The temple of the Mother Mother allows anyone to come up to worship.
Therefore, all the men, women, and children who came to attend this conference have been here at least once.
And a group of clan leaders and leaders would accompany the little witch sisters up every day.
The gold and gems that each tribe brought to exchange for pottery were almost all thrown into the wishing fountain by a group of leaders.
Although it is indeed not valuable at the moment, these are really valuable.
Xu Chen lay on the edge of the pool made of clay bricks, reached out and fished out a handful, which were colorful and brilliant. He rummaged a few times and kicked a few pieces into his pocket.
The little witch stood next to him, her eyes wide open and her face full of surprise.
At this moment, Xu Chen's behavior always made her feel that something was wrong.
Because she found that Xu Chen seemed to be slobbering constantly on the gems in this pool, as if he had bad intentions.
"These stones cannot be soaked in water for a long time, otherwise they will lose their luster!"
Facing the innocent and surprised look in the little witch's eyes, Xu Chen explained with a dry smile.
"Really?"
The little witch always believed in Xu Chen's words and quickly changed her views in her heart, even feeling very ashamed.
The Witch King knows everything, how can I doubt him.
"Of course it's true. Look, these amber, beeswax, lapis lazuli, turquoise... and this kind of silver nugget..."
Xu Chen pointed at the stones of different colors in the pool in front of him and showed them to the little witch.
"What should we do?" The little witch became nervous instantly.
"If you have nothing to do, just ask someone to pick it up and put it in a separate place. If you soak it for a long time, it will not only look unsightly, but it will also pollute the pool!"
While Xu Chen was talking, he fished out several more handfuls, picked out some of the gems that could not be soaked in water, and placed them on the edge of the masonry platform.
"Okay!"
The little witch quickly nodded her head like a chicken pecking at rice.
In front of outsiders, she is a powerful witch and spiritual leader.
But in front of Xu Chen, she was just a naive girl who was curious and full of desire to learn.
Xu Chen was very satisfied with the little witch he trained.
Whether it was Mother's Day in the spring or this Witch Lords Conference, the performance of the little witch was remarkable. At least she was almost flawless in hosting the ceremony, making both gatherings a complete success.
Witch is the current anchor of stability for the alliance and tribe.
Even though he is extremely popular now, he is destined not to stay in the tribe and this small place for long. He needs someone to stabilize his base and rear area for him.
Because no matter where he goes, the Ba tribe and the Alliance of Six Tribes will always be the foundation for his survival and development, and they are irreplaceable.
As he conquers more and more tribes, the various forces and situations will become more and more complicated. The tribes seek refuge more for the benefit of both parties. Only the Ba tribe will always be his solid backing, and the six tribes will always be his solid backing.
The Alliance is still his most valued and loyal ally.
The Witch Lord Conference is over and it’s time to set off.
Xu Chen was both a little excited and a little melancholy.
It was good to stay at home for a thousand days, but it was difficult to go out even half a step. In this extremely primitive and barbaric era, he could not imagine what unpredictable situations would happen outside. He even doubted whether he would be able to come back after leaving.
In this age where food, clothing and ailments are scarce and there is no medical treatment, even a small cold may lead to death in the wilderness.
Then later generations left a written record of Momo Huhu:
The Witch King died before he started his business, and the gods abandoned him. The people were panicked, and the tribes divorced. This is known as the natural disaster in history. The human race returned to eating hair and drinking blood. It took another three thousand years before a saint emerged.
Therefore, in the next period of time, Xu Chen no longer focused on the development of the tribe, but began to prepare for his own journey.
At present, the development of the tribe can be said to be completely on the right track. As long as it develops steadily, it will definitely be upgraded to a completely self-sufficient farming tribe in three to five years. With or without him, this process will not be affected.
But what makes him a little worried is that the tribe lacks long-term planning talents. If he leaves for a long time, he may encounter some difficulties in development, so Xu Chen spent two days arranging these things.
The first is the third phase of the compound project, which can start immediately.
The main purpose of the third phase project is not to live in people, but to raise poultry and livestock. Therefore, the house courtyard can be built larger and simpler. It only needs to surround a huge yard with bricks and stones, and then add stables, sheep pens, chicken coops, pig pens, etc.
Just arrange the livestock and poultry, and then build some sheds to store fodder.
It should be no problem to finish this project before spring.
In addition to the third phase of the compound, in order to support the duck raising in the pond, Xu Chen plans to build a large circle of fences around the kiln and pond to prevent wild animals such as snakes, weasels and foxes from entering and causing damage.
In addition, as tribes raise more and more livestock-level animals such as horses, sheep, pigs, and donkeys, the population will become larger in the future. Whether for grazing or feeding, they need as large a field field as possible.
Therefore, he classified all the open space around the compound except the farmland area as a closed area. He hoped that the tribe could use fences to enclose large open areas and keep these animals in them for free range on weekdays. This would save a lot of manual labor in preparing forage and feed.
Work, anyway, they are wild animals, as long as they don't run away, it's not appropriate to keep them all in a room.
In order to ensure that a group of young wild boars can thrive, Xu Chen specially hired two men from the tribe who are best at slaughtering animals and asked them to sew the eggs of several young boars. As for the sow sterilization surgery, it was too difficult.
, he couldn't teach it at all, and besides, there were no suitable sharp surgical instruments at the moment, so he had no choice but to give up.
After the eggs are cooked, the pig will become very delicious. Not only will its wildness be removed, but a large amount of nutrients will be used to grow meat. The pigs raised in this way will have fat, plump and tender meat, which is much more delicious than pure wild boar.
In order to prevent the wounds of the little boars that had lost their balls from getting infected, Xu Chen specially applied hemostatic powder on their wounds.
Although I don't understand the meaning of Xu Chen's special hobby of having eggs, the tribe members have been looking at Xu Chen for a few days and there is something wrong.
Especially Gu Ju and a group of other guys, who usually get extremely sticky when they see him, but after seeing that bloody and terrifying scene, they couldn't help but tremble when they saw Xu Chen walking around, for fear that Xu Chen might become interested.
, and cut their balls too.
As for the women, when they saw him, they covered their mouths and ran over laughing.
Xu Chen was extremely depressed.
The savages who have never seen the world are just eggs. The pig farms of later generations have rows and rows of piglets’ eggs, which is called spectacular.
In addition to these things that must be planned and solved, there is another long-term project, which is to build a dike from the front of the compound to the drainage ditch to surround the entire yard. Of course, it can be filled in as a whole to form a raised
Open space is better, not only can it block the river water in summer, but it can also provide a larger drying area for a large amount of grain harvest in the future.
However, the amount of this project is very large, so we can only use our free time to do it slowly, which may take two or three years.
Regardless of whether the Ba people will move to the Gonghuo Plain for development in the future, the Ba people will definitely not give up this ancestral homeland. After all, the copper mines of the Uu people are still here, and the Ba people need to stay and take care of them for a long time.
As the birthplace of the Mother Goddess and the birthplace of the first temple, the valley of the Ba tribe is of great significance, and Xu Chen himself will not give up easily.
Even if the king's hegemony is achieved in the future, he can still lead the great witches and ministers to worship the old mother goddess and turn this place into a special sacrificial venue to attract more faith.
But these are all things for later.
At present, he has done everything he should do, and the rest can only be taken one step at a time. Now he is still a hundred and eighty thousand miles away from King Tu's hegemony.
After arranging these short- and medium-term plans for the tribe, Xu Chen focused all his energy on the other three things.
First, with a small amount of lead ore, he decided to try to see if he could smelt some lead first. For this purpose, he specially made a small crucible using the graphite and clay he collected, and pounded the two lead ores brought by the Jia people.
After breaking it, put it in together with some scattered copper ores or even copper particles, and asked several kiln workers to build a one-meter-high smelting furnace with mud bricks and clay, and started smelting it with a large fire.
In addition, when traveling far away, you may encounter various injuries, diseases, insects and snakes, so he also prepared a large amount of emergency medicine powder to stop bleeding and many medicinal materials, bandages, intestinal sutures, bone needles and other necessary emergency medical reserves.
The third is the transformation of travel tools. The rafts he used for practice before were all hastily made, and after nearly a month of back and forth, they were about to fall apart. In order to make travel easier and safer, he needed to make a stronger and more practical raft.
raft.
In addition to traditional rowing methods such as oars and poles, he also specially designed sails.
In fact, it is very simple. Just use a tripod to tie up a three-meter-high mast on the raft, sew some light animal skins into a few small sails, support them with horizontal bars, and hang them on the wooden poles. You can pass
Simply adjust the direction and position of the sail by fixing the rope front, rear, left, and right, so that it can be pushed forward by the wind.
Now in autumn and winter, it is when the northwest wind prevails. Although it is very fast to go down the river, for the sake of safety, many times you will not go forward in the core rapids for a long time. Instead, you will travel along the gentle river bank. If you want to enter
If some rivers are flowing upstream, the role of sails will be more obvious.
Of course, it will be more useful on the return trip. When the southeast wind picks up after spring, you can use the sail to go upstream. As long as it is not a rapid and dangerous shoal, you can use the wind to travel.
At present, the men and women of the tribe have sufficient manpower, and they also have a lot of wood and animal skins. This can be done quickly, and it only takes seven or eight days to complete.
After getting this new type of sailing raft, Feng led a large group of hunters and captives to practice every day at the mouth of the river. They crossed the river back and forth every day, so that they could not only cross the river to hunt, but also become familiar with the operation method.
Xu Chen would follow him across the river every now and then to see what was going on on the other side. By the way, he would get familiar with riding a raft. He would even occasionally go down to the river to swim with a group of hunters and learn basic water survival skills such as self-rescue after falling into the water.
He used to know how to swim, but he only knew how to paddle. After becoming a savage, his physical strength became more wild and his physical fitness became stronger. He could swim to the other side in one breath even without a raft. This made him extremely confident in his wild survival skills.
I am full of expectations for this trip.
The recent gains didn't stop there. The copper-lead alloy smelted in the kiln finally yielded a harvest. After burning for seven or eight days, it began to melt. After removing the slag, a pottery spoonful of alloy liquid was finally smelted, and then cast into
Got a dagger.
This dagger has a slight green-gold color, and its hardness is indeed much higher than that of pure copper. After polishing, it can easily cut branches as thick as an egg. However, it may be due to the wrong proportion of copper and lead or the nature of the copper-lead alloy. This knife is very easy to cut.
It broke into pieces. After just a few cuts, a gap the size of a mung bean was broken. It looked very brittle and was not suitable for large-scale smelting and forging.
However, this is a bronze in the true sense. Although it cannot compete with bone knives and stone knives, it already has a certain degree of lethality and is far sharper and stronger than pure copper knives.
Therefore, after getting the dagger, Xu Chen quickly made a cowhide scabbard to protect it and wear it with him every day. The previous copper knives and swords were all thrown away in the bedroom as decorations.