Resistance is pointless in the face of absolute superiority.

Once these leaders are chosen, the most important thing is to ensure the survival of their people, and they can easily make choices between being driven out and moving out of the mountains.

The only worry is that it will snow soon, where will I and my people keep warm?

They asked each other, but they didn't get any answers, and they could only hope that Jian Chen would give them an answer.

A few days later, the ranks grew larger and larger, and the four tribes who had betrayed their oath, and the three tribes who had not returned since they had been given bows and arrows, fishing, and clay pots, were all taken away by Chen Jian under various pretexts.

A procession of more than 800 people slowly moved along the autumn wasteland, and Jian Chen looked ahead, where the last tribe lived.

It was already far north, and Chen Jian estimated that it was about 150 miles away from the village. He rode on the horned deer, waiting for the scouts to return, this time for much longer than before.

Just as he was about to send out the second batch of scouts, the wolf skin came from the front, and without talking to others, he came directly to Chen Jian with something in his hand.

The wolfskin's face was a little solemn, and after Jian Chen took the thing, his brows furrowed.

It was a scalp, a human scalp.

Judging by the incision with irregular edges, it is supposed to have been cut with sharp stone chips, and a circle was cut in the skull, tearing off the entire scalp.

The scalp was dry and there was a notch in it, and this scalp should have broken when it was torn, so it was thrown there.

"No one?"

"Nope. I told a few of them to keep going. ”

"What about the corpses?"

"It should have been eaten up or taken by wild beasts."

Chen Jian turned around and asked the team to be on guard, and he brought a few people and wolf skins to the front to check.

The entrance to the smoky cave was devoid of smoke at this time, exuding an indescribable eerie silence, leaving traces that had been uninhabited for many days.

In addition to the pile of ashes in the cave, there were only a few small bows and arrows played with by children, and after careful search, one thing was finally found.

A round piece of leather, which looks like a drum skin, may have been thrown here because the drum was beaten with too much force, and the drum skin was broken.

The drum skin is not big, and it is the size of a bowl, but this skin Chen Jian feels uncomfortable no matter how he looks at it, it doesn't seem to be like an animal's skin, and it is very smooth.

Unable to find anything else, he walked out of the cave with the two skins, and a few scouts in the distance returned.

"Jian, there are a lot of animal hoof prints in front, very big hoof prints, bigger than the horned deer's."

By the time Jian Chen arrived, several clansmen were already standing in the mud and curiously observing these strange hoof prints, they had never seen this animal before, but they knew that this animal must be very large.

It won't be a predator like a tiger, because there are a lot of footprints, and if so many predators got together, they would have starved to death.

Jian Chen squatted on the ground and took a look, trying his best to suppress the shock in his heart, trying not to let the clansmen see it.

The hoof prints in these mud were slightly notched ovals, clearly horses, and there were a lot of them, with some human footprints alongside them.

"Tribes with horses!"

He was secretly frightened, his tribe had never seen a horse so far, and judging from the number of these hoof prints, there were more than a hundred.

There is a thick log next to it, and the traces have also been cut down not long ago, and these people should be standing on the log to facilitate getting on the horse.

After careful identification, there were no traces of ruts except for horseshoe prints, and it seemed that it was still a primitive way of riding, and there was not even a rope noose to facilitate getting on the horse.

The clansman next to him asked Jian Chen, Jian Chen shook his head and said, "I don't know what this is, maybe it's also an animal that can be ridden, right?" ”

"Really? This animal must be bigger than a horned deer, right? Let's go further and catch up with them. ”

Wolfskin was a little excited, and he was wondering what kind of animal it was and what it would look like.

Jian Chen looked at the jungle and meadows in the distance, shook his head and said, "Let's go back first, there are many people in this tribe." Brother, you take a few people to follow behind the clansmen, and run to the team every once in a while to tell me. ”

Wolf Skin had never seen Jian Chen so solemn, whistled, and scattered with a few people.

Jian Chen returned to the group with the rest of the people, and those who were migrating were already a little flustered, and they guessed that something might be wrong.

But Jian Chen didn't say it directly, but called the leaders together, including the leaders of the migratory tribes.

He took out the scalp in his hand and showed it to them, and they immediately recognized what it was, and asked in a panic, "All the people of this tribe are dead?" ”

"I don't know."

Jian Chen stared at the migrating tribal leaders and said, "Do you know what this is? ”

"Human scalp."

"yes, that's how other tribes treat us."

"I let you move away, it is the mother who teaches the children who make mistakes, and the brother who teaches the younger brother who makes mistakes. But you have to remember that even though the elder brother can pick up a rattan and whip the younger brother who has made a mistake, it is not allowed for an outsider to hit the younger brother, even if it is just to touch his finger. ”

The first time the leaders heard such a strange statement, they were easily receptive.

They are leaders, mothers, and sisters.

Since I have been a mother, of course I understand the feeling of being a mother: even if the child makes a mistake and breaks the clay pot, he will inevitably have to slap him, but he will not allow a foreigner to reprimand him.

Jian Chen put away his scalp and said, "Let's go, when we get to the grass river, let's get together, no one will dare to treat you like this." ”

The leader of the ten tribes asked a little nervously, "Jian, what should we do?" ”

"It will take some time for the wheat beans to ripen, and it will snow soon, so the tribe probably won't come out on a snowy day. Leave some of you to take care of your people, and some of you go to the village and build your house before it snows. We don't have many acorns, so you have to bring your own food. ”

"Hmm."

After discussing all this, they told the people about it, and they didn't panic too much, because there were soldiers with stone spears and axes by their side.

The speed of going back was obviously much faster, and Wolfskin and seven or eight people had been watching behind, running back every once in a while to tell that there was no movement.

Jian Chen was thinking about the tribe that appeared, and now the world he saw with his eyes was too small, only within a hundred miles.

The development of civilization is not synchronized, there are fast and slow, and it is closely related to the environment. The development rate of their own tribe was obviously backward, which may be related to the great migration a few decades ago, and only by settling can there be enough people and some technology can be figured out.

The cavalry of this era is not terrible, the dignified belligerent cavalry is still a supporting role, the only thing to worry about is tactical mobility, you need to beware of situations such as going around the rear and attacking the home, and the army's front also needs to be thickened accordingly.

Chen Jian felt that after next year's harvest, he would have to send some people down the grass river.

If the grass river is directly connected to the sea, it is better to say that he can be regarded as the overlord of this generation.

If the Grass River is only a tributary of a large river, you must consider the future development of the tribe. A generation along the river will inevitably have a primitive settled civilization.

On the way back, there was nothing to do, and when they returned to the village, the chiefs left their clansmen and hurried back to their tribes, and in a few days many people would come to prepare for Xinghuang's subsequent move.

Chen Jian took some tribesmen and sent the migrated tribes to about fifteen miles downstream of the village.

Every few miles, the next village was arranged, and stakes were used to determine the land that each tribe could cultivate to avoid disputes.

The weather was already cold, and the priority was to help them build up the house.

In order to distinguish their identities and to grab time, the house built this time is completely different from the one in the village.

A pit is dug in the ground and the excavated earth is rammed into an earthen wall around the pit.

This saves half the time and belongs to the structure of the semi-basement.

The downside is that it's a bit dark, but at least it's not cold in winter.

In this way, in half a month, these migrated tribes had their own houses, forming seven simple villages.

The amount that each village needs to pay every year is also according to the population regulations, which is not much, and they must also participate in the annual ancestor worship, and they also need to contribute prey, firewood and grass to the ancestors.

After slapping, it is a sweet date.

To appease them, Jian Chen sent them some clay pots, bowls, and perforated stone tools, and promised that he would give them the seeds they planted after harvesting the beans without having to pay them back.

In addition, each village was given a pair of sheep and a pair of horned deer. The sheep are to be domesticated to facilitate the live sheep they have caught, and the horned deer is to inform him in case of any emergency.

How to clean the soaked acorns was also told to them free of charge, and it was stated that it was the protection of the ancestors.

They can come and go freely in and out of the village, and if someone is sick, they can go to the village for help.

The most important thing is that when they prove their loyalty, they can live in the village, they can become soldiers, they can share the spoils of war, they can live in the kind of flat houses.

Of course, they also need to be forced into service.

After building their own villages, all the men of the seven tribes went upstream.

Chen Jian estimated that there will be nearly 2,000 people in this village next year, and it is necessary to plan, and it is impossible to live together in such a chaotic manner.

Simple walls and ditches had to be dug up, and non-inhabited places of worship and worship had to be built as soon as possible, such as schools, tribal warehouses, publicly owned warehouses, simple market streets, threshing floors, vegetable fields, fish ponds, and livestock sheds...... It all had to be built from scratch, and now that there is finally enough population, the village can be counted as a city in the future.

If the population is sufficient, it is also possible to try to smelt the first copper in winter, and with metal, there are saws, chisels, etc., and stone mills, mills, planks, and wooden boats can be built......

And the most important thing - the wheel.

The wooden straight rope can be used as a wheel. Without metal tools, you can't straighten.