In fact, the attitude of the vast majority of tauren towards Prell is not admiration, but a kind of surprise and curiosity that exceeds cognition.
After a night of celebration, the tauren continued to be busy building their existing homes. The Apalaye camp was still in its infancy, and Malakajin was not yet a real settlement, but the tauren had already moved their totem poles
stood up.
Prell stood curiously next to the huge totem pole, trying hard to raise his head and look around. The minotaurs around him were all busy, and he and Belga became the two most idle people in the entire camp.
The tauren sent a team to cut down trees in the surrounding woods, and then built large and simple wooden houses. A small stream at the back of the valley was also intercepted to form a small pond. Near the pond, tauren craftsmen had already
A simple blacksmith shop was set up.
The female tauren went to the forest in groups to pick wild fruits and vegetables. Even the tauren children, who were taller than Prell and dragged their noses, all gathered together and used homemade rattan nets to catch fish along the creek.
Small fish.
There are also tauren druids who have cultivated the flat grassland in the valley and are preparing to sow spring wheat next year. This made Prell very interesting, because he realized that the tauren were not a simple nomadic race, engaged in fishing, hunting and semi-farming.
, which is also their means of survival.
In fact, Prell has discovered through observation that although the Tauren still appear to be in a somewhat complex social system of half nomadic, half fishing, hunting, and half farming, they have abolished the tribal system and the clan system.
Their basic social organizational form is neither a clan system like the harpies, nor a primitive elder system with families as the unit like the kobolds, but a system that matches the life habits and social scale of the race.
A slightly weird but extremely harmonious hybrid system.
According to the evolution and division of social systems that Prell has studied, the Tauren are obviously not a slave society. They do not seem to have the habit of raising slaves, nor are they a feudal society, because the Tauren practice a primitive and simple elder democracy.
system.
From the tauren, Prell can see some things unique to the nomads, but this race cannot be clarified by simple definitions. This seemingly chaotic but effective system makes Prell feel
My horizons were opened again.
I thought that the harpies would stop for a while, but less than ten days later, the harpies gathered again. According to the intelligence detected by the raptor druid who transformed into a flying eagle in the sky, this time the Witchwing clan seemed to
They found a helping hand, the harpies of the Dustwind clan who came from the east of the Barrens, east of the Raging Water River, and near the Thunder Mountains, and lived in the Dustwind Canyon in the north of the Razor Ridge.
Naturalists of all races know very little about some of the social habits of harpies. Perhaps the night elves know more about them, but over the years, the night elves have been hiding in the woods to recuperate and live a secluded life.
Little more knowledge has come from them.
Just as the tauren in the Apalaye camp were ready to fight again, bad news came from the Burning Sun Stone Residence: the harpies of the Bloodrage clan entrenched in the Scorched Valley seemed to be ready to make a move.
After the tauren were forced to migrate into the Stonetalon Mountains, the tauren and the Bloodrage Clan had no offense and had no old grudges with each other. The centaurs even united with the orc warlocks of the Burning Blade Clan to summon hellfire and destroy the entire Scorch Valley.
At that time, the blood-wrathed harpies who had lived here for generations also launched an attack on the centaurs.
It was precisely because of the attack by the local natives and the desperate resistance of the tauren that the centaurs were unable to enter the Stonetalon Mountains.
Now the Bloodrage clan actually chose to go to war with the tauren, which caused extreme panic among the tauren. As outsiders, the tauren actually did not want to be enemies with the local natives. Their original intention was to pass by by road, but they suffered from
There were enemy centaurs everywhere along the migration path, so they had no choice but to settle down temporarily in the Stonetalon Mountains.
Prell was not yet qualified to participate in the meeting of the tauren leaders in the Apalaye camp, but he learned the news from the discussions of other tauren.
After just a moment's thought, Prell figured out that by being able to unite three harpy clans separated by hundreds of miles, he had already guessed the biggest suspect in the current Kalimdor continent.
After hesitating for a long time, Prell finally firmed up his idea, and then he broke into the meeting of tauren elders.
Magatha Horrible Totem couldn't help but frowned when she saw Prell breaking in. She looked at the two tauren soldiers who were guarding her with a gloomy look, while Grudig Dark Cloud was furious.
He shouted: "Kobold, this is where our tauren elders discuss matters. Now is the time for us to discuss tribal affairs. What do you want to do if you barge in rashly?"
Originally, his perception of the kobold race had slightly changed due to the active performances of Prell and Belga, but now his tone became angry again.
The people responsible for guarding the outside of the big tent were the two tauren soldiers of the 16th Squad. They just made a show and let Prell rush in.
Prell raised his hand and said loudly: "I know all the news about the alliance of the three major harpy clans. I think you may need this information to make judgments on the next military action."
Grudig Dark Cloud was still going to speak, and Magatha spoke, her voice a little hoarse: "Then, please ask our distinguished guest to say whatever you want to say."
Prell suddenly felt that he really didn't like this old female tauren, but he still stated his speculation.
"More than a month ago, when they learned that there was a war between the tauren and the Witchwing Harpies, the profit-seeking goblins of the venture capital company in the Gale Valley began to attack the Gale Mines where my tribe serves.
A weapons workshop was built in the north and a large number of dwarf craftsmen were hired.
For the goblins, war is the best opportunity to make money, so they sell a large number of rush-made weapons to the Witchwing Harpies."
As soon as he said this, several tauren elders loudly said: "This is impossible! The skills of dwarf craftsmen are world-famous. How could those inferior weapons of the harpies come from the hands of dwarves?"
Prell laughed: "The dwarves do value their craftsmanship very much, but do you think the harpies can afford the price of a weapon carefully crafted by the dwarven master craftsmen? These weapons are just the guidance of the dwarves, jackals.
Of course, the weapons made by humans are extremely crude. But apart from the goblins who can provide such crude weapons in batches, which other force can do it? The night elves?"
Even Magatha burst out laughing. Everyone knows the night elves’ disdain and hatred for the harpies. Prell continued: “The longer the battle between the tauren and the harpies, the greater the benefits for the goblins.”
Large. Even after the goblins taste the huge profits from arms, they will try their best to expand the scale of the war in which the tauren are involved.
We are still only the harpies of the three major clans. I dare to say that maybe in a few days, goblin merchants will appear in Malakajin to sell weapons.
I even dare to say that regardless of whether the goblins do business with the tauren or not, their next step is to contact the centaurs and even the quilboars in the Barrens. It is even possible that they will privately spread the theory of the tauren threat.
', they will fabricate lies, saying that the tauren are everywhere occupying the living space of other races, making other indigenous races fearful, so that their weapons will sell more and more! "
There was a sudden silence in the big tent. The more Grudig Dark Cloud thought about it, the more frightened he became. He couldn't help but jump up: "Ah ha, you just said that your tribe is serving the goblins, then you are an accomplice of the goblins."
You said, when you came to our camp, did you not intend to help us at all, but wanted to gather information and then pass on information to your masters, those damn goblins?"
Prell sneered. He felt that Grudig Dark Cloud's brain circuit was completely different from that of ordinary tauren, and seemed to be full of "delusions of persecution."
But Elias said something fair for Prell: "Grudig, I think you should understand the situation of the kobold tribe. They are the hired workers of the goblins. It is not the kobolds who are really in charge.
Goblin. If you really want to blame someone, it is definitely not kind-hearted kobolds like Prell and Belga!"
Prell was about to express his gratitude to him when Magatha asked: "In fact, I have always had a question, kobold, and I hope you can answer it sincerely. Your tribe is serving the goblins, why do you
And your brother chose to help us tauren?"
Then all eyes turned to Preel. Preel sighed: "My father once signed a contract with another goblin merchant, Gazruin, and agreed to work for him. But a gold vein was discovered in the Gale Wind Mine.
, so the greedy goblin businessmen of the venture capital company used means to force Gazruin away. The goblin Gresu who took over tried to turn the kobolds from their original contracted servants into his slaves. I don’t want my
The ethnic group is oppressed in this way.”
He looked at the tauren elders calmly: "Like you, we kobolds also suffer unfair treatment, but our tribe is too weak and has no ability to resist. I can't change all this by myself.
.The reason why I brought my brothers here is just in the hope that if one day, my tribe suffers greater oppression, when I ask my tauren friends, you can provide me with some meager help. This is
My greatest selfishness."
After a long silence, Magatha was finally the first to speak: "I believe you, kobold. It seems that your help to us is not selfless, but we tauren still regard you as a friend. If there is a future
If necessary, we will provide some help.”
Then she waved her hand: "Now, we are going to continue the meeting. If your speech is over, then please leave the tent." Prell nodded, turned around and was about to leave, and then he heard Magatha continue: "
Regarding your inference, I personally think it is possible. Let us wait and see what will happen next."