Having lost so many strong laborers at once, the remaining barbarians no longer have the courage to resist, all for the sake of living, surrender and surrender. For little reason, the surviving barbarians all chose to surrender.

After counting the harvest. Ma Shuo found that in fact, there were very few old people and few weak people in the barbarian tribe, and there were many women and children, and the rest were strong laborers.

In addition to the more than 100 adult barbarians who were killed, there were more than 300 barbarians captured, of which there were more than 150 adult barbarians, and there were thirty or forty half-grown barbarians. Adult barbarians and half-sized children are naturally what Ma Shuo needs most. However, those women and children, Ma Shuo did not intend to give up, population is always the most important resource.

Ma Shuo selected eighty of the more than one hundred and fifty adult barbarians who were particularly strong and had good qualities in all aspects and were scattered into the team of 1,000 people. Originally, Ma Shuo was worried about whether these barbarians would be able to integrate in quickly, but after eating a meal of a thousand people, these barbarians immediately had no other ideas. Then, when Ma Shuo told them that as long as they made meritorious contributions in the future, their families would be given land.

Whether it is for the people of the Great Qin State or the barbarians, the land is the most important foundation of life. When they learned that they could get the land, the barbarians immediately gave up. Not only that, but the families of these barbarians also told them that they must make meritorious contributions.

The barbarians who were not incorporated into the Thousand People's Team, Ma Shuo temporarily left them in their original station, and did not send them back to Panlong Ridge. Ma Shuo plans to establish some secret strongholds in the barbarian region as a stronghold for continued infiltration in the future. Because there are people here in the thousand-man team, there is no need to worry about the people who stay will have other thoughts.

Of course, Ma Shuo will soon arrange for a part of the guards to be stationed here, on the one hand, to monitor the families of these barbarians, and on the other hand, to strengthen the defense of the garrison in case it is annexed by other barbarian tribes.

The barbarian world is not harmonious, and it is completely normal for different tribes to attack and annex each other.

The resources of the barbarian world are actually very rich. It's just that many resource barbarians don't know how to use it. Ma Shuo quickly recognized the value of some of these resources by relying on the information that had been unsealed in the fusion brain domain.

After weighing it up, Ma Shuo decided to set up a secret base in the barbarian area.

So, after conquering three more small tribes, Ma Shuo stopped his expedition and began to take a short break. First, the number of barbarians in the newly formed thousand-man team has reached nearly five hundred during this time, and the thousand-man team has been full. In this case, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the thousand-man team, it is necessary to conduct very rigorous training.

Therefore, the first purpose of recuperation is training.

The second purpose is integration. Integrate the remaining people of several tribes to form a larger tribe, and use this as a basis to establish a secret base and develop and use the resources of the barbarian region.

The guards from Panlongling and a group of craftsmen of all kinds have been put in place, and now there are people who can do the work. The barbarians in these tribes happen to be the best laborers.

Naturally, Ma Shuo doesn't have to worry too much about establishing a base and carrying out production. Before, among the slaves purchased by Fan Zeng, there were many management talents in this area, and it was just when these people came into play. In order to make these people full of enthusiasm for work, Ma Shuo promised them that as long as they did their jobs, after three to five years, Ma Shuo would give them a free status and cancel their slavery.

The elimination of slavery was the greatest temptation for these people who sold themselves into slavery.

This secret base in the barbarian region, Ma Shuo is mainly used to craft weapons. Because the small tribes conquered by Ma Shuo were not far from the valley where Ma Shuo had obtained iron ore before, according to Ma Shuo's original plan, he was going to directly occupy that valley and then build a nearby base for iron smelting and weapon building.

Now, the reason why Ma Shuo has established his base in this place, in addition to using barbarian labor, is mainly because he accidentally discovered an almost open-pit coal mine here.

With coal mines, Ma Shuo has no shortage of burning things to make iron. Not only that, but the temperature released by the combustion of coal is inherently higher than that of ordinary wood, which is very helpful for refining high-quality steel.

Obviously, this base is of great significance to Ma Shuo. Therefore, Ma Shuo also attaches great importance to this. After the arrival of more than 1,000 guards, the first thing they did was to clear the nearby wild beasts and lone barbarians, and then lead the conquered barbarians to build defensive walls.

In order to speed up the construction speed, Ma Shuo asked Panlong Village to send a thousand guards to help. Now, the number of the guards has reached nearly 4,000, and 2,000 have been transferred, and there are less than 2,000 people in Panlong Village, so there is not much of a problem.

"Chihe, do you know which tribe in the vicinity has a large number of horses?"

Chi He was a warrior of one of the barbarian tribes conquered by Ma Shuo, and he was also a very clever guy. At the beginning, when Ma Shuo brought people to their tribe, without waiting for Ma Shuo to let people attack, this guy first proposed to fight Ma Shuo alone. The conditions are very simple, if Ma Shuo defeats him, he will surrender to Ma Shuo with the people in the tribe, otherwise, let Ma Shuo take the people away.

The first time I saw a barbarian put forward such a condition, Ma Shuo was also playful for a while, so he agreed to the other party's challenge. It's just that the result is doomed. There were three challenges. The first item is strength, and Chi He, who thought he had amazing strength, was shocked and defeated by Ma Shuo. The way for the two to test their strength is very simple, that is, to wrestle their wrists.

When there was no contact, Chi He didn't take Ma Shuo seriously. However, as soon as the hands of the two touched, Chi He felt a huge force pressing towards him like Mount Tai was pressing on him, and he didn't even have a chance to resist.

The second is a match. This time, Chi He is still not Ma Shuo's opponent, the spear in Ma Shuo's hand is haunting, killing Chi He in a hurry, and his own advantages have not been able to play at all. However, through the fight, Ma Shuo also admitted that the combat power of this barbarian was still very good, at least at the level of Zhang Chen and Guan Yun.

There is no comparison in the third item, because two have already been lost, and the third item is meaningless.

Because he was conquered by Ma Shuo in this way, Chihe's status around Ma Shuo was different from that of other barbarians. Ma Shuo directly transferred this guy to his side as a personal guard, and as soon as this decision came out, the veteran guards were greatly stimulated. However, Ma Shuo's decision was not objected to. However, when he learned that he wanted to be Ma Shuo's personal guard, Chi He was so moved that he immediately knelt down and kissed Ma Shuo's feet reverently.

Kissing each other's feet is a very high etiquette in the barbarian world, indicating the most pious submission and will never rebel. Obviously, Chi He was moved and conquered by Ma Shuo's trust.

Ma Shuo was very happy to receive the submission of such a barbarian warrior. Chihe's strength is not small, but because of the limited conditions, the weapon he used before was a very rough stone hammer. So, Ma Shuo told him to wait until the iron here was refined, and the first one to make him a hammer. This promise made Chi He excited again.

Now, Ma Shuo suddenly asked Chi He about the horses, and Chi He couldn't help but scratch his head and think about it seriously.