Chapter 33 Migration Routes
In the vast mountains, countless dense trees shade the scorching sun at noon.
Deep in the mountains, hidden under the huge trees that obscure the sky, a large migratory party is resting.
This is the migratory party of the Yan people.
More than ten days had passed since they left the cave camp, and during this time, they had not encountered the pursuers of the Jiuli tribe again.
It seemed that Lin Yuan's strategy of luring the enemy had once again succeeded.
After getting rid of the pursuing soldiers, the Yan clan smoothly walked all the way north along the ridge, Lin Yuan's purpose was to leave the mountains and go to the plains and other places where they could be cultivated.
Only agriculture is the foundation of civilization, and there is no future for living by hunting.
This is one of the differences between Lin Yuan and Zheng Jing, the latter only thinks about how to survive in the present, while Lin Yuan thinks about how to develop civilization in the future.
You must know that in ancient times when science and technology did not develop greatly, manpower was the most eternal resource, and if you want to develop a huge population, sufficient and stable food is the most important foundation.
These can never be satisfied by hunting.
Lin Yuan now has warriors loyal to him, slaves who can endure hard work, and a bag of precious grain seeds, and the rest is a piece of land, a piece of land that can be cultivated and developed.
Such a land can only be encountered by leaving the mountains.
Along the way, Lin Yuan had already found an opportunity to tell Anna and Ji his views, and Anna was only shocked for a while, and then calmly accepted Lin Yuan's point of view.
It's eggplant, this primitive person really can't understand the concept of civilization development in agricultural society, looking at eggplant's puzzled expression, Lin Yuan gave up explaining, he just told this loyal primitive man that if he follows him, he will no longer have to worry about food, and eggplant will finally accept it.
Anyway, for the Suiren clan of the eggplant, the hometown has been destroyed, and there is no better idea for the time being except to follow the Yan clan.
The path Lin Yuan chose was to follow a mountain stream and go downstream.
Although he did not know the exact way out of the mountains, he could not be wrong when he followed the river, because he knew that every stream in the mountains would eventually converge into a small river, and the small rivers would converge into a large river, and finally flow down the valley to the plains and become a certain great river and finally flow to the sea.
As long as you follow the current, you can't go wrong!
"King Yan, let's rest a little more today, let the hunters go hunting, replenish some food, we don't have much food left......"
Sitting in front of Lin Yuan, he cautiously suggested. Ten days ago, Lin Yuan's strategy against the sky, using Zheng Jing to lure away the enemy, such a strategy, made Tomato can't help but be in awe, since then, he has always spoken to Lin Yuan politely and cautiously, for fear that when he offends King Yan, then he will inevitably be unable to eat and walk away.
"Okay, but at most we can only wait for a torch, and we have to hurry in the afternoon, and we have to find a suitable place to camp before dark." Lin Yuan instructed, and he nodded, and immediately left to arrange the hunting.
"Anna!" Lin Yuan took a sip of water and called Anna, who was taking care of the women and children.
"How's the condition of the wounded?" Lin Yuan asked.
Anna smiled slightly and said:
"King Yan, it's okay, along the way, Tomato has been arranging for the people in their clan to help us, Blade, and a few injured people have improved a lot, and a few of them can now walk without stretchers."
Lin Yuan nodded with satisfaction, this helper is indeed good, but I don't know if their Suiren clan can always form an alliance with the Yan clan.
"Big Tooth! What about the slaves? ”
Lin Yuan yelled at the big tooth on the other side, every time the team stopped to rest, Lin Yuan had to ask about the situation of the tribe on the other side, so that he could rest at ease.
Big Tooth ran over with a snort, put the short bow in his hand behind him, bowed and said:
"Lord Yanwang! It's okay, the slaves are honest, and those who are not honest have been repaired by me and karma...... Hey! ”
Lin Yuan waved his hand and said, "Okay, just scare and scare, don't kill people, what we need is their labor, not life." ”
Big Tooth hurriedly agreed.
Anna, who was standing aside, suddenly remembered something, and said cautiously:
"King Yan, there's something I think I should tell you about."
Lin Yuan turned to the side and listened carefully.
Anna spread her hands and said:
"Food, it's a matter of food, I just looked at it, and the pickled meat and wild fruits we brought from the cave have basically been eaten, and now we can only rely on the prey that the hunters have brought back every day, but, you know, the prey comes and goes...... I did my best to ensure the food supply for the wounded, as you ordered, but ordinary people can only eat one meal a day now, and those slaves, basically, only eat one meal every two days, but, even so, if the hunters have nothing to gain today, I'm afraid ......"
Lin Yuan nodded, he probably knew something about the problem of food, but this was a difficulty that the migration had to overcome, and if necessary, it was also a sacrifice that the migration had to go through......
Still, he wanted to minimize the damage.
"Anna, pass the order, except for the hunters, everyone eats once every two days, and tries to save as much as possible, including me."
Anna was taken aback, he looked at Lin Yuan's resolute eyes, and had no choice but to nod.
I only eat one meal in two days, and although I can't starve to death, I'm afraid I won't be able to live well.
At present, it can only be like this, only by hurrying as soon as possible and leaving the mountains, the Yan people can have a way to live.
Lin Yuan was frowning and thinking, and suddenly, two figures ran over quickly, and the Yan primitives on the road avoided one after another.
It's Hou Yi, and there is another child he doesn't know, who seems to be Hou Yi's partner.
The two little boys, holding special short bows, trotted all the way to the Yan King, and said:
"The Flame King!! Come with us, we've found something!! ”
Lin Yuan's eyes lit up, and he motioned for him to take a few warriors and hurriedly followed Hou Yi to a forest behind the camp.
The woods were full of towering trees, and their feet crunched on the endless fallen leaves.
Hou Yi led everyone and soon came to the end of the woods.
It turned out that at the end, there was a small cliff, and below the cliff was a valley, because of the shelter of trees before, if it wasn't for Hou Yi leading the way, ordinary people wouldn't have noticed that there was another one here, such a perfect paradise hidden.
"We were going to dig out the eggs in the trees, but we saw it, King Yan, look!"
Hou Yi pointed to the bottom of the valley, where a crooked stream could be vaguely seen flowing through the canyon, and beside the stream, several small white tents appeared, and around the tents, patches of green plants were planted.
Lin Yuan was taken aback.
What surprised him was not only how hidden this tribe was, but also what he could see, what this tribe was growing, although it seemed that the scale of cultivation was small, but they were indeed trying to cultivate, and more importantly, the green thing, what was it? You must know that in places with little sunshine such as mountains and valleys, it is difficult for ordinary food crops to grow.
"King Yan, why don't we go down and have a look?"
Eggplant asked, turning his head.
Lin Yuan roughly calculated, judging from the number of tents on the other side, this should be a small settlement with only a few dozen people, maybe not even a tribe.
A small settlement of dozens of people, there is nothing to worry about, Lin Yuan has a large tribe of nearly 2,000 people, and the help of more than a thousand Suiren clans, it should be this small tribe that is afraid.
"Okay, then let's go down and see what happens!"
Lin Yuan grinned.