Since the wild horses near the Wu nationality can be tamed, is it possible to organize a professional horse-trapping team to search for more wild horses along the upper and lower reaches of the Wulong River to round up, so that they can explore a wider area around and explore the surrounding areas?
Understand the distribution of more tribes and collect more wealth at the same time.
If every tribe has enough horses, it will be of great benefit to humans' expansion to longer distances and production and life.
This matter can be left to Long to do it when the time comes. This guy seems to be full of desire to go out and make a fortune.
And Xu Chen also needs to cultivate a leader who can act independently.
According to the increasingly close relationship between the Ba tribe and the Uzbek tribe, the growth of the Uzbek tribe will also be very beneficial to the Ba tribe's control of other tribes in the future.
After all, the Gonghuo Clan and the Yu Gong Clan are not very familiar with each other. We can support them in developing industry and agriculture. However, since it is convenient for the military to control them, we must exercise some restraint and not allow them to develop and expand too quickly. Maintain technological leadership and military suppression to keep them obedient.
it's the best.
In addition, the Five Ghost Clan is worth cultivating, but this needs to be done slowly and cannot be done too obviously, otherwise the Gonghuo Clan will be dissatisfied.
Although Xu Chen has a plan for the future, population size, traffic conditions, food production, etc. have seriously restricted the speed of development, so many things cannot be rushed.
In other words, there is no point in rushing. The distance between the two is only a hundred miles, but it takes several days. In this kind of traffic, nothing can happen quickly.
Therefore, he decided to organize this witchcraft conference first and try to get a group of wild horses from the other side of the river. This was the most urgent and realistic issue.
Although the arrangements for the witchcraft conference are complicated, fortunately, this is not the first time for the Ba people to hold such a large-scale tribal gathering, and they are already very experienced.
It is even said that only the Ba people have the strength to hold a super large gathering with thousands of people from four large alliances and dozens of tribes.
From the reception to the garrison venue to the arrangement of various gathering activities, the Uzbek people used to basically have a sheep-herding style of management. When a few alliance tribes arrived, they would just leave them on the river beach and ignore them. Everyone would get together and get busy, and then the ceremony would be held.
At first, the great witch presided over a hunting competition ceremony, followed by a bonfire feast, and then started herding sheep again. After two or three days of fun, everyone went back to their homes to find their mothers.
But with Xu Chen as a cheat, the Ba people will naturally not be so careless. Therefore, starting from the first Mother's Day, this opportunity has been held as an opportunity to show the strength of the Ba people, and it has been held for several consecutive Mother's Days.
After holding the shamanistic blessing conference, I am very familiar with all the links, and the preparation is easy.
Xu Chen was responsible for the renovation of the temple on the mountainside and the statue of his late mother.
This is the top priority. After all, God is the supreme spiritual belief and others cannot handle it well.
Since the completion of Bawu Avenue, he has focused his main energy on this matter. He takes a few craftsmen up and down the mountain every day and is busy. In addition, the road up the mountain has not been visited by people for most of the year, and the thorns and vines along the way need to be cleared.
Some areas damaged by rain also need to be repaired and tidied up.
The little witch sisters get together every day and lead a group of young women to rehearse the sacrificial ceremony.
Muba and Amu led the women to clean up the room and prepare to receive the great witches and clan leaders of various tribes who came.
Under the command of a group of officers such as Feng, the men planned the tribe's campsite on the river beach and prepared tents and firewood for the bonfire.
The entire tribe was busy, and the Wu tribe even arranged for more than 20 people to come over to help. After all, their shamans had already moved here to live with the Ba tribe, which made the leader of the Wu tribe helpless and a little excited.
The great shamans of the two tribes are twin sisters. They live and communicate together every day. The shamans of their own tribe can not only learn more knowledge and techniques of the Ba tribe, but also gain more favors from the gods.
The relationship between the two ethnic groups of Ba and Wu has reached an unprecedented harmonious stage due to the construction of this road. People of the two ethnic groups are almost in contact with each other, traveling by car and horse every day for sightseeing, exchanges and trading various goods.
Even the patriarch himself and a group of family leaders would come by carriage every other day or two to visit the temple or help clean and repair the stone paths up the mountain, hoping to gain more protection from the Mother Goddess.
In the carpentry workshop, several carpenters gathered together every day to chop, plan, and drill. It seemed very lively, but after a few days of busy work, what they produced was confusing. They used wooden boards to make a hollow circle.
bucket.
This thing is not used to hold water, but to make a cowhide drum.
According to the current ability of a group of carpenters, the technology for making wooden barrels to fill water is still far behind, and neither the craftsmanship nor the sealing ability can be solved.
However, the barrel is not that easy to make. After all, it is not easy to splice the wooden boards into a hollow cylinder, and the inclination of the contact surface is completely impossible to measure and control.
But after all, it is just a drum, not a barrel. Even if the seal is not good, it will not affect its sound. At most, the sound will be unpleasant.
Therefore, after repeated research by a group of carpenters who were already proficient in making solid wheels, it took three days to successfully make a hollow wooden barrel.
The production method was very simple and crude. Xu Chen also knew that this group of primitive carpenters who had just changed jobs could not complete this difficult task, so he instructed them to piece together a nearly solid thick wooden pillar from very thick wood, and then planed the outside.
After it is rounded, use a specially cast copper bar to hoop it twice, and then use a chisel to continuously hollow out the excess wood in the middle. Repeat this step by step, and finally leave a barrel wall about two centimeters thick, which is the drum barrel.
Already.
Although it is not round, it even looks a little crooked and flat, the appearance is also very rough, and the wall of the barrel is very thick, but overall, this drum already has some appearance.
After the drums were completed, there were only seven or eight days left before the Witch Lord Conference.
Xu Chen put aside other arrangements and began to complete this musical instrument, which had a huge impact on human civilization.
Music is an ancient tradition in China, and drums rank first among the eight tones.
However, in the Zhou Dynasty when ritual music was popular, kings and nobles generally used bronze drums, which were cast from bronze and had a deep and steady sound when struck. When used with bells and chimes, they were called the sound of gold and stone.
However, folk music lovers and ordinary scholar-bureaucrats cannot use bronze vessels, so they can only use musical instruments such as harps, harps, and pipas, which are called the sounds of silk and bamboo. There are many instruments that are played with silk and bamboo, and the most common one is the fou.
The so-called fou is a pottery drum, or a pottery pot. When struck, it makes a reverberating sound, similar to a drum. Therefore, it is suitable for relaxed banquets and gatherings. The sound of the fou is clearer and brighter.
During the Warring States Period, rituals and music collapsed. The boundaries between rituals and music between nobles and civilians were no longer so strict, and the use of musical instruments became chaotic. As long as they were rich and powerful, businessmen dared to listen to the music of gold and stone at home, while kings
The princes also began to listen to the sound of silk and bamboo in the palace.
It is said that the assassin Jing Ke was good at striking the fou, and it was said that he was quite popular with the First Emperor, so Jing Ke took this opportunity to get close to the First Emperor.
There is also a well-known historical allusion to the Qin-Zhao Mianchi Alliance, where Lin Xiangru forced the King of Qin to fight the fou for the King of Zhao.
It can be seen that both common people and kings like percussion music very much. It is mainly based on local materials, simple and direct.
This is the same as many people banging the table and bowls after drinking to the fullest at a banquet.
Because there are also great gods among the people who can beat beautiful music with bowls.
The skin drum is an upgraded and enhanced version of various percussion instruments, with various varieties and formats, and a wide range of uses.
The army has war drums, and when the drums are beaten, the sound is dull and penetrating.
In grand sacrificial activities, big drums with strong sounds will be used.
As for some festive or sacrificial activities among the people, the types of drums are in a mess, such as tambourines, waist drums, tambourines, rattle drums, etc., with different sizes and styles.
In fact, in the current period of primitive tribes, percussion instruments are also used, such as the chest, belly, even arms and legs, and various stones and wood. Anyway, everything can be beaten, it just depends on whether the mood is good or not.
If you are in a good mood, hit yourself; if you are in a bad mood, hit others.
If a group of people are in a good mood, then they will cry and beat their chests, sing and dance. If a group of people are in a bad mood, then they will fight and beat each other. Anyway, there will definitely be some noise.
In addition, when hunters go hunting, if they encounter ferocious beasts in the forest, they will beat some hollow tree trunks violently to make a dull sound to scare away the beasts. This is the oldest drum sound.
Xu Chen naturally disdains things like pottery drums, because the pottery itself is not strong, and it will probably be reimbursed after just one sale.
The bronze drum is too wasteful, and the sound is not impressive enough.
Because of his stupid existence, he decided to make a cowhide drum in one step.
If the Ba people want to gain more respect from tribes, they must constantly innovate.
The Goddess of the Old Mother was launched during the Mother's Day last spring, and the temple was built during the Witch Lord's Conference in the fall.
Bronze wares were launched for Mother's Day this spring. In addition to a newly built road and carriage this autumn, Xu Chen felt that a more special item was needed to scare all the tribes.
After all, the most mysterious golden horn is now familiar to everyone. Although it still has the legendary powerful magical properties, it is no longer new after all.