Online Games Barbarism and Civilization

The Iron Hoof tribe lives in a plain area thirty kilometers away from Almaty.

There are approximately more than 3,000 adult centaur males in the entire Iron Hoof tribe, and the others are women and children.

The Iron Shoe tribe belongs to a fishing and hunting tribe. The women and children of the tribe are responsible for grazing on the grasslands around the tribe. The adult men of the tribe will go to Issyk-Kul Lake in groups to hunt and fish.

Centaur's physique determines that they have a large appetite, so many centaur tribes live a very tight life. If there is any natural disaster or man-made disaster, the men, women, and children in the tribe will have to tighten their belts to live a life.

There is an old saying in China that if a family has a lot of wealth, it does not include the hairy ones.

What this sentence means is that even if you have tens of thousands of cattle and sheep at home, they are not considered reliable property until you successfully liquidate them, because a snowstorm in winter is likely to cause you to lose everything.

For the Iron Hoof tribe, winter is the most difficult time for them every year, because winter prey will become more difficult to catch, and the frozen Issyk-Kul Lake can no longer provide them with any catches.

If some of the cattle and sheep raised by the tribe freeze to death, their lives will become even more difficult in the coming year.

Many people think that nomadic people eat meat every day, and the cattle and sheep they raise are just for food.

This is not the case.

In fact, the staple food of nomadic people is various dairy products, and meat is not something that ordinary herdsmen can eat casually. After all, the meat that a sheep can produce is very limited. If meat is the staple food every day, the herdsmen will not be able to graze. There was simply not enough cattle and sheep to feed them.

In many cases, herdsmen will only kill some old, weak, sick and disabled livestock for their own meat. They will sell part of other cattle and sheep, and then buy some grain for their own consumption.

Therefore, the staple food of the herdsmen is actually various dairy products and rice porridge with some meat. There are people on TV who eat meat all day long and eat a whole leg of lamb alone, but those people are from the aristocracy. , belongs to a very small part.

The Iron Hoof tribe is just a slightly larger centaur tribe in Kazakhstan. The entire tribe has tens of thousands of mouths waiting for food. Even if the tribe leader is qualified to eat meat every day, others are not qualified.

Holly Ironhoof is thirty-five years old this year. He has been the leader of the Ironhoof tribe for five years.

During these five years, Holly Ironhoof deeply felt the tremendous pressure from the increase in tribal population.

Originally, for the Centaur clan, having children was a very important matter, as it was related to the continuation of the Centaur clan.

However, the resources surrounding a centaur tribe are limited after all. Once the population of the tribe increases too rapidly, the source of food will become a big problem.

As the leader of the Ironhoof tribe, the first thing Holly Ironhoof thinks of almost every day when he opens his eyes is where he is going to hunt today.

As the number of half-year-olds in the tribe increases, the number of cattle and sheep grazed by the tribe continues to decrease.

In order to ensure that the half-grown children can have enough to eat, Holly had to sell a large number of cattle and sheep, and then buy relatively cheap food for the tribesmen to feed themselves.

However, selling cattle and sheep is an act of drinking poison to quench thirst for the Tiedho tribe, because the breeding number of cattle and sheep is directly proportional to the number of the population. As the number of cattle and sheep of the tribe gradually decreases, the number of breeding will never keep up with the number sold. quantity.

Once the number of cattle and sheep of the tribe drops to the warning line, if they continue to sell cattle and sheep, the entire tribe will soon fall into a huge food crisis.

Holly also knew this very well, so whenever he sold part of the tribe's cattle and sheep, he would immediately stop selling and think of other ways.

For the centaur clan who are not good at farming, there are only two ways to solve the food crisis, either go out to work to make money, or simply work part-time as horse thieves and do some unprofitable business such as road robbery.

Working for others is both hard work and makes little money, and may even cost you your life. Therefore, for Holly, unless their patriarch personally calls them, they will never be able to work for others in their lifetime. Worker.

If you don't want to work for others, the only way is to become a horse thief and do business without capital.

To become horse thieves who block roads and rob, the centaurs have an inherent advantage, because long-distance raids and robberies were their specialty.

So every time it was almost too late to open the pot, Holly would lead the men of the Iron Hoof tribe to go out and plunder, and then use the money from the plunder to buy enough food to help the tribe survive the long cold winter.

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The most hated thing among caravan traders is horse thieves, because once they encounter horse thieves, they are likely to lose people and money, so every caravan will bring a large number of guards when setting off to ensure safety along the way.

For caravans doing business in Central Asia, centaur horse thieves are the most feared by merchants, because all centaur people are soldiers, and they are natural cavalry.

Once encountering the plunder of centaur horse thieves, if the other party insists on killing them all, then almost no caravan can escape from the centaur horse thieves.

If you want to deal with the centaur thieves who are looting everywhere, the best way is to hire a guard team composed of centaur warriors.

Centaur horse thieves face off against centaur guards. Most of the time, centaur guards will win the final victory.

However, the price of hiring centaur guards is too high, and ordinary small chambers of commerce simply cannot afford to hire them. Therefore, many times, those caravans will choose some routes where they can pay protection fees to do business.

The Holly of the Iron Hoof Tribe has a long-lasting principle, so as long as the passing caravan pays them enough protection fees, they will not only not loot the caravan, but will also escort it safely out of the Iron Hoof Tribe's coverage.

When the Silk Road caravan came, Ximen Lieyang paid sufficient tolls to Holly, and then safely passed through the area covered by the Iron Shoe Tribe.

On this return trip, if nothing else happens, as long as they pay enough tolls to the Iron Heel Tribe again, then Holly will definitely not make it difficult for them.

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On February 30, 1938, the Silk Road Caravan, escorted by two hundred Kazakhstani players, slowly entered the Iron Heel Tribe’s sphere of influence.

The moment the convoy just appeared, Holly led a centaur army of two thousand people to stop in front of the convoy.

After seeing the centaur army of the Iron Heel Tribe, the leading Kazakhstan player immediately signaled Ximen Lieyang to pay the opponent a protection fee.

Along the way, under the tip-off from Kazakh players, Kazakhs kept collecting tolls from the Silk Road caravans.

Kazakhstani players know that the Silk Road Caravan has a lot of money, so almost every wave of people who come to collect protection fees will open their mouths.

Facing the greedy Kazakhstani players, Ximen Lieyang tried his best to meet the opponent's requirements every time.

After clearing the way through non-stop money, no Kazakhstani players deliberately made things difficult for them.

This time, facing the Centaur army of the Iron Hoof Tribe, after receiving the instructions from the Kazakhstani players, Ximen Lieyang immediately delivered two heavy money bags to Holly.

After opening the purse and seeing the silver exposed inside, Holly's face immediately darkened. He looked at Ximen Lieyang and reprimanded loudly:

“Shouldn’t it be two bags of gold coins?

What do you mean by giving me two bags of silver coins? "

It turned out that the money bag Ximen Lieyang handed to Holly was filled with silver coins.

Seeing Holly's anger, Ximen Lieyang immediately said with a smile on his face: "Chief Holly, every few kilometers we walk along this way, we will encounter a wave of toll collectors.

Most of the money we brought has been used to buy goods, and the rest has been taken away by the big and small kings along the way.

Now we only have these silver coins left with us, and we really can't afford more money.

Please also ask Chief Huoli to respect us because we are going through a very difficult journey. Next time we pass by your tribe, we will definitely honor you even more. "

Ximen Lieyang looked at Holly pitifully, hoping that the other party would be lenient.

After hearing what Ximen Lieyang said, Holly's face became even more ugly. He looked at Ximen Lieyang and said coldly: "President Ximen, what do you mean?

Why, you have money to honor others, but you have no money to honor us?

Let me tell you, if you don't take out the double gold coins today, you will never be able to pass through the territory of our Iron Heel Tribe.

Don't say that I'm making things difficult for you. If you really can't come up with the money, then you can keep all the goods, and then come back to redeem the goods when you go back to get the money. "

"Chief Holly, can't you really be accommodating?"

Ximen Lieyang asked again without giving up.

"Either pay the money or keep the goods. There is no third option."

Holly replied coldly.

Seeing that Holly refused to enter, Ximen Lieyang immediately turned around and came to the Kazakhstan player.

"Sir Sanji, all the money we brought with us has been used up. Now Chief Holi wants to withhold our goods. Please see if you can intercede."

"You really have no money?"

Hearing Ximen Lieyang say that the Silk Road Caravan was out of money, Sangji suddenly had a different look on his face.

"It's not like you haven't seen them along the way. Those people in your country..."

Halfway through, Ximen Lieyang stopped, and then looked directly at Sanji.

Being stared at by Ximen Lieyang, Sangji suddenly rubbed his nose in embarrassment.

He saw how the Silk Road Caravan was exploited by their domestic players along the way, because he sent people to find many teams, and through this, he collected a large amount of benefits from them.

He originally thought that Ximen Lieyang didn't want to be public and just wanted to use money to buy peace, so he wanted to exploit as much money as possible from Ximen Lieyang before the Silk Road caravan left Kazakhstan.

Unexpectedly, before they even reached Almaty, all the money carried by the Silk Road caravan had already been exploited by them.

For the money that had been put in their pockets, they would definitely not take it out and return it to Ximen Lieyang, so Sangji could only bite the bullet and come to Holly.

"Chief Huoli, my name is Sanji, and I am the commander of the defense force of Taraz City. Under the order of the city lord, we must escort the Silk Road caravan out of the country safely, so please, Chief Huoli, can you make it convenient for me to come to When the time comes, I will definitely speak kindly to you, the clan leader, in front of the city lord.”

Glancing at Sanchi on the horse, Holly said with disdain: "You fucking do this with me. I don't know the Lord of Taraz City, and I don't need you to speak kindly to him for me. I Not familiar with him.

All I know is that the money that was supposed to belong to us was extorted by you greedy guys from the front.

You clearly know that our Iron Heel Tribe is in great need of this money for emergency purposes, but you still dare to give away our share. I think you simply look down on our Iron Heel Tribe.

Since you don't give face to our Iron Hoof Tribe, even if the King of Heaven comes today, you still have to pay enough tolls to get there.

If there is one copper less, none of you will be able to leave today. "

The centaurs have always looked down on greedy humans like Sange, so Holly didn't give Sange any face.

After being choked by Holly, Sangji's expression immediately turned extremely ugly.

He wanted to have a fit, but after taking a look at the centaur warriors behind Holly, he finally silently turned around and returned to Ximen Lieyang.

Glancing at Ximen Lieyang, whose face was full of earnestness, Sanji shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "President Ximen, you have also seen that I have tried my best, but that guy Holly insists on asking for money, even if it is less.

If that doesn't work, just leave them a truckload of goods as collateral, and then redeem them after you go back and get the money. "

"Oh, that's all we have to do."

Ximen Lieyang shook his head helplessly.

"Come here, give a hundred carts of the most precious spices to Chief Huoli, and we will redeem them when we go back to get the money."

After saying that, Ximen Lieyang winked at a player.

After receiving Ximen Lieyang's instructions, the Chinese players in the convoy immediately took action. They drove out a hundred carriages loaded with goods from the convoy and drove slowly towards the Centaur army not far away.

Just when Sangji and others thought that everything would go smoothly next, a moving carriage suddenly overturned, and then accidentally hit a carriage parked next to it.

Seeing the carriage turning over, everyone's eyes were immediately attracted to it. Then under everyone's gaze, the carriage that had affected Chiyu suddenly revealed a golden color after overturning.

"not good."

After seeing the goods on the carriage spilled out, Sanji and Ximen Lieyang screamed in surprise.