"What is he talking about?"

Standing on the earthen platform, Dongfeng Jia, the leader of the No. 2 Squadron of the "Dongfeng Clan" Wuxing No. 1 Village, who was supervising the classification of prisoners of war, raised the short sword in his hand and pointed to an indigenous boy who was kneeling on the ground not far away and kept talking.

"The accent is very strong, it looks like the tribe of the Great Ape Mountain, and it may be a slave of the previous 'River' clan."

"Go and ask."

"Yes."

Soon, the team leader who went to inquire turned back, "My lord, I have already inquired." It is indeed a mountain man from the Great Ape Mountain, and that kid wants to be taken in by the 'Dongfeng Clan'. ”

"Courage is commendable, but too weak."

"Yes."

Few teenagers dare to face the "Dongfeng Clan", especially after the "Dongfeng Clan" defeated the local Haoqiang in a row, and even a small Japanese court wanted to come over to "canonize", but the messenger was directly chopped up and fed to the dogs, and the human head was hung at the intersection of the "main road" leading to this place.

Originally, because of the geographical environment and poor materials, the Japanese people who were already very small in physique, after almost twists and turns, the physique of the teenagers became more and more slow due to lack of nutrition. Skinny and bones are the norm, and hunger makes their eyeballs look big and weird as if they're about to bulge.

The reason why the members of the "Dongfeng Clan" can be recognized at a glance is that they have a sturdy physique, and they may still be short, but they are obviously strong enough to make most enemies flee directly from the wind.

Rao is a local fishing and hunting tribe, and because of the gap in technology, the meat protein they obtain is deteriorating. In terms of the efficiency of hunting wild meat, it is not even one percent of "Dongfeng's".

In extreme cases, the "Dongfeng Clan" will be taken care of by the boat group, and the "Jeopardy Net" will be imported directly from Wuhan, and a large number of salmon will become the dried meat of the "Dongfeng Clan".

And these fishing and hunting tribes, subject to their vision, threw the reason for all this either to God or to the nearby feuding tribes.

No one of the tribesmen of the fishing and hunting tribe has ever been able to understand why the "economic crisis" of their tribe is actually caused by people "thousands of miles away".

Probably desperate, after the failure to rob the "River" clan, he became a slave and worked as a cow and horse in the city "River". However, it may not be a long time, but the boy still has a little spirit of resistance, especially when the city of "River" was breached, this little flame of resistance made him muster up the courage to change his life.

However, this kind of "wishful thinking" is really a bit out of reality, the growth and expansion of the "Dongfeng Clan" are carried out under the will of the ship group, and the combat members are often from the ship group, and the ship group is completely controlled by some Tang forces. Even if there are heroes born in it and want to seek more power, as long as there is a small "economic crisis", it is simply impossible to maintain this heroic ambition.

It's really a certain earth dog that has pulled the cost too high from the beginning, so that most people don't realize it.

Just the manufacture of sea ships is not something that one or two heroes can play, which requires a lot of capital support, and it is better to expect gold rain from the sky to rely on hundreds or thousands of combatants alone.

As for personnel training, boat maintenance, medical and health care, market development...... This has long exceeded the difficulty that a heroic hero can overcome by relying on "heroic courage".

Heroes who transcend the times have never been one in a million.

So even if there is a careerist, as long as it is in the system of the boat group, as long as it is still operating on the artificially high social cost of a certain local dog, as long as the careerist has a pair of hands and can calculate addition and subtraction, he can only "look at the ocean and sigh".

"Lord Dongfeng! You can do anything, you can do anything! ”

"Squadron Leader has already said that you are too weak......"

"Although it is true that the Humble is very weak, the Humble is very familiar with the Great Ape Mountain, really familiar, and the Inferior knows the location of many tribes! Humbling is still very useful to Lord Dongfeng—"

"Oh?"

The team leader was slightly stunned, to be able to become a team leader, the level must be higher. Although he is a Buyeo species, the boat group has almost no scruples about this, and the leader of the Buyeo species, if he does not have ten or eight blood debts of the same clan and race, it is simply impossible.

It is very likely that such a squad leader has 10,000 fellows who have been sold by hand.

As an important growth point in the recent trade volume of the ship group, "slave hunting" is quite profitable, and without enough slave labor, it is impossible to open a mine. As for the price of school-age women, it has also gradually increased, especially in Suzhou and Hangzhou, a large number of widows have entered the silk reeling factory and textile factory, and the total import volume in five years has exceeded 30,000.

This does not include the thousands of widows who sold their skins and flesh as "snail girls" in the Huaiyang region, as well as the large number of young widows who were distributed as "rewards" in the Joseon Province.

The price of a slave laborer in the land of the Japanese is doubled or tripled to Denglai. Then from Denglai to Hebei and even Liaoxi, it is to double again. The expansion of the Shicheng Iron and Steel Plant alone, coupled with the supporting Tufa coking plant, has a shortage of more than 5,000 coolies.

The incomparably lucrative returns on profits have made the "war" of plundering the land not mainly aimed at destroying the living forces, but more about "strategic intimidation", and tactically it is aimed at "defeating" and cooperating with a large number of "auxiliary troops".

It's just that for the boat group, it is a bit "risky" to enter the "hinterland". The risk is in cost, not in terms of how strong the enemy is. If you enter the mountains without a guide, you may not be able to find the nest of the mountain tribe for several months, and the transportation of materials is quite difficult, and the consumption of morale can be imagined.

In the event of unnecessary non-combat attrition, it is not impossible to capsize the ship in the gutter.

Therefore, if it is not necessary or absolutely certain, the target of the boat group has always been small and medium-sized "cities" or settlements, most of which are in estuarine areas or plains.

It is not easy to find a qualified guide, especially since the Japanese land is still in the period of tribal annexation and system construction, which leads to the fact that even if there is a guide, they often die in battle.

When the boy from Big Ape Mountain said that he knew the location of many tribes, the squad leader knew that this was a "big deal" and immediately reported it to Dongfeng Jia, the leader of the second squadron.

"The matter...... I'm going to report to the ship. ”

"Yes."

As the captain of the second squadron, Dongfeng Jia can directly report to the ship regiment without communicating with the captain. Because the captain is an administrative nurse, he can't directly intervene in combat missions. All squadron leaders are still under the direct management of the regiment.

When the news reached the water village at the mouth of the river, Wang Wansui remembered something and asked, "I have long heard that there is a big lake in the northeast of the Wadi, could it be here?" ”

"The expedition didn't go deep, and after the winter, the wind and snow were really strong. If there really is a big lake, it is not impossible. After all, the mountains and rivers in the northeast of Wadi are dense, and it is normal for them to converge into the lake. ”

"If that's the case, I'm afraid it's not that there are a considerable number of savages here."

Wang Wansui's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "Send a team over." ”

"Yes."

Within a few days, Wuxing Village organized a team to go to the mountainous area to investigate.