It will take at least a year or two for the war and hatred on the grassland to subside, and it is not that Jian Chen does not know that the war may make some conspirators stand out, but one or two years is enough time for Xia Cheng to establish enough advantages, and under the crushing of productivity, all conspiracies can only compete for a short time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When Bai Ma and the others were killing people and setting fires, Chen Jian was also doing similar things, sending some people back to the city with some people, and after burning a forest at the mountain pass, the remaining 200 people walked into the mountains and forests to the east.

The normal way to say it is: Chen Jian took his people to the mountains and forests to catch slaves.

The shameless point of saying is: we are progressive, we are civilized, we want to bring the fire of civilization into the wilderness, let them enjoy the fruits of the civilized world, if they are not willing to progress, then use the sword to force them to progress, and they also want to thank us for bringing them the dawn of civilization.

There is no need to whitewash the façade with shamelessness now, because for the time being, Xia Cheng is powerful, and being strong is the political correctness of this era.

Some of the slaves rescued from the steppe tribes were captured from the mountains and forests to the east, and they knew the location of some tribes.

These slaves embraced the concept of privately owned slaves in the steppes, so Chen Jian promised to give them one as a reward for every twenty slaves he caught.

The scouts and the leading party provided information, and if the tribe was small, let their men lead the soldiers to raid directly, and if there were many people, they would slowly move over with a large army.

After raiding four small villages in succession and capturing nearly three hundred sturdy slaves, the speed of the march was noticeably slower, and further inside was already unfamiliar to these people, which was already two hundred miles away from the valley.

Today is the twelfth day of August, and in a few days I will have to go back to prepare for the autumn planting.

The scouts reported that beyond the valley in front of them there was a wide plain, and there was a large village, about three or four hundred people, who lived in the kind of semi-basement houses, and began to domesticate cattle and fish, but no primitive cultivation was found.

Leaving forty men to guard the captured slaves, Jian Chen took the rest of the men to the village.

"Don't fight this time, find someone who can speak the language here, and go to their leader with a gift, and I'm going to talk to him."

"What do you have to talk to them about? They are not the Eyue tribe, they can't exchange anything, and they have nothing to exchange. ”

"Yes."

The clansmen couldn't figure out what such a village could be exchanged, but they didn't dare to question Jian Chen's orders, at least so far his words were correct, and it had formed a habit.

The man who had sent out brought some food, salt, and a sackcloth garment as a gift, and soon returned with two horns, saying that the leader of the other party wanted to meet.

Jian Chen didn't dare to be careless, and led his people to search around the jungle first, and after making sure that there was no ambush, he rode a horned deer and appeared on the ground where they met.

On the opposite side, there were about a hundred light and strong men, holding stone spears and bows and arrows, shirtless, and an older female leader came out of the crowd, her face painted with some kind of colored mineral earth, and the two men walked into the clearing with the leader in their arms.

Jian Chen also walked over with two clansmen and a rescued slave, and only after walking a few steps, the woman smiled and said, "The goshawk is old, so it needs the clansmen to make wings." You're still young, why do you have to use your people as wings? I don't like you, you're not a brave man. ”

The old leader coughed and said, "Guests from afar, why did you come to our land?" ”

"We're here to make your lives better."

"The she-wolf will give the meat to the cubs to eat, and the hunter will put the meat in the trap. Why do you want us to live better? ”

"Because you can make our lives better, too. We have what you need, and you have what we need. ”

Jian Chen took out a ball of fried wheat flour from the clansmen beside him, mixed it into a fluffy dough with sweet cloudy corn wine, and handed it to the female leader opposite.

The female leader filled her mouth with a smile, and the moment she opened her mouth, she showed her broken teeth, chewed it carefully, and nodded: "Very good food, just like snowflakes, you don't need to bite with your teeth, you can melt in your mouth." It's sweet and fragrant. ”

"There's something better, would you like to keep watching?"

The female leader nodded, and Chen Jian called out to the clansmen, brought a bronze axe and saw for the auxiliaries, pointed to a tree in the distance, and said, "My clansmen can cut that tree and turn it into a straight log." ”

"We can too."

"Then let's choose the warriors of the tribe and compare."

The leader glanced at the blue-gray axe, but did not notice any difference, and turned around and called the strong men of the two tribes, and walked under a tree with a stone axe.

The two clansmen beside Jian Chen also walked over, and by the time the other party had just cut the gap diagonally with the stone axe, the creaking of the saw had ended, and the bronze axe was repairing the branches.

The two men looked anxiously at the fallen trees, and used more strength, but the inclined incision couldn't be too hard after all, and finally broke the stone axe.

Jian Chen's people lifted the trimmed tree and shouted loudly, attracting bursts of applause.

The female leader touched the bronze axe and saw incredulously, muttering something, and Jian Chen showed off the sharpness of the bronze sword's thorn fur.

"Guests from afar, what do you want to change? Our tribe has sheep, but your tribe has cattle that are bigger than sheep. Our tribe has stones, but you have axes that are harder than stones...... I don't know what to exchange. ”

"Substitution."

"People? Tribal warriors are impossible to exchange, not even with more axes and food. ”

"Not your people, it's the rest of the tribes."

"You want their heads?"

"No, it's a living person."

Jian Chen pointed to himself and said, "Everyone who is stronger than me can be exchanged for a lot of food, or five can be exchanged for a donkey." ”

He pointed to a donkey behind him, and the leader looked at Jian Chen in surprise, even when he saw the stars in the sky set in the far south a long time ago.

People, what's the use? People want to eat, people want to run away, people want to live in houses...... When their tribe fights with other tribes, they rarely stay alive because it is meaningless.

She looked at Jian Chen's strange hair and strange clothes, and couldn't help but be a little scared, maybe this is a cannibalistic tribe? But human flesh was not very tasty, at least not as good as mutton, and she had eaten it with her people a long time ago when she was very hungry.

Although it was strange, the aftertaste of the sweet food just now was still in her mouth, and since her teeth were gone, she could only drink some soup and never eat a decent meal again.

And those terrible blue-gray axes made her a little irresistible, and the kind of sword that can stab people to death in one fell swoop is better than stone.

Finally, he let go of all his doubts and asked, "So, how much food can a person exchange?" ”

"A strong man who can change ...... Well, the most edible of your people, let him eat for thirty days. A strong woman who can give birth to a child can be exchanged for twenty days of food for a woman. Five people can be exchanged for a donkey or one of these axes. The child may change too, but do not want the elderly. We don't want someone like you who has lost their wings, and you don't have to worry about the children going to change you for food. ”

The two of them laughed, and the female leader looked at Jian Chen and said, "I don't know what people are for, but I want to change them." But how can I trust you? ”

"I can let the clansmen follow your clansmen to catch them, and if I can catch them today, I can exchange them for you today."

The female leader thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Today will be a happy day, please come to our village, we will prepare sheep and fish for you." ”

"Here it is, and please your people try the food."

Chen Jian was very careful, and the other party did not object, and soon the tribesmen carried a few large clay pots, slaughtered two donkeys and stewed them, and boiled the batter with the flour and mutton fat they carried and the wild vegetables nearby, as well as some stirred fried wheat flour.

All kinds of food that the female chief had never seen before were put into the pottery bowl one after another, and she called the people in the distance, thanked Chen Jian, and tasted these strange-looking but delicious foods.

After the dinner, Jian Chen divided twenty people and followed the people of this tribe to go on a special "hunt".

After two days of staying here, the separated men finally returned, with more than thirty strong slaves.

Chen Jian fulfilled his promise on the spot, selected the most edible person for the face clan, and ate nearly three catties of mutton fat cakes made of flour with the momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers.

But instead of choosing food, the leader on the opposite side changed a few bronze axes and swords.

"Ten roasted sheep are not as good as a pair of lambs that can give birth to young."

This tribe poses no threat to Jian Chen at all, so Jian Chen can safely exchange some bronze weapons, as long as the number is controlled, there will be no problem.

They are not from the Eyue tribe, those people from the Eyue tribe, if they change stones to bronze, their combat effectiveness can be quickly improved, and even if these people all use bronze, Chen Jian is confident that they can defeat them with stones.

"Our tribe is far away, and it may take six or seven days to walk, so when we exchange, we will give you an extra six days of food."

"You're such a nice guy. Our clan will be forever grateful to you and your people. ”

Chen Jian said with a smile: "When exchanging, we also have requirements. You can't be disabled, you have to live, and you can't change anything for what is dead. ”

"Of course. We'll do it. In addition to these things, can all the weird things in your tribe that you said yesterday be exchanged? ”

"Yes, as long as there are enough people, they can be replaced. But we only change people, not anything else. ”

"Our tribe has nothing else to change."

The tribe sent some men to follow Jian Chen to identify the road, and Jian Chen also led his people to use axes and saws to carve out a simple recognizable path in the jungle that would serve as a passage for the slave trade in the future.

The secrets of this tribe will soon be known to the tribes in the east, and they will be eager for a piece of the pie, and wars between the tribes will become more frequent, and the reasons for the wars in the past are not sufficient because they cannot be profitable, and the captured population in the future is a huge benefit.

The road is now full of grass and shrubs to be carefully identified, and it won't be long before the path will be stained with the tears and blood of the slaves.

The Bones would be the most striking signs: to the east was the past when the once peaceful tribal life of the small country and the widows could starve to death, and to the west was the future of toiling in slave towns and whips that would at least starve to death.

Hell? Heaven? Slave owners are not qualified to comment. (To be continued.) )