Chapter 289 The Greatest King Between Heaven and Earth
Xu Chen understood the mood of the two clan leaders very well.
After the first harvest of the Ba tribe's farmland, Mother Ba and a group of women were in the same situation. They were so happy that they could laugh out loud when they went to sleep.
The main reason is that food is so important to the survival of the tribe, so important that we have to worry about every meal every day.
Every day when I open my eyes, I want to get food somewhere so that the whole clan will not be hungry.
Every night when I fall asleep, I have to think over and over again, thinking about where to go and what type of food to collect for the family tomorrow.
Especially in winter and spring, the only thing I worry about when I open my eyes is food, for fear that the tribesmen, young and old, will starve to death and freeze to death.
Even if we collect sun-dried food in summer and autumn, because there are no storage tools and preservation methods, the food will not be stored for a long time. Rats will damage it, insects will cause mold, and the small amount of food will be damaged and spoiled by this random stacking method, making it inedible.
, eating moldy food can also bring illness or even directly lead to death.
However, this situation of food shortage and poor living environment has been greatly improved in just one year.
With the intensive emergence of various tools, houses, farmland, grain cellars, pottery, etc., grain harvests have greatly increased, grain storage conditions have also been greatly improved, and the living environment has become more spacious and comfortable. The living environment and living conditions of the two tribes have changed
Earth-shaking changes have taken place.
With increased food harvests, tribes will have a greater ability to survive, and will have more manpower and time to further develop their living space and improve their living environment and quality.
This autumn and winter, both the Ji and Cang people have begun large-scale house building projects, and construction has already begun.
In addition, larger-scale land reclamation plans have also been put on the tribal work schedule.
According to the plans of the heads of the two tribes, the Cang tribe’s land reclamation plan this year will reach 500 acres, while the Ji tribe’s land reclamation plan will be at least 400 acres.
Xu Chen was very pleased and excited.
His efforts over the past two years have finally seen results, especially since the conquest of the Gonghuo Tribe, the development of all tribes has suddenly entered the fast lane.
This time, the great witch from the Gonghuo Clan did not come to the witch leader conference.
It’s not because she is too old and it’s inconvenient. In fact, when she went back for Mother’s Day last time, Xu Chen was worried that her body wouldn’t be able to bear the long journey, so she asked the craftsmen of the Ba ethnic group to help make a small rattan sedan to carry her back.
, an old woman weighs dozens of kilograms. For a group of savages, it is not easy to carry and run.
The main reason is that she wants to stay with the Gonghuo tribe to supervise and direct the construction of houses.
The old witch has stayed with the Ba people for a long time. Last winter, she witnessed the second phase of the Ba people's house construction project. In the spring, she visited a large area of newly reclaimed farmland by the Ba people. She was very impressed by the benefits brought by this kind of artificially controlled land reclamation and planting.
Clear and jealous.
As an old man who has lived for more than sixty years, with her rich life experience and profound knowledge that is different from ordinary people, she can clearly see the huge benefits that farming brings.
Although she didn't know the word "change" and didn't understand the principle of progress of human civilization at all, the huge harvest brought by farming allowed her to see a completely different way of survival, and all tribes would benefit from it.
Once you become rich, as long as you work hard to cultivate wasteland and cultivate fields, the crisis of food shortage will completely change.
And if you want to farm, you have to move to the foot of the mountain.
Therefore, building a house to live in is a top priority.
As the spiritual pillar for the survival of the tribe and the alliance, she has the responsibility and obligation to guide the development of the tribe and the alliance. The old witch will never sit back and watch the Gonghuo tribe and the alliance tribe miss this opportunity for development.
Because she knew that the development of the Gonghuo Alliance had lagged behind the Ba Alliance.
The longer the delay in building houses and reclaiming wasteland, the weaker the Gonghuo Alliance will be.
Not to mention the delay of three to five years, even if it is delayed for one or two more years, the tribes of the Ba Alliance will leave them far behind. By then, the Gonghuo Alliance, which has twice the number of people, will never have any chance to turn around.
, will be pushed to the ground and rubbed to death by the Ba Alliance.
Because the old witch has discovered that the Ba tribe has exported a large amount of technology, but has retained the core pottery and weaving. These two items will definitely be the most urgently needed items for all tribes in the Gonghuo Alliance in the future. They can only use various
Wealth such as animal skins and grain can be exchanged.
The output of things like animal skins is not fixed, and the only thing that may be exchanged in the end may be food. If the food cannot keep up, then the emotions of each tribe will become increasingly difficult to appease.
Looking at the big meals of fish and meat next door, I am hungry three times a day.
Under such a strong contrast, it is impossible for the Gonghuo Alliance to persist, and many of its subordinate tribes may soon completely fall over to the Ba Alliance and completely change their belief in the great witch.
In fact, after all the affiliated tribes were suppressed by Xu Chen at the Great Witch inheritance ceremony in February last year, some tribes have already shown some signs of progress. Among them, the Qu tribe and the Yehuo tribe are two large tribes with more than 300 people.
Medium sized tribes are the most obvious.
At first they were dissatisfied with the Gonghuo tribe's cowardice and surrendered to the Ba tribe, but later they discovered that the Ba tribe was ridiculously powerful. After several leaders drank and were beaten several times, they suddenly realized that the Gonghuo tribe was no longer reliable, and the Ba tribe was the real one.
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And after Mother's Day in mid-March, the restlessness became even more obvious.
It turns out that the power of the Ba people is not only those powerful hunters on the surface, but what is even more powerful is that they are really guarded by gods.
The statue of the Mother Goddess built by Xu Chen had an unprecedented impact on all participating tribes.
Not only did the old woman remain haunted for a long time after she came back, the clan leaders of other tribes all had great fear and awe of the Ba tribe who were guarded by the true god.
What awe brings must be surrender.
If the Gonghuo tribe cannot develop as soon as possible, then all the tribes that depend on it may become alienated.
In order to stabilize the position of the Gonghuo tribe as the leader of the alliance, and to prevent her belief in the great witch from being completely lost and lost her inheritance, the old witch can only speed up the tribe's follow-up pace and not let the tribe's development lag too far behind the Ba tribe alliance.
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The sun sets in the west.
Hundreds of people cheered in front of and behind, chatting and laughing loudly, carrying prey, holding high flags and blowing horns, and marched toward the valley where the Ba people live.
When they entered the narrowest position at the mouth of the valley, a group of Ba people carrying their prey suddenly slowed down, and even asked the flag officer to hold the red flag high and wave it a few times, and Gu Ye also blew the horn at the same time.
The flags and horns express orders to move forward slowly.
The Cang tribe of the Ji tribe, a group of hunters who followed, and the captives of the Gonghuo tribe instantly understood the meaning of the horns and flags, and almost simultaneously followed the Ba tribe and slowed down their pace.
But the remaining teams from the Gonghuo Tribe Alliance Tribe hardly stopped, so the entire team suddenly began to become chaotic.
However, as the Ba tribe hunters began to abandon their beasts and lie on the ground and bow to the valley, the huge team became more noisy and noisy. Everyone who came to attend the Witch Lord Conference looked at each other and didn't know what was going on.
Xu Chen:……
mmp, can people still walk well?
But the force was stronger than the others, so he had to kneel down on one knee, with a pious and serious look on his face.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, Moxi Gaga?"
A group of clan leaders and leaders looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes for a few times, and then they all hurriedly squatted down next to Xu Chen cautiously. At the same time, someone asked in a low voice what was going on.
"God is watching us!"
Xu Chen raised his hand and pointed to the mountainside of the valley, his eyes warm.
A group of people looked in the direction of his finger in confusion.
At this time, the setting sun was setting in the west, half setting on the mountains. Under the late autumn sunshine, the mountains seemed to be covered with a golden-red glow.
And on the dark and quiet mountainside, there seems to be a huge eye, hidden in the slightly dazzling sunset and the forest. It is looming and gives people an indescribable sense of mystery, especially the slender eyebrows, which makes this eye
The mysterious big eyes look more vivid.
"God..."
Some people exclaimed and then stopped abruptly, covering their mouths with both hands, and their faces were twisted, showing an expression of extreme shock.
"That's the Mother Goddess, she points the way forward for us!"
Xu Chen had a pious expression on his face, but of course, in his mind, there were ten thousand alpacas running past.
Ever since he discovered the secret of the Eye of the Gods.
This location at the entrance of the river valley already has a very sacred atmosphere.
Everyone who passed by felt like they were being watched by the gods, and felt nervous for no reason. Even their voices and walking movements would instantly become quiet, and they would hold their breath to maintain a very pious awe.
Xu Chen thought it didn't matter at first, but he didn't expect that every hunter who goes out early in the morning and returns home in the evening would stop and kneel on the ground every day. It almost became a serious ritual. He couldn't laugh or cry at the same time, so he could only reluctantly kneel down too.
Hold on.
Xu Chen had no respect for this so-called eye of the gods.
Even the little witch regarded it as a revelation from the gods, pointing out the direction of his future development and gaining the support of the entire clan.
But in his opinion, this is still just a natural coincidence.
But in the eyes of these primitive people, this coincidence had a completely different interpretation.
Therefore, he will not be respectful or fearful, but he will not let go of this opportunity to further build the divine system and use this divine eye to gain greater prestige for himself.
God is the greatest in the sky, witches are the greatest on the earth, and between heaven and earth, the king is the greatest.
Now that there are gods and witches, it seems that it is not far away from him becoming king.