On the tenth day of their departure, the expedition team finally returned to the Dragon Tribe, and they brought back the good news of the discovery of the Great River, and they were the great heroes of the Dragon Tribe.

In the evening, a grand bonfire party celebrated the return of the warriors, and the fresh animal meat was not enough, so Su Yan ordered a half-sized male (wild) boar and an adult stag to be pulled out of the animal pen and slaughtered.

In addition, Su Yan also took out the little peppercorn powder left in his hand and prepared to use it all.

After playing around for more than an hour, the bonfire party ended, and they went back to the house to sleep.

The next day, Su Yan found Zhi and Shen and asked them about the exploration journey of the exploration team, and Zhi took out the simple animal skin map and explained the exploration team's exploration journey in detail to Su Yan, among which the other primitive tribes encountered by the exploration team were the focus of Su Yan's attention.

Since the day the Dragon Tribe annexed the Deer Tribe, the Dragon Tribe is no longer a tribe with a good attribute, but it is also not a tribe with a vicious attribute, but is in between.

The dragon tribe will rely on conquest and annexation of other primitive tribes to increase its population rapidly, but under Su Yan's leadership, if the other party can be forced to submit, there will definitely be no war, of course, the premise is to find the residence of other primitive tribes.

After the Deer Tribe, the Rabbit Tribe, and the Mountain Tribe surrendered, Su Yan also learned some about the tribes around their three tribes from Yuan, Shen, and Song.

Su Yan deliberately used a large animal skin to sketch a simple map on the animal skin, marking various locations with obvious characteristics such as the dragon tribe, the tiger tribe, the deer tribe, the rabbit tribe, the mountain tribe, and the small river, and also marked the tribes that other dragon tribes had not touched but knew the location, and these tribes may be the targets of the dragon tribe's conquest in the future.

The exploration team has been exploring for nearly a month and a half, during which they have encountered a lot of the same kind, which is not a strange thing, the exploration team has followed the river, the river is an important water source, and the swimming fish in the river may also be the food source of some tribes, most of the primitive tribes live next to the water, and the place of residence should be as close as possible to the indispensable water source in life.

The places that Zhi Jiang encountered along the way were marked on the map, which was something that Su Yan ordered.

Zhi continued to explain to Su Yan until the exploration team finally found the Great River, and although it was impossible to determine whether there was a larger river to the south of the Great River, Zhi still told Su Yan his guess.

"Bigger rivers? Interesting. Touching his chin with his right hand, Su Yan thought for a moment about the bigger river in Zhikou.

The river more than fifty meters wide found by the temporary exploration team is enough for the future fishing needs of the dragon tribe, there is no need to look for a bigger river, even if a bigger river is found, the dragon tribe cannot move to the vicinity of the river, once the flood breaks out in the rainy season, the dragon tribe living next to the big river may be directly swallowed by the flood.

Living near a slightly smaller river, the flood will not have much impact on the Dragon Tribe, and now there is only a small river a few meters wide near the Dragon Tribe, and the Snake Tribe has lived here for many years without being affected by the flood.

"Wisdom, Shen, you rest for a few days, wait a few days and then set off with the exploration team, and take a different path to explore the direction of the great river you found, this is the last exploration of the year, and the rainy season is coming after the end of this exploration." Su Yan thought for a moment and said to Zhi and Shen.

"No."

Exploring a new path to the Great River is only one of the goals of the exploration team, and the second goal of the exploration team is to choose a new home for the dragon tribe in the area near the Great River, and the second goal is the main goal.

The small river in front of the Dragon's residence is no longer enough to meet the Dragonrace's daily food needs, and even if the Dragons no longer increase their population by annexing other primitive tribes, the total population of the Dragons will exceed 1,000 in four years at most.

"Moving" has been listed as a key project by Su Yan, and it is definitely not possible to move this year, the Dragon Tribe is already a large tribe with a population of more than seven hundred, and many preparations must be made if you want to make a long-distance move, and a hasty move will only lead to damage to the strength of the Dragon Tribe.

The first step is to determine the location of your new home, then to determine a path from your old home to your new home, then to prepare for the move, and finally to wait until everything is in place before you can start moving.

The mountain tribe and the rabbit tribe have just been annexed by the dragon tribe, this year the dragon tribe is not suitable to have too many actions, at the end of this year, almost the mountain clan and the rabbit clan will be fully integrated into the dragon tribe, and next year the dragon tribe will tell everyone about the move, and then concentrate all the forces to make preparations before moving.

One year is enough time to complete the preparations before moving, and the Dragon Tribe will be able to move in the spring of one or five years at the latest—Su Yan has roughly set such a simple moving plan.

Three days later, Zhi Heshen took the exploration team to embark on an exploration journey again, this was the last exploration of the exploration team this year, this time the exploration team gave up following the downstream of the river, but first walked from the dragon tribe's residence to the original mountain tribe's residence, and then from the original mountain tribe's residence to the east, until they reached the big river discovered by the exploration team.

The road from the dragon tribe to the mountain tribe has been traveled many times, and Zhi is familiar with it, and the mountain tribe is about half a day's journey to the east, and the people of the mountain tribe also know some of them, and the beginning of the last exploration trip of the exploration team this year will be very smooth.

Although Su Yan has made a plan to move, but the daily life of the clansmen has not changed, new houses are still being built, Su Yan did not stop the house construction plan, after all, it will take two years to move, it will be a bit wasteful, but building a house is also the daily work of the clansmen, even if they don't build a house, they have to do something else.

Su Yan still went out every day to collect some herbs under the escort of the guards, carefully looking for metal veins and crops, but Su Yan's luck was not very good, and no trace of metal veins and crops had been found when the rainy season was coming.

If the metal vein is not found, it will not be discovered, anyway, the Dragon Tribe will have to move in two years, and it is also a troublesome thing to find metal veins around the Dragon Tribe's residence to mine ore, and even the crops have not been found, which makes Su Yan a little irritable.

Weeding in the area outside the dragon tribe's wall where pepper and hemp are planted belongs to the task of Su Yan and the guards, and the weeds will compete with pepper and hemp for nutrients in the soil, if the weeds are not pulled, the growth rate of pepper and hemp will slow down, and even some weeds will "kill" pepper and hemp.

Ten more days passed, and the expedition returned, carving out a new path to the river, but they had not found a place to build a new home.

It doesn't matter if you haven't found an area suitable for building a new home for the time being, you can continue to look for it next spring, and you will always find it.