Xu Chen, a tribe in the West, has heard of some of them.

But in fact, the Gonghuo tribe itself doesn’t know how big this tribe is and how many people are?

Xu Chen was even more confused.

The main reason is that the two tribes are too far apart, and they only occasionally get some sporadic news from the two small tribes. The two sides have no contact with each other and have no need for transactions or intermarriage. Therefore, over hundreds or thousands of years, both parties have been isolated and developed, and they are almost completely unfamiliar.

The Cang tribe went to find this tribe for trading this time and had a sudden idea.

Xu Chen led the team to explore the two sides of the lower reaches of the Wulong River. In just half a month, the Maotun tribe and the Yugong tribe conquered seven or eight tribes on the other side, and brought back dozens of people for the Thunder tribe, and brought back magical stone salt and more than 100 male and female prisoners. This shocked the other tribes and were ready to move.

The Cang tribes all tasted the benefits of captives, and all tribes witnessed the rapid growth of the Ba tribe and the Thunder tribes by plundering foreign populations.

This time, when conquering the Yu Gong tribe, the Cang tribe and the Ji tribe missed the opportunity because they were far away. While they were envious and jealous of the Thunder Tribe Gonghuo tribe and other tribes who had gained a lot of wealth and population, they also began to plan their own separate expansion plans.

They didn't think about it in the southeast. After Xu Chen conquered the Five Ghosts tribes with great momentum, he went to the farther southeast to make a fortune.

So the Ji clan Cang clan and the Cha clan three poor buddies on the western edge of the arch basin gathered together to discuss and decided to jointly send troops to fight against the mysterious tribe in the West.

Daolu probably knew a little, and they made a lot of preparations, and did not intend to forcibly attack the other party. Because their strength was not very allowed, the three tribes only gathered eighty people. The hunter team of the Cang tribe Ji tribe was well trained, but the Cha tribe could only be considered as following to play soy sauce as a guide.

Therefore, after they crossed mountains and ridges, they reached two ally tribes of the original Gonghuo tribe, after inquiring, they found that the other party's strength was far beyond the previous predictions, so the Cha tribe retreated and withdrew from the joint military operation in advance.

The hunter teams of the Cang clan and Ji clan are all elites trained by Xu Chen personally. They have high combat effectiveness and strong discipline. In addition, several officers have also been influenced by Xu Chen's simple military knowledge. Although they did not give up, they also felt that the strong attack might be wiped out. They really wanted to imitate Xu Chen's fighting skills in stealing the tower, but their strength was not allowed.

During the quarrel and discussion, there was a disagreement between a group of generals, so the ambitious conquest plan completely died.

However, there is a saying that has been called. Although the other tribe is large and very strong, they are also confident, that is, they are backed by the two major alliances of Ba and Wu, as well as the two super leaders, Dawu and Xu Chen. Although they dare not collide with each other head-on, they can still communicate.

Because they knew that according to Xu Chen's personality, this tribe would sooner or later be conquered by the alliance and become a member of the alliance. Moreover, according to Xu Chen's usual tactical characteristics of knowing his opponent and being close to him, this time, through communication, he could carefully find out the strength and position of the other party, and next time he could drive straight in under the leadership of Xu Chen to do another perfect tower stealing operation.

So the Cang tribe and Ji tribe changed their aggressive appearance and took out the pottery for marching tableware they brought. Under the leadership of two small tribes, the former ally of the Gonghuo tribe, went to contact this tribe called Youguo.

Although the other party was a little nervous about the sudden visit of two well-equipped strange tribes, they didn't take it too seriously. After all, the coalition forces of the two tribes only had a total of 60 people, which was not worth making a fuss.

Moreover, some poor people also knew that there was a powerful tribe near the southeastern Gun Basin, but they had never been there. Therefore, in addition to being surprised by the exquisite and magical leather-armored weapons, flags and horns of the Cang tribe, they were also very interested in the pottery and vine baskets they brought, and expressed their willingness to take out the best things to exchange with the Cang tribe.

However, although there are poor people and there are also great witches in charge, they are actually the same as the former Wu tribe of Gonghuo tribe. Apart from animal skins and feathers and bone teeth, they can't find anything that interests the Cang tribe of Ji tribe.

The two tribes picked and chose from the messy wealth brought out by the poor, and they didn't want anything else except for some high-quality animal skins that they could admire. Now the poor are not happy.

A few of you come to trade and don’t want so many good things. So what do you want? Are you here to find fault?

So the primitive man's stubborn character was undoubtedly revealed. One of the two sides wanted to change, and the other was unwilling to change. Hundreds of hunters of the poor clan surrounded the people of the Cang clan, and piled up all kinds of animal skins and groceries in front of them regardless of the situation, threatening that they would have to make a reservation of these pottery baskets today, and they had to change them, and they had to change them even if they didn't change them.

The Cang tribe and Ji tribe said that fighting is OK, but this garbage will never be replaced.

Although there were many people on the other side, the Ji Cang hunters, who had received excellent training and strict discipline, were not outdone. A conflict broke out during the shouting and pushing of both sides. Just as the two sides were about to fight, the opponent's great witch appeared in time to stop the war.

Some people were injured on both sides, but fortunately they were not serious.

The arrival of the witch was very interested in pottery, vine baskets, and even leather armor, flags and horns on the Ji Cang tribe. After asking in detail, she said that the Qiqi tribe really wanted to get these things and hoped to complete the transaction. If the Ji Cang tribe needs other things, she can also tell it. The Qiqi tribe can slowly search and prepare for the next transaction.

The great witch still needs to give face. After thinking about it, the Cang clan thought about it and thought that Xu Chen liked to collect various gems and ores, so he suggested that if a poor clan could take out some rare stones of color, he could give them some pottery and vine baskets.

So the great witch asked the poor to find all the useful and unused stones collected in the tribe. After some selection, the Cang tribe of Ji left behind nearly half of the pottery and vine baskets, and returned with some colorful gems, ores, animal skins and other goods they exchanged.

It took me more than ten days to go there, but I didn’t even get enough of the harvest.

The Cang tribe and the Ji tribe were not convinced, but they also knew that the other party's strength was indeed not something that they were small and medium-sized tribes that they exchanged, so they sent all the ores to the Thunder tribe, hoping that they would help hand them over to Xu Chen. In addition, they would come around the beginning of each month, hoping to meet Xu Chen who returned from exploring and report to him about the situation of the poor tribe and the possibility of conquering the poor tribe.

The Qiong tribe is closest to the Ji clan. When Xu Chen sends troops, the two tribes will definitely have the opportunity to participate in this war. After winning, they will also gain a large number of prisoners and women.

Therefore, the two tribes are particularly proactive.

After listening to the situation report of the Cang tribe, Xu Chen could figure out the ins and outs of this castone.

It is the exchange that the Cang tribe Ji tribe has been given from the Youliang tribe.

However, things like mines are not suitable for exchange with large quantities of items because the metal content is too low and transportation is very troublesome.

The best thing is to let the other tribe smelted and then exchange it after it is smelted.

However, the other party's tribe is very powerful, unfamiliar, and it is difficult to communicate. It is difficult to get them to help smel metals. Moreover, the other party has no idea how to start mining and smelting, so it is necessary to arrange familiar craftsmen to go, so this matter is still too urgent.

As for conquest, Xu Chen passed it immediately. It was not that he could not conquer, but that the time was not good now.

It is December now, and it is also the coldest time of the year, and it is not suitable for expeditions.

Moreover, tribes are building houses and reclaiming grain fields on a large scale, and they must be completed before spring begins.

Especially when farming farmland, you should not miss the farming time, otherwise the harvest will be delayed throughout the year.

Therefore, December and January are the busiest times, and the tribes are short of food and clothing, and cannot withdraw a lot of manpower and material resources to support his military operations.

He didn't want the little financial resources and popularity that the tribes had just begun to accumulate, because his military power was completely consumed, and he would continue to be poor next year and eat dirt.

So this war will not begin in a short time. Even if it is to be fought, at least it will have to wait until next autumn and winter.

However, if he doesn't fight, he will definitely not give up on the tin that he gets, and he must get it as soon as possible.

Therefore, he summoned a group of hunter leaders from the Thunder Clan and the Gonghuo Clan to have a meeting and deployed a follow-up plan.

The arrangement was very simple. Each tribe drew some hunters to form a trading team, carrying pottery, fishing nets, hemp ropes, stone salt and other goods unique to the Ba tribe, and went to trade with the poor tribe again. The only goods traded were tin.

However, if you want to prepare pottery, stone salt and other goods, you will have thunder clans, but if you want to exchange tin directly, you have to teach the poor to build smelting furnaces and learn to smelting.

However, the structure of the earth kiln used for smelting metal and burning lime is very different.

However, in order for the poor tribe to smel out tin, a craftsman who is proficient in smelting is also needed.

However, smelting metal and burning lime are very different. The Gonghuo Clan cannot find a suitable craftsman, so Xu Chen had to sigh and decided to work harder himself.

I used to be rushing around the mountains, but I didn’t expect that after crossing the road, I was ruthless. I just came back from climbing mountains and ridges and had to continue climbing the mountain.

However, for the sake of the mine, Xu Chen decided to take action himself.

Not only because of the problem of smelting furnaces, but also requires a lot of experience in distinguishing ores. Castone contains impurities and different colors. This pure castone crystal with a yellowish-brown outer skin is very rare in nature. Most of them are tin sand ores containing impurities after decomposition. Therefore, the main source of smelting metal tin is tin sand, rather than castone that already has gem characteristics.

After everything was arranged, Xu Chen led a team of thirty-person hunters to set off again.
Chapter completed!