The Metaverse World
Pangkah Tribe
For six buildings, it does not need to be taken care of. Tea gardens do not require any architectural blueprints but only open fields and wild tea trees, like the earlier mulberry gardens. The rest were Sala Resi, inns, restaurants, and jewelry stores, their blueprints obtained from the Rainy Season Attack operation a few days ago, the report said, so it can save 400 gold Heru Cokro to spend on the blueprint. While pawnshops have been automatically created by the system.
The restaurant was nothing to talk about, Heru Cokro had long promised to hand it over to Renata. The inn and the jewelry store are also simple, there are already related talents on standby, the building can be built at any time.
While Sala Resi was the only problem, it required at least a sage to take the lead.
In the previous life, most of the rulers took a simpler path, in the work of the player, there were rishis, therefore, the ruler would assign a sage player to lead.
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At 10 am, the residence of the ruler, the village office.
“Your Highness, after a month-long investigation, the Military Intelligence Division has gathered enough information about nomadic tribes and also barongs, I am specifically here to report the details.” It was an ordinary looking middle-aged man with a persistent face, he was one of the directors, Latif.
Since the last expansion of the Military Intelligence Division, in addition to ten staff, 40 people have been divided into two groups, Team One and Team Two. Latansa holds the leadership position of Team One while the other team is led by Latif.
Heru Cokro's heart skipped a beat, "Tell me, how is the situation."
“Nomadic tribes formed with one large tribe as the core and dozens of medium-small sized tribes around it. The large tribe called the Pangkah Tribe which consists of 3,000 men, is located in the middle of the valley and has the best pasture. In the middle of the basin was an inland lake, they called it Lake Banyuwangi, the tribal imperial palace standing right beside the lake. Other small tribes range from hundreds to thousands of tribal men, scattered around the valley.” Latif.
“The closest to us?” Heru Cokro asked.
“The closest to us there are three, it is to our west, middle and east. In the west and east were both small tribes of less than a thousand people. The one in the middle is a stronger tribe, a medium-sized tribe with over 3,000 men.” tribe
"What is their relationship?"
“The middle-small tribe often fought each other, it happened because of their competition for the meadow, the Step Tribe then intervened and stopped the war. The interesting thing is, the Pangkah Tribe, with the ultimate goal of maintaining its throne, will secretly suppress the middle tribes and support the small tribes. As a result, there was no second tribe with more than ten thousand people. Long-term repression led to dissatisfaction between the middle tribes against the Pangkah Tribe. However, given the vastly different differences in strength, they could only withstand the suppression. Therefore, small tribes usually side with the Pangkah Tribe while medium-sized tribes form their own alliances.” Latif answered.
"Not so good. Barongs are usually controlled by nomadic tribes, it is difficult to find other wild barong groups. There are only two ways we can get those barongs, by imposing war or by trading.” Latif replied bitterly.
"If we trade, will it work?" Heru Cokro asked uncertainly.
“The tribes lack iron, and even more so if it is an everyday resource like salt and tea leaves, then in theory we can trade with them. Of course, if our fists are strong enough to defend themselves. They are nomadic tribes, natural predators, they are aggressive, items that can be looted, they will not trade.” A month's work was not in vain, Latif had gained a strong understanding of the situation of the nomadic tribes.
Heru Cokro tapped his finger on the table and remained silent. According to his plan, after upgrading to the advanced village, the last vassal region would be established on the border between the Bengawan Solo River and Kebonagung river, it would act as a bridge for them to conquer the basin. But with the intelligence Latif gathered, building a vassal territory there would risk being plundered by nomadic tribes.
It was constantly bothering him, that if he were to set up Krewaja's heavily armored cavalry unit, the system that ordinary warhorses gave off could not even withstand the armored loads, either, only a war horse of his upper level could do so. Without the bridge, he would not feel comfortable to send his troops across the river. If they were discovered by nomadic tribes, they could not even retreat in time.
Taking a step back, if the end of the bridge was not erected, it would also be dangerous if they started a trade deal on behalf of Jawa Dwipa. It would only make Java Dwipa consumed by hungry nomadic wolves. As Latif said, the nomadic tribes were aggressive, they would not spend a single coin on items they could snatch. Heru Cokro was placed in a situation of confusion.
Since he could not make his own decisions, he then decided to listen to the opinions of others. Heru Cokro asked Latif to be patient as he called the officers to call the other four directors.
20 Minutes later, four directors came to change. Heru Cokro instructed Latif to brief the directors and he informed his plans and thoughts, then asked: "What do you think?"
“Kakak, in my opinion, at a time like this, we should stop the barong plan. Since the Krewaja armor was not produced at high speed, it would take time to fully equip the cavalry. The most important issue now was to upgrade to the advanced village. It is still not too late to return to this issue back then.” Fatimah who expressed her opinion stood from the point of view of the Financial Bureau.
Kawis Guwa continued after, “I agree with Director Fatimah. The nomadic tribes are all warriors, with the military power we have now, we are not yet strong enough. The best solution now is to stay still and prepare yourself.”
Seeing the two directors agree with each other to stop the plan on the barong, the military representative director Raden Said could not sit still anymore, just as he was about to stand up, the military representative director Raden Said could not sit still anymore, Witana Sideng Rana who was beside him suddenly got up and said loudly: "Paduka, I have a different opinion!"
"Please talk!" To be honest, Heru Cokro also did not want to stop the barong plan. Building heavy cavalry can not only increase military strength, but it is also useful in major events later on. When he heard Witana Sideng Rana giving a different opinion, he was very excited. An emotionless director, he is usually not a talkative person, but once he opens his mouth, there must be context in it.