With the spring breeze of 17 years, the ice and snow of 16 years gradually melted, and when spring came, everything recovered, and the sun was warm, a scene full of vitality.

The long cold winter has finally passed, and on the first day of spring, the people of the dragon tribe go into the bathhouse in batches and wash away the dirt accumulated over the winter with hot water.

It's just spring, the weather is still cold, and the ice on the river has just melted, and although the people of the dragon tribe can tolerate the cold water, they don't want to take a cool bath if there are better options.

Take a bath, wash your clothes, clean up your home, and on the third day of spring, the Dragon Tribe's annual spring festival arrives.

This year's sacrifice is similar to previous years, with only one more baptism ceremony for the new tribe, welcoming the people celebrating the original monkey tribe to officially join the dragon tribe.

This year, fifteen more teenagers and sixteen girls from the Dragon Tribe have reached adulthood, and the number of adults in the Dragon Tribe will increase every year in the future.

At the beginning of last year, the total population of the Dragon tribe was 943 people, and on the day of this year's sacrifice, the total population of the Dragon tribe reached 1,322 people, including 199 adult males, 335 adult females, 372 boys, 381 girls, and 19 elderly and sick people.

Thanks to the participation of the people of the proto-monkey tribe and the birth of newborns, the total population of the dragon tribe has shown a great leap forward.

After the end of the spring festival, Su Yan convened the high-level leaders of the Dragon Tribe to discuss the major events of the Dragon Tribe this year, and it was still Su Yan who said, others listened, Su Yan will go to other tribes, plant animal husbandry, open up wasteland, add new walls and other things to everyone one by one, and then Su Yan will send the tasks one by one.

The first task is naturally the Dragon Tribe's expedition to other tribes, and the Dragon Tribe's goals for this year's expedition to the tribe are tentatively set to three, namely the No. 1 tribe located in the north of the Dragon Tribe and a little more than half a day's away, the No. 2 tribe located in the north-west direction of the Dragon Tribe and a three-quarters day away, and the No. 3 tribe located in the west of the Dragon Tribe a little more than a day's away.

Tentatively set as these three tribes, the specific number of these three tribes is unknown, but the population of each tribe will not exceed three hundred, far from being the opponent of the dragon tribe.

The dragon tribe is currently able to accept one-fifth of the total population, about two hundred and sixty people, and no more than three hundred slaves, the dragon tribe will go out in turn to the three tribes of No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, if you conquer two goals, you can complete the task, and the third tribe will stay until next year, and if you conquer all three tribes, you will stop this year's conquest mission.

The expedition team of the Dragon tribe was led by Su Yan himself, and the three patriarchs of Zhi, Biao, and Shen served as deputy commanders, and the expedition team was composed of one hundred and twenty adult male clansmen and eighty adult female clansmen, with the male clansmen as the main force of the battle and the female clansmen as auxiliaries.

Before the soldiers and horses moved the grain and grass, Su Yan sent the logistics preparation tasks before the expedition to the five patriarchs, food and weapons are the two most important, in addition to logistics, Su Yan will also carry out simple training with the three patriarchs of Zhi, Biao and Shen.

The net used to act as the second wall of the dragon tribe has been woven in winter, but Su Yan is not in a hurry to install the second wall, and a new round of reclamation will be carried out at the end of spring.

During the period before the expedition, Su Yan took the time to teach some women the art of weaving linen, and asked them to try to weave linen with No. 3 hemp rope, and the coarse linen woven could be used to make sacks.

The main tools for weaving linen are only a few wooden sticks and bone needles, and the textile technology is also simple and easy to learn.

Last year, the dragon tribe planted 1,400 acres of hemp and harvested 200,000 catties of hemp skin, and the hemp fiber separated from the hemp skin is also a huge number, and the twisted hemp rope may not be used up in two years.

On the tenth day of spring, a sunny and good day, after breakfast in the early morning, under the eyes of the clansmen, Su Yan, Zhi, Biao, and Shen led the expedition team to set off, with the goal of conquering the No. 1 tribe located in the north of the Dragon Tribe.

Tribe No. 1 is relatively close to the Dragon Tribe, only about half a day's journey, and the location of this tribe was previously discovered by the Monkey Tribe hunting team and recorded by Su Yan.

Departing in the morning, it is expected to arrive at Tribe 1 just after noon, the expedition team is moving forward in the jungle at a normal pace, food and a part of the short spear are carried by the female tribesmen as combat support, and the male tribesmen only carry their own weapons, which will reduce the physical exertion of the male tribesmen, even if a sudden battle breaks out, it will have little impact on the combat effectiveness of the male tribesmen.

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The No. 1 tribe in Su Yan's mouth is a medium-sized tribe with a tiger as a totem, with a total population of only more than 150 people.

Although the Tiger Clan of the No. 1 Tribe and the Dragon Tribe both use the tiger as a totem, there is a big difference in the appearance of the tiger on the two tiger totems.

The No. 1 tribe, like the Monkey Tribe, is a tribe with good attributes and will not take the initiative to attack other primitive tribes, so when the Monkey Tribe hunting team discovered the No. 1 tribe, the two sides were on the verge of breaking out and no conflict broke out.

The cold winter that has just passed has brought great trouble to Tribe No. 1, which has its own caves to live in, and no one has been frozen to death in the cold winter, but the cold winter lasts longer than the usual winter, and the food stored by Tribe No. 1 has been exhausted half a month before the end of the cold winter.

Before the stored food was exhausted, the leader of Tribe 1 had to go out hunting with a hunting party, and in the end, Tribe 1 survived the cold winter, but two adult males and one adult female died in the hunt.

In order for the tribe to continue to survive, death is inevitable, primitive people are used to the passing of their tribesmen, they will also be sad in their hearts, but not too sad, the days will go on, they have no time to continue to grieve all the time.

Today is a good day, the leader of the No. 1 tribe goes out hunting with a mixed hunting team, and the other tribesmen also have various things to be busy, digging plant roots, polishing stone tools, weaving straw ropes, lazy tribesmen will be expelled from the tribe, hard work can make the tribe survive better.

It was past noon, a team of 200 people quickly approached the No. 1 tribe residence, led by the people of the original monkey tribe, and when they were about to arrive at the monkey tribe residence, the expedition team stopped to rest and recover their strength, preparing for a possible battle.