Loaded with a variety of cargo, the three trading fleets set sail once again.

In the first foreign trade trip last year, there were several tribes who wanted to join the Xia Kingdom, and when the fleet returned, the leaders or witches of these tribes came to the Xia Kingdom by boat, and almost the matter of their tribes joining the Xia Kingdom was decided.

This year is almost the same, no matter how prepared the tribes, some tribesmen have frozen to death, especially last year's dry weather, which reduced the grain production of various tribes, and it is likely that it will not be able to support this autumn's harvest.

In order for the clansmen to continue to survive, they can only give up their independence/independence and choose to join the Xia Kingdom in the form of a clan, anyway, there are already so many predecessors who have joined the Xia Kingdom, and there is no problem, other tribes can join the Xia Kingdom, and their tribes can also join the Xia Kingdom.

However, due to the fact that the Xia Kingdom has not opened up new routes, there have been tribes joining the Xia Kingdom for so many years, and the number of independent/independent tribes has been decreasing.

Especially from the hometown of the Yan clan in the far west to the hometown of the Leopard clan in the east, the number of tribes in this section of the Yellow River basin is less than half of the number when the Xia Kingdom opened up the route at the beginning.

A small number of tribes were wiped out by other tribes, some joined the Xia Kingdom in the form of clans, and the remaining tribes held on to their homes where they had lived for decades or even centuries.

Most of the clans that have chosen to join the Xia Kingdom now are from the tribes of the Yellow River Basin from the hometown of the Leopard Clan to the Fishing Tribe.

Because of the impact of extreme climate change, for the time being, Xia Guo is unable to continue to open up new routes, only waiting for the extreme climate change to pass, and then opening up new voyages, there are faster uh improved version of the A-boat, in a month's time, the fleet can sail longer distances (one-way).

The number of tribes that can choose to join the Xia Kingdom is decreasing, and last year was also a peak of the Xia Kingdom, and it is expected that it will be difficult to have more than nine tribes choose to join the Xia Kingdom in another year before opening up new voyages.

The third trading fleet sailed all the way to the end of the trip, and the new leader of the fishing tribe personally came to the river bank to receive the Xia visitors.

The appearance of the new leader of the fishing tribe also let the third trade team know that the old leader of the fishing tribe has passed away, this new leader is the top of the fishing tribe, and the third trade team has also been in contact many times, and everyone is no stranger.

Although the fishing tribe guessed that Xia Guo was friendly to the outside world because he wanted to accept more tribes, the new leader still got along with Xia Guo in the same way as the previous leader, after all, Xia Guo's strength was too strong, and the fishing tribe was far from being an opponent.

If it suddenly becomes hostile to the Xia Kingdom, the Xia Kingdom still has that huge fleet, and it is completely capable of sending a large army to attack the fishing tribe, and the fishing tribe will either be destroyed by the Xia Kingdom or be forced to stay away from their homes, which the fishing tribe does not want to see.

The tribe has changed a leader, this kind of thing is not uncommon for the three trade teams of the Xia Kingdom, it is good to communicate normally with the fishing tribe, as the head of the third trade team, Lu Ran does not know that the "alternation of the old and the new" of the fishing tribe has a huge impact on the fishing tribe.

The previous leader was in office, and the fishing tribe was a peace-loving tribe, and the new leader took office, and the fishing tribe officially embarked on the road of war, even if it was to keep the fishing tribe alive.

Of course, no matter how the fishing tribe changes, it doesn't matter to the powerful Xia Kingdom.

On the other side, the Japanese tribe.

Xia has a routine court meeting in early spring, and the Japanese tribe camp also has a similar meeting, and there is no need for the Japanese leader to send a clansman to notify, after the arrival of spring every year, the leaders of the seven affiliated tribes of the Japanese tribe will personally rush to the Japanese tribe, have something to say, and go home if there is nothing to do, and by the way, the seven affiliated tribes will also carry some animal skins, and everyone will trade with the trading fleet of the Xia country.

The leaders of the seven affiliated tribes came to the Japanese tribe one after another, and when everyone arrived, the Japanese leaders immediately held a "meeting of leaders".

Chieftain: "Ladies and gentlemen, will your tribe's grain be able to last until this autumn's harvest?" ”

"No, I hope that the Japanese tribe can support our tribe with some food." A subordinate tribe with a population of just over 1,000 said.

"Me too." "Our tribe too. ”

Several of the other leaders chimed in.

This was the case last year, the food of the seven affiliated tribes was not enough, and they still insisted on the autumn harvest with the support of the Sect Lord's Day tribe, but last year's dry weather led to a decrease in grain production, and it was definitely impossible to support the autumn harvest on its own.

Leader of the day: "Last year's dry weather, our tribe's grain production also decreased a lot, if we support your tribe at that time, our tribe may not be able to support the autumn harvest." ”

The leaders of the seven subordinate tribes knew that it was impossible for the Japanese tribe to go without food to eat in order to support their seven tribes.

"What then?" A tribal leader asked.

Sun Leader: "Everyone is short of food, so we will choose war, and we are strong enough to attack the other tribes together to get enough food." ”

"Yes, we choose war, the Tribe camp and the Bear Tribe camp are still there that night, let's attack them." One of the tribal leaders suggested that he had told him what the leader wanted to say, but the leader didn't care.

A subordinate tribal leader proposed, and the other six subordinate tribal leaders all agreed, the night tribal camp and the bear tribal camp are both enemies of the day tribal camp, and the enemy should be destroyed, and enough food can be obtained, which is a good thing, in the language of the Xia country, it is "killing two birds with one stone".

"Okay, then we will choose to attack the Night Tribe camp and the Bear Tribe camp, this matter can't be delayed until the summer when we don't have enough food to eat, and after the spring ploughing is over, we will act immediately, at that time the Night Tribe camp and the bear tribe camp will have a lot of food not eaten, there is food from the Night Tribe camp and the food from the bear tribe camp, which is enough for us to support until this autumn's harvest."

"By the way, everyone should be careful, in the late spring and summer of last year, those tribes that lacked food attacked several of your tribes, and this year it is expected that something like this will happen, you all have to be careful, especially after our army is dispatched, you must be vigilant, and if something is bad, you can choose to temporarily abandon your place of residence and flee."

"Yes." , "Understood", "Good"

The leaders of the affiliated tribes took the words of the Japanese leader to heart, this thing was indeed something they did not expect, once the army went out, the fighting force left by the tribe was too weak, if it encountered the situation of last year, it was very likely that the tribe could not support it, and it was necessary to prepare in advance.

The meeting of the leaders of the Japanese tribe camp ended, and the matter of conquering the Night Bear Alliance after spring ploughing was decided, and when the second trading fleet of the Xia Kingdom came to the Japanese tribe, after the transaction, the leaders of the seven affiliated tribes returned one after another to prepare for the upcoming war.