Recaps

Wang Yan introduced fishing, pottery, salt refining, and other ways to feed and equip the Fire Tribe, then helped it prepare to defend and sustain a growing settlement. The tribe expanded its training, animal pens, fields, homes, and medicine stores as winter approached, while planning to trade for seeds.

• Wang Yan taught the Fire Tribe to catch frogs, shrimp, crabs, and fish, providing the people with abundant food.
• Wang Yan led the tribe in making pottery, hemp rope, and fishing nets, and Jianshi organized larger-scale production.
• Wang Yan found salt-rich rock and refined it into edible salt, prompting Jianshi and Jianya to hide the tribe’s valuable skills from outsiders.
• Wang Yan proposed strengthening the tribe through food production, alliances, sturdier homes, and military training, then organized the youths into a squad.
• Jianshi and Wang Yan expanded animal husbandry as Jianya’s team captured piglets, goats, and fawns, while Dabang’s team gathered salt ore despite a wolf pack’s approach.
• Wang Yan persuaded the tribe to collect seeds and transplant fruit trees, and Jianshi approved a journey to trade pottery with the Fish Tribe for grain seeds.
• The Fire Tribe built homes, fields, fishponds, and animal pens, and Jianshi agreed to plan defensive walls and a ditch.
• Granny Cao led Wang Yan’s herb-gathering team in collecting and storing medicine, while Wang Yan began considering how to record her knowledge and train others.

The Fire Tribe used the autumn market to secure food, livestock, skills, boats, seeds, and new members, then reorganized and fortified itself for winter. By the end, neighboring chiefs recognized its rapid growth and worried that the balance of power was shifting.

• Jianshi led the Fire Tribe’s market party through successful trades with neighboring tribes, securing supplies, livestock, skills, guards, and marriage alliances.
• Jianshi accepted nearly two hundred desperate newcomers into the Fire Tribe and promised them food, shelter, and a place among its people.
• Jianshi negotiated with Canglan for rice seeds, boats, boatbuilders, and farmers, while Wang Yan studied the Fish Tribe’s farming and rice processing.
• Jianshi brought the party home with new supplies and teachers, and the Fire Tribe welcomed more residents until its population approached seven hundred.
• Wang Yan urged Jianshi to reorganize the warriors, develop farmland, build compost pits, and construct walls and beacon towers, while the tribe carried out his plans.
• Wang Yan formed a youth battalion and taught leaders and young people arithmetic, improving training and storehouse records through the winter.
• Juti warned Jijiao of the Fire Tribe’s growing strength, while Niqiu’s report led Zongmao to recruit more people as he feared his tribe might become dependent on the Fire Tribe.

The Fire Tribe survived its food shortage through farming, hunting, gathering, and trade, then drew hundreds of people from neighboring tribes with its growing prosperity. With the tribe expanded and winter approaching, Wang Yan began teaching symbols and numbers to preserve knowledge and improve management.

• Lu Ming and Wenshi worried that their starving tribes might eventually have to surrender their lands or join the expanding Fire Tribe.
• Jianshi welcomed migrants from three tribes, and Wang Yan organized the newcomers and old tribespeople to gather food and prepare fields together.
• Jianshi ordered boats built, while Wang Yan helped develop protective armor and shields for the hunters.
• Jianshi led a pottery-laden fleet to the Fish Tribe and traded for rice, fish oil, seeds, and saplings, then Wang Yan organized the delivery and storage of the grain.
• Wang Yan directed the tribe to breed its livestock and expand cultivation, and the Fire Tribe harvested its first rice crop before planting much larger paddies.
• At the autumn gathering, Jianshi and Wang Yan traded with neighboring tribes and accepted eight tribes seeking to join, adding roughly six hundred people.
• Wang Yan and Jianshi secured another hundred thousand jin of grain from the Fish Tribe, while the Fire Tribe’s population grew beyond fourteen hundred.
• Jianshi assigned the newcomers to residential areas and expanded farming and hunting, while Wang Yan began teaching symbols and numbers to leaders and children.

The Fire Tribe expanded its farming, defenses, and population as the Wolf Tribe raided neighboring settlements and moved toward its valley. Jianshi’s forces defeated Xueya’s attack, and Jia Li’s arrival opened a new trade agreement for horses and dogs.

• Wang Yan helped the Fire Tribe expand its fields, livestock, tools, and defenses, while Jianshi organized its teams and prepared for more refugees.
• Xueya led the Wolf Tribe toward the Pottery Salt Tribe, but Jia Li gathered allied warriors and defeated the Wolf Tribe in Wolf Fang Valley.
• Xueya raided Little Stone Creek and other settlements, then extorted food and animals from the Bison Tribe and the White Pig Tribe as survivors fled toward the Fire Tribe.
• Jianshi prepared an ambush at Wild Boar Gully, defeated Xueya in a duel, and led the Fire Tribe to break the Wolf Tribe’s formation and kill dozens of its warriors.
• Jianshi welcomed survivors and refugees into the Fire Tribe and ordered their settlement and training alongside continued construction and military preparations.
• Jia Li visited the Fire Tribe, learned of its victory over the Wolf Tribe, and discussed expanding trade with Jianshi and Wang Yan.
• Wang Yan offered pottery in exchange for fifty horses and twenty trained dogs, and Jia Li agreed to arrange the animals as the two tribes sealed the deal.