Rome must fall.

Chapter 328 Promotion
"Yes!" Maximus praised Alacosia's quick response.

Alakosia was no longer confused. He said admiringly, "Chief, you have thought it through! In this way, we can not only delay time, but also alienate the major tribes of Pannoni and destroy their unity. I just wonder if these three tribes will negotiate with us privately?"

"It depends on whether the interests of the entire Pannoni people are more important to them, or the interests of their own tribe are more important?" Maximus smiled meaningfully, and then asked: "By the way, has the envoy from Aldei left?"

"He left." Alakosia replied, "Coincidentally, the envoy of the Pannoni Tribal Alliance arrived right after he left. He also took a look at the progress of our bridge before he left. He understands that you, the leader, have difficulty going to the main village of Aldi due to the busy affairs here."

Maximus didn't care much about the attitude of the Ardei envoy. He asked again, "Did the team led by Kephisophon also set out together?"

After receiving the sincere invitation from the Ardei tribe to attend the funeral of the previous chief and the inauguration of the new chief, Maximus politely declined on the grounds that "we have just occupied the territory of Segestica, the situation is still tense, and we dare not leave easily."

But the Nix tribe is now facing pressure from the Pannoni tribal alliance, and whether the relationship with its ally Ardei is friendly is more important than before, because it is related to the stability of the Nix tribe's rear (referring to the territory along the Kupa River). Therefore, the Council of State has discussed and decided: the chief officer of the Ministry of Rites, Kephisofon, and the director of the Ministry of Commerce, Pigris, will lead the team, with five carts of weapons (from the spoils of this war) and hundreds of sheep (from the confiscation of the private property of the tribal leaders and nobles of Segestica) as gifts, to the main camp of Ardei to participate in the ceremony, in order to show the importance of the Nix tribe to the alliance.

The reason why he chose Kefisofon was that the Ministry of Etiquette had relatively little to do at this stage, and he himself was also interested in the funeral and inauguration ceremony of the chief of the Aldei tribe. He wanted to enrich and improve the etiquette culture of the newly established Nix tribe through observation and learning.

Alakosia replied: "Yes, Kephisophon and the escort of gifts followed the messenger. He will meet with Pigris in Snotia and then go to the Ardei tribe."

Maximus nodded: He knew that Pigris was not in Ophidilla but in Snotia, because he was the one who sent Pigris back to remind Budokaribas to deal with the iron ore problem.

He has learned from the envoy of Aldei that Budokaribas and Cicelitses have obtained the consent of the Aldei tribal meeting and will lead their people to move here. At the same time, the iron mine will be handed over to his old friend Archipenpas... This is the news from Aldei that he cares most about.

Everything was as Maximus wished. While he was happy, he could imagine how frustrated his relative Aristakas was. Although he didn't know what happened in the Ardei tribal meeting, any ambitious leader would not allow his tribe to get out of control...

It seems that Aristakas can't control the situation in Ardei... Maximus touched his chin subconsciously, and suddenly remembered something: "Oh no, I was so busy that I forgot that there was someone else at home. I must go to attend the funeral of the great leader Achoupagos!"

"Chief, are you talking about Lady Gnian Davra?" Alakosia also reacted immediately.

Maximus quickly instructed, "Yes, you should immediately catch up with Kephisophon and tell him that after arriving in Snotia, let Gnian Davra also go to the main camp of Ardi, and try to make her the leader."

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Under the azure blue sky, the soft sunlight shines on the land where only sparse dead grass remains, making the earth seem less bleak.

Although it is still early for spring sowing, the villagers of Village No. 21 are already busy in the fields they have just been allocated.

They have to plow the land before it snows so that the winter cold can kill the insect eggs that are turned out of the ground and the snow water can moisten the soil deeper.

There are now six oxen in the village. They used to be the private property of the village chief and nobles, but now belong to the entire village. However, there is only one curved plow, which was obtained by Village Chief Pro from the agricultural deployment officer stationed in the west village of Ophidillia based on his old friendship in the Ministry of Agriculture.

Although the war with the Pannoni has come to a temporary end and the iron workshop of the Nix tribe has returned to normal working order, the curved plow is not easy to make, and there are not enough craftsmen in the daily necessities department of the workshop, so the output is not high. Even if the inventory is used up, it is not possible to distribute one to all the villages on the west bank of the Sava River.

Volenus had already discussed the matter with Capito.

Capito had decided to transfer a large number of carpenters to the daily necessities department of the iron workshop after the construction of the Ophidalia Wooden Bridge, in order to speed up the manufacture of the curved plow and greatly increase its output, because the most difficult and time-consuming part of the curved plow is the wooden plow body.

However, distant water cannot quench immediate thirst, so the villagers mainly use straight plows to cultivate the land. However, Village 21 now has more than 200 households, but only six oxen, and how to allocate them is a big problem. Pro called the villagers together and made a suggestion: the whole village should unite and help each other, and the young and strong villagers (mainly the Skodischi people and a small number of the First Legion soldiers who no longer have tasks) use oxen to plow the land of the whole village in turn, and the old, weak or disabled villagers (mostly Segestica people) are responsible for cleaning up the debris in the soil after plowing (grass roots, insect eggs, stones, etc.), and the women in the village are responsible for cooking and providing water...

Although the relationship between the villagers of Segestica and Skodischi was no longer as tense as before after the villagers arrived at the Temple of Nu to worship and swear an oath, many villagers were hesitant to work together.

The reason they hesitated instead of opposing immediately was that Pu Luo's fair and considerate approach won the villagers' trust in less than a month, making it difficult for everyone to offend him.

While most villagers were still hesitating, Pro began to take action. He first gathered the old Nix soldiers, the new Skodischi soldiers (they had been in the Nix tribe for more than a year, and often worked with the Segestica people, so they were already used to it), the new Segestica soldiers (there was only one, Nicocus), and Celisis, as well as several Segestica villagers who were seriously short of labor and whom Celisis had finally persuaded... and let them start working according to the method he proposed.

These people cooperated with each other and performed their respective duties. In addition, due to Pro's favoritism (allowing them to use more oxen), their efficiency in plowing the fields was obviously better than that of other villagers.

The other villagers saw this and became more and more moved. The racial hatred was gradually overcome by the reality of their own interests, and they began to ask Pro to join this group of mutual help.

As more and more villagers joined in, Puro divided the working villagers into three groups, with a reasonable mix of old, middle-aged, young and women. Each group had two oxen, and each group selected a person with high prestige to be the team leader, who would supervise and coordinate.

In this way, the villagers can farm the fields more orderly and efficiency is guaranteed.

At this moment, Celisis was plowing the field. The field he was plowing belonged to a new villager from Scodischi. The old Knicks soldier who had been plowing the field before was a little tired, so he took the initiative to step forward and replace him.

The reason why he was so active was that, first, as the leader of the group, he had to set a good example; second, after the treatment of the Knicks medical team, his leg injury had healed, and his energy and physical strength had recovered a lot, so he felt that plowing the fields for a while should not be a problem; third, he was using a curved plow. This new plow, which was made by Chief Maximus under the inspiration of the goddess Danu, attracted the enthusiastic attention of the people of Segestica, and everyone was scrambling to use it.

Celisis held the plow with one hand and the whip with the other, driving the oxen to move forward slowly and without stopping.

The more he used the curved plow, the more he liked it: it was so light! Unlike the straight plow, which was laborious and sometimes required two people to work together, he could control the plowshare with one hand. Not only was the plowshare light, but it was also easy to turn. Its iron plowshare was also cleverly made, and it could plow deeper without increasing the weight.

After plowing an acre of land, Seris stopped, closed his eyes, turned his palms to the sky, and prayed sincerely to thank the goddess Danu.

Then he was about to continue plowing the field, but he heard someone calling him. Turning around, he saw Pro standing by the field waving at him.

He reluctantly handed the plow to the new villager, Skodischi, who came to replace him, and reminded him: "Feed the oxen with some feed first, so that they can regain their strength before plowing the land."

"Village chief, what do you want to talk to me about?" Celithis rubbed the mud on his hands and walked towards Pro.

Pro said, "A soldier from the guard team has come to the village and asked for you by name."

"Guard soldiers?" Celithis was a little confused.

"It's the guards of Chief Maximus!" Pro said with a smile, "I asked him, he was ordered to take you to Ophidilla to help manage the foreign settlers. Congratulations, Celis! You will be reused by the tribe!"

"I go to the main village to help manage the foreign refugees?!" Celithis was stunned. During this period of time, he witnessed the promotion of those Nyx soldiers and learned about some of the situations of the Nyx tribe. He knew that ordinary people like him could also become tribal nobles. He was also very excited and fantasized countless times that he could stand out in the new tribe. But when the opportunity suddenly came, he was a little bit unbelievable.

(End of this chapter)