At present, human beings are in the stage of migrating from mountains to low hilly areas. Before they really learned farming and animal husbandry, life in mountainous areas has always been the mainstream.
They just started to consciously and simply maintain the collection area, and gradually evolved from pure hunting and collecting wild fruits to collecting plant seeds, rhizomes and other grains. However, if humans do not learn to build houses and farm fields, they will not be able to escape the shackles of the mountains.
The Youqiong and Tage tribes are still in the same state as the Ba tribe and the Gonghuo tribe a few years ago, and are even more barbaric.
But Xu Chen doesn't care about the ambitions of poor people at the moment.
The main reason is that after he annexed the Gonghuo Tribe, the Yugong Tribe and the Five Ghost Tribes in one go in the past two years, he still needs to slowly and completely digest these three tribes and complete the farming upgrade before he will consider the expansion of further areas.
It's like he clearly knows the existence of the Cicha clan, but he doesn't go out to conquer it. The main reason is that the gain outweighs the loss.
Even if the poor tribe annexed the Tage tribe, it would actually be more beneficial in Xu Chen's opinion.
Because in this way he can spread various low-end technologies and knowledge through the poor people, and even the techniques of building houses and farming will be spread there. Slowly, these stranger tribes further away will also build houses and farm and start to change their living habits.
Slowly embark on the road to stability and prosperity.
Only wealthy tribes are more worthy of conquering.
It is impossible to make a fortune by robbing poor people in your lifetime.
Fattened pigs are easier to kill.
Therefore, even if he saw through the simple and exposed ambition of the poor witch, Xu Chen would not make any move. He would just wait and see and let the bullets fly for a while.
When he completely smoothes things over, finds a suitable opportunity, and starts the third round of expansion, the poor tribes will inevitably bear the brunt. By then, he will have snatched back a large area of ​​territory and thousands of people, and these tribes will
Everyone has begun to learn farming and weaving, and that is the best time to harvest wealth and strengthen their rule.
However, Xu Chen was still very interested in the two newly arrived subordinate tribes of the Tage tribe. He specially invited the two hunter leaders to have a banquet and drink together, and also presented each with a bronze dagger.
Facing these delicacies that they had never tasted before and the exquisite and sharp magical weapons, the two tall and strong men who were already trembling with fear were so excited that they fell down on the ground and were extremely grateful.
There are not many rich people with such exquisite and sharp golden weapons, only a few of them, and they are unwilling to show them to them like the most precious treasures. It is impossible to exchange them.
But today they discovered that many of the hunters who participated in the witchcraft conference actually had such weapons. Not only did the large group of hunters who accompanied them to drink and eat meat look extremely brave at first glance, they were even more powerful than the hunters from the Ba Alliance.
There is a bigger and longer sharp weapon, and these people even have a yellow waist badge, which makes them stand out from the crowd at first glance.
As for the young man who was surrounded by stars in the center and kept asking questions and gave them mysterious weapons, he was even more respected. Everyone respected him extremely, and every word he ordered was immediately followed.
It is said that this young man is called His Majesty the Witch King and is the leader of several large tribes. All the incredible things they saw in the Ba tribe were invented by this His Majesty the Witch King. The great witches of all tribes must bow to him.
On their way here, they still didn't understand how powerful the Ba people were.
But after arriving, they realized that what some poor people said was far less shocking than what they saw with their own eyes.
They had never seen or heard of a large gathering with thousands of people from dozens of tribes.
As for magical things like leather armor, bows, horses, and bronze, they were even unheard of.
Not only what they saw and heard, but also the wine and food were infinitely delicious that they had never encountered before.
Take one sip and your soul will be intoxicated.
Xu Chen led a group of officers and two Tage hunter leaders to eat, drink, talk, laugh and communicate around the campfire in the compound.
The little witch took her mother and others to the fire pond to eat, drink, exchange and learn with a group of witches and clan leaders.
There was a poor witch who was listening a little absent-mindedly. From time to time, she would secretly glance outside, wondering what Xu Chen and the two Tage hunter leaders were talking about.
However, after eating and drinking, she felt both shocked and jealous when she learned that Xu Chen gave each of them a bronze dagger.
For this kind of golden dagger, some poor people need to spend dozens of kilograms of tin to get one.
At present, the entire poor people have less than ten kinds of bronze wares in total.
These two guys were just lucky enough to get a handful each when they arrived.
While she was envious and jealous, she vaguely felt that something was not quite right, but she could not think it through in a short time. She could only put aside her doubts temporarily and start preparing for tomorrow's hunting competition.
Although they are a foreign tribe, they can also participate in hunting competitions. If they win, they can still receive the blessing of the Ba tribe's great witch, but they will not receive the title of warrior, and will only receive ordinary prizes such as pottery and linen.
In fact, they came here for these rewards.
Just exchanging wealth with tribes such as the Ba Gonghuo tribe is too costly. After all, winter is coming soon, and a lot of soft and thick animal skins have to be left in the tribe to keep out the cold.
And this opportunity to gain wealth purely through competition is hugely attractive to tribes like them who don't have much wealth.
Therefore, this time the poor people came well prepared. In addition to bringing several hundred kilograms of tin to exchange for tools such as bronze knives and axes, they also wanted to obtain more pottery and other rewards in hunting competitions and other entertainment competitions.
Even the two affiliated tribes of the Taket tribe were tempted by them and each arranged a team of more than ten hunters to participate in the competition and get a bargain.
What if you really win an award?
You know, a clay pot is now worth four or five animal skins to some poor people, and it is so expensive that it makes their hearts bleed.
In order to obtain some pottery and hemp rope for fishing nets, the two tribes were almost squeezed dry by the poor.
But no matter what the poor people and these strange tribes thought, the Ba people welcomed them with a warm welcome and treated them with all kinds of due hospitality.
Someone arranged to take care of the tribe's garrison and food and drink facilities, and even lent them a lot of pottery for temporary cooking.
After night falls, bonfires and torches are everywhere on the river beach in the entire Ba Valley. Men, women and children who have eaten and drank well are bathing in the clear moonlight of the round autumn moon under the dry late autumn night, gathering around on the river beach.
Singing and dancing around the bonfire, making loud noises and having fun.
Regardless of the size of the population or the number of participating tribes, this year's witchcraft conference is much larger than last year.
This joyful and lively scene not only amazed all the shamans and tribes who participated in the meeting, but also Muba and others were beaming with laughter.
Although the preparations for this conference were busy and tiring, and consumed a lot of the tribe's wealth, in the end, this was a sign that the Ba tribe was becoming stronger.
This shows that the Ba people are receiving more and more care and blessing from the gods.
After a night of fun, the witchcraft ceremony officially kicked off early the next morning.
After dawn, the entire river beach is even more spectacular.
The densely packed tents are divided into different ethnic groups, and more than a dozen flags flutter in the misty and cool morning breeze.
Teams of hunters, either fully armed or wearing fur-and-match clothing, holding bows, arrows, spears and other weapons, all lined up in front of their tribes to wait.
There were also some tribesmen of the Ba and Uzbek tribes who lined up in front, as well as officers wearing double-layered leather armor with bronze medals and sabers hanging on their waists. They were riding on horseback with a majestic expression, holding spears and carrying bows and arrows with leering eyes.
"Woo~wu~wu~~"
Accompanied by several long horn blasts, a long procession filed in from the direction of the Ba ethnic compound.
There was a carriage first. There was a strange red round thing on the carriage, and there was a shirtless man with a red cloth band around his head standing on it. He was holding two short sticks in each hand. He looked majestic but didn't know what he was doing.
The carriage was followed by more than a dozen horses, with some blowing trumpets, some holding flags, and some holding spears and bows on their backs, surrounding a mighty young man wearing leather armor and a red cloak.
After the horse team, there is the hunter team of the Ba tribe. Forty people are divided into four groups. The spearmen and archers are all wearing leather armor and long boots. They have cloth on their heads and daggers hanging on their waists.
The two carriages in the middle are moving slowly and impressively.
Riding in the first carriage was a great shaman of the Ba ethnic group, wearing a brand new embroidered dress and blue cloak, holding a golden scepter with a serious face.
There were several other witches sitting in the car behind them. Except for the big witch from a poor family, the rest all wore the same embroidered long skirts and white cloaks, holding scepters and looking serious.
"Woooooo~~"
Accompanied by the sound of horns and the sound of horse hooves, Xu Chen and a group of witches got closer and closer, and the men, women, and children of all races waiting in line on the river beach began to get excited and commotion.
"Winter~winter~winter~winter~"
Just as the carriage entered the camp area, the shirtless man on the first carriage suddenly raised the short stick in his hand and struck it hard on the strange red object. In an instant, a thunderous sound sounded, and the entire river beach was instantly quiet.
Coming down, countless people had looks of fear on their faces.
Although they have never actually seen this thing, they have heard knocking sounds frequently in the past few days.
It is said that this is another mysterious musical instrument invented by His Majesty the Witch King, which is similar to the horn of God. It is called a drum. Beating it can produce thunder, which can release the power of the gods to frighten all beasts and encourage people.
But now it has a mysterious face, and the voice is truly terrifying.
Every time it is hammered, the deep sound will make people's hearts tremble. From a close distance, the buzzing in the ears seems to make the soul lose control.
Especially the Qiong tribe and the Tage tribe, which were the last to arrive to watch the ceremony and participate in the competition, knew almost nothing about the existence of drums. They were even more frightened and trembling. Some even screamed and lay on the ground.
On the ground, if other tribes were not still calm and orderly and did not cause any commotion, otherwise they would definitely be frightened and flee in all directions, just like when the Uzbek tribe faced the golden horn, they were completely confused and confused.