In late January, Xu Chen prepared to go on patrol again.
The purpose of this visit was to inspect the spring sowing, farming and road construction conditions of various tribes, and at the same time, to send back the great shaman and several leaders of the Pi tribe. In order to support the development of the Pi tribe and the Dai tribe in the next year, more than a dozen people were brought back as hired workers.
He also let the men from the Pi and Dai tribes back.
The Ba people no longer need the help of these foreigners in construction.
After these people return, they can quickly apply all the skills and knowledge they learned in the Ba tribe to the development of the tribe.
Before leaving, Xu Chen specially invited the little witch of the Wu tribe and a group of tribal chiefs to visit the Ba tribe, and arranged a simple and grand witch inheritance ceremony to officially recognize the new identity of the Pi tribe's grand shaman, and also presented a brand new
The Great Witch's Dress and the Witch King's Dictionary.
In order to strengthen the training and management of Pi tribe and Dai tribe hunters, Xu Chen selected two or three well-trained hunters respectively, granted them officer status, distributed armor, bows and arrows, waist knives, waist badges, daggers and other items, and also awarded
The Pi tribe had a tribal flag and an ox horn, urging them to carefully select a group of hunters for rigorous training after returning, and they would be reviewed on Mother's Day in March. If they trained well, they could participate in the military operations of the Ba tribe alliance in the future.
, you can get various rewards if you perform meritorious service, and you can also win more honors for the tribe.
Xu Chen's arrangement only made the Pi tribe witches and a group of hunters cry with joy. They squatted down and said that from now on the Pi tribe would accept the faith of the great witch and follow the guidance of His Majesty the Witch King. They would definitely manage the tribe well and train hard.
We will work hard to develop production under the protection of the people, and will definitely bring more tribesmen to participate in the Mother's Day, marry and intermarry with various tribes in Bameng, and there will be no transactions.
On this tour, no one walked on foot. All were horse and carriage teams. There were four carriages and more than ten horses in total.
The young witch and a group of leaders rode in one car, and there were more than a dozen Pi tribe and Dai tribe hunters in two cars. In another car, there were several carpenters and stonemasons from the Ba tribe.
Xu Chen accompanied him on horseback with more than a dozen hunters including Gu, Ju, Ju and Gao.
In addition to the people sitting on the carriage, there were also some pottery, linen, salt, pickles and other gifts from the Dai tribe of the Pi people.
The wealth of the Ba people is no longer something that tribes such as the Pi and Dai tribes who still live in caves can understand. These items that their tribes still don’t have have become common items in the Ba people, and pottery is inexhaustible.
Countless ones were broken and thrown away.
This time, the witches of the Dai tribe, several leaders and more than ten men stayed in the Ba tribe for three full months. They learned everything they should learn except building houses. The rest is for them to go back and apply these skills in daily life and production.
, Xu Chen believes that in the next year, great changes will occur to both the Dai and Pi tribes.
As for the conflict between the Dai tribe and the Pi tribe, Xu Chen felt that there was no need to resolve it. After this huge change, there was no need for the two tribes to fight. Apart from focusing on developing production and construction, there would be no more conflicts.
Contradictory, because there is no point in continuing to fight in the afternoon.
It took just over an hour to reach Uzu after a bumpy ride along Bawu Avenue. After a brief stop at Uzu for half an hour, the team continued along the newly built road, inspecting the construction status of the roads along the way, and headed non-stop to the Uzu.
The Ji clan left.
After the spring sowing was over, several tribes along the way were still carrying out finishing works.
Although some parts have not been completely repaired, there are no big problems in opening it to traffic.
The houses of the Muya tribe in Maogongling have been completely repaired, and renovation work is currently underway on the front and back of some houses. The seeds of the two hundred acres of farmland reclaimed and sown on the riverbank at the foot of the mountain have begun to germinate, and it looks like a prosperous scene.
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Passing by places where roads are still under construction, busy people will stop and cheer enthusiastically.
Especially the Pi people who were tricked into helping to build the road were extremely excited when they saw their great shaman's demeanor changed dramatically after putting on exquisite clothes and cloaks.
In addition, I saw that some of the more than ten companions were already wearing leather armor and equipped with bows, arrows, knives, daggers and other equipment that they dreamed of. They were even more envious and jealous, and they screamed and worked harder.
In the evening, the team arrived at the Ji clan.
After the Ji tribe rested for a night, more than a dozen Pi tribe and Dai tribe hunters escorted the witch and several leaders away, heading back northwest along the Ji Cang River. Xu Chen left behind a carpenter and a stonemason in the Ji tribe,
Lead the team and continue to follow Ji Cang Road towards the Cang Clan.
The difficult mountainside plank road in the Rock Valley has been repaired, but there are still some areas that have not been completed. Dozens of Cang men and a few stonemasons are still digging and repairing, but it does not affect the traffic anymore, only on the side facing the river.
It is a steep cliff more than three meters high. After the water level rises in spring, the cold and clear river water below is roaring and rolling, which looks very dangerous.
The footings of the plank road are piled with big stones. The Cang people are currently filling in the gravel excavated from the rock wall. As long as this project is completed, the width of the road will reach three meters. After adding railings, this section of the road will become
It's safer.
After passing through the rocky valley and arriving at the Cang tribe, Xu Chen left all the carriages behind, and everyone continued riding down the Jicang River.
From late September to the end of next month, after four months of construction work by hundreds of people from four tribes along the way, the planned road of hundreds of miles from the Ba people to the Cang people was fully connected. Even the repair work would only take half a mile at most.
It will all be completed in a month.
What remains is the 50-mile river beach road from the Cang Clan to the Qia Clan. As long as this road is opened, the land transportation between Bameng and Gonghuo Basin will be completely completed. From now on, starting from the Ba Clan, if there is no stop on the way, the carriage
Two days at most, or even just one day for horseback riding.
In fact, in ancient China, as long as there was good transportation, one could travel three to four hundred miles a day and night to deliver urgent official documents. Urgent military reports could even be rushed for eight hundred miles. Although there were stations along the way to take care of them and even change horses without changing people, at least it showed that
, as long as the road traffic is good enough, riding a horse can reach an astonishing speed, which is almost the same as driving a car on ordinary township roads.
It is only over two hundred miles from the Ba tribe to the Gonghuo tribe. According to the size and physical speed of these wild horses, it is not difficult to get there in one day with a short rest and food on the way.
From now on, whether Xu Chen is in the Ba tribe or moves to the Gonghuo tribe in the future, his control over the two core tribes will reach an unprecedented level.
This time Xu Chen did not go to other tribes in the Gonghuo Alliance to inspect the road construction status first, but went to the Gonghuo Tribe first.
The road from the Cang Clan to the Qia Clan has not yet begun, but the roads from the Qia Clan to the Qu Clan and the Yehuo Clan in the east and to the Gonghuo Clan in the south have been built. Because they are located in a basin, these
It is not difficult to build the road, but the quality of the construction is much worse than the roads in Bameng. Many places have not been compacted, and the roadbed is very soft. After several spring rains, not only a layer of weeds began to grow on the road
, and many places began to accumulate water and turned into large and small mud puddles.
Driving on this road may not be too fast, but riding a horse will have no effect.
At present, a group of people are riding horses, so the journey is very fast. It only takes less than two hours to arrive at the Qia clan from the Cang clan. After a brief inspection of the spring plowing and sowing conditions of the Qia clan, they follow the newly built
The road went south along the Jicang River and headed straight towards the Gonghuo Clan, but in the afternoon, a group of people arrived at the Gonghuo Clan smoothly.
"So fast quack!"
With such speed, even the group of hunters who followed Xu Chen out every time were extremely excited.
The first time I went to the Gonghuo Tribe, I spent five days climbing over mountains and ridges to steal the tower.
The second time I came to hold the inheritance conference, hundreds of people escorted the little witch on foot. There were only six or seven horses. It took seven or eight days. The road along was an uninhabited land, which was called a barbaric wilderness.
After the last Witch Lords Conference, we came to survey and mobilize various tribes to build roads. Although they were all on horseback, the roads were still blocked by grass, mud and rocks, so they had to be careful when traveling. The fastest one could run a hundred miles a day.
But this time, the journey from the Cang Clan to the Gonghuo Clan was hundreds of miles long, but it only took half a day, and we didn’t even have to worry about breaking the horse’s hooves. From this, we can see the benefits brought by the road construction.
Traveling so fast is something that no one has ever experienced before, let alone even thought about.
Upon learning that Xu Chen had come to inspect road construction and spring plowing and sowing, almost all the Gonghuo Tribe, Five Ghost Tribe, Lei Tribe and two other small tribes mobilized. Thousands of men, women, old and young flocked to the river beach to welcome him.
When he saw two great witches holding scepters leading a dense crowd of people squatting on the ground and shouting to welcome His Majesty the Witch King, Xu Chen couldn't help but feel a little high-spirited and looked up to the sky and laughed a few times with great joy.
The wild man has ambitions in all directions. Although he is not a person who is greedy for power and wealth, he still feels that he has achieved great success from the time when he traveled through time with a piece of fur that couldn't cover his buttocks, to now the leader of dozens of tribes.
Very satisfied.
Although he could not be said to be proud or proud, at least the hard work of these four years finally allowed him to see that a new era was about to begin.
The changes in the Gonghuo Tribe don't look that big compared to the last time I came here. In addition to the addition of a carriage road leading to the Qia Tribe in the upper reaches, there are thousands of acres of reclaimed farmland on the riverbank. Five tribes gathered on it.
After four miles downstream, the population has become very dense. Looking around, there are houses and large areas of tender green farmland that have sprouted. Because they were plowed and sown after burning, the color of the black plant ash still looks very conspicuous.
The first thing you see is a clear line of yellow, black and light green.
The yellow ones are the withered grass and thorns that grow on the uncultivated river beach, and the black ones with a touch of light green are farmland, with criss-crossing streets and long ditches, which look very pleasing to the eye.
Riding a horse on a wide dirt road, thousands of people cheered in front of me and crowded in behind me.
Bathing in the warm and humid wind of early spring, Xu Chen felt relaxed and happy.
Looking at the vast and endless basin plains on both sides of the Jicang River, Xu Chen suddenly felt a high-spirited emotion.
From now on, this basin will be the foundation on which we will stand in this era.
As long as this place is built well enough to support a county-sized kingdom with a population of tens of thousands, and the surrounding ethnic groups and tribes are guarding it, his hegemony will truly begin.