Chapter 1010: Connecting Territories

"Leader Chengqie, about this, the Tribal Chief did indeed tell us, but he was talking to the laborers behind us. He told us to watch everyone well, not a single person can be missing. This time, they are to go to Huaxia to carry grain and Cement. If people leave or go missing, then the grain and such that we urgently need won't arrive."

Shisi spoke very sincerely. The others who wanted to cover Shisi's mouth now put their hands back down. What was said was fine, that was enough; having one fool like Wine is enough.

Chengqie, however, continued to say: "That means those thousands of Soldiers behind have nothing to do with me, and these nearly thirty thousand people must all listen to me, right?"

"Right, wait, no, no!" Shisi waved his hands repeatedly in a panic: "It's not, it's not, Leader Chengqie. These thirty thousand people are not under your command, and they have nothing to do with you. They are all people who are going to live in Huaxia. The only ones you can command are these few Leaders. After they go to Huaxia, they need to undergo training and receive good Weapons, and then they will come to protect you. This is also the Tribal Chief's punishment for them."

"Oh, Leader Chengqie, you must absolutely not let your imagination run wild. The Tribal Chief's main idea right now is to send you to Huaxia to study hard and then surpass those people of Huaxia. The person the Tribal Chief cares about the most right now, and thinks is the most capable, is you."

"As for our tribesmen, you don't need to worry at all; Huaxia will settle them well. You really don't need to think about those random things. Once you arrive in Huaxia, you will be able to see everything, and once you go, you will definitely not want to return to the Suiren Clan anymore."

"Do you think that once we arrive in Huaxia, we can still come to the Suiren Clan as we please? Will Huaxia be that good?"

Shisi hurriedly pointed at himself and said: "We, didn't we just come back like this? Huaxia won't stop us. In the future, everyone can come back to the Suiren Clan whenever they want; no one will stop them."

Having left the jurisdiction of Baoxi, Chengqie had already started to get a bit carried away. His own ability to think had returned, and he began to become free in his thinking. He could listen to his father's words, but he could not listen to these Soldiers' words; their words would absolutely not be the truth.

As for Shisi and the others, as long as Chengqie didn't cause trouble and could successfully connect with the people of Huaxia, their mission would be considered complete. Moreover, after a trip to Huaxia, their understanding had already far surpassed other Soldiers of the same tribe. Although their abilities were not the top-tier, Baoxi would still reuse them in the future because of their yearning for Huaxia.

Actually, they are already being reused now. They don't need to hunt, they don't need to do heavy labor; they just help the people of Huaxia contact the people of the Suiren Clan every day, acting as guards or as guides to lead the way.

If they can avoid problems in the coming time and successfully and beautifully complete some assigned tasks, and then receive training from Huaxia's Soldiers, they could become new Leaders.

As for being a Leader of the Suiren Clan, their interest is not that high anymore, but small Leaders also have power, and power means privilege. Who doesn't love privilege? Of course, they love the privileges given by Huaxia even more.

Therefore, their goal is to surpass their own tribesmen while still in the Suiren Clan, so that after they arrive in Huaxia, they will definitely be able to become Leaders. This is what the people of Huaxia secretly told these Soldiers, letting them figure it out themselves—though they really couldn't figure it out.

However, Soldiers like Wine don't count. Huaxia might produce one Chi, but it's not certain it can produce a second. In the current environment of Huaxia, it is impossible for another mentally disabled Marshal to appear, not even a common foot Soldier. If a superior tells you to go one hundred meters east, and you remember it as one thousand meters west, how could you successfully enter the military camp?

If you have a good body and great strength, Huaxia has plenty of positions to arrange for you. It's impossible to be willing to put you into the troops just because of previous experience. Perhaps Chi could achieve such an accomplishment because the times make the hero. Chi and Baifeng have always been close, because Baifeng was also mentally disabled at the beginning.

If you have made it big, wouldn't you be willing to give your mentally disabled friend some help? What's more, this mentally disabled friend is also loyal to you. Whatever you say is what it is. No matter how much power you give him, he will not betray you. This is the reason why Baifeng is willing to lift Chi up. If Chi were mentally disabled and also had poor character, Baifeng naturally would not care about a friend from his own memory of his mentally disabled period, which is already very blurry.

On the Huaxia side, the person leading the team is not an important figure, just a Company Commander; he doesn't even have enough men for a full company, and they are basically all green recruits who enlisted this year. Because the number of Huaxia's military personnel is not large to begin with, most have gone to the Shennong Clan Battlefield, and another portion remains to guard Huaxia City. The number of Soldiers that can be brought out is naturally very small.

However, this time they dispatched Cavalry, a full twenty War Horses, not War Oxen. If the number of people is not enough, then make up for it with combat power. Twenty Cavalry on horses are far stronger than one hundred infantrymen. The Weapons brought are also the best; even for such an escort mission, they are carrying Bombs, which shows the level of importance.

The main thing is that there are many supplies, and the population of the Suiren Clan to be received is also large, so they must have foolproof preparations. In the situation where Baoxi is not coming, whether these people are willing to listen and whether they will have other thoughts—there is no complete certainty. However, once they arrive at Huaxia City, everything will be easy to handle.

After eight days of marching, Huaxia had already arrived at the border, but they still had not seen the people of the Suiren Clan; it did not match the expected time.

But the Huaxia team still did not advance a single step; instead, they first built a wooden bridge on the spot to connect the two banks of the small river. Fortunately, the width of the river here is not on the same level as the Dahe in front of Huaxia at all. Another advantage of this era is that towering trees can be seen everywhere.

There is no need for ones that are too thick, because without the help of people from the Ministry of Works, these laymen could never safely fell, transport, and then erect them.

Therefore, they only choose tree species that are long enough but not that thick. After felling them, a team of people first crosses the river on a wooden raft, and then pulls the logs to the opposite bank using ropes. If people from the Ministry of Works were here, they would certainly install pulleys and install pulley ropes and the like in the middle to build the bridge in the most labor-saving and safest way.

But these Soldiers, they haven't professionally studied these things and don't understand the principles, so they only think about getting this done through brute force. Although it was a bit tiring, they did indeed manage to build it.

A wooden bridge over two meters wide with many gaps in the middle was built just like that. The construction of this wooden bridge also means that the territories of Huaxia and the Suiren Clan are completely connected. In the future, travel between Huaxia and the Suiren Clan will be free, and Huaxia will no longer need to patrol the border, because now Huaxia's border is at the westernmost point of the Suiren Clan's territory.

Although Huaxia will still abandon the Suiren Clan's territory in the future, it cannot be a total abandonment. Baifeng will inevitably choose an appropriate location to cut it off. If possible, he is even willing to build another buffer city in front of Huaxia City, so that Huaxia City, this most important industrial city of Huaxia, can be protected to the greatest extent.

Letting an industrial city serve as the first line of defense to block enemies at the border is not as good as saying it is using Huaxia City as bait to attract others, telling the enemy that as long as they conquer my Huaxia City, they can possess everything in Huaxia City—the perfect Iron smelting industry, and various industrial products that do not exist in this era. Baifeng would not be stupid to that extent, it's just that the current situation is that Huaxia does not yet have the conditions to build a city on the Suiren Clan's territory.

This is something that should be started only after the integration with the Suiren Clan is deep enough, so even in Huaxia's development plan, this point has never been mentioned. It has always been in Baifeng's mind, and of course, in Yulong's mind as well.