A sentence is like a hammer hitting Guangping's heart.

"Brother Fuquan, is Rock City really as good as you say?" His expression was a little dazed.

Fuquan deliberately paused: "If that place is really bad, I will come to you today?" ”

He then said earnestly: "Ah Ping, it's too difficult for me to look at you, and the brothers in Suimu Village are really hard. It shouldn't be...... Think about it, the weaving technology of our deer tribe is unique in the world, which tribe does not ask us to buy cloth? But in the end, we have been living so badly ourselves, we have eaten the last meal without the next meal, and the adults are just that, but what about those children? ”

Guangping's eyebrows were furrowed together, and his face showed a sad and emotional expression: "...... There are thousands of people in Suimu Village, can Panshi City really give us so much food? ”

Fu Quan stared at Guangping for a long time: "Come with me to Rock City!" I won't lie to you. If you don't feel good about going, you can always come back. I promise that no one will stop you, and no one will put a knife to your neck and force you to surrender. ”

……

When summer came, Guangping took everyone in Suimu Village to take refuge in the rock collar.

He is a cautious person, and it is impossible to achieve this effect by relying on Fuquan's verbal persuasion. Guangping took the priests from the village and all the heads of the thousand people to the Rock City, where he lived for a few days and experienced the environment and life there before finally making up his mind.

Tianhao has always attached great importance to the infiltration of other tribes. Long before the last time he sent out the army, he performed a spore transplant on Fuquan. Although not everyone is receptive and willing to pledge their allegiance, Tianhao still has a large number of loyal followers around him. It takes time for spores to develop, and the transplant subject must be thoroughly examined to make sure that there is no problem with thinking and that there is no rejection before the surgery can be performed secretly. Despite this, a group of people with scars on their arms or thighs have emerged in Rock Collar. They were all assigned to important positions, either village leaders or reserve city lords.

It is unknown who started first, but they formed a small group and called themselves "Scarers".

Tianhao is noncommittal about this, forming a group has always been a habit of human beings, and it is the nature of social animals to hold together, and the party and the same party create the strongest barrier to people's hearts. No one knows what the future will become, but from Tianhao's experience in the civilized era, a political core with strong cohesion and executive power is certainly much superior to the rotation system of multiple political parties that oppose each other and take turns in power.

You can call me a dictatorship, but you can't deny in any way that this is the best means of centralizing power.

Fuquan is a special being among all the scarred. He does not currently hold the position of chief, only the title of the head of a thousand. Tianhao specially assigned an elite guard to Fuquan, and there were enough horses and property, and only one ———— was required to infiltrate the familiar Deer Clan Walled City if he could.

War is a gold-eating beast that consumes resources. There are too many things that the Rock Collar is currently spreading out, and the area is too large for Tianhao to need at all, and at the same time, it is difficult to maintain a large army. Combining soldiers and civilians has been a practice of the northern barbarians since ancient times, but each tribe maintains a certain number of professional armies, and the Rock Collar is no exception. For now, Tianhao will not take the initiative to start a war in the short term, he needs time to stock up on food, develop his territory, and explore and consolidate the newly discovered Jeju Island.

All of this requires human hands.

The attack on the deer clan actually began from a very early stage. According to the view of the Age of Civilization, there are two types of war: hot war and cold war. The battle between the bald eagle and the hairy bear ended with the latter falling down with a bang, and when the world was amazed, Tianhao firmly remembered a proper noun with a sense of the times———— peaceful evolution.

The Propaganda Department is an important part of Tianhao's development plan, and Fuquan is currently acting as the minister.

The Rock Collar has a lot of good things that are preached to the outside world. There is a sound labor security system, a stable and legally based social framework, delicious food, and even a certain amount of luxuries during the New Year.

The production of cider has tripled compared to last year, and it is impossible for everyone in the entire Rock to drink it. Tianhao led the priests to make accurate calculations, and finally came to the conclusion that it could be distributed according to the amount of 100 milliliters per capita, and the annual distribution time was the spring sacrifice, harvest sacrifice and winter sacrifice.

The production of pure cider cannot meet the needs of the whole population of the Rock Collar. Tianhao's solution came from the British Navy in the Age of Discovery, when Admiral Edward. Vernon pioneered the practice of mixing rum with clear water and distributing it to sailors on ships, and since then, the rum has been known as "grog".

Two parts of water, plus one part of cider, this is the "Grog" that belongs to the Rock Collar. Although the taste is a little lighter, no one can deny that it is an alcoholic drink.

Food is so precious, and in this barbaric age, where many people can't even get enough to eat, alcohol is an indisputable luxury, and that alone is enough for the people living in the Rock Collar to be the envy of the common people of other tribes.

Behind closed doors, eat and drink, big fish and meat, no one knows what is in your bowl. Even though you've grown fat, no one can be sure if it's fat that is supporting your skin, or if it's puffiness caused by long-term malnutrition?

Show our good side and let more people know that we live a happy life.

That's what propaganda is all about.

There is no better goal than the deer clan———— Tianhao has Lu Qingxi's biggest secret in his hands, the cause of death of the previous deer king has not disappeared as Lu Qingxi thought, Tianhao just regarded it as an exclusive trump card, looking for the best time to play out.

Regarding Zuo Suozhai's surrender to Rock City, Lu Qingxi has been silent. It is not difficult to understand that as long as you hold someone else's handle in your hand, the success rate of blackmail will increase exponentially.

As long as you arrive at Rock City, you can eat enough, not only wheat cakes and steamed buns, but also venison and fresh fish.

There is salt there, you don't have to spend money to buy it, and it's a daily commodity that everyone can get.

The houses there are beautiful, all made of stone and bricks, tall and magnificent, warm in winter and cool in summer, and most importantly, the whole city is very clean, unlike the current village, which is full of garbage and excrement, dirty and smelly.

One of the biggest benefits of living in Rock City is that you don't have to go up the mountain every day to chop wood. The people there use peat, and it is said that it was specially ordered by the lord. Peat is very resistant to burning, and it doesn't have the same smoke as firewood, which is really good.

Children in Rock City can go to school for free, right? Do not doubt that there are many priests and sorcerers in the Rock Lord, and this is a benefit from the lord to all the children, so that they can learn to write and understand and comprehend more knowledge.

The young and benevolent lord also gave out clothes to everyone for free, real cotton products, old people and children, and never discriminated.

In fact, Guangping had some doubts about Fuquan's words, and he knew that the persuaders always said things on the good side. Although he had personally come to Rock City and seen Tianhao, Guangping was still a little apprehensive about the whole village. But at this time, there was no way back, and he could only hope that the young lord would keep his promise and be kind to the brothers of Suimu Village.

All these fears proved unwarranted.

Reality proved that Fuquan was not lying. Rations, clothing, house...... Everything was given, each deer was given a small portion of dried apples, and lactating women and children even received a portion of deer milk every day. This thing is so precious, and Mitsuhei only tasted it occasionally many years ago.

There were many things that shocked him.

When they first tasted cider, the deer people of Suimu Village didn't understand what it was. The sweetness is moderate, and although the mixture of water makes the wine lighter, it adds something that enhances the taste and flavor———— the juice of thyme, Sichuan peppercorns, honey, and wild hawthorn picked from the forest in autumn and stored in the cellar...... These practices have completely changed the essence of cider, and it is more like the way beer was made in the era of civilization, and it is more like a fruit beer in terms of texture and taste.

In fact, the cost of beer brewing is extremely low, especially after the formation of scale, whether it is made of traditional barley or wild apples, it is a popular and cheap drink.

The feeling of excitement is so wonderful that for a savage who has never drunk alcohol, a mere 100 milliliters of wine mixed with water is enough to make them feel strange from within. The pleasure became more and more intense, the clumsy ones talked more than ever, and the wooden-hearted ones wanted to sing, and the action-minded ones simply danced.

The Broken Tooth in charge of supervision rubbed his nose vigorously, clenched his saber in his right hand, and scanned these deer people with a majestic and cold gaze.

The newcomers need to be supervised, and this is the will of the lord that must be resolutely enforced.

Broken Tooth's heart is full of contempt————A small glass of wine can make you happy like this, needless to say, they are a bunch of poor people who have never drunk alcohol and don't know what alcohol is."

As the captain of the personal guard by Tianhao's side, Broken Tooth's worship of the young lord has reached an unprecedented height.

The beets in the field were harvested twice, and the lord ordered all the purple-red rhizomes to be gathered together, and the woman and the old man were in charge, rinsed with clean water, first into large pieces, and then into strips.

The process is cumbersome and complicated, and a man can't do it anyway, but in terms of actual workload, he just needs to sit in front of the board and wave a kitchen knife. In this way, finger-thick beets are loaded in rattan baskets and transported to the riverside mill, where they are repeatedly beaten by a machine driven by the current, and the cloudy juice flows out of the cracks in the rattan baskets and collects into the clay pots that are pre-placed on the bottom floor.

The whole process is very simple, there is no technical content, even without machinery, manual work can be completed. The sugar in the beet is present in the cell sap, and the cut and mortar hammering cause the cell wall to break down before the sugar can be leached. There are two things that can be obtained from this process———— sugar juice and rapeseed meal.

Rapeseed meal is added with a certain amount of water, put in a large pot and boiled repeatedly, and the leached also contains sugar. After boiling three times, rapeseed meal becomes useless waste meal.

The difference between raw juice and vegetable juice is so obvious, the same is boiled over charcoal fire to remove water and condensed into sugar, and the original juice sugar cubes are far more than vegetable juice sugar cubes in terms of color and luster. Tianhao refers to it as primary sugar and secondary sugar.

Broken Tooth tasted a little of this overall brownish-red sugar, which is extremely sweet, no less than the best honey in the world.

It was only at this time that Broken Tooth somewhat understood what Tianhao once said: Life needs a certain sense of ritual, and beauty is not just as simple as being fed and clothed. Sweet food will make you full of nostalgia for the world, and hope for the future is built on the foundation of family happiness. We have to protect these people, let them work hard, and exchange their hard work and sweat for what belongs to them. Clothing, food, salt, grease...... In addition to these basic things, there has to be something more to surprise and delight them. Only in this way can the concept of territory and tribe be constructed that gives them a strong sense of honor.

Only when you enjoy a happy and beautiful life can you have the right to despise and pity those who are in poverty and suffering. This is how the tide of immigrants in the era of civilization arose, and what Tianhao did in the Rock Collar was no different from the heads of state of the rich countries of that era, giving more benefits to the people, thus generating a source of information expansion among them and attracting more outsiders.

A deer child jumped up to Broken Tooth, quite envious, with a little timidity, and gently touched the long knife he had pestled on the ground with one hand.

He is about six years old, usually not so bold, the alcoholic drink mixed with water makes him make this kind of behavior that is almost arrogant in the eyes of outsiders———— the lord's personal guards are not ordinary armed men, they have uniform rules from armor to weapons, especially the broken teeth of a thousand heads, the black horns standing on the surface of the armor on the left shoulder indicate their identity, which makes people feel not angry and arrogant when they see it.

The child's parents stood at a distance, wanting to come and being afraid. Their faces turned pale, apparently thinking of the difference between civilians and officials, and they could only silently pray to the gods to let the vicious-looking pig leader spare his child.

Broken Tooth looked down at the little girl who was no taller than his waist, and the cold and tight facial skin gradually relaxed, revealing a kind smile.

He handed the long knife to the attendant next to him and took out a piece of candy from his pocket under his armor. This is a benefit exclusive to the lord's personal guard, a thumb-sized sugar cube, and each person gets a certain amount of ration per month. Broken Tooth didn't know that this was the practice of the civilized era, and the main combat troops had to ensure food calories and nutrition, the difference was that at that time, the soldiers were supplied with chocolate, and Tianhao could only get his hands on this crude brown sugar at present.

He handed the candy cube to the little girl, and said angrily, "Taste it, it's sweet, it's delicious." ”

The way he grinned was terrifying, especially for the deer people who were not familiar with the pigs, and there was no stranger uncle who used lollipops to seduce ignorant girls in civilized times, which made people think about it, and both the process and the result were full of evil ingredients.