Chapter 197 The beginning of everything is difficult
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New Wu new atmosphere.
The Ba tribe won a great victory in this witchcraft conference. Not only did they win first place in the hunting competition, they also successfully obtained first blood and successfully regained the long-planned witch inheritance.
The whole tribe was in a frenzy and excitement for several days.
It wasn't until the Uzbek tribe sent a large trading and learning team that the excitement slowly subsided.
Within three days after the Wu tribe arrived, the Hu tribe, Ji tribe, Muya tribe, and Cang tribe also arrived one after another.
The total number of people from the five tribes exceeds 100, which is almost twice the current number of Ba people.
All the tribes that came were led by older tribal leaders, and almost all were young and strong men and women. There was not a single weak person.
They not only brought a large amount of animal skins and various items that could be exchanged, but also a large amount of food and hunting tools.
It was now the end of September, the weather was getting colder day by day, and winter would officially enter in a few days, so they needed to exchange more pottery for the tribe.
But most of them will stay and follow the Ba people to learn various new skills such as retting, spinning, weaving, making bows and arrows, building houses, reclaiming wasteland and farming.
This is the largest exchange and learning event since the formation of the tribal alliance.
Regarding the trading activities, Xu Chen no longer had to participate in person. He assigned the entire responsibility to the kiln factory and a group of women. In order to collect more accurate transaction data, he appointed Ye as the record officer to participate in the entire transaction process and be responsible for recording.
The little female savage cousin was very happy to be able to participate in this important trading activity. She followed a group of people in and out with a pottery board, recording and verifying the quantity and variety of the transactions accurately one by one with a sullen face.
But every time I see Xu Chen, I always have a weird smile.
Because she accidentally learned Xu Chen’s ulterior secret, bed-wetting.
And ever since she got drunk that time, she was embarrassed to talk to Xu Chen alone because she always felt that she had seen through Xu Chen's secret and was afraid of being beaten up by someone in anger.
But recently she has also been frightened.
Because the little witch she had been deliberately targeting in the past turned into a great witch that everyone respected, and became the spokesperson of the gods that all six races obeyed and respected.
She was afraid of being punished by the witch, and recently she didn't dare to run over to declare her sovereignty in jealousy when she saw Xu Chen talking to the little witch like before.
Of course, the little witch turned into a witch, which made her feel relieved.
She heard that witches were not allowed to sleep or mate with men, otherwise it would be blasphemy and would bring terrible disasters to the tribe. As long as this happened, witches would be beaten to death and then sacrifice their bodies to the gods to admit their mistakes.
Pray for God's forgiveness.
Therefore, she believed that the little witch had permanently lost the power to compete with her in the morning.
Even if the two of them seemed to be relatively close together, she would never feel uncomfortable again.
Even in order to show his magnanimity and enthusiasm, he would occasionally deliberately invite Wu to study in Xu Chen's room.
But if she knew that Xu would involuntarily think of **** when he saw the little witch, she might not be so enthusiastic and generous.
After all, she still doesn't know how powerful the temptation of uniforms is.
The story that has to be told between the Pope and the Saint is an eternal topic of human exploration and curiosity.
After a few busy days, some people from the five tribes came to exchange items and then left one after another.
There is still a study team of nearly 80 people left.
There are more than twenty women, all of whom are the most ingenious young women selected by each tribe. They mainly follow Muba and other women to learn to collect hemp skin in the wild, and then retting, rolling, spinning and weaving hemp on the river beach.
Of course, they are also responsible for cooking for the people of their own tribe.
With so many people eating, drinking, and eating, the Ba people, apart from building more shelters in the kiln factory, could only provide them with some pottery as tableware within their ability.
The men were divided into two groups. A group of 20 people learned to bake lime and ceramic bricks from the workers in the kiln. In order to teach them how to burn the kiln completely, Xu Chen also asked the kiln workers to lead these people to excavate and build a new building in the kiln.
The kiln taught them every step of the process from beginning to end.
Of course, they are limited to firing lime and clay bricks, and pottery will not be taught for the time being. As for whether they can understand and evolve the skills of firing pottery on their own, Xu Chen doesn't care.
After all, there is a big difference between firing bricks and firing pottery. Just kneading it into shape is not enough. There are strict requirements and a relatively complicated process for the production of clay and clay, the temperature and heat for firing in the kiln, etc.
Even if Xu Chen had people teach him carefully, it would not be easy for primitive savages who had never been exposed to these things to learn.
Especially medium and large pottery.
Xu Chen believed that without the careful guidance of skilled workers, they would not be able to make it in another three to five years.
The remaining nearly forty men were all arranged to help with tasks such as rolling out mud bricks, picking up stones, digging for walls, cutting down trees, and collecting thatch.
This number is about the same as the number of hired hands left by the five tribes to help change pottery last winter.
Many of them even came here last year, and this time they were treated as experienced experts and arranged to come here for further in-depth study.
With these experienced people leading the team, the preparation and construction tasks of the second phase of the project will be relatively easier.
Xu Chen appointed these experienced people as the leaders of each group, and followed the Ba craftsmen team into several groups to start working in full swing.
Because there are enough people, the second phase of the project planned by Xu Chen has also been expanded a lot, but the yard is much smaller. Instead, the house is designed as a two-entry courtyard. The front yard is connected to the big yard and is mainly used for people. The back yard is mainly used as a warehouse.
and raising chickens and ducks, etc.
So just like last year, in this cold winter season, the Ba people once again launched a large-scale construction project.
Laying out bricks, picking up stones, collecting thatch, digging ditches, building walls, cutting down trees, each of the teams performed their duties and were busy but not in a hurry.
Feng led a group of hunters to continue fishing and hunting, and when they got a lot of meat, they would naturally allocate some of it to these foreigners as a tooth sacrifice to supplement their food.
In his spare time at work, Xu Chen would ask the men from the tribe to teach these foreign men how to make bows and arrows. After dinner every day, he would also group them into groups for foot drills and weapons training.
People from all tribes are broken up and mixed together, and are trained equally. The rules are the same as those of the Ba tribe. There is no deliberate release of water or increased corporal punishment.
The men of the Ba ethnic group have all become accustomed to this kind of strict and high-intensity training. Under their training of leading the new with the old, in just seven or eight days, a group of foreigners already look alike, except that some of them are indistinguishable.
In addition to knowing the left and right, most of them can follow the prescribed basic actions in unison.
For the convenience of management, these foreigners are also divided into two different arms.
The number of archers has been expanded to thirty.
The number of spearmen increased to fifty.
Due to the increase in the number of people, in order to facilitate management, the two troops were divided into groups of ten and set up a team leader.
In order to motivate all the men who participated in the training to be more motivated, Xu Chen not only provided daily training punishments and rewards, but also promised that when he left, he would select those with the hardest training and the highest skills from each tribe and appoint them to military positions.
, not only will you receive the blessing of the great witch, but also an exquisite job medal will be issued.
Of course, this military position is not free. After returning, they need to select strong men from their own tribes to undergo the same training. After the spring, Xu Chen will go to each tribe to personally inspect and inspect. If the training is good, he can be promoted to a higher military position.
, not only will uniform standard armor and better weapons be distributed, but also pottery, linen and other reward items will be distributed every year.
At the moment, a group of foreigners don't know what the military position is for. After all, they can neither eat nor use it. But after hearing that the Ba tribe can distribute such exquisite armor and even pottery and linen, everyone's mood suddenly changed.
became more enthusiastic.
Many of them had seen the unrivaled bravery of the Ba hunters at the witchcraft conference, and they were all very admirable. Therefore, they were very enthusiastic about Xu Chen's request for them to train together, and basically had no resistance at all.
But I didn’t expect that there are various benefits to be gained from participating in training.
Although none of them are from the Ba tribe, the Ba tribe now has a great witch, and the spiritual guidance of surrendering to the great witch is actually a disguised recognition of the Ba tribe's leadership. In addition, they came to the Ba tribe to study, and the tribe's chiefs and leaders also carefully warned them to do so.
Listen to the arrangements of the Ba people, especially the great wizard and Xu Chen, and you must respect them very much.
Although the changes at the witchcraft conference were just for the purpose of competing for the status and identity of the witches, in fact all the tribe leaders and leaders knew very well that the core figure who led this thrilling change was Xu Chen.
The earth-shaking changes of the Ba people were also due to Xu Chen.
Since he can create the luxurious and exquisite God's Horn and the Heritage Scepter, he must have the powerful ability to communicate with the gods.
In fact, everyone secretly believed that Xu Chen was a powerful witch.
It's just that he was unable to gain widespread recognition under the aura of the great witch of the Uzbek tribe.
After the death of the great witch, the two descendants left behind were in conflict. Xu Chen used his powerful divine power to deprive the new witch of his witch seal in one fell swoop, transferred it to the little witch who defected to his tribe, and rebuilt a more powerful inheritance.
Staff, snatch the great witch back to his tribe.
Although I don’t understand why Xu Chen did this.
But this matter has become a fact. The Ba tribe has successfully replaced the Wu tribe as the leader of the alliance, and they are also willing to teach all new knowledge and skills. Apart from being happy and grateful, all tribes will definitely not be dissatisfied.
The only people who are dissatisfied at the moment may be some of the Uzbek people, but definitely not all of them.
As long as you train well, you can get the blessing of the great witch and get a military position appointed by Xu Chen. After you go back, as long as you train people well, you can also get rewards such as armor, pottery and linen. Why not do such a good thing.
Therefore, in addition to working hard and studying, a group of foreigners became even more dedicated in training. After dinner every day, they followed the Ba people on the river beach to train and kill in a sweat.
The first step in the long march.
Now that the Ba tribe has gained the common recognition of the six tribes with the help of the power of the great witch, Xu Chen no longer needs to continue to hide and tuck it away.
Use this opportunity to carry out extensive military training, use the officer hierarchy to form a mentality of obedience, and then use rewards to win over, and use this to train a military force in each tribe that is obedient to yourself and the great witch.
Once this military promotion plan is completed, the six ethnic groups will have a mechanism to coordinate their military affairs.
In the future, whenever something happens, these troops can be recruited to participate in military activities only in the name of Dawu and the Ba people.
As long as they continue to be promoted to military positions and distributed trophies based on their merit, so that both themselves and the tribe can benefit from it, a clearly hierarchical military structure will gradually be formed, and by then no clan leader will be able to stop this process.
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Everything is difficult at the beginning, but now he has completed the hardest part.
Xu Chen looked at the two troops training in full swing amidst the howling biting cold wind and the king-character flag fluttering on the river beach, and a sense of pride and ambition arose in his chest.
I just thought about it before.
But now, all this is slowly coming true in his plan.
At the Witch Lords Conference next fall, he will hold a military competition among the six alliances to replace the current scattered hunting competitions, and then find a suitable foreign tribe as a target to launch a conquest operation.