The so-called king's hegemony does not necessarily mean wealth, but an ideal and belief.
Use the accumulated popularity, reputation and wealth to form a kind of control and form an irresistible authority. One person orders and all races obey.
If you want to say it has any meaning, it means nothing at all. Emperors will not live longer than poor people, and they will disappear when they die, but this is the value of life.
When a person can reach this height, then he can influence the development of the entire world and enjoy the fun of control.
Therefore, you can regard Wangtu Hegemony as a game, life and death as a dream, there is not even a save file, and in the end, all that can be left is just a guide.
The First Emperor conquered the six kingdoms and achieved unprecedented hegemony, achieving his reputation as an emperor through the ages. Later emperors and heroes followed him one after another, all hoping to reach or even surpass his height. This is the goal of later players.
Xu Chen has now opened this game, so naturally he still has to play it seriously. After all, not everyone has a chance to play this real-life empire upgrade game.
In fact, up to now, he is already playing this game quite well.
As long as the land transportation between the B League and the Gonghuo League is completely opened, the foundation of his king's hegemony will have been solidified. The remaining time will be to continue to open up wasteland, just like the tribes now continue to burn wasteland to cultivate land, and slowly
As they accumulate, the tribe will become richer and richer, the kingdom will become larger and larger, and its strength will become stronger and stronger.
The road construction is now almost completed, and several other tasks arranged by Xu Chen are also slowly coming to fruition.
Under his guidance, the Hu people began to burn charcoal. After two months of study and experimentation, they finally got a good harvest in November. The three charcoal kilns along Bawu Avenue began to produce charcoal one after another, and four thousand charcoal were sent to the Ba people one after another.
The remaining kilograms of charcoal can be burned for another round before spring sowing, and it is estimated that there are still several thousand kilograms of charcoal.
With these charcoal reserves, the Ba people can not only keep the tribe warm throughout the winter, but also meet the smelting supply for most of next year, so that the casting of bronze tools and weapons will not be delayed.
Xu Chen still paid for the charcoal from the Hu tribe with copper coins.
However, burning charcoal is much simpler than mining and smelting, so the value is naturally much lower. Xu Chen always settles the bill based on twenty kilograms of charcoal per penny.
The more than 4,000 kilograms of charcoal sent by the Hu people were exchanged for more than 200 yuan. Although it didn't seem like much, for the Hu people who had no resources before, what Xu Chen gave them was undoubtedly a huge sum.
of wealth.
They only need to burn charcoal for one season in winter every year to harvest copper coins worth thousands of kilograms of grain. With these copper coins, they can buy any items they want from the Ba people, such as pottery, salt, animal skins, bronze tools, etc.
Of course, as the most important food for the tribe's security, it cannot be supplied unlimitedly. Xu Chen promised them that as long as the Ba tribe had extra food, when other tribes were in dire need, they could always use copper coins to buy it or exchange it for other items of equal value.
All items other than food are open to supply and are exchanged according to the currently established transaction price, and will never be refused.
As the three most recent tribes, the Hu, Wu, and Ba, began to use copper coins in large quantities to trade goods, soon this magical copper instrument called money began to spread to all tribes in the Bameng along with the news of road construction.
At the same time, news also spread that the Uzbek people could use copper coins to trade various foods during winter and spring, mainly wheat beans and roots and cereals, as well as dried fish and dried meat.
Xu Chen also conveyed the message when delivering road construction tools to various tribes through the hunters of the Ba tribe, hoping that the brother tribes would hunt and fish in winter and spring to collect various foods to support the Uzu mining and smelting copper, so that everyone would have enough bronze tools to use.
, and Xu Chen also announced the copper coin transaction price set by the Ba tribe. In order to let the other three tribes understand the copper coins, he specially gave ten coins as gifts to the Muya tribe, Cang tribe and Ji tribe respectively.
Seeing such a small and exquisite bronze vessel, the three tribal chiefs were puzzled and very excited at the same time.
Can such a small thing be exchanged for anything?
But this is the news passed down by His Majesty the Witch King, and since it has been confirmed by the two great witches and the three tribes, it is definitely not false.
As for why they can exchange copper coins for things, they have never thought that this is the idea of His Majesty the Witch King. Even if he said that he could exchange stones for things, he would definitely be able to exchange them. Anyone can doubt it, but they must not doubt him.
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And since copper coins are so small and easy to use, of course the more the better.
Therefore, after the news spread, almost all tribes in Bameng mobilized. While building roads and cultivating fields, they also began to use their spare time to dig out various plant roots and yams. Hunters also worked hard to catch more fish, dried them, accumulated them, and sent them on horseback.
Go to Uzbekistan and exchange it for copper coins.
After several successes, the acceptance of copper coins quickly increased.
Among them, the happiest people are the Hu people. They are closest to the Uzbek people and are the poorest. They will not participate in road construction for the time being. Therefore, almost all women, children, old and young go up to the mountains to dig yams and various roots and grains, and carry them there on horses the next day.
The Uzbek people can exchange it for five, six, seven or eight copper coins. Although it is not much each time, it is still a big fortune after slowly accumulating it.
One cent can be exchanged for a pottery bowl, ten cents can be exchanged for a bronze dagger from the Ba people, and a group of women, children, old and weak people who cannot do heavy work can earn a few dollars in a day by digging and picking in the mountains.
Pottery and even a bronze dagger were simply treasures falling from the sky, and the happy Hu people could not close their mouths from ear to ear all day long.
Even in order to collect more food, many women and children of the Hu ethnic group followed a group of charcoal-burning men to live in wooden houses near Bawu Avenue. They directly occupied the mountains and became kings. They followed the men to cut wood and burn charcoal while collecting food and digging.
Just send it directly to the Uzbek tribe, sometimes you don't even have to do it yourself. When you encounter a carriage between the two tribes, you will help carry it, and then you will bring back a few yellow copper coins. The money you make is extremely easy and happy.
In the blink of an eye, it is December and the weather is getting colder and colder.
After two consecutive light snowfalls, in mid-December, the road construction projects of various tribes gradually came to a halt and began to engage in the most intense and busy annual land reclamation and spring plowing production.
According to the news sent back by the patrolling hunters one after another, the roads between the Ji and Cang tribes are basically connected. Only a short section of Jushi Gorge is still not completely completed, but it is barely passable by horse.
The remaining sections of the project have basically been connected to each other. Only some more difficult areas are left to be completed, but the problems are no longer serious.
Xu Chen naturally knew the importance of spring plowing, so after entering December, he had arranged for hunters to inform each tribe. According to the situation, each tribe could decide the time to terminate road construction and ensure spring plowing and sowing. He even said,
If each tribe is short of grain, they can borrow it from the Ba tribe and return it after the autumn harvest plus 10%.
Under Xu Chen's supervision and support, the spring plowing production of each tribe was very active. After the road construction projects were completed one after another, all manpower was invested in spring sowing.
This is because the area of farmland reclaimed by various tribes has expanded a lot this year, and many have even doubled again, so the workload is huge. Fortunately, a large number of bronze farm tools and horses have been put into use this year, and a group of foreign tribes have just been obtained from the Pi tribe.
Hiring workers has made the land reclamation much faster than in previous years. As for grain seeds, no tribe has borrowed them from the Ba people. After last year's harvest, the seeds were selected and preserved according to the methods taught by the Ba people, which is enough for them to invest in this spring sowing.
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The Ba people also gained 400 acres of farmland this year, distributed on both sides of the river.
Originally, Grandma's plan was to reclaim all the places suitable for farming in the valley, but Xu Chen stopped her.
At present, 1,200 acres of farmland are enough to ensure the Ba people's food supply for a year. The closer to the mouth of the valley, the greater the impact of floods. In addition, it is too far away from the compound, so farming and management are very time-consuming.
Xu Chen actually had other plans. He planned to build several scattered gathering places in the valley, divide the Ba people into four groups according to their ethnic groups, and build four villages in the valley.
Building a village also requires planning a lot of land.
However, this plan cannot be completed this year. After spring, the foundation can be slowly excavated and leveled, and stones, wood, ceramics, bricks and lime can be prepared. Planning and construction can be completed by next autumn and winter.
In the midst of all the hustle and bustle, December flies by
Time enters the spring of the fifth year of King Chen.
In January, after two spring rains, the farmland on the river bank that had been dry all winter became slightly moist.
From the Ba tribe to the Gonghuo Basin, to the Yugong tribes on the south bank of the Wulong River, and even to the poor tribes far away from the Bameng tribe, they entered spring sowing almost at the same time.
Xu Chen is still in charge of his experimental field project, but this year the experimental field has been expanded to 200 acres.
Most of the seeds used for sowing in other farmland are large and plump grain seeds selected and harvested from the experimental field last year.
Although Xu Chen did not specifically guide farming in other tribes, they also carefully taught the selective breeding and farming management experience at the tribal gatherings held twice a year in spring and autumn. As long as they pay a little more attention to weeding and field management, coupled with good weather and good weather, the harvest will be
It will definitely increase year by year.
Based on what Xu Chen learned about the land reclamation plans of each tribe when he went out to survey and build roads, he believed that after this year, all tribes in Bameng will get rid of the food crisis and harvest enough food for the tribes for a year.
Next year, he will also promote the construction of dams and irrigation and drainage ditches in various tribes on a large scale to make farmland more drought- and flood-proof and ensure harvests, and gradually get rid of this primitive farming situation of hoping for harvests.
As long as agricultural production enters a stable and mature stage, he can then start his royal city construction plan and preliminary rural and town layout.
In mid-January, spring plowing and sowing of the Ba people ends.
The weather is gradually becoming warmer and humid.
Wildflowers have begun to bloom in the mountains and fields, and some plants have begun to sprout. Within a few days, a shallow layer of green has begun to appear on the riverbank, and the seeds sown in the farmland have sprouted neatly, slowly.
Showing full of vitality.
The Ba people’s farming production was witnessed and participated by the Pi people’s great shaman and several leaders.
While they were shocked by the large-scale agricultural production of the Ba people, they were also eager to digest and absorb this new knowledge every day.
Xu Chen personally led them to work in the experimental field, explaining to them in detail the use of various farm tools and the essentials of cultivating wasteland and sowing.
Although the Pi people can't keep up with farming this year, after learning these things, they can be prepared in the next year. After returning home, they can slowly digest various production and living skills, and wait until this autumn and winter to start building houses and farming.