Chapter 228: The Stupid Tribesmen

The village system adopted by the Xuanyuan Clan seems to disperse everyone, which would lead to a decline in combat power, but that is not the case. Their villages, which are everywhere, can discover invading enemies at the earliest moment, and since they are not very far apart, they can ask surrounding areas for help and receive support as quickly as possible.

Dispersed villages can also develop the resources of the territory to the greatest extent. Every village is relatively wealthy; not only can they feed themselves, but they can also hand over enough supplies to the tribe. This is because they are different from the Suiren Clan. The primary goal of the Xuanyuan Clan is to let the people in the villages feed themselves first, and then hand over the remaining supplies, whereas the Suiren Clan does not care whether you can feed yourself or not; the set amount of supplies must be handed over.

Therefore, the people of the Xuanyuan Clan have relatively strong combat power because they have enough food. The Lieshan Clan is different; they still continue their old, rigid methods, with everyone living concentrated together, using a large amount of food to support a small number of people, and the vast territory has not been developed, remaining in a state of Wasteland.

Furthermore, when they launch a war, supplies are transported from the tribe. Not to mention the consumption on the road, just transporting supplies to the battlefield is a very difficult task. The journey is long; the previous batch of food has already been eaten, while the next batch is still on the road, with no end in sight.

Therefore, their Soldiers not only have to prepare for battle but also have to take care of hunting and gathering. If they just waited for the food transported by the tribe, they would have starved to death long ago.

The Xuanyuan Clan can draw food from surrounding villages at any time, so the Soldiers do not have to worry about food at all and can just focus on fighting.

The Lieshan Clan went from their initial fierce attacks, capturing several Xuanyuan Clan villages in a row, to slowing down, and now they are struggling to continue because they are facing increasingly strong resistance and cannot get support themselves.

Therefore, not only have they failed to advance, but they have even had to retreat from the villages they had already captured and return them to the Xuanyuan Clan.

The Xuanyuan Clan pressed forward all the way, instead capturing quite a bit of the Lieshan Clan's territory. The boundless plains are much better than those of the Xuanyuan Clan, which makes Xuanyuan very jealous. Although such flat land is not suitable for war, it is very suitable for the development of the tribe.

The Xuanyuan Clan is also planting Grass Seed, but they do not have the concept of intensive cultivation. In their view, it is just that this place is very suitable for planting Grass Seed and then collecting it. For the Baifeng tribe, such land can be said to be something they dream of.

The war between the Xuanyuan Clan and the Lieshan Clan started in a hurry and may end in a hurry, because the Xuanyuan Clan's food supply can no longer afford the consumption. A large amount of labor force being separated from production has a great impact on their tribe, and in places already far from the Xuanyuan Clan, the transportation of food will also face the same problems as the Lieshan Clan.

Therefore, Xuanyuan is already preparing to end this battle. Of course, it is impossible to return the territory they have captured. Such a large area can fully support the establishment of several more villages. When the time comes, let the tribesmen plant Grass Seed and go hunting, and they will soon become wealthy. Moreover, they can serve as the first barrier to defend against the Lieshan Clan.

The Lieshan Clan knows that their offensive is going to fail, but he has no reflection at all, only feeling that the Xuanyuan Clan must be able to contend with them like this because the property left by Shaodian is too abundant.

So he decided to withdraw his troops back to the tribe and wait for a few more winters and summers, attacking again after the Xuanyuan Clan has consumed most of their family fortune.

Having lived in luxury for a long time without fighting or laboring, the Lieshan Clan is in very good health. His physical condition is perfectly consistent with his age, so when he sees people of the same age as him who are already hunched over, with gray hair and most of their teeth fallen out, while he is still the same as when he was young, he feels that he is protected by the gods and will surely live for several more decades. Therefore, he is not too anxious about the matter of conquering the Xuanyuan Clan.

At this time, the Suiren Clan also has endless troubles. Because of his unreasonable system, it has aroused the resistance of the bottom-level tribesmen. Starting from not paying supplies to later directly resisting with force, it made Baoxi both shocked and angry. He did not understand why the policies he thought were good for the tribe were not accepted by the tribesmen.

He asked the Soldiers around him, asked Wangzuo, whether their system was good or not. As beneficiaries of this system, they would of course say it was good. If it were restored to the way it was before, they would not be able to obtain the privileges and affluent life they have now.

Baoxi listened to their words and believed that those tribesmen did not understand him, that they were too stupid. Why did the smartest group of people in his tribe, the elite of the tribe, feel that there was no problem with this system? Those who could not even hand over food must be too useless and did not truly realize the benefits of his system. Xuanyuan could do this, and he did better than Xuanyuan, so naturally there was no problem. However, since these things have happened in their tribe now, Xuanyuan must be having an even harder time.

So Baoxi unceremoniously let the Soldiers carry out armed suppression and gave them a lecture, but it was not too cruel; after all, they were tribesmen, not Slaves.

The tribesmen sighed at the stupidity of the Tribal Chief and lost hope in him. The nearby villages had no choice but to continue to endure and live a life like Slaves, because they had absolutely no ability to fight against the powerful elite Soldiers.

However, they also made a request to the Tribal Chief, which was to reduce the amount of food and supplies they had to hand over. They really did not have that ability. Baoxi let the Soldiers carefully search the property of those villages, confirmed that they really had nothing left over, sighed at the incompetence of the tribesmen, and then reduced the amount that needed to be handed over.

The nearby villages continued to live in deep water and scorching heat, while the distant villages chose to break away from the Suiren Clan, becoming an independent new tribe, or migrating to join other tribes. Many villages chose to join the Xuanyuan Clan.

Upon learning the news, Xuanyuan was very happy and was not afraid of the Suiren Clan's revenge at all, giving these people the same treatment as his own tribesmen. There was also a group of people preparing to join the wealthy Baifeng tribe, but because they did not know the specific location of the Baifeng tribe, they were still slowly wandering and searching along the Dahe.

As for the village that the Baifeng tribe wiped out, the news never reached Baoxi's ears, because many distant villages had not had news for a long time. Baoxi automatically assumed that those tribesmen had rebelled, so he shrank the construction range of the villages to facilitate management.

Even though this matter caused the Suiren Clan heavy losses, Baoxi still did not make too many changes. In fact, Baoxi himself was still preparing to conduct another trade with the Baifeng tribe, because their tribe had a lot of Tea Leaves, and Baifeng needed this thing. Being closer was an advantage that the Xuanyuan Clan did not possess.