I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

Hatu looked at Jiang Yuan with his mouth open. After a long pause, he finally said, "Sir, I understand what you said."

"The key is that in this situation, there's absolutely no chance of winning. If we insist on going in, we'll end up being raped..."

"Shut up!"

Before Hatu could finish his words, Jiang Yuan hurriedly stopped him loudly, then let out a long sigh of relief.

"Some things cannot be said, understand?" Jiang Yuan said, then pulled Hatu's neck down and waved for Zhao Kai and others to come over.

"Listen to me, let's do this..."

After a while, Zhao Kai looked at Jiang Yuan in disbelief. "Sir, is this really possible? Do you think all the barbarians are fools?"

Hatu's face darkened immediately. "Sir, if this method of yours is exposed in the future, wouldn't it make the barbarians lose their faith in the totem?"

"Stupid!" Jiang Yuan slammed Hatu's head without any hesitation.

"As long as you don't say anything and I don't say anything, how can it be exposed?"

"Besides, if our method works, do you know what it means?"

Seeing the fanaticism in Jiang Yuan's eyes, Hatu couldn't help but shrink his neck and muttered, "I don't know, but I know that if this is discovered, the barbarians will look down on me in the future."

Jiang Yuan puffed out his chest and looked at Hatu with a smile: "Young man, let me ask you, how many people are there in your barbarian tribe?"

Hatu shook his head. "Who knows? We barbarians are not like you who can live in a city for a long time. The tribes, big and small, are all scattered. It's impossible to count them."

"How many are there?" Jiang Yuan said unhappily.

Hatu thought about it carefully before speaking: "Our barbarian tribe has been unified twice in history."

"According to those two statistics, our barbarian tribe's population at its peak was less than 10 million."

Jiang Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up. Ten million people!

This is still a barbarian tribe, what does this mean?

Don’t be fooled by the fact that Daduan has a large population, which totals nearly 50 million people, but this is different.

Daduan has a population of more than 40 million. Excluding most of the elderly, the weak, women and children, it would be good if there were 10 million young and middle-aged people.

And these young and middle-aged people are further divided into some who can farm, study, and do business. How many of them can still go to the battlefield?

According to the intelligence Jiang Yuan currently has, the entire Daduan has only a few hundred thousand soldiers and horses.

As for the barbarians, after years of fighting on the grasslands, every young and middle-aged man is basically combat-ready as soon as he gets on a horse.

With a population of nearly ten million, they can definitely muster a million cavalrymen.

My goodness! If I had a million cavalrymen, what in this world could stop me?

"Nearly ten million, how much is that?" Jiang Yuan looked at Hatu expectantly.

Hatu counted his fingers seriously and said, "Well, if we ignore the exaggeration we barbarians always like to do, it should be at least two or three million."

The expression on Jiang Yuan's face froze a little. One or two million, ten million.

Is this exaggeration?

This is clearly just bragging to the sky!

"Alright, then let me ask you again, how many of your barbarians die every year from the fighting between the various tribes?"

Facing Jiang Yuan's soul-searching questioning, Hatu opened his mouth.

"How can I possibly calculate this?"

Jiang Yuan nodded, his expression noticing nothing I had expected. "It's okay if you don't know. If there aren't hundreds of thousands of people every year, there must be tens of thousands, right?"

Hatu's expression was somewhat gloomy. Because of the internal strife among the barbarians, many of their men died at the hands of their compatriots every year.

Even his second brother died, and his eldest brother's fate was unknown.

"Look, if my plan succeeds, then can we subdue many barbarians without bloodshed?"

"When the time comes, bring them all to Taiping County, Hatu. Without saying anything else, how did I, your master, treat you?" Jiang Yuan asked with his eyes wide open.

Hatu couldn't help but shrink his neck and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "My Lord, you have nothing to say to me."

"Well, then you fellow barbarians will have a place to stay. There won't be any need for daily swordplay and bloodshed over a patch of grass. Don't you want such a good thing?"

"Aren't you too selfish?" Jiang Yuan asked loudly.

Hatu's expression was still extremely hesitant: "But, sir, this is still a scam."

"Wrong!" Jiang Yuan shouted loudly, looking towards the distant valley with a serious expression.

"How can this be considered a scam? You must always remember that what we are doing now is for the benefit of the entire barbarian tribe!"

"Every word we say and every action we take will be recorded in the history of your barbarian people!"

"Do you hope that by then you will be remembered in the history of the barbarians as someone who was indecisive and nearly ruined your century-long plan, becoming a sinner nailed to the pillar of shame and cursed by everyone every day?"

Jiang Yuan's words made Hatu confused, and he shook his head quickly.

"No, no, no! I absolutely won't. My Lord, I will just cooperate with you. Please stop talking."

Jiang Yuan patted Hatu's shoulder with satisfaction: "You must remember that everything we do in the future will be great and will benefit all mankind."

"Our journey is to the vast stars and the great rejuvenation of mankind!"

After saying this, Jiang Yuan waved his hand and drove the rest of the people away.

"Hurry up and get ready. Remember, don't mess it up. You only have one chance!"

"Don't worry, sir!"

After everyone responded, Jiang Yuan rubbed his face and said, "Hatu, do you barbarian totems have any that can control lightning or fire at the same time?"

Hatu looked at Jiang Yuan speechlessly.

"Sir, don't you know the story of our totems? Only the top totems can control thunder and lightning, or fire."

"Most totems are very powerful, but far from transcending the mundane. There are some that can control lightning, such as the legendary Azure Dragon."

"And as far as I know, the Qinglong tribe has a population of 100,000. If they knew you were defrauding people under the guise of their totem, the consequences would be unpredictable."

Jiang Yuan blinked and spoke again: "What about the flame?"

Hatu pondered for a moment and nodded, "This is quite reliable. There are many totems that can control fire, such as the Fire Dragon, Phoenix, Golden Crow, Vermillion Bird, Fire Kirin, etc."

Jiang Yuan shook his head dissatisfiedly: "No, that's too much. Let's just stick with the thunder and lightning. After all, this thing has enough deterrent power!"

"As for that Azure Dragon Tribe, never mind them. I'll have a plan for them when they arrive!"

After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, he asked Hatu to lead the large army straight to the exit of the valley.

"Okay, let's start." Jiang Yuan said calmly.

"Ah!" Hatu first shouted towards the valley, and then shouted with full energy.

"Listen up, tribesmen inside! The totem of the Shenlong tribe has appeared today, why don't you come out and surrender?"