When the two great witches travel, they naturally need the most powerful security measures.
Xu Chen almost sent out his most powerful group of officers and hunters.
Feng serves as the commander-in-chief, Lei and Long serve as deputy commanders respectively, and Mo serves as the fleet commander.
Except for the four young and stocky women who took care of the two witches on the road, who could fight as well as the men, the rest were the strongest and most courageous hunters selected from the Ba tribe, Wu tribe, Lei tribe, Gonghuo tribe, and Five Ghost tribe.
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The equipment is also the latest and best, everyone is equipped with thickened leather armor and bronze weapons, bows, arrows and daggers are all standard, and everyone is equipped with shields and spears.
In order to ensure absolute safety, Xu Chen gathered together a team of forty hunters and divided them into four teams for rigorous training for five days.
The training items are not only bows and arrows and spears, but also various complex items such as close combat, shipboard drills, and rescue after falling into the water.
In the past, each tribe trained independently, and except for foot drills, bows, arrows and spears, they basically did whatever they wanted. Drills on the water had never been done before.
This time, Xu Chen led them to conduct actual boat drills and drills on the Jicang River and Wulong River. Although the content was arbitrary and unstructured, they were all drills based on actual situations and were very targeted.
It can greatly enhance the ability of this group of hunters to handle and respond to different situations in unfamiliar environments.
Currently, Xu Chen can mobilize four wooden boats.
A large ship with thirty people was used as the flagship, with two witches riding on it, and Mo was in charge of it.
A medium-sized wooden boat with fifteen people, controlled by the wind.
There are two ten-person boats left, with Lei and Long in charge respectively.
The number of people on the mission was fifty.
Including the seven hunters from the Cicha tribe brought back together, the total number of people is fifty-seven.
Among them, the elite hunter team of forty people is almost half of the core hunters of the Ba Alliance. Many of them are non-commissioned officers and officers. There are seven or eight guys with the title of warrior alone. The force value is naturally very strong.
Coupled with the latest equipment and long-term rigorous training, this team can defeat at least three times more enemies head-on.
Although he went there with peace in mind, he was actually there to conquer.
Therefore, Xu Chen did not dare to be careless. Before the team set off, he repeatedly explained and warned that the safety of the two great witches must be protected. If the Cicha tribe had any dissatisfaction, they should not fight with the Cicha tribe, but as soon as possible.
Protect the two great witches from returning.
The four officers, Feng, Lei, Long, and Mo, naturally beat their chests and accepted the order, saying that they would strictly abide by His Majesty the Witch King's orders, and they would protect the safety of the two great witches, and there would never be any mistakes.
After everything was ready, the mission set off.
Four wooden boats, large and small, set off from the Gonghuo Clan Pier with flags and sails and horns blown. They sailed down the Jicang River under the northwest wind and drifted away without warning.
More than two thousand people on both sides of the pier cheered and waved as they watched the fleet leave.
Xu Chen stood on the rammed earth wall of the trading market until he saw the fleet disappearing at the mouth of the downstream valley. Then he took a long breath, but his tense face showed that he had not relaxed.
This was the first foreign conquest without his participation.
Although he is 70% to 80% sure that he will succeed, facing a group of strange savage tribes, no one can guarantee that there will be no problems.
Because there were two conflicts with the Ming tribe in Dahu, and seven or eight people were killed and dozens of people were injured. This hatred is not small.
But there are more and more affairs in the alliance, more and more tribes are surrendering, and the territory is getting larger and larger. Xu Chen cannot do everything by himself, especially this kind of foreign war and exchanges. He must let a group of wizards
Complete it with a team of officer hunters that have been trained for several years.
Relatively speaking, this operation should be relatively simple and easy.
After all, the Cicha tribe has shown an attitude of showing weakness and communicating.
And here, Xu Chen also asked the fleet to bring a lot of animal skins, linen, pottery, salt, pickles, salted eggs, bacon, salted fish, vine fruit wine and other novel delicacies, and even some bronzes
Tools such as knives and axes.
Faced with these things that the Cicha tribe couldn't understand but wanted to get, Xu Chen believed that as long as the great wizard of the Cicha tribe was not stupid, he would definitely agree.
What's more, the forty elite hunters who accompanied him were armed to the teeth and were not vegetarians.
The Cicha tribe could not find a few hunters of this level even if they collected all the best hunters from the entire alliance tribe.
Especially for super warriors like Long and Lei, who are ranked among the top five in the Ba League, it is not a problem for one to fight eight.
In addition, it is often said that hearing a hundred times is worth seeing once.
A group of Cicha hunters who came from afar to explore the road lived in Gonghuo Basin for more than ten days. What they saw and heard made them feel that they had entered a completely different human world. The development of Gonghuo Basin had reached a stage that they could not understand and understand.
To the point of imagination.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, I have never seen anything.
The houses, farmland, pontoons, boats, various smoking earth kilns and workshops are simply like a miracle.
What the hell is riding a horse?
What the hell is a carriage?
Especially what the hell is a wheelbarrow that makes its crossbones fly when pushed?
Sheep, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, and geese can be fed.
Fishing is done with fishing nets.
The food they eat is ground into flour using stone mills.
As for the dazzling golden metal tools that can be seen everywhere, it makes these guys tremble with fear and excitement.
A huge tree as thick as a waist could be chopped down in a matter of hours.
As for making pottery, firing bricks, charcoal, and casting copperware, it is even more difficult to understand.
Xu Chen did not prohibit them from watching all of these.
Therefore, in the past few days, a group of Cicha hunters have been sleepwalking on both sides of the Gonghuo Basin day and night as if they were in a dream. Everything they looked at seemed incomprehensible and novel. After reading it, they drooled and looked dumbfounded.
As for the food, it was even more incomprehensible to them.
In order to build a good relationship in advance, Xu Chen specially arranged for seven Cicha hunters to live in the Ba settlement. Not only did they have people dress them in linen clothes, but they also arranged sumptuous food every day, including all kinds of pasta, pickles, sauerkraut, salt and eggs.
He was not stingy and even gave me a few sips of the newly brewed vine fruit wine every now and then.
After this reception, a group of Cicha hunters were completely intoxicated by this prosperous and wealthy place, and were so addicted that they couldn't extricate themselves.
Therefore, when a few hunters return to their own tribe, they must be spreading the news with great joy, and many things will be much better than relying on people from the envoy to describe and communicate.
After all, outsiders cannot believe it, but we have to believe what our own people say.
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After seeing off the envoys, Xu Chen formally summoned all the tribes that had migrated and settled near the royal city to start the construction of the royal city.
The royal city is planned into five major sections.
The center is the core building complex such as the palace and the temple, the southeast and northwest are functional areas respectively, the northwest is the military camp, the northeast is farmland and warehouses, the southwest is living areas such as schools and hospitals, and the southeast is workshops and commercial areas.
In addition to the royal palace and the temple, the center also includes various government functional agencies such as the planned Assembly Hall, Fazheng Hall, and Military Government Hall.
The palace was mainly Xu Chen's office, including a main hall similar to a court meeting, a living room, a studio, etc., as well as ancillary facilities such as gardens, ponds, and stables.
The temple is the office of the great witch, and its layout is no different from that of the palace. However, it also has a wizard training school with a more religious style. There will be some murals and statues of gods in it, as well as a collection of witch culture from various ethnic groups.
As well as places for shaman training and assessment.
As for other palaces and houses with government functions, they are not of much use at the moment. They are mainly used to cultivate and distinguish the systems for different functional departments and personnel to lay the foundation for handling more complex government affairs in the future.
The royal city is two miles vertically and horizontally, covering an area of nearly 2,000 acres.
The core area of the palace covers an area of about 300 acres, and there are dozens of planned palaces and houses.
Because of the huge scale of the construction, Xu planned to build it in phases.
The first phase is naturally the palace, temple and
The construction of some office and political venues, that is, core areas.
Now the foundation leveling has basically been completed, and the stone, limestone, bricks, ceramic tiles, wood, etc. are basically ready. We only need to build the footings with stones and then we can start ramming earth to build the house.
The second phase is the construction of farmland and some ditches and ponds. This can be started together with the construction of the palace. However, because the project is more scattered, many places have not even been marked yet, so it will last for a long time, until the entire royal city is completed.
The construction can only be fully completed after the construction is completed.
The third phase is the construction of markets, workshops, warehouses, schools, military camps and other ancillary facilities outside the palace. These can only be started slowly after the palace is completed, because these places have not yet been planned in detail. One year has passed.
, now it is overgrown with grass and has become the home of hares and birds.
Therefore, it took three days for Xu Chen, together with a group of assistants such as Gu Heju, to set fire to the core area and burn away the weeds and thorns. Then, dragging the measuring rope and carrying lime, he re-planned the palace and houses, especially the
After the roads, ponds, ditches, etc. were all clearly marked, a large number of people were recruited from various tribes and large-scale construction began.
The core area such as the palace and the temple is an integral building. After the construction is completed, it will look like a square inner city with access roads on all sides. With the central palace square as the center, four avenues radiate out to the surrounding areas.
These four avenues lead directly to the four gates of the royal city.
Although Xu Chen did not plan to spend manpower and material resources to build a high wall around the royal city, there will still be a low rammed earth wall. It is not to resist enemy attacks, but to distinguish the royal city from the suburbs and to settle the tribes.
The points and the royal city area are clearly defined.
There is no such thing as class now, but it will certainly exist in the future.
He is not tall enough to have the consciousness to let himself eat, live and share the joys and sorrows with ordinary savages.
He just needs to maintain his independence and be able to continue to lead these savage tribes to continue to develop.
Eat, drink and enjoy these things, that is the reward you deserve.
If it wasn't for the sake of living a better life, why would I be putting so much effort into it? I would have gone out for a walk like other wild men every day and then gone home to eat, sleep, drive piles, and leave things to pieces. It would have been better to be a true primitive savage.
Therefore, with the development of tribes, private ownership will also be promoted, and class differentiation will inevitably appear.
The group of kings and witches will inevitably become a naturally superior ruling class.
Those officers, hunters, or craftsmen with special skills who have made meritorious service in battles may be rewarded and become a noble class that upholds royal and divine authority.
A large number of ordinary people will eventually become civilians such as farmers and craftsmen.
As for criminals, prisoners, and plundered slaves, they will become the lowest class and are destined to be exploited and oppressed.
But these have nothing to do with Xu Chen. In his lifetime, he probably will never see an era of clear class distinction.
He cannot arrange the future of others, but he can arrange his own future first.
For example, you can live in a spacious house, sleep on a soft bed, and even have your own swimming pool and beautiful garden.
If before losing sexual function, one can still gather a group of fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged beauties to sleep with, then traveling through this life will not be in vain. This chapter has been completed!