Volume 2: The Loose World Chapter 119: Re-examination (21) Slavery
The battle of the Fire Tribe lasted for half a day, and it took another half a day to clean up the battlefield, and Mu Wu took a dozen people from the medical department to treat and bandage the wounded soldiers, and the time soon came to night, and the sky was getting dark.
Bonfires were lit all over the fire tribe, the warriors took turns to cook and bake, the wounded lay down to rest, and the rest were divided into half of the guard, and in the largest tree house next to the fire pit, Wu, You, and Fan began to count the casualties and harvest.
Of the four hundred warriors of the Wood Tribe who participated in the battle, more than 70 were killed, more than 70 were seriously injured, more than 80 were slightly injured, and the rest were not injured, but the consumption was relatively serious, and they could recover after resting.
As for the Fire Tribe, there were originally nearly 1,500 people and more than 500 warriors, but in the Wood Tribe's guard battle ten years ago, nearly 200 people died before and after, plus those who died from serious injuries that did not heal.
Over the years, the number of warriors has only increased to 400, all of whom died in the battles during the day, and even ordinary clansmen have died more than 200, leaving nearly 700 slaves and less than 200 escaped.
In the dangerous jungle, without the protection of the tribe, ordinary people have no strength and can only become the blood food of fierce beasts, in order to prevent the tribe's slaves from defecting, the wood witch did not send people to chase them, let them go.
The Wood Tribe arrested the old man of the Fire Tribe who surrendered and asked for all kinds of detailed information about the Fire Tribe, and at first there were some people who refused to cooperate, and they were ruthless, and directly cut down more than 50 people.
The remaining twenty or so old men trembled, did not dare to hide the slightest thing, cooperated very well, knew everything, said everything, and almost did not explain the matter of peeking at the chief's wife taking a bath when he was a child.
An old man came out of the tree house belonging to the fire witch and brought out a stack of animal bones with patterns engraved on them, with rudimentary symbols and images on them, but the wood witch did not understand their original text, so he asked them to translate it and listen.
On the bones of the beast is the history of the development of the fire tribe, recording the specific history of the development of the fire tribe to the present, the fire tribe started eight hundred years ago, experienced five generations of leaders, and there was no new idea in the previous three hundred years, it is an ordinary small tribe.
With the use of fire in 300 years, the tribe gradually became stronger, and in 500 years, salt mines were discovered, and the tribe entered a period of leap in strength, holding trade fairs and trading with other tribes.
The construction of fences, the construction of tree houses, foreign wars, etc., are all recorded in detail, and then, the wood witch received unexpected information, and six hundred years ago, the previous generation of fire witches surrendered to the forest Hou tribe, paying rock salt and offerings.
The Fire Witch obtained permission from the Ministry of Forestry and took charge of the jungle within a radius of five hundred miles. What is the place of the Forest Tribe? The Fire Tribe needs to surrender to them? The Wood Witch was wary and asked the old slave of the Fire Tribe.
The old slave only said that it was a very large tribe, but how big it was, but he could not describe it, and the tribe had only been there by the high-ranking people, and he took out a crude clay vase from the leader's treehouse.
The pottery vase is relatively rough, but it is a real pottery, although it is not as good as the craftsmanship of the wood tribe, nor is it comparable to the inferior pottery of the fire tribe, and it is obviously not a local product, and then, the old slave took him to see the place where the pottery was made.
Pointing to those shoddy clay pots, and comparing them with this real clay vase, it means that this kind of clay vase was exchanged from the Forest Weather Department, and the inferior pottery of the Fire Tribe was also imitated. can make stoneware, Mu Wu made a conclusion.
Then, the old slave took the Wood Witch to the fire tribe's animal pen, pointed to the sheep and deer raised in the group, and compared with the animals raised alone in the corner.
You can't see the gap from afar, and when you look closely, you can feel the difference, the animals raised collectively are relatively docile, and the animals raised separately are fierce, and the domestication time is not long.
The ones raised collectively were exchanged from the Ministry of Forest Weather, and the more ferocious ones were domesticated by the Fire Tribe itself, and they were raised, and Mu Wu added a conclusion, and his face gradually became solemn, feeling that it was a trouble.
However, the threat of the forest waiting department is far away, and the attitude is unclear, I don't know whether it is friend or foe, I can ignore it for the time being, and the other news I get is an imminent danger that has to be solved.
In addition to the fire leader, there is also a hunting captain, who is just guarding the salt mine, and the attack of the wood tribe is too sudden, and the other party does not notice.
When the Wood Witch asked about the salt mines, the Fire Tribe slave told him about it, and the Wood Witch's face became very ugly, and the threat of one Warrior was better than a hundred Warriors, and it must be eliminated as soon as possible.
Taking advantage of the fact that the other party has not yet reacted, he took it in one fell swoop, otherwise when the other party reacts, they will be the ones who will suffer, and after thinking hard for half the night, Mu Wu finally thought of a way, and implemented it the next day.
Cavalry was sent to escort the dead, the seriously wounded, and the lightly wounded back to the tribe, and the Fire tribe had a hundred warriors left, repaired the fences damaged in the battle, restored the scene to its original state, and began to educate the slaves.
Loosen the rattan on their feet, and spread their feet apart, leaving a foot in between, so that they could walk, but could no longer run freely, did not allow them to touch and communicate, and gathered them around the fire.
Nearly 200 young children, nearly 200 children, more than 100 teenagers, less than 200 adults, more than 100 women, and more than 20 old people.
They were taught separately, with young children following women, men accompanying the elderly, and teenagers taking children, and for the first few days, nothing else was done, but simple words were taught, and systematic language was taught.
The wood tribe has set tasks every day, and only by completing the specified tasks can you get food, and if you complete more, you can eat enough, or even eat support, and if you don't complete it well, you will not only starve, but also be beaten.
Under the torture of hunger and sticks, the slaves also became extremely industrious, and soon learned the language of the system, and were able to communicate normally with the wooden tribe, but the writing was not required, and there was no need for it for the time being.
When eighty percent of the people learned, the wood tribe carried out a separate "education" for the rest of the people, and those who came out had learned, and those who did not come out never appeared again, and then, the daily tasks changed.
Some warriors lectured them every day, listing one of the advantages of the wood tribe and one of the disadvantages of the fire tribe every day, and specially emphasized that it was the fire tribe that invaded the wood tribe first, and the wood tribe attacked the fire tribe.
They are now slaves of the wood tribe, all because of the leaders and witches of the fire tribe, so that the slaves can memorize the advantages and disadvantages in their original form, and only those who can carry them well will eat, and those who cannot carry them will starve.
The better the back, the higher the reward, in addition to the roots, stems and fruits of the plants that fill the stomach, there are also unsalted meat, salted meat, salted fish, small pieces of cane sugar, there are rewards and punishments, and the emotions of the slaves gradually become high.
In this way, for ten days, the benefits of the wood tribe and the disadvantages of the fire tribe can no longer be found, so the wood witch will let them memorize, and the cause and result of the battle are too long, so they will memorize a small paragraph every day, and there will be rewards and punishments.
In another ten days, most of the slaves of the Fire Tribe have been successfully brainwashed and turned their backs on their tribes, and even felt that the Fire Tribe was heinous and caused them to become slaves, and the Wood Tribe was their savior.
The Wood Witch then gathered the slaves together and disrupted their original humble family, three adults, two teenagers, three children, three toddlers, eleven people formed a new family, and six families formed a team.
More than 600 slaves became ten teams, and the best performing slaves were selected to be the captains of these six families, giving them animal skin clothes, giving them enough food every day, and managing the slaves.
He also selected the most obedient adult slave as the captain of the brigade, and managed ten teams, and gave him cloth and meat. And the system of joint sitting was implemented, and the whole family was punished if one person had an accident, and the captain and captain were also punished.
Mu Wu also promised in front of the slaves that if there were no problems with the slave team within a year, the captain would be able to become a member of the Mu tribe, give qi and blood spirit fruits at the high sacrifice, and become a real warrior.
From among the ten captains, the best management is selected to become the new captain, and the best performance in the original team becomes the new captain, and the layers are progressive. The slavery of the Wood Tribe, formalized.
With hope, there is motivation, although hope is small, but at least real, the enthusiastic Fire Tribe slaves devote themselves to the construction of the new tribe, and begin to strengthen the original fence.
With the addition of warriors, a team of nearly 800 people, food consumption is also a huge problem, but fortunately, the Fire Tribe has the habit of storing food, and from several hollowed out tree holes, 50,000 catties of grain were found.
Most of them are plant roots and fruits, a small part is pickled jerky, and a small amount of various medicinal herbs, and Mu Wu found a two-hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum in it, which is a small harvest.
For normal adult tribesmen, the consumption of a day is ten catties of grain, and eight hundred people are eight thousand catties, which is definitely not enough, but there are so many minors, half of whom are young children and children, and their consumption is much smaller.
The warriors of the Mu tribe had already prepared thirty fields of dry food, and before the other warriors left, they also left the excess food, and only took away the consumption on the road, which also had more than 100,000 catties, all of which were high-grade vegetarian and meat.
Slaves don't have to be fed too much, so as not to be full and have nothing to do, feed a six-point full, just don't delay doing things, so that the daily consumption is only more than two thousand catties.
The fire tribe's food storage is enough to support twenty days, and the twenty days of indoctrination consumption is less, and there is still half of the remaining food, and the slaves of the fire tribe eat ten days of food storage before they consume the food.
Exactly thirty days later, the troops of the Wood tribe went and returned, and the lightly wounded and seriously injured were left in the tribe to recuperate, and a full two hundred warriors in their heyday came, including cavalry and archers, and the grenadiers all stayed in the tribe.
They brought 200,000 catties of food, as well as a large number of healing medicinal materials, and filled the ten tree holes where the Fire Tribe stored grain, and the plant energy of the Wood Tribe was rich, comparable to high-level meat.
Two catties of Lingmai flatbread every day, ordinary clansmen can have a full stomach, and the warriors only need five catties, nearly 300,000 catties of food, enough for the slaves of the Fire Tribe and the warriors of the Wood Tribe, for a full five months of consumption, and the food is not worried!
Those newcomers of the Wood Tribe were worried about the disposal of the slaves, and before they entered the Fire Tribe, they saw the Fire Tribe slaves outside the tribe, who were in full swing and building wooden walls, and their eyes widened one by one.
Ignoring the shock in their hearts, Wood Witch directly called people to the fire pond to make battle arrangements for the salt mine, the salt mine must be in their hands, and the ability warriors must also be eradicated, this matter needs to be resolved as soon as possible.
The original more than 100 flesh and blood warriors of the tribe were killed in the battle, seven or eight people were killed in the battle, and more than 20 people were left behind in the tribe, and the rest were here, and the blood warriors stayed to guard, and he was ready to take these people to attack.
Mu Wu picked forty archers, thirty cavalrymen, fifteen shield men, and fifteen spearmen, a total of a hundred men, and prepared to conquer the salt mines, but of course they would not just go to attack recklessly.
According to the old man of the Fire Tribe, there are forty working clansmen, one hundred working slaves, twenty guarded warriors, five flesh warriors, and most importantly, the ability warrior in the salt mines.
Regardless of the other slaves, clansmen, and warriors for the time being, the most tricky thing is the ability warrior, who has only awakened for less than a year, and can kill the fire leader, but also because the other party has long been seriously injured, and even then he has injured himself.
Dealing with a heyday ability warrior, Yu will definitely not be his opponent, even if he adds the Wood Witch, it is difficult to win, and it is the best strategy to use a warrior to attack, even if he wins, he will lose a lot, and he needs to plan properly.