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While Luo Chong was thinking about how to expand the steel-consuming industries, time had already reached October of the first year of the Han Tribe's Jianyuan Era. This was the final month of autumn, and the cold winter was about to arrive. Yet You Ye still had no intention of returning from the north.

In an unknown valley more than a thousand kilometers northeast of the Han Tribe, a large flag bearing the character "Han" was fluttering in the wind. This was the temporary camp You Ye had established, but the camp was bustling with activity.

It was a stretch of level ground in the valley. After being cleared, it had been used to build many low adobe houses. The densely packed houses stood in orderly rows, looking much like a residential district inside a Han Tribe city. Though none of the houses had courtyards and they looked extremely crude, most with thatch roofs, their arrangement was fairly neat.

There were many houses—about a thousand—and their number was still increasing.

In this "possibly" large settlement, countless people were busily gathering supplies for the winter.

The sailors led by You Ye were here as well. Some were leading women and half-grown children in harvesting the corn planted on the slopes. It had been grown from reserve grain carried aboard You Ye's sailboat. The ears were snapped off and placed in woven baskets, then people carried them back to the camp with carrying poles. The remaining stalks were harvested and sent back to the camp for storage, to be used as winter fuel or livestock fodder.

The camp's dedicated animal pens held several captured wild argali and some unknown deer. There were even more than a dozen wild donkeys with blue-gray fur, mainly used to pull carts.

The carts had been built