178. Chapter 178

After staying at Tiebi Pass for a day and a night, and purchasing a large number of items, Du Long and the others left the West City Gate and began to rush towards Nanshan Village!

This time in the Tiebi Guancheng, Du Long and the others did not go to Yang Yunye again, after all, there are many problems in taking Xia Ye and his wife out of this place this time, it is better not to meet him, it is better not to see him, so as not to worry about others!

It is more difficult to enter the Iron Wall Pass, but it is much easier to get out, and the group easily walked out of the West City Gate and began to speed up in the northwest direction!

Du Long and Princess Huofeng rode the big lion Xiao Lie to lead the way, the three members of the Xia family sat in a carriage, Mrs. Xia was recovering from her illness, and she was not suitable for riding a horse for the time being!

Xia Qinglian naturally sat in the carriage, staying with her parents, she hadn't seen her for thirteen years, and she now cherishes every moment with the second elder!

Due to the limited speed of the carriage, they drove for two days in a row before they returned to Nanshan Village!

After settling the second elder in the house of the village chief Hu Yan, Hu Guo took Du Long to the meeting hall of Nanshan Village, where he met dozens of strange Hu strong men, and saw that their strength was very extraordinary, at least reaching the strength of the first order of the Qi Sea!

Dozens of existences whose strength has reached the Qi Sea Level, among which there are two or three masters who have reached the Gangdan Rank, under Hu Yan's introduction, Du Long knew that these people were the village chiefs of nearby villages!

After a few polite words, everyone took their seats one by one, and first Hu Guo, the local village head, spoke: "You have all seen it, this is what I called the little brother Du Long, the lord of Fengli County of the Haotian Empire! He is willing to provide us with fertile land, and the treatment of conscription, five gold coins per person per month, will never break his promise!"

"Big beard! We are all here for your face, to put it mildly, we believe in your person, but we can't believe the person of this lord of the Haotian Empire!" said a big man whose strength had reached the first rank of Gangdan as he looked at Hu Guo with a humming voice.

"That's right! The people of the Haotian Empire have always been insidious and cunning, don't even know how to coax you with words!" another big man spoke.

"The most important point is that the imperial court of the Haotian Empire has always guarded against our Hu people, how can it give us a fertile piece of land for our development?! Nine times out of ten, this young lord is deceiving us!"

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Most of these Hu village elders don't believe in Du Long, the lord of the Haotian Empire, and don't believe that such a good thing will happen to them.

"Everyone!" After listening for a long time, seeing that these Huren village chiefs finally quieted down a little, Du Long sat up straight and spoke with a serious face.

Seeing that everyone stopped talking and turned their attention to himself, Du Long continued: "I can understand your concerns! Therefore, I promised Brother Hu Guo that as long as the family is willing to follow me, each family will be given ten gold coins first! After settling down in my territory, if anyone thinks that I have deceived him, he can leave on his own, and I will not stop him!"

"I'm Hu Xuan! I'm willing to vouch for Du Long's little brother with my own reputation! You also know that if it weren't for him, the two hundred or so people of our entire hunting team in Nanshan Village would have died under the claws of the sand leopard demon! Our lives will be Du Long's little brother from now on!" Hu Guo, the head of Nanshan Village, patted his chest and assured firmly.

"Actually, the reason why we agreed to come to Nanshan Village to see this Lord Du this time is mainly because we are very impressed by the conditions he provided! Since we have the guarantee of the bearded, as long as I can see that Lord Du has enough gold coins on him, I am willing to take my clansmen to follow you!" said a big man with a beard sitting at the outermost part of the crowd.

This Hu man's name is Hu Zong, he has reached the fifth order of Gangdan, and he is the most powerful existence among the many Hu village chiefs, as soon as he opens his mouth, the others have nothing to say, and they all look at Du Long with wide eyes!

Turning over his hands, ten heavy bags fell to the ground, Du Long did not hide the secret of his space ring in front of everyone, in order to deter these Hu people, they must let them know their strength in all aspects!

Reaching out and directly opening a bag, in an instant, a whole bag of gold coins appeared in front of everyone, making the eyes of these poor bearded men light up.

"Here is 100,000 gold coins in cash, which I just exchanged from the Tiebi Pass Xingchen Money Village, as long as you bring your own people out, when the time comes, each family will be able to get ten gold coins from these gold coins!" Du Long said loudly, pointing to the ten bags of gold coins.

"Very good!Lord Du has already demonstrated your strength, please give me ten more days, and we will go back and gather all the clansmen!" said the village head, Hu Zong, with satisfaction.

"No problem!" Du Long replied with a smile: "However, I suggest that everyone bring some tent food when they come over, in addition to bringing their valuables at home, and don't bring out those bulky belongings!

"Okay, we'll all listen to the lord's arrangement!"

The other Huren village chiefs also followed suit, and then said goodbye and returned to their respective villages to prepare to go, the migration of the clan is not a trivial matter, and there are many trivial things to deal with!

After politely sending away dozens of Hu village chiefs, Du Long asked Hu Guo alone: "Brother Hu Yan! I just looked at it, there are a total of forty-one village chiefs, can you tell me how many people these villages have in total?"

"Well...... "Some big villages have three or five thousand people, some are like us, there are less than a thousand, and some are only a few hundred, a total of about eighty or ninety thousand people!"

"Eighty or ninety thousand people?!" Du Long said in disbelief: "I really didn't expect it! It's only been a few days, and Brother Hu has said that so many people have been moved!"

"Hehe! Actually, it's nothing, there are many reasons why it can go so smoothly, one is that we are really fed up with this kind of day of fear and want to leave this barren ghost place as soon as possible! The second is because the Barbarian Hu Kingdom treats us people too arrogantly, once there is a war, we don't take into account our feelings when recruiting, not to mention that the army doesn't even have a percent of you!" Hu Yan said with a desolate smile.

"I see!" Du Long suddenly replied.

Ten days passed quickly, as early as five days ago, the Hu people began to come from all over the country, Du Long placed them all outside Nanshan Village, and asked Hu Yan to send people to help set up a camp outside the village, and a large number of tents soon surrounded Nanshan Village!

Fortunately, these Hu people will bring tents and food when they go out hunting on weekdays, and they have their own unique set of methods in logistics support, which saves Du Long a lot of energy!

In the past ten days, Du Long also went out alone a few times at night, of course, to arrange for the ironclad water rhino clan, and he had to take them back to the secret base in the territory with him!

In the end, all the Hu people who were willing to follow Du Long were all assembled, and there was no need to count the number of people one by one, as long as the Ring Spirit Beauty easily scanned it at once, she would help them calculate the final total number - 86,316 people!

According to the statistics of the Ring Spirit Beauty, the young and middle-aged people here account for six or seven percent, reaching a terrifying fifty-six thousand!

In other words, in the future, even if Du Long left 6,000 young and middle-aged Hu people to guard his homeland, he would still be able to gather a full 50,000 Hu people iron cavalry army!

There are a lot of people, but correspondingly, the burden is terrible!

More than 10,000 households, each household ten gold coins, just the ten gold coins given in advance by each household, it cost Du Long more than 100,000 gold coins, if you want to levy 50,000 Hu soldiers in the future, you will have to pay 250,000 gold coins every month, this is just a pure army, and other food and drink expenses have not been counted!

In order to feed this army, it seems that Du Long has to find a way to make more money!

After all the relevant matters were ready, Du Long chose to start immediately in the early morning of one day, after everyone had eaten and drunk, and in the shocked eyes of tens of thousands of Hu people, they actually chose to go to the southwest, rather than the relatively safe southeast!

All the Hu people knew that the southeast direction was the location of the Haotian Empire, and it was relatively safe to walk from the Haotian Empire, so they always thought that they should go to the Haotian Empire and rush all the way to Fengli County, but how did they know that Du Long didn't want to expose the secret in front of all the forces of the empire too early!

And choosing to travel to the southwest, this direction is inside the Forest of Demon Beasts, and taking tens of thousands of people into the Forest of Demon Beasts, this is too crazy, right?!

Soon, dozens of Huren village chiefs questioned Du Long, and they knew very well that even if tens of thousands of people entered the Demon Beast Forest together, there would probably be only one result, and that was heavy losses!

Once they encounter a group of high-level demon beasts, their tens of thousands of people will have no ability to resist, and let these village chiefs send their own people to the tiger's mouth, they really can't do it!

In the face of many village chiefs' questions, Du Long had only one reply, 'Don't be bored, you will know the reason for my actions in the afternoon!'

In this regard, these village chiefs can only force down their doubts and continue to move forward in the direction specified by Du Long, they are still communicating in secret, if the answer given by Du Long in the afternoon does not satisfy them, they will definitely not take their clansmen into the Forest of Demon Beasts to die!

With this thought, these Hu people continued to move forward with Du Long, and as time went by, it was finally noon, and just when these village chiefs couldn't help but want to ask what was going on, everyone was frightened by the scene they saw!

In a dense forest, there was a loud rumbling sound, and soon nearly 10,000 huge ironclad water rhinos rushed towards him with neat steps.