Chapter 430: Locust Plague

After noon, my cousin even refused the sumptuous lunch offered by the Tuji tribe, and hurried back to the Blackstone tribe with everyone.

During the period, I ate a little jerky in the car, even if it was filling my stomach.

Compared with the car when they came here, there was still chatter and laughter from time to time. On the way back, the atmosphere in the car was quite terrifyingly silent.

The main purpose of their coming here this time is to find out the truth about the imminent wave of refugees entering the mountains.

The investigations in the Tuji tribe were only carried out incidentally; but it was after finding out the truth that they all became preoccupied.

It was easy to pass, chatting with the leaders of several small tribes, Master Niu knew why they moved to the Luolei Mountains, which they didn't even care about before.

Even this is just the beginning, and there are more small and medium-sized tribes in the making. They are considering whether to move to the Luolei Mountains and take refuge in these natives who they regarded as barbarians before.

Without him! Because if these people lived in the former tribal territory, they would face the fate of starving to death or being killed...

Since this year, there hasn't been much rain on the edge of the plain. It seems that the drought that happened in the Luolei Mountains two years ago has just changed to a different venue and started here again.

It's nothing if it's just that. There are many rivers and lakes in the plain area. If you want to make these places dry up, you can't do it unless there is a severe drought for several years.

Therefore, for these tribes who make a living by farming, even if they carry out water transportation and irrigation manually, it is only a little bit harder, but they will definitely not fail.

In this difficult season, these unlucky tribes encountered another catastrophic event: locust plague...

In this era, in the face of such a fatal disaster, their top coping method is nothing more than extravagantly slaughtering a few slaves for sacrifice.

I hope to use this method to obtain the protection of the spirits of the ancestors and help them drive away these locusts.

It's a pity that among all the magic of the great fire and ancestor spirits, there is absolutely no option to repel locusts; therefore, they will face a situation of no harvest this year.

If such a situation had been encountered in the past, these tribes might starve to death a lot of people relying on the food left by the previous tribes, coupled with wild collection and hunting, but the whole tribe could always survive after being severely injured. This natural disaster.

A more ruthless scene appeared. These tribes were accepted as vassal tribes when the Tuji tribe marched into the Luolei Mountains last time. Every autumn is when they hand in their tribute.

The native chicken tribe has long said that they don't care about any severe drought, let alone any locust plague.

In a word, the tribe that fails to pay the tribute after the deadline will be regarded as a serious betrayal of the chicken tribe, and will naturally be punished most severely by the chicken tribe.

Because although the disaster situation in the outer areas of the plain is a little better, the life of the Tuji tribe is not so easy.

By this time, these tribes could no longer pay the tribute, so what if they managed to raise enough tribute, could the rest of them survive without eating and drinking?

As for uniting against something! They have long lost all confidence under the butcher's knife of the Tuji tribe.

So moving to the Luolei Mountains has become their best choice at present; hundreds of small and medium-sized tribes may not have as many as millions of people, but more than half a million people are definitely easy to get. achieve.

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It takes about thirteen hours to return from the Tuji tribe to the Blackstone tribe.

Along the way, for such a long time, Mr. Niu has been caught in hard thinking. For other local goods, he just felt that so many people rushed into the Luolei Mountain Range at once, and he faintly felt that something was going wrong. .

Because they really can't do anything to prevent them from entering the mountains, let them starve to death, or be slaughtered...

But thanks to the insight brought by the leading civilization in the modern plane, Master Niu realized the huge pressure behind this:

First of all, don't look at the entire area of ​​Luolei Mountain Range, the area is simply insane.

Even compared to the modern plane, it is as large as the provinces before the Hua Kingdom; logically, let alone an extra half a million people, even if this number is hundreds of times larger, they can be easily accommodated.

However, the environment before the two is completely different; the mountains and forests where many indigenous tribes live today are all the indigenous people of the Luolei Mountains. After thousands of years of activities and struggles with fierce beasts, they have been developed one by one. of.

The combined area is probably not even one-tenth of the entire Luolei Mountain Range.

It is naturally impossible for the tribes that migrated to settle in those undeveloped areas that are extremely dangerous. With their weak strength, if they really want to do this, I am afraid that less than 30% of the tribes will survive in the end.

And if they settled in the territory of the former indigenous tribes, it would be the turn of the indigenous people of the Luolei Mountain Range, and they began to be unwilling.

These familiar mountains and forests were all developed by their ancestors, even their peers, after paying countless deaths. Why should they be given to others like this...

After thinking for a long time, Master Niu had to admit with a wry smile: the best way to resettle these foreign tribes is to raise them all by himself and become workers for his various construction and industrialization.

Thus. You just need to find an area and let them live there.

With the compensation for working for themselves, these people can support their families without needing vast land and forests, and minimize the impact of the entire resettlement work and the conflict with the local aborigines.

After sighing deeply, Master Niu realized that this wave of refugees was not only a challenge, but also a huge opportunity for himself, the Blackstone tribe, and even all the natives of the Luolei Mountain Range.

With a population of more than 500,000 people, if Master Niu used his usual squeeze method, he could even squeeze out a labor force of no less than 400,000 people from these people.

With such a large amount of labor force, Master Niu will never lack manpower for any business he wants to start.

Of course, there is a prerequisite, that is, he can feed these people first; calculating the astronomical figure of food needed every day for such a large population, Master Niu is a little dizzy.

In the end, Master Niu launched a ruthless attack: "Isn't it just hundreds of thousands of mouths, Master Niu, I will give this plate to the next..."

After returning to the Blackstone tribe, it was already midnight.

After eating supper with Kui and the others, Master Niu planned to return to the cave in the desert; after all, the coming refugee wave hadn't arrived yet, and there was still plenty of time for him to plan slowly.

Before leaving, Master Niu told Kui: "Notify all tribe members of the alliance about this refugee wave; tell them that a meeting will be held here in half a month, and Master Niu's cousin will handle the matter on his behalf. thing."

After finishing speaking, Master Niu opened the portal again and returned to the desert cave thousands of miles away.

A few seconds later, the dark cave appeared in front of Master Niu again, but Master Niu, who came back here again, always felt something was wrong.

In this regard, he quickly took out a shield and put it in front of him.

At the same time, he turned on the strong flashlight, and after adjusting the light to the brightest level, Case carefully looked around.

There is nothing around, nothing on the top of the head, and there is nothing wrong with TM even on the ground; what makes Mr. Niu feel strange is that after careful inspection, there is no abnormality around.

After a long time, Master Niu bounced like an electric shock, and quickly pulled off the clothes on his body.

Sin! After wearing women's clothing for a long time, it seems that she has gotten used to it a little, and even forgot to take it off when she crossed over.

At this moment, Master Niu was extremely terrified in his heart, he could only growl repeatedly to remind and comfort himself: "I am a straight man, a man, a pure man, made of 24K pure gold!"

Zhang Jiageng