to contact, the king has communicated with him many times before, and Lu Yuan already has a belly case, just look at how the actual battle is.

Even if you fail here in the first tribe, you can try in the next tribe, and you can't fail all attempts.

As the number of ships of the Dragon Tribe increased, Su Yan would often send a small fleet of two or three boats to roam the Yellow River and its tributaries, with the purpose of discovering the tribes on both sides of the Yellow River and the tributaries of the Yellow River, and preparing for the Dragon Tribe's foreign conquests.

At night, the flotilla stopped to rest, and it was not until the early morning of the next day that the flotilla left the area where it was anchored in the middle of the night and continued its march to the east.

After about two hours of driving, the people in the head boat had already seen a figure moving on the shore in front of them, and they were supposed to be fishing on the shore.

Lu Yuan: "Flag commanders, send orders to other ships, and make them ready for battle." ”

"No"

Soon, the flag commander gave a signal to the ships behind, and the signals were passed on one by one until all the ships in the flotilla received the information, and the soldiers who were the escort were ready for battle.

This combat preparation is different from the usual combat preparation, the usual combat preparation is really to fight and kill, the soldiers are murderous one by one, and the current combat preparation is just to let the soldiers hold their weapons and prepare, and their expressions should be as relaxed as possible, and they will have to contact the target tribe later, and it is not good to scare each other murderously one by one.

Turn to the other side

On the south bank of the Yellow River, more than 100 members of the Aoki tribe are fishing with fishing nets woven with straw ropes, and the fishing nets woven by straw ropes have almost been developed to the peak of the Aoki tribe, and even the Aoki tribe is still looking for other plant materials to make fishing nets, but the fishing efficiency has been difficult to improve.

The Aoki tribe wants to develop from a fishing net woven with a straw rope to a fishing net woven with hemp rope I don't know how much time it will take, the Aoki tribe only lacks a chance, the original straw rope weaving fishing net technology is the Aoki tribe, but it has been continuously developed by the Aoki tribe, maybe the Aoki tribe can also obtain hemp rope weaving fishing net technology from other tribes.

The population of the Aoki tribe is quite large, there are more than 1,300 people, and the adult male tribe is more than 200, the Aoki tribe and the original Blood Tiger tribe are the top tribes in this area, the weak tribes in this area are either destroyed or forced to move, and the tribes that can stay can resist the Aoki tribe or the Blood Tiger tribe to a certain extent.

In fact, last year, the Rat Tribe invited the Aoki tribe to send troops to attack Yangcheng, but the leader of Aoki did not agree, which can be regarded as the luck of the Aoki tribe, if the Aoki tribe sends troops, the final result will not be much better than those five tribes.

The dragon tribe fleet saw the people fishing on the river bank, and the people of the Aoki tribe also found the fleet on the Yellow River, but they did not show much emotion about the appearance of the fleet, most of the tribe were still busy fishing, and only a few people were fishing while observing the approaching fleet.

This is not the first time that the Aoki tribe has found the ships of the dragon tribe, the ships of the dragon tribe have come and gone to the Yellow River area corresponding to the Aoki tribe more than ten times, and when they saw it for the first time, the clansmen of the Aoki tribe were indeed very surprised by the boats, and because they were worried that it was the enemy attacking, hundreds of adult clansmen of the Aoki tribe gathered on the bank of the river to watch the ships of the dragon tribe.

After the first time, every time the dragon tribe's ships passed through the river where the Aoki tribe was located, there were fewer and fewer people from the Aoki tribe who came to watch, so that by now, the people of the Aoki tribe had become accustomed to the ships of the dragon tribe, and they thought that this thing was not an enemy and did not need to be dealt with by the tribesmen with great fanfare.

The people of the Aoki tribe didn't know that this time the dragon tribe's ships were targeting their Aoki tribe.