Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has entered summer.

Led by the Japanese tribe and the fishing tribe, the food war spread throughout the Yellow River Valley, and one tribe after another was involved in the war, and at the same time, the food war could also bring a certain population to the Xia country, especially the first time that the Xia country traded with the fishing tribe for the first time, which made Su Yan feel surprised, how the peace-loving and relatively powerful fishing tribe was also involved in the food war.

Asked the people who traded from the fishing tribe, only to know that it was the fishing tribe that took the initiative to start a war, in order to get food from other tribes, and the other tribes were willing to hand over the food, the fishing tribe would not attack and leave with the food, if the other tribes were unwilling to hand over the food, the fishing tribe would attack and destroy them, get a batch of food, and trade with the captured population with the Xia Kingdom in exchange for a batch of copper weapons.

Although the fishing tribe can also smelt copper, the output is too small, and the quality of the copper weapons cast is not as good as that of the Xia Kingdom.

Boatloads of people were transported to the Xia Kingdom, and the population of the Xia Kingdom increased, but Su Yan was not in much of a happy mood.

From spring ploughing to summer, heavy rain comes one after another, and the farmland in Xia has relatively complete drainage facilities, but the continuous heavy rain has a very great impact on the growth of crops.

Su Yan no longer wants this year's crop output to reach last year's level, and only hopes that this year's crop yield reduction is not too serious.

The crop yield is reduced, if it is more serious, Xia Guo even has to use the grain reserves, the food reserves in Xia Guo can only be eaten by everyone for more than two years, Su Yan does not know when this extreme climate change will end, he just wants to stick to it as much as possible, and food is the most important.

The population does not increase much, but the reserve food is certain, so the time for the reserve food to last will be reduced, Su Yan is already thinking about whether he should give up trading with other tribes and let the population increase rate of the Xia Kingdom slow, at least until the extreme climate change has passed.

It is really a headache choice, extreme climate change has increased the population growth rate of Xia country, but extreme climate change has also made Xia country unbearable, once extreme climate change has passed, Xia country will lose a good opportunity to increase population rapidly.

Su Yan didn't know how to choose, so he could only convene all the high-level Xia Guo in Zhongjing City to discuss the matter together.

"Wang, I think we should refuse to allow outsiders to join and wait until this extreme climate change has passed." Snake Wisdom was the first to say.

Immediately after, Lu Yuan also said: "Wang, we can choose to give up trading with other tribes to trade population, but those tribes who want to join our Xia Kingdom can accept it, after all, those tribes can bring some grain over, and the population obtained from the trade is very few adults, most of them are minors, and they have not brought food over, which is a heavy burden for our Xia Kingdom." ”

"I agree with the words of the deer chief." "Me too." "The deer patriarch is right. ”

Lu Yuan's words were supported by all the high-level Xia Guo people present, and even Snake Zhi agreed with Lu Yuan's words.

"Okay, that's it." Su Yan said.

The three trading fleets set sail again, this time several tribes wanted to trade with the Xia Kingdom, but they were repeatedly rejected by the Xia Kingdom.

"I'm sorry, under the natural disaster, our Xia country is also short of food, and we can't continue to trade population."

In the face of the refusal of the Xia Kingdom, the tribes who wanted to trade the population were also very helpless, but they did not complain too much, they used this population to trade with the Xia Kingdom, mainly to obtain weapons and equipment, and it was impossible to use these populations to trade food with the Xia Kingdom.

At most, they were a little disappointed, and in order to prevent the captives from starving to death, they also gave the captives a small amount of food to eat, but unfortunately this food was gone.

Since the Xia Kingdom did not want these captives, in order not to continue to waste food, several tribes made the same choice - to kill all the captives.

Xia Guo also knows that if there is no population trade, the final fate of those populations, anyway, they have not joined Xia Guo, they are not their own people, they will die, they did not bring much sadness to the people of the three trade teams, it is just a pity, it is a pity that these people, if it were not for this natural disaster, they would all join Xia Guo and contribute their own strength to the development of Xia Guo.

The second trading fleet sailed to the end of the day tribe on this trip.

"Friends of Xia Kingdom, our tribe has a large number of captives who want to trade with Xia Kingdom." The leader of the day laughed and said to the head of the regiment, Zhao Lin.

"Respected leader of the Sun tribe, I'm very sorry, under the natural disaster, our Xia country is also short of food, and we can no longer trade in the population, we have rejected several tribes before." Zhao Lin said helplessly.

"Your Xia Kingdom is also short of food?" The leader of the day was stunned.

"Yes, it is expected that the crop yield of our summer country will be reduced on a large scale this year, and the population trade will no longer be possible." Zhao Lin explained.

"Well, since you can't trade the population, let's trade some hides."

"This one can be traded."

In nearly a month and a half, the Japanese tribal camp almost wiped out the Night Bear Alliance, and the Night Tribal camp and the bear tribal camp all fled with more than a thousand people under the leadership of their respective leaders, leaving nearly 10,000 people in the Night Bear Alliance, who were either killed in battle or captured by the Japanese tribal camp, and the number of captives in the Japanese tribal camp exceeded 5,000, most of whom were minors.

Just by not letting these captives starve to death these days, a lot of food was wasted in the Japanese tribe, but I didn't expect to get such a news now, Xia Guo actually gave up the population trade.

The leader of the day knew the strength of the Xia Kingdom, but he did not expect that the Xia Kingdom would also be short of food, and it turned out that the Xia Kingdom was not invincible.

Originally, the leader of the day had already extinguished the idea of leading the Japanese tribal camp to compete with the Xia country, and now the Japanese leader had some faith in his heart, the Xia country was the target of the Japanese tribal camp to catch up, and the Japanese tribal camp could also become such a powerful tribe as the Xia country in the future.

The Japanese tribal camp destroyed the Night Bear Alliance, and the 2,000 or so people who fled could not carry much food, and the rest of the food of the Night Bear Alliance was taken away by the Japanese tribal camp, which was enough food for the Japanese tribal camp to last until this autumn's harvest.

In addition to the captives, the army of the Japanese tribal camp will also take away the animal skins of the Night Bear Alliance, in the past, the Japanese tribal camp traded with the Xia Kingdom, and the captives were the most valuable, followed by this animal skin, and there was nothing else to trade.

For the Xia Kingdom, the population is temporarily unable to be accommodated, but animal skins are still needed, animal skins can be made into leather armor, can also be made into animal skin coats, leather shoes, leather hats, there is a set of clothes made of animal skin, it is very warm in the cold winter.

With a population of more than 100,000, Xia cannot rely on hunting to obtain many hides, and can only obtain hides through foreign trade, not to mention that in this winter, which lasts longer and colder, the more hides the better.