Chapter 62: The Failed Northland Barbarians
Chapter 62 – Unworthy Northland Barbarians
The main reason Owen insisted on doing this was because he once again improvised, trying to create a series of underground buildings in the Bison Territory, the Magic Horn Tree Forest, and the Territorial Castle, respectively, and then connect them.
Taking the castle dungeon as the core, linking the food and fuel-producing Horn Tree Forest and the iron ore-producing Bison Territory, it would be possible to stealthily connect several important places, which could not only quietly concentrate all the forces, but also ensure that there were multiple retreat routes, not to mention the benefits of resource transportation and sneak attacks.
Although there are many benefits, the only problem is that this amount of work is enough to build a city, but Owen preferred to bury it underground, which shows that he still lacks a sufficient sense of security.
I don’t know if it’s because of staying underground for a long time, but for Owen, the earth is a blanket that covers his body when he sleeps alone at night, regardless of whether it’s useful or not, it can at least bring him some sense of security.
Besides, even if he had the ability to build a city, he wouldn’t go ahead and build it because he didn’t intend to be targeted.
In other people can understand or can accept the scope of rapid development can, unexplainable rapid development is to put I am very suspicious, I have a secret of these words with a projection lamp projected into the sky, death also don’t choose so exciting method.
The idea of building an underground complex is good, and Owen has the ability to realize it, but I don’t know if the time left for him is enough.
After letting the scouts scrutinize the area and finding no traces left by outsiders in the Bison Territory, Owen knew that he still had time.
The Bison Baron’s descendant escaping was a hidden danger, but it was only a hidden danger, even if the other party attracted barbarians, he wasn’t afraid of it, just in time to try to see if he could open the progress value cap again.
Owen’s confidence didn’t come for nothing, but he had enough understanding under Maya’s explanation to come to a conclusion.
Northland barbarians are not to be messed with, and even at the beginning was the heart of the empire, but with the development of the empire, the northland barbarians are still in the same place or even retrogression, from the heart of the big trouble into a border trouble.
With the help of the first northland pioneering mission hard pit northland barbarians several times, in order to survive, in order to inheritance, northland barbarians were forced to move north, from this we can see that northland barbarians have been weak to what degree.
The more north the more desolate is the consensus, but where there is a possibility, the northern barbarians will not choose to cross the river to move north, because it is easy to go, want to come back will be difficult.
The problem is that they have no choice, even if they still have the ability to annihilate the Northland Pioneering Corps, what can be done, since the Empire can set up the first, there will be a second and third, and even set up ten in one breath is not impossible.
The Empire had the people and could afford to consume them.
So the wise men of the Northland barbarians see very clearly, the only hope of the Northland barbarians is in the north, which is the reason why the Northland barbarians migrated greatly in the first place.
Unfortunately, although out of a way out, but in the far north, the barbarians will face more difficulties, can maintain the status quo even good, do not expect to grow.
Of course, even if the barbarians in the north are weak, it is not Owen a small viscount collar can deal with, even if he hangs on, it is the same.
The problem was that the barbarians were not good at planting, and mainly focused on grazing and hunting, so it was impossible for them to gather together in large numbers.
After all, the beasts of the Northland is not a crop, grass needs time to grow, simply put a piece of land can feed a limited number of people, want to get more prey must go farther, so the barbarians will not be able to gather a large number of people, can only be in the form of nomadic tribes continue to migrate.
Turns out to be good, I do not know how many years the Northland barbarians through the constant killing each other and compromise, tribes and tribes, although there is hatred, but have their own living space and nomadic routes, generally well water offenses river water, but also peace and quiet. But after the northern migration of all order is gone, all return to the primitive, who has a big fist who will eat, the original dilution of the hatred must be deeper and deeper, so the barbarian tribes want to cooperate with each other the difficulty of the high to the sky.
Without cooperation, with a single barbarian tribe, Owen is really not afraid.
The population of the barbarian tribe will not be too much, most of them are maintained at about three to five hundred people, and even the most common is a small tribe of more than a hundred people.
This is mainly because the barbarians are big belly man, the ancient nomadic people in the past life is not eat meat all the time, they are mainly to dairy products and from the farming people where to exchange for food to make a living.
The problem is that with the barbarian’s belly, dairy products can not fill the stomach, as for with the farming nation for food, when the imperial frontier army is not dead.
So the barbarian tribe mainly rely on hunting and grazing to get food, but the food obtained from hunting is unstable, grazing is limited by the grass, but also easy to attract wolves, it is difficult to increase the number, so unless absolutely necessary, otherwise will not slaughter more livestock, so hunger is common.
It is because of too much to eat, barbarian tribes simply can not support too much population, unless it involves the survival of the entire Northland barbarians, otherwise most of the tribes do not interact with each other, at most after two or three years in the public area to exchange unmarried men and women, to maintain the tribe has fresh blood.
Bison Baron only half of the barbarian blood, his descendants are only a quarter, even through the sale of iron and barbarian tribes to get in touch with the relationship, but also not enough to let the other side of the full help to take revenge.
Barbarians just savage is not stupid, how can risk the destruction of the tribe to help revenge, we must know that the most fundamental of any tribe is the continuation, rather than quick revenge, really want to do so the tribe can not survive now.
It is to understand this point, Owen will not put each other in the eyes, at the same time this is also the reason why he did not fully build the city.
Although he knew that the hope of recrossing the North Boundary River is slim, but the Northland barbarians still know that the empire in the North Boundary River to build a city for them how deadly.
Once a city was built here, it would not only completely cut off their hope of returning, but also become a bridgehead for the Empire’s northward expedition, so the Northland barbarians would never sit back and watch Owen build a city in the North Boundary River, and a town was the limit of what they could tolerate.
It’s still early to say, just the city wall alone can make Owen worry until his head is bald, not to mention a perfect city.
With the iron ore mining in Bison Territory on track, every month there are ten carloads of excellent quality iron ore delivered to the territory, after melting with the magic horn tree block into fine iron, then by the big waisted blacksmiths to hammer into all kinds of tools and weapons, for this reason Owen had to increase the number of blacksmith stores in the territory.
Even though Maya was able to handle most of the affairs of the territory instead of Owen, it didn’t mean that he didn’t have to do anything, at least he needed to know what level of development the territory had reached, and what he was going to do next, especially the direction of development, which Maya couldn’t decide for him.
In the midst of the busyness, the only thing that could soothe Owen’s wounded heart was Dale with the swell.
I have to say, Dale in this regard than he played more flowers, especially when she mastered the morphing art, what the animal ears, what the tail, what the furry, and the use of cartilage spells, really let him eye-opening, placed in his previous life, is definitely the Benzi sector ancestor level role.
(The end of this chapter)