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Chapter 632: Clear Rewards and Punishments

Although Long said he was in a hurry and didn't pick many tung trees, he still brought back a lot. The total would not be less than 500 kilograms. Although they still had the outer husks, they still had two to three hundred kilograms after cleaning, which was almost as much as

The number collected last year was almost the same, so it can be seen that there are indeed many tung trees near the barbarian tribe.

All the returning guards and hunters were very nervous, and a group of captive barbarian men and women were even more nervous. They all lay on the ground and shivered.

They thought that these forbidden troops and hunters who defeated them were the enemy's entire strength, but when they arrived at the camp, they found that there were hundreds of people on the other side, all of them powerful men with the same attire and weapons, and there were dozens of horses that could

Riding beasts and more than a dozen flags were planted everywhere around the camp, which looked very scary.

"Your Majesty the Witch King, the time is too short, we can only pick so much!"

After all the tung trees were poured together, Long whispered nervously to Xu Chen.

Xu Chen held back the joy in his heart and nodded solemnly: "Well, although you acted without authorization, you did not cause any casualties. You also found a large area of ​​growing tung trees. It can be regarded as a great achievement. If you have overtaken it, you will not be able to do it this time."

I’m punishing you. If it happens again, I will remove you from your position as the commander of the Imperial Guard!"

Long Yi was relieved and overjoyed. He knelt down on one knee and said excitedly: "Thank you, Your Majesty the Witch King. I promise that I will not disobey orders again in the future!"

Xu Chen patted Long's shoulder with satisfaction and said: "Get up, military orders are strict, rewards and punishments are rewarded, and your achievements can be offset. However, the Imperial Guards and Hunters who accompanied you fought bravely and conquered two tribes. It is still the same thing."

Great work, everyone should get the reward they deserve. We came out this time to find the salt mine, and we have found it now. Therefore, when we go back this time, each of you is allowed to bring some salt back as a reward. I don’t decide the amount. Everyone

You can carry as much as you can, and the salt you bring back belongs to your respective tribes!"

"Boom..."

A group of forbidden soldiers and hunters who were originally in a nervous and low mood cheered instantly.

"But I want to remind you that there are still hundreds of miles to go back from here. If you can't carry it on the road, you are not allowed to throw it away, so as not to cause waste. You have to do what you can. In addition, the war horse is not allowed for private use. In addition to checked luggage, it must be carried

Some salt was sent back to the military camp..."

Amidst the cheers, Xu Chen quickly emphasized a few words loudly again.

According to the habits of these savages, if you don't arrange it carefully, they may try their best to carry salt. Although they are very savage and powerful, carrying too much salt will definitely affect the journey. If they can't carry it, it will inevitably be discarded along the way.

, because he has seen this kind of thing too many times.

These savages clearly inherited the excellent tradition of monkeys breaking corns and throwing them away.

The biggest shortcoming of intelligent creatures is greed.

When greed reaches a certain level, it is a huge waste and may even lead to the death of wealth.

After a small disturbance passed, the camp soon became lively and joyful.

The dragon and a group of forbidden army hunters were also shocked and delighted, as if they were on a roller coaster.

In their opinion, His Majesty the Witch King's treatment of them this time was very fair and just.

Although the initial punishment made many people feel a little resistant and nervous, in the end there was no punishment at all. Instead, everyone was satisfied with the reward.

Salt is a good thing, and all tribes are in short supply at the moment.

According to their size and physique, each of them can gain at least forty or fifty pounds, which is a huge fortune for the tribe and can greatly alleviate the tribe's salt shortage.

Seeing a group of forbidden soldiers and hunters happily heading straight to the salt mine, Xu Chen finally couldn't help but smile on his face.

These savages are simple and pure in mind, and will be very satisfied with just a little sweetness.

In fact, these salts are not considered rewards at all, because when leaving, everyone will still carry the salt on their backs.

But if you say it as a reward, the concept is completely different.

This time Long led a team to conquer two barbarian tribes and captured nearly 70 strong male and female captives.

However, how to handle and distribute these people requires careful consideration and arrangement.

These barbarians living in the primeval forests in the south are not very large. After the nearly seventy people were captured, almost all the people left in the two tribes were women, children, the elderly and the weak. If not handled properly, not to mention the consequences that would result

Food is extremely scarce, and many may freeze and starve to death in the coming winter.

It would be fine if he didn't know, but now that he knew the situation, Xu Chen had to consider the long term and formulate a mid- to long-term development plan.

The salt mine is now being developed by local barbarians, and the manpower is sufficient, so no more people are needed to participate, so these people can only invest in camp construction and road construction.

But if they kept the captives for a year of labor reform like they did when conquering other large ethnic groups in the past, their tribe might completely collapse.

The smaller the tribe, the weaker the resistance, not to mention these are barbaric races who still live in earth caves and tree holes without even fire.

They simply cannot be treated as normal tribes.

Therefore, the previous rules for prisoners of war are completely inapplicable to these tribes.

In addition, there are a large number of tung trees near the tribe in the southeast. It is the harvest season now. If you want to build more large ships, the harvesting of these tung trees must be completed in this autumn and winter, and a large number of manpower must be arranged.

Compared with the scarcity of salt, tung oil is now more tempting to Xu Chen.

After all, the salt has been found and can be mined and transported all year round, but once the tung trees are harvested out of season, they all fall to the ground and rot.

Therefore, Xu Chen asked Lei to temporarily settle down the male and female captives from the two tribes, and then summoned the witches of the Yugong clan, a group of clan chiefs, and a group of officers such as Long and Lei for a meeting to discuss.

The content of the meeting is very simple.

The first is how to deal with these barbarian captives.

These people are different from all ethnic groups in Pakistan. They are more barbaric and basically still in a semi-barbaric state. Even if they are distributed according to military merit, they basically cannot live in harmony with the tribes, let alone merge into new tribe members.

, so it can only be placed nearby.

The second is about the picking and transportation of tung trees.

It would be troublesome just to transport the salt here. It would be even more troublesome to transport thousands of kilograms of tung trees every year. According to the current manpower, material resources and transportation conditions, it would be too expensive. Pakistan is completely

Can not afford.

But tung oil, like metals and salt, can be regarded as a strategic resource and is crucial to the future development of Pakistan. Xu Chen cannot give up collecting tung oil, so he must find a way to deal with it.

It is relatively easy to resettle the population. Some can be left to build camps and build roads, while the rest can simply be put back to prevent the tribe from collapsing.

But harvesting tung trees is a huge problem.

To completely solve the problem, it is best to squeeze tung oil on site, which would reduce at least 80% of ineffective labor during transportation.

But in this case, the oil pressing mill must be built where the barbarians are located, which means that craftsmen familiar with oil extraction must be arranged to station in the barbarian residences.

These barbarians are basically unable to communicate normally, and their learning ability is also very poor. If there are fewer people arranged, they cannot be controlled. If there are too many people, it will involve the construction of new camps, which consumes a lot of manpower, material resources and time.

The most important thing is that tung oil is a liquid, and there is currently no reliable container for shipping.

Clay pots are not acceptable. Those things are very easy to break. A jar of oil weighs ten kilograms. It is not surprising that ten jars of oil will be broken during the delivery. It is reasonable to even break most of them. Such a huge consumption can easily break the pot.

People collapse.

This thing is different from raw lacquer, because the yield of raw lacquer is inherently low. Even if the whole Cicha clan harvests it all year round, it will only weigh a hundred pounds a year, which can be solved with gourds and bamboo tubes.

Bamboo tube...

Thinking of paint and bamboo tubes, an idea flashed in Xu Chen's mind.

Originally, he thought of wooden barrels, but wooden barrels looked simple but were actually very troublesome to make.

It took Xu Chen a lot of brain cells to make the wheels and drums. Although they were finally made successfully, Xu Chen was never satisfied. Among all wooden utensils, round shapes are the most difficult to make.

And it must be sealed well. Once water leaks, the loss will be greater than that of pottery.

But if it is a bamboo tube, this problem seems to be solved.

There are hundreds of miles of bamboo forests growing near the Cicha tribe. These bamboos are more than a foot in diameter and can be used as buckets.

Since Xu Chen taught the Cicha tribe a few years ago to use metal tools and start using bamboo to make daily utensils, the Cicha tribe has developed many uses over the years. Nowadays, it is widely used in production and life. It is used to hold water, store grain, pickle vegetables, and even eat and drink water.

, it just has no commercial value.

It would be a good idea to get a batch of large bamboo storage containers from the Cicha tribe to transport the tung oil.

However, the Cicha clan is still more than two hundred miles away in the lower reaches of the Wulong River. It will take at least eight days to transport it to the Yugong clan, and another five or six days to transport it here. In this way, almost a month will be gone.

Although this time is not unbearable, Xu Chen always feels that it is still too troublesome.

As the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome. This large area is located in the primitive dense forest on the southeast bank of the Wulong River. If a suitable waterway to the Wulong River can be found, it will be more convenient to ship it by ship.

Thinking of this, Xu Chen asked someone to take out the map and look at it carefully.

After several corrections to this map, the current location of the salt mine has shifted a lot from the southeast to the south, and is closer to the Mongolian salt mine. However, toward the southeast, there is a large blank area.

Xu Chen first asked Long carefully about the situation of these two barbarians, and after letting him measure it with his hands, he added the approximate locations of the two tribes.

In this way, the blank map has two more markers in the southeast direction.

"How big is the lake near the Tung Forest?" Xu Chen asked, looking at the barbarian tribe labeled Tung Forest.

Long didn't know how to describe it. After thinking for a long time, he stretched out his big black and rough hands and said: "It's very big. It takes at least five poops to run half a circle on horseback!"

What kind of magical adjective is this?

Can the duration of diarrhea and constipation be the same?

Xu Chen's face turned dark, and a group of men and women burst into laughter at the same time.


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