Resources of the Tang Tribe (I)

After the feast, once all the guests had left, Luo Chong immediately ordered Dashu to organize a geological survey team and send it to the Tang Tribe. Exactly how many marketplaces, grain stations, banks, factories, and other facilities should be built for the Tang Tribe, and where they should be built, still had no definite figures. All of that would have to wait until the Tang Tribe's commanderies and counties had been divided. Only then could Luo Chong gain a clear overall picture of the Tang Tribe's territory.

Fortunately, all the Tang Tribe's clan patriarchs had already offered their support. They would provide capable men to guide the Han Tribe's survey teams. After all, the facilities being built were for their benefit as well, so the patriarchs were extremely enthusiastic. Some even hoped that their territories could be made larger and divided into more counties, allowing them to receive more aid.

This left the Han Tribe's surveyors both amused and exasperated. It was only after they made it clear that they were responsible solely for measuring the land, while the administrative divisions could be decided only by the Chieftain, that the patriarchs abandoned their plans to bribe the survey teams. Privately, they resolved that when Luo Chong divided the commanderies and counties, they absolutely had to attend another meeting to discuss it.

At the very least, if they could get another delicious meal out of it, the trip would not be in vain.

The Han Tribe's food was simply too delicious!!!

Through the combined efforts of more than thirty survey teams composed of military scouts, resource surveyors, nautical charting personnel, and others, along with the Tang Tribe's enthusiastic cooperation, Luo Chong finally obtained a rough map of the Tang Tribe's territory and its surrounding regions a week later.

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