On the south bank of the Yellow River, the Red Leaf Tribe

The Momiji Tribe used to be a medium-sized tribe with a population of more than 1,500 people, and with the weapons and equipment that were traded from the Xia Kingdom, it would be difficult for even a large tribe of more than 2,000 people to defeat the Momiji Tribe .

However, under the extreme climate change for many years, the long and cold winter, drought and floods and other natural disasters, and then because of natural disasters caused by man-made disasters and food wars, the Red Leaf tribe has struggled to survive, but the population of the Red Leaf tribe is less than 1,000 people.

Many children were frozen to death in the cold winter, many adults died in the food war, and the Momiji tribe was severely damaged, but the Momiji tribe did not give up and did its best to survive.

The natural disaster has not passed, under the leadership of the leader, the Red Leaf tribe is trying to collect food, and the Xia country's idea is similar, as much as possible to catch fish as daily food, because the natural disaster has led to a drastic reduction in crop production, but farming can not give up, but expand the planting area as much as possible, and collect fruits everywhere in autumn.

On this day, the leader personally led many tribesmen to fish on the banks of the Yellow River, threw the fishing nets woven with straw ropes into the river, waited for a while, and then pulled the fishing nets ashore vigorously, and each time a lot of fish could be harvested, but there was not enough salt to marinate the fish, and the fish could not be stored for a long time.

"Chief! Chieftain! ”

"What's wrong?" The leader looked to his left.

"Ship...... Ship, the ship of the summer country ......"

The leader looked at the Xia country fleet sailing from the west and was stunned.

It's been two years, and the fleet of the Xia Kingdom has disappeared for two years, and today it is once again in the field of vision of the people of the Red Leaf Tribe.

The fleet of the Xia Kingdom will pass through the corresponding section of the river of the Red Leaf Tribe many times a year, the Red Leaf Tribe has long been accustomed to the fleet of the Xia Kingdom, and the Red Leaf Tribe also relies on the weapons and equipment traded from the Xia Country to greatly improve its own strength, relying on its own strength, in the food war, the Red Leaf Tribe defeated a total of three tribes and successfully defended their homeland.

Without the weapons and equipment of the Xia Kingdom, the Red Leaf Tribe would be able to defeat the first tribe, but it would be difficult to defeat the second tribe.

Under extreme climate change, many tribes have chosen to join the Xia Kingdom, but the Red Leaf Tribe did not choose this one, at that time, the food of the Red Leaf Tribe was enough to eat, and the high-level leaders of the Red Leaf Tribe thought that their tribe could persevere.

Unexpectedly, natural disasters and man-made disasters caused the Red Leaf Tribe to suffer heavy losses, and several high-level tribes had the idea of joining the Xia Kingdom, but the fleet of the Xia Kingdom never appeared again, and the people of the Red Leaf Tribe thought that the Xia Kingdom had been destroyed, and extinguished the idea of joining the Xia Kingdom.

Now that the fleet of the Xia Kingdom has appeared again, the people of the Red Leaf Tribe are stunned, it turns out that the Xia Kingdom has not been destroyed.

The second trade fleet slowly sailed to the shore from far and near, stopped the boats, and extended the thick planks to the shore, and before the people of the second trade team got off the ship, the leader of the Momiji tribe ran over with a few clansmen.

Seeing the Xia people who got off the boat, the leader of the red leaves hurriedly gestured and asked, "Didn't your Xia Kingdom perish?" I haven't seen you for a long time, and I thought your Xia Kingdom was destroyed. ”

The person from the second trade team said with a smile: "Our Xia Kingdom is so powerful, how can it perish, but in the past two years, the natural disasters have been very severe, and our Xia Kingdom has temporarily stopped foreign trade in order to deal with the natural disasters, and the natural disasters are not the opponents of our Xia Kingdom, no, we have come out to trade with various tribes again." ”

Red Leaf Leader: "I think so, your Xia Kingdom is so much stronger than our tribe, how can it perish." ”

"Your tribe is also very strong, our fleet passed by three tribe settlements before, those three tribe settlements are empty, there is a high probability that they have perished, your tribe is the first tribe our fleet encountered."

"Our tribe is not that strong, and natural disasters have caused our tribe heavy losses, alas, ......," said the Momiji leader with some lamentation.

The communication between the two sides did not last long, and the people of the second trade team gave the New Year's gift to the Momiji chieftain, and seeing that the Momiji tribe was not ready to trade, the fleet set sail and continued to move on to the next tribe.

On the bank of the river, the leader of the red leaves looked at the second trading fleet in the distance in a daze, and a sentence kept lingering in his mind: "If only our tribe were as strong as the Xia Kingdom, there would not be so many clansmen who died." ”

The people of the second trade team did not communicate with the leader of the red leaves for a long time, but they also expressed what they wanted to say, and the main content was that the Xia Kingdom successfully survived the worst two years of the natural disaster, and they did not lose anything, and now they started trading with various tribes again.

Just the content of the expression is enough to show the strength of the Xia Kingdom, as long as it is expressed, it is enough, and there is no initiative to invite the Red Leaf Tribe who suffered heavy losses in the natural disaster, after all, the natural disaster has not passed, and the crops planted in the Xia Kingdom will still have a relatively serious reduction in yield, and now the Xia Kingdom will continue to accept the population from the outside world, but it does not want to accept too much at once, and the problem of food is the most important.

The leader of the Red Leaf didn't think of leading the tribe to join the Xia Kingdom for the time being, but when the news of "the Xia Country fleet is back" spread throughout the tribe, the high-level leaders of the Red Leaf Tribe, who had previously had the idea of "letting the tribe join the Xia Kingdom", had this idea in their hearts.

"The Xia Kingdom has no losses in the natural disaster, but we have suffered heavy losses, if this continues, our tribe may be destroyed, it is better to join the Xia Kingdom, as long as everyone can continue to live."

"Join the Xia Kingdom?" The Momiji Leader fell into thought.

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The two trading fleets of the Xia Kingdom continued to sail, the first trading fleet passed by two tribes, the first tribe was uninhabited, and the second tribe was still alive; The second trading fleet passed through four tribes, the first three of which were uninhabited, and the fourth was still alive.

Only two of the six tribes are still alive, the remaining four are likely to have perished, and the two who survived have also suffered heavy losses in natural and man-made disasters, which can only be described as "miserable".

The tribes that are still alive are miserable, and the tribes that have already perished are even more miserable.

The people of Xia Country live in Xia Country, they just feel the long and cold winter, there is no shortage of food, and there are enough measures to protect against the cold, and they cannot see the tragic situation of other tribes.

Now, as the two fleets sailed all the way, so many tribes were wiped out, and the surviving tribes were severely damaged, and the people on the fleet became more and more silent.

The people who have joined the Xia Kingdom in the past ten years, they feel the deepest, if their tribe does not join the Xia Kingdom, maybe their tribe will also be wiped out in natural and man-made disasters like those tribes.

The first time I came to the outside world by boat, I had a lot of feelings.

"If only these tribes had joined our Xia Kingdom as soon as possible, there would have been no such tragedy."