"Wow! That's a lot of boats. A Aoki tribesman fishing on the banks of the river let out an exclamation when he accidentally saw a dragon fleet approaching from west to east.

Hearing the exclamations of their fellow clansmen, the surrounding Aoki tribesmen raised their heads one by one to look around, and soon they all saw the dragon tribe fleet of as many as twelve A-type ships in the distance, and it was the first time they had seen so many ships, and they had seen at most five at a time before.

In fact, these twelve A-type ships were composed of two trading fleets, the second trading fleet of five A-type ships, the third trading fleet of seven A-type ships, especially the third trading fleet, which was personally controlled by the Minister of Commerce, Lu Yuan.

The Aoki tribe did not hang the white flag, and the two fleets sailed normally through the river bank corresponding to the Aoki tribe, sailing towards the east, just when the figures of the two fleets were about to disappear from the eyes of the Aoki tribesmen, the leader of the Aoki tribe strode to the shore and looked at the dragon tribe fleet in the distance.

"Powerful dragon tribe, when will our tribe be able to build such a large boat and travel on the big river." Looking at the distant dragon tribe fleet, the leader of Aoki was full of emotion.

There was a moment of silence, and the leader of Aoki clenched his hands into fists.

"One day, our tribe will be as strong as the dragon tribe, no, our tribe will be even stronger than the dragon tribe!" The leader of Aoki secretly made up his mind.

There is one thing, the dragon tribe, including Su Yan, all the high-level guesses are wrong, in fact, last year the Aoki tribe launched a foreign war, but the number of casualties in this war was relatively small, only a few dozen, and finally the Aoki tribe forced the target tribe to submit with strong strength, and has now been integrated into the Aoki tribe.

Now the total population of the Aoki tribe has reached more than 3,500 people, officially into the ranks of giant tribes, you must know that three years ago, the total population of the Aoki tribe was only a little more than one-third of the current population, and it has developed to such an extent in just three years, almost everyone in the Aoki tribe firmly believes that the Aoki tribe will become stronger and stronger.

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On the thirteenth day of the voyage of the Third Trade Fleet, yesterday it sailed through the river corresponding to the Leopard Clan's hometown, continued to sail eastward, and entered an area that the Dragon Clan's fleet had never touched, and only less than half a day away from the Leopard Clan's hometown, the Third Trading Fleet found traces of a tribe on the south bank of the Yellow River.

The population of the first tribe encountered was about a thousand, and the third trading fleet tried to make contact, and the unknown tribe was very wary of the third trading fleet, but did not take the initiative to attack, and the two sides tried to make contact, and finally succeeded in making a transaction.

The scale of the transaction is not large, the unknown tribe only exchanged more than a hundred animal skins for six copper weapons, Lu Yuan doesn't care about this, he can't look down on such a small scale of trade, since the dragon tribe came to foreign trade, the dragon tribe has obtained enough animal skins from the trade with other tribes, and now what is more needed is the population and cattle and horses.

With the basis of a transaction, the two tribes are considered to know, this is the real purpose of the dragon tribe, the two sides first get acquainted, and then slowly get acquainted, and then divide according to the transaction between the target tribe and the dragon tribe, which can give the dragon tribe the best benefits, and the benefits that cannot be brought are included in the inspection target, hoping to finally let the tribe join the dragon tribe.

After successfully completing the trade with the first tribe they encountered, the Third Trading Fleet continued to set sail, and now it was the thirteenth day of the trip, and the trip could sail east for up to thirty days before returning home, and there would be more tribes to meet along the way, and all the Third Trading Fleet needed to do was try to contact and trade with these tribes.

One tribe, two tribes, three tribes...... On the twenty-fifth day of the voyage of the Third Trade Fleet, the Third Trade Fleet encountered a total of twenty-one tribes.

Some of these tribes were on the south bank of the Yellow River, some of them had a population of five or six hundred, some had a population of more than one thousand, two thousand, and maybe even three thousand, and the Third Trading Fleet successfully made contact with and traded with eighteen of these tribes.

The "old men" on the third trade fleet can feel that there are more tribes on this side of the new trade route than the two areas from the Leopard Clan's hometown to Yangcheng and from Yangcheng to the grassland.

Having made contact with so many tribes along the way, Deer Edge felt that the trip was almost complete, and he could return after two more days of sailing, but the next day, a newly discovered tribe stunned many of the dragon tribesmen on the Third Trade Fleet.

Far away, the Third Trading Fleet first discovered a dwelling area that was about to catch up with a city of the Dragon Tribe, surrounded by a wooden fence and filled with large and small wooden houses inside.

According to the size of this settlement, it is not a problem to live in three or five thousand people, and on three sides of this settlement is a large area of almost flat land, or arable land.

The size of the newly discovered tribe's settlement only amazed the dragon tribesmen, after all, it was rare for the dragon tribe to find such a large tribe, and to be able to trade with such a tribe, the dragon tribe should be able to obtain a lot of benefits.

But the next moment, the dragon tribesmen on the third trade fleet found the ship of this unknown tribe, and when they saw this ship, everyone was stunned for the first time.

Many of the tribes that the dragon tribe came into contact with had boats, but this boat was basically in the form of wooden rafts, and the wood was tied in a row with ropes, so that such boats could sail on small rivers, and it was more dangerous to put them on the Yellow River.

The ships of the unknown tribe in front of them were not wooden rafts, but wooden boats similar to A-boats, except that the size was much smaller than A-boats, and the largest wooden boats were less than one-third the size of A-boats, and they had no sails, so they could only rely on people to paddle forward.

But don't forget, the dragon tribe also built small ships at the beginning, and then built big ships little by little, and the tribe in front of them will also build big ships like A-type ships in the future.

The first time they saw the wooden boat, they were a little closer, and the second time they were stunned when they saw the metallic weapon on the bank of the river.

"Is it a bronze weapon?!"

Lu Yuan looked incredulous, the dragon tribe itself smelted and cast copper weapons, and he couldn't understand the power of copper weapons, but it was the first time he saw other tribes also have copper weapons in their hands, and it was certain that this copper weapon definitely did not flow out of the hands of the tribes that the dragon tribe had traded with, and the appearance of the copper weapons was different from the standard weapons of the dragon tribe.

The only good news is that the opposing tribe should not have many copper weapons, and it is difficult for every ten people to have a copper weapon.

Sailing on both sides of the Yellow River and tributaries on wooden boats, arming the army with sharp copper weapons, wooden boats and copper weapons are the two major "artifacts" of the Dragon Tribe, how can this tribe have these two artifacts in front of them?

Seeing the scene in front of them, many Dragon Tribal people were puzzled.