The ox cart walked alone on the vast field, and at noon, a strong wind blew, blowing the four or five feet high in the distant patches of grass, and the yellow and green pastures were lying low, revealing countless cows, horses, sheep, and a thin totem pole.

Zhang Huansheng was shocked when he saw it, and pointed his finger in front of him: "That's the tribe of Hakata Qingthorn, right?" ”

"Yes, yes, there is the big tent of Hakata Keikthorn Taiji," Sang replied with a smile, "and all the territories within a hundred miles from that totem pole are his possessions." ”

"If you have a radius of 100 miles, you have already penetrated into the realm of power." Zhang Huansheng frowned when he heard this.

"What do those barbarians know, the borders and frontiers, they can't beat him, they are all his," Sang Maoshuang said with a wry smile: "Besides, this Boduo Qingjiao Datai Ji has only been newly sealed for thirty years, and the surrounding border areas of the power country have long been subdued by the forest people, who will care about this." ”

While the two were talking, a caravan composed of hundreds of horse-drawn wagons passed by in a hurry, and although the guards with swords and swords in the team did not rashly interrogate Zhang Huansheng and Sang Maoshuang, they all had cold faces and cast scrutinizing eyes.

Zhang Huansheng looked back at them from a distance and asked casually, "Uncle Sang, what kind of goods do you see that caravan pulling?" ”

"Judging from the marks of ruts, it must be grain." Sang Mao replied with confidence.

Zhang Huansheng now knows that those storage treasures that contain Sumeru's hidden supernatural powers in meson, unless they are extremely rare, otherwise, in addition to being limited by volume, they will also be limited by weight.

That is to say, a storage bag worth 100 gold, the inner space is enough to explore the size of half a tile house, which can be filled with cotton wool, but it is impossible to fill it with heavy iron and stone, plus the general storage utensils will be used for a maximum of thirty or fifty years before the magic power will disappear and turn into ordinary utensils, so unless it is to transport gold and silver treasures, no matter how powerful the merchants, freight is still dominated by cars and ships.

If these 100 carriages are loaded with grain, I am afraid that there are hundreds of thousands of catties, which sounds quite a considerable amount, but if you carefully calculate that if you eat it with beef and mutton openly, it will only be enough for 10,000 strong men to eat for about 20 days.

Zhang Huansheng looked at the caravan that was speeding up, pondered for a while, and then asked thoughtfully: "Uncle Sang, how much gold beads do you think these grains can be worth if they are sold to Hakata Qingjiao?" ”

"The price of grain collected by the people in the forest is open, about 100 catties and three silver beads, and the caravan is almost pulling more than 600,000 catties of grain, which is worth about 200 gold beads." Sang Mao said thoughtfully.

"This price is already dozens of times more than that of the Great Chu Mainland," Zhang Huansheng secretly calculated the price of grain in Nanyang City in his heart, and said in surprise: "No wonder it will attract so many merchants, who are willing to risk ruining their reputation and come to the enemy." ”

Hearing this, Sang Maoshuang secretly slandered in his heart: "Isn't it an enemy of your real money to come to the tribe of the forest people to buy and sell the miserable captured Chu people and sell them to other continents for profit."

Everyone is just 50 steps and 100 steps of laughter, so why be so surprised. On the surface, he smiled and said: "In fact, in addition to the operation of thousands of miles, the cost of hiring manpower, and the exchange of people in various joints, there is no big benefit." ”

Although the ox cart was slow, the future always had an end, and the two of them had come to the herd while talking.

Immediately, I saw a dozen shepherds riding bareback horses, wearing dirty leather robes, shaved bald on all sides, only with a braid tied to the wolf's tail in the middle, and a long leather whip in their hands, and from time to time in the air 'snapped', throwing out a loud whip flower Shepherd, "Whoa..."

"We are guests of Hakata Keisaki Daidaiyoshi, we have come to trade with the tribe, we are friends, friends." Seeing this scene, Sang Maoshuang hurriedly leaned in, took out a three-foot-high wool flag from the ox cart carriage, waved it back and forth in his hand, and said in forest dialect.

When the shepherds saw this, they immediately dispersed again, and when the ox-carts went forward, no one paid any further attention.

Passing through the herd, it is a gentle slope that stretches down for dozens of miles.

Countless felt tents at the bottom of the slope seemed to suddenly emerge from the ground and broke into Zhang Huansheng's eyes.

And around the tent, there were unkempt and unkempt sturdy, women and children who were tied with one hand and stumbling and harvesting pasture, looking as thin as hungry.

Condescendingly, his horizons suddenly became a lot broader.

Zhang Huansheng looked around, unconsciously stood up on the throne of the emperor, and said with a smile: "I originally felt that something was wrong, I thought that this Hakata Qingthorn tribe would not be able to live in the sky, but it turned out that the entire tribe was built in a low recess, and only the totem pole was revealed. ”

As he spoke, he looked closely at the totem pole, which was the symbol of the forest people's tribe, and found that the pillar was full of ten people surrounded by thick and thin, the whole body was divided into sections, and it was made of logs, and the pillar was carved with various war scenes of conquest and killing, as well as patterns of worship and sacrifice to the gods.

In addition, at the junction of each section of the pillars, there will be more than a dozen branches, on which are hung the heads of various beasts, monsters and humans, many of which have only skeletons left, but some are still attached to the rotten flesh, and from time to time there will be groups of black crows from the air 'croak...' howling and pewing at those carrions.

The scene in front of him was really uncomfortable, the smile on Zhang Huansheng's face quickly faded, and he thought gloomily: "This forest man really deserves to be called a barbarian, and with this monster as a symbol, he is really a beast cannibal." ”

Seeing the change in Zhang Huansheng's expression, Sang Maoshuang said in a low voice: "Childe, this tribe erects pillars carved with conquest and sacrificial patterns, which is the custom of the Gayin people known as the 'son of the blue wolf'.

And hanging the head of the strong man on the branch after killing it is the habit of the 'people in the forest' Lu Moxibustion Arm Hutu people.

Although the forest country is now dominated by the people in the forest and the son of the blue wolf is the minister, in fact, the two races have gradually merged, so this terrible totem has appeared.

Fortunately, although these barbarians are vicious, their personalities are quite simple and stubborn, and they are extremely cruel to their enemies, but they are very generous to their friends, and even sleep with their wives and daughters to their guests.

We are guests from afar, but we are not afraid of anything. ”

As he whispered, the ox cart had already slowly come to the foot of the totem pole, and was stopped by a group of armored warriors from the Hakata Keiji Division.

"Guests can go to the big tent to see Da Taiji, the car has its own servants to take care of it, please get down." The square-faced and scorching young man with a big square face and burning eyes at the leader of the warriors didn't look at Zhang Huansheng and Sang Maoshuang, and said in a stiff Yanhuang language.