Chapter Eighty-Seven: Annexation
There is an undercurrent surging in the wasteland, and all kinds of rumors and rumors are emerging one after another.
A traditional tent of an orc tribe was crowded with orcs.
"Is that guy really going to start?"
"It's really getting started!"
"It's time to do something about us!"
After receiving the news that the base mountain was about to start "annexing" the vassal tribes, a considerable number of tribal chiefs and elders immediately gathered to discuss countermeasures.
Although everyone knew that this day would come sooner or later, they still didn't expect this day to come so quickly.
"He's not afraid of having such a big appetite and feeding up!"
A patriarch with a pained face shouted in grief.
"Annexing so many directly subordinate territorial tribesmen at once, even in the eastern orc royal family, there is no precedent for doing so, hundreds of thousands of directly subordinate tribesmen, I think he can manage it? With so many orcs, just eating food can make him poor, not to mention where to find so many people to run for him, can it really let all the tribesmen enjoy the kind of treatment that their tribesmen directly under the base mountain? ”
"Huh! This, don't you have to worry about the human patriarch, Patriarch Slater, don't you know that he is a human from the south, the human kingdom has never been divided into tribes, and the hundreds of thousands of residents in their huge capital are all directly subordinate to their king. They naturally have a way of managing it. ”
"But...... Then they have also broken the tradition of our orcs! Could it be that these guys are really not afraid of failure, those damn lowly orcs, but they want to be so loyal to a human being, they listen to everything, this, this human is really like some people say, is it a spy sent by the southern humans to destroy our orc wasteland! ”
As soon as these words came out, the surrounding orc leaders immediately changed color in unison,
Hush! Another elder stood up and made a gesture of silence to everyone,
"Don't, don't, don't shout it out like this, we just know it ourselves, don't let those lowly orcs hear about this kind of thing, otherwise everyone will be doomed."
Yes, yes, a group of people answered in unison. Even in this dark room, everyone seems to be able to feel the omnipresent influence of Base Mountain.
"But yes, is it true? Is there really a priest who says that the lord of this base mountain is a spy of the southern humans? An eager tribal patriarch asked.
"I didn't say that." The orc elder immediately denied it. "I've just heard it said."
"Who said it, who said it," the topic immediately intrigued a group of declining elders and patriarchs.
The orc elder looked around, and then explained to everyone in a low voice:
"Yes, someone said that it was the Fox fox who used to come to our tribe to inquire about the situation?"
"Fawkes?" The expressions of the old fellows immediately became excited, Fawkes was the wisest race of orcs in the wasteland, and the tribe was rich in great sages and god of war sacrifices.
"Tell me quickly, did that old Fawkes come to investigate this human lord at the behest of the sacrificial adults of the temple?"
"Well, I don't know, but it's true that Lord Fawkes, named Harvey, is an offering from the Hammer tribe of the northern Ironforge Fortress, and is the most loyal believer of the God of War who once made a pilgrimage to Mount Kinabalu. I must say, that's really a very knowledgeable Fox scholar! Every sentence seemed to speak to my heart, and I bet that old Lord Fox would definitely become a famous sage in the future. ”
"I heard him say that he is going back this time to report what happened to us here to the sacrificial lords in the sacred mountain, and maybe, it won't be long before the sacrificial lords with oracles will come with the warriors of the royal family."
The elder's words immediately gave a hint to a group of orc elders and patriarchs, even the sage lord thinks that the human lord of this base mountain is a spy, then most of them are really a spy, and there are sacrificial adults of the temple interfering, what are we afraid of. In this way, a group of old guys who were already resentful of the "annexation" policy of Base Mountain had even more confidence in rebellion.
Damn the lowly orcs, when the sacrificial adults of the temple come back, you will have a good show! A bunch of old guys thought so.
It's a pity that before the conspiracy of this group of nobles who were privately rebelling in tandem was successful, the whipping from the base mountain came mercilessly.
The eyes of the masses are bright, these nobles who are secretly ill and ready to obstruct the lord's plan have long been seen by the majority of low-level orcs, and they have rushed to tell each other, as soon as the news is reported to the institutions of the base mountain, the cadres of the base mountain will not be polite to them, and the centaur cavalry army that travels thousands of miles a day is coming. What followed was a bloody storm. These poor patriarchs and elders were gone in the blink of an eye.
There are some things that cannot be stopped once they start, and the reform of Base Mountain is to follow this law. The foreshadowing in the early stage can now be said to be the general trend, and the hearts of the people have formed a huge joint force, and any effort to obstruct the journey of the vast number of orcs to happiness is doomed to suffer a miserable failure, even Zhang Quan himself can't.
In the territory of the new base mountain, there will be no difference in the orc race, and there will be no tribal establishment, everything will be under the management system of the base mountain, and it will be under the centralized control directly under Zhang Quan. There will only be two types of orcs in the territory, one is the tribesmen in the territory, and the other is the untouchables who are captured by the defeated, and in addition to the captives, there are also criminals who are punished for not obeying the rules of the tribe are also classified as untouchables.
The untouchables have no right to choose, no property rights, and even no right to personal freedom, everything they have belongs to the tribal collective, only the captives who behave well will be ****, and have the right to become a tribesmen, and the existence of the untouchables will provide a benchmark for all the tribesmen, a negative teaching material for non-compliance with the law, enough for all the tribesmen to enjoy a good life and have enough warnings. There must be iron discipline in the territory, and the authority of iron discipline needs to be maintained by the power of power.
Therefore, this process of integration will not be smooth sailing, there are most of them who are willing to live a good life, but there are also some who are more willing to keep their own tribal traditions, these people gather, and then a small number of well-intentioned people behind their backs, it is easy to make trouble, and the temperament of the orcs is like a cannon battle that explodes at a little fire.
In the process of the integration of several friendly tribes around the base mountain, violent incidents emerged one after another, and the base mountain had to frequently dispatch centaur rapid troops of less than 1,000 people, frequently counterinsurgency, break the most fierce resistance, and execute the patriarchs and elders who instigated the trouble, before the matter was carried out one by one. But the matter did not work out, and the patriarchs and elders of several tribes eventually took advantage of the situation and fled, leaving a small tail for the complete settlement of the matter.
In the end, the "peaceful annexation" plan was completed, with the simultaneous implementation of this bloody and peaceful means, the carrots and sticks were exchanged, and the population of the seventeen vassal tribes, plus the rat people together with a total population of more than 300,000, finally had to be reorganized into the lord tribe at one time and integrated into the tribe's management system, which was not a small move, even if Zhang Quan retained the original tribe management system to the greatest extent, but they were also tossed once, in a short time, at least in the next month, there was nothing to do.
However, this annexation, in the long run, will be beneficial to the base mountain, whose own management model is far better than the traditional tribal management model, and the organization and mobilization capacity of human and material resources is far stronger than before. Unlike the tribal management model of most orc tribes in this era, which regarded the excess population of orcs as a burden, the more people integrated into the base mountain system, the more powerful it will be, after all, this is an era of more individuals and more power.
In the end, the summary report of the matter was reported together, and Zhang Quan did not care about the abnormal performance of some of the reactionaries in the middle. The general trend is in itself, the wheel of the times has started, this kind of small waves against the current is nothing compared to nothing, everyone's spirit is in what is happening in front of them, watching the big guys set off together this torrent of the times rolling forward.