In the Steel Claw Tribe's camp, inside a tent with relatively open grounds around it, An Chuer held a pen and recorded everything she had seen and heard over the past few days in a small notebook.
She, Yu Mingyang, and the others had arrived four days ago. Before this, they had indeed learned quite a lot at the Academy. They knew that given the Steel Claw Tribe's savagery and backwardness, normal communication would be difficult without strength to back them up.
So before setting out, they came up with an idea: they wouldn't say they were envoys, but a merchant caravan that had come to trade goods.
After all, they were the ones responsible for communicating directly with the Steel Claw Tribe. The Academy instructors who had come along couldn't understand their language, so they could say whatever they pleased.
Zhang Yu had repeatedly told them that when dealing with barbarians, the most important thing was to protect themselves first. Only then were they qualified to discuss anything else. They had firmly remembered this.
Before departure, Yu Mingyang had specifically entrusted Duan Neng to purchase a great many goods, most of them salt blocks and cloth.
They knew perfectly well that earth barbarians undergoing such a large-scale migration would certainly lack these things. Besides those, they had also prepared some gorgeous silk and exquisite porcelain, which had always been effective weapons against earth barbarians.
Sure enough, once these goods were brought into the tribe, they became immensely popular.
Though the Steel Claw Tribe was savage and backward, they still understood the benefits a merchant caravan brought them. Thus, they treated them more courteously than they had treated Zhan Zhitong and the others. Not only did they designate a separate open area for them, they also assigned a squad of