Chapter 697: Manpower

This time, Shao Xuan and Duokang brought a total of 200 people, and they couldn't bring more.

There is also a person from the Yu tribe in the team - Qing Yi, who was still an intermediate totem warrior back then, and now he has been promoted to a senior level, and Qing Yi often took the team out to trade before, and he is quite experienced among the people of the Yu tribe. Moreover, Qingyi's eyes are brown, and in the Yu tribe, people with eyes of this color have a relatively mild temper, are not easy to be irritable, and are not reckless.

This time, Qing Yi himself took the initiative to propose to Shao Xuan that he wanted to accompany him, he himself had led the team to the Pu tribe many times before, but it didn't count if it was really a long trip, that distance was really like a joke compared to the long journeys of other tribes, so this time, when Qing Yi saw that Yanjiao was going to travel far again, he asked to follow his peers and go out for a long time.

If nothing else, Seiichi is already the next leader of the internal designation, and when Fanmu steps down, Seiichi will take over. In any case, the next leader of a tribe should have a wider range of knowledge, but the scope of activities of the people of the tribe is too small, and many things are only known after the establishment of the Yanhe trading area, and it is only heard about. So, Seiichi wanted to seize this opportunity to go out and have a look and see what the real trip was like.

Unexpectedly, this time Yanjiao's long journey was much farther than that of other tribes, and instead of giving up, Qing Yi looked forward to it even more. The Yanjiao tribe has a kind of water sun stone, which he got on the other side of the sea, and if he has the opportunity, he also wants to go and see what is there.

Shao Xuan didn't refuse, Qingyi can control his temper, he won't be impulsive, and he won't talk nonsense about things that should be kept secret.

When Shao Xuan and the people arrived at the Longboat Tribe, the river that flowed through the Longboat Tribe was blocked for a long time, but there were very few long-distance teams going there by boat, and Shao Xuan didn't see the boats blocked there.

Got the news that the Flamehorn people have finally arrived. The leader of the Longboat tribe, Mu Fell, quickly came out of the tribe.

"You're finally here!" he had already received a letter from Flamehorn, and eagerly made all the preparations, even blocking that section of the river to protect the boat.

Before they fused the fire, they had agreed to the conditions of Yanjiao, and this time the people of Yanjiao were going to sea. This is exactly what the Longboat tribe wants.

They have been looking forward to this day for a long, long time.

Everything was ready, and he waited for days before he saw Yanjiao's ship coming.

"You're too slow!" murmured Woodcut, "when are you leaving? We're ready to sail!"

Shao Xuan looked at the river, when he came to the Changzhou tribe, there were many large and small boats on the river in front of the Changzhou tribe, and now, all the others have disappeared. There were only fifteen ships docked there, ten large ships, five small ships, and of course, that was only relative, because those five small ships were the same size as the two ships that the Longboat Tribe had given to Yanjiao, and they should have been made in the same batch.

Shao Xuan had suspected that the Longboat tribe might have greater ambitions when he sent the boat to the Changzhou tribe. Even in the shadows there is something better hidden, now. He finally saw it,

Those ten big ships were twice as big as the boats Shao Xuan and the others were riding on now, and they looked like they had not been built for a long time and had never been used before.

After the fusion of the fire, the ambition of the Longboat tribe seems to have been ignited.

This time, if it weren't for Yanjiao's proposal to go to sea. The Longboat Tribe may not have exposed these ten ships so early.

"What, scared?" Mu Fa saw the surprised or amazed eyes of Yanjiao and his group, and his face showed a look of smugness, "How many boats do you think we will come up with?"

"What? Think it's a boat? Are you kidding? Are you sure it's a long trip to the sea and not a play?...... You think there are only ten ships?What? You look down on our longboat tribe? When did our longboat tribe travel far away and only go out of the ten boats?!"

When Shao Xuan was chatting with Duokang and them in the woodcut, he went into the boat to visit. The internal structure is similar to the two ships sent to them by the Longboat tribe. The boats are designed with watertight compartments, and the masts and sails have also been improved, making them more suitable for traveling in windy and rough places.

I'm afraid no one would have thought that a tribe in the interior would always think about how to go to sea.

Because he was in a hurry to go to sea, the expedition of the Longboat tribe was personally led by the leader Mu Fa.

Without the primordial fire, after fusing the fire, they can leave the tribe for a longer time, without worrying about the degradation of strength, this time there are nearly three hundred longboat tribesmen who follow the wood felling, on average, there are only about twenty people on each ship, twenty people, but they can control a big ship very well.

If there is a need, aren't there still Yanjiao people?

The ship was already full of supplies, enough for them to wander outside for a long time, the Longboat tribe did not have as many jerky made of ferocious beast meat as Yanjiao, but they had other substitutes, such as some grains unique to their tribe, which were never traded with the outside world, they only kept them in their own hands, and the team that traveled far away every year would bring some, for this expedition, because the preparation time was too small, they bought a lot of other food from other tribes that could be stored for a long time.

Not only were the people of Changzhou anxious, but the people of Yanjiao were also unwilling to delay, so after staying in the Longboat tribe for one night, the team set off early the next morning.

The ships of the Longboat tribe were ahead, and they were familiar with the waterways and led the way in front.

Among the people who traveled, Shao Xuan also saw a few acquaintances, such as Mu You. The longboat tribe spent most of the time on the boat, running around along the various rivers, and the knowledge should also be there, and observing the celestial phenomena is a skill that many crew members need to learn, so that they can judge the weather as soon as possible, and they can also prepare in advance to reduce losses. Mu You, the elder of the Changzhou tribe, can be regarded as the best in judging the celestial phenomena, but Mu You doesn't dare to look directly with Shao Xuan, when he was looking for the blue-faced fangs in the fierce beast mountain forest, Mu You was slapped in the face by Shao Xuan.

Now that the two tribes are cooperative, their interests are related, and Mu You will not directly shake his face, but just look embarrassed, and try not to contact Shao Xuan. As soon as he saw Shao Xuan, Mu You would remember that he had been slapped in the face at that time, and he, a leader in judging celestial phenomena, would make a mistake! The most embarrassing thing was that most people chose to believe Shao Xuan and not believe him at that time! Fortunately, not many people knew about this matter.

Shao Xuan asked for a boat from the Changzhou tribe again, but there were no big boats, and there were still a lot of small boats.

Because he was in a hurry to go to sea, he didn't hesitate to cut down this time, and agreed very boldly, and in order to make up the whole number, he directly transferred two more ships, although they were used, but there was no quality problem, and the longboat tribe still attached great importance to the maintenance of the boat.

Twenty ships, in this place where even ships are rare, is not a small scale, especially the first ten, which is quite eye-catching.

Everywhere they passed, there were many people who stopped and watched, and waited until the twenty ships had left and could no longer be seen, and then they withdrew their sight. Shipbuilding also requires talent, why are the ships of the Longboat tribe not easy to sink? The secret involved in this is not the slightest bit, even if someone imitates it and creates that shape, it will not be able to create that kind of quality.

Moreover, this time the shipbuilding used some of the new bronze that the Longboat tribe bought at a high price from Yanjiao, and they couldn't get the new bronze, and the people of Yanjiao would not be stupid enough to tell them the secrets in the new bronze, and the ship of the longboat was also needed by Yanjiao, so there would be such a mutually beneficial transaction.

The people of the Changzhou tribe would rather use stone tools themselves than cut corners on the ship, so Shao Xuan can also trust the quality of these twenty ships. If there is anyone else who can build the safest seafaring ship now, I am afraid that it is only the Longboat tribe.

Of course, outsiders don't know about the deals.

And those who stood on the shore to watch the fleet thought at first that it was another big operation of the Longboat tribe, but those who looked carefully found that this was not the case, and there were also Yanhorn people in it.

Why do you know the Yanjiao people? Because of the trading area and the matter of the king beast behind it, Yanjiao has become popular on this continent for a while, and now many people know the flame totem symbol of Yanjiao.

Following the waterway guided by the Longboat tribe, the flotilla reached the steppe. The grassland is very large, if it weren't for the guidance of the Changzhou tribe, Shao Xuan wouldn't have known that there was such a waterway here, which was a route that Shao Xuan and the others had never taken.

While sailing forward, Shao Xuan perfected the map.

The further he went, the deeper the doubt in Shao Xuan's heart became.

The tribesmen who lived on both sides of the river on the steppe seemed to be unfamiliar with the behavior of the Longboat tribe, and at most they were only amazed by the shipbuilding skills of the longboat tribe, and when they could only use canoes or rafts, the longboat tribe was able to build boats many times larger than the largest tent of their tribe.

Except for the fact that it sometimes takes a little more effort to go upstream, there are no big obstacles along the way, one is that there are very few giant beasts in the grassland and the river, and the other is that the tribes living here are familiar with the Changzhou tribe, and they are unwilling to provoke the Changzhou tribesmen.

When he arrived at the end of the grassland, Shao Xuan also met the people of the Hui tribe.

When Shao Xuan set off from the tribe, he asked Chirp to bring a letter to the Hui tribe, and now Chirp is waiting here with the people who return to the tribe, and the Changzhou tribe will follow a few people, in case they encounter other mountain peaks and giant eagles on the way. There are people from the tribe who are here, and it is a little safer to avoid the attacks of the giant eagles on the peaks in this area.

The river meandered between the mountains, and Shao Xuan asked Mu Felling, "Did there really exist such a route from the longboat to the grassland and then through these mountains before?"

Mu Fa paused, looking at the direction of the river in front of him, as if through time and space, "Of course there was no original, the reason why it can flow through is because of our longboat tribe, which drove it ourselves!"

Otherwise, why can it go all the way to the present?

"What do you think our fleet of the Longboat Tribe is going to do every year?" said the woodcutter.

Many of the rivers were originally unintersected, but because of the people of the Longboat tribe, they were intertwined.

Connecting the most suitable rivers and exploring the most suitable waterways, the longboat people have planned it all!

Manpower has created this route into the sea! )

PS: Sorry for the delay, it's only coming out now. Later in the next chapter.