Chapter 294: Celisis

Budokaribas looked at him for a moment, and his frown slowly relaxed: "In this case, I am also willing to lead my people to settle in the Sava River, but I want to ask whether we can choose the territory ourselves?"

Maximus replied seriously: "Didn't I just say that I will give you fertile land and guarantee the safety of your tribe? Why are you still not satisfied?!"

Budokaribas saw that Maximus was dissatisfied, and he was a little panicked. He quickly explained: "We are not dissatisfied, we just want to know how much land we can get?"

Maximus looked around and saw that they were all looking at him nervously, so he emphasized his tone and said word by word: "I can To ensure that each of your tribesmen can have 20 acres of fertile land!"

Most of the Ardi leaders were happy, but some were dissatisfied: "Only 20 acres of land? At least everyone in your tribe has 50 acres!"

Maximus's eyes suddenly became sharp: "We Nix tribesmen can get 50 acres of land, which is what they exchanged for with blood and hard work. The Nix tribe was established because of them! What contributions have your tribesmen made to Nix, and you want to get 50 acres of land! 20 acres of land is not enough, did you each have 3 acres of good land before!"

The man was speechless after hearing this, and the others stared at him, feeling extremely dissatisfied with him for not knowing the importance of the matter and angering the Nix leader.

"We are already grateful that Chief Maximus was able to fulfill the agreement in such a short time and distribute land to our tribe. How can we ask for more!" Budokaribas quickly spoke to smooth things over.

"Yes, yes, Chief Maximus is really a great benefactor of our tribe!..." Others also spoke one after another to express their gratitude, and the atmosphere suddenly eased.

Maximus then eased his tone and said: "Since you all agree with my suggestion, then report the population and number of households of your tribe to Pigris. After our tribe has completely occupied the land here and the situation has stabilized, I will divide the land belonging to your tribe according to the situation of your tribe, and then let Pigris notify you, and you can bring your tribesmen to settle here..."

"Thank you, Chief Maximus!!!"

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After the attendants sent away Budokaribas, Cicelytes and others, Pigris presented Maximus with the population list of the Ardi tribe that had just moved to the Sava River.

Maximus looked through the documents carefully and sighed, "There are 23 Ardei tribes that are planning to move here, but there are less than 4,000 households and a total of only 14,000 people. No wonder they are discriminated against in the entire Ardei tribe. This population is far less than the population of the two Segestica villages we first captured!"

Pigris explained, "I just asked Budokaribas and the others, and they told me that before the Segestica invaded, the population of their tribes exceeded 40,000. However, due to war, injuries, hunger, and a small number of tribesmen who had to survive, they had to move to other places. If they don't join other Ardi tribes... there will only be these few people left in the end.

If it weren't for this, they probably wouldn't agree to your request, leader, to leave their familiar homes and settle in the land that was once their enemy. Leader, I think it's a good thing that they have fewer people, at least we don't have to pay a lot of land. "

"Pigris, as the business officer of the tribe, it is your duty to be meticulous when negotiating with other ethnic forces, but when thinking about problems, you must have a long-term vision and a broad mind..." Maximus taught him earnestly: "We don't lack land now, what we lack is population. At this stage, these Ardi tribes are not short of land, but population. The people of the Ardi tribe are more reliable than the Segestica people who were forced to join us. Their joining will strengthen our strength and allow us to occupy more land in a short period of time, thus accelerating the stabilization of the situation here.

In addition, if the tribes of Budokaribas and others live well here, will it have an impact on other Ardi tribes? For example, the tribes in Karsipenpas.

Besides, the land we fought hard for was not given to these Ardi tribes for free. The land allocated to them is all in our territory. Their people feel the strength and unique system of our tribe day and night. You Say, will they have other ideas? "

Maximus' words made Pigris fall into thought, and then he sighed sincerely: "Chief, they all say that I am smart and calculating, but I think I am far behind you!"

Maximus laughed and said, "If you want to make the tribe strong, how can you not be smart?"

Pigris then asked softly: "Chief, do you really think that the chief of Ardi, Aristakas, will not be angry about these tribes moving here?"

Maximus said meaningfully: "Maybe it would be better for him to be angry."

Pigris was stunned at first, and then nodded thoughtfully.

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Selises' experience can be considered rough.

He was born into an ordinary Segestica family, and his tribe was not far from the western fortress of Segestica. When he was young, the chief of Segestica, in order to please the Scodisci, collected a group of young men and women from the tribe to serve the Scodisci nobles in Savatoi (the name of the main fortress of Segestica during the Scodisci rule), and he was one of them.

He was lucky and was assigned to the home of a relatively kind Scodisci noble. Because of his clever mind and hard work, he was praised and rewarded by his master many times. After a few years, he became the master's confidant slave. After adulthood, he followed his master to suppress the riots of his compatriots.

In the war between the Scodisci and the Romans, he witnessed the great defeat of the Scodisci with his own eyes, and went through hardships to bring the seriously injured master back home, but the master died soon. Not only did he not get a reward, but he was beaten and imprisoned on the charge of "failing to protect the master".

Just when he thought his life was in danger, the Segestica people launched a war against the Skodishchi people. Taking advantage of the chaos in the city, he managed to escape and joined the resistance army led by the chief of Segestica. In the subsequent battles, he performed bravely and made many military achievements, but because of his previous misdeeds of "helping the tyrant to do evil", he was never reused.

Although he was resentful, he always performed his duties. From breaking through Savatoi and completely overthrowing the rule of the Skodishchi people, to chasing and suppressing the remaining forces of the Skodishchi everywhere to prevent them from resurrecting, he never stopped fighting for three or four years. He returned to his tribe with injuries until the remaining bandits were basically eliminated and the Sava River Plain was basically restored to peace.

Although he was still an ordinary tribesman at this time, he had proved himself, washed away his misdeeds, became a warrior in the tribe, and was respected by the tribesmen, so he married and had children and lived a happy life for ten years.

After Andres succeeded as the chief, he broke the peace of the entire tribe. The ambitious chieftain soon launched a war against the Ardi people. Selisis was not recruited by the tribe because of his old age.

However, the war still affected his life. The grain they handed over to the tribal chieftain was much more than in previous years, and occasionally they would collect it temporarily, which the tribesmen complained about.

In addition, Andres broke the tradition that the chieftain should not interfere in the internal affairs of each tribe, and issued a decree that "the tribesmen who participated in the war can voluntarily join the newly established tribe and obtain the fertile land of the Kupa River." Because of his strength, the tribal leaders and nobles did not dare to object. Therefore, Selisis found that many young people in the tribe never returned after being recruited, and the entire tribe became more and more deserted...

Although life changed a lot and life became worse and worse, the continuous good news of victory gave Selisis the motivation to continue to hold on. After all, he hoped to see the tribe become stronger.

Seeing that the tribe had occupied the land along the Kupa River and drove the Ardi people to more remote places, Selisis thought that the hard days would soon be over.

Unexpectedly, the Ardi people invited a group of foreign mercenaries last year, and then misfortune befell the Segestica tribe.

First, they captured two villages, and then Andres summoned a large army to fight against them, but suffered a disastrous defeat. The tribesmen who participated in the war were either captured or killed in battle. Not many people could escape back. Almost every family in the tribe where Selisis lived cried, and he himself felt sympathetic.

But soon he could not worry about others, because Andres formed an army to fight against the enemy again. Because too many young and middle-aged tribesmen were lost, the scope of conscription had to be expanded. He was once a warrior in the tribe, even though he was a little older, he was inevitably included in the team.

At this time, he was used to an ordinary life, and with old injuries, he had long lost the fierceness of charging into battle.

Besides, this time they were attacking the enemy's camp. Selisses had experienced many battles, but this was the first time he had seen such a complex and heavily defended camp. He felt timid before the battle even started. With his previous war experience, he avoided danger during the attack, but he was still slightly injured in the end, and thus avoided the brutal attack on the camp in the next few days.

Later, the army finally captured the outer perimeter of the camp, but was attacked by the enemy again.