A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 544: Using barbarians to rule barbarians

The luxury goods sent by these merchants are expensive. Originally, these cave owners and village owners were just barbarians. They still made a lot of profits from medicinal materials, furs, and minerals, but if they wanted to enjoy it, it was not enough at all.

They can only exploit the lower class people and go to the mountains to collect medicinal materials, valuable trees, and various beast skins in exchange for material enjoyment.

The hardships that those at the bottom of the mountainous area and the southern barbarians were already experiencing have become even more difficult in this way. Many people have even died trying to collect rare medicinal materials from the cliffs, and they have also died in the belly of the wild trying to capture precious beasts.

They have little food to eat and no clothing to cover their bodies, while the village leaders and cave masters are richly clothed and well-fed, and enjoy all kinds of luxury accessories from Daqian. This made the Shanyue and Nanman people at the bottom even more dissatisfied.

The headmen and cave masters enjoyed various items and did not notice the problems at the bottom of the cottage. Maybe even if you notice it, you won't care.

After all, meat eaters are despicable, and this saying is true all over the world.

After seeing this situation, the pioneering nobles began to secretly make small moves, such as discarding some inferior swords in the mountains and forests, or telling those people that they could abscond into the territory of the Ganren nobles to obtain shelter.

Under the various operations of these people, those Shanyue and Nanman people at the bottom who could not bear it soon began to flee. These people took advantage of the time when they went to the mountains to collect medicines and hunt rare beasts, and took the opportunity to escape from the village and surrender to the pioneering nobles of Daqian.

The Daqian nobles quickly accepted these people and agreed that as long as they worked hard for five years, they could obtain land and houses here.

The attitude of the pioneering nobles of Daqian was soon known to the Shanyue and Nanman people at the bottom. After learning that those who escaped would have enough to eat and have their own fields and property five years later, everyone began to get ready to take action.

More and more low-level Shanyue and Nanman people began to flee their original mountain strongholds and surrendered to the Qian people's pioneering nobles. This made the underpopulated pioneering nobles elated.

On the other hand, the large number of lower-class mountain people fleeing soon attracted the attention of the tribal leaders. These human-headed cave owners were furious and sent people to the Ganren pioneering nobles to ask for people.

However, how could they spit out the meat that had been swallowed by these nobles, not to mention that it was related to their plan. Naturally, he sternly refused.

The leader and the cave master were so angry that they even wanted to summon people to take action. However, after seeing Gan Ren who had been prepared for a long time and the elite soldiers wearing helmets and carrying armor, they suddenly remembered the power of Gan Ren.

In the end, they could only argue and settle down. Some of them made a big fuss, so the nobles gave them some sucrose and refined salt. After getting the benefits, I was not sure if I had to fight hard. In the end, I could only hold my nose and admit it.

After these people returned, they immediately ordered that the Shanyue and Nanman at the bottom be strictly managed to prevent anyone from defecting again. As strict orders were issued, these people were already living a bad life and were closely monitored, which only made them more rebellious.

Even the guards oppressed these people wantonly. Such behavior naturally made these people more and more angry. Under such circumstances, these lower-class people still have to collect medicine and hunt wild beasts.

So when they went out to collect herbs and hunt wild beasts, they picked up some inferior swords from the mountains and forests. The resentment of these people who had accumulated to the limit suddenly broke out under a very accidental incident.

Some people joined forces and hacked to death the people who were guarding them, and then fled together to open up territory for Ganren. Some even took advantage of the darkness to hack the leader of the village to death, and then escaped in a fire break.

For a moment, the villagers and cave owners were shocked. After seeing this situation, they could no longer bear it and summoned soldiers and horses to unite to fight against the pioneering nobles of Daqian. What these people didn't expect was that the people at the bottom were not willing to sacrifice their lives for them. Even if these people forced them, they would collapse on the battlefield.

Seeing these people coming to attack, the pioneering nobles immediately dispatched a large army. One side had high morale and was well-equipped, while the other side had low morale and poor equipment. The only numerical advantage became even more powerless because the bottom was working hard not far away.

How could he be the opponent of the pioneering nobles of Daqian? As a result, they fought several times in a row and failed. In the end, the Shanyue and Nanman people at the bottom level directly rebelled.

Seeing this opportunity, how could the pioneer nobles let it go? They rushed forward in a battle and completely defeated these cottage leaders and cave owners. A large number of cottage leaders and cave owners even died on the battlefield.

Seeing this situation, the pioneering nobles, under the leadership of those who took the initiative to defect to Shanyue and Nanman, directly attacked the mountain strongholds and cave owners in the mountains and forests, and captured a large number of Shanyue and Nanman.

Directly annex the Shanyue and Nanman tribes that originally confronted them.

In this battle, the Daqian pioneering nobles directly gained tens of thousands of people. Among them, all the captured Shanyue and Nanman were demoted as slaves. Those Shanyue soldiers who rebelled and took refuge were rewarded.

These people will be rewarded with land even if they have not made any military exploits. If they have made military exploits, they will be rewarded with slaves. The original cave master, village master, and leader were completely eliminated.

The territory actually controlled by the pioneering nobles has more than doubled. In many places, there is no longer need to worry about the intrusion of Shanyue and Nanman people, and large areas of land can be reclaimed.

In addition, after this war, these pioneering nobles had a large number of loyal Shanyue and Nanman soldiers. These people were adapted to the climate here and were familiar with the mountains and forests. They were the best source of soldiers in this wild land.

The pioneering nobles began to draw these people out and train with the territorial army. The Shanyue and Nanman people could not defeat Dagan before. It was because they did not understand military formations, did not have sophisticated weapons and armor, and had inconsistent orders. It did not mean that they were weak.

In fact, these Shanyue and Nanman barbarians caused great trouble to Daqian soldiers in the mountains and forests. Now these people surrendered to the pioneering nobles of Daqian, and the pioneering nobles immediately selected the strongest among them.

After conducting simple battle formation training so that they could understand the flags and form simple battle formations, they began to be awarded armor and weapons.

Naturally, the pioneering nobles would not give them the best weapons and equipment, but even so, these weapons and equipment were far beyond their previous standards. As a result, the strength of these Shanyue and Nanman tribes increased greatly.

With the help of these elite mountain Vietnamese barbarians, and with the cooperation of large-scale soldiers, these pioneering nobles began to attack the surrounding barbarians. Originally, these barbarians could still rely on the mountains and forests to resist them, but after Daqian had the elite soldiers of the Vietnamese barbarians in the mountains, how could these barbarians still be Daqian's opponents?

Soon, a large number of Shanyue, Nanman strongholds and cave owners were conquered, and a large number of people were plundered as slaves.

(End of this chapter)