Although the waterway traffic between Jicang River and Wulong River has begun and is very fast, in general it can only be used as a supplement, because it is not only dangerous, but also full of unknown and complicated situations.
A simple raft cannot effectively guarantee safety.
In the past year or so, several members of the Cang, Qia, and Gonghuo tribes have gone missing or died due to falling into the water. There are also many goods that have been damaged by water or were overturned and lost.
Although most of these accidents occurred during the high water season at the turn of spring and summer, it is undeniable that there are great hidden dangers in waterway transportation. If you are not in a hurry, it is much safer to travel by land.
Just like every time they come to the Ba tribe to participate in tribal activities, whether it is the Gonghuo tribe or the Yu Gong tribe, most people from the two alliance tribes will choose to take the land route, and they are willing to take a detour for a few days. Only those tribesmen who are familiar with water and are brave,
Only then would they choose to take the water route on a raft.
Currently, it takes seven or eight days to travel by land from the Gonghuo Tribe to the Ba Tribe. If such a wide road is built, a trip by carriage may only take two to three days. Not only will the time be saved by more than half, but people will also be very relaxed.
Therefore, the easier and further we walked along this broad road, the more excited and fiery the old witch became.
"Cough cough cough cough..."
The old witch was sitting on the rickety and bumpy rattan sedan and coughed hard.
From the inside, although she surrendered to the Ba tribe and accepted the inheritance of the Ba tribe's great witch, she actually felt aggrieved and helpless.
Although they have been benefiting from the Ba people continuously since they surrendered, the development of the U people has also completely changed the extremely poor and difficult living environment in the past. Through her guidance and the efforts of the people, they finally achieved a bumper harvest this year and built enough buildings.
The houses where the tribesmen live began to enter a stage of rapid development.
But deep down in her heart, she is still a little dissatisfied with the Ba tribe, or the pride of the great witch makes her unwilling to become a vassal of the Ba tribe. She still wants to make the Gonghuo tribe stronger through her own efforts, and eventually become like the Ba tribe.
Rich and prosperous, this way it can maintain relative independence, and one day restore its own great witchcraft heritage, and then sit on an equal footing with the Ba people and become a truly independent neighboring tribe.
"This star really wants to retire"
However, as the number of visits to the Ba tribe increases, this pride is weakened and weakened.
But this time when she came, this wide road for carriages suddenly appeared out of thin air. While she saw a more prosperous future, she suffered another heavy blow. The last remaining thoughts in her heart were completely shattered and turned into helplessness.
The sighs and awe disappeared.
The Ba clan, guarded by Xu Chen and Da Wu, could no longer be shaken.
Any tribe has no other option but to submit respectfully.
Including the poor people, if their great witch continues to persist foolishly, he will definitely regret it in a few years.
And she was very fortunate that because of her persistence, the Gonghuo tribe finally survived the most difficult days, successfully kept up with the pace of development of the Ba tribe alliance, and completely got rid of the difficult years of lack of food and clothing.
With the arrival of participating teams such as the Gonghuo tribe and the Five Ghost tribe, all the alliance tribes conquered by the Ba tribe have arrived. The entire valley is almost full. At a glance, there are densely packed tents, stoves and burning fires everywhere.
heap.
The sun sets in the west.
The entire Ba Valley was full of people and noisy.
More than a dozen flags lined up in a row were fluttering under the dry autumn wind and the setting sun, while horses neighed and horns sounded one after another.
There are also hunters wearing leather armor and holding spears patrolling back and forth to maintain order.
Every once in a while, there will be hunters with bows and arrows on their backs or officers with long swords on their waists riding horses to patrol the river beach, always ready to suppress some barbaric guys who make too much noise.
Of course, there are lessons learned from the Gonghuo Tribe and the Yu Gong Tribe who were punished for fighting. All tribes are very restrained. Even entertainment activities such as wrestling and fighting that are common among some tribes are cautious, for fear of causing accidental injuries and incurring punishment, and losing the opportunity to participate in hunting.
It's a pity, but if you are really deprived of the right to be blessed by the great witch and worship the mother goddess, it will be a lifetime of bad luck.
Of course, as soon as the great shaman of the Gonghuo tribe arrived at the Ba tribe, he listened to the tribe’s report on the causes and consequences of the conflict with the Yu Gong tribe.
As for the station arrangement, the great shaman of the Gonghuo Clan will naturally not be as frustrated as the hunter who captured the Legion and then look for trouble with the Yu Gong Clan.
And given their status and status, they would not go to Xu Chen to ask for justice.
In fact, Xu Chen's handling of it this way has given her a lot of face and also taken care of the Gonghuo clan's emotions.
After all, the Gonghuo Clan and the Yugong Clan have the same status now, and there is no distinction between strength and weakness. If we insist on distinguishing one from the other, it would be that the Gonghuo Clan was defeated earlier and more miserably.
Compared to Xu Chen who conquered the Yu Gong clan and mobilized hundreds of people to participate in the frontal attack, when he conquered the Gonghuo clan, he only used forty people.
Xu Chen left huge leeway for the punishment of the two clans. He only asked the two great witches to negotiate and deal with it under the auspices of the great witch after they arrived. Therefore, after the great witch and the old witch of the Yugong clan arrived, there was no need for the great witch to mediate. The two were together.
After a few words of discussion, Xu Chen admitted his mistake and was willing to accept the punishment. He just hoped that he would not be excluded from the hunting competition, let alone be restricted from worshiping the mother goddess.
Naturally, Xu Chen was very pleased with the sincere admission of mistakes by the great witches of the two tribes. He said that this matter would be handled as such, and he hoped that they would restrain their respective tribes in the future and not destroy the hard-won peace and stability because of some meaningless fights.
situation.
A riot in which more than ten people were injured ended so lightly. Not only did the two witches breathe a sigh of relief, but the news spread. Men, women, and children from more than a dozen tribes of the two tribes also cheered excitedly on the river beach, thanking the witches.
His Majesty’s magnanimity.
According to the rules of previous years, on September 15th, all tribes participating in the witchcraft meeting should arrive.
However, the poor tribes who were invited guests have not shown up yet.
Although they do not belong to the Ba Nationality Alliance Tribe, they have participated in Mother's Day after all. When they left last time, their great shaman repeatedly promised to come to attend the witchcraft ceremony in the autumn.
It was afternoon in a blink of an eye, and Xu Chen didn't have much hope anymore.
Call five witches to hold a joint meeting to arrange some schedules for this witchcraft conference.
Although they are all familiar steps, after all, it is a new year and a new atmosphere. Xu Chen is still very concerned about the huge impetus that such large gatherings bring to the progress of civilization.
Because under the current difficult traffic conditions, such large-scale gatherings are rare and are a very important learning and exchange event.
According to the schedule and the enthusiasm of all participating tribes, the conference time was extended by one day.
The first day was the hunting competition, and the venue was still at Wild Wolf Beach on the other side of the river.
There are currently twenty-six participating tribes, and the number of competition teams will reach an unprecedented 260 people. In order to avoid conflicts between tribes competing for prey during the competition, Xu Chen has arranged for hunters to cross the river in advance.
There are hunting areas for different alliance tribes, and during the competition there will be a strictly trained team of elite hunters to monitor and deal with some sudden incidents.
The next day is a horse hunting activity. The target is several groups of wild horses more than ten miles downstream of Wild Wolf Beach. There are currently hundreds of wild horses found, divided into nearly ten groups, large and small, but basically they all live in the upper and lower areas.
An area not exceeding five miles.
Rounding up wild horses is the highlight of this witchcraft conference and the most exciting topic among all tribes.
If you win a hunting competition, you will get at most a warrior title or some leather armor, bows, arrows, pottery, linen and other rewards. Although they are also very valuable, they are not worth mentioning compared to the value of the horse. Even bronzes are slightly less.
Absolutely no one is willing to trade a horse for even the sharpest bronze weapon.
Because bronzes are dead, having them is the icing on the cake. Otherwise, spears, stone axes, and hunting and cutting down trees are the same, but horses are completely different. The thrill of riding a horse and hunting at lightning speed is simply ecstasy.
Especially after experiencing horse-drawn carriages among the Ba people in the past few days, this magical means of transportation has completely conquered men, women, and children from all tribes.
Some neighboring tribes have begun to discuss building roads during the conference.
But just building roads is useless, you need horses.
Therefore, the horse-catching activity at this witchcraft conference is one of the arrangements that all tribes are most looking forward to and concerned about. In particular, several witches are more concerned about it. After all, it is related to the future development of the tribe, whether there are horses or not.
The tribes are completely different, and the development speed brought about by more horses and fewer horses is also completely different.
Therefore, all tribes want to get back a few more horses at this witchcraft conference.
Therefore, the discussion at this meeting was not how to round up the wild horses, but the distribution of the horses after they were obtained.
After all, horse hunting is the job of hunters, and the role of witches is to control and guide, ensuring the fair and just development of various ethnic groups and tribes.
The third day is for networking and trading activities.
This is the busiest and most relaxing day.
The Grand Witch Conference convenes all witches and tribal leaders to exchange life experiences, teach some advanced technologies of the Ba people and learn writing.
Hunters from each tribe will collectively hold some traditional competitions such as spear throwing, archery, stone throwing, chasing, horse riding, wrestling, etc., and evaluate the results and award prizes.
Trading activities will be carried out at the same time, and the river beach will be filled with trading goods brought by various tribes.
The activity arrangement is very simple, similar to last year, but it needs to be more careful and grand.
Last year, whether it was the hunting competition across the river, the rounding up of wild horses, or even the exchange and entertainment competitions, the arrangements were very chaotic and hurried, and in the end almost everything seemed to be unfinished.
But this year is different. Xu Chen started preparations early. Whether it was the raft crossing the river, the hunting competition venue at Wild Wolf Beach across the way, or the movements of the wild horses, everything was arranged properly, and he would definitely not be as busy as last year.