After the flames were extinguished, Jian Chen asked his clan to look at the captives, and he led a few people up the mountain, wanting to find traces of the wrought iron of the Meteorite Clan.

But after turning around, I found nothing, only a few iron rings and burnt stone statues on the burnt stargazing platform.

Wolfskin pulled out the bones from the iron ring and threw them away, and asked, "There is not even a furnace nearby, how do they forge this iron?" ”

Jian Chen shook his head, kicked open a blackened skull, and turned out a few broken stones from the ash heap, without any clue.

"Let's go, maybe this woman has taken the secret with her."

"Shall we go back?"

"Go back, there is not much to eat, there are nets on the boat, we have to walk along the river, get some fish to eat as we go, otherwise we won't be able to hold on for another three days."

"Those slaves could go hungry for two days without food."

"It's useless, you can't save much. More than 500 women, nearly 200 men, even if we only give them a little food, we can't go back. If we starve to death halfway, we might as well kill them here, for the sake of the slaves is to be captured, not to kill. ”

Wolf Skin looked around, made sure that there were no people from the rest of the tribe, and asked quietly, "How do you divide these slaves?" We should keep more male slaves, many living women can't do it. ”

"A few months ago, the other tribes would have agreed. Now the wheat and beans are about to be harvested, and the other tribes want men, and they won't agree. According to what was agreed before, according to the number of troops sent and the number of people killed in battle. You take some people to the river first, fish and hunt, and I take these captives to go slowly, slowly. ”

"Okay."

The wolf skin hurried down the mountain and took seventy or eighty people with him.

Chen Jian led people to tie up all the male slaves, according to different tribes, ten different tribes tied together. Women are not tied, many people are holding children, even if it is for the sake of the child, they will not run.

Thinking about these 700 prisoners of war, the four tribes on his side can be divided into more than 400, and some people can be assigned to supervise the work.

After returning home, after harvesting wheat beans and planting spring grain, you can allocate some more people to develop handicrafts, and if you are lucky, there will be a surplus of grain.

The child in the hands of a woman...... When the child can avoid milk, they all have to leave, and they will be cultivated by the tribe. Even if you grow up and know that your mother is a slave, most of them will be blinded by the chair under the ass: give up the status of a slave owner and rebel against vested interests for the sake of your own mother? It would be nice to have one out of ten people, there is no need to worry about this, although there are many such stories in history, but the stories that can be handed down must be because they are rare and different.

In order to prevent someone from sneaking up, Jian Chen still sent some scouts, and the scouts captured a dozen people who had been hiding from the woods.

The large number of captives made the march extremely slow, and it was only half a day's way from the river to this place when I came, and less than half a day when I returned.

While digging a pit for cooking, the wolf skin ran back from a distance panting, and ran directly to Chen Jianjian's side without saying hello to others.

"What's wrong?"

"When we got to the river, someone stole our boat."

"Stealing ships?"

"yes, we've got six people."

"Escaped from the battlefield?"

"No, look at this."

The wolf skin took out three small things from the cloth bag and put them in Chen Jian's hands.

Jian Chen only glanced at it and was shocked.

All three things are small.

A bowstring, not of hemp rope, seems to be of silk thread, and every half a foot or so there is a section of untangled place, which is perfectly woven and can be easily stacked together.

A wrench, sharp at one end, with a groove for the string, black and yellow in color, looks like a cow's horn, and the inside is very smooth.

A pendant, not large, with a hole in it that is not too thin. The whole pendant is very smooth, cool and silky in the hand, the whole body is white-green, and it is clearly a piece of jade.

Silk, jade.

Jian Chen swallowed and asked, "Are they the same as the bow and us?" ”

The wolf skin scratched his head and said, "Of course it's the same, is there a bow with a different length?" They used stones, not golden spears, but the stones were well polished. I can understand some of what they say, but I can't understand others, and the tone is very strange. ”

After finishing speaking, he seemed to think of something very important, and said hurriedly: "By the way, they also tie their hair, not loose." ”

Jian Chen nodded, a little excited for some reason, and turned around and said, "Acorn, you take people slowly to the river, pay attention to sending scouts." ”

He found more than thirty sword and shield soldiers to follow him and ran towards the river.

When Jian Chen arrived at the river, the six people were tied under a tree, cursing and struggling, and they were wearing animal skins that had been cut and sewn together, which were obviously tanned and very soft.

The hair was tied up and wrapped in a small gray-black cloth, a bit like a thunder towel, but different. On the ground were several stone tools, as well as two bows.

Walking up to a person, he pulled off the cloth wrapped around his head, and the person immediately scolded a few words irritably, not very understandable, but judging from the rhythm and scale, the language of the Chen Jian tribe should be the same, mixed with a lot of words that can be understood.

Chen Jian touched the soft cloth and lit the bonfire, and a pungent smell of burnt feathers emanated, and after burning, there would be no ashes, but small gray lumps.

Obviously, it is not a hemp cotton fiber, but a kind of silk, which should not be mulberry silk, because it is not so smooth, and the color is not quite right, too dark.

He called Wolfskin and the scouts, and asked, "What do you scouts see?" ”

"They have bows."

"They don't have gold and iron."

"They can spin and weave."

Jian Chen knocked on the heads of these people and said, "What else?" ”

Several people shook their heads, and Jian Chen smiled: "Do they have anything to eat?" ”

"Nope."

"Then their people are not far away, otherwise they would not have taken nothing to eat. Go downstream now and see how it goes. ”

The scouts came to their senses, and a team of three or four went down the river.

Looking at the silk and jade, Chen Jian's heart couldn't calm down for a long time, and finally saw something familiar in this world, and there was an inexplicable feeling - it was like a lonely person suddenly discovering someone to communicate with, even if it might be an enemy, it was better than endless dark loneliness.

Calling for someone to tow a boat, recalling the words that existed in the tribe before he appeared, he pointed to the ship and said, "Ours." ”

Again, it means that you stole our ship, so we captured you.

The faces of those people were no longer panicked, and they muttered a few words that Chen Jian didn't understand, and Chen Jian probably heard the word thirst, and asked people to take a can of water.

Quietly observing the man's expression, there was no surprise when they saw the round clay pot, obviously they had seen the clay pot.

Judging from their hair and heads, they have their own culture, but the weapons are still made of stone, and this tribe should not be too big, at most it is about the same as their own troops.

But the problem now is that he still has six or seven hundred prisoners of war in his hands, which slows down his march, and he has to assign people to watch over them.

If the other party knows the situation on his side, he doesn't need to fight directly, and harass him around him, he can drag himself down. There is not much food to eat on my side, and even if the tanuki runs fast, it will take many days to deliver food.

These people must have migrated along the river from afar, otherwise the nearby tribes would not have had any news at all, and it would be impossible for a meteorite tribe to dominate the vicinity.

At this time, the migration of the tribe is still a very normal thing, the Yellow Emperor tribe in the previous life also lived in water and grass at the beginning, **** moved the capital several times, the hometown of the Qin people is said to be originally in Penglai, Shandong, and later arrived in the west.

Migrants are not necessarily nomadic, but only a different way of life that emerges after the 400 mm isoprecipitation line has shifted southward.

It may be that the slash-and-burn land is running out of fertility, that a powerful enemy has risen nearby, or that the priest has received some apocalypse, which may lead to migration.

He was now curious to know the development of this tribe, a certain tribe within the scope of a large cultural circle? Or did it develop on its own?

If you belong to one of the larger cultural circles, your own tribe should also integrate into this large cultural circle similar to your own in the future and become the leader of civilization.

Through this tribe, he can know what is really going on in the lower reaches of the Grass River. And with the three things of silk, jade, and cattle, I can finally have a decent technical exchange with my own tribe.