A few days later, outside the caves hidden by the mountains, the people of several tribes finally got the news they wanted to know.

A dozen majestic horned deer lined up outside the cave, and the men looked at the animal they had never seen before, and did not dare to step forward, even though there were people they knew with inside.

The riders rode on this tall animal, making the people of the tribe feel small, as if they were taller than a tree.

It wasn't until their own people jumped down from the horned deer, shouting excitedly, telling them the news of the victory, that the whole cave burst into jubilation.

When they set out on the expedition, except for those tribes that were closer to the west, the rest of the tribes were in a state of mind to keep their oaths.

Now that he had been given a new method of fishing, and that he could indeed obtain enough food, he kept his promise and sent the young men of the clan.

Just as they combed their hair in a bun, first, they wanted to be protected by their ancestors, second, they thought they looked good, third, they wanted to trade with Chen Jian's clan, and fourth, they wanted to identify with the same ancestor.

Now that these people have returned triumphantly and brought shocking news, their mentality is gradually changing.

In this battle, on his side and the rest of the tribes, there were only more than 30 deaths, but he killed 70 or 80 people on the other side, and completely destroyed the opponent's village and captured nearly 100 prisoners.

Such a casualty ratio is simply a miracle in their opinion, and it must be the ancestors who are protecting it to have such a result, otherwise there is no way to explain it. According to common sense, if you die yourself, others will also die.

Looking at these warriors riding on the horned deer, the leader was a little frightened, if Jian Chen wanted to snatch his own clan, it would only be a blink of an eye. But subconsciously touched his hair, which was reassuring, as long as he didn't untie his bun, Jian shouldn't rob himself, right?

The young men of the tribe who followed the expedition laughed and talked about the harvest, and told the number of horned deer and sheep in unfamiliar numbers, as well as the grain that had been piled up in several tents.

As he spoke, the young man caressed the horned deer, which was not his own, but he really wanted to have a horned deer of his own, even if it was common to the clan, and he liked the feeling of riding on it.

The old leader looked at the horned deer, and he couldn't contain his excitement.

"How much can you give us?"

"Jian said let our people go to the village and divide it there. And it seems that there is a discussion about how to punish the tribes who break their oaths. ”

"It's time to punish them."

The leader couldn't help but shudder, but nodded indignantly, and his words were stern.

In fact, before going on the expedition, I had discussed it with my clansmen, and some people felt that they shouldn't go, anyway, Ken was a very good person, and even if he didn't go, it wouldn't be good. At the beginning, his own tribe didn't do anything, didn't he give his tribe a way to fish?

Hearing the punishment at this time, the leader couldn't help but secretly rejoice in the original decision. She looked up at the tanuki riding on the horned deer, and asked cautiously, "How will Ken punish them if he doesn't say anything?" ”

The tanuki shook his head, saying that he didn't know, and that he had just come to inform them to go to the village to discuss some things, and divide things by the way.

The leader has a firm belief that he must abide by the promise he made in the future, there is really an ancestor who is protecting the clansmen, otherwise how could he get so many things? As for those who have been captured, they will not be wanted by their own tribe, and it will be useless to bring them back.

She thought for a moment and immediately summoned the people of the tribe. Since Jian said that she was going to discuss something, she would definitely go, and she didn't want to be punished for herself and her people.

After a little discussion, the people of the tribe wanted to go to the village, to see the victory, to see what it would be like to see those who had been captured, and who they could not understand what they were saying.

There were enough fish and fruits, and all the clansmen had no problem going, and the mighty clansmen began the second plenary event of the year.

These people felt that everything had changed since Congjian appeared. Life was better than before, there was enough food, and there was even some spare energy for them to raise some animal cubs; After eating enough, the people learned to dress up, and sometimes they could change some soap for food that they couldn't eat to comb their hair; Now even the habits that had been used to change have changed, and in the past they only gathered with the rest of the tribes in the spring for the purpose of reproduction, but now they went out of the mountains for other reasons.

These people believe that as long as their tribe keeps the promise of Hejian, believes in the same ancestor, and wears the same hair bun, their people's life will get better and better.

"Definitely! Be sure not to go against all this. ”

The leader looked at the riders who had gone away, and secretly admonished himself, and his people. Vaguely, she felt that the old times were gone, and the days when she only had to think about her own clan were gone.

Tanuki and the others still need to go to the next tribe, and according to Jian Chen's words before leaving, they secretly remember the location of these tribes.

I met different people along the way, but they all had the same expressions, some excitement in shock, and maybe a little bit of happiness that they made the right choice.

When all the ten tribes had been informed, the tanuki looked at the mountains in the distance, and the tribes that had not kept their oath were among them.

He wondered how Ken would punish them.

On the edge of the Grass River in the distance, Chen Jian rode a white horned deer and was slowly moving forward with the team.

The bodies of the fallen clansmen, as well as those of the servants, were sent down the river in early days to send people down the river and send them back to the village. He instructed the tribesmen who left first to bury them together when they were buried, leaving some soil, and waiting for everyone to return before raising the grave.

Calculating the time, the pit should have been dug and buried in it by now, and the clansmen should already know the news of their victory.

It's just that there are too many things to take when you go back, so the large army walks very slowly, and you have to watch over these slaves.

The slaves would not have thought of escaping until they had felt the pain of their labor. This is not the American plantation of later generations, nor Uncle Tom's cabin, and there is only one way to escape, and one cannot be the other.

Moreover, these soon-to-be slaves, whose concept of labor is still limited to chopping wood, peeling beans, and the like, may seem to them to be nothing, at least much simpler than the hardships of the struggle against nature many years ago.

The feeling that life is worse than death always needs someone to experience it before it can be summed up.

Jian Chen looked at these slaves who did not think of resisting, and said in his heart that soon their concept of labor would be turned upside down.

Copper mines are to be mined, and they can only be carried out by people little by little, and even in the age of technology, miners are still a high-mortality occupation.

In addition to mining, the land had to be cultivated, and the mud and bricks had to be made, as well as walls and rammed...... These are extremely exhausting tasks that they have never heard of.

Of course, the use of slaves should not be excessive. To put it mildly, slaves are talking tools, but they are alive. Live one more day, work one more day, and you can earn more.

The oppression is ruthless, the tools are smashed, the uprising is resisting, and the gains outweigh the losses. Nowadays, the population is scarce, and every clansman is important, and Jian Chen doesn't want his clansmen to die in such an inexplicable thing.

The delicate balance between the cost of repression and brutal exploitation is something that any ruling class must learn, and it is also something very important that he wants to teach his people.

In this era of population scarcity, suppose that each slave can cultivate thirty acres of land every year, harvest one thousand catties of grain, and dig out three or four hundred catties for them to eat, and make a net profit of five or six hundred catties, and one more year of life can earn more. And if the oppression is too harsh, even if there are more things deprived every year, in the long run, premature death, possible resistance, and smashed tools...... It's not a good deal.

This is not a factory in the era of primitive accumulation, where piles of bankrupt peasants who were forced to live by the enclosure movement, who wanted as many as they wanted, and who had a life expectancy of six years, and who were fired directly when they could not work. Anyway, if there is a poor bill, if you don't go to the factory and get into the workhouse, then you might as well live for six more years.

There is an era of countermeasures, and nothing is set in stone, even if people from another world have a natural aversion to slavery, they must abide by the rules of the times in this era.

Now that population is power, these captured women can also bring new life to their people. Chen Jian has observed that these people are not much different from the clansmen, and those children born can be raised by the clansmen. When they grow up, except for a very few people who think of their biological mother, the vast majority of people will choose a more comfortable life.

These captured women will also have an impact on the perception of the clansmen, and the children of the future will involve a very serious question: do the children belong to the men? Or is it a woman's?

With a surname to distinguish between unmarried people in the clan, men plough the land to grow to get more food, and captured female slaves give birth to children, do you have to rely on women to distinguish blood?

The change of concept is not overnight, remove the factor of female slaves, in a long-term group marriage or couple marriage environment, normal birth children can indeed only rely on women to distinguish blood, because each woman may have four or five fixed spouses, the same is true for men, men can't tell whose child it is, but women can clearly know that this is their own child.

This will take a long time, there is no way to speed it up, the effect of imposing it is not good, and the current productive forces are not qualified to disintegrate the ethnic groups into families.

If you don't want to be green, you have to wait a year or two, and you have to rely on this group of slaves to get the bronze as soon as possible, and you and your people will train to attack more tribes, find cattle and horses, and be able to disintegrate the tribe into a family as soon as possible.

He rode on the horned deer and smiled a little unnaturally, he had been in this world for so long, he could finally be regarded as a member of the ruling class, and he began to think about how to oppress others.

My ass was a little hot, but luckily my head was still clear.