Chapter 242 Inhabitation

The Jingjiu court said that the slaughtered snake clan is not extinct, they are living well, and they come to your Jingjiu court to smuggle them.

The same is true for the Tusked Elephant Clan. Although they haven't returned to the 100,000 people in their heyday, they have already recovered from their health and rest, and they are by no means extinct.

Even in the entire territory of the barbarians, there is no daily fighting between the tribes as the country said in the court, and the whole land is full of water and fire. On the contrary, except for the area close to the bamboo road, the depths of the village have actually recovered their food and clothing in the past, and the situation of tribes attacking each other has rarely been seen as early as more than ten years ago.

The reason is that the strong-breeding groups headed by the wolves began to form an alliance to attack the wanton plundering tribes, gather and protect the small tribes in the southeast. Gradually stabilized a large part of the tribal area to the southeast.

A word mentioned repeatedly by these three snake tribes is "chaos in the northwest, stability in the southeast".

Shen Hao's heart skipped a beat when he saw this.

For the barbarians, their northwest is actually the part that borders the old Jing Dynasty, including the Wanli Bamboo Sea and Bamboo Road. And to the southeast is the depths of the barbarian interior.

According to Shen Hao's knowledge, because the barbarians did not have a teleportation circle, and they all relied on chariots and horses and had no supply points, the luggage was too burdensome, so even the slave caravan was only less than a thousand miles south of the bamboo road. Hunting within a range of 1,500 miles, even if they go deep, they seldom go beyond the distance of 1,500 miles.

The slave caravans in the barbarian territory need to regularly feed back some news, mainly about the current situation of the barbarians. These will be released in the official newspaper every six months, and the secret level is not high. can see.

But as far as Shen Hao knows, the descriptions of the barbarian situation in official newspapers are generally "poverty and suffering" or "chaos and desolation", and it has never been mentioned that the other party is slowly recovering.

Shen Hao didn't believe that all the slave caravans would collectively remain silent on the barbarian affairs. The only possibility was that the slave caravans were restricted by the scope of their activities and could only detect the barbarian situation within a limit of 1,500 miles. What they saw The barbarians within the scope are indeed poor and miserable.

But according to data records, the most fertile land of the barbarians is actually in the northwest, while the southeast is relatively barren.

So it doesn't make sense that the fertile northwest is suffering from poverty, while the relatively barren southeast is recovering, right? At least not normally.

Then there is only one possibility, that is, what the slave caravan saw was an illusion deliberately created by the barbarians. The purpose is only to paralyze the Jingjiu Dynasty behind the slave caravan, for which they would rather sacrifice part of the population and fertile land.

Is the deal a loss?

If the actual situation is really as Shen Hao speculates, for the barbarians, it is not a loss at all, but a blood profit.

The other three snake clans also said that the wolf clan had already set up a flag, restored its "Frost Moon" clan emblem, and began to forcibly incorporate more than a dozen small clans. Now entrenched in the Moon Worship Valley, the clansman under his command has broken through 400,000.

Influenced by the wolf clan, all powerful clans including the snake clan settled in the southeast region and began to incorporate the surrounding small clans. Especially those who are good at farming.

Incorporating other ethnic groups, expanding the size of the ethnic group, and setting up flags to restore the glory of the ancestors are not simple in the customs of the barbarians, but to establish their own prestige. Generally, as long as they can get the support of half of the major ethnic groups. Re-establish the royal court and restore the name of "Black Stone".

These news alone can basically confirm that the barbarians are gaining momentum. As long as the power of the wolves continues to increase, there is a high probability that the Blackstone Royal Court will be re-established.

Then it will be in big trouble.

Shen Hao had known about several wars between the old Jing dynasty and the barbarians before. Although Jing Jiuchao won every time, the price he paid was extremely painful. Tens of millions of money and food were consumed, and at least 330,000 soldiers died in battle.

In a word, it is never easy to fight. It is normal to kill 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000.

What's more, judging from the history of each battle between the Jingjiu Dynasty and the barbarians, the barbarians were very powerful in fighting when they erected the Blackstone Royal Court, and they were definitely not easy to deal with.

To be honest, Shen Hao had a premonition of the internal situation of these barbarians before.

After all, the smuggling records that can be found have been maintained for a full five years. A large amount of various controlled materials flowed into the barbarian land from the blood vessel of Baijiang. "It is unaffordable for the region, and it must be a relatively integrated force to afford such a price.

Because smuggling is all for huge profits, even if it is 20 to 30 percent higher than the market price, it is definitely not enough to bear the risk of losing your head to smuggle controlled materials. It must be a multiplied profit to make them forget the legal torture of the old Jing dynasty.

So, think about it, how much money and medicinal materials will flow from the barbarians to the pockets of the bad bugs when a large amount of materials have flowed into the land of the barbarians in the past five years?

Of course, the plunder of the barbarians by the old Jing Dynasty has never stopped, mainly reflected in the slave caravans. Plundering the population is the biggest blow to a region. But the problem is that the place that the slave caravan plundered for a long time did not touch the core, and the core was avoided by the barbarians by using distance.

But the good news is that although the wolf clan is currently the strongest among all clans, it is not enough to convince the public, so even if the wolf clan restores its Frost Moon Wolf Banner and clan emblem, it is still impossible to rebuild the Blackstone Royal Court in a short time arrived.

It is unclear how long this time will last, one year or five years?

But at least Shen Hao has plenty of time. After getting the news, he can easily form a copper bar to report to Jiang Cheng face to face, and based on his understanding of Jiang Cheng, the other party will not be able to sit idly by, and the barbarians will not be as easy as it is now if they still want to do something secretly. up.

In addition to the news about the barbarians, there was also news about those pseudo-evil monks that Shen Hao cared about, but it was beyond Shen Hao's expectations.

Originally, Shen Hao thought that the link between the barbarians and the evil monks was the fake evil cultivators cultivated by these evil monks. But it is not.

According to the three snake tribes, the fake evil cultivators were not contacted by them, nor did they take the initiative to find them. There was a group of people in the middle, and it was this group of people who helped match the bridge that led to the earliest material smuggling. After that, this group of people It was the group of pseudo-evil cultivators who contacted their barbarian tribes and smuggled supplies when they disappeared.

Shen Hao once thought that these three snake clans were deliberately misleading him, it was nonsense. At that time, the murderer who let him start was ruthless to confirm it again and again, and then he had to accept what the three snake clans said. The existence of the original group of middlemen mentioned.