After sleeping until they woke up naturally the next day, Xu Chen and a group of people got up to eat, drink and relieve themselves. Then they joined the great shaman of the Gonghuo tribe and a large group of tribal chiefs and leaders who came to inspect the construction situation near the Gonghuo tribe.
Today's Gonghuo tribes no longer live in caves as they did a year ago, living in caves and drinking blood. Instead, they have built many wooden houses on stilts near the mountain cols and at the foot of riverbanks. They are also stepping up the construction of brick and stone courtyards.
In addition, various tribes have burned large areas of wasteland on the river beach near their newly built houses and are clearing and digging drainage ditches.
The river beach is densely covered with a large number of mud bricks waiting to dry, and at the foot of the mountain are piles of stones, sand, and wood.
A group of people surrounded Xu Chen like stars holding the moon. Everywhere he went, he would arouse warm cheers from men, women, old and young.
The chiefs of each tribe enthusiastically led Xu Chen to inspect the houses being built and the reclaimed wasteland. A large group of hunters followed around, looking with reverence at Xu Chen who was giving guidance and planning among the crowd, and their hearts were filled with pride.
This is their Witch King. No matter where he goes, he is so popular that no one can replace him.
Xu Chen was naturally very happy and excited about the ongoing construction of the Gonghuo Clan.
In particular, these tribes began to gather together spontaneously to live together, and their huge popularity filled this formerly barren river beach with a thriving and warm atmosphere.
During the inspection, Xu Chen inquired in detail about the development plans of each tribe, and also put forward a lot of guidance for future development and construction. These guidances often had a far-sighted vision, which made the clan leaders and leaders of all tribes feel that
When my eyes suddenly light up, I feel a sudden joy and excitement.
The population agglomeration effect provides a good foundation for future urbanization, so building houses and reclaiming wasteland is only the most basic plan.
He put forward higher requirements for the great shaman of the Gonghuo Tribe. He hoped that several tribes could unite and not develop independently. Instead, they should plan and jointly develop this gathering area, pooling the manpower and material resources of all tribes, and building their own
At the same time as the tribes, house construction, grain field reclamation, irrigation ditches, drinking water projects, and riverbank docks are all integrated into a unified blueprint, so that all tribes can ultimately benefit from it.
Therefore, after inspecting the construction status of each tribe, Xu Chen took a few craftsmen on horseback to carefully observe the three or four miles up and down the river, and then drew out a simple town planning map.
In this picture, with the Gonghuo Tribe as the core, and the Lei Tribe and the Five Ghost Tribe as auxiliaries, and two other small tribes, a road running from east to west is built between the tribes, and a drinking water ditch is built along the road.
, flowing water is diverted from the creeks of the Lei Clan and Gonghuo Clan mountain passes to the gathering places of all tribes, and each tribe can also rely on ditches to dig ponds to store water according to their own needs, which can not only meet daily water needs,
It can also prevent the occurrence of fire.
In the open space where the inheritance wooden platform was originally built, Xu Chen planned a special trading venue, built a row of wooden houses and simple thatched sheds, and regularly held small tribal trading activities once a month.
The market is a township trade fair that has existed from the feudal era to the high-tech era.
It is usually held once a month. Farmers and vendors from nearby villages and towns will bring their agricultural products, agricultural tools, handicrafts, livestock, meat and poultry and other goods to the gathering for sale and trade.
Although various types of trade are still very scarce at the moment, with the further development of farming and breeding, the living standards of various tribes will gradually become richer, and some higher-level needs will gradually increase, such as pottery, linen, salt, leather goods, needlework
, leather armor, bows and arrows, weapons, fishing nets, food and even hunted beasts and farmed poultry, meat and eggs, etc., will gradually become traded commodities.
With the abundance of food and clothing, the improvement of the living environment, and the increase in the level of living needs, Xu Chen will gradually break this primitive system of group living and group marriage. He will first promote some private goods among the groups of meritorious hunters, and private property
The emergence of items will inevitably promote the creation of more transactions in private items.
Professional trading venues also provide some help in promoting the trading of such private goods.
In addition, the difference between towns and scattered tribes is that they do not focus on production and life, but on handmade manufacturing and commercial transactions, gathering a group of craftsmen and commercial projects, and eventually forming a trading node, which brings together the surrounding people.
While concentrating transactions among neighboring tribes, it also provides a more extensive and fixed place for exchanging what is needed.
The items traded at the moment are limited, but the emergence of pottery, linen, and salt will become the first important commercial resources to settle in. At the same time, some tribes with rich populations can also be mobilized to develop some simple caravans and travel to various tribes to purchase various items.
The excess resources will eventually be gathered here for trading, and slowly accumulate. After a few years, a relatively prosperous trading town will definitely form here.
And here will also become the starting point of the kingdom planned by Xu Chen. At that time, his palace and the Great Witch Temple will be built, various tribal gatherings will be held regularly, foundry and wood processing workshops will be opened, the Great Witch School will be built, and medical processing will be opened.
facilities and institutions.
Therefore, the planning and construction of this town are very important.
This is also his ultimate goal of continuously conquering and transporting people here.
Regarding Xu Chen's sudden plan to build a trading place, not only the old witch felt her eyes light up and her hands and feet were trembling with excitement, but the clan chiefs and leaders of each tribe were also equally excited.
If Xu Chen's plan succeeds, this river beach will become extremely lively in the future.
The Qia, Ji, and Cang tribes in the northwest, the Wu, Ba, Hu, and Muya tribes in the north, more than ten tribes of the Yugong tribe on the other side of the river, the Jia tribe and the Wugui tribe in the southeast, and the Wugui tribe in the southwest.
All the tribes such as the Kun tribe, the Qu tribe, the Yehuo tribe, etc. will eventually gather here regularly to trade, and this place will be extremely popular.
Xu Chen also has a more long-term plan, which is to attract more tribal families to move to Gonghuo Basin, gather more people on both sides of the Jicang River, open up more grain fields, and then open up more grain fields on both sides of the Jicang River.
A pontoon bridge was built to completely connect the river beaches on both sides of the river without distinguishing them from each other.
This huge plan even amazed a group of clan leaders. The great wizard of the Gonghuo Tribe was so excited that he almost dropped his staff.
She thought she understood Xu Chen's thoughts, but in fact, what she thought she understood was just the tip of the iceberg. Xu Chen's far-sightedness was simply not something that she, a primitive wizard who had just begun to learn to read, could understand.
What Xu Chen wants is not just to occupy the Gonghuo Basin, but to completely develop it into a complex society where dozens of tribes live together, attracting all tribes to trade and develop.
And once this huge plan succeeds, ten or twenty years later, the prosperity here will be indescribable.
The old witch's simple level of thinking could no longer describe that lively scene in her mind.
On both sides of the river, there are grain fields everywhere. Near the foot of the mountain, houses and courtyards where tribes live are built next to each other. In the river, hunters are constantly coming and going on rafts, bringing animal skins, pottery, linen, wild beasts, and salt every day.
Coming from all directions.
As Xu Chen's plans spread, they attracted excited discussions and cheers from everyone.
Men, women, and children from all tribes couldn't wait to run to the open space where the inheritance ceremony was held, and began to imagine the lively scene when all the tribes came together to trade. There were also many hunters gathered near the riverside dock, pointing at both sides of the Jicang River.
Start imagining the speed and convenience brought by a wooden bridge spanning both sides of the bank.
In order to implement these plans and constructions, Xu Chen summoned the great witches, the chiefs of the tribes, and the craftsmen who were proficient in construction in the next day, and began to discuss and arrange the planned construction plans, and at the same time led these people to conduct on-site inspections.
Guide them on how to launch early-stage projects as soon as possible.
The palace, temple, and bridge across the river are not immediate plans. They can be built slowly in two or three years. However, the construction projects of drinking water and drainage ditches, ponds, roads, and trading areas must be completed first.
These projects can be carried out slowly after each tribe completes their own house construction and spring sowing before spring. Even when the summer rainy season comes, some projects can be carried out slowly. As long as they are completed according to the plan, all these short-term projects will be completed before the autumn of next year.
The project can be completed, so that the area where several tribes gather will be completely integrated into one, forming a very large tribal group with a population of more than 1,000.
Of course, this tribal group still lives independently, but in terms of communication, it is almost the same as a unified tribe.
After completing all the planning and guidance tasks, Xu Chen took time to go to the Lei Clan to visit a group of women, children, old and weak people from the La Clan who had been relocated as a whole.
For Xu Chen, this group of La people fell to the ground in gratitude. The women cried excitedly, pulling Xu Chen's clothes one after another, and expressed their gratitude to Xu Chen with a few simple Ba language and gestures they had learned.
The men, women and children of the Lei tribe also said that they would treat the La tribe well and take good care of them like their own tribe. They also said that the food sent by Xu Chen was of great help, allowing them to spend this winter safely.
When the Lei Clan first moved here in the spring, there were only about fifty people, but now with the addition of more than thirty new La Clan members, and after the last conquest of the Yu Gong Clan, they have obtained the distribution rights and distribution rights of more than ten women.
More than a dozen men participated in the labor reform, and the total population has now exceeded one hundred, developing very rapidly.
Although a larger population consumes more food, clothing, and housing, the construction speed is also faster.
At present, the Lei Clan's house is no longer the circular stilted building that Xu Chen helped build, but there is another wooden house next to it. At the same time, the kiln is burning bricks, and a larger adobe compound is being built.
Once this compound is built, the Lei people will have the same comfortable and spacious living conditions as the Ba people.
In addition, the Lei tribe has planned 300 acres of farmland on the nearby river beach, and is currently reclaiming it after burning the wasteland.