To the east of the city were many large factories, and in order to avoid any uncontrollable situation, these Chaling people were required to enter only through the other three city gates. Katsu took the Chaling people ashore, asked them to form a line, and then led them around the south gate.

To the east of the city, there are a few warehouses, farmland or vegetable fields, and some small docks. These things alone make these people dizzy.

These wild men from the wilderness were always too curious, and they had to look at everything, and if it weren't for the scales, they would have dared to go into the moat, and even the city walls would have to try to climb it.

In just four kilometers of road, they walked for no less than two hours, and they were sweating profusely. When they reached the south gate, Katsu saw that they could not even maintain the team, so they had to go to the city for help.

At this time, the guards at the city gate dutifully stopped the procession: the men had brought too many spears and bows and arrows, and according to the rules, they had to collect these large weapons of destruction before they could enter the city. But where are these savages willing to let go of their life-saving guys?

They hadn't entered the city yet, and the news of their arrival had already reached the forest trails.

The intelligence officers who returned together, under the leadership of Qian Mianfei, directly reported to Lin Ji the latest information they had heard about the Chaling people. Some of the previously inaccurate data has also been updated. Fa Arc and Po Tu and others were also on the side.

It's just that it's a little impatient that the prince of the kingdom is also tossing his little train in the office, shouting a few words from time to time, making it difficult to fully engage.

"At present, the situation is that the territory of the Chaling people is about 500 kilometers deep from Jingzhou to the north. Their own version is that they can walk the time of a full moon. ”

Lin Ji unfolded a hand-drawn topographic map of East Asia, sketched it with a pencil, and found that 500 kilometers to the north basically reached the Guanzhong Plain. Since ancient times, these geographical advantages have fallen into the hands of the Chaling people. Of course, the Guanzhong Plain may also be a large swamp now, and it may not be as fertile as it was in later generations, which may be the only good news.

Lin Ji is comparing the map collected by the intelligence officers with his own map. Lin Ping'an, who was more than two years old, threw the locomotive over, and accurately smashed the map of Lin Ji, Lin Ji could only put down two maps, picked up the locomotive and put it back on the track for his son, and praised his son's accurate technique, and he could learn archery with Shibei when he grew up.

Several others paused. Seeing Lin Ji raise his head, the intelligence officer continued: "We don't have exact data on their population at present, and the conservative estimate should be around 100,000. After they defeated the Forest-Destroying Tribe, the rate of external expansion became even faster. Especially in the area close to the Yangtze River. It is known that in the past three years, they have annexed at least 6,000 people north of the Yangtze River. ”

"Hmm." Lin Ji nodded and continued to help his son push the train.

"We analyzed that they may have obtained corn and other crops brought by the new barbarian guards. That's why there was such a large-scale merger. But they would have grown it themselves, and they planted corn and beans. Although the yield is relatively low, their cultivation methods are relatively mature, they will burn, weed, and rotate the land, and if they learn to plough the land, I believe that their yield may be able to keep up with our level. ”

"Let the people who receive you pay attention to this aspect and try not to let them learn. Otherwise, their population will explode. Lin Ji looked up and said.

The intelligence officer noticed that Lin Ji was listening, and said more actively: "But we found that their tribe is not well organized. They have several beliefs, including eagles, rats, wolves, tigers, oxen, as well as stones. Their legends give these totems a certain order. Among them, those who believe in the eagle have the highest status, followed by those who believe in the tiger. Behind are the beliefs of rats, cows or stones and wolves. When they go into battle, they change their faith, and the warriors generally believe in the ox or the wolf, and the leader believes in the eagle or the tiger. If they are left behind, they will believe in rats or stones. ”

"Multi-totems, which means that they are merging or absorbing more tribes on a large scale. This is something that everyone should pay attention to. Lin Ji reminded again.

After thinking about it, Lin Ji coaxed his son, picked up the map that was smashed by his son just now, and looked north along the location of Guanzhong. Finally, he pointed to the Hetao area: "To the north of Guanzhong, you can lead to the Hetao area and grasslands." If these people also believe in wolves, it is very likely that they will come into contact with those wolf people in the grassland. We don't know anything about the distribution of tribes in the Hetao. Pay attention to this. Let the roasting sun of the grassland also pay attention to this side. ”

The Mongolian ten distributions in the steppe are basically built according to the previous division of forest tracks. The number of people has also increased to about 100,000, and they make a living from herding and fishing, hunting, and farming. A large number of furs, horses, medicinal herbs and other materials were provided to Chaolin City.

But after three or four years, they still haven't found a shadow of the wolf people. Many people speculated that the wolf people had been driven to the edge of the sky by Lin Ji, or had disappeared, but Lin Ji still reminded Bayang to pay attention to this situation. The wolf people have tenacious vitality, and once they turn around, the grassland may change. Lin Xi did not want the grasslands to continue to be a threat to the Central Plains as they did in later generations.

Qian Mian pretended to write down these. The intelligence officer continued: "Because the Chaling tribe has many totems, their organization is not like ours or the previous Tiger Barbarian or Mao tribes, which have very strong leaders. Their leader is elected by a few Totem Guardians, but they don't have much of a say. Many times, their leaders also have to listen to the various totem guardians. So, we talked to them on the Yangtze River, and their leader didn't show up. ”

"Their leader is a Zongmu man?" Lin Ji saw that his son was playing hard alone, and took the opportunity to ask.

"Yes. Most of their leaders are long-eyed people. "When the intelligence officer said this, look at the arc and the slaughter, and look at the forest traces, I want to give an example to say that it is similar to the situation of the Ji Lin people. But he knew that this was not appropriate, so he resolutely closed his mouth.

"How did they manage to reach the upper echelons of the Mountains?" Lin Ji continued to ask.

"It is said that it was the Zongmu people who brought food crops and taught them how to farm."

Lin Ji nodded, if there was no agriculture and animal husbandry, it would be difficult to form a large tribe, and this scene might really be similar to the situation of Ji Linren in Huaxia.

Moreover, Lin Ji knew that humans did not eat salt for a long time, and this process lasted for several generations, and when other mineral salts were not replenished, the appearance would change like that of Zongmu people. It's just that under normal circumstances, primitive people drank blood, and even if they didn't eat salt directly, they could get appropriate supplements from animal flesh and blood. The reason for the emergence of such long-eyed people is that Lin Ji thinks that it may be the result of a certain development of farming.

Lin Ji asked again: "Do you know where this saltless is?" ”

The intelligence officer said: "I haven't heard about this at the moment. This place may only be known to them. And the secrecy is very good, and I never tell anyone about this place. However, the number of Zongmu people in Chaling is not very large, and we speculate that this place called Wuyan should not be too large. It is equivalent to a tribe of 1,000 people at most. ”

Lin Ji nodded, ready to end the conversation. He probably knows all these situations of the Chaling people, since there is no more situation, the plan for the Chaling people will not change, and everything else will be implemented as usual. He didn't need to say anything.

But his son had broken the tracks of the little train again, and he had to find a way to get him a new toy. Otherwise, the prince would cry, and the whole palace would be at peace.

After giving birth to a pair of children, Hu Yier finally felt that her mission was complete. She began to act as the mistress of the kingdom, and played various games such as "dividing the fruit tree" with the ladies and nobles outside all day long, and was away from home all day. It was extremely difficult for her to take care of the children.

At this time, Lin Ji still felt that his daughter was good. Lin Meng couldn't let the little white elephant go upstairs because it weighed more than a ton, so she stayed downstairs to play or study with the baby elephant, and a few waiters watched it, so she didn't have to worry about Lin Ji at all. This son knows that he has a special status, but his temper is not good, and there is no waiter to see it, so Lin Ji can only educate him personally. But everyone else can see that this son is spoiled by Lin Ji.

Everyone saw that Lin Ji was about to play a game of hide and seek with his son again, so they decisively said goodbye and went out. At this time, the news that Shenglu had come to ask for help came over, and the news also came that these poor people were unwilling to disarm at the south gate.

"Wait." When Lin Ji heard this, he chased his son out and asked, "What did you say?" In order to see the leader of the Zongmu people, two hundred people came? All with weapons? ”

In the previous report, because this was a trivial matter, he didn't tell Lin Ji.

The arc quickly confirmed the number: "It's two hundred and fourteen." They came by boat at a cost at the request of Katsu Scale. ”

"The Yellow Tiger you interrogated earlier is just an ordinary leader of the Zongmu people? There are only six or seven hundred people? Lin Ji remembered some previous information.

Huang Hu was the leader of the Zongmu people who had been arrested outside the West Gate last fall, and the one who had brought the new barbarian guards to Shenglu.

After a person is caught, he will naturally have to be interrogated. At that time, the information asked was that this person was an ordinary leader from the mountains and forests in the middle of the Chaling Mountains. Therefore, Lin Ji felt that it was closed. Let people come and see something, it is really to deter the people of Chaling, so that they can understand that the territory of Huaxia is not allowed to come and go freely.

But why would a small leader with six or seven hundred men come to visit him with two hundred men? All the young men are here? Other young and old don't need protection?

was reminded by Lin Ji like this, and everyone also understood. There's a problem here.

"Before, Shenglu said that he would invite more people to cultivate their consumption concepts. But if they were all armed...... "The arc of hair gestured to draw a neck."

Lin Ji shook his head and said, "Then let them experience the consumption environment of Chaolin City, and get that yellow tiger back to Chaolin City to show them." But these people are to be kept under strict guard. Let people follow one-on-one. I'm going to see what tricks they can play. ”