Chapter 511
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Chapter 511: The Merger of Tribes
Tiger Tribe
The Tiger Tribe is what Lin Jiang’s tribe calls their enemies, because the enemies’ leader raised a tiger from a cub, which has now grown into a fierce tiger.
In every battle, the chief of the Tiger Tribe would ride on Da Hu and none of the spears or bone arrows without spearheads could harm Da Hu, leading to their defeat each time. They were forced to hide in the mountains near a cave.
Lin Jiang decided to merge with the Tiger Tribe, and immediately had his men take him to find them without any need for strategy – sheer force would do.
Lin Jiang took all the able-bodied men from the tribe, totaling forty-two individuals starting from the age of ten. Excluding himself, the oldest was only thirty years old, which was considered old in the tribe where life expectancy was low and accidents could happen anytime.
After a day’s journey, Lin Jiang came across a large tribe which was much bigger than the Huaxia tribe. Roughly estimating, there were at least six to seven hundred people, living in a flat area surrounded by fences, with vast rice fields visible. However, they still depended on the weather for their food.
Lin Jiang was surprised to see bronze weapons, but then he realized it wasn’t really a surprise after all. Bronze is a soft metal and this tribe was stronger than the Huaxia tribe, so it made sense they had more advanced technology.
"Leader, they are really strong."
The people from the Huaxia tribe saw the Tiger Tribe and they all looked scared. This big tribe had at least two or three hundred brave warriors, there was no way they could defeat them.
"Don’t be afraid, I am here. Remember, the leader can do anything."
Lin Jiang scolded, then took two spears from beside him and threw them at least a hundred or two hundred meters away.
"Boom!"
The spear stuck into the wooden fence with a loud bang, the second one followed and the whole row of wooden fences fell down.
"Let’s go."
Lin Jiang led them towards the Tiger Tribe.
The people of Tiger Tribe were quickly alerted and started shouting when they saw Lin Jiang and his group coming out of the dense forest. When they got closer, some of them started shooting arrows at Lin Jiang and his group.
Lin Jiang casually knocked down the soft arrows with ease, leading the way with a distance of about ten meters ahead of the others. He intercepted all the arrows by himself.
As they got closer, dozens of long spears were thrown towards them. Lin Jiang had a wooden stick in his hand, with a swing, he managed to deflect all the spears coming from both sides.
With just his skill, the people of Tiger Tribe were left dumbfounded. In their minds, even the fiercest wild beast would have been killed by so many spears.
"Roar!"
A tiger’s roar echoed, and then Lin Jiang saw a middle-aged strong man riding on a tiger, which was even larger than the two tigers he had encountered before.
The brave warrior riding the tiger charged towards them, the intimidating aura of the tiger coming at them. If people from other tribes had witnessed this scene, they would have been intimidated even before any fight, just the aura alone was hard to resist.
"Bang!"
The middle-aged strong man held a spear with a bronze spearhead tied on top, thinking Lin Jiang must have been scared. He was ready to spear him, but he saw Lin Jiang easily grab his spear and then kick the fierce tiger.
"Click clack"
The sound of bones breaking was very crisp, a fierce tiger weighing at least a thousand kilograms flew out, flying twenty to thirty meters before crashing heavily to the ground.
Lin Jiang seized the middle-aged strong man’s neck, then said to the Huaxia people behind him, "Shout out, make them surrender, say that the gods want them to surrender and become the gods’ people."
Over the past three years, Lin Jiang had actually tried to teach them some more equal advanced thoughts, but none of it worked. Instead, they readily accepted some inexplicable things Lin Jiang said, so now in the tribe, except for a few clear-minded individuals, they all considered Lin Jiang as the embodiment of a god.
The Huaxia tribe shouted a few times, and the people of the Tiger Tribe basically dropped their weapons, kneeling on the ground. They were warriors who fought with beasts, but dared not confront the gods. The mysterious and unknown, even people in the technological age were afraid of, let alone these tribe people. In their eyes, Lin Jiang’s performance was the most mysterious and terrifying thing.
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The Huaxia tribe quickly moved to the Tiger Tribe as a whole. Of course, the Tiger Tribe was also renamed the Huaxia Tribe.
But the trivial matters Lin Jiang had to face increased exponentially, such as how to deal with prisoners. In the past, during tribe conflicts, they would kill all the young men of the enemy tribe during annexation. At that time, the slave system had not yet appeared because they couldn’t even support their own food, let alone slaves. They only plundered women and property.
Now the people of the Huaxia tribe proposed to kill all the men of the Tiger Tribe and take possession of their women.
"Except for the leader of Tiger Tribe, let’s spare everyone else and make them slaves instead, to work for us."
Lin Jiang hesitated for a moment but then made a decision. He needed help and couldn’t bring himself to kill all these people.
So let’s start the system of slavery. This made Lin Jiang uncomfortable because he came from a civilized era. But due to the current productivity constraints, he had no choice. He hoped to free the slaves in the future.
The Huaxia tribe took over smaller tribes, but it would take time to digest their conquests. Lin Jiang didn’t rush to conquer other tribes. He decided to first organize his own tribe before exploring new territories.
Outside the new camp, there was a small river. They possessed the skill to build canoes. Lin Jiang paddled down the river, smoothly sailing for over a hundred miles until he reached a bigger, fast-flowing river.
"Could this be the Yuntuo River from before?"
Looking at the vast river before him, Lin Jiang couldn’t see its end. He wondered if this could be the Yuntuo River from the past.
However, with thousands of years passing by, it was hard to say. In the age of cultivating immortality, the Yuntuo River didn’t change its course because cultivators could prevent it. But in these three thousand years without any intervention from cultivators, it was normal for the Yuntuo River to alter its course.
"There are still many tribes around."
Lin Jiang sailed along the river and saw many cooking smoke rising from the villages on both sides of the river. It was quite common.
"Han Xin said, ‘More soldiers mean more strength, not afraid of too many tribes, just afraid of too few tribes.’"
Lin Jiang sighed and thought the more tribes, the better. With more people, civilization would develop faster, and many issues could be solved. For example, the problem of close relatives marrying, which caused many deformed children in the Huaxia tribe before. These deformed children couldn’t survive and were killed immediately, which was very detrimental to population growth.
In the blink of an eye, half a year passed. In no time, the Huaxia tribe swiftly absorbed the Tiger Tribe. Lin Jiang first enslaved the people of the Tiger Tribe, then promoted some of them to tribe members through intermarriage and other means, making the tribe stronger than the slaves, thus stabilizing the situation.
However, what truly stabilized people’s hearts were material goods. Lin Jiang led another team to eliminate all the fierce beasts nearby, bringing back plenty of food to prevent starvation in the tribe, which was the best way to win people’s loyalty.
With the internal stability achieved, Lin Jiang led a team to subdue the other two small tribes. The population of the Huaxia tribe now exceeded fifteen hundred people, making it an incredibly powerful tribe in the minds of its members.
After several conquests, the people of the Huaxia tribe had learned how to merge with other tribes. Lin Jiang encouraged them to continue conquering, absorbing every tribe they encountered, and bringing back many slaves. Those slaves who performed well would be promoted to tribe members immediately, receiving houses, women, land, and sometimes even slaves themselves.
This was a unique system of military achievement and nobility. Under this system, the motivation for expansion was terrifying. The tribe members and slaves of the Huaxia tribe actively sought out other tribes to annex.
Everything was on the right track, and the era of rapid development was about to come.
In the second year of his rule, Lin Jiang introduced the concept of toilets and fertilizers, as well as basic agricultural irrigation techniques, leading to the development of a large amount of farmland around.
By the third year, Lin Jiang improved their bronze technology, and officially introduced bronze weapons.
In the fourth year, with Lin Jiang’s support, breakthroughs were made in fishing net and shipbuilding technologies.
By the fifth year, Lin Jiang explained the meaning of names to them, and established that names were noble and only nobles could possess them, creating a new social class. Though class distinctions were not all bad, they at least provided motivation for them to strive for advancement.
In the sixth year, Lin Jiang selected one hundred slaves among those captured, allowed them to explore various herbs, promising that those who survived would be named as descendants of Shen Nong.
In the seventh year, Lin Jiang promoted education within the tribe, eliminating any potential cultural practices related to witchcraft and rituals, allowing the people to bask in the light of science.
By the tenth year, the Huaxia tribe had grown to a population exceeding eight thousand, with stable food production and a large tribe of non-farming warriors.
