Chapter 627: Yanhu Tribe

After discovering the existence of the salt lake, Zhu immediately decided to settle down and live here. There was no need to consider the issue of other tribes being here, nor was there any desire to think about why the original tribe had left this place. In any case, with nearly ten thousand people of his own, was there any need to worry about such things?

After returning, Zhu immediately announced that this would be the place where their tribe would reside. Because they had enough salt here, Zhu decided that their tribe would be named the Yanhu Tribe, rather than naming the tribe after himself.

The tribespeople cheered upon hearing this, celebrating that they once again had a new place to call home.

Zhu then began to distribute the ownership of those houses to the tribespeople. First, the largest and best-located house was for Zhu himself. He did not consider that a large house could accommodate more tribespeople; he simply felt that the best things should belong to the Tribal Chief.

Thus, the largest house rightfully became Zhu's room. However, he did not consider at all that such a large house would definitely be very cold in Winter. He only saw that there was a ready-made stove inside the room, so he felt that Winter would not be too cold.

As for the remaining houses, one of them was assigned to Yinyang. At the same time, the Soldiers who had explored this place together with Yinyang also lived inside; this was considered a reward for them.

As for the other houses, they could only be assigned to those Soldiers with relatively strong combat power. As for the frail men, women, and children, they had absolutely no right to live in the rooms. They did not even have the right to take a look at the doorway; the only thing they could do was to get closer to the rooms and set up their own tattered Tents.

The Yanhu Tribe's survival location was established so quickly. The rooms were not cleaned with any particular care; they simply replaced the rotten Wild Rice Grass with newly found dry Grass. As for the mice, bugs, and dust, those were already their old neighbors and old acquaintances—was there any need to drive them away? In any case, Zhu felt that living like this was quite comfortable.

This was the third day since Zhu had spoken. They had successfully found their place of residence. On the fourth day, they began to build rooms for everyone to live in. The Soldiers began to enter the forest to hunt, while Zhu, unable to restrain himself, took people to start mining salt immediately. Even if the salt here was already too much to calculate, things not placed before one's own eyes still had nothing to do with oneself. Therefore, Zhu was already very eager to mine the wealth within his own territory.

Over the course of several days, they had built this place up to look like something. Although it was to the extent that Huaxia craftsmen would black out upon seeing it, they felt that their home was already quite good, even exceeding the level of the period at the Jiangshui Tribe.

By the sixth day of staying here, Zhu began to lead the tribespeople to increase the water volume, re-expanding the entire waterway once more to make the river channel wider. Afterward, he went upstream and, at a very far place, found that tiny spring eye. He immediately cleared out the silt there, enlarged the spring eye a little more, and finally, the water volume of the entire river channel increased by more than double.

This water was already enough for these ten thousand people to use, because what they used was almost entirely survival water—that is, the water needed for eating and drinking. If people from Huaxia came, this water would only be enough for a few thousand people to use, because the amount of domestic water used in Huaxia even exceeded the amount of survival water.

At this time, the Huaxia Maintenance Troop had just set off and had only just entered Lema City. The Residents of Lema City were also seeing for the first time this creature that even influenced the name of the city they lived in. The horse's handsome and strong physique deeply attracted the people of Lema City. If it weren't for Baifeng, they would never have thought that such a creature could actually be tamed and then ridden. Many tenant farmers who had not always been people of Huaxia were no less surprised when they saw the tamed oxen than they were now.

The entire troop passed through Lema City in such a very ostentatious manner. Conversely, they had been very low-key when they left Huaxia City, because there were already many people from the Xuanyuan Tribe in Huaxia City, and Huaxia did not intend to reveal the existence of horses to the Xuanyuan Tribe for the time being.

However, Baifeng was not very worried, because since ancient times, the place where the Xuanyuan Tribe was located could not produce good horses. Whether or not there were horses in their territory now was a matter of debate. Baifeng was mainly afraid that Xuanyuan would go and train an elephant or something; otherwise, the Huaxia Cavalry would have no chance of winning.

Based on Baifeng's understanding of Xuanyuan, if Xuanyuan were to know of this possibility, he would absolutely try to do it. Some small losses were completely unnecessary for him to care about, unlike Baifeng, who needed to consider too much. If a few people died on a mission, it could already be counted as a major accident, but in the Xuanyuan Tribe, even if ten people died at once, it would not count as anything important.

Therefore, this troop was very low-key, choosing to leave Huaxia City at a time when everyone was not out. After leaving the city, they no longer hid their tracks.

The horses were just as they were during training; they did not suddenly go mad, nor did they run away. Instead, they very obediently listened to the commands of the reins in their hands, which made the hearts of these Cavalrymen very steady. Their riding mission was already more than half successful.

After leaving Lema City, they had completely entered the wilderness. On the road, they could encounter attacks from wild beasts or people from other tribes at any time. Of course, this was only what they had anticipated. Attacks by wild men were almost impossible to happen because they were very clear about what was around this road. If there really were other tribes, they should have already become their Slaves or tenant farmers by now.

The possibility of attacks by wild beasts was quite high. Although the number of large wild beasts in this mountain forest had plummeted after they had gone through a large-scale hunt, it was not that they were gone entirely. Moreover, territory without a master would attract other wild beasts to come and seize it, just like humans seizing territory. The territory-seizing behavior of wild beasts was far more intense than that of humans.

However, the horses were still very obedient. Even in a completely strange place, the horses still did not show any signs of going mad and were still steadily controlled under the Soldiers' crotches.

The small houses built along the way also came in handy. Although they could not all fit inside, the Soldiers who did not need to stand guard could sleep soundly without any worries. The Soldiers on guard duty also did not need to worry about what was behind them; in any case, there were solid houses behind them as protection, and they only needed to pay attention to what was in front of them.

There were even various kitchen utensils placed inside the rooms, allowing their Zhizhongdui to carry much less.