Behind Xu Chen, several witches and a group of clan leaders gathered together.
The face of the great wizard of the Yugong clan showed helplessness and bitterness.
The little witch of the Five Ghost Tribe seemed to have no emotions, but she was holding the scepter tightly and biting her lip, obviously in a confused mood.
The mood of the poor witch has really calmed down now. She now understands that these horses will not be turned to foreigners like herself in the end, and being able to get back some other rare and valuable replacement items is also a huge gain.
The ones who laughed the happiest were undoubtedly the little witch sisters and the old witch from the Gonghuo Tribe.
Because most of these horses will fall into the two major alliance tribes, the Ba tribe and the Gonghuo tribe.
Especially the Gonghuo tribe, according to the distribution plan, they will receive nearly half of the total number. Of course, this includes the shares exchanged from the Yu Gong tribe and the poor tribe, which requires a considerable price to be paid.
But whether it is distribution or replacement, in the end these horses will become the most valuable wealth of the Gonghuo Alliance, bringing powerful assistance to the production and life of all tribes. Therefore, no matter how high the price is, it is worth it, even if it is a small number of bronzes
, they will take it out without hesitation.
A group of hunters who were familiar with wild horses entered the fence, screened the stallions, mares, and ponies and then grouped them into groups.
The strongest stallions were divided into a group of about ten horses. These were the leading horses of different families of different sizes in this group of wild horses. They were savage and violent. They started to neigh, kick and bite before people got close. The onlookers were screaming in surprise.
commotion.
There are also more than twenty adult stallions, some of which are still very young, and some of which look a little old and weak, but the same group of violent horses are also very difficult to approach.
These stallions were quickly dragged by groups of hunters to the side of the fence, tied up with ropes, and painted with different colors to distinguish them.
The same goes for the remaining mares and ponies, and the lactating mares and ponies must be tied together to avoid mistaking the relationship between mother and child during distribution.
As for the group relationship of these stallions and mares, they are now mixed together and it is no longer possible to distinguish them. Therefore, they can only be classified into red, blue, and black grades according to their physical strength.
According to the distribution plan, more than ten of the strongest and most powerful horses will stay in the Ba and Wu tribes, especially the snow-white and tallest stallion, which must stay in the Ba.
In order to keep these dangerous and powerful stallions, the two tribes also need to replace the tamed stallions. In addition, in order to supplement the excellent mares, they also need to select some well-proportioned and strong mares to stay.
Some tamed mares need to be replaced.
For other tribes, these horses replaced from the Ba and Uu tribes must be the first choice, because for those tribes that do not have horses at all, horse training is still a strange and difficult technology for them, even if there is someone to guide them.
, may also take a long time to slowly break in and tame, which is far inferior to the horses of the Ba and Wu tribes that have been completely tamed and docile, so even if they are smaller in size and have less physical strength, they still think it is a good deal.
So many tribes have begun to use their brains to plan how to get horses like the Ba and Wu tribes.
After nearly an hour of clamoring, more than a hundred horses were finally separated and marked. Xu Chen asked Ye to bring over the allocation recorded last night and start the allocation.
The first step was to naturally bring out all the more than ten horses that the Ba and Wu tribes wanted to keep. Then each of the Ba and Wu tribes asked their tribesmen to drive their assigned horses to the side, and asked the hunters to bring over a few of the stallions that their tribes needed to replace.
match.
Of course, the numbers will not be equal, because the Ba ethnic group has contributed the most to rounding up wild horses this time, and each will be allocated more than ten horses.
Therefore, the two tribes will still give priority to the distribution of mares, and try to select young and strong mares, and also send back several mares that have been tamed by the tribe.
In addition, for the sake of fairness, the two tribes also divided several foals among themselves. However, they were all foals that were still lactating and less than one year old, and they were divided together with the mares. The ones that were one or two years old were half-grown.
None of the horses are wanted, which is considered as compensation to other tribes after choosing priority.
Since then, the size of the horse herd has been reduced by more than twenty horses, and the ones that remain are relatively less powerful wild horses.
What is left is for other tribes to start a reasonable allocation in order of size according to the number of people and the size of the round-up effort.
The Gonghuo tribe, which had the largest number of people, was allocated a total of ten horses, male and female. Adding in the five horses allocated last year, it now has a scale of fifteen horses, and it suddenly felt like a nouveau riche.
Looking at the group of wild horses being led to the side by the tribe, the old witch could not stop wiping her tears from ear to ear with joy. As for the leader of the tribe and a group of men and women who came, their eyes were shining with excitement, and they gathered together.
We cried and cheered together.
Then, the relatively powerful large and medium-sized tribes such as the Cang Clan, Yehuo Clan, Qu Clan, and Lei Clan were all divided into six or seven horses.
Then, there are the Hu tribe, Muya tribe, Jia tribe, and even the Mongolian tribe of the Gonghuo Alliance, which are small in number but closely related to the Ba tribe, and they are all divided into four or five horses.
In the end, there were more than thirty horses left, both male and female, large and small, belonging to the quotas of the Yu Gong clan, the Five Ghost clan and the Youqing clan.
Most of the tribes they belong to have given up the right to distribute, but those tribes that want to get it need to carefully discuss the terms of exchange with the other party, and then the shamans of both parties sign a contract in the witness of the great shaman before the distribution is finally completed.
Of course, if the tribes that have abstained still want to take the wild horses back, that's fine, but they have to pay the other party property under the same conditions, because strictly speaking, these horses are no longer their property, and if they want to go back on their word, they will have to pay a high price.
Just the price.
Xu Chen will not go into the specific transaction conditions in detail. He only needs to ensure that these wild horses have a more suitable owner in the end.
In addition, in order to balance the distribution of various tribes and promote future development, Xu Chen still made some adjustments.
The Yu Gong clan still received the actual allocation of five horses. Originally, they had the same allocation of ten horses as the Gonghuo clan.
The Five Ghosts originally had six matching quotas, but this was reduced to four.
The poor people originally had five horses, but they were reduced to three.
Except for the other three tribes that have not given up their distribution rights, after the distribution, there will only be ten wild horses, big and small.
These were the numbers that finally agreed to the quota exchange. In fact, there were not many anymore. In the end, they were all divided up by several tribes of the Gonghuo Tribe, and the Ba Tribe Alliance did not participate in the competition.
After all, the Ba Nationality Alliance distributed almost all wild horses last year, and each tribe actually had several of them. With the distribution this year, for some small and medium-sized tribes, it is almost enough for now.
The scene of horse separation was joyful and lively. More than a hundred horses were finally returned to their owners. After hunters from each tribe tied ropes around their necks, they began to smear the marks of their respective tribes on them, imitating the patterns on the tribal flags.
Use this distinction to avoid confusion.
In the following time, naturally thousands of people gathered on the river beach. A group of hunters from the Ba and Wu ethnic groups who were proficient in riding and taming horses demonstrated on the spot how to tame wild horses, and also taught them the knowledge of making saddles, stirrups and daily care and feeding.
Amidst the commotion, a group of skilled riders risked injury and spent a lot of time and energy to conquer some of the wild horses that didn't look so fierce and fierce. They also received exclamations and admiration from the audience.
The allocation of wild horses is over, and the most anticipated and lively highlight of this witchcraft conference has come to an end, and more than half of the last day has passed.
The rest was pure trading and some simple entertainment competitions. Xu Chen finally relaxed and took Gu Heju and others to wander around among the men and women.
Entertainment competitions are very attractive to these primitive savages, because not only can they show their strength and bravery, but there are also various rewards for winning. For tribes other than the Ba tribe, especially the Yu Gong tribe, the Youqing tribe, the Five Ghost tribe, etc.
For a tribe, even a piece of hemp rope is considered a rare treasure, let alone high-end luxuries such as pottery and linen.
Therefore, these entertainment and competition areas are crowded with men, women, old and young, and cheers come and go.
Xu Chen was not interested in the barbaric entertainment of these primitive savages Bidali, and basically wandered around the trading area.
In fact, these traded goods are not very interesting. The good ones are all in the Ba tribe. Most of the other tribes still use raw materials such as raw leather, bones and horns. Of course, there are many more types of goods than last year and the year before last, and the quality is good.
It looks pretty good too.
At least some fishing nets, bows and arrows, leather bags, leather boots and even leather jackets and hats sewn from soft and thick animal skins look very good, and there has been obvious progress.
Xu Chen's main focus is not on these commonly used items, but on things in his professional field, which is to try to find available mineral materials.
Many tribes also know that Xu Chen likes to collect various minerals and gems, so the amount he brings is increasing each time. This time there are many quantities and types, not only rare gems such as turquoise, malachite, amber, gold, crystal, tourmaline, etc.
, in addition, there are a large number of common ores such as copper, iron, tungsten, tin, and graphite.
For those that caught his eye, Xu Chen would exchange them for pottery or some other things that others wanted. When he encountered some rare ores, he would also communicate with the people of these tribes and ask about the origin and distribution of these ores.
And write it down for future reference, maybe it will be used someday.
In fact, he has no urgent need for various ores at the moment.
He was completely satisfied when he got out the bronze.
Even if there were iron mines, they would not be very attractive to him unless coal mines could also be found.
And even if coal is found, it is not cost-effective if it is too far away or too difficult to mine.
It is far better to stabilize the current achievements, calm down and complete the promotion of bronzes, and fully develop the several tribes that have been almost obtained, with a total of several thousand people.
Therefore, the current situation is not to continue to expand or to seek more resources, but to use existing resources to complete a large-scale integration and stabilize the foundation.