More than ten days later, Zhao Fu deliberately cultivated goodwill with the various families, greatly weakening their hostility. Their attitude toward Great Qin also became much friendlier.
The two sides also began trading. Great Qin could sell some products from the Apocalypse World, and many Alchemy Clan members were quite interested and willing to buy them. The alchemy families would likewise sell things from the Alchemy World, which Great Qin would purchase as well.
With benefits involved, the relationship between the two sides naturally improved, no longer as sharply opposed as before.
The Earth Water Flower Alliance, which had the best relationship with Great Qin, even allowed its commoners to enter Great Qin at any time to visit, buy, or sell goods.
There was, in fact, another way of assimilation: a very powerful faction could absorb a smaller faction without using military force.
It mainly relied on its immense influence to affect the smaller faction. Over time, imperceptibly, its people would no longer harbor any thoughts of resistance toward the larger faction and would come to see themselves as part of it.
Great Qin was that large faction, while the Earth Water Flower Alliance was that small faction.
After stabilizing friendly relations with the various alchemy families, Zhao Fu did not hesitate and directly launched another war, wiping out those factions that remained hostile to Great Qin.
This time, those factions were scattered in different places rather than gathered together, so Great Qin's method of warfare also had to change.
Before this, Great Qin had gathered information on these families. There were more than six hundred of them. The strongest had populations exceeding ten billion and one billion alchemy soldiers, while the weakest had fewer than one hundred million people and only several million soldiers.
Zhao Fu left five billion