Arc 19The River Mouth Expansion
The Fire Tribe expanded its fleet, grain stores, population, and network of outposts while honoring its trade alliance with the Valley Tribe and preparing for rising regional threats. The arc ended with Jianshi moving the administrative center to Little Fish River Mouth and setting ambitious plans for settlement and shipbuilding.
- Jianya secured the Valley Tribe’s grain trade and agreed to discuss its request for an early delivery of bronze weapons as the Bear Tribe’s strength grew.
- Jianshi launched the Fire Tribe’s first hundred-thousand-jin ship, and Yan visited the Horse Tribe and arranged to trade for cattle and horses.
- Yan led a fleet to collect thousands of newcomers from the river-mouth outposts, while Jianshi sent him to retrieve the Valley Tribe’s remaining grain.
- Yan brought the flagship and forty fifty-thousand-jin ships to the Valley Tribe, where he agreed to reserve twenty million jin of grain for next year and provide bronze weapons early.
- The Fire Tribe completed the grain handover, and Yan and Qingsui discussed regional threats before Yan sailed home with the grain.
- Jianshi agreed to honor the bronze-weapon promise as Yan reported that the Wolf Tribe had grown stronger and brought news of its attacks on the Great Boulder Tribe.
- The Fire Tribe harvested more than thirty million jin of grain, welcomed over ten thousand newcomers, and Jianya returned from the Horse Tribe with cattle and horses.
- Jianshi and Yan relocated the administrative center to Little Fish River Mouth, where Jianshi set a goal of accommodating fifty thousand people and Dabang planned a much larger fleet.