Chapter 912: Dongyi, Xirong, Nanman, Beidi and...Educating the Barbarians
No one knew whether it was because of Mo Cheng's request or simply because he was worried that the Wuman outside the city would gather together and attack Baigu City without food, but the Lord of Baigu City only took a few hours to deliver a batch of food and meat.
It has been only about four or five hours since Mo Cheng sent someone to deliver the letter. Mo Cheng even suspected that Lord Baigu had opened the granary in the city.
But then Tushan Yi said that this amount of food was not enough to open the granary.
The terrain where Baigu City is located is fertile, and there have been bumper harvests for ten consecutive years. Not to mention the granaries in the city, even Mo Cheng's Qilin tribe, which has less than 50,000 people, can supply even the wealthy families in the city.
It’s just that the supply doesn’t last long.
"Gentleman, you may not know that sometimes when the Wuman invasion is at a disadvantage, Baigu City will occasionally transport a batch of food outside the city, and at the same time [accidentally] let the Wuman know."
Although Wu Man is regarded by others as an extension of Jueming Mountains, they have their own ideas. If they cannot capture the city after a long siege, they are willing to ask Bai Gucheng for a batch of food in exchange for a slight retreat.
This kind of thing surprised Mo Cheng. He didn't expect that after so many years of fighting, Wu Man and Bai Gucheng would have such a tacit understanding.
At the same time, Mo Cheng also had a question in mind, "You guys are doing business with Baigucheng like this, didn't the Jueming Mountains swallow you up?"
If the Jueming Mountains were just a natural environment, Mo Cheng would not be so surprised, but after experiencing several contacts, he could say with certainty that the Jueming Mountains were alive.
It would be easy to get into trouble if we fooled the Jueming Mountain Range like this.
The Great Shaman shook his head. "My Lord, you don't know that the Jueming Mountains have only one order for us, and that is to occupy more land. If we can occupy it, we will be rewarded when we return. If we can't occupy it, the environment will be worse when we return, with more natural disasters and less food output."
"As long as we fail to conquer the place, we will be short of food when we return. So once we are sure that we cannot conquer Baigu City, we will accept some food from him so that we can survive the famine."
After learning how the Jueming Mountains treated the Wuman, Mo Cheng couldn't help but squint his eyes. He was thinking about how many people among the Wuman wanted to get rid of the Jueming Mountains.
And what price are those people willing to pay in order to escape from the Jueming Mountains?
Mo Cheng put this question aside for the time being, because at this time the people of the Qilin Tribe had already processed the food and meat sent from Baigu City. The food prepared by the Qilin Tribe was quite nomadic in style.
However, when the prepared food was placed in front of them, no one dared to take a bite because the headman, or Khan, had not moved yet and had not allowed them to eat.
The chief witch signaled Mo Cheng to go up to the podium and speak. Mo Cheng did not refuse and went up to the podium directly, pointing his thumb at himself, "I, Mo Cheng, am your Khan. From today on, if you follow me, you will have food, drink, clothing and shelter."
Since most of the Wu Man had never studied in academy, and he himself did not understand what other people were saying, Mo Cheng used the most vulgar but also the most understandable words to let the Wu Man understand the situation.
"I rescued you from that hellhole in Jueming Mountain. I provided you with food, clothing and shelter. So you have to recognize me as your Khan and call me Lord from now on!"
"Is there anyone who disagrees? Stand up!"
The whole place was silent. No one, neither Wu Man nor the soldiers from Baigucheng, spoke a word.
However, Tu Shanyi could not help but cover his forehead with his hands, looking helpless. "If the head of the academy knew about this vulgar statement, he would at least be punished with a few punishments. This is not the way to educate the barbarians."
"Very good, it seems that you all recognize me as the leader." Mo Cheng picked up a glass of wine, raised it above his head, and drank it all in one gulp , "Now, let's eat!"
After a command, the people of the Qilin tribe picked up the large pieces of beef and mutton and started to chew them. Women and children all looked like this. For the Qilin tribe, which was not a strong tribe, the food grown in the Jueming Mountains and the cattle and sheep grazed were not enough to eat.
It can be said that except for the soldiers who were able to have two full meals a few days before departure, children, women and the elderly who had no direct combat ability were almost isolated from the word "full".
For a long period of time, the Qilin tribe was caught in a vicious cycle of [not enough food - unable to win battles - grazing and planting harvests kept declining - not enough food].
"Congratulations to you for conquering a tribe of Wuman and educating the people."
Tu Shanyi came over with a glass of wine in his hand, smiling, "I didn't expect you to have a way to cut off the connection between Jueming Mountain Range and Wuman. If you do this, I'm afraid nearly half of the Wuman will submit to you."
After congratulating him, Tu Shanyi asked again, "Sir, are you planning to train the Wuman of this tribe?"
"I have such an idea." Mo Cheng nodded, without any intention of hiding his thoughts. "I originally planned to set rules with them, but these people can't even read a single word, and they can't understand any rules. If we want to train them into soldiers, I'm afraid we have to find someone to teach them."
Seeing Mo Cheng looking at him, Tu Shanyi's foxy face collapsed at once, and he pointed at himself with a guilty conscience and said: "Sir, do you want me to educate these witches and barbarians? But I still have to train 800 cavalrymen..."
"The Wuman's Ghostly Cavalry is extremely powerful in charging into battle, and their combined archery and horsemanship are unrivaled in the world. Are you sure you don't want to do it? Then I'll have to go to the Baigu City and ask the teachers at the academy for help. I'm sure they will like the job of educating the barbarians."
Tushan Yi was suddenly startled when he heard this. That's right, Confucianism looked down upon the barbarians from all directions and even had a special derogatory term for them.
[Dong Yi, Xi Rong, Nan Man, Bei Di], this can be used to refer to people in the tribal era, and can also be used to scold countries that do not use Confucian principles to govern the country.
The importance that Confucianism attached to "educating the barbarians" was second only to founding a school of thought and writing doctrines.
Mo Cheng guessed that Confucians were probably more retro and wanted to learn from the great sage who took his disciples on a tour around the countries, teaching along the way.
As for what kind of [education] it is...
I guess he would just make him convinced first, and then slowly explain his reasons.
"Gentleman, how can you easily hand over such an important matter to others?!" Tu Shanyi grabbed Mo Cheng's hand and stared at him with his fox eyes wide open. "For such a matter, Tu Shanyi will not refuse even if he dies!"
