In the winter of Great Mandate Year Two, in mid-December, after a full month of preparations, Ye Ying finally led the boat fleet out.
They had yet to find a waterway near the capital that connected to the Liuyang River, so the boat fleet had to set out from Tohai Commandery and head north along the Liuyang River. When they reached a Three-Fork River Mouth connected to Grassland Hong Lake, they would change course and enter the Hong Lake Water System. Finally, they would travel south along the eastern shore of Hong Lake while searching for signs of human activity along the banks.
If they found a tribe of the Youqiao Clan, they would trade with them for people first. If they encountered some other unfamiliar small tribe and could take everyone away directly, then they would take everyone away.
Even if they could not take everyone away at once, they would first use goods to buy a batch of people and remember the exact location, providing a basis for their future operations.
The caravan had brought more than enough goods, and the variety was rich enough as well. No matter how picky those uncivilized primitives were, there would always be something they liked.
By then, when they saw the caravan's people riding huge sailing ships, carrying such sharp weapons, with their goods floating on the water where they could not attack or defeat them, they would have no choice. If they wanted the Han Tribe's goods but could not seize them, they could only obediently exchange people for them. Luo Chong refused to believe that they could not get any people in exchange.
The Han Tribe had once been so poor, yet Luo Chong had still managed to exchange White Salt and pottery for so many people. That was