Chapter 10: A Peaceful Transfer of Power

The old wolf is gone. It is impossible for this guy to be domesticated into a dog. At the last moment of his life, he is still willing to die in the name of a wolf instead of continuing to live in the name of a dog.

Selema fell asleep holding Naha in her arms, while Yun Chu stared at the bright moon on Tianshan Mountain unable to sleep.

Just like that day, it was very quiet and peaceful on the Grasshopper Lake side, but fighting was in full swing on the other side of the tribal camp.

Just tonight, there should be many, many small tribes fighting the same thing, because a new king is about to ascend the throne.

At dawn, Yunchu grilled some fish, and the bar-headed geese wandered in the lake, looking very leisurely.

"Did nothing happen last night?" Selema squatted by the lake and washed her face. She also liked living by Grasshopper Lake.

"We can go back. If Jiesiga becomes Great Apo, I will leave the tribe. If Jiesika dies, I will continue to stay."

"Why did Jiesga die?" Selema was a little frightened.

Yun Chu smiled and handed the grilled fish to Selema and said, "Because he wants to be the great Apo. When he gets ahead, he always has to pay some price."

Selema was panicked as to whether Jasika would die. Fighting was a common occurrence for Sai men. If they were lucky, they would survive. If they were unlucky, they would die. She had seen this kind of thing a lot. It can even be said to be part of her life.

"Are you going to find Lao Yangpi?" Selema was concerned about Yunchu's future again.

There are many cattle and sheep dealers on the grasslands, Gobi, and deserts. These cattle and sheep dealers are very important to herdsmen. They can bring high-quality cattle and sheep from far away, and they can also bring good local cattle and sheep breeds to distant places. Hybridization.

In this way, it ensures the diversity of the cattle and sheep populations raised by herdsmen, and ensures that the cattle and sheep will be continuously optimized during breeding, and will not gradually wither due to too single bloodlines.

If there are cattle and sheep traders, there will naturally be human traders too!

Lao Yangpi is the most famous human trafficker in this area.

His job is actually not evil at all.

If there are too many women and too few men in a certain tribe, Lao Yangpi will take away the women from this tribe and send them to a tribe with more men and fewer women, and send the men in exchange to a tribe with fewer men.

He is a person who makes a living by buying and selling people and extracting a certain amount of profit. He is an indispensable person on the grasslands, Gobi, and deserts.

Yun Chu had no intention of selling herself to Lao Yangpi, and Selema had no intention of selling Yun Chu. She just hoped that through Lao Yangpi's introduction, Yun Chu could go to a place he liked.

On this grassland, only Lao Yangpi might have the means to let Yun Chu go to the Tang camp he had always wanted to visit.

"Lao Yangpi is not just a simple human trafficker. I might go directly to Qiuci City where the Tang Dynasty lives to try my luck.

Selema, you should know that my luck has always been good. "

"Mom, brother, the tent is on fire."

Naha, who went out to pee, came back with a not-so-surprising question.

Yunchu climbed up the big rock and took a look at the tribe's headquarters. He found that many tents had been burned and were still smoking.

The clansmen stood together in the open space, not knowing what they were doing, but the battle seemed to be over.

Yunchu and Selema simply tidied up and prepared to go back.

On the way, I got two marmots from Da Fei. After they were beaten to death, they were picked up on a stick and pretended to be the prey caught last night.

Jasika was very excited. When she saw Selema and Naha, she hugged them tightly in her arms. Her mouth rained down on Naha's face, causing Naha to dodge left and right.

Yunchu took a look at the scars on Jiesga's body and found that he probably wouldn't die, so he went to clean up his tent.

There are many strangers in the tribe, and they all look fierce.

The ground next to the sink was wet. It was not splashed with water. There must have been a lot of blood soaking the area. Flies kept flying over from a distance and landed on the ground to rub their hands.

Curly-haired Mi Man sat on the edge of his tent and kept staring at the outsiders. His leather jacket was torn in a mess and his face was covered with wounds. He must have been beaten just now. Within an hour, this The guy's eyes will swell and his entire face will turn into a pig's head.

Jiesga's identity seemed to have changed a lot. After being intimate with Selema and Naha, he greeted the armed idlers and left on horseback. Judging from the direction they left, it should be It was to go to the royal court where the Khan lived.

As soon as these people left, Yunchu's neighbors ran out of the tents screaming and headed straight for the big ditch to the west of the camp.

The big ditch in the west is actually where the tribesmen usually go to the toilet and throw away garbage.

It’s not that Cypriots are very fond of cleanliness and have to deal with hygiene issues in special places. The main reason is that human excrement and garbage will attract wild animals.

Human digestive organs are far more delicate than those of animals and wild beasts. Therefore, the digestive products excreted by humans have good secondary utilization value for many animals.

Therefore, herdsmen can do whatever they want on the grassland, and they will never lay mines anywhere in their residential areas.

Watching everyone rushing towards the ditch, Yun Chu lowered his head and continued to tidy up his tent that was knocked down by the war horses.

It is difficult for him to have empathy for the Uighur people. This is not because he is cold-blooded, but because the Uighur people themselves have not cultivated this great emotion.

The Sai people were originally a group established by blood ties. After the tribe's population grew naturally, they began to plunder other tribes and accepted people from other tribes into their own tribe to be exploited.

It is impossible for a herdsman to have a group of more than 3,000 people. Once the number exceeds this, there will not be enough pasture for them to feed so many cattle and sheep within their control, and it will be impossible to feed more people.

Therefore, the royal court will disperse the crowd and re-establish small tribes, so that the blood connection will be weaker.

In general, this is a tribe composed of a group of people who hope to encourage each other and do not want others to interfere too much. As long as there is a chance of splitting, they will choose to betray without hesitation.

Naha seemed very excited when she came back.

"Brother, brother, many people died in the ditch. All the people from Gelusa's family and Huishining's family died.

They can't bully me anymore."

Yunchu leaned over and picked up Naha, who was only six years old. It was reasonable that she shouldn't see such things as death, but in the Huihe tribe, death was a normal thing.

Sailaima, who came back later, seemed very happy. The reason why she came back later than Naha was because she was driving a flock of sheep.

Looking at the marks on the sheep's horns, some of these sheep belonged to Gelusa's family, and some belonged to Huishining's family.

"With thirty more sheep, our life will be better. Yunchu, you don't have to leave. We have enough sheep to live a good life."

Yunchu helped Sailaima drive the sheep that Jiesi Ka had embezzled into the sheepfold. Sailaima immediately burned a thin iron bar red and re-marked the sheep with his own mark.

Yunchu's tent was basically impossible to repair. The warhorse broke the tent pillars and tore the cowhide that could shelter from wind and rain.

Therefore, Selaima and Naha could only live in the intact tent of Jiesi Ka tonight.

Yunchu didn't want to think about why his tent was damaged by the warhorse even though it was far away from the battlefield.

At least, he didn't want to think too badly of Jiesi Ka now, or rather, Yunchu thought that Jiesi Ka's current behavior was normal for a male lion, and no male lion who had just become king would allow his lioness to continue to support the child of the former lion king.

This was an instinctive reaction, which had nothing to do with human nature, feelings, or even right or wrong.

And Jiesi Ka just wanted to drive him away, which was very, very kind.

In the next few days, Yunchu went out early and came back late to chop wood and store food. He even killed several marmots under Dafei, causing Dafei to no longer want to pay attention to him.

As the firewood pile at home got higher and higher, Selaima cried more and more. She knew that once Jiesi Ka brought the warhorse to Yunchu, it would be time for him to leave.

Naha seemed to sense something. This little girl who was only interested in eating became more and more attached to Yunchu. She would hug her brother's arm even when sleeping, and sometimes she couldn't tear it apart.

Yunchu talked a lot with Selaima, and sometimes they could talk all night by the bonfire in the fire pit.

When the herdsmen returned Yunchu's breeding sheep, good news finally came from Jiesiga. They successfully killed Porun Khan and put Porun Khan into a cowhide bag. The cavalry lined up and stepped on the cowhide bag until there was only a bag of meat sauce left in the cowhide bag.

They piled soil on the leather bag again and let the cavalry continue to trample it. When it was firm, they continued to pile soil and trample it again until a bare mound appeared on the ground.

Bisu Teqin became Bisu Khan, and Jiesiga naturally became the new big Awa of Yunchu and his two hundred herdsmen.

This was a very peaceful way of power transfer. The Huihe tribe of more than 100,000 people lost less than a thousand people for this power transfer. It can be seen that Bisu Teqin had done a lot of work before this.

This time, when Jie Siga came to Yun Chu's house again, he seemed very confident. He hugged the kicking Naha and kissed her hard, then put his arm around Selaima's waist and said to Yun Chu: "I, Jie Siga Da Apo, will give you a tent, a horse, and a scimitar!"

Yun Chu shook his head and smiled: "I want the scimitar and the horse, but forget about the tent. You can live in this tent."

Jie Siga frowned and said: "I have a tent! It's made of cowhide and is big!"

"A dirty, bug-filled, and cow dung-smelling big tent!" Yun Chu didn't give the newly appointed Da Apo any face.

"I'm moving in, where do you live? Oh, you can live in my big tent!" Jie Siga quickly found the source of confidence.

Naha slipped down from Jiesi Ka's arms and hugged Yunchu's thighs tightly. Her green eyes looked around. Although everyone was laughing, Naha felt that a disaster was coming.

"You want to leave? Where? Go to the human trafficker Lao Yangpi to find you a chance?

Yunchu, listen to me, Lao Yangpi will not arrange any good places for you. He will only trick you into going to Shiguo to participate in the battle cage selection there. You are still young and not suitable for participating in such a bloody battle!

In recent years, most of the young people who followed Lao Yangpi to find a way out died in the battle cage of Shiguo.

You are too young to beat those fierce warriors in the battle cage. Going there is just to die, and Lao Yangpi will get your money for nothing."