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Because it was something that had never happened before, even though the translator tried his best to explain it clearly, Zha Xiong and other chiefs were still suspicious.

At this time, Liu Sheng asked people to take out the cloth (cheese cloth) and salted fish brought with the ship.

Dozens of pieces of cloth and hundreds of kilograms of dried salted fish were piled in the original duel circle, which was quite eye-catching.

A native warrior came over, first stroked the cotton cloth, and then picked up the dried salted fish and took a bite.

Suddenly his eyes lit up!

"Salty! These dried fish are salty, and so salty!"

The native warrior shouted loudly in native language, attracting the attention of all the natives.

Immediately, many native warriors came over to get dried fish to taste.

The Kuei soldiers were afraid that the natives would snatch all the dried fish. At Liu Sheng's signal, one of the guards fired a shot into the sky, causing the natives to retreat in panic and kneel down again. land.

They thought the divine soldiers were angry.

Liu Sheng shook his head when he saw it, and then asked his guards to take out some dried fish and give it to the natives to taste.

In this way, the natives stood up again and the atmosphere gradually became harmonious.

When the chiefs came over and tasted the dried fish and touched the cotton cloth, they were all overjoyed and had smiles on their faces.

As a tribe further upstream of the Xinluo River, they are even more salt-poor than the Heluo Alliance to which the Shangluo tribe belongs!

Even the women of the tribe need to drink blood from time to time to maintain salt in their bodies.

The act of drinking blood often leads to many diseases, and the life span of the natives is generally not long.

Therefore, for the native tribes in the upper reaches of the Xinluo River, salt is not only necessary for life, but also necessary for maintaining life!

At this time, several chiefs no longer hesitated and expressed that there were many warriors in the tribe who were willing to apply and work for the Wei tribe.

It's a pity that Liu Sheng didn't want to recruit too many native warriors for the first time - after all, the language and customs of the natives and the Yi tribe were too different, so recruiting too many at once would be difficult to manage.

What's more, Liu Sheng has no shortage of soldiers now - it is much easier to recruit young people from the Ming Dynasty as soldiers than natives.

Therefore, this time he only planned to recruit dozens of naturally strong and brave natives like Le Xiong to serve as heavy infantry in the Huben Guards.

As soon as Liu Sheng revealed this idea, Zha Xiong and other seven chiefs of the Altay Alliance immediately promoted the warriors of their respective tribes.

Because all tribes still have public ownership of property, Liu Sheng will get more cloth and salted fish from which tribe he recruits more warriors.

As a result, Zha Xiong and the other chiefs couldn't come to an agreement - the salted fish was too tempting, and no chief was willing to give in, and they almost started fighting on the spot.

Finally, it was decided to take advantage of the fact that most of the warriors from the seven tribes were present to hold an alliance competition and select dozens of warriors.

After Liu Sheng learned about it, he immediately expressed his support.

"Tell them that Ibu is willing to give out thirty kilograms of salted fish as prizes for the top ten in this competition."

Liu Sheng didn't take too many material rewards not because he was stingy, but because he was afraid that the prizes would be too tempting and these native warriors would risk their lives during the competition.

He regarded the native warriors as his own, and did not want the native warriors to suffer too many casualties in the fight for ranking.

But even if it was only thirty kilograms of salted fish, it still excited the native warriors, and they all wanted to participate in the competition...

Taking advantage of the Atele Alliance's big competition, the Three Wolf Killers approached Liu Sheng.

"Liu Sheng, we also have warriors in the Shangluo tribe, and the warriors in the Heluo Alliance don't need to be short of Atele. Our warriors are also willing to make deals!"

Liu Sheng could only partially understand the words "kill the three wolves", which were spoken by natives. Only after someone translated them did he understand the idea of ​​​​killing the three wolves.

He smiled and nodded, "Of course there is no problem - but whether it is the Altay Alliance or the Heluo Alliance, we will only recruit 30 warriors this time, and they must be good enough warriors."

"I understand." Sha Sanlang nodded, "Our Shangluo Lehu is such a warrior, he is not even much worse than Lexiong, he must meet your requirements.

However, I don’t want cloth or dried salted fish. I want to trade your planting methods so that Shangluo tribe can grow as much food as you do. "

When Liu Sheng heard this from the translator, he couldn't help but look at Sha Sanlang with some surprise.

He did not expect that the first indigenous chief he met had already realized the importance of planting and had the idea of ​​using planting to replace fishing and hunting.

Liu Sheng was not afraid that Shangluo tribe would grow up as a result.

Because by the time the Shangluo tribe really grows up, the Wei tribe must have been very powerful, and it has probably assimilated all the surrounding native tribes.

In other words, it is impossible for the Shangluo tribe to come back to bite the Yi tribe after growing up, just like the Northeastern Jurchens did to the Ming Dynasty in the past.

Even if such a thing happened, it would only happen a few hundred years later to other large native tribes on the fringes of North America.

The problem is that in the future, Weibu will start several industrial revolutions in advance and develop rapidly, leaving these fishing and hunting tribes far behind, making it impossible for them to catch up.

When machine guns come out, all nomadic, fishing and hunting groups will become good at singing and dancing.

Therefore, when Liu Sheng came back to his senses, he laughed, patted the three wolves on the shoulder and said: "No problem! As long as your people are recruited to serve as soldiers for our army, I will send people to teach you how to grow new wolves." More food!”

Recruiting native warriors as heavy infantry is only the first step.

Moreover, from now on Liu Sheng will only recruit brave warriors among the native warriors, not ordinary young men.

After the exchanges between various tribes and the Wei tribe deepened, and the native people were more influenced by the Wei tribe's language, customs, habits, etc., they could recruit the native people to do other things.

For example, mining, logging, hunting bison and grazing in the neighboring grasslands and alpine meadows in the central and southern regions, etc.

As time goes by, the surrounding natives will become migrant workers in Kuaibu and will no longer be able to leave Kuaibu.

At that time, it will not be up to the tribal chiefs whether the various native tribes will submit to the Wei tribe.

It will be decided by Liu Sheng.

After the Altay Alliance selected 30 warriors through a competition, Liu Sheng made an agreement with Zha Xiong and other seven elders that all seven tribes must leave the Sacramento area before 60 sunrises and sunsets.

The upper reaches of the Xinluo River have denser forests and more prey.

The natives, however, limited the growth of the tribe due to factors such as productivity, the upper limit of the hunting range, and life span, so they did not breed too many people to go fishing and hunting further upstream.

One of the important reasons is that it is more difficult to obtain salt further upstream.

Therefore, after the Altay Alliance learned that they could use animal skins and other materials to trade salted fish and other goods with the Weibei in the future, they all happily beat their chests and promised to migrate away as soon as possible.

At present, Weibu is not too anxious about occupying more territory, and Liu Sheng does not push too hard.

When boarding the boat and leaving, Liu Sheng looked at the scenery on both sides of the Xinluo River and asked Li Dingguo next to him, "How does Hongyuan (Li Dingguo) think I handled the native people's affairs this time?"

"Very good." Li Dingguo replied succinctly first. "It not only overwhelms the natives, but also maintains benevolence and righteousness. It can also recruit native warriors to be used by the Wei tribe. Anyway, the general can't think of a better way to deal with it."