Chapter 1113: Huaxia's Schemes

"Right now, our relationship with Huaxia is good enough, but I think this will only last for a few years. Perhaps by the time we conquer the Shennong Clan and Huaxia has completely integrated the population that moved over from the Shennong Clan, the relationship between our two tribes will change."

I do not believe that Baifeng will never attack other tribes or that he will not want to expand his own territory; that is impossible. Even if Baifeng himself did not want to, would his tribesmen and his Soldiers not want to?

Baifeng's schemes are far-reaching and grand. One can tell just from his officials, his incentive methods, and even his attitude toward Slaves. Baifeng does not intend to be like those ordinary tribes; everything he does is in preparation for building an unimaginably large tribe. He also changed it to a 'nation' so early, rather than a tribe.

The current Huaxia is simply waiting for the right opportunity; its development time has been too short. That is why they built such high city walls from the beginning to defend against other tribes, and why I am willing to teach our knowledge to us and share it with us.

Actually, this is also a way to stall us. Although I do not know why, I suspect that Huaxia must have some major problem I am unaware of—it is not just that they lack the population to carry out large-scale expansion, but that they are forced to develop like a turtle, pulling their head in.

Once Huaxia solves their problems, they will be a tribe that possesses both a shell as hard as a turtle's and teeth as sharp as a tiger's.

Their cattle, Cavalry, and Bombs are all prepared for war, and their pigeons are prepared for delivering messages from far enough away.

If he were truly as he claims—unwilling to have war and wanting to interact and develop harmoniously with everyone—then why would he need these things? It is impossible that they are just for show.

Our days of peace will not last many more years. We must also develop as quickly as possible. Whatever Huaxia has, we must try to have; what they do not have, we must also obtain. Build a good relationship with the Jiuli; if they do not give us Iron, we will go to the Jiuli to trade.

I fear that in the end, we will be Huaxia's target. He talks about the Suiren Clan, but perhaps before we even have time to attack the Suiren Clan, we will be conquered by him first, then it will be us, and finally the Jiuli.

Why does he not want the Shennong Clan's territory? Perhaps it is indeed because he currently lacks the manpower and has no way to control it, or perhaps there are reasons I cannot fathom.

But if you think about it, if Baifeng really has such long-term schemes, once we take this excellent land, we can turn it into the best farmland.

He even took this time to teach us about fertilizer, just so that we would turn this place into fertile, prime farmland.

By the time he finally conquers us, this territory, which has already been turned into good fields, will naturally belong to Huaxia."

Limu felt his scalp tingle: "Tribal Chief, should we still take this land then? If we develop it, wouldn't we just be doing a favor for Huaxia?"

Fenghou reminded him softly: "This is just a conjecture. Huaxia might do that, but conquering us will not be an easy task. Besides, we cannot stop managing this place now just because we are worried about things many years from now. As long as this excellent land is cultivated, it can provide us with more and more food, feed more people and Soldiers, and allow us to better resist Huaxia.

As long as we develop ourselves rapidly, these ideas of Huaxia's will naturally come to nothing; instead, it is they who will be in danger."

"Fenghou is right. If I were truly that afraid of Baifeng, I would never have come to participate in the war against the Shennong Clan.

From the moment I first made contact with Huaxia, I felt they might have some problem they could not solve in the short term. After all, their time of development has been far too short, while our own problem was only a lack of food; ever since we were able to farm, that problem has ceased to be a problem.

What we must do now is race against time, to become strong faster than Huaxia, strong enough that Huaxia dares not make a move against us, and then bit by bit, push Huaxia further away and make their territory smaller.

Right now, there is only one thing I fear regarding Huaxia: their Bombs. This is truly too terrifying. We have ways to deal with their other Weapons, but ever since I first saw a Bomb, I have been somewhat afraid.

To this day, I have not thought of a way to counter them. Now, we can also take this opportunity to learn and see how Huaxia actually fights; as long as we understand them, we will be able to deal with them.

Baifeng saying that we should take the lead is likely because he wants them to learn how we fight."

Limu found it a bit incredible that it was actually like this. He suddenly sighed and said: "So this Xiong, he seems to have no good ideas, but in reality, he was just saying things casually; he mainly wanted to see how we do things, right? It makes sense—how could a top Huaxia Soldier and Leader be so casual in war, yet also so nervous and afraid? He must just be unwilling to reveal his true self.

That Shaoyin probably knew what his father was going to say long ago."

Xuanyuan smiled slightly: "That should be the case. How could someone like Xiong, who is so highly regarded by Baifeng, think so simply?

For now, you all should try not to say too much and mainly watch how Huaxia acts. Furthermore, as Xiong said, the weather has started to get cold, and there is not much left to do this year. We set out too late, but fortunately, we have already gained enough understanding of the Shennong Clan.

The territory here has also been occupied; let the people of the Tribal Alliance push forward to here. After this last battle is fought, we will go back. I have too little I can do in the tribe during Winter; perhaps I won't even come over next year and will stay in the tribe to command instead.

Let's leave it at that for this year; it is already quite enough. We will go home after the final battle."