The little witch went back and brought back four leaders of the Ba tribe who had already hugged Xu Chen's lap.
With Xu Chen's help, the Uzbek tribe leader and all the family leaders finally sat together again for a tribal meeting to decide and allocate the rights and interests of the copper mine.
Although the four clan chiefs were privately unhappy with Xu Chen's proposal, no one objected. They just made some sarcastic remarks to the leader of the Wu clan and other leaders, saying that everything was up to Xu Chen's arrangement.
In fact, they have been vaguely worried that without the support of the Uzbek clan chief, there are some problems in copper mining. Even if they are not revealed now, they will still cause conflicts in the future.
After all, the benefits brought by the copper mine are too great. Hundreds of pieces of pottery are brought back every month, which is already making people jealous, causing ethnic relations to be very tense, and may lead to greater chaos in the tribe in the future.
Although Xu Chen supports them, if they really want to sustain this huge copper mine wealth, unity within the Uzbek tribe is very important. After all, the Uzbek tribe is still a whole at the moment, and the Uzbek tribe leader is still at the top of the tribe in terms of legal principles and inheritance.
In a dominant position, without her support, many things will not go smoothly.
Under the current severe shortage of manpower and food, only a strong and united Uzbek tribe can provide strong enough support for copper mining so that it can continue to develop and grow smoothly.
Xu Chen had actually been waiting for the leader of the Uzbek tribe to admit defeat.
But he didn't expect them to admit defeat so quickly.
According to Xu Chen's idea, after a large-scale chaos might occur within the Uzbek tribe due to copper mining, he used the pretext of quelling the chaos to forcibly suppress the conflicts within the Uzbek tribe, replacing the clan leader and even expelling some families.
Then completely control the Uzbek people.
But now it seems that the way of thinking of these primitive people is much simpler than he imagined.
They did not want to fight among themselves, and the leader of the Wu clan had a good overall view of the overall situation. After seeing that Xu Chen's power was completely unable to resist, he immediately surrendered.
It would be best to resolve the issue peacefully without fighting.
To be honest, he did not want serious casualties to occur in Uzbek war fights.
Although he is constantly sowing discord in the middle, he is actually conflicted in his heart.
And because the leader of the Uzbek tribe surrendered, his plan to build a one-stop copper mining and smelting base in the Uzbek tribe finally had a mature solution.
The mining rights are still under the control of the four tribes, but the copper ore is not transported directly to the Ba people, but is smelted and processed locally by the Uzbek people. Several other tribes are responsible for smelting, and the Uzbek chief is responsible for the coordination.
The Uzbek tribe will eventually pay pottery and other items needed by the Uzbek tribe according to the output of copper. As for the distribution of these benefits, Xu Chen did not participate in the discussion, and it was decided by internal discussions among the Uzbek tribe.
Both parties were satisfied with Xu Chen's proposal, so under the auspices of the little witch, the two groups of leaders quarreled back and forth for half an hour before finally reaching an agreement. The profits were divided 50-50 between the four leaders who held the mining rights.
The family gets half of the proceeds, and the other families get the other half, so everyone is happy.
The Uzbek ethnic group finally reached a unified consensus once again after experiencing a turmoil that almost caused them to split.
However, this consensus is based on a brand-new method of profit distribution, which breaks away from the old tradition of fair distribution and is almost a joint venture development model.
Conflicts still exist, but they are temporarily covered up by common interests.
When interests in copper mine development and smelting gradually expand in the future, this contradiction may break out again.
It's just that by that time, Xu Chen no longer needs to take into account the emotions and faces of the Uzbek people. Maybe the copper mine will be nationalized, and the Uzbek people will at best become a new plutocratic force.
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A slight drizzle falls in the gentle spring breeze.
Two majestic and neat teams were holding a grand martial arts drill on the river beach full of green grass and flowers.
Led by the green snake flag of the Ba people and the black bird-shaped flag of the Uzbek people, and accompanied by the sound of horns, the two teams launched a unique military competition on the river beach.
The first is step training.
Each side formed a team of forty people to perform performances such as lining up, counting, walking in unison, and sprinting short distances.
The footsteps of tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap, tap tap tap tap, tap tap tap tap tap tap, tap tap tap tap tap tap. Follow the command and horn to meticulously complete all the prescribed actions.
Judging from the performance, the team movements and discipline of the Ba people are obviously stronger than that of the Uzbek people.
Next came the regular equipment training performances of both sides, spearmen's long-distance spear throwing, archers' medium and long-distance coverage strikes and other subjects.
It is obvious from this performance that the Uzbek tribe performed more outstandingly because of the large number of people. Without paying much attention to discipline and formation, the forty young and strong hunters selected by the Uzbek tribe were more aggressive and threw spears.
The strength and distance are obviously stronger than those of the Ba people, and they seem to be more lethal.
As for bows and arrows, because the Uzbek people have very few equipment, and the quality of bows and arrows is far inferior to that of the Ba people, the Ba people still have a great advantage in all of this, but over time, the Uzbek people's advantages will gradually become apparent.
After the team exercise, both sides selected several of the most powerful hunters to perform individual competitions. In terms of the distance and accuracy of the spear, the Uzbek tribe still had the upper hand, but in the bow and arrow shooting competition, the Ba tribe had the upper hand.
Still have the upper hand.
The last thing held was an offensive and defensive performance by both sides.
However, only spearmen participated. In order to prevent injuries during the performance, both sides used long sticks. In this performance, the Ba people had the upper hand.
After a long period of cooperative training, the Ba people were much better than the Uzbek people in terms of formation and discipline. Faced with a lack of training and a disorganized Uzbek team, the Ba people relied on strong discipline and tight cooperation to quickly defeat the Uzbek people.
defeat.
Although this is just a simple performance game.
However, the Ba tribe, which was weak in body and strength, turned out to be stronger. This convinced the large number of Uzbek people who were watching. At the same time, they also had a deeper understanding of this kind of training that strictly required offensive and defensive formations and discipline.
After the training performance, Xu Chen awarded officer badges and armor, bows and arrows to Long and the three last appointed training commanders, expressing formal recognition of their training results during this period.
After getting these things, the four guys were so excited that they stuttered. They took off their furs on the spot, put on their armors with the help of a group of hunters such as Feng, put their bows and arrows on their backs, hung up their waist tags, and tied them with the Uzbek ethnic group.
With the logo's black forehead band, four tribal generals with battlefield temperament appeared.
Seeing the heroic aura of the leaders wearing armor, all the Uzbek hunters were jealous.
Especially a group of veteran hunters and warriors who have been following the leader of the Uzbek tribe, their faces are full of jealousy and their hearts are sour.
"Thunder, Zhan Ga!"
Standing two meters tall and wearing double-layered armor, the dragon looked like the coming King of Chu. He raised his finger and pointed at a Uzbek hunter in the crowd who also looked like a furry bear and roared.
"Wow~~"
There was a violent commotion in the crowd, and then some guys who were afraid of chaos waved their fists and shouted: "Zhan Ga!"
"Zhanga, Zhanga!"
Many Uzbek hunters who came back to their senses started shouting and getting restless.
Especially the group of new-generation hunters who usually follow the dragon screamed even more excitedly and loudly.
As the most powerful veteran warrior, Lei has always been an idol worshiped by tribal men and the unquestioned leader of the tribal hunting team.
But since the dragon slowly rose to prominence, and he won the title of warrior by slaying the dragon at the Witchcraft Conference the previous autumn, he also gained the following of a large group of young hunters.
Male animals are respected for their strength at all times, and humans are even more obvious. Warriors are always the object of worship, especially in this era where survival depends on strength.
Wen Wu is the first, Wu Wu is the second.
In any group, there can only be one most powerful leader.
Especially when primitive barbarians are still competing for mating rights, this kind of struggle becomes even more intense.
The battle between Long and Lei is actually a conflict and battle between the younger generation of hunters and the older generation of hunter groups.
Because only by defeating these veteran hunters can the new generation gain broader mating rights and dominate the tribe's hunting arrangements and food distribution.
Faced with Long's demonstration and provocation, Lei hesitated for a moment and walked out.
Although he was not timid at all, his face was ugly.
He has always been the hunter force that supports the leader of the Wu tribe the most. However, as the leader gradually fell into a disadvantage in the battle with Xu Chen, he has gradually become quieter recently.
He knew that sooner or later there would be a battle between himself and the dragon, which would determine the outcome and complete the transition between the old and new hunter forces in the tribe.
This is not only a primitive and ancient tradition, but also an inevitable thing for the development of tribes.
At the beginning, he also successfully challenged a senior warrior and became the leader of the Uzbek hunters.
Seven or eight years have passed since that battle.
The warrior who failed in the battle died soon after being injured.
This is not only the transition between the old and new forces of the tribe, but also the cruel reality that tribal men have to endure in order to maintain a strong fighting capacity.
Not even the leader of the Uzbek tribe can stop this kind of challenge.
In other words, there will definitely be a winner between him and Long today.
If he wins, he has the right to kill the dragon, continue to be the hunter leader, and continue to have priority mating rights for the adult women of the tribe.
But if he loses, the fate of the previous warriors may be his fate, and his destination will be in the grove not far away where the Mother's Day is held for worship.
Of course, he can also choose to admit defeat directly, and then lead his family and followers to leave the tribe and find a new habitat to establish a new tribe.
This is how the Muya tribe split off before.
But that rarely happens, because if you choose to leave in this way of surrender, you will generally be spurned by your tribe, especially men, and will rarely follow you.
A tribe without the support of a certain number of men will end up very miserable, and may soon die out.
Although the Muya tribe succeeded in surviving in the end, their status in the six-ethnic alliance was very low, even lower than that of the Ba tribe, and the Wu tribe had never given them a good look.
Just because time is too long, this feeling of contempt will slowly fade away, but this chain of contempt will not disappear.