my wife is a consul

Chapter 587
The Chishui River meanders through the green grassland like a silver snake. After a heavy rain, its section in the Tru Valley will turn red, hence the name Chishui.

At this time, the herdsmen who had just migrated to the pastures on the south slope of the Tru Valley, had not yet recovered from the busy work of changing the pastures, and had already been panicked by the sudden Black Mountain armed forces.

Tru Valley Grassland is located more than 50 kilometers east of Chishui City.

Now in October, the long dry season has entered, and the nomadic settlements are replacing their pastures with new ones.

Traditionally, the Tru Valley settlements have migrated to the traditional winter grazing land of their own settlements where the dry season water plants are better and warmer.

The Tru tribe has more than 500 households and a population of nearly 5000, but they are divided into more than a dozen large and small settlements. They move together. During the rainy season, they will go north to the Maple Leaf Grassland [-] miles away, and return to the Tru Valley during the long dry season. More than a dozen settlements , distributed within a radius of tens of miles.

The grassland on the southern slope of the Tru Valley has the largest settlement, with more than a hundred households and thousands of people. They are the chief clan and "Katabu" households of the Tru tribe.

The so-called "Katabu" refers to the class in the tribe that ranks second to the nobles. Generally speaking, it undertakes less production tasks and more combat tasks. According to the understanding of the Central Continent people, it is a traditional warrior family.

Nearly four-fifths of the population of the remaining dozen or so settlements are "Kasaka", but they are actually slave households. These nomads do not have any means of production of their own.

The Montenegro armed forces who came to the Tru Valley are now stationed in the most marginal Kasaka settlement, with dozens of households and hundreds of people.

This Kasaka settlement is more than ten kilometers away from their main settlement on the south slope, but the Black Mountain armed forces have arrived, and the entire Tru tribe settlement has naturally received the message.

Two armored vehicles, a truck, a cavalry company from the Prairie Retinue Regiment, and a cavalry squadron from the Chishui Public Security Inspection Brigade formed the desolate force that came here from the Black Mountain Armed Forces.

In fact, the Prairie Retinue Regiment was the original Aoyue Brigade, and now it has been restructured into two Grassland Retinue Regiments, each consisting of 4000 people, stationed in Chishui and Liri, completely becoming the private mercenaries of the Prince of Montenegro. Help it maintain the law and order of the prairie.

The public security inspection brigade is all recruited by local young men. From a certain perspective, if the Montenegrin people are regarded as invaders, the public security army is the local puppet army recruited.

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The rugs of the slave households in Kasaka are all tattered. Of course, the rugs and the like should be traditional buildings built thousands of years ago when there was still snow season here, to resist the wind and cold, but in fact they are not suitable for today’s climate. Well, even in winter, wooden houses and thatched houses are enough to keep out the cold, but the current winter is indeed getting colder and colder.

Lu Ming sat in front of a felt bag with wind chimes hanging on it. Generally speaking, hanging wind chimes means that the herdsman has a happy event.

It is true that the girl from this family is taken by a "Katabu", and she will be sent there tomorrow to be a "Jita" for the "Katabu". From the perspective of Central Continent culture, she is a concubine, and, The status is lower than the concubines of the Central Continent. Even if they give birth to children, they are all "Kasaka", and they are not considered to be the children of the Katab warriors. When the "Jita" people are old, they usually bring their children Being driven back to the slave settlement of Kasaka, they are also used to it from the grassland traditions, and they don't think that the children born by "Jita" have any blood relationship with the Katab family.

From the perspective of the grassland social class structure, this can prevent the unlimited expansion of the upper class population, causing the collapse of its support system.

From a biological point of view, the underlying genetic diversity is maintained to avoid the phenomenon of pure inbreeding.

But from the perspective of a civilized society, this custom will undoubtedly be found to be absurd.

At this time, Lu Ming looked at the girl in his teens and shook his head in his heart. Her miserable life was already doomed, and she would soon become a tool for the upper class to vent their desires and a tool for procreating human mines. Looking at the future, she was terrified and confused about the future.

The girl's grandfather and fathers stood in front of Lu Ming in trepidation. The grandfather was probably in his fifties, but he was very old. The marks of a heavy and hard life were too heavy on him. Orange peel, cough from time to time.

Strictly speaking, the girl's father was three, three brothers, and married a daughter-in-law, which is very common for Kasaka slave families.

Today is a civilized society, and there is no DNA test yet. In the Dorfu family of the grassland tribe, it is even more difficult to tell which father the children belong to. They can only look at the appearance. If the difference in appearance is not obvious, it is muddled.

"Are you really willing to send such a young daughter out to suffer?" Lu Ming looked at the three fathers.

The three brothers, the oldest is 35 years old and the youngest is 27 years old, are all swarthy men.

"She, she is here to enjoy the blessings, which is better than eating at home!" The eldest brother was very surprised by the statement of the Zhongzhou official.

The three brothers who survived had four children, and their wife was pregnant again. Sending one away also greatly reduced the food burden of the family.

Lu Ming looked at the second and third brothers. It could be seen that the youngest third brother had a gloomy expression, looking at his daughter from time to time, with some unbearable eyes.

Looking at the face, the girl seems to be more similar to the third child, especially the thin lips and cheekbones, which are almost carved out of the same mold.

Lu Ming shook his head and stood up, took two steps to the side, looked behind Tuoba Khan standing in the shadow, her face was covered with a thin white gauze, only her deep black eyes were exposed.

"Do you think it's normal to go on like this forever? Mrs. Tuoba?"

Tuoba Lan did not speak.

At this time, the sound of horseshoes sounded, and a horse galloped forward. The man jumped off the horse a dozen steps away, and walked up a few steps quickly to report: "My lord, Matruh is here!"

Matru is the patriarch of the Tru tribe. No matter what his real name is, when he succeeds the patriarch, he will be the Matru of this generation.

Lu Ming nodded: "Bring him here!" Looking at the settlement of slaves in Kasaka, his eyes gradually became firmer.

In fact, during this period of time, as an "aggressor", I gradually became a little confused about my actions here, and I doubted whether I was here in the right place. Perhaps when I first entered the grassland, I should recruit all the ministries and make the grassland operate according to the traditional structure. It is right to go on in such a stable and orderly manner without wasting one's energy, let alone shedding blood into rivers?
But now, everything is relieved.

A few minutes later, Matru came to Lu Ming in a hurry. He was a middle-aged man in his 40s. His father passed away suddenly last year, and he inherited the family business. He was a white and fat man.

"You gather the people from all settlements, and each household must have a representative. Go to the settlement in Nanpo for a meeting. I have something to say!" Lu Ming stared at him. , including bows and spears! All sent here."

"Yes, yes..." Matru smiled apologetically.

Lu Ming looked at him deeply: "I know that your department sometimes has to defend against wolves and beasts, so this is only a temporary measure."

"Don't worry, my lord, I understand!" Matru's fat face was full of smiles.

Lu Ming nodded, looked at this harmless guy, and caught a glimpse of the fearful expression of grandpa, elder brother, and second brother who were silent in front of Matru, thoughtfully.

(End of this chapter)