Autumn goes to winter, winter comes back to spring, and in a blink of an eye, it has been half a year, and time has entered the twentieth year of the establishment of the Dragon Tribe, and Su Yan has also entered the thirty-first year of his life.

In the autumn harvest season, because of the rain last year, the grain production was slightly reduced, but because the planting area of high-quality crop seeds has doubled, and the area of cultivated fields of the entire dragon tribe has increased, the grain output last year is more than half of the grain produced in the previous year.

After the busy autumn harvest, the dragon tribe became even busier, and twenty-two of the twenty-two A-type ships owned by the dragon tribe set sail in two teams, and finally moved more than 2,500 people from the three tribes of the leopard tribe, the Tianhuo tribe, and the fish tribe to Zhoucheng and Jicheng.

The three tribes of the Leopard Tribe, the Heavenly Fire Tribe, and the Fish Tribe officially joined the Dragon Tribe, becoming the Leopard Clan, the Fire Clan, and the Fish Clan of the Dragon Tribe, and the number of clans owned by the Dragon Tribe has reached as many as fourteen.

The Fire Clan moved to Zhoucheng, and the Fire Patriarch and the Yan Patriarch served as the deputy city lord of Zhoucheng together, and assisted the city lord Rabbit Shen to manage Zhoucheng: The Leopard Clan and the Yu Clan moved to Jicheng, and the Leopard Clan and the Yu Patriarch served as the deputy city lord of Jicheng together, and assisted the city lord Snake Zhi to manage Jicheng.

After the three clans migrated to the Dragon Tribe, the First Trade Fleet and the Second Trade Fleet hurriedly set off to complete the last trade of the year before the arrival of winter, and the remaining Class A ships of the Dragon Tribes also kept sailing between the cities, sending the population and materials of each city to Jicheng to help the people of Jicheng survive the cold winter.

The first trading fleet traded more than 140 cattle and horses from the two nomadic tribes, and passed through the old home of the Fire Clan to bring some grain from there to the ship, and the entire fleet returned with a full load.

The second trading fleet also had a lot of gains, and obtained more than 200 people from the Japanese tribe camp, and stopped at the Leopard Clan's hometown on the way back to remove a batch of grain harvested by the Leopard Clan this year.

It wasn't until the river froze that the busy dragon tribe stopped, working for most of the year, and only in winter could they have a good rest, but the dragon tribe people were not very willing to come in winter, and they had to hide in the house most of the time in the cold winter, which was not as good as other seasons.

Last year was the year of the explosion of the population of the Dragon Tribe, more than 2,700 more than the previous year, and the main increase in population was the addition of the three clans of the Leopard Clan, the Fire Clan, and the Fish Clan.

A few days after the early spring festival every year, the city lords and ministers of each city of the Dragon Tribe will report to the source city, and at the same time summarize the population of each city.

As of the early spring of this year, there were as many as 4,724 adult males and 9,344 adult females in the Dragon Tribe, making a total of 37,725 Dragon Tribesmen.

There were 684 male and female adult servants, and 1,276 juvenile servants, making a total of 1,960 men; There were 1,231 adult slaves and 1,057 juvenile slaves, for a total of 2,288.

The total population of the Dragon Tribe, including servants and slaves, has reached 41,973 people, compared to 34,499 at this time last year.

There are a few things to note, every year there will be first-class servants and outstanding servants promoted to the Dragon Tribe, there are also very bad servants are demoted to slaves, and nearly twenty slaves are executed for escaping, resisting, etc.

After the city lords and ministers of each city report on their work, Su Yan will also assign various tasks this year.

The population of the Dragon Tribe was able to increase so much last year, and one of the more important ones was that three tribes joined the Dragon Tribe, while Su Yan set only two goals last year.

This year, Su Yan also set a goal, no need for more, only one tribe needs to join the dragon tribe this year to complete the task, after all, three tribes have joined the dragon tribe last year, if only two tribes joined the dragon tribe last year, this year's goal is still two.

Su Yan also knew that not all tribes would join the Dragon Tribe, and if a third of the tribes that came into contact with the Dragon Tribe and traded could join the Dragon Tribe, even if it was many, it would take a lot of time to do the work of those tribes.

In the new year, the construction of the eighth city officially started, and Zhou Ming, the former lord of Bamboo City, was in charge, and the lord of Bamboo City was succeeded by Lu Shi.

Lu Shi, the second strongest person of the former Blood Tiger Tribe, was injured in the arm in a war after joining the Dragon Tribe, and was slightly disabled, so he served in the Household Department and served as the head of the Household Bamboo City Branch before taking over as the Lord of Bamboo City.

From this, it can also be seen that there is a little bit of the dragon tribe's city lord training system, most of the new city lords are to serve in the household department for a period of time, and then serve as the city lord.

There are also the four deputy city lords of Zhoucheng and Jicheng, Su Yan will be based on the performance of the four deputy city lords, if he meets the requirements, he will become the city lord of a certain city in the future, and if his performance is not qualified, he will join the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Servants, the Ministry of Slaves and other departments.

This year, the dragon tribe will increase its foreign trade fleet by one fleet and form a third trade fleet, which will be personally responsible for Luyuan.

The first trading fleet continued to sail to the west of the Yellow River, mainly to trade with the nomadic tribes of the steppe, and the second trading fleet continued to sail to the east of the Yellow River, trading with the Aoki tribe, the Japanese tribe camp, etc.

The newly formed Third Trade Fleet sailed in the same direction as the Second Trade Fleet, and also sailed to the east of the Yellow River, but the Third Trade Fleet was to open up new trade voyages, and the Third Trade Fleet could travel as far east as a month before returning home.

Also because the third trade fleet will appear for up to two months at a time, this year's spring ploughing and autumn harvest, the third trade fleet does not need to stop sailing, after all, the time that can sail a year is only eight or nine months, the third trade fleet can only sail four times, if the spring ploughing and autumn harvest to stop sailing, then three voyages a year is considered to be many.

Su Yan is most looking forward to the construction of the B-type ship this year, the B-type ship on the drawing will be larger than the A-type ship, the sailing speed is faster, the B-type ship is more suitable for long-distance navigation than the A-type ship, if the B-type ship is successfully built, it will not take a few years, the dragon tribe will set up a trade fleet composed of a number of B-type ships.

Compared to other matters, spring ploughing is the most important thing for the Dragon Tribe, and if there is not enough food, the Dragon Tribe will not be able to spare manpower to do other things.

Last year, hundreds of cattle and horses were traded from nomadic tribes, and the population of the dragon tribe increased, and the area of cultivated fields cultivated by the dragon tribe this year will increase by at least 10% compared with the cultivated area last year.

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