Whether it is the Gonghuo tribe or the Wu tribe, they use their own strong strength as the core to maintain the safety of the tribes they submit to, in order to gain their support, and take the dominant position in marriages and transactions to obtain the benefits necessary for survival and reproduction.
This is also the reason why only the Gonghuo Clan and the Qia Clan were involved in the raid on the Cang Clan this time.
The other tribes are too far away from the Cang tribe and have no conflicts of territory or interests at all. They have no reason to participate in this troop dispatch.
Because even if they send troops to win, they will not get any benefits according to the traditional profit distribution method.
The territory belongs to the Qia tribe and the Gonghuo tribe, and the population has no significance to any tribe. The Qia tribe's first purpose in capturing a few Cang tribe members was to force them to exchange pottery and linen. Before slaves were produced, they would not specifically target them.
A war to plunder the population.
There is no land, no population, and only wealth.
But everyone is a poor tribe that eats dirt. Except for animal skins and food, nothing else can be considered wealth.
However, it is completely unworthy to mobilize troops to participate in a big war and suffer huge casualties in order to obtain an unknown amount of hides and grain.
What's more, the Uzbek Alliance is not weak in strength. Once a life-and-death battle breaks out between the two alliance tribes, the small and medium-sized tribes involved in it will definitely not be able to bear it.
Therefore, in the final analysis, this war was launched by the Gonghuo tribe for their own interests.
In fact, there is another very realistic and funny reason.
That is because the pottery sold to them by the Cang people is too expensive.
For the smallest clay pot, the Cang people sold it to the Qia people for three pieces of good wolf skins or sheep skins, and the Qia people sold it to the Gonghuo people for five pieces, but in fact the Cang people only used one sheep skin in exchange for it from the Ba people.
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The transaction price that even the Cang Clan thought was unaffordable was five times higher in the hands of the Gonghuo Clan. No matter how powerful the Gonghuo Clan was, like the Wu Clan, their family had a huge business and was in a difficult situation. This price was far away for them.
Far too much to bear.
If you can’t afford it and want it, then you have no choice but to grab it.
Robbing the Cang and Ji tribes is just one way, but they actually want to get in close contact with the Uzu and then trade directly with the Ba tribe.
Because after capturing several Cang hunters, the Qia tribe had already forced them to find out the price of the pottery and linen cloth obtained from the Ba tribe.
The Cang tribe’s black-butt-hole business activities brought them this disaster that almost led to their annihilation.
After the Gonghuo people learned about the price of pottery, they went berserk and said that the Cang people must be punished. The deeper reason was that they also wanted to get goods cheaply from the Ba people and then sell them to other nearby tribes or even downstream tribes at a higher price.
Since ancient times, money has moved people's hearts, and this was vividly reflected in this war.
Although primitive humans have simple thinking, they are very clear and rational about behaviors that are in their own interests, and know how to maximize their interests.
In the eyes of the two allied tribes, this war was a huge one, but in Xu Chen's eyes, compared with the national wars that often involved tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was almost like playing house.
The combined total strength of both sides did not exceed 500 men.
It's not much different from a fight between two villages.
Therefore, Xu Chen didn't feel much about this war from beginning to end.
According to his understanding, war means a main force of at least tens of thousands, commanded by dozens of generals, cavalry, archers, spearmen, catapults, and logistics departments. Food and grass are piled up like mountains, swords are as long as forest, swords are like frost, and chariots are rolling.
The horses are swaying, the flags are so majestic that it takes a long time to queue up...
I don’t know if I will ever see such a powerful army in my life.
Xu Chen was so ambitious that he drooled a little.
In addition to gaining experience, he also finally found an excellent development territory for himself this time, which was the basin where the Gonghuo Tribe was located.
He has thought about it. After returning this time, he will arrange for people to stay permanently in the Gonghuo tribe and start burning wasteland and farming on the river beach, aiming to build a small market town within two years.
Then, relying on the trading and gathering effects of the market town, we will lead the nearby savage tribes to move down the mountain as soon as possible, learn methods such as reclaiming wasteland and raising livestock, get rid of the primitive and barbaric gathering and hunting survival mode, and then establish a country and become king.
The king is no longer small, as long as he has soldiers; the country is no longer small, as long as there are people.
While others were still living in caves and eating weeds, he was able to arm a well-trained army of hundreds of people, and almost everything within a thousand miles could be classified under his rule.
When the territory is large enough, they will begin to split the soil and divide the princes, and attack from all directions. Ten years later, a powerful royal empire will rise in this wild land, with hundreds of princes under its command, thousands of chariots, and tens of thousands of troops.
Kill the gods, and kill the Buddha if you stand in the way.
Well, when the time comes, will the country be called Ba Kingdom, Chen Kingdom, or Chenlong Empire?
Should a harem be opened?
To build such a huge empire, you must have some descendants to inherit it, otherwise if you die, the world will be in chaos, and your hard work will be in vain.
But the female savages...are really ugly!
Xu Chen looked at the group of young female savages in the escort team who were carefully selected from the Qia tribe of the Gonghuo tribe. They were all unkempt and wearing dirty furs, and many of them even had black buttocks exposed and horrible looks.
Xu Chen was filled with melancholy and confusion.
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The sky was covered with lead clouds, and the snow was falling heavier and heavier.
The valley where the Wu people live has been plunged into heavy snow.
Ten days have passed since Xu Chen led a group of men from the Six Tribes and dozens of volunteers from the Wu Tribe to assist the Cang Clan, but so far no news has come back.
Of course, they didn't arrange for anyone to go find out the information.
The Gonghuo Clan is very powerful, and the Wu Clan is very aware that they are usually unwilling to provoke them. Especially after the death of the great witch, the Wu Clan is in chaos. In addition, this time there is unprecedented turmoil in the successor of the great witch.
There are serious divisions within the clan.
The leader of the Uzbek tribe can no longer control all the internal families of the Uzbek tribe.
There was no agreement on aid to the Cang people, and there is still no agreement on follow-up assistance.
Several leading families who participated in the voluntary rescue naturally hope that the Wu tribe can provide more assistance to help Xu Chen and the Cang tribe complete this mission of repelling the enemy.
However, the chief of the Wu tribe and some tribal leaders who were dissatisfied with the Ba tribe and Xu Chen were deeply conflicted. They neither wanted Xu Chen to win, but also did not want the six tribes allied troops who followed to suffer too many casualties.
As long as Xu Chen comes back in disgrace this time or preferably dies, the leadership of the Zeba tribe will be greatly questioned and shaken. They will have a chance to regain the Great Witch and let the Uzbek tribe come back and become the leader of the alliance again.
At that time, the Ba people must be expelled from the tribal alliance.
Amid such contradictions and expectations, the atmosphere in the Uzbek tribe has been extremely depressed recently, and many tribesmen don't even know what to do.
In the cave where the great witch lives halfway up the mountain.
The little witch was wearing a linen dress, wrapped in animal skins, and holding a black scepter. She was standing at the entrance of the cave, looking in the direction of the windy and snowy valley entrance.
Although she and her sister are full of blind worship and trust in Xu Chen.
But there was no news after more than ten days, which made her anxious and nervous.
From the day she encouraged her sister to betray the Uzbek people, she no longer had any hope for the Uzbek people, and she was even ready to die at any time.
It's not that she is willing to die for Xu Chen.
Rather, she felt that it was the gods who drove her to do this, which was the right thing to do.
The great witch's sad and sad sigh directly penetrated her childish and simple heart, and she felt a kind of panic and fear.
That day when the Cang tribe came to ask for help, and when she saw the indifferent and indifferent attitude of the Wu tribe leader and a group of leaders, she knew that she had definitely done nothing wrong.
The Wu tribe has lost its responsibility as the leader of the alliance. After losing the favor of the gods, they have begun to lose justice and bravery. They are no longer the powerful tribe she grew up in, but have become cowardly and chaotic.
Especially when she saw Xu Chen's unhesitating courage and domineering attitude when he came with dozens of reinforcements and asked the Wu tribe to send troops to assist the Cang tribe, her soul was once again hit hard.
This kind of courage and domineering gave her an unprecedented sense of trust.
The chaotic appearance of the clan leader and a group of leaders gathering in the cave where she lived every day to argue and discuss whether to continue sending people to rescue and inquire about the situation also made her feel extremely bored.
She really wanted to lead people to rescue and help Xu Chen.
But the clan leader and many leaders did not support her.
My sister just arranged for the Ba people to come to inquire about the news yesterday, but she could not provide any information, which made her feel that she had failed as a witch.
Maybe, he really is a fake witch.
No one in the Uzbek tribe cares about her identity or thoughts.
Right now, she could only stand helplessly in the cave, praying every day for Xu Chen to return safely with all the hunters and warriors.
Because if he cannot come back, the Alliance of Six Tribes will be even more chaotic. Maybe the Gonghuo Tribe will fight all the way to the Wu Tribe, and the Alliance of Six Tribes will fall apart. In this cold winter, they will be expelled from this habitat where they have lived for countless years. A large number of
The tribesmen will freeze and starve to death for this.
"Woo~woo~~~"
Amidst the endless snow and the howling cold wind, a strange sound could be heard faintly.
The originally quiet valley began to become slightly commotion after a short period of extreme silence.
In a cave on the mountainside, the loud voices and calls of the tribesmen were heard one after another.
More than ten minutes passed, and this time the sound came clearer.
"Horn quack~~"
Suddenly a roar of surprise and excitement rang out from the mountainside, and then the entire valley where the Wu people lived suddenly became agitated and noisy. Countless people ran out of the cave, shouting and looking at the mouth of the valley. The shouts of surprise merged into one,
Then the sounds of running footsteps became more and more numerous, becoming more and more dense, and finally merged into a dense sound like a tide rushing down the mountain.
"The Witch King Guiga!"
The little witch left the leader of the Uzbek tribe and a group of leaders behind in excitement, happily threw down the animal skins on her body, and headed straight down the mountain wearing a thin linen dress.
The leader of the Wu tribe and a group of leaders had different expressions on their faces, but they did not dare to stay and continue to watch the discussion, but quickly followed them down the mountain in a gust of wind.