Chapter 1487: Total Surrender

After Wujian ran over panting, his face was still full of fawning expressions; even if the languages were not understood, human expressions were still quite consistent. Zhang even saw the shadow of a dog on Wujian's face, though in Huaxia, the status of these Wujian was far from being as high as a dog's.

After briefly explaining things to them, the Wujian understood what they needed to do, so several people scrambled to persuade their own tribesmen to surrender.

Those savages still wanted to ask where these smooth-skinned people came from, but upon hearing that they were actually speaking their own language, they retorted with various questions and doubts. Zhang even pulled out a Wujian to have him translate the dialogue for these people.

In the end, the savages were all convinced of the fact that their tribe was finished; Bosa had already betrayed the tribe, and the Tribal Chief had also fallen into the hands of Huaxia, so they had no thoughts of struggling, nor could they see any hope of being saved.

After all, no matter how large the Wulenge Tribe was, there was still a certain distance between each small tribe, and all the tribes in this area had already gathered together; by the time other tribes discovered they had all gone missing, it would likely be next year.

Fortunately, the Wujian also told the savages that Huaxia would not kill Slaves at will; at least, they hadn't killed anyone yet—the Wujian simply ignored those who were killed while attempting to escape.

One of the most tempting conditions was that in Huaxia, one could eat, every single day; as for eating until full, that was impossible. They, these Wujian, needed to rely on betraying their tribe to possibly be able to eat their fill, but for these savages, it was enough, because what they feared most was starving to death as a Slave.

After some conversation, the savages all laid down their arms and surrendered, with not a single one preparing to flee. Zhang let them find ropes themselves, then arranged for the Wujian and Soldiers to tie up the hands and feet of these savages.

It was not tying them up one by one individually, but rather like a centipede, tying them into a string; in this way, it was even harder for them to escape.

The men had already surrendered without a fight, and the women gave up resistance even faster, including their children. Some women feared the children would be killed, so they secretly hid the children away, letting them move forward hidden among the sheep flocks, hiding in holes dug during grazing, or hiding in those natural holes washed open by water.

Even if they were left without the protection of adults and without food, it was still difficult to survive, but at least the chance of living was greater than staying here.

After all, they were just children with absolutely no labor power; most tribes would choose to kill the children—eating food but unable to labor meant they were a burden.

But Huaxia was different; compared to those who were already adults, Huaxia actually preferred the younger ones, because children had more potential for cultivation and could also be instilled with certain concepts—by the time they grew up, they would be qualified Slaves, and relatively excellent Slaves at that.

The number of people was too large, so Huaxia couldn't be bothered to count them one by one; they simply arranged for the Wujian to manage the women, letting them first round up all the cattle and sheep, preparing to take them all back to Huaxia.

The women had no choice; not following orders meant death, so they were all very obedient and even pulled out the lead sheep, letting the Huaxia side take control.

On the day the war ended, Huaxia naturally camped on the spot first, then slaughtered sheep to eat meat and replenish their strength. These were not sheep they had raised themselves, so the Huaxia Soldiers felt no heartache eating them, and with such a large number of sheep, killing a dozen or so didn't show much change.

As for the matter of searching for property, Huaxia directly let go and let the Wujian do it, because Huaxia had made it very clear: if there was food, they should bring it themselves. On this journey, Huaxia would not give these people food; they could only eat the food they carried themselves. If they were unwilling to find the food and bring it along, then if they starved to death on the road, Huaxia would not care.

Therefore, under various threats, almost all the food and property of the Wulenge Tribe were dug out. The Wulenge Tribe was different from other tribes; among their food, there was actually a lot of sun-dried meat strips, while food like Grass Seed was relatively scarce, which showed they really had quite a bit of experience in grazing.

Intelligence had previously been obtained from the savages of the Wulenge Tribe that a tribe of a hundred people basically always had thousands of sheep. However, most of the sheep and cattle were the wealth of the Leader or Tribal Chief; ordinary people could be said to have absolutely no wealth. The food they ate was what was distributed by the Tribal Chief, or what they searched for themselves, such as grass roots, Grass Seed, and wild fruits.

When grazing, if they found something edible, they would quickly stuff it into their mouths; if they couldn't stuff it all in or couldn't finish it, they would bring it back to the tribe and hand it over to the Tribal Chief, who would then distribute it. Food obtained from hunting was also distributed by the Tribal Chief.

In order to prevent his tribesmen from starving to death, the Tribal Chief also had to slaughter sheep and cattle when food was scarce and distribute it to the tribesmen, but the power to slaughter belonged only to the Tribal Chief.

Therefore, the cattle and sheep here now were actually just the wealth of a few people, not that of the entire Wulenge Tribe.

Now these cattle and sheep all belonged to Huaxia. The Western Development Group certainly could not receive such a large quantity, because they were also domesticating them themselves and had bred a quite massive number, though likely not as many as the Wulenge Tribe had here. After all, the Wulenge Tribe had been developing grazing for how many years, and the cattle and sheep here were gathered from several tribes. A place like the Western Development Group, which had not been developing for long, truly could not compare in terms of livestock numbers.

When setting out on this expedition, Baifeng had given Zhang a great deal of freedom. In some more complex situations, Zhang could make the most suitable and convenient decisions based on the current circumstances, as long as he did not touch the bottom line.

Therefore, Zhang had already considered that after returning, he would select some better livestock from these herds to use as breeding stock, and take the rest back to Huaxia. When passing by Lema City, he could give them a portion, because Lema City also needed to develop animal husbandry, but it was difficult to form a sufficiently large scale in a short time. After all, the offspring bred were almost all in Huaxia City, but Huaxia City's annual output was limited, and they still had to slaughter them every day to provide food for the whole city.

Added to the fact that for the past two years they had been providing livestock seedlings to the Western Development Group, Xiao Town, and various other towns, the amount that could be given to Lema City was relatively small. However, as the second-largest city in Huaxia, Lema City had extremely high demand. Now, with this trip, he could divide another portion for them, solving their difficulties and also reducing the burden on this team of theirs.