"Fellow villagers, I am Xue Qingyao, the Qiongzhou Provincial Governor personally appointed by the Chieftain—in other words, the person who will soon be managing all of Bamboo Island.
I believe many of you are wondering why the Han Tribe raised its forces against Bamboo Island, right?
But it doesn't matter. Today, I'll tell you the truth.
The Han and Xin Tribes originally had a friendly cooperative relationship. We did not infringe upon each other and exchanged what the other lacked. This should have been beneficial to the people of both sides.
However, your Great Leader insisted on forcibly seizing our various technologies. He coveted our sailing ships and vehicles, and when our Han Tribe refused to hand them over, he openly joined forces with the grassland powers to plunder our cities.
At the beginning of this year, when the ice and snow on the grasslands had not yet fully melted, your Great Leader and several Elders mobilized two thousand able-bodied clansmen. Every one of them wore bamboo armor and carried Dagger-Axes and Spears, arrows, and other weapons. Together, they formed a mighty army and crossed Dark Bridge.
Under the pretext of going to the grasslands to trade goods, they sent a large quantity of arrows, Bronze Spears, bamboo armor, shields, and even tall ladders to a nomadic Chieftain on the grasslands named Modun. They joined forces with an army of sixty thousand men and went together to plunder Kaiyuan City, which belonged to our Han Tribe and stood on the grasslands.
Thanks to the sturdy defenses of our Han Tribe, we escaped disaster, preserved the city, and drove back the Allied Forces of your Great Leader and Modun of the grasslands. Even so, more than a thousand of our Han tribesmen were killed or wounded in that battle.
This war