Zhao Hao finally led his cavalry back to the settlement of Yanbu from the east of the grassland. This time, they harvested more than the last trip. Yanbu's livestock more than doubled again, and he had more livestock in his hands.

There are more than 100,000 of them.

This is a good thing, but it is also a headache, because livestock need people to guard and herd them. The more livestock there are, the more people are needed.

At this time, the total livestock of the Salt Tribe and the Black Stone Tribe totaled more than 400,000. It seemed that it was not enough for all the tribesmen the Salt Tribe and the Black Stone Tribe could recruit to guard and herd so many livestock.

This is not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing is that winter is coming soon.

In winter, livestock cannot be grazed and can only be kept in captivity. In other words, the tribesmen of the Yan tribe and the Black Stone tribe must build many sheep pens, cattle pens and stables, and prepare enough hay. Otherwise, the livestock may be lost in winter.

Freeze or starve to death.

Zhao Hao couldn't help but frown as he watched the grass on the grassland gradually wither and turn yellow. Winter was about to begin, and they had just begun to prepare the fodder.

At this time, almost all the people of the Black Stone Tribe and the Youyan Tribe were cutting grass. Regardless of whether they had livestock or not, as long as they had time, they were all cutting grass.

Those who have livestock at home are haying their livestock for the winter, while those without livestock are haying for meat for the winter. At this time, the price of a basket of grass has even risen to about a pound of meat.

A person can collect more than ten baskets of grass a day, and the meat in exchange for it can last for three or four days. In other words, even if the people of the Black Stone Tribe have no livestock at home, they only need to take advantage of this more than a month before winter to go to the grassland.

By cutting grass on the ground, you can easily stock up on meat for a winter.

The problem is, even if all the people from the Black Stone Tribe come to cut grass, there will still not be enough grass for more than 400,000 livestock to survive the winter!

Moreover, the sheep pens, cattle pens and stables for these livestock to spend the winter have not yet been provided.

There are seriously insufficient personnel, what should we do?

Zhao Hao directly called Ah Hua, Ah Shan and the other five people to him and asked with a smile: "How are you preparing the fodder for the winter? Is it enough for your livestock?"

This question was almost as if it was a joke.

The five people were all confused. They were stunned for a while. Ah Shan, who had the best relationship with Zhao Hao, said awkwardly: "Well, I just came back and haven't started preparing fodder yet. It seems that I can only exchange it for meat."

Already."

He is the only one in Ah Shan's family. He could not even eat a full meal before. Since he followed Zhao Hao, the changes can be described as earth-shaking. Not to mention meat, he has eaten the meat of exotic animals.

What a satisfying meal.

At this time, he had more than a hundred cattle, sheep, and horses on hand. He would definitely not be able to prepare the fodder for the winter by himself.

Zhao Hao nodded slightly and continued to ask: "Then do you think you can get enough fodder by using meat?"

This seems difficult.

Ah Shan said with some worry: "Everyone is collecting fodder now, I'm afraid I won't be able to get much even if I want to!"

now it's right.

Zhao Hao suddenly said something shocking: "Then don't accept it now, you all, gather all your men and go do something."

ah!

You can't even collect the fodder at this moment, why are you still going to do errands?

All five people were stunned.

Fortunately, Zhao Hao then explained: "Think about it, are there many tribes who are still worried about food for the winter? If we find those tribes, tell them, as long as they agree to join our salt tribe

, not only can you get livestock, but you can also earn meat by cutting grass. As long as you cut some grass every day, you can ensure that you don't go hungry throughout the winter. Will there be many tribesmen joining us in the salt tribe?"

This means that we are going to annex other tribes again!

This is not the first time that the Yan tribe has done this. This is how the Qinghe tribe was annexed.

This idea seems to be a good one!

You know, two years ago, Youyanbu was also worried about food for the winter. At that time, people in Youyanbu almost starved to death every winter.

It can be said that, except for the Salt Tribe and the Black Stone Tribe, there are almost no tribes that do not have to worry about food for the winter!

However, it doesn’t seem that easy to get people to drop everything for food and add salt.

Ah Shan thought for a while and then said hesitantly: "I think they will agree."

If you don’t agree, you have to agree. All the tribes around the grassland will be merged into the Yan tribe sooner or later!

Zhao Hao smiled confidently, then waved his hand and said: "You must immediately gather your men and divide them into teams of a hundred people. Then, from the edge of the grassland, along the river into the wild jungle, search all the way there for two days. If

If you can’t find any trace of the tribe within two days, then quickly turn around, change rivers, and continue looking.”

There are many rivers on this grassland, but except for the large river in the east that is several miles wide, the others are basically small rivers with a width of about tens of meters.

At this time, most tribes lived by water. Although it cannot be said that there are tribes near every river, there is still a high probability of finding other tribes if you search along the river into the jungle.

Upon hearing this, Ah Shan and others immediately responded with excitement, and then ran off to gather their men.

How many tribes are there around this grassland?

To be honest, even Cangwu doesn't know this, because there is no way to go to other tribes at the moment. It is very troublesome to go to other tribes. Not to mention the time-consuming trekking over mountains and ridges, there is also the possibility of encountering fierce beasts or even strange beasts on the way.

Therefore, there is generally little communication between tribes at this time. The Black Stone Tribe, which only knows about a month's journey from the surrounding tribes, has no idea if they go beyond this range.

This one-month journey refers to the distance traveled on foot over mountains and ridges for a month. On the grassland, it is probably equivalent to about two days of horseback riding.

After Ashan and the others divided their men into fifteen hundred-man squads, they followed the river on the edge of the grassland and searched into the wild jungle.

Not to mention, this method was really good. Three days later, a small team reported back and found a small tribe of more than a hundred people.

Zhao Hao was not in a hurry to annex this small tribe, because more than a hundred people were still too few for the Yan tribe and the Black Stone tribe. He wanted to prepare enough winter fodder and build enough sheep pens, cattle pens and stables.

At least thousands of new tribesmen will be needed to join.

At this time, winter was only about a month away, and he had no time to annex such a small tribe with only more than a hundred people. If he wanted to annex, he would have to annex a small tribe with more than two to three hundred people. In this way

Only then can we "find" thousands of new tribesmen before winter comes.

The search speed of the fifteen hundred-person team was quite astonishing. In five days, they found eight tribes. Among these eight tribes, the smallest number was only a few dozen people, and the largest number was four to five hundred people.

Zhao Hao thought about it for a while and decided to lead the team himself to try to annex the small tribe of four to five hundred people. The other seven teams that found the target brought meat to try to see if they would join the Salt Tribe.

, if you don’t want to, then let them starve for a whole winter!
Chapter completed!