The tributaries of the Yellow River adjacent to Yuancheng, Chicheng and Zhucheng have not had a name, which is very troublesome, Su Yan thought about it and gave this river a name - Yuanhe, which is an idea with the name of Yuancheng.

In the time when winter is approaching, all twelve A-type boats of the Dragon Tribe are shuttling in the source river and the Yellow River, and the migration of the tribesmen to Yangcheng has been completed not long after the end of the autumn harvest, but there is still a very important problem on Yangcheng's side that has not been solved, the problem of food for the winter.

Yangcheng was built and completed this year, except for a part of the autumn, the people of Yangcheng mainly spent their time building the city, and had no time to cultivate the land, so there was naturally very little food stored in Yangcheng, so it was necessary to bring some food from the other three cities to Yangcheng, so that the people of Yangcheng had enough food to survive the winter.

A large amount of grain, some vegetables, some pickled fish, and a small part of pickled animal meat, plus salt, were all sent to Yangcheng.

The tribesmen of Yangcheng were also busy getting food, constantly fishing and salting from the Yellow River, and also sent some tribesmen to the jungle far away from Yangcheng to find edible wild fruits to pick and store.

There are few vegetables, so I can only have a little more wild fruit.

Just as winter is coming, the winter food that Yangcheng needs has been transported to Yangcheng, and even distributed to every household in Yangcheng, but the fleet of the dragon tribe is still shuttling in the source river and the Yellow River, this time it is no longer food, but people, more precisely, slaves.

Now the dragon tribe has as many as thousands of large and small slaves, so many slaves, even if the adult slaves are shackled, once the number is too large, the possibility of accidents will be greatly increased, it is impossible to put all the slaves in one city to take care of them, only divide the slaves into four equal parts, and escort them to the four cities of the dragon tribe to take care of them.

It is semi-random to divide all slaves into four parts, and as far as possible, the tribes from the same tribe are scattered into four cities, and the household department has a special register to record the information of the slaves, and at least the number of slaves is clearly recorded from which tribe.

The hunting team and the reserve team have finished this year's foreign war mission, and turned to the task of escorting slaves to their own cities, first escorting slaves from the copper mining area to the source city, and then taking a boat from the source city to the three cities of Chicheng, Bamboo City, and Source City, because most of the adult slaves are wearing shackles, the speed of escorting slaves on land is relatively slow, and it takes a day to walk from the copper mining area to the source city.

In the southwest corner of each city, near the city walls, there was a complex of buildings covering several acres, which was the prison of each city, which was not used for the errant people, but for the slaves.

The prison is square as a whole, the size of the wall is almost the same as the city wall, and there are observation towers at the corners of every two walls, except for the original observation tower in the southwest corner of the city, only three new observation towers need to be built.

In the cold winter, even at night when it is dark, at least two people will be guarding each lookout, and the gongs in the watchtower are inherent, and the guards generally use bows and arrows, and can condescendingly shoot arrows at slaves.

The interior of the prison is a series of standard tiled houses, with different internal structures and functions, including houses for holding slaves, clansmen for slave guards, large kitchens for cooking, and toilets for guards only.

There were three types of cells in which slaves were held, first-class cells, second-class cells, and third-class cells.

The third-class cell is the worst, and the third-class cell also has another name - the little black room, when you see the words "little black room", you can understand the role of the third-class cell, the third-class cell is used to hold the slave who makes a mistake, and they are all single rooms, and a small black room only holds one slave.

The second-class cell is considered a normal cell, that is, a large room, two feet seven feet long and one foot seven feet wide, and such a house has to hold at least forty adult slaves, and the number is doubled, and it is very crowded.

There was no construction inside the second-class cell, there was no stove and no ondol, the slaves could only sleep on the weeds covered with coarse linen, and it was very cold in winter, so the slaves could only huddle together to keep warm, in this case, the chances of the slaves being frozen to death were not very high, and this was also a brick house.

Switching to a first-class cell, the first-class cell is very much different from the second-class cell.

The most notable change was that the number of slaves in such a cell was greatly reduced, and a maximum of twenty adult slaves or forty juvenile slaves could be held in a first-class cell.

There is a stove in the middle of the first-class cell, which adds some light and heat to the cell during the cold winter months.

Slaves in the first-class cells did not need to lie on the weeded ground like the slaves in the second-class cells, and the slaves in the first-class cells had wooden beds, a large wooden bed with three people, with weeds and linen underneath them, and sackcloth on their bodies.

Another difference is the toilets, which are replaced by large clay pots, and there is a separate compartment in the first-class cell, in which the clay pot is placed, and as long as the wooden door of the compartment is closed, the smell can be blocked to a certain extent, while in the second-class cell, which does not have a cubicle, the whole cell is filled with the stench.

It should be noted that the walls of the three types of cells are very thick, the walls of the houses where the dragon tribe people live are all one-layer bricks, and the walls of the cells are all two-layer bricks, even if the slaves push hard, it is difficult to knock down the walls.

The third-class cells had doors and no windows, while the second-class cells and first-class cells had doors and windows, but the windows were so small that even the smallest slave could not climb out of the windows, so that they could give some light to the cells through the windows.

Obviously, only well-behaved slaves were allowed to live in first-class cells, well-behaved slaves were housed in second-class cells, and errant slaves were kept in third-class cells.

The daily food of the slaves in the three cells was also different, and the slaves in the third-class cells could only get one bowl of corn for one meal; Slaves in second-class cells were given a bowl of corn and a little pickled vegetables for one meal, and a little pickled fish or fish soup every few days;

Slaves in the first-class cells were much better, a bowl of corn and a little pickled vegetables were the basis, and they could get a little pickled fish or fish soup for almost every meal, and if the hunting party had a lot of harvest, the slaves in the first-class cells could also get bones and a little fresh animal meat.

However, the slaves in the first-class cells also had some things to do, such as emptying the clay pots containing feces and urine in each cell every day, and bringing the slaves' food to the cells for distribution, which was nothing compared to their treatment.