In fact, large tribes with five or six hundred people like the Wu tribe and Gonghuo tribe are no longer necessary now.
Previously, caves were needed to settle down, and the poor living conditions forced these tribes to live together. As a result, a powerful tribe was formed, but it also produced a lot of conflicts.
Poor living environment, uneven distribution of food and cold-proof animal skins, competition for water sources and collection areas, etc. The accumulation of these contradictions not only caused disunity within the tribe, but actually also affected the instability of the alliance tribes.
In order to expand their living environment and obtain more survival resources, these tribes are full of desire for external expansion. It would be better if the big witches are more rational, otherwise such large tribes can easily lose control, plunder externally, cause chaos internally, and even kill each other within their families.
Not surprising.
Xu Chen has only gathered four ethnic groups at the moment, but he has already encountered all situations.
The Wu tribe had long wanted to annex and drive away the Ba tribe, but the big witch was still awake and suppressed the tribe and did not proceed. However, the conflicts within the Uzbek tribe accumulated more and more, and the witch almost fell apart after the death of the big witch.
The Gonghuo tribe united with the Qia tribe to launch an attack on the Cang tribe, not only to squeeze the Uzbek tribe alliance, but also to plunder the emerging wealth of pottery.
The competition among the great witches within the Yugong clan caused the departure of the La and Mongolian peoples, and the Maotun people were forced by the Yugong clan to expand their territory to the upper reaches of the Wulong River, and then completely occupied the La clan and killed all the men of the La clan.
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As for the Five Ghost Tribe, they had violent conflicts with neighboring tribes due to the plague, and had to flee their homes and migrate to the edge of the Gonghuo Tribe, living in the cracks.
The poor tribes that have not yet been conquered are actually quite wild. They not only want to use tin to enhance the tribe's strength and harvest wealth, but also want to expand their influence to the northwest. It is estimated that they may attack the chaotic Tage tribe.
After all, all these primitive ethnic groups seem to be independent of each other, and they reproduce and exist independently, struggling to survive in this barbaric era. But in fact, they are all constantly expanding and developing, and there are constant internal and external fights.
Although this time was stretched to decades or even hundreds of years before a major conflict would occur, and other strange tribes were not aware of it, these events still greatly consumed the strength of each tribe.
Some successfully expanded their territories, some became victims, and some hurt each other and disappeared in the long river of human civilization.
Xu Chen traveled through tens of thousands of years and came here. Although he lamented that he was destined to be a savage in this inhospitable place, he still had ideals and beliefs in his heart. He hoped that mankind could develop well under his leadership. At the very least,
When I die, I will never remain a savage, but I hope to leave behind a super domineering name.
Although his death was in vain and Wang Tu's hegemony was just a trace of regret in the man's heart, he still had an ambition that was not too lofty within his ability. Otherwise, he would be a savage for the rest of his life, which would be no different from a salted fish.
What's more, if you don't work hard, you won't even be able to eat a piece of salted fish.
The transportation conditions were used to open up the exchanges among the tribes, and then these transportation lines were used as links to build some new settlements according to the terrain and pattern, slowly forming an original pattern of rural towns.
In particular, we must find ways to break up those large and medium-sized tribes into groups of dozens or hundreds of people. In this way, driven by artificial forces, the rate of human expansion will be ten times and hundreds of times faster than natural expansion.
This can shorten the agricultural civilization pattern that took human beings thousands of years to form to just a hundred years.
Although this area may not be very large, and may eventually have a scale and territory of tens of thousands of people, it will be enough to form the rise of a powerful civilization as long as a new pattern emerges.
There are currently about 500 people in the Uzbek tribe, and it would be very wasteful to concentrate all of them in the Uzu valley. If they can be dismembered into five to ten small tribes, and then find places with suitable terrain and sufficient water sources to live dispersedly, then the control and development of the area
It will be twice as big as the current Ba Nationality Alliance.
The same is true for the Gonghuo Clan and the Yu Gong Clan.
In addition, the Yehuo Clan, the Qu Clan, the Cang Clan, the Five Ghost Clan, and even the Ba Clan itself, which has reached nearly 200 people, all need to be dispersed.
In this way, today's four major ethnic groups can quickly expand into villages with hundreds of people and dozens of people. These villages use transportation arteries and their respective blood groups as links to build a loose clan alliance, and then use transportation to form a loose clan alliance.
With the node as the center, small market towns are formed.
Then, with the market town as the control center, some preliminary military and political systems were established.
Such a new social structure was formed.
And the current primitive tribal form will completely collapse.
This is Xu Chen's plan for the future, and it may take a long time.
Learning to build houses and farm is the core of this reform.
Road construction is the key to activating this reform, opening up communication bottlenecks and allowing blood to flow, so that these tribes that have never interacted with each other can flourish.
The Muya tribe was just an experiment in his planned reforms.
And he believes it will succeed.
Because with his current social status in the world, he is enough to make many tribes in the Ba Alliance and even the Gonghuo Alliance listen to their words and abide by them.
At present, the Muya tribe has been divided into two factions because of his proposal, but most of them support his plan, not to mention the division and expansion of the tribe, which has always been the mainstream.
If the Muya tribe can be divided into two tribes and occupy the Maogong Ridge, a transportation thoroughfare, the strength of the Muya tribe will actually be expanded, not reduced.
Sure enough, before Xu Chen finished a piece of barbecue, the Muya clan's argument came to an end.
A group of hunters and several young and powerful leaders gained the upper hand. Chief Muya decided to agree to Xu Chen's proposal and decided to move some of the tribe's people to Maogong Ridge for development.
Xu Chen smiled and nodded, saying that in order to support the Muya tribe's relocation, he decided to lend the Muya tribe a batch of bronze knives, axes, hoes and wheelbarrows, so that they could complete the relocation as soon as possible during this autumn and winter season and start road construction projects at the same time.
This promise immediately made the Muya clan cheer and cheer, and several hunter leaders even burst into tears with excitement. They clapped their chests and said that as long as they had these tools, they would definitely complete the relocation task this winter.
The people’s support is available!
Xu Chen was both happy and worried, fearing that these guys would beat him to death.
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Chen led people from the Muya tribe to the Cang tribe. Two more hunter guides from the Muya tribe were added to the team.
Because everyone was on horseback, the remaining ten miles or so were not walked very slowly. If not for the investigation of the road construction plan, it would have only taken half an hour.
A group of people stopped and walked along the way, passing by the seemingly wide and smooth places. If they encountered narrow and rugged places or rocky areas in ravines, they would stay to observe and discuss, and then complete the engineering route map.
, make detailed notes on it.
For example, rocks, valleys, woods, steep slopes, etc., and even if you see wild wolves or other beasts, or some wild birds and plants, etc., you will also mark them. In the future, they may be fixed to form a place name for easy memory and naming.
Therefore, the distance from the Wu tribe to the Ji tribe is only sixty or seventy miles. On this newly drawn engineering route map, more than ten areas have been densely marked.
In addition to the already familiar Maogong Ridge, there are also Yezhu River, Eagle Cliff, Luoshitan, Wulanggou, Qingshitan, Oak Ridge, etc.
This kind of place name is simple and easy to remember. As long as you pass by it once, you can remember it deeply based on the terrain characteristics.
When the road is built, Xu Chen will plant stone monuments or cliff carvings along the way, which will be both an indelible diary and a great achievement.
Anyway, he came to this primitive era for no reason. Xu Chen didn't intend to come naked and leave silently.
I always feel sorry for myself if I don't leave anything behind.
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Around evening, Xu Chen and others arrived at the Ji clan.
It's been two years since I came here, and the Ji clan has also changed a lot.
At the foot of the mountain far away from the river beach, in addition to the two adobe compounds built, there is also a large area of withered and yellow farmland left after harvest.
The farmland area is not small, it seems to be at least 500 acres. In addition, in some low-lying areas along the river, there are some simple dams built with stones and soil. You can even see a diversion channel from the upper reaches of the Jicang River to a pond near the compound.
of ditch.
These scenes seem familiar.
In fact, all tribes are just following the example of the Ba tribe.
Not far from the courtyard, there are two earthen kilns emitting green smoke, which should be burning lime.
In addition, a lot of felled firewood and stones were piled between the kiln and the compound, and there were also many laid out mud bricks on the riverbank grassland.
Several horses were tied to the river beach and grazing. A group of boys, girls and children wearing simple linen clothes or animal skins were throwing the collected bright green leaves and weeds to the horses to eat. Two ponies were chasing a few children.
It was around dinner time, so in the Hetanshanlin Kiln Factory compound, you could see men and women returning home from work everywhere, some carrying rattan baskets, some carrying wood, and some carrying axes or hoes.
Downstream, several horses were galloping along the river beach. The hunters on the horses were wearing leather armor and carrying bows and arrows on their backs. There were also bloody beasts lying on the horses, talking and laughing loudly, flying far away in the late autumn evening wind.
"Look, it's His Majesty the Witch King!"
Suddenly, a sharp-eyed hunter pointed upstream in the direction of the Muya Clan Valley and shouted in surprise.
A group of hunters went out in search of fame, and sure enough they saw a king's flag and more than a dozen horses coming, crushing the afterglow.
"Your Majesty the Witch King!"
Several hunters were instantly surprised. They threw several large and small beasts on the river beach with a bang, then whipped their horses and went straight towards Xu Chen and others.
"Jilaiga!"
A group of hunters riding horses next to Xu Chen all laughed.