Recaps

Yan expanded the Fire Tribe’s fields, fleet, and northern outpost while exploring upstream and arranging trade. Xueya then built a growing force by raiding and coercing small tribes, drawing the neighboring powers toward a wider conflict as Yan sheltered refugees and Jianshi prepared to march north.

• Yan and Dali explored the upper Fish River, traded with several tribes, and returned with goods and information about the region.
• The Fire Tribe settled three thousand newcomers, expanded its fields, harvested a large rice crop, and improved its boats and farming tools.
• Yan and Dazhuang inspected the Small Gathering Valley Outpost as its defenses, houses, fields, and patrol system took shape.
• Xueya raided and destroyed several small tribes, then forced survivors and neighboring tribes to provide warriors for his growing army.
• As refugees fled Xueya’s campaign, Yan rode out from the Small Gathering Valley Outpost and welcomed roughly six hundred people from five tribes.
• The Pottery Salt, Hundred Crafts, and Fish tribes prepared defenses and debated aid as Xueya’s army threatened the surrounding region.
• A messenger told Yan that Jianshi would lead three hundred elite warriors north and send Dabang and Jijiao with seven hundred more, and Yan ordered scouts to track Xueya.

Jianshi and Yan helped unite the surrounding tribes to defeat Xueya’s main force, then brought thousands of refugees into the Fire Tribe and expanded its settlements and workshops. The arc ended as Yan oversaw a martial tournament meant to test the growing tribe’s warriors.

• Jianshi reinforced the Pottery Salt Tribe and sent Yingmu’s cavalry to help drive off Tujiu’s Wolf Tribe riders.
• Xueya burned the Green Grain Tribe’s camp, defeated Julang’s Fish Tribe army, and began raiding deserted settlements.
• Jianshi gathered the Fire Tribe, Fish Tribe, and other allies, and their forces trapped and defeated Xueya’s main army, though Xueya escaped into the mountains.
• Jianshi welcomed the Green Grain Tribe and Little Leaf Tribe into the Fire Tribe, then agreed to consider taking in refugees from the Fish Tribe.
• Yan organized the migration of thousands of refugees, while Jianshi and Yan planned how to manage the Fire Tribe’s rapid growth and expand its fields and grain stores.
• Yan led trade and recruitment along the Fish River, then established a guarded ore-refining workshop at the Deer Tribe camp.
• Jianshi set priorities for expanding bronze production and outposts, while Yan organized a martial tournament for the Fire Tribe’s warriors.
• The tournament began with Mangu winning the first match, Teng yielding to Yan, and a nimble newcomer from the Stone River area defeating a veteran.

Yan won the Fire Tribe tournament, then secured a major grain agreement with the Valley Tribe and led a recruitment journey that brought about fifteen thousand people to the Fire Tribe. The arc ended with the newcomers settled across former tribal camps and the tribe expanding its fields and preparations for their arrival.

• Yan won the tournament as the Fire Tribe’s first warrior, and Jianshi announced the top ten and a feast for the top hundred.
• Jianshi assigned Jianya to expand the Small Gathering Valley Outpost, and the Fire Tribe celebrated before winter covered the valley in snow.
• Yan led a fleet to the Valley Tribe, negotiated an eight-million-jin grain deal with Daiyue, and returned with the first million jin.
• Yan reported the Tiger Tribe’s influence and the Fire Tribe’s need to grow stronger, so Jianshi set population growth, farming, and military strength as priorities.
• Yan and Dali recruited tribes along the Water, Forest, Stone, Wood, Clear, White, and western tributaries, with roughly fifteen thousand people agreeing to join.
• Jianshi organized boats, supplies, and settlement plans for the newcomers, while Yan prepared the Youth Team to train about fifteen hundred new youths.
• Yan and Dali completed a month-long relay transport operation and returned with the remaining migrants, bringing about fifteen thousand people to the Fire Tribe.
• Jianshi reported that nine thousand newcomers had moved to three former camps and that rice paddies and vegetable fields had expanded across the settlements.

Yan secured a major grain trade with the Valley Tribe, strengthened ties with the Fish Tribe, and watched the Fire Tribe launch its first ten-thousand-jin ship as it prepared for future threats. Meanwhile, Xueya rebuilt the Wolf Tribe through brutal raids and forced submissions, ending with plans to attack three more tribes.

• Yan brought the Fire Tribe’s fleet to the Valley Tribe, negotiated the first 1.5 million jin grain shipment, and secured a promise of twenty million jin for the following year.
• Yan proposed a military alliance to Daiyue, who considered the Tiger Tribe threat but postponed any commitment while protecting the grain trade.
• Yan returned home with the grain, and Jianshi prioritized continued trade, fleet expansion, and preparation against the Tiger Tribe.
• The Fire Tribe launched and successfully tested its first ten-thousand-jin ship, while Jianshi approved plans to build many more large vessels.
• Jianya led a grain fleet downstream, and Canglan supplied Fish Tribe boats and workers in exchange for a continuing transport partnership.
• Facing food shortages, Xueya led Wolf Tribe warriors north, massacred small tribes, and forced hundreds of people into service to rebuild his strength.
• Xueya’s forces destroyed the White Sheep and Black Sheep Tribes, seized grain, livestock, and horses, and recruited newcomers into the Wolf Tribe’s ranks.
• Xueya captured the Charcoal Fire Tribe and forced the Firewood Tribe to submit, then planned attacks on three more tribes.