During the meeting, several witches were very serious. The little witch sisters kept recording the content of the meeting with animal skins and pens. Occasionally they would exchange a few words with each other or put forward some of their own opinions and opinions. The whole meeting atmosphere was
Serious yet active.
This is not the first time Xu Chen has called a meeting of all witches.
Moreover, Xu Chen also asked all witches to actively participate in such gathering discussions, think and speak seriously, and do their best for the development of the alliance.
Several witches also knew that their status was unique, and at the same time, they regarded this large-scale meeting that only witches could attend as a learning opportunity, and they were all very enthusiastic about it.
Although Xu Chen is not a person who likes long speeches, there are not many opportunities for witch gatherings, so he cherishes them. In addition to discussing and arranging some activities for the witch masters conference, he will also discuss the current development situation and the status of each tribe.
He gave some guidance on the difficulties he encountered, so he spent more time giving detailed answers to various questions raised by several witches, trying to make them understand and put them into practice when they returned.
Therefore, the meeting lasted nearly two hours before it ended.
The rest of the work is naturally for these witches to go back to their respective tribes and summon the chiefs of the affiliated tribes to communicate and make arrangements. Xu Chen will not go into detail one by one.
In the future, Xu Chen will gradually separate some government affairs matters from specific work activities.
As the only intellectual class, witches did their part and became the first batch of political officials.
Although divine power and royal power may conflict in the future.
But before the kingship has been established, witches still have the highest say.
Even he, the self-crowned Witch King, only participates in leadership as a witch, and the king is just a false name.
Even if his royal power is established in the future, it will be based on his status as the leader of a group of witches. He will rule all tribes in the name of the witch king, rather than directly commanding each tribe.
However, as tribes communicate more and more closely, the boundaries between ethnic groups are gradually disrupted. After tribes mix, the power of witches will gradually be weakened, until they are transformed into simple clergy or political officials, forming two different
management system.
One is responsible for spiritual governance and consciousness, and the other is responsible for material categories such as production and life.
In the evening, around sunset, the valley was noisy.
There are all kinds of strange tents scattered all over the river beach, including tall, short, large and strange tents.
Bonfires were lit on the river beach.
Groups of women carrying clay pots and pots went to rivers or ponds to wash rice for cooking. The densely packed earth stoves were lit and began to cook food.
Groups of men gathered in the open space on the river beach, wrestling, shooting arrows, throwing stones, and making loud laughter and strange screams.
Starting tomorrow, the Witch Lord Conference will officially begin. The witches have also communicated the event arrangements to all the alliance tribes. Some of the strong hunters selected to participate in the hunting competition have begun to check and prepare weapons and tools, and are gearing up to get together to discuss.
Tomorrow's hunting plan.
Xu Chen was not idle either. He also lit a bonfire in the courtyard, grilled meat and cooked porridge to entertain Long, Lei, Heng and other middle and high-level officers from the Ba Alliance and the Gonghuo Tribe. While having lively exchanges, he also arranged some tasks for the witchcraft conference.
Because there are too many participants, the hunting team is huge, and the environment required to round up wild horses is too large, it is very important to maintain the order of the event and plan specific event arrangements.
As the highest-ranking officer among all tribes, Feng is responsible for coordinating all security work.
Ray is responsible for the order and security of the hunting contest.
Long is responsible for the command and specific process of rounding up wild horses.
Some second-echelon officers such as Heng and Mo are responsible for the security and guarding of the main venue and the ritual, trading, and entertainment competitions.
The elite hunters of all tribes were dispersed and regrouped. They were no longer divided into tribes, but were mixed into different teams of ten. Then every three teams were led by a second lieutenant officer, and every two second lieutenant officers belonged to a lieutenant officer.
manage.
Although it may be a little confusing to command like this.
But Xu Chen wanted to use this kind of mixing to strengthen closer cooperation among the core tribes of Bameng and make elite hunters from different tribes more familiar with each other.
In the future, if his kingdom is established, the core of the army will be the hunter teams of these seven tribes, and there will no longer be a need to distinguish between them, otherwise it will cause chaos in management and security.
"Woo~~"
Just when a group of people were eating meat, drinking, talking and joking while arranging work, they suddenly heard the faint sound of horns outside. Soon someone rode straight to the gate of the compound, and soon a hunter wearing leather armor rushed in to report.
.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, you are welcome!"
Xu Chen put down his wine glass in surprise, and the group of people also stopped eating meat and drinking.
Tomorrow the witchcraft ceremony will officially begin. I thought that the poor people would not come, but I didn’t expect that they would only show up after it was almost dark.
"Gao, you lead a team to greet and arrange a welcome, and at the same time invite their great witch and clan leader to come to the compound!"
"Follow the order!"
Guiyi Gulu got up, grabbed the long knife placed beside him, and strode out following the hunter who reported the news.
A loud noise and cheers soon came from the river beach outside.
The Youqiong tribe is a tribe with a great witch. It has nine affiliated tribes, large and small, with a population of more than 1,500 people. It used to be stronger than the Uzbek tribe alliance, but it was just because they lived in a mountainous environment and had no contact with the outside world.
Very few, several ethnic groups are not very familiar with each other.
Originally, all the tribes were guessing that some poor people would not come this time.
But I didn't expect that they would arrive at the last moment.
Moreover, there were quite a few people coming this time, four to five hundred of them, a vast and dark place, carrying a large amount of goods and food consumed on the road with baskets and burdens on their backs.
With so many people joining, this witchcraft ceremony will naturally become more lively.
Therefore, the crowds of onlookers along the way also kept cheering to welcome this friendly tribe from further away.
Half an hour later, Gaiu entered the compound with the great witch from the poor tribe and several middle-aged and elderly men and women with feathers on their heads. At this time, the great witch sister who had received the news had already brought her younger sister and the Gonghuo Clan, Yu Gong Clan, and Five Ghosts.
The witches of the clan were waiting to welcome him in the courtyard, and Muba and Amu also brought a large group of clan leaders with them.
It was already dusk and the view was not very good, but we could still see that there was a poor clan shaman and a group of clan leaders who came with them, all looking tired and hungry after a long journey.
Therefore, after a simple meeting and greeting, Xu Chen asked the little witch, Mother Ba and others to settle down the poor people first, and then they would drink and eat together.
Then Xu Chen learned through the exchange that in fact, in addition to the several tribes affiliated with the Youqiong tribe, there were also people from two other strange tribes in the northwest who followed the great shaman of the Youqiong tribe.
These two tribes are further away from the Gonghuo Basin. It takes seven or eight days to reach the Youqing tribe, and almost half a month to reach the Ba tribe.
This is already farther than the distance from the Gonghuo Clan to the Cicha Clan.
There are not many people from these two tribes, only about thirty people in total, all of them are men, and each is led by a strong and burly man.
Although the language communication between the two parties was not smooth, after the hunters from the Jia, Lapp and Youqi tribes continued to interpret in three or even four directions, Xu Chen was able to roughly understand the reason and purpose of their coming.
These two tribes belong to a large shaman tribe called Tage in the northwest.
However, the Taket tribe has been at war with another tribe farther north in the past two years. They lost several times in succession and many people died. The two tribes were forced to migrate to the southeast, and then gradually bordered on the poor tribes.
Then the contact started.
There are also some transactions and intermarriages between these tribes on weekdays, but they are not frequent. After all, they belong to two different witch groups.
However, last year, after the poor people came into contact with the Ba people, they acquired many new technologies and knowledge such as rope twisting, net making, and smelting. At the same time, they also obtained magical and exquisite items such as pottery and rock salt from the Ba people.
Poor people would naturally exchange some of these things with foreign tribes further away to obtain the animal skins and other goods they needed.
When you are a dealer or a middleman, you can make a profit at any time.
The same is naturally true for poor people.
They smelted tin using the method taught by Xu Chen, and then exchanged the tin with the Ba people for pottery, linen, rock salt and other exquisite and scarce materials. They then added pottery, rock salt, linen cloth with hemp rope, fishing nets, and straw sandals made by their own tribe.
After exchanging it with the Taqi tribe, you can search for animal skins, gems and other property at several times the price.
The Tage tribe is currently in chaos. When these two tribes saw that the Youqiu tribe had so many exquisite and magical items that they had never seen before, they were in awe and became more willing to communicate with the Youqiu tribe. So this time, the Youqiu tribe's great shaman brought
The two tribes came together to participate in the witchcraft ceremony held by the Ba tribe.
Xu Chen roughly understood that the reason why the great shaman of the poor tribe was willing to bring the hunters of these two strange tribes to participate in this witchcraft conference was probably because he wanted to use the powerful strength of the Ba tribe alliance to completely draw these two tribes together.
Within your own alliance.
Whether it is borrowing the skin of a tiger to raise the banner, or a fox pretending to be a tiger's power, the great witches of the Qing Dynasty are all wise people who know how to take advantage of the situation to expand their influence.
In fact, according to Xu Chen's several contacts with the great witches of the Youqiong tribe, the Youqiong tribe might have the ambition to further annex the Tage tribe.
After all, they not only obtained daily necessities such as pottery, linen, salt, etc. from the Ba tribe, but also exchanged them for bronze items and even started to use leather armor and bows and arrows. At the same time, they also saw the powerful force of the elite hunters trained by the Ba tribe and the Gonghuo tribe.
They only need to imitate and train, and their military strength will suddenly increase a lot in a few years. They will have a great advantage against purely primitive savage tribes like the Tage tribe, which have begun to decline and become chaotic.
If a poor tribe annexes the Taq tribe, the strength of the poor tribe will double, and the population will be close to or even more than 3,000 people. In this way, they will be more inclined not to submit to the Ba tribe, but to learn from the Ba tribe.
The ruling Gonghuo Clan, like the Yu Gong Clan, forms a very large united tribal structure.
In other words, Xu Chen's innovative method of tribal expansion has now been learned and used by the poor.
This is a major advantage of human beings' continuous reproduction and survival in learning.
Although Xu Chen didn't like it, he couldn't stop it.
Because as long as there are poor people standing in the middle, the Ba people will not be able to reach out further to the northwest region, and there are who knows how many tribes there.