Lords of Hegemony: Conquer from the Mermaids

Chapter 15 Gray Tail Mermaid: Jiang Bin

Soon, a gray-tailed mermaid came in front of Meng Zheng.

This was a middle-aged man with a calm face and an upright posture. His gray fishtail was surrounded by many blue stripes. It was refreshed today, so Meng Zheng did not recognize him.

"Jiang Bin is the first mermaid born today. I chatted with him and found that he is very good at managing the tribe. He can solve many things that I don't understand, so I asked him to help manage the people, which saved me a lot of trouble." Cangmu continued to introduce him to Meng Zheng.

"Hello, clan leader!" The middle-aged man with a blue ring and a gray tail came to Meng Zheng. When he saw Meng Zheng's black tail, he knew that the clan leader had arrived.

"Cangmu said that you have good skills. Tell me what you can do!" Meng Zheng looked at the middle-aged man with gray tail in front of him and asked expectantly.

"I'm not as powerful as Lord Cangmu said. I used to be the chief of a small tribe of mermaids. Later, the tribe was destroyed and I came here." The middle-aged man touched his head modestly and said to Meng Zheng embarrassedly.

Meng Zheng nodded, with a hint of appreciation in his eyes.

The mermaid incubation pool does not hatch mermaids who know nothing, but summons back the mermaids that have disappeared in the long river of history.

Only mermaids born naturally need to be trained from a young age. For mermaids born in mermaid incubation pools, they are more like displaced refugees, and each of them has corresponding abilities and personal experiences.

Therefore, Meng Zheng was not curious about the fact that Jiang Bin had once managed the mermaid tribe.

As a gray-tailed mermaid, Jiang Bin can lead a small tribe, which in itself means that he is a good talent.

Not to mention that he is about to break through the bloodline restrictions and be promoted to Blue Tail. His potential will be greatly increased, not inferior to Cangmu who has his own exclusive profession.

Click on his property panel:
Name: Jiang Bin
[Race]: Merman

[Bloodline]: Graytail Mermaid (Critical)
Occupation: Civil servant
[Rank]: Yellow Rank 3

[Kung Fu]: Shark Scale Body Protection Technique

【Talent】: Water Flow Acceleration

Skills: Government Affairs

Not bad, he is a political talent.

Currently, there is no one in the territory who is good at handling government affairs. Now with Jiang Bin, the territory construction work can be arranged more flexibly.

Although Meng Zheng is the patriarch, he does not intend to focus all his attention on managing people and collecting supplies. His job is to coordinate planning, set development goals for the tribe, and adjust the development direction.

Now that we have Jiang Bin, we can free ourselves up from the burden of collecting supplies and managing personnel, and have more energy to do other things.

"Next, you will be responsible for the overall coordination of the gray-tailed mermaids, mainly responsible for the logistics of the territory, and handling tasks such as resource collection and storage." Now that we have talents, we should boldly use them. The territory is in a state of disrepair and there is no time for unnecessary actions such as tests.

Jiang Bin's face, which had been quite calm, became slightly excited when he saw Meng Zheng's appointment. He quickly saluted Meng Zheng respectfully and said:
"Yes, thank you for the promotion, Chief. I will definitely take good care of the logistics of the territory and live up to your trust."

Meng Zheng nodded slightly and continued to make arrangements:

"Go take stock of the territory's current personnel situation, understand their specialties, and the supply reserves. The next step in the territory's development must also begin."

"Yes, patriarch!"

Jiang Bin, the new official, immediately took action, picked a few seaweed leaves, and went to the material storage department to count the resources.

Meng Zheng did not disturb Cangmu from working. He brought Cangyue to the gathering place of the gray-tailed mermaids. The gray-tailed mermaids who were working hard stopped what they were doing and greeted Meng Zheng together.

Some gray-tailed mermaids that were originally chasing the school of fish also gave up the fish right in front of them and swam to Meng Zheng's side.

"Hello, chief!"

"Lord Patriarch!"

Whether it was the old leaders or the gray-tailed mermaid who had just arrived today, they all greeted Meng Zheng warmly.

"Okay, hello everyone, welcome to the Canghai tribe. Here, you don't need to worry about safety issues. This is our home and we will have a bright future." Looking at the gray-tailed mermaids gathered in front of him, Meng Zheng made a promise loudly to let them settle down and live well in the Canghai tribe.

"Okay! I believe in the patriarch."

"The tribe leader is the best!" Meng Zheng chatted with the gray-tailed mermaids for a while. When it got dark, Jiang Bin had already made a complete count and came to report to the tribe leader.

"Chief, the territory now has a total population of 35 people, 18 male mermaids and 17 female mermaids."

"Among them, there are two fish herder apprentices, two coral weaver apprentices, one junior shell craftsman, one junior tailor, and one craftsman apprentice. The rest have no special skills."

"As for the supply situation, we built five mermaid huts today, and the hydraulic catapult workshop is halfway done. We're still short of important materials like bamboo. As long as they arrive, we can finish it tomorrow.

I've also discussed the territory construction plan with Lord Cangmu. Since we have sufficient manpower, we'll continue to build ten new mermaid huts tomorrow. The materials have already been moved to the designated location, so we can start construction right away."

Looking at the water grass leaves in his hand, Jiang Bin reported carefully to Meng Zheng.

"Oh, speaking of bamboo, a batch of Hailing bamboo will be delivered tomorrow. It is an important material for making hydraulic catapults. You can take it and hand it over to Cangmu when the time comes." The main material for the hydraulic catapult workshop is bamboo. Without bamboo, the hydraulic catapult cannot be made.

"Also, arrange for ten people to accompany the transport team tomorrow. They will be dedicated to cutting bamboo and transporting the raw materials back."

"Okay, Patriarch, I will arrange it." Jiang Bin nodded.

"That's the basic situation of the territory. Regarding the supply reserves, the total consumption in the next two days is 500 units of wood, 400 units of stone, 400 units of seaweed, and 450 units of coral.
The remaining supplies are 700 units of wood, 1100 units of stone, 500 units of seaweed, and 500 units of coral."

Therefore, based on the current supply, the territory can maintain the construction of ten shacks per day for the next three days, but will face a shortage of materials on the fourth day."

Jiang Bin held a piece of water grass leaf with a lot of data recorded on it, and reported to Meng Zheng one by one in great detail.

"Well, don't worry. Tomorrow I will explore the situation around the territory and look for suitable resource collection points." Exploring the territory was something Meng Zheng had planned a long time ago.

He had to personally explore the situation around the territory so that he could be prepared and facilitate future planning.

With the great master Cangyue around, Meng Zheng didn't worry about any danger at all.

"Yes, okay, Chief. In addition to the above territory construction situation, there is another more serious problem."

"Hmm? What's the problem?" Seeing Jiang Bin's serious expression, Meng Zheng also became serious.

"There's not enough food in our territory. The fish population is dwindling. We need to go fishing far away to meet our food needs."

"Is there little food in the territory now?" Jiang Bin said that there was not enough fish to eat, and Meng Zheng was a little surprised.

He himself does not need to eat, and can satisfy his own consumption by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so he has never cared much about the issue of food.

Not to mention that Mu Yu is hunting fish outside. It's already the second day, and he will probably be able to bring back at least one school of fish tomorrow.

As for the other mermaids, Meng Zheng also observed yesterday that each mermaid is an excellent fisherman and can easily catch a fish with just a flick of the wrist.

The lake is so big and there are countless fish, so Meng Zheng has never taken the food problem seriously.

Jiang Bin nodded and replied, "Chief, there is no food reserve in the territory right now, so when the tribesmen are hungry, they just go fishing and eat.

But as the number of shacks continues to increase, the fish are starting to move away from their territories, and you need to swim farther to find enough fish.”

As Jiang Bin spoke, he pointed to the edge of the territory.

"I asked the tribesmen who were here yesterday, and they said a lot of fish had already left this morning. Now there are fewer and fewer fish swimming around the territory. If this continues, it will have a huge impact on the development of the territory."

Knowing this, Meng Zheng began to sense the situation in the territory and discovered the reason.

The Canghai tribe itself is located in a plain area, with a small number of fish and only a few scattered fish living around.

However, many fish are very timid. Although the presence of mermaids will not alarm the fish, when huts and workshops are built in the territory, various noises will be constantly made.

Ordinary people don’t feel anything about this kind of sound, but fish will feel the same way. It will constantly scare the fish. In this case, the fish will naturally move away slowly and no longer appear near the Canghai tribe.

Food was already scarce around the Canghai tribe, and now that the few remaining schools of small fish had run away, obtaining food became even more difficult.

If the tribe no longer needs to build things in the future, the fish may slowly return, but now, they will inevitably face the problem of food shortage.

(End of this chapter)