Chapter 813: Establishing Order (5)

In the end, all the tribes, whether voluntarily or forced by the situation, all came to the new trading location selected by Huaxia; this was also the first step for Huaxia to control the entire assembly, and now it has been successfully taken.

After more than half a day, all the tribes worked hard to clean up the campsites they were assigned. When Huaxia allocated them, the first principle was certainly first-come, first-served, and the second was based on the size of the tribe. Even if you arrived early, if your tribe only had a few dozen or even a dozen people, there was no need to occupy too large a space.

Huaxia's measures were quite reasonable, and with the addition of salt, not a single tribe had any objections; they were even incredibly happy. Every Soldier of Huaxia did not feel the slightest bit wrong about this act of giving salt to the savages, and even felt that if things continued this way, their burden along the journey could be reduced quite a bit.

When they brought it over, there was even more salt than this, but they consumed quite a bit along the way by eating it themselves and adding salt to the water for the cattle and horses. Because of a sudden rainfall, they even suffered some losses to their salt, and it was only by moving it into the Tent in time that they avoided even greater losses.

Huaxia once again followed the previous practice of driving wooden stakes for all the cattle. Before coming, they had also taken all the livestock to the pool under She Shan to drink their fill, which saved the trouble of having the savages help fetch water.

Now it was even more convenient here; there was no problem with just pulling the cattle to the lakeside to drink. Except for Huaxia, the other savages did not care at all about having to use the same water source as the cattle.

In fact, Huaxia would not care too much either. In this world, which water source is not shared by humans and other wild beasts? Even in Huaxia's water cellars and wells, there were tiny insects inside. Baifeng only knew they were harmless and might be the larval form of some kind of flying insect, but he could not say what kind of insect they were.

After all the tribes had settled themselves, Xiong gathered all the Tribal Chiefs together, saying there were some things to discuss. Such behavior was a first for those Tribal Chiefs, but they dared not refuse at all, nor did they have any reason to refuse.

On the campsite, Huaxia spread a layer of animal skins, some obtained from hunting along the way, and some temporarily traded from nearby tribes just now. The price Huaxia gave was very high, and those tribes had absolutely no reason to refuse.

Only under Xiong's backside was a well-tanned sheepskin rug brought by Huaxia; he did not want to sit on what those dirty savages sat on, nor did he want to sit on animal skins that those savages had not processed carefully.

Those Tribal Chiefs all came over and stood somewhat awkwardly on Huaxia's campsite. Xiong reached out toward the ground: "Everyone sit, sit down and talk, don't be nervous."

Those Tribal Chiefs no longer distinguished by the size or strength of their tribes and just found a place to sit down. Xiong's position still maintained a certain distance from them. After all, in their eyes, Xiong was an incredibly terrifying Great Shaman. Such a person was very scary, but also very worthy of respect, as all Great Shamans could communicate with Heaven.

Xiong did not treat these savage Tribal Chiefs the way he treated Xuanyuan and Baoxi, but his attitude was not that serious either.

"I called you all here this time to discuss the rules of this assembly. If we have any matters, let's sit down and talk; don't resort to violence. For tribes like yours, surviving on this land is already not easy. Fighting each other and wasting your own Soldiers has no meaning, right? Everyone came here to trade supplies and give your own tribe a chance to survive."

All the savage Tribal Chiefs agreed with these words, but they still did not quite understand what kind of rules Xiong was going to talk about. Would it be unreasonable for them, just to make things convenient for Huaxia?

To save time, Xiong said straightforwardly: "You are already very clear about the strength of our Huaxia. We don't need that many Soldiers to easily deal with so many people from the other side. As of now, we, Huaxia, are also the tribe most qualified to manage this assembly, right? You can express your opinions on this point."

Xiong even asked them quite democratically. As long as they had objections, Xiong could debate them. Fighting was the least advisable option, but those Tribal Chiefs were very sensible and nodded repeatedly: "Huaxia is the most qualified."

"Hmm, since you say so, that means you agree. Of course, we, Huaxia, are not that casual. The former master of this assembly, the Jiangshui Tribe, has indeed joined our Huaxia now. At that time, more than ten thousand of them came to our Huaxia, and we have taken them all in. Now they are living very well in Huaxia, even better than when they were in the Jiangshui Tribe.

Therefore, regardless of strength or rules, it is only right for us, Huaxia, to take over the assembly. What belonged to the Jiangshui Tribe is now ours, Huaxia's."

More than ten thousand people—the first reaction of these Tribal Chiefs upon hearing this was not that there were many people, but that there were so few. The Jiangshui Tribe was so powerful back then; to think only this many people were left. How terrifying that Spell must have been. Only the small Tribal Chiefs who did not understand numbers had no obvious feeling at all.

"Now, I want to tell you Tribal Chiefs about the rules of the assembly. After you go back, tell your tribesmen again, and everyone just needs to strictly abide by them."

The Tribal Chiefs immediately pricked up their ears. They would not care too much about Huaxia saying how powerful they were, but these rules were closely related to their own interests.

"First, it is forbidden to attack each other. If there is a conflict, resolve it yourselves first. If you cannot discuss a reasonable solution, you can come to find us, Huaxia. Huaxia will give you a solution, and we will not favor large tribes to bully small tribes, because in Huaxia's eyes, you are all small tribes."

Xiong's words carried a slight hint of humiliation, but they dared not have any objections. The few tribes that were originally considered relatively large had been wiped out or had fled overnight; in Huaxia's eyes, those who remained really did not count for anything.

"The second is that stealing is not allowed. If you discover someone stealing, you can tie the thief up first, but do not kill them. You can let the Tribal Chief of the thief's tribe handle it. Whatever was stolen must be returned, and the stolen-from tribe must be compensated with items of equal value. If they refuse to accept this, Huaxia will also come over.

However, you are not allowed to casually accuse others of stealing; you must have evidence and witnesses. That is to say, if someone takes your tribe's things without trading items of equal value, and you discover it on the spot, besides the items in the thief's hands, there must be at least one person from another tribe who saw it. Do you have any objections to this?"