Chapter 217 Ambition
Whether it is the Gonghuo tribe or the Wu tribe, they use their own strong strength as the core to maintain the security of the submissive tribes, so as to gain their support, and dominate marriage and transactions to obtain the necessary benefits for survival and reproduction.
This is also the reason why this surprise attack on the Cang tribe was only the Gonghuo tribe and the Cha tribe.
Other tribes are too far away from the Cang tribe, and there is no conflict of territory or interest at all. They have no reason to participate in this dispatch of troops.
Because even if they send troops to win, they will not get any benefits according to the traditional way of distribution of interests.
The territory of Guicha tribe and Gonghuo tribe, the population has no meaning to all tribes. The purpose of the Cha tribe first to seize the Cang tribe was to force them to exchange pottery and linen. Before slaves were created, there would be no war specifically against the plunder of the population.
If you can't get territory, you don't need population, and you only have wealth.
But everyone is a poor tribe who eats soil. Except for animal skins and food, nothing else is considered wealth.
However, it is completely worthwhile to mobilize troops to participate in a war, and they still have to bear huge casualties to obtain some unknown amount of animal skins and food.
What's more, the Ukrainian Alliance is not weak. Once a life-and-death battle between the two alliance tribes is triggered, the small and medium-sized tribes involved will definitely not be able to bear it.
Therefore, this war was finally initiated by the Gonghuo Clan for its own interests.
In fact, there is another very realistic and funny reason.
That is, the pottery sold to them by the Cang tribe was too expensive.
The Cang tribe sold three best wolf or sheepskins to the Cha tribe, and five wolf skins to the Gonghuo tribe, but in fact, the Cang tribe only used one sheepskin when it was exchanged from the Ba tribe.
Even the Cang clan felt that the unbearable transaction price had been increased by five times when it fell into the hands of the Gonghuo clan. No matter how powerful the Gonghuo clan was, it would be as difficult as the Wu clan to have a big business and a difficult capital. They could not afford this price.
If you can't afford to buy it and want it, you can only grab it.
Grabbing the Cang tribe and the Ji tribe is just a way. In fact, they want to get in close contact with the Wu tribe and then trade directly with the Ba tribe.
Because after capturing several Cang tribe hunters, the Cha tribe had already asked about the price of pottery and linen from the Ba tribe.
The Black Asshole business activities of the Cang clan brought them this disaster that almost exterminated the clan.
After learning about the price of pottery, the Gonghuo tribe completely went wild and said that the Cang tribe must be punished. The deeper reason is that they also want to get goods from the Ba tribe and then sell them to other nearby tribes and even downstream tribes at a higher price.
Since ancient times, wealth has moved people's hearts and has been fully reflected in this war.
Although primitive humans have simple thinking, they are already very clear and rational about behaviors that are in line with their own interests, and know how to maximize their interests.
This war of two alliance tribes was considered a huge war, but in Xu Chen's eyes, compared with the national war of tens of thousands of troops during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was almost the same as playing house.
The total total of the troops on both sides shall not exceed 500.
There is not much difference between it and the fighting between the two villages.
Therefore, from beginning to end, Xu Chen did not have much feeling about this war.
According to his understanding, war is about at least tens of thousands of main forces, with dozens of commanding generals, cavalry, archers, spearmen, catapults, and logistics departments. Food and grass piled up like mountains, long swords like forests and sword energy like frost, chariots and horses silenced, flags covering the sun, and it took half a day to queue up...
I don’t know if I will see such a mighty army in my life.
Xu Chen was full of ambition and drooled a little.
In addition to having a good experience when he went out, he finally found a great development territory for himself, that is the basin where the Gonghuo tribe is located.
He had thought about it. After returning this time, he would arrange for people to stay in the Gonghuo tribe and start burning wasteland and farming on the river beach, striving to build a small town within two years.
Then, relying on the trading and aggregation effect of the market town, we led the nearby savage tribes to move to the mountains as soon as possible, learn how to reclaim wasteland and raise livestock, get rid of the primitive and barbaric collection and hunting survival mode, and then establish a country and become king.
If the king is no longer small, it is enough to have soldiers. If the country is not small, it is enough to have someone.
When others were still living in caves and eating weeds, he could arm an army of hundreds of well-trained people, and almost all of them could be classified as his ruling territory within a thousand miles.
When the territory is large enough, it will begin to split the earth and enfeoff the princes, and launch a roundabout attack from all directions. Ten years later, a powerful royal empire will rise in this wild land, with hundreds of princes under its command, thousands of chariots, and tens of thousands of troops. God blocks and kills gods, Buddha blocks and kills Buddhas.
Well, then, will the country name be called Ba, Chen Kingdom, or Chen Dragon Empire?
Should the harem be opened?
To conquer such a great hegemony, one must still have to inherit some descendants. Otherwise, if you commit suicide, the world will be in turmoil. Wouldn't your hard work be wasted?
But the female savage... are really ugly!
Xu Chen looked at the group of young female savages carefully selected from the Gonghuo tribe in the escort team, each of whom was unkempt and wearing dirty furs, and even many of them had black butts and eggs exposed.
Xu Chen was full of melancholy and entangled.
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The sky is covered with lead clouds, and the snow is getting heavier and heavier.
The valley where the Wu people live has fallen into heavy snow.
It has been ten days since Xu Chen brought a group of men from six tribes and dozens of volunteers from the Wu tribe to help the Cang tribe, but no news has been heard back so far.
Of course, they did not arrange for anyone to find out the news.
The Gonghuo Clan is very powerful, and the Wu Clan is very clear that they are unwilling to provoke, especially after the death of the Great Wizard, the Wu Clan was in chaos. In addition, there was unprecedented turmoil on the inheritor of the Great Wizard this time, which caused serious differences among the Wu Clan.
The leader of the Wu tribe can no longer control all internal families of the entire Wu tribe.
There is no agreement to aid the Cang tribe, and no agreement to subsequent aid is still reached.
Several leaders who participated in the volunteer rescue naturally hoped that the Wu tribe could provide more assistance to help Xu Chen and the Cang tribe complete the task of repelling the enemy.
However, the leader of the Wu tribe and some tribe leaders who were dissatisfied with the Ba tribe and Xu Chen were in conflict with each other. They neither wanted Xu Chen to win, nor did they want the Allies of the Six Clans who followed them to suffer too many casualties.
As long as Xu Chen returns in a dilemma or, preferably, dies, the leadership status of the Ba tribe will be greatly questioned and shaken, and they will have the opportunity to retake the Great Witch and make the Wu tribe turn around and become the alliance leader again. By then, the Ba tribe must be expelled from the tribe alliance.
Amid this contradiction and expectation, the entire tribe atmosphere of the Wu tribe has been extremely depressing recently, and many tribe members don’t even know what to do.
In the cave where the great witch lives on the hillside.
The little witch was wearing a linen dress, wrapped in animal skin, holding a black scepter, and was standing at the entrance of the cave, looking at the entrance of the valley with wind and snow.
Although she and her sister both had blind admiration and trust for Xu Chen.
But after more than ten days of going, there was no news, which made her feel nervous.
From the day she instigated her sister to betray the Wu tribe, she had no hope for the Wu tribe, and she was even ready to die at any time.
It's not that she is willing to die for Xu Chen.
But she felt that it was the gods who drove her to do this correctly.
The great witch's sad sigh of divine laoga directly penetrated her childish and innocent heart, and felt a sense of panic and fear.
When the Cang tribe came to ask for help that day, when she saw the cold and indifferent attitude of the Wu tribe leader and a group of leaders, she knew that she had done nothing wrong.
The Ukrainian tribe has lost its responsibility as the leader of the alliance. After losing the favor of the gods, they have begun to lose justice and courage. They are no longer the powerful tribes she grew up in, but have become cowardly and chaotic.
Especially when she saw Xu Chen coming with dozens of reinforcements that day, asking the Wu tribe to send troops to aid the Cang tribe, her heart was once again hit incomparable.
This courage and domineeringness made her feel unprecedented trust.
The clan leader and a group of leaders gathered in the cave where she lives every day to argue whether to continue sending people to rescue and inquire about the chaos, which also made her feel extremely bored.
She really wanted to take people to rescue and help Xu Chen.
But the patriarch and many of them did not support her.
My sister only arranged for the Ba people to come and ask for information yesterday, but she could not provide any information, which made her feel that she was a very failed witch.
Maybe I am really a fake witch.
No one in the Wu tribe cares about her identity or thoughts.
At the moment, she could only stand helplessly in the cave and prayed every day to hope that Xu Chen could return safely with all the hunters and warriors.
Because if he can't come back, the six clan alliance will be even more chaotic. Maybe the Gonghuo tribe will fight all the way to the Wu tribe, and the six clan alliance will collapse and be expelled from this habitat that has lived for countless years in this cold winter. A large number of tribe members will die of starvation.
"Woo~Woo~~~~"
Amid the vast snow and howling cold wind that connects the sky and the earth, strange sounds are faintly heard.
The originally quiet valley began to stir slightly after a brief and extreme silence.
In the cave on the mountainside, the call of loud voices and communication from the tribe members was heard one after another.
More than ten minutes passed, and the sound this time was clearer.
"Horse karao ~~"
A sudden roar of surprise and excitement suddenly sounded from the hillside, and then the entire valley where the Wu tribe lived became restless and noisy in an instant. Countless people ran out of the cave and shouted and looked at the entrance of the valley. The surprise calls of surprises gathered together, and then the footsteps of running became more and more dense, and finally formed a dense sound like a tide and rushed to the bottom of the mountain.
"The Witch King Returns!"
The little witch excitedly left the patriarch of the U tribe and a group of leaders, happily threw down the animal skins on her body, and went straight to the bottom of the mountain in a thin linen dress.
Chapter completed!