On September 12th, the first group of tribes to participate in the Witch Lords Conference arrived. They were the Ji and Cang people who formed a team. Two tribal flags were fluttering under the bright autumn sun, and horns were blown all the way along the newly built Bawu Avenue.
Facing this suddenly wide and flat road, the people of the Ji Cang Clan were surprised and excited, but also felt inexplicable anxiety and restlessness.
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In terms of status, the six tribes in the Ba Alliance are one. Although there is now an additional Lei tribe, the Lei tribe is far away in the Gonghuo Basin and is a new tribe that just split away. Therefore, their presence is relatively low. Among them,
In my heart, these veteran tribes are the core of the Ba Alliance.
They arrived at the Wu tribe and found that not only roads had been built in the Ba tribe's valley, but also a magical two-wheeled carriage that could carry many people. After looking around and asking in surprise, they found out that this carriage actually came from the Ba tribe, and it was not from today.
Only available in the morning and afternoon every day.
It turns out that just last month, the Ba and U ethnic groups jointly built a wide road from the U ethnic group to the Ba ethnic group, which allows this magical carriage to pass quickly. Not only can people go back and forth for sightseeing, but it can also haul goods. It is fast and efficient.
Smooth, not much slower than riding a horse.
As a result, the people of the Ji Cang Clan couldn't stay in the Wu Clan even more. After a restful night, the two tribes couldn't wait to set off for the Ba Clan.
The Wu tribe also enthusiastically arranged for a few hunters to act as guides, and they rode horses to accompany the two tribes as they headed toward the Ba tribe along the newly built Bawu Avenue.
When they stepped onto this forest road built on the hillside, the two tribes were stunned.
The emergence of this road completely broke their understanding of transportation.
It turns out that traveling between tribes can be so smooth and comfortable.
On this wide and clean dirt road, there are no weeds, no thorns, no messy stones, and no all kinds of fearful beasts, insects, and snakes. Just keep going along the road, and the end will be the destination of this party, Ba
clan.
This is an unprecedented smooth experience.
Therefore, during the process of walking along this road, the men, women, and children of both groups were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. They shouted and screamed all the way. Everything they saw felt fresh and surprising, especially every time.
Seeing the wooden houses built on the roadside from a distance, they would rush in to have a look. Occasionally they found a wooden bridge, and Ye Yi gathered to watch and make noises.
Bridges are not uncommon. Very ancient primitive people knew how to cross rivers along the tree trunks built on river ditches and streams. However, they are usually single-plank bridges, and most of them are natural dead trees. It is impossible for someone to cut down the wood to build one.
The wooden bridge passes back and forth.
But there are no less than five bridges built on this road. Although they are all very small, with the widest one only about three meters, they are all made of thick logs placed side by side like rafts and put together with wooden wedges.
A carriage full of seven or eight people can still pass smoothly.
As if they had discovered a new world, the two tribes walked all the way sightseeing, and it took them most of a day to reach the Bazu Pass.
And here, they discovered an even more magical section of road.
A section of the road hanging on the rocky slope of the cliff actually cracked open the hard rock to create a wide road that was half hanging on the rocky slope. On the side of the road facing the river, a suspended wooden bridge and plank road was built with stones and wood.
There are even railings.
Although this trestle is not high, only two meters above the ground, people from both tribes gathered on it and shouted excitedly. They were truly like a group of tourists in later generations, deeply impressed by the magical road in front of them.
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If there were cameras, this group of people would probably take photos there repeatedly.
After the stone bridge was built, Xu Chen originally planned to dig a stone path along the ridge of the stone slope to the top of the mountain on the side, leading to the top of the hill in the west, and then build a temple to worship the eye of the gods on it.
Unfortunately, there was not enough time for the altar, so the stone steps were dug up and stopped after dozens of steps.
This matter will continue after the Witch Lords Conference, and by next spring’s Mother’s Day, it should become another place of worship related to gods for the Ba people in addition to the temple.
This is not a project that Xu Chen suddenly thought of, but it started after he discovered the Eye of the God.
After all, it is very troublesome to have to stop and squat or kowtow on the valley river beach every time you enter and leave the valley.
With such a formal place of worship, this kind of worship can become serious and formal.
The Cang and Ji tribes arrived three days in advance, breaking the previous attendance record.
These tribes arrived earlier and earlier. Although the Ba tribe became lively in advance, it also gave Xu Chen some headaches.
The earlier these tribes arrive, the greater the consumption will be, which will naturally bring more trouble to the Ba people's logistics and management.
But they were guests from afar. The Ba people did not have the petty thoughts of Xu Chen. Instead, they held a very warm and grand welcome ceremony. A group of hunters, including You Feng, rode on horseback from the entrance of the valley, holding flags and horns to attract the early arrivals.
The teams of the two ethnic groups entered the valley and settled down. They planted their ethnic flags on the piles of rocks and began to set up tents.
But this is just the beginning. The Ji Clan and Cang Clan arrived quickly and early because of their proximity. In the next three days, other tribes will also arrive in groups. That is when the entire tribe is busiest.
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Sure enough, the appearance of the Cang and Ji tribes was like the beginning of peak season tourism.
On the afternoon of the next day, many people from the Uzbek tribe near Chichi came in groups, riding carriages and pushing carts and wheelbarrows. Inside were piles of various animal skins, straw sandals, fishing nets, and linen.
Dried meat, dried fish, bows and arrows, wild fruits and other goods.
However, these people were just the vanguard. When they saw the Ji Cang Clan coming, they hurried over to occupy a better garrison site.
What's more, since the road was built, the two tribes have been communicating very frequently. Recently, carriages and hunters have been coming and going almost every day. Therefore, after the U tribe came, they became familiar with the Ba tribe as if they were their own tribe. They ate, drank, and mingled with the Ba tribe.
, there is absolutely no sense of strangeness and alienation like before.
In the evening, an army of dozens of rafts came upstream from the lower reaches, and finally docked in chaos near the Shuiwan Pier at the mouth of the Bashui River.
A large number of animal skins and other cargo were bundled on the raft, as well as a team of nearly two hundred hunters.
This is the vanguard of the eight tribes of the Yugong Clan Alliance. It took them three days to cross the waterway and arrived two days ahead of the Witch Lord Conference.
The Yugong clan came earlier this year than the Gonghuo clan, which surprised and surprised Xu Chen.
This shows that water transportation is indeed faster than land transportation.
But seeing that almost all of these people were soaked, and a large number of animal skins and goods were also soaked and became extremely heavy, Xu Chen felt that such speed also came at a high price, and the walk was not very smooth.
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Of course, the people of the Yugong clan didn't care. After they arrived at the Ba clan, they first visited the twin little witches and sent some gifts specially dedicated to the big witch. In addition, they also sent a special gift to Xu Chen, the witch king.
They picked up the colorful furs of wild beasts and then occupied the camp closest to the Ba Alliance on the river beach and began to set up tents.
Although tribal gatherings and campsites are planned and arranged in a unified way, the location can be good or bad. The best location is naturally close to the foot of the mountain and the Ba Clan compound. After all, it is convenient for everything, and many news can be known to the earliest, even when going to the Ba Clan.
It is much more convenient to visit the compound and watch the excitement.
These planned residences are not fixed, but are in a first-come, first-served order. Each residence is demarcated with lime and tree stumps. Those who come first will naturally occupy a better position, and those who come later will have to move to a newer location.
They were stationed in the direction of the far valley mouth.
In the past few gatherings, the Yu Gong clan was basically stationed in the outermost area because they were unfamiliar with the place and arrived a little late. However, this year they learned the lesson and arrived early, occupying the second best place.
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And on the afternoon when the Yugong tribe's waterway army arrived, hundreds of people from the Gonghuo tribe took rafts and arrived in advance of the Ba tribe.
After arriving, they discovered that the second best station position they had previously occupied was actually occupied by a group of southern barbarians from the Yu Gong clan. They were immediately furious. As soon as the goods were thrown away, they clamored to drive away the Yu Gong clan.
Most of the Gonghuo tribe's hunters are those who have undergone labor reform and training in the Ba tribe alliance, and their bows, arrows, bronze daggers and other weapons are also more sophisticated, and they have a good relationship with the Ba tribe, so they don't put the Gonghuo tribe at all.
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Although the Yugong clan's weapons are not as good as their opponents, they have more people and arrive half a day early, so they can recover their physical strength better after resting.
The two groups refused to give in and started pushing and yelling at each other on the river beach.
Faced with the conflict between the two tribes, the tribes such as the Wu tribe and the Cang tribe that arrived first not only did not stop it, but instead followed the crowds and made noises in a lively manner.
With two tribes that have great witches at their command and are of equal strength, the fight will definitely be exciting.
After all, watching the excitement is not too much. This is not only the case for later generations of Chinese people, but also for the primitive savages thousands of years ago. This is a typical mentality of eating too much.
A group of captives from the Gonghuo Tribe had only been with the Ba Tribe, but they had never lost face so much in front of other tribes.
Although they were taken captive by the Ba people and underwent one year of labor reform.
But for them, that is not shame, but pride.
Because the year when the Ba people underwent transformation was also the year when their souls were reborn and sublimated. The Ba people were their second hometown and holy land of faith. Apart from a few Ba people's alliance tribes, they were definitely their second brothers.
, the second best garrison location must belong to the Gonghuo Tribe, and other tribes can only stand aside.
Under this strong thinking, the Gonghuo tribe's attitude was very arrogant.
The Yugong clan is also extremely barbaric. It was a great shame and humiliation for them that their great shaman and the great shaman of the Gonghuo clan had to give up in a duel. What's more, there is no fixed arrangement for the garrison. Naturally, it's first come, first served, so they won't even take a step.
Give way.
The two sides were already at war with each other, and the first group of men from the Ji tribe, the Cang tribe, the Wu tribe, and other tribes to arrive continued to watch and make noises. During the pushing and shouting, some people couldn't help but start using weapons, waving sticks and spears, and a fight broke out.
A small matter of fighting over the location quickly turned into a large-scale fight and riot.