When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

Chapter 21 The Prisoner's Dilemma

"Me! I'll report it too!"

With someone taking the lead, and the change in status after returning, they were finally convinced that the Xin family was really planning to naturalize a group of people.

Faced with the threat of force and a more decent chance of survival, no one would choose to give up this opportunity.

As a result, naturalized people began to appear one after another, and Xin Qu asked people to bring them in one by one.

The leaders and followers among a group of slaves were quickly identified.

Xin Qu was not polite, and killed the leaders one by one, with many followers, killing the strong ones and not killing the ones who jumped, but he pulled them down and gave them a cane in front of everyone.

As soon as a staff with a square-shaped spine was lifted out, everyone could feel fear.

"Thirty per person. Anyone who survives after the beating will be treated as if he has been punished. If he comes next time, he will be killed without mercy."

Xinqu finished dealing with potential threats and gained 26 overseers.

Then let the people below come up and vote.

Then he secretly received a batch of reports. Regardless of whether there was any grudge or not, Xin Qu directly asked people to announce who had reported and voted.

When the first six votes were cast, all the accumulated feuds and grievances among this group of slaves exploded.

They criticized each other, reported each other, and wanted to kill each other.

Xinqu ignored the quarrel below and just asked someone to call up the first six-vote winner.

is a woman.

He was in his twenties, with a plump body, especially a pair of E-class headlights that were too heavy to be held up by animal skin, but his appearance was average.

Xin Qu thought it was normal, but the man next to him swallowed hard and said: "Chief, this woman is easy to give birth to. It would be a pity to kill her."

Ignoring the boy, Xinqu looked at her: "What do you want to defend?"

The woman raised her head when she heard this: "I have given birth to three children."

Xin Qu was startled when he heard this and asked her to explain why she used this answer.

"Patriarch! A woman who has given birth to three children! It's so rare! There will definitely be no problem with the next one." Tudu was shocked and quickly pulled Xin Qu and said, "Qu, give this to me. Didn't you say you wanted to give it to me?" Those who are meritorious among the tribe should arrange female slaves! This, I want this!"

The silent Xinqu suddenly realized and glanced at the woman again. Population was very important to the tribe, and human fertility required ten months of pregnancy, usually one child per pregnancy.

In this era of underdeveloped science and technology, women are basically going through hell to give birth.

Regardless of the child's mortality rate, women who are more fertile and have more children will naturally be admired and envied.

The slave girl in front of me knew her worth.

Being able to give birth is her biggest bargaining chip.

The ruler of any tribe would not kill a fertile woman at will.

"Congratulations, your defense was successful. You don't have to die, but you are still a slave."

Xinqu decided to respect the times, but he also realized that this kind of female slave might become a high-quality product and be rewarded to those who have made great achievements.

"Thank you, patriarch." The woman thanked her and left.

Afterwards, Xinqu chose a few more, including women and children.

As a result, upon closer inspection, he turned out to be the heir of a tribe leader, who was cast out by his brothers and wanted to kill him to vent their anger.

It was because this boy injured a member of the Youxin clan during a mutual trade, which led to their tribe challenging the Youxin clan and then being wiped out by the entire clan.

The old patriarch of their tribe favored this boy too much, which led to the destruction of the tribe, which made his brothers still resentful. Now is the opportunity to take revenge and complain.

Xin Qu also followed suit and asked people to send the boy to his brothers and let them do it themselves.

Shi Wu looked at the slave's internal cleaning, and then looked at the slave with his chin propped up, looking indifferent, with slight fear in his eyes.

This group of slaves vented their anger, and when they saw that others were treating them like this, they also developed hatred for each other. There was no longer any trust between them, and there would be no resistance and friendship in the future.

So, to control this group of slaves, only this group of overseers can solve the problem.

New manpower will be recruited, and the tribe will have an extra batch of laborers out of thin air. Is this Xin Qu's ability?

Really, really terrible!

When it was past three o'clock in the afternoon, Xinqu stretched himself and divided the remaining 360 people.

Women and children were separately placed under tribal supervision. Those who knew how to weave were allowed to stay in the tribe and weave.

There are 180 people in this batch.

The remaining 180 people were divided into thirty supervisors, so one supervisor was responsible for five people.

50 of them had varying degrees of skills, all of which were developed and used by Xin Qu.The remaining slaves will be drawn by lot throughout the process, and then ten overseers will be left, plus fifty skilled slaves at the headquarters.

The other twenty overseers and one hundred slaves were each given half to Shi Wu and Bing Jia, who were responsible for burning wasteland and building new residences in the north.

Then, the killed slaves were immediately burned, and the group of slaves who had been caned were left to fend for themselves in the camp.

There were only eighteen injured slaves in this group, and Xinqu had already ordered not to feed them, making it clear that they would starve to death.

This is intimidation and fear.

Skilled slaves began to be taken away by the Tao, Tu, Gulu, Cang, and other families who arrived.

"You just let them take you away?" A Qi came back from outside and saw this scene with a solemn expression.

"Share the profits, otherwise how could they support me?"

Sitting at the bonfire on the bank of the river, looking at the fire where the slaves were burning their corpses, Xinqu took a green bamboo tube and scooped out a cup of boiling water in a clay pot, then blew it and drank: "Slaves killed dozens of people." Three, a dozen were injured, and the rest were almost distributed.

I have selected some female slaves who are good at weaving and animal husbandry, and I will leave them to you to arrange.

Aqi, I need you to do me a favor. "

"You said it." Aqi nodded, "I will try my best to do what I can."

"It's not difficult, just leave heirs with these female slaves as soon as possible." Xin Qu drank the hot water and let out a sigh of relief, "This is related to the subsequent integration of naturalized people."

"What do I care about? If a female slave can give birth, that would be great!" A Qi laughed.

Xinqu didn't answer, just looked at the burning fire quietly.

When the black smoke of incomplete combustion rose up, Xinqu suddenly found that his heart seemed to become cruel.

Obviously before, he was really a clear and stupid college student.

"Sure enough, the environment shapes the upper limit of civilization, and barbarism will only break through the lower limit. There is no going back."

Muttering, Xinqu scooped up another bowl of boiling water for himself and drank it in small sips.

So much for the pretentiousness.

Next, after solving the slave problem, we have to face various problems such as food, dealing with enemies after autumn, etc.

"Aqi, are there any other large tribes near our tribe that can trade rich food?"

"Nearby? Hmm...Bi (Xingtai) in the south. There is a prince over there. Maybe we can trade."

"It's a bit far! Is there any other place?"

"If you want to get closer, there is a tribe in the northeastern mountains called...Akaishi. They usually hide in the mountains and don't eat much. They don't have millet, but they grow a kind of grass called Lai (wheat).

But that thing is usually for cattle and sheep. Although people can eat it, people from Akaishi say that sometimes people are fine if they eat it, and sometimes they will be poisoned.

Therefore, they will not eat until there is famine. "

A Qi randomly picked up a wooden stick and wrote the word "来" on the ground.

Xinqu lowered his head and suddenly thought of something: "Isn't this wheat? Let me go! We have it here at the right time?"

To the northeast... isn't that on the other side of Huairou and Miyun?

How is the production over there?Enough? "

"You don't really want to eat this, do you?"

"What are you afraid of? You can use slaves as a poison test first. They will be fine if they eat it. Then we will eat it. If there is any problem, we will not eat it and destroy the whole batch.

In this way, arrange for a caravan to come with me. There is still a lot of salt in the tribe, so just take it away.

If it's not enough, I will try to go to the beach later. I took people secretly to spread out linen cloth at the mouth of a bay and soak it in sea water on the beach. Then I will take the linen cloth back, boil it and filter it, and get some salt, which will be enough for us to eat.

Find a way to get food first.

Not all wheat is poisonous, we just need to carefully select and screen it when harvesting. "

Xinqu set his sights on wheat and took the opportunity to see how the other tribe was growing and what the yield was.

Although millet is good, its yield is really not high. Trying to tame wheat may be a promising method. Even if it doesn't work, it can be interplanted to avoid planting the same land all the time, which is prone to disease after being cultivated for a long time.

"Row."

　La la la, is there anyone investing in a new book?

　　It feels like there are so few collections.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)