We made you the chief, and now you've become the world's chief?

Chapter 156 A True Man in Primitive Times

According to the herdsmen, all the people living by the great lake have died.

The Mao people were incredibly powerful, and they eroded almost all the tribes around the Great Lake, leaving them barely able to survive.

Therefore, when Xia Minghao saw the large number of people in the tribe, he felt both fortunate and surprised.

But after hearing Wu's account, Xia Minghao realized that it wasn't like that at all.

It turns out that after encountering the hairy people, this group did not run away. Instead, they chose to resist because of the favorable living environment of the Great Lake, rather than fleeing at the first sign of trouble like the pastoral tribes.

And so, the war with the Mao people began.

According to the shaman, the most terrifying time was when all the tribes surrounding the great lake were besieged by the hairy people in one place.

This is precisely why everyone gathered together, which ironically created a local advantage.

It was precisely by virtue of their local advantage that the Great Lakes tribe began a fierce counterattack.

They actually managed to drive back the Mao people and thus opened up a large area for survival.

Such courage was truly rare in primitive times.

It is human nature to seek advantage and avoid harm, but this group of people can do the opposite, which means they are exactly the kind of people Xia Minghao needs.

They are also the kind of warriors that the Xia tribe is currently lacking.

However, it was precisely this kind of temporary victory that led to complacency among the Great Lakes tribe, which in turn caused them to temporarily lose their fighting spirit.

This led to a unique pattern and the differentiation of social classes.

Most of the people were scattered around the Great Lake, becoming the first tribe to resist the Hairy People, while a small number remained in the heart of the Great Lake, becoming the owners of the lake's resources.

The tribe I saw was part of the defense line against the Mao people.

"How many other peripheral tribes like yours are there? How many people are there in total?"

Xia Minghao looked at Wu and asked.

I thought it would be good enough if the shaman just said "a lot", but I never expected that the shaman would actually give a more specific number.

There are six other outlying tribes like this, with numbers similar to their own, while the number of people who monopolize the resources of the Great Lakes in the heart of the Great Lakes exceeds three hundred.

Hundred!
These people actually recognized the truth...

Xia Minghao guessed it was because of the war. After all, war kills people, and war also requires people, especially in such a primitive war with stone tools, where the number of people is almost equivalent to the fighting power.

It is probably due to this practical need that the people of the Great Lakes tribe actually mastered mathematics ahead of time.

After all, if the number of dead and the number of your own people cannot be counted, then defeat in war is almost inevitable.

Perhaps it was their understanding of the concept of "number" that enabled this group to defeat the physically stronger but less intelligent hairy people.

"How many of you could kill one hairy man, just one?"

Thinking of this, Xia Minghao became curious about the combat strength of the people of the Great Lake Tribe.

The shaman heard the question, pondered for a moment, and then answered.

"One can't kill a hairy man."

"But three of them can kill three hairy people."

"Ten of them can kill twelve hairy people."

Hearing the shaman's words, Xia Minghao understood. It seemed that they had developed a mindset of cooperation in battle, understanding how to unite their strength, coordinate with each other, and overcome the strong with the weak.

If we could recruit these people and train them into deer cavalry, with the current size of the deer cavalry force, under proper command, we could probably wipe out the hairy tribe.

The question is how to collect the fees, and how much should be collected?

As I was pondering this, the two sisters returned.

With some dried meat still in his hand, Xia Minghao looked up and heard Adi say happily.

"Father, we've distributed them all."

"Father, they bullied us before, can we kill them?"

Hearing Adi say this with a smile, Xia Minghao didn't react for a moment.

But when it comes to life and death, how could those men react so slowly?

Thinking of the fears she had experienced before, and recalling Xia Minghao's appearance when he transformed into a terrifying werewolf, she hurriedly scrambled over.

But he still didn't dare to approach Xia Minghao, and instead went to Wu.

They came before the shaman and began to beg him to intercede for them.

This also reached the ears of others, including the men who were not currently enjoying the jerky.

It wasn't that they had finished eating; there was simply no food left. Auntie hadn't shared any with them at all.

They had bullied Adi before, and now they were even more afraid that they would be killed by these terrifying yellow-skinned people, so they all surrounded her.

What's the situation?
Xia Minghao thought of what Adi had said earlier, and then immediately connected it with what he had just heard Wu say.

Besides the class differentiation, another very obvious feature of the Great Lakes tribes is the stability and deepening of the patriarchal system.

Perhaps it was because of the constant war with the Mao people that the Dahu tribe not only developed a male-dominated patriarchal system, but also exhibited a rare phenomenon of "preferring sons to daughters" in this primitive era when productivity was scarce.

Xia Minghao had just learned a little about the people of the Great Lake Tribe in the heart of the country. If the first child born was a girl, they would throw her into the lake to drown.

They would give birth to one child and then discard it, until a boy was born.

This situation is naturally inextricably linked to the intense demand for male productivity caused by war.

Such a distorted "preference for sons over daughters" mentality, coupled with the fact that these two sisters have no father and have survived for so long with their mother, makes it all the more unimaginable how difficult it must have been for them.

No wonder they wanted him to be their father as soon as they saw him. Thinking of Adi's request, he looked at the young men who had bullied the two sisters in the past.

Xia Minghao could understand Adi, but he couldn't actually do that.

"The Xia tribe chief, them."

Upon hearing the witch plead for mercy, Xia Minghao raised his hand.

In a short while, Xia Minghao suddenly had a better idea.

Since that's the case, why not take advantage of the situation and back down?

“I can choose not to kill them.”

Xia Minghao's serious voice rang out, and the expectant smile on Adi's face instantly froze, while the thirty or forty men who had gathered there grasped at a straw.

Only then did they dare to raise their heads and look at Xia Minghao, who terrified them.

“But you have to come with me to the Xia tribe.”

"Going to the Xia tribe, you won't kill them? But..."

Upon hearing this, the shaman was also relieved, after all, they had shared life and death and fought against the hairy people, which was how they survived.

But with so many able-bodied men gone, it will definitely be harder to resist the Mao people when we encounter them.

“Go, but they will come back. I will make sure that one of them can kill 10 hairy people, and 10 of them can kill 200 hairy people.”

"what?!"

I was still hesitant, wondering if I could negotiate a lower price to minimize the loss of my able-bodied working-age population.

Upon hearing what followed, Wudu couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Chief of the Xia tribe, can you let them..."

"of course."

Of course not! In this situation, you have to say something shocking to get it off your chest.

However, with proper training, Xia Minghao really felt that it wouldn't be a big problem, and achieving such combat power was not impossible.

Upon hearing Xia Minghao's words, everyone who had felt they were about to die had their faces filled with hopeful smiles.

Not only will it not die, but it will also become so powerful that it can kill ten hairy people all by itself!
“Adi, give them the dried meat.”

"Yes... Father."

At this moment, Adi's face was full of sorrow, and she even seemed somewhat dazed.

Father didn't want to kill them...

At the same time, Adi also felt a little worried.

This also helped her pull herself out of that unrealistic fantasy.

This yellow-skinned man, who had once lived in fear, was not her real father...

She became afraid, afraid of losing the sense of dependence she had finally found, and even more afraid of losing the sense of security that prevented her from being bullied.

Adi started distributing dried meat to the men, and now no one dared to treat her the way they used to.

Now that they've received the dried meat, people even kowtow to Ah-di.

Because this is the daughter of the yellow-skinned Xia tribe chief, no longer the two sisters who once had no father and only a frail mother.

This reaction made Adi forgive them somewhat, and she even began to feel that there was no need to actually kill them.

When Xia Minghao saw that all these people who were "repenting" were eating jerky and enjoying it, he spoke up.

"The Xia tribe has everything you need, and even more. When you go there, you can eat a lot, a great deal, until you're full."

Wu had just eaten some, and the shredded meat was still stuck in his teeth, so he knew how wonderful it tasted.

He had eaten dried meat before, but he had never tasted dried meat like this before, and he didn't know what salt was.

But after eating it, the shaman felt very strong and guessed that it must be something from the white heaven in the legend of the yellow-skinned people, which was very precious.

But to my surprise, this yellow-skinned man actually promised that I could eat all I wanted.

Xia Minghao was absolutely telling the truth in this regard; if they really became Deer Riders, they would definitely be fed the best food.

After all, this is true power, and they are risking their lives.

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After the matter was settled, Xia Minghao received the best hospitality, and the house he had previously occupied, belonging to the two sisters Adi and Anan, was returned to him.

However, Xia Minghao did not go to stay there, but instead stayed at Wu's house for the time being.

The witch's treehouse was very large, and it was a three-story one.

The shaman had the most people; he had nine women and seventeen children.

All the married children were assigned to other families, while those who were not married remained.

The lowest level is where the witch lives, and she used to live alone, except now Xia Minghao has joined her.

Looking at Xia Minghao who was visiting, Wu seemed apprehensive and fearful, not knowing why.

Xia Minghao wasn't just wandering around aimlessly; he mainly wanted to see if he could learn more about the legends of yellow-skinned people from the shaman.

Does this other world have people of Asian descent? And do these people of Asian descent have some kind of relationship with me?
(End of this chapter)