As an earthling, Zhang Quan should have been full of superiority over his own race and civilization, and it is true, he came from the earth, carrying the knowledge and materials on the earth, and formed a crushing force against the orcs in the wasteland of Gaia.

But occasionally, in a casual moment, Zhang Quan would encounter something in this world that frightened him and made him doubt the racial and civilizational superiority he maintained.

For example, language.

Zhang Quan had been puzzled by the unity of the language of the Gaia world, which was a very undesirable thing in a world where wars were frequent, and there was a huge gap between the geographical environment, historical evolution, body form, and even the entire race and civilization, which was difficult to explain by natural inheritance.

This can be compared with the history of the earth.

For example, on the earth, due to geographical differences and differences in civilizations, different countries and nations often have their own languages, and the differences in language are different as the main bearers of national civilization.

Even in modern times, international languages such as English and French have begun to have the characteristics of Esperanto to varying degrees, but the reason for this situation is to a large extent to facilitate the use of commercial exchanges between different countries as auxiliary languages, rather than replacing the existence of the mother tongues of various ethnic groups.

Perhaps in the future, after the earth enters the interstellar age, the differences between various civilizations will begin to disappear, and Esperanto will appear in common among earthlings.

But this is not the case, at least for the planet today, even if the planet has achieved a certain degree of globalization of trade.

Language is the most important feature of racial civilization, and the difference in language actually means the difference between race and civilization.

Therefore, in the case of the natural history of intelligent beings, it is difficult to have races and civilizations that are very different from each other, but insist on using the same language, unless it is the history of this continent, which has some kind of cattiness that Zhang Quan does not know.

Zhang Quan became interested in this so-called continental lingua franca and conducted some research, but the results of the research made him even more shocked and confused.

This lingua franca is as inefficient as English, but strangely, this Gaia language is verbose, but after careful study, it is found that its expression efficiency is far higher than that of English, and it is closer to the highest and clearest research results of logical expression on the earth - formal language.

This is an extremely advanced language, which should never be created by primitive races that are more backward than the earth, and in a linguistic sense, this is definitely a high-level script that has been optimized many times, and the advanced meaning contained in it is difficult to fully understand even with Zhang Quan's limited linguistic knowledge.

This is something that makes Zhang Quan's self-esteem as an earthling difficult to accept.

This matter is definitely not simple, there must be some great secret hidden in it, this secret, just like the magical orc civilization of the other world, the magical sacrificial war song, and the magic that he has not yet seen in person, makes it difficult for him to find a reasonable explanation.

Under such confusion, Zhang Quan did not dare to promote the earth language in large quantities in his base mountain tribes. Although, in the current base mountain, the language barrier has become the most anxious thing for Zhang Quan.

Because of the language barrier, it is difficult for Zhang Quan to implement basic education among the orcs in the mode of earthlings, and because of the language barrier, it is difficult for Zhang Quan to let his minotaur craftsmen directly learn the advanced craftsman knowledge from the earth. Because of the language barrier, Zhang Quan would even encounter great trouble when training his soldiers.

Without a certain cultural foundation, it is difficult to completely change the deep-rooted backward customs of the orcs in the tribe, and even if there are many more and better policies, it is difficult to implement them in the tribe.

If it is on the earth, even in the face of the backward people, as long as they can have a language foundation, then pictures, videos, movies, all kinds of image posters and big-character posters, as well as night schools, literacy classes, and all kinds of forcible indoctrination methods can greatly increase the speed of popularization of cultural knowledge, but here, because of the difference in language and writing, these means are not feasible for the time being.

Now, the difference in language and writing has been a huge shackle that hinders the base mountain tribe from making great strides from primitive tribes to modern civilization, even if Zhang Quan tries to spread simple earth knowledge in a small area, he needs to convert these methods into Gaia in his mind before he can say it, which is too tiring, too cumbersome, and reduces the efficiency of learning in vain.

In short, the language problem is a ** annoyance.

Moreover, Zhang Quan has no way to solve it for the time being.

……

Zhang Quan returned to the base mountain, and during this period of Zhang Quan's absence, several major events also happened to the tribes around the base mountain of Gaia World. After the old Kate, the guy who stayed behind, came up to report, Zhang Quan realized that of course these things had something to do with the base mountain.

"Actually, it's because our lord is good!" Old Kate sighed, not caring at all that Zhang Quan was in front of him now, he was patting his ass naked in front of him.

"In addition to our tribe, where are the lords of other tribes willing to help our poor low-level orcs like this, and also send all kinds of things to everyone, food, clothing, use, everything, our base mountain life is too good, the big guys are red-eyed!" He said.

What he said is not unreasonable, in the past nearly a year, because these tribes with the base mountain as the core have gradually begun to become rich with the help of the base mountain, not only has the grain increased, but the tribal population that should have been reduced has been retained, and after the base mountain opened up the arms trade, these "friendly tribes" in the surrounding area have also benefited from it, and the tribes' armament has been greatly enhanced.

The enhancement of this armament is multiplied, similar to a sudden jump, and even the Minotaur Iron Hammer tribe, which was the richest in the original wasteland, has successfully increased from dozens of tons of steel to hundreds of tons, not to mention other tribes, and some tribes' armament has even increased by dozens or even hundreds of times compared to the original.

On the whole, all the friendly tribes around the base mountain have become stronger, and this strength is of course at the cost of these tribes becoming more dependent on the base mountain, and the degree of closeness has even reached the level of vassal tribes.

But in the end, the price that has been paid is not in vain, ten days before Gaia's local time, that is, not long after Zhang Quan returned to the earth world, the Pige Alliance, which was originally in the southwest of the base mountain, suddenly began to move eastward, and it was two or three hundred miles away at a time, and in the process of moving east, the Pig Alliance of course encountered obstacles, which was originally a local tribe, the Wolf Werewolf Tribe.

"I didn't expect that the werewolves who are brave and good at fighting can't stop the Pigs who are equipped with the weapons and armor of our base mountain, and the weapons and armor of our base mountain can be regarded as famous on the grassland this time." Old Kate sighed.

In the battle of the Pigs' eastward migration, although the strength of the Wolf tribe encountered was not large, there were several vassal tribes in hand, and the main force of the tribe was as many as 2,000 Wolf light infantry. Of course, such a tribe would not give such a small foot color as the Pige Alliance, and as soon as the two families met, without waiting for a third party to participate in mediation, a war broke out directly.

But in the end, the result of this war was very surprising, the result of the war was not the victory of the brave and warlike Wolf, on the frontal battlefield, it was the Pigs who defeated Wolf, and after the battle, despite the harassment of Wolf's stragglers, the Pigs even galloped hundreds of miles to attack Wolf's old camp, and defeated Wolfe in one fell swoop.

In this classic rush battle, there is also a highlight, that is, a Pig-vassal tribe under the Wolves defected in this battle, and the Pigs of the Pig-on alliance attacked Wolf's old camp in cooperation with the outside, and quickly captured the wolf's lair.

In the end, the Wolves admitted defeat, and after negotiations, they lost all their territory and vassal tribes, and returned to the other Wolf tribes with the old and weak members of the released tribes, and this military adventure of the Pigs Alliance was also a great success.

In this battle, the always lazy Pigs showed surprising resilience and willpower, and were able to defeat the Wolves, who were known for their bravery and good fighting, on the battlefield, and the biggest reason why the Pigs were able to win this battle was undoubtedly the best armor weapons exchanged for the Pigs Alliance and Base Mountain Trading.

"However, in this battle, the vassals of the Pig Clan who suddenly betrayed the Werewolf Clan also helped a lot, it was definitely not a coincidence, the Pig Alliance's eastward move this time was probably not a hasty adventure, but a real long-planned expansion!" Zhang Quan also hit the nail on the head to see the problem.

Old Kate replied,

"This is mostly true, but this is only a small problem, the most important thing is that the Wolf light infantry would never have imagined that once the obsessive Pigs had the right armor weapons, they would be able to leap into the second only heavy infantry after the Minotaur and Bill, and nearly two thousand such Pigs heavy infantry appeared on the battlefield, even the Wolf could only avoid their sharpness."

"After this battle, the Pig Alliance has grown in momentum and officially risen to become an influential large tribe in the eastern part of the base mountain, with tens of thousands of new vassal tribes under its command, and I am afraid that we will no longer listen to the control of our base mountain. I'm also wondering if these Pigs were premeditated, and if they couldn't bear the encroachment strategy of our base mountain anymore. ”

"It seems that the export of weapons and armor from our base mountain has led to this sudden change in the balance of strength!" Zhang Quan sighed when he heard this.

"Yes! Almost, the armor and weapons sold out in our base mountain, although they are not as good as our own use, but they are definitely rare to see in the wasteland in the past, and even the Minotaur tribe has to admit that the steel they smelt is far inferior to ours, not to mention other tribes that can't strike iron at all. ”

And, besides this, there is one more thing," said old Kate again,

"I heard that the Iron Hammer Tribe of the Minotaur in the northeast of our Iron Fort has also undergone some changes, and I heard that due to the recent increase in the supply of steel in the Iron Fort Ironhearth, the scale of the blacksmith shop in the clan has increased more than ten times, and the news of various new styles of armor and weapons and new varieties of steel has also spread, and there are also small waves in the circle of the entire Minotaur tribe in the wasteland. There are a lot of new minotaurs in the Minotaur Alliance, and the population of the Hammer Tribe has increased dramatically, and now it is so thriving! ”

Zhang Quan listened to it, thought about it carefully, and had to say that this was the butterfly effect brought by the rise of the base mountain tribe to the surrounding forces.

As mentioned earlier, the Minotaurs are a very different race of orcs, and they have a natural obsession with the hobby of steelmaking and ironmaking and the improvement of technology in this area. In normal times, a certain minotaur master in the clan, once he hit a peerless weapon, it would be a sensation for all the minotaur tribes, not to mention that this is a breakthrough in a new steel breed, the invention of a series of new armor, although the hammer tribe is just a small tribe located in the northwest of the wasteland, but it does not prevent the minotaur from traveling thousands of miles to come here for verification.

Although this change came from the Iron Hammer Tribe, it was actually related to the steel industry that originated in the base mountain. The current Iron Hammer Tribe and Base Mountain are truly strategic friendly partnerships.

Ironforge Fort has been a lot more lively recently, the population of the clan has also increased significantly, and the Hammer Tribe is no longer an obscure small tribe in the Minotaur Alliance, but has gained a lot of fame and appeal.