Hua Xi did not go to Sunset Castle for an inspection. He just took people for a walk around the iron wall and then returned to China City. At this time, he had to stay in the main city to control the overall situation. Everyone else was sent out to collect intelligence.
The tribesmen sent by Hua'an quickly brought back information about the specific situation of the Baishi tribe from Tukeng, which is far away from the Bailang tribe. Tukeng is not clear about it, because the Baishi tribe is in the mountainous area in the north and the roads are impassable.
It was extremely inconvenient to find out the news, but Tukan brought back extremely important news to the tribe. The Kotou tribe seemed to have close contacts with the Baishi tribe.
Dog-headed tribe? After getting the information from the tribe, Hua Xi once again heard about this tribe that he had not contacted for a long time. Although the dog-headed tribe had some trade relations with his own tribe, the transaction volume was not large. Hua Xi had no interest in paying attention to this tribe at all.
There are also people from the Kobold clan mining copper here, but they are not many.
Nowadays, there are close contacts between the Kobold Clan and the White Stone Clan, so he can’t help but make the connection.
Hua'an still handles some government affairs in the three cities. In order to ensure the rise and stability of trade, Hua Xi also specially selected some idle elders from the elders group to be responsible for supervising and recording the price fluctuations of items in the three cities.
In order to intervene and control the currency market in a timely manner
The elders and people are already preparing for the winter planting of rice. As for Hua Yong, Hua Xi asked him to maintain the security of China City, while Hua Feng was responsible for guarding the situation around the city and preventing some intentionally man-made tribes from taking advantage of the Chinese tribes.
Tens of days later, Hua An hurried to the palace and said breathlessly to Hua Xi: "Clan leader, all the spies I sent out have returned without success. The Baishi clan's current security measures against us Chinese are too strict. There is no
One person can find useful information."
"Do you know how much food they have?"
"have no idea"
Hua Xi thought for a moment and said, "Try to bribe a few of their tribesmen with things to ask."
"Buy?" Hua An heard this adjective for the first time and checked it.
After Hua Xi saw Hua An's reaction, he suddenly thought that people in this era didn't seem to understand what bribery was.
Hua Xi smiled and said: "I mean, give some items to a few Baishi people who can inquire about the food situation, and then extract information from them."
"Oh, patriarch, is this called bribery?" Hua An suddenly realized and asked in a low voice, his eyes darting around. No need to ask, this smart man thought of other aspects from this adjective.
Hua Xi nodded with a smile.
After the two carefully discussed some details of the bribery plan, Hua An also returned to his residence and arranged for his tribe to carry out the bribery operation.
The bribery strategy was very effective. After patient persuasion and material inducements, the few selected tribesmen who had frequent contacts with the Baishi tribe finally surrendered because they could no longer withstand the attack of sugar-coated bullets.
If the Baishi tribe saves money, they can barely survive for three or four months. In other words, while the weather has just turned cold, hunting hard will not be a problem to survive the cold winter. In addition, we also learned an important piece of information.
Because they were active in the mountainous area, they captured a lot of wild beasts, and the skins of those wild beasts became the same best-selling commodities they exchanged with other tribes. It is said that in the southeast of the Baishi tribe, as long as they leave the forest, it takes more than twenty days to walk.
You can reach a large tribe where the Baishi people can exchange for copper ore and other necessary items.
Hua Xi immediately took the map and wrote it, looked at it, and then contacted Tukan to report back that this large tribe in the southeast of the Baishi Tribe was probably the Kobold Tribe.
"Hey, I didn't expect that this Baishi man would reach out to the Southern Alliance," Hua Xi said thoughtfully.
"Clan leader, if the White Stone Clan is really trading with the Kobold Clan, it is very likely that the secret of bronze manufacturing will be spread! This is not good for us!" Hua An said worriedly
"Well, your worries are reasonable, but Bai Jiang is ambitious. I'm sure he won't tell the kobolds about Bai Shi's secrets, otherwise he wouldn't trade with the kobolds using only animal skins.
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"Well, even though this is the case, we still have to be on guard against it!" Hua An was still worried and reminded.
"Well! Regardless of whether he is really trading with the Kobolds or with other tribes in the alliance, this is not good news for us. I have my own opinion on this matter!" Hua Xi said in a deep voice.
"Yes, do you have any other orders, patriarch?"
"By the way, what happened to the alliance's previous request?" Hua Xi suddenly remembered several things that Hua An reported to him when he returned from the expedition earlier, and asked about Hua An.
"Chief, are you talking about domesticated mules, horses and inns?" Hua An confirmed.
Hua Xi nodded
"According to your instructions, I have adopted some restrictions to sell the mules, horses and other livestock used to transport goods to them! As for the post station, it is currently being built on two main roads between the three cities.
We visited three inns. Although they are a bit crude, they can still be used as temporary shelter from the wind and rain." Hua An briefly explained the implementation of the task.
"Oh? Restrictions? Tell me." Hua Xi was a little interested in the restrictions Hua An said.
"Haha, there are no restrictions on mules. As long as they have enough Chinese coins, they can buy mules from us. However, I have done a very strict method of cross-breeding mules. I believe they don't know that mules are cross-bred! As for
Horses, I'll double the price of horses as an example. One horse can be exchanged for dozens of adult wild boars with the alliance tribe, hehe!" Hua An thought about how many people from the White Wolf tribe were bargaining with the White Wolf tribe.
The faces of the famous people were not ordinary ugly, and they laughed when they thought of this
When Hua Xi heard this, he cursed in his heart: This Hua An has the potential to be a profiteer, but he is afraid that he will use this talent to amass private property. It seems that he needs to pay attention to him.
Hua Xi nodded and agreed with the move, and at the same time ordered: "The several stations built can be developed into small villages or checkpoints if conditions permit in the future."
Hua An nodded in agreement.
There are several ways to cut off the trade between the White Stone Tribe and other tribes: force blockade and harassment; discuss with the tribes in the Southern Alliance that trade with the White Stone Tribe to prevent the White Stone Tribe from trading items from them.
But the following method seems a bit unreasonable and not very feasible. It is not my turn to point out whoever other tribes want to trade with. If it doesn't work well and the Baishi tribe is angered, I will reveal the secret of bronze.
But it's serious
It seems that the only way is to block one way by force, but it is already the early winter season. It takes a lot of time to find out their trading routes and the tribes they trade with. In addition, the mountainous terrain is complex, and it is easy to get lost without a guide.
However, Hua Xi is not in a hurry. Firstly, the weather has turned cold, and the Baishi tribe does not dare to go too far. Secondly, the Baishi tribe prefers distant places to trade goods. The walking time between China City and the Doghead tribe is seven to eight times.
Oh my god, one is that it has been nearly a month, not counting the losses caused by various emergencies encountered on the road. Therefore, Hua Xi is not too worried about what terrible things the other party can do in a short period of time.
※※※※※※※※Time flies by quickly. In the blink of an eye, the oily green treetops are already covered with thick layers of white snow. The earth is also covered with a thick quilt.
Kan returned to the tribe long before the heavy snow closed the road. Every farmer looked at the cold world in front of them and found that the weather was no longer as annoying and fearful as before. Everyone had one thought in their hearts, that is, it will be another year next year.
a good year
Whether it is China City, the walls of Iron Wall and Sunset Fort, they are all covered with clusters of crystal clear ice flowers. After two years of rice cultivation, the people of the Chinese tribe have only been able to provide food from rice, corn and potatoes.
The livestock that account for 60% of the entire food source provide 20% of the food, and the remaining 20% needs to be filled by hunting and exchange. However, if this situation continues to develop steadily, within a year, the tribe will not need to rely on hunting at all for sustenance.
Food needed for survival
This huge change that has occurred in a short period of time has also made Hua Xi's prestige rise to a higher level. No matter which clan member they are, they all pay high respect to the clan leader. Even the slaves of the Wind clan and the Keni clan feel that
Life as a slave here is much better than before. Although most of the time you only eat some scraps, you don't have to worry about starving to death or freezing to death as before.
Under this situation, the deception preached by the priests became more popular among the people, and the law was gradually recognized and obeyed by the tribe. Hua Xi was pleased to see that there was no longer any need to resort to mythical deception to manage the tribe, and the benefits of the law had been
Let this group of barbarians understand and feel that they don’t have to worry about the private property they bought being confiscated by the tribe, or being robbed by others, because there is something called law that protects their private property.