Xu Chen and others picked all the mushrooms back and filled several large baskets.
Feng and a group of other hunters were naturally drooling and worked closely together to bring back a few wild birds and stew them in clay pots for several pots, so that the whole family could have a full meal.
Nowadays, tribes are getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people. There are less and less wild mushrooms to eat, and every one is precious.
As the spiritual leader, the little witch and the core leader Xu Chen, they will still receive the most food and care. The women will be evenly distributed, while the men will be distributed according to discipline according to military rank, merit and training status.
This distribution seems a little out of place, but now it has gradually formed a habit, and no one will express dissatisfaction explicitly.
In fact, under normal circumstances, everyone's distribution difference is very small, that is, more than half a spoon, less than half a spoon, or the order of supplying food. There is no intentional refusal to eat or malicious deduction. After all, we are all a family, and we need to train discipline.
Most of them are aimed at war or communicating with foreigners.
However, in this slightly differentiated food distribution, men gradually developed a sense of hierarchy with status differences.
A group of officers and non-commissioned officers such as Feng, Mo, Ju and Gao are the leaders.
The middle class consists of a group of main hunters who are strong and capable, trained hard and have outstanding attack power, and skilled craftsmen such as kiln workers, carpenters, and stone masons.
The rest are those who are relatively old, weak or honest but have poor intelligence, making up the bottom layer.
This level is not deliberately distinguished by Xu Chen. In fact, it has always existed.
Discipline only makes this distinction more obvious.
There are always some fools or honest guys everywhere, and those who bully them are always those smart and self-righteous people, while those who fight against injustice are always those strong and upright people.
For primitive tribes, this situation is even more obvious.
Whether you admit it or not, these different levels exist naturally and are not subject to human will.
Xu Chen advocates peace and friendship, but he will never advocate equality for everyone.
Putting aside personality equality, other equality is actually the greatest inequality. People who create more value should get more wealth and respect, otherwise this society will have no motivation to make progress.
Labor creates value, and the value created by each person is different, and the harvest should also be different.
Communism fits both periods.
The first is an era of extreme poverty of materials.
The first is an era of great abundance of materials.
Now the Ba people have just begun to break away from the first era, and they urgently need a new distribution method to solve the contradictions in development.
And this slightly different distribution method will inevitably begin to affect the survival and development of the tribe in a subtle way.
Intrachonel will definitely come true, but now Xu Chen has to work hard to go in the opposite direction.
Just like this chicken stewed with mushrooms, everyone knows it is delicious and everyone wants to eat more. But if you really want to eat more, one way is to gain the respect of the whole clan based on your strength, and the other way is to have enough food for everyone.
All can be fed.
Obviously the latter is impossible, at least not for a long time.
Because whether it is mushrooms or chickens, they are far from being distributed enough.
Then according to the discipline and distribution, it becomes a distribution method that everyone is convinced of.
The harvest of autumn is far more than this kind of delicious food that is at your fingertips.
With the continuous expansion of the Ba people's activity range, several nearby mountains have become the territory of the tribe. Compared with the past, where they could only walk back and forth from the mountainside to the river beach at the foot of the mountain, the harvest is much greater. There are rare wild fruits everywhere.
It will bring different gains.
Food nuts, hawthorn, Tang pear, prickly pear and many completely unknown fruits.
There are also edible mountain delicacies such as shiitake mushrooms, hericium, and fungus.
In addition, there are some commonly used medicinal materials such as Panax notoginseng, Codonopsis pilosula, Gastrodia elata, wolfberry, aphrodisiac fruit, Ganoderma lucidum, etc. As for yam, the most common ingredient that has the same origin as medicine and food, Xu Chen is usually too lazy to dig it up, and is too lazy to mark it everywhere.
All in all, when there is a shortage of food, just come up and dig a few nests to provide emergency supplies.
The medicinal materials collected by Xu Chen are all old medicines that are old enough. Those that are not old enough, those that are not old enough, or those that are not good-looking are not wanted.
Because there are so many wild medicinal materials, they are almost everywhere. Just like ordinary weeds, Tianqi Gastrodia and Tianqi Gastrodia, which are precious wild famous medicines in later generations, are now completely equivalent to weeds and worthless except for the fact that he can identify and use some of them.
He would wash and dry the collected medicines. At the same time, he would also teach the little witch to carefully identify them, explain their properties, and learn simple methods of use.
In order to promote the identification and use of wild medicinal materials, Xu Chen plans to slowly compile a Chinese herbal medicine manual, and the shamans of each tribe are the first batch of humans to receive medical rescue knowledge.
As for the diary, I still keep it, but it is no longer detailed, but begins to be sparse, and the content has changed from the trivial details at the beginning to various important events.
For example:
On September 16th in the autumn of the second year, a great shaman was held at the witchcraft ceremony to frighten the five tribes and achieve great success.
In the winter of November of the second year, Zha invaded Cang. The messenger asked for help from Wu, but was rejected. He took the apprentices of the five Bahe tribes and went out for the expedition. They returned in ten days and captured the great witch Gonghuo and more than 200 men and women of the two tribes.
At the end of November in winter, the population of the Balixin tribe was fifty-seven.
On the 15th day of the first month of the third year of spring, I inspected the Wu tribe and collected copper mines.
On the 17th, he visited the Hu tribe.
On the 19th, we inspected the Muya tribe.
…
On the twelfth day of the second lunar month of the third year, at Gonghuo, hundreds of people were hired to cut down trees and build a high platform. It took three days to complete, and the great shaman was given the inheritance to frighten the eight tribes.
On February 26th of the third year, he returned and made a map of the situation in the Ba region.
On March 1, three years ago, the canal construction started.
On March 3rd of the third year, the statue of the First Mother was made. It took nine days to complete.
March 15th of the third year is Mother's Day.
…
In addition to major events, there are occasionally some interesting things, such as catching birds, wild ducks hatching eggs, taming horses, boiling eagles, rounding up wild horses, visiting the Wild Wolf Valley at night to find fireflies, etc.
When journaling becomes a responsibility, the inherent fun is lost.
But when it becomes a habit, it can also change some of people's behavioral habits.
He persisted in the habit of keeping a diary, but was forced to do so by Ye.
Now, there are two people forcing him to write because there is an extra little witch.
And his diary was never private. The two little women would always borrow it to read and even learn to imitate it in the name of study.
However, although writing a diary is a good habit, it costs too much animal skins. Therefore, only he and the little witch can get the supply of animal skins for this extravagant and wasteful habit, and Ye can only pick up the leftover scraps they don't want.
Xu Chen's current room was filled with various animal skins with writing on them.
In addition to diaries, there are also various essay records involving population registration, farming, breeding, dictionaries, medicinal materials, discipline, innovations and inventions, etc.
And these messy records are still increasing. The whole room is filled with a smell of rosin, musk, graphite, isinglass, gold, copper, and leather. It is completely different from everyone else's room, and has a very mysterious atmosphere.
, like a dark sorcerer's laboratory in the Middle Ages.
The busy yet leisurely autumn is spent slowly in daily harvest and recording.
As the mountains, rivers and fields slowly turn into colorful colors of red and yellow, the autumn harvest is slowly coming to an end.
As in previous years, Xu Chen managed a large tree of vine fruit and brewed more than ten jars of vine fruit wine. This year's autumn harvest was completely over for him.
By mid-August, women basically stopped collecting in the field, and began to collect hemp bark on a large scale and start retting hemp.
The activities of a group of prisoners in harvesting mountain products also gradually slowed down. The fruits on several mountains near the valley were basically all picked, and they began to become more leisurely.
Since it was reform through labor, Xu Chen would definitely not let them have time to be lazy.
To redeem them before the Gonghuo Clan comes, you have to use all your strength.
So he decided to start the temple construction project in advance.
A group of prisoners were divided into two groups, and one group built a road from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside.
The road was narrow and rugged, making it difficult to pass. Xu Chen planned to build steps with stones.
Another group was responsible for the temple construction.
The main body of the temple is not large, just the size of a small house. It only needs stones and clay bricks. The reserves of lime and clay bricks are sufficient at the moment. There are also a lot of stones on the mountain. It is very convenient to get water and soil for repairs.
It should get up quickly.
After Xu Chen led several craftsmen to investigate for a day, the temple project was officially launched. A group of craftsmen from the Ba ethnic group who were involved in building houses and building canals led the team, each with a group of captives, and began to perform their duties.
So the valley, which had been quiet for a few days, began to become lively again.
Those who cut down trees felled trees, those who built roads built roads, and those who carried stones carried stones. Groups of prisoners came and went, shouting slogans, starting another round of labor reform.
Regarding the temple, no one understands what it is.
However, when Xu Chen explained that it was a house for gods to live in, a group of captives were as positive as chicken blood, and their attitudes were quite pious. They even felt unparalleled pride in being able to participate in this great project.
With joy and pride, everyone moved quickly carrying bricks, wood, and stones, as if they were afraid that if they ran a step slower, their companions would take up more opportunities to help the gods.
Looking at these foreign captives who usually worked lazily, but suddenly seemed to have taken a powerful pill, Xu Chen couldn't help but marvel at the great power of faith.
This is not only true for the prisoners, but also for the entire Ba clan.
From the time the temple was built, men, women, old and young, as long as they had some free time, would take the initiative to help. No matter whether they were captives or craftsmen, they would help dig soil, move stones, carry bricks, and cut wood.
Because this is the abode of the gods.
After repairing it, the Mother Goddess will live permanently in the Ba people, caring for and protecting everyone for a long time.
So starting from mid-August, the hillside where the Ba people used to live became very lively. Hundreds of people came and went all day long, carrying stone building materials like ants. Xu Chen also patrolled and inspected every day, giving guidance and solving problems encountered during the construction.
A path with stone steps from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside soon took shape.
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Yesterday I watched Predator: The Hunt. In the 18th century, primitive tribes in the Stone Age, musket poachers, and alien Predators formed a world where alien civilization, technology and primitive civilization mixed and hunted each other. Although it was science fiction,
But I always feel that it is not confusing. Friends who like primitive civilization hunting can check it out. Although it is ridiculous, the plot about the survival of primitive tribes at the beginning is still good.