In fact, at the beginning, the herdsmen did not have much resentment towards the tribe, and even the herdsmen thought that the tribe was hit hard by their own part, after all, it was the information that the three of them brought back, and the three of them did not carefully observe the enemy to determine the enemy's situation, so they told the leader the information that had a big problem, which led to the leader's misjudgment, and finally caused the tribe to suffer heavy losses.

All this was whipped by the leader again and again, and the tribesmen were indifferent again and again, and the resentment in the herdsmen's hearts increased sharply, increasing to the point that the herdsmen wanted to take revenge on the leader for revenge on the tribe that gave birth to him, and the herdsmen had already thought of how to take revenge on the tribe, and he wanted to make the black wolf tribe completely disappear on the grassland.

If you want to make the black wolf tribe completely disappear on the grassland, the only way is to find another powerful nomadic tribe, and it just so happens that the black wolf tribe has been hit hard, and it has become easier to destroy the black wolf tribe.

As a member of the black wolf tribe, the herdsmen have to stay away from the tribe every day to graze cattle, horses and sheep, and under normal circumstances, grazing cattle, horses and sheep should be a group of several clansmen, and everyone takes care of each other, but since that war, the herdsmen can only go to graze alone, which just creates opportunities for herdsmen.

The herdsmen did not take advantage of the idea of grazing directly away from the black wolf tribe to find other tribes, the grassland is too big, and the herdsmen do not know where to find another powerful nomadic tribe, once they leave the black wolf tribe alone, the black wolf tribe is likely to make a decision to move, and their wives and children who stay in the tribe may also be persecuted by the tribe.

The herdsmen thought of a simple way that would take a long time, when grazing, the herdsmen would take the cattle, horses and sheep to graze farther away as much as possible, and change the grazing position from time to time to find the traces of other tribesmen, as long as the traces were found, the two sides would be in contact, and the herdsmen would use the information of the black wolf tribe in exchange for some benefits.

Eventually, the herdsman would lead the warriors of another tribe to attack the Black Wolf Tribe and destroy it, while he himself would join the nomadic tribe that destroyed the Black Wolf tribe with his wife and children.

Until this final scene, the herders hide their resentment and continue to endure the whipping of their leaders.

"Hopefully I'll be able to make it to that day." The herdsman closed his eyes of hatred and fell asleep.

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Starting from the south gate of Yancheng, we passed through a stone road that was about two zhang wide not long after it was built, and finally came to the end of the stone road, where the Yan tribe found black stone (coal).

Xia Guo five-year development plan has iron-making, the melting point of iron is higher than the melting point of copper, at this time charcoal has been unable to be used as a fuel for iron-making, can only be mined coal as a fuel for iron-making, fortunately, Xia Guo found early that there are traces of coal in the hometown of the Yan clan, after the exploration of the Ministry of Industry officials, the location of the coal mine was finally determined, ready to be mined.

In the first month of the spring of the tenth year of the summer calendar, the coal mine was officially mined, and the horse-drawn trucks carried the coal excavated from the coal mine were transported to the Yancheng wharf, and after the coal was delivered to the ship, the empty horse-drawn carriages would drive to the coal mine.

When you enter the mining area, you can see that there are a large number of houses built around the coal mine for living, and there are wooden arrow towers around the mining area, and there are archers on the arrow towers at all times, guarding the slaves who are mining in the mining area.

At present, there are nearly 3,300 slaves in the Xia State, all of whom are adults, of which 1,000 and dozens of slaves are gathered in the coal mine to mine the coal mine, and the heavy and disease-prone work of mining coal, copper and iron ore is all handed over to the slaves, and the slaves are not distressed to die of illness and exhaustion.

Over the years, although there were still slaves who had the idea of rebellion, and from time to time there were slaves secretly plotting to escape or riot, but most of the slaves had been tamed, because the Xia Kingdom gave the slaves enough food to eat, houses and clothing to withstand the cold.

And the small number of slaves who have the idea of rebellion will be reported by other slaves who have tamed many times, and the reward and punishment system such as the system of continuous sitting, the reward system for reporting, etc., allows Xia Guo to command these slaves to work well, without worrying too much about slave escape or rioting.

There were even a small number of slaves who felt that their lives were better than before, they used to work hard every day, but they lived a hungry and full life, but now they also worked hard every day, but they could get enough food, and they did not need to worry about the enemy's attack.

It is often this kind of slave who becomes the eyes of the slave ministry in the slave group, and reports in detail the big and small things that happen in the slave group, so as to get more advent and live a better life.

Of course, it is impossible to remove the identity of slaves, as long as they are marked as slaves, they cannot get rid of the identity of slaves until they die, slaves and servants are different, there is direct hatred between slaves and Xia Guo, and there is no direct hatred between servants and Xia Guo, and servants can be directly transformed into Xia people.

Mobilize 1,000 slaves to mine coal mines, just the number of slaves can show the importance that Xia attaches to coal, coal is not only used to make iron, coal is also a fuel that is more resistant to burning than wood and can release more heat.

If the coal mines had been mined before the natural disaster struck, every household in the summer country would not have needed to collect so much firewood and grass before the arrival of winter, and the small garden would have been almost filled.

At the same time in the west of Chicheng, the iron ore near Chicheng is also being mined, and the iron ore mining area also arranges 1,000 and dozens of slaves to mine iron ore, and then horse-drawn carts will send truckloads of iron ore to the smelting area in the north of Chicheng.

The Chicheng Smelting Zone was established from last year, and an area was opened up near the source river in the jungle outside the farmland, and the hydraulic bellows can be used near the source river, and the Chicheng smelting area is almost a copy of the source city smelting area, but the source city smelting area has a brick kiln that burns charcoal, while the Chicheng smelting area does not, and the Chicheng smelting area directly uses coal to make iron.

Although the Chicheng smelting area has not yet opened the furnace to make iron, but with the experience of smelting copper ore in the source city smelting area, ironmaking will hardly fail, only the use of coal instead of charcoal will have some problems, and if you try to master the experience of burning coal several times, it will not be a problem to use coal to make iron.

The ironmaking process has just started, far less than the bronze produced in the Yuancheng smelting area, with Su Yan guiding the direction, if you want to put the iron smelted in the Chicheng smelting area into use, it is expected to be after the end of the five-year plan of the Xia Kingdom.

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