Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 272 White Tiger Festival
The Princess of the White Tiger is what the Wuxi Barbarian Princess is called among the Wuxi people.
Originally, every ten years, through a specific process, a dozen of the largest tribes in the Five Rivers would compete for the stationing of the three White Tiger Princesses.
A year ago, the three White Tiger Princesses were scattered among three tribes, and no one dared to violate this rule, otherwise the subordinate tribes would surely unite with the other two in minutes - although the tribe with the White Tiger Princess could become stronger more quickly and the advantage of consecutive victories was obvious, the other tribes that were qualified to challenge him at least had a dream.
However, now that the three White Tiger Princesses have been taken away by Mohuken, no one knows whether he will still start the White Tiger Festival according to the rules.
Moreover, other tribes were unwilling to offend him. After all, only the White Tiger Tribe could hold the coming-of-age ceremony for awakened barbarians. Even such an arrogant thing as changing the tribe's name to "White Tiger" was tolerated by everyone for the time being.
"Jingfu means that the White Tiger Festival should be held in advance?" asked Qu Shuai, who had a fox face.
Normally, the White Tiger Festival should be held next year...
"Yes, in the history of our White Tiger people, the White Tiger Festival has been advanced or postponed many times, right? Now that Yangyue and the Han people are invading, it is a critical moment... You have no objection to the White Tiger Festival being advanced, right?" Mohuken said in a strange tone.
The other generals naturally shook their heads - they just started a war with the Yangyue who entered the Wuling Mountains. Before, they just didn't want to be scapegoats for Mohuken, but now... for the White Tiger Festival, the death and injury of some tribesmen are worth it!
As for whether Mohuken will break the contract?
The generals are not worried about this, because...
"The Han Chinese have a saying that 'speed is of the essence in war'. Now that we have decided to go to war, we must not delay... Could you please ask the White Tiger Princesses to start the White Tiger Festival now?" said Qu Shuai, who had a fox face.
That’s right, the rules of the White Tiger Festival are naturally bound by Princess White Tiger.
Mohuken defeated the other two tribes a year ago and can inherit their White Tiger Princess before the next White Tiger Festival, which does not break the rules.
Among the Wuxi barbarians, it is a matter of survival of the fittest. They had the White Tiger Princess but were still defeated, so they deserved to be plundered.
To start the White Tiger Festival, the three White Tiger Princesses must work together, and Mohuken also has the right to delay...
However, if the White Tiger Festival is to be launched, the rules must be supported by the vast majority of powerful tribes - if Mohuken makes a rule that is beneficial to himself, no one will agree.
At the same time, once the White Tiger Festival officially begins, the White Tiger Princesses will naturally choose their base for the next ten years according to the rules, and even Mohuken cannot stop this!
"Okay, why don't we ask the White Tiger Princesses to read out the rules after dinner." Mo Huken said calmly, not looking forced at all.
As for before the meal, Mohuken deliberately left for a while. Although he did not say it explicitly, the other generals could guess that he must have gone to find out about the previous "bad news".
At the same time, the other generals were also very wary of Mohuken's departure. They found various excuses to come out of the tent to "get some fresh air" - in fact, they were afraid that after Mohuken left, he would send people to shoot them to death in the tent with arrows.
Later, when they were having meals, the leaders of each tribe were also very careful. They dug out the roasted animal hearts to eat, and drank only from their own and their followers' water bags.
The Wuxi barbarians believed that the heart had the function of detoxifying, and even a heart that had been poisoned could be eaten.
At this time, it was time for Shamoke to perform his unique skill of "Daily Meal with a Pig"...
The amount of food a barbarian general eats is directly linked to his strength, and Shamoke... relies on the fact that this is the period of growth, and if he eats as much as he wants, he can eat a whole wild boar in one meal by himself. Of course, he won't be able to eat anything else for the rest of the day.
Shamoke was disgusted by this kind of "performance" in his heart, but it was a necessary part arranged by Mohuken to show his strength. Even if Shamoke was cursing in his heart, he still had to eat with a smile on his face.
Seeing that Shamoke had eaten a wild boar, the leaders of other tribes were also shocked as usual.
For the Barbarian General system, appetite also represents strength.
Of course, Shamoke’s ability to eat a wild boar is also related to his age. After all, for normal people, the ones with the biggest appetite are not adults, but teenagers!
However, only Shamoke himself knew that this was still the result of not eating to his heart’s content, otherwise... now he could already "eat a whole cow a day" - this was also the appetite of a barbarian general in the legendary totem possession realm.
Shamoke is now relying on the advantage of his growth period, so he can eat this level of food. If his strength remains the same, Shamoke's food intake will even gradually decrease in the next few years. Therefore, part of his food intake at this time is for his body growth... even though he is now nearly two meters tall!
It would take at least a few more years to truly reach the state of totem possession, so Shamoke had to endure it.
What surprised the leaders of various tribes was that the insidious Mohuken did not have any intention of playing any tricks afterwards and really started a new round of White Tiger Festival.
The three White Tiger Princesses swore an oath together for a period of three months, after which they would move in to kill the three tribes with the largest number of Yue people - the leaders of other tribes also supported this.
Mo Huken was so "frank" that the leaders of the various tribes were surprised, but even a little uneasy...
But Shamoke knew why Mohuken did this .
Originally, Mohuken had not yet made up his mind whether to do this without reservation until before the meal, when he learned about Luduke's death in battle.
Unlike what Mohuken had imagined at first, the ones who attacked Luduko were not the Yue people, but more like... the Han army!
After all, from the survivors, Mohuken learned that the weapons used by the other side and their style of cooperation in battle were closer to those of the Han army.
Although after a chaotic battle, strangely no one heard anyone on the other side talking, and it was impossible to judge from the language, but... in the chaos of the battle, the "willow leaf sword" of the White Tiger warrior was even cut off by the opponent's weapon in close combat, which shows that it is almost certain that it was the Han army - Mohuken did not believe that the Han people would give such a sharp weapon to Yang Yue!
In this way, while proving the ferocity of the Han army coming from the east, it also proved that Wang Kong was not plotting against him.
Because of Shamoke's personality and his position as a "bodyguard", Mohuken did not avoid him when he learned about these things.
Shamoke understood that Mohuken would definitely demand compensation from Wangkong, but as long as the secret alliance with Wangkong was still there, it would be easy to kill the Shanyue people. He could even use Wangkong to eliminate Mohuken's enemies among the Wuxi people.
It was precisely because of this confidence in victory that Mohuken did not do anything - the current rules were already sufficiently favorable to him.
As long as he could achieve a battle record three times that of the second-place tribe, Mohuken could nominally divide the White Tiger Tribe into three parts and welcome back the three White Tiger Princesses. Moreover, this time, he could legitimately serve the three White Tiger Princesses for ten years. As for ten years later... In Mohuken's heart, he had already unified the Five Rivers and even the "South".
Han army?
Although the Han army is strong, just let them go to the four counties in southern Jing!
Before that, they could use the excuse that "the enemy is fierce and our troops have suffered heavy losses" to extort a batch of supplies from the four counties in southern Jing...
