At the highest point was the king's palace. It was indeed a place where one could overlook the whole city.
"I heard that a lot of slaves died in order to build that high place." Someone sighed.
This was the difference between a tribe and a slave owner.
In the tribe, few people would deliberately build such a place. At most, they would build the house on a high place, such as a tree or a mountain, and would not spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build a high palace.
"Let's go, we can rest in the city tonight." Huang Ye said.
Other people rarely raised their spirits, and they were very curious about the city where the slave owners lived.
Around Luoye City, the walls were built with sand, with an average height of about ten meters, which looked very old.
There were some people around the walls, these were all slaves. In the territory of the slave owners, slaves accounted for the majority.
The dark-skinned and cracked slaves looked at the people coming over, holding sharpened spears in their hands, and shouted something loudly.
Shao Xuan didn't understand their words, but someone in the team understood. He replied and then threw a palm-sized thing over. That should be some kind of proof.
Sure enough, after seeing that thing, the slaves guarding the gate stepped aside, and the huge wooden door opened with a click.
Shao Xuan and the other two followed the team in. As for Chacha, it followed the two eagles of the Hui tribe. It was not their first time here, so they knew where to go.
In the city, some sand houses could be seen everywhere, and they were densely packed. Those were not big and irregular in shape. They were more like "nests" than houses, which looked like they would collapse at any time. This was where the lowly slaves lived.
As they continued to walk forward, they could see some bigger houses made of stone.
In the corner of Luoye City, there was a place where there were not many slave activities, and the people who lived there were mostly tribesmen.
Shao Xuan, like others, thought that there was an absolute contradiction between the tribes and the slave owners before coming here, but this was not the case. Tribes would show different attitudes towards different slave owners, and the king of Luoye City was like a cooperative relationship with the tribes. There were some places that resembled embassies here.
Other than the people in the team, there were also some tribesmen stationed here. They had probably lived here for a long time, so their skin was a lot darker. If you ignored their tribal clothing, they didn't look much different from the people in the city.
The other tribes had special resting places in Luoye City, but the Yanjiao trio, who came here for the first time, were in an awkward situation.
Because there was no special "embassy", the three of them could only be arranged to stay in some small sand huts. These huts were previously used to store sundries, but they were temporarily vacated for the three of them. When they entered the huts, they could smell a rotten smell.
In the eyes of the others, the three people from the Yanjiao tribe were just there to go through the motions. They wouldn't be informed of any plans or activities.
Shao Xuan and the other two were already aware of this feeling of rejection. However, they didn't know how long they would have to stay in such a place. The three of them were unhappy.
Ray pushed the stone wall beside him and said contemptuously, "Not strong enough."
"Let's stay here for the night first. Tomorrow, we'll look for stones to build a house." Shao Xuan said. Since they knew that the tribes could have a station here, the Yanjiao tribe certainly had to build one here. Even if it wasn't for the three of them, they had to provide benefits for the Yanjiao people who came later. They didn't want to live in such a broken house when they came.
Although the house was bad, it was much better than sleeping in the desert a few days ago. The three of them rested in the house for a night, and when they woke up the next day, their spirits were much better.
The camel was tied outside the house by Shao Xuan. In the morning, Shao Xuan fed it some water. The surrounding grass had been eaten by it, so Shao Xuan would have to find something for it to eat.
Tuo looked at the luggage and camel in the house and took the time to ask the other tribes. It was best to know where there were more stones near Luoye City. Ray followed Shao Xuan and went to other places in Luoye City to see, at least to know the general situation in the city.
Leaving the place where the tribes lived, Shao Xuan found that in Luoye City, many people did not wear animal skins, but mostly linen. The temperature was high during the day, so many people simply wrapped a few pieces of linen.
Shao Xuan and the other two were told that in Luoye City, it was best to avoid the slave owners. In a city, there was more than one slave owner, but there was only one big slave owner, and that was the king. Other slave owners did not have many slaves under their hands, but in the city, their status was higher than the slaves. No matter how high it was, it could not be higher than the king of the city.
There were also trading places here, but Shao Xuan found that the language and writing here was another set. It was not the same as the tribal language and was more complicated.
Shao Xuan intended to use the shell coins in his hand to buy some food. When he could not find prey, he would temporarily eat food.
Here, shell coins and many other popular trading items in the tribes could be used here, but they were seriously devalued. After all, in the slave owner's place, as long as the slave owner lived well, the requirements of the slaves did not matter.
The slave owners of Luoye City liked beautiful cloth and jade, and naturally, cloth and jade were expensive. Perhaps this was the main reason why the Mang tribe and the Eight Limbs tribe had the best living conditions here. Among all the tribal "embassies", the two "embassies" were the largest.
In the place where food was sold, the people in charge were also slaves. The slaves engaged in this kind of work did not seem to be aggressive, and they also understood the tribal language. It was just that when Shao Xuan took out the shell coins, their eyes were contemptuous, and they said a few words in a language that Shao Xuan did not understand. It was not a good thing to look at, and Ray was so angry that he almost hit him.
You said that you are a slave, what qualifications do you have to look down on people?
However, in the territory of the slave owners, these slaves could really throw the tribe's face. After all, this was the place of the slave owners. For the slaves, here, the slave owners were the first, and the slaves were the second, and the tribe's people were ranked behind the two.
After buying food, Shao Xuan did not walk a few steps, and he heard a noise not far away.
"What is that?" Ray looked over there and asked.
"Slave owners."
Over there, four dark and strong slaves were carrying a simple wooden sedan. The sedan was not closed around it, and there was no roof on top. Instead, it was covered with a piece of cloth of different colors. When the wind blew, the cloth swayed, and the people sitting inside could be seen through the gaps of the cloth.
The person being carried was a woman, and her specific age could not be seen. Anyway, she was not young. Her face was painted with various colors of paint, and the original appearance could not be seen.
The people carrying the sedan stopped all the way, and sometimes they stopped at the place where wine was sold. The person on the sedan directly reached out her hand, and someone would hold a colored pottery cup with fruit wine and offer it. From time to time, someone would hand over a fruit, a piece of barbecue, or a stone bracelet. The person on the sedan did not need to pay anything in exchange. All she needed to do was to reach out her hand.
This was the absolute class.
"The life of the slave owners is really good." Ray said with emotion.
Remembering the warnings of the other people in the team, Shao Xuan saw the person being carried coming over here, and quickly left with Ray. In the territory of the slave owners, they could not reason with them. Right and wrong were defined by them.
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