Chapter 590 - A miraculous sign (1/2)

The tribal chief was puzzled. “Didn’t you come here because of…”

“Oh,” Yan Liuyuan smiled and explained, “Your tribe is too small. What I’m aiming for is control over the entire plains.”

As for why he wanted to control the entire plains, no one really knew.

At the beginning, the tribe members all avoided Yan Liuyuan and Li Xiaoyu in the fear they would offend them.

Everyone’s reverence for Yan Liuyuan was more out of fear than respect.

But everyone slowly realized that aside from the young Yan Liuyuan, the woman named Li Xiaoyu who was with him was a really good person. When the weather cleared, she would also help everyone with their farm work and even joined everyone to collect cowpies to dry for keeping warm. Xiaoyu did not mind that cowpies were dirty. She would even sing children’s songs to the kids. Her voice was sonorous and pleasant to listen to.

In Yan Liuyuan’s opinion, the cultural gap of the nomadic people in the north was far greater than what the Central Plains people could imagine. There wasn’t even the most basic of electrical power in this region, and the various tribes had to go through a lot of hardship to redomesticate livestock before settling back into a nomadic lifestyle.

The tribe Yan Liuyuan encountered did not even have a name. It was just naturally formed after a group of herders started living in groups for some generations.

However, Yan Liuyuan had heard there were also very large tribes in the grasslands. It was precisely these large tribes that Stronghold 176 was guarding against.

According to what Hassan said, their tribe was actually also part of a larger tribe. It was just that they did not usually interact with their people. However, the ruling tribe would come every spring to collect a tribute of cows, goats, and horses from them.

If they had to fight a war with the Central Plains, the large tribes would send someone over to inform them beforehand and request they gather at a designated location. Some of the guns their tribe had were given by those larger tribes, and the weapons were very old and worn. It seemed that they were stolen from the Central Plains people in the past.

Hassan looked at Yan Liuyuan and said cautiously, “When it’s spring, and they send someone over…”

“It’s alright.” Yan Liuyuan smiled and said, “I’ll handle it.”

When Yan Liuyuan first became the ruler of this tribe, the herdsmen in the tribe had been quite worried. They were worried Yan Liuyuan might be overly brutal since he was someone who had a pack of wolves following him. Just based on that, it would seem that he was extremely vicious.

Moreover, there weren’t enough cows, goats, and horses in the tribe to feed such a large number of wolves. What if this young man let the wolves devour all their livestock?

But in the end, after Yan Liuyuan took over the tribe, he dismissed the wolves and let them venture out to hunt for their own food freely. There were a lot of food sources out in the steppe, so there was no need for the wolves to eat the livestock of these herdsmen.

When some of the herdsmen saw that Yan Liuyuan had dispersed the wolves, they started thinking, ‘Could this be the moment that Yan Liuyuan is at his most vulnerable? If we kill him right now, we won’t have to pander to him anymore.’

But the tribal chief, Hassan, was more rational. “If we kill him, what if the wolves return to avenge him? Moreover, if a person can dismiss the wolves just like that, it shows that he’s very confident in himself. This means he doesn’t even see us as a threat.”

The others finally gave up on the idea to assassinate Yan Liuyuan.

After a week, when Hassan ran off to report some matters to Yan Liuyuan, Yan Liuyuan looked at Hassan with a half-smile and said, “You’re a smart man.”

Hassan immediately understood what Yan Liuyuan was referring to. As a result, Hassan became even more humble in Yan Liuyuan’s presence.