With the news about the tin mine, Xu Chen did not rush home and decided to stay with the Gonghuo tribe for two more days to find out more about the tin mine.
In the following time, he continued to provide more in-depth guidance to each tribe on their land reclamation and house building work, teaching them how to make wooden plows, harrows and other farming tools. At the same time, he rode horses back and forth near the Gonghuo Tribe and on both sides of the Jicang River to familiarize himself with the terrain.
Conduct some basic research for future development planning.
In addition, he brought back a lot of bamboo roots with shoots from near the Cicha tribe this time. During the inspection process, he also found some places with suitable water and soil near the residences of several tribes and arranged for people to plant half of them, and told several tribes to have a good life.
take care of.
Although they have never seen this kind of strange plant rhizomes with segments that look like strange snakes, everyone now knows that the green raft that Xu Chen and others took when they came back is made of bamboo, which is hollow inside and has greater buoyancy.
It is also an excellent material for building houses and making various tools, and is much more useful than ordinary wood.
Therefore, the leaders of several tribes beat their chests and expressed that they would take good care of His Majesty the Witch King's bamboos, and soon arranged for people to build a fence with wooden sticks near the buried bamboo roots.
Seeing these people acting so actively and conscientiously, Xu Chen was very pleased. He felt that his two years of hard work had really been in vain. Now his words had as much prestige as an imperial edict in the minds of these tribesmen, and there was no need for them at all.
He needs to emphasize it repeatedly, and everyone will strictly abide by it.
However, Xu Chen waited for two days in the Gonghuo tribe, but did not wait for the Cang tribe to arrive. Instead, he waited for some bad news.
A group of Five Ghost tribesmen came across the Jicang River from the southeast, bringing with them a dark witch's scepter.
The great shaman of the Five Ghost Clan passed away suddenly.
The time was the second day after Xu Chen returned to the Jia clan.
It took Xu Chen three days to return to the Gonghuo Clan from the waterway. On the day the Jia Clan informed the Five Ghost Clan of Xu Chen's return, the great witch passed away. Before his death, he had his scepter delivered to Xu Chen.
, and also designated a successor, hoping that this scepter would permanently remain in the hands of the clansmen who had migrated to Gonghuo Basin, and also hoped that Xu Chen and the Ba clan's great witch could recognize the identity of the new heir and continue to lead the Five Ghost clan in the new era.
The homeland takes root, survives, and thrives.
When the Five Ghost tribesmen who migrated here heard the news, they all fell to the ground and howled to the southeast.
And the successor designated by their great witch is just a young girl who is only fifteen or sixteen years old. She is as ignorant and ignorant as the original twin witches. She is sad and has no idea about the future arrangements.
Although Xu Chen was very regretful, he still seriously agreed to their request as a great witch and promised that he would take good care of all the Five Ghosts. As for the new witch, he said that he would comply with the great witch's request and recognize her identity as a new witch.
On Mother's Day, the great witch of the Ba tribe held an inheritance ceremony for her, officially confirming that she became the great witch of the Five Ghosts tribe.
Xu Chen's statement made all the Five Ghosts burst into tears, and this incident also caused a sensation in several nearby tribes, who rushed from all directions to visit their new shaman.
The inheritance of witchcraft is a very serious matter, and it is also the core survival topic of all tribes.
Although tribes such as the Gonghuo Tribe and the Thunder Tribe dislike the Five Ghost Tribe’s ugly appearance and withdrawn personality, after all, the other tribe is a tribe with the inheritance of a great witch and has the protection of gods. Now that there is a great witch sitting in charge, their attitudes have naturally changed.
You have to be respectful.
With the Great Witch's Five Ghost Clan, it will be easier to gain a foothold in Gonghuo Basin in the future.
Xu Chen also understood the arrangements and plans of the Five Ghost Clan from the will of the great shaman of the Five Ghost Clan, which was to basically give up on the tribesmen in the Devil Valley and devote all their efforts to developing the tribes in the Gonghuo Basin.
The people left behind in Devil's Valley were willing to bear the indelible curse of the gods to mine and smelt lead ore for Xu Chen in exchange for Xu Chen's care for the new tribe.
This is a kind of survival with a broken arm that transcends the righteousness of life.
Therefore, Xu Chen had to lament that it was not easy for human civilization to develop in this barbaric era. The great shaman of the Five Ghosts used his wisdom to find an opportunity for his people to start over at the last moment of his life.
And this opportunity was filled with the lives of most of the tribe.
Even if she doesn't do this, the Five Ghosts will slowly develop in the Gonghuo Basin, but the meaning is completely different. The final outcome must be that the Five Ghosts will submit to the witch tribe and eventually become a weak tribe.
Survive other powerful tribes.
But the pride of witches does not allow the Five Ghosts to sink like this. As long as the inheritance of the great witches is left in the new tribe, the five ghosts will have unlimited room for growth in the future. They can rely on the faith of the great witches to win over other weak tribes, and finally
Grow back into a tribe as powerful as the Hacha tribe back then, without having to rely on others
However, facing the new witch girl wearing simple animal skins and looking timid and ignorant, Xu Chen rubbed his teeth a little.
For such a little girl who knows nothing, and in such a strange environment where she is unfamiliar with her life, it is very difficult for the Five Ghosts to rise again.
Especially when there is a powerful tribe like the Gonghuo tribe squatting next to him, and there is also a wise and profound adult witch like the Gonghuo tribe's great witch.
But this is good, so that the old witch does not dominate here alone when the mountain is high and the emperor is far away. The great witches of two different ethnic tribes live close to each other. They can communicate with each other and have conflicts due to the competition for belief.
Some fights and monolithic fights are ultimately not a good thing.
With the Lei Clan and the Five Ghost Clan in check, Xu Chen will have better control over the future development of the Gonghuo Basin.
At least the dead great shaman of the Five Ghost Clan saw very clearly that the Five Ghost Clan can truly develop in the future only by clinging to the thighs of Xu Chen and the Ba Clan.
As for the Gonghuo Clan, she must have been vaguely worried about the development of the new clan, which is why she made this difficult and decisive decision.
This incident happened very suddenly, but with Xu Chen personally handling it at the Gonghuo Clan, it calmed down quickly.
Xu Chen summoned the great shaman of the Gonghuo Clan and the chiefs of several tribes, and formally announced that he had accepted and recognized the identity of the new shaman of the Five Ghost Clan. He hoped that all tribes would get along well with each other in the future, and would provide as much help as they could for the future development of the Five Ghost Clan, and
It means that the alliance tribe has another great witch. In the future, all tribes will also receive more protection from gods, and will have more spacious rental houses, more food, more animal skins, pottery, linen and other wealth.
As a result, all the tribesmen cheered, and their rejection of the Five Ghost Tribe was reduced a lot.
Since the Five Ghosts moved here, they have begun to change some behaviors and habits according to Xu Chen's instructions. They no longer paint their entire bodies in five different colors of blue, yellow, red, white and black, but instead paint their eyebrows and cheeks.
Some marks representing their original tribes have retained internal distinctions, but externally, everyone looks similar to other tribes, except that they are a little uglier.
In fact, few of the selected Five Ghost tribesmen have normal looks, and some are even very ugly. But compared to the group of tribesmen who stayed in Devil Valley, these people are all very normal-looking humans.
The Five Ghosts people have been painting their bodies with various animal bones and even skulls on their heads all year round to dress themselves up like scary evil ghosts. In fact, they have no choice but to apply the color to cover up the flaws in their appearance, because most people almost lose their hair.
It's bare, and it's covered with animal bones and skulls, and it's also covering up the flaws in the hair.
They don't want to dress themselves up as demons, they just have to.
If all the Five Ghosts tribesmen moved to the Gonghuo Basin, it is estimated that all the tribes here would not be able to accept it. Even Xu Chen would not be able to accept it.
Therefore, being ugly has no human rights, so Xu Chen had no choice but to make this decision, and everyone was happy in the end.
After two days of busy work on this matter, and after settling the Five Ghosts clan members, the Cang clan people finally arrived.
The leader of the team was their hunter leader Heng, who was also a tall and thick man, but slightly smaller than Lei's size, but he was covered in double-layered leather armor, and the ground vibrated when he walked.
Jintou is also a rare military commander type figure.
The arrival of the Cang clan helped Xu Chen solve the mystery of the tin mine.
However, according to his description, it is not easy to obtain this kind of ore, because they exchanged it from another large tribe a hundred miles to the west of the Gonghuo Basin, and the tin mine is not near the Cang tribe's territory.
This tribe is very powerful and may have more people than the Gonghuo tribe. There were two small tribes that submitted to the Gonghuo tribe in the past. After the Gonghuo tribe surrendered to the Ba tribe, they completely fell into the arms of this tribe.
Xu Chen knew about this.
There used to be ten tribes in the Gonghuo Tribe Alliance, but the two small tribes were the farthest apart. It took five days to travel to the Gonghuo Tribe, and three days to get to the nearest Qia Tribe.
The Qia tribe is located on the edge of the Gonghuo Basin. Most of the area they live in has the same terrain as the Cang Ji tribe. It is surrounded by large mountains. To the west, there are even more mountains and ravines. The two small tribes are further apart.
, the terrain in the area where they live is more dangerous and complex, and the long-armed jurisdiction of the Gonghuo tribe is also powerless. At most, they rely on the belief of the great witch to attract them to participate in some tribal activities, conduct some intermarriages and transactions.
Xu Chen speculated that these two small tribes with high mountains and far away from the emperor probably took it all, sandwiched between two large tribal alliances, and had intermarriages and transactions with each other. It was just because the Gonghuo tribe was suddenly overpowered by the not-so-strong tribe.
After the Uzbek Alliance conquered, they felt that the Gonghuo Tribe was unreliable, so they cut off all contact with the Gonghuo Tribe and completely fell into the arms of the Western tribes.