Chapter 318 How to convince the public if you don’t have the ability?
The eighth year since the establishment of the Vine Tribe, mid-June.
After the construction of the Otter tribe's ship wharf, the Vine tribe's water transportation became more convenient. The benefit that followed was that they could boldly open up wasteland on both sides of the river in places suitable for farming.
With smooth water transportation, people, agricultural tools, fertilizers, harvested grains, vegetables and other materials can be transported in a timely manner to places far away from the Vine Tribe.
The first piece of wasteland opened up by the Teng tribe is outside the tribal territory, about five kilometers away from the tribe's residence. It is a large flat land accumulated by the sediment brought by the river. It is currently covered with reeds and various weeds and shrubs.<
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"Woooo..."
Ten large ships docked at the riverside one after another. After lowering the sails and anchoring, a thick wooden board stretched out from the deck of each ship to connect it to the river beach.
Jiang Xuan got off the boat with the leader of the fleet, Jing Jie, the leader of the second hunting team, Shi Loach, and the new leader of the planting team, Shui Cang, and walked to the gravel-covered river beach.
Subsequently, more than a hundred Vine tribe warriors and more than 400 Locust tribe prisoners got off the boat.
The Locust Tribe was wiped out last fall, and these captives also arrived from the Vine Tribe last fall. Up to now, they have been in the Vine Tribe for more than half a year.
The Vine Tribe has obtained more than 2,000 captives from the Locust Tribe. Three-quarters of them have gradually become accustomed to the life of the Vine Tribe and no longer reject the Vine Tribe. Many people even want to join the Vine Tribe and become members of the Vine Tribe.
A true member of the Vine Tribe.
The more than 400 captives who were brought here this time are all quite unruly and unruly, and they still hate the people of the Vine Tribe.
This time they wanted to open up wasteland outside the tribe, so Jiang Xuan simply brought them over and continued to polish their pride in a difficult environment.
After all the prisoners came down, the people on the river beach were already crowded and the queues were very long.
Jingjie first went on a patrol, then returned to Jiang Ze and whispered: "Chief, all the prisoners on the ship have been taken down."
Jiang Ze nodded, walked to more than 400 prisoners, pointed to the large reed tunnel next to him and said: "From today on, you will stay here to open up wasteland, and you will have food and accommodation here!"
"I know that many of you are still hostile to the Vine Tribe, but it doesn't matter. I don't care what you think, as long as you work hard for me!"
"Shui Cang!"
Shui Cang hurriedly walked to Jiang Xuan: "Here."
Jiang Xuandao: "Although Gan Song recommended you to me, the people in the tribe are still doubting whether you have the ability to be the leader of this planting team and whether you have the ability to convince the public."
"From today on, all these prisoners will be under your control. I don't ask about the process. I only want to see how much wasteland you clear out and how many things you plant with them in the end."
"If you can prove your ability, from now on, the position of leader of the planting team will belong to you. If you don't have this ability, then I will have to choose another person to be the leader. Do you understand?"
Shui Cang nodded solemnly and said: "Chief, I understand, I will definitely work hard."
After hesitating for a moment, Shui Cang asked cautiously: "Chief, what should I do if someone doesn't listen to me?"
Jiang Xuan glanced at him and said calmly: "You are also a three-color warrior after all. Isn't the bronze knife hanging on your waist just a decoration? Can't you kill people?"
"Chief, I understand."
Shui Cang bowed respectfully to Jiang Xuan, then held the bronze knife in one hand and glanced at the frightened captives with his sharp eyes.
Jiang Ze said to Shi Loach again: "Take people to clean up the ferocious beasts and poisonous snakes nearby."
"Yes!"
Shi Loach raised his bronze spear and shouted to the more than a hundred warriors: "Follow me!"
"Shashasha..."
More than a hundred warriors followed the stone loach and rushed into the reed field. Soon, birds were startled, and occasionally there were hunting whistling sounds and beast roars.
Shui Cang shouted to the more than 400 prisoners: "Follow me and enter the reed field!"
Because this is a wasteland, Shui Cang needs to lead the captives to clear a piece of flat land first, and then build houses and have a place to live before considering the issue of land reclamation.
Although these prisoners still had hatred in their hearts, they were also afraid of death and did not dare to resist face to face. They could only follow Shuicang sparsely into the reed field, and then chose a relatively high place to start clearing the ground and building houses.
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"Chief, is it really okay for you to let Shui Cang take so many disobedient prisoners at once?"
Jingjie is a little worried about Shuicang's situation, because this is not the territory of the Teng tribe after all, and it is impossible for those prisoners to work honestly.
Jiang Xuandao: "If he can't even surrender more than 400 prisoners, how can I safely hand over a planting team of two to three thousand people to him, and how can those people in the planting team be convinced?"
"The leader said..."
Although Jingjie still felt a little wrong in her heart, Jiang Xuan's words made sense. If you want to be the leader of a huge team, how can you convince the crowd if you don't have enough ability?
"You don't have to worry too much. I will let the soldiers of the second hunting team guard here in rotation until all these prisoners are returned to the Shun Teng tribe or killed."
After listening to Jiang Xuan's words, Jingjie finally felt relieved. With the soldiers of the second hunting team here, although the number of these prisoners was larger, they could not cause any trouble.
Jiang Ze thought for a while and then said: "Go to the boat and pull out a totem flag, hang it in the most conspicuous place, and draw some totem patterns on the boulders on the river beach."
"Yes!"
Jingjie knew that this was Jiang Xuan announcing to other tribes that from now on, this is the territory of the Teng tribe, and any tribe that wants to get close to here must weigh the consequences.
He immediately got on the boat to get a totem flag, and then tied the totem flag to the tallest tree on the river bank.
Later, Jing Jie led several more warriors and painted the totem patterns of the Vine Tribe on nearby boulders and trunks of big trees.
After Shi Loach came back, Jiang Xuan asked him to keep the soldiers from the second hunting team he had brought here, and told him that every month, these soldiers should be rotated with other soldiers from the second hunting team.
Although the soldiers of the second hunting team were reluctant to guard the prisoners here, since it was the leader's order and they would be rotated, no one dared to raise any objections.
After doing all this, Jiang Xuan, Jing Jie and others returned to the tribe by boat. Only Shi Loach and the soldiers of the second hunting team stayed there temporarily to build houses.
As soon as he returned to the tribe, Jiang Xuan unexpectedly learned a piece of news.
Nan Xing, the leader of the guard team, said to him: "Chief, Leader Luzhu of the Rex tribe has been waiting for you in the tribe for a day."
"Lu Zhu? Did he say something?"
Nan Xing shook his head and said: "No, he only said that he must see the leader."
"Okay, you can take him to the living room later and I'll meet him there."
"Yes!"
Nan Xing immediately went to find Lu Zhu, while Jiang Xuan returned to his yard, washed himself briefly, changed into spider silk clothes, and then went to the living room to see Lu Zhu.
He was very curious, what exactly did Lu Zhu want to do when he came to him at this time?