That is, if you don’t want to change your faith inheritance and don’t want to be led by others, you will inevitably be isolated.
Nowadays, even a great witch from the Pi tribe who suddenly appeared has gained the right to participate in the meetings of the witches, and even has access to various magical innovations of the Ba tribe, as well as the power to communicate and share with all the alliance tribes, and can also obtain witchcraft.
With the full support of His Majesty the King and all the great wizards of the alliance, the poor people can only learn some simple knowledge and techniques. If they want to get anything, they can only exchange wealth. Not only is the cost of exchange much higher than that of the tribes within the alliance,
, and some things are not taught at all, such as spinning and weaving, making vehicles, stone mortar and stone grinding, etc.
It's okay if it happens once or twice, but it will always be like this in the future, and some poor witches feel restless.
She has participated in three large-scale tribal gatherings of the Ba League, and she and the tribesmen who came have watched with their own eyes as the Ba League becomes stronger and stronger.
Every time they come, the Ba people will introduce one or several magical innovations, and all of these things will have a major impact on the development of each tribe.
What touched him most this time was not the changes in the Ba people, nor the spiritual shock and impact brought about by the renovation and expansion of the Eye of the Gods and the Temple of the Ancient Mother, or even the invention of stone mills and the emergence of various delicacies.
It's two other things.
One is the huge traffic roads that Bameng and Gonghuo have now built.
When he came, he took a newly built spacious and flat road from the Cang people to the Ba people. This road can pass horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws. It is very convenient and fast whether riding on horseback or walking, and the safety is also greatly improved.
According to the exchanges between various tribes, the road from the Cang tribe to the Qia tribe in the lower reaches will also be connected this year. By then, the two most powerful and wealthy ethnic groups, Gonghuo League and Bameng League, will be completely connected, and transportation will be
It will become extremely fast and convenient
The second is the addition of the skin tribe.
She had never known that there was such a huge tribe in the upper reaches of the Jicang River.
But she knows now.
The Pi tribe currently has six affiliated tribes with a population of thousands, but they are all relatively far away from each other, and because the terrain is complex and wild animals are rampant, there is very little communication between the tribes, which is almost the same situation as the poor tribes.
The two tribes also have a common neighbor, which is the Taq tribe sandwiched between them.
Previously, the Taket tribe was located further to the west and was not adjacent to the two tribes. However, after being attacked by the western tribes, the Taket tribe continued to move southward, and only in recent years has it begun to come into contact with the two tribes.
However, this kind of contact was very cautious and restrained. At least the great shaman of the poor tribe did not learn about the Pi tribe in the north through the Ta Ke tribe.
Of course, the Pi tribe also did not know that there were poor tribes downstream, and they did not know that the Dai tribe that was fighting with them had the powerful Ba Meng only three days away.
It was under this situation that the information was seriously unclear and unequal. Only half a month after the Ba Meng knew about the existence of the Dai tribe, they easily conquered the Dai tribe and the several hundred Pi tribe.
In other words, the Ba Meng has now extended its hand into the vast mountainous area of the northwest by regaining the Pi tribe.
The Pi tribe and the Taket tribe are adjacent to each other. If nothing unexpected happens, the Taket tribe may soon join the Bameng.
Since then, all the known tribes around have become allies of the Ba tribe, and the poor tribe will become more and more lonely.
The poor people are now lonely and marginalized in the Ba League. If they cannot find allies to support them, it will only be a matter of time before they are annexed by the Ba people and forced to submit to them, changing the belief and inheritance of the great witches.
There was a poor witch who was very unhappy.
Now she is in the prime of life and has learned a lot of innovative inventions and knowledge and culture from the Ba people. She has also acquired a lot of bronze knives and axes as well as methods of building houses and farming. This year, the poor people have also developed rapidly.
She has built many houses, cultivated large tracts of farmland, and also controls tin mines. She has even learned to use tin to make various exquisite containers. As long as she works hard to develop, even poor people can develop well in the future.
Maybe we can expand and regain a few ethnic groups by going west and east, and then we will have more communication and voice with the Bam League.
There is no doubt about the power of the Ba people. The great witches of the Youqiong clan have never planned to be enemies with the Ba League, but they always want to preserve their independent great witch heritage and make themselves a powerful great witch who can gather all the witches to discuss matters together.
In the future, you will be able to gain more respect in your dealings with BAM.
However, the appearance of the Pi tribe and their joining the Bamong League made her feel more and more uneasy about the development of the poor tribe in the future.
To change the current predicament first, the best way is to regain the Toge tribe first and prevent them from falling into the arms of the Bamong League.
While the witches were discussing matters, Xu Chen and others were discussing the arrangements for the Mother's Day sacrifice and the old witch's promotion to the great witch in blue.
There was a poor shaman sitting alone in a corner, his heart was filled with ups and downs and he was restless.
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Compared with the witchcraft festival in autumn, which is mainly about trading and hunting competitions, the number of participants in the Mother's Day festival, which is mainly about fertility worship and marriage exchanges, is much smaller.
There are not many young men and women suitable for marriage in each tribe every year, especially in small tribes, maybe only a few. In addition, some underage men and women come to learn from experience. Some tribes will also take the opportunity to find suitable partners for each other in advance, and wait until they reach adulthood.
When participating in the exchange ceremony, they directly choose each other according to the requirements of the clan leader, and finally complete the marriage ceremony.
Therefore, unlike the autumn witchcraft convention, where almost all young men and women come out in full force, the number of people coming on Mother's Day is at least one-third less.
If it weren't for the long distance, the safety of the tribe, and various exchange and trading activities, the number of people coming would probably be even smaller.
But even so, as the Ba people conquered more and more tribes, the scale of Mother's Day celebrations became larger and larger. This year, the total number of men, women, and children from the six major ethnic groups participating in the festival was at least 1,700, and there were also
There were hundreds of horses and dozens of vehicles, filling the entire Ba Valley to the brim. It was not much inferior to the Witches' Convention.
As all the tribes gathered together, and the Witch King entertained the group of witches for a delicious meal of duck egg and green onion pancakes, the arrangements for the Mother's Day meeting gradually spread among the tribes.
The most surprising thing is undoubtedly the promotion of the Great Wizard Gonghuo to the Great Wizard in Blue. It is simply sensational news, especially for the tribes belonging to the Gonghuo Alliance. This is completely unprecedented good news.
The lively joy of ghosts crying and wolves howling.
In the past, only the great witches of the Ba tribe had the right to wear blue cloaks and witch skirts.
Nowadays, Gonghuo Shaman can also wear it.
Moreover, it is said that there are very strict evaluations and assessments for promotion to the Great Witch. Not only must there be sufficient merit and be recognized by the Great Witch and the Witch King, but also strict knowledge and culture assessment must be carried out. At least one must learn all of the Witch King's Dictionary.
But Gonghuo Witch has done it all, and the development she has led the Gonghuo clan to in the past two years is obvious to all, and it is indeed very rapid.
Once you become a great wizard in blue, all other great wizards in white must salute you respectfully. You can also preside over the discussions and signing of contracts between the alliance tribes on behalf of the great wizard.
What is this? This is power.
It didn't exist before, but it will become possible after becoming the great wizard in blue.
And this right comes from the Great Witch and His Majesty the Witch King.
Of course, in addition to the surprising and exciting news that the old witch has been promoted to the Great Witch in Blue, there is another news that is also widely circulated.
That is, in order to help the Uzbek people buy more food and expand copper production, His Majesty the Witch King introduced a kind of exquisite small copperware called copper coins.
In the past few days, all the tribes were very excited about the changes made by the Ba people, the invention of stone mills, and the introduction of many delicacies. They spent most of the time crowded in the Ba people's compound to watch the stone grinding and learning to make pasta.
Tofu Nao, but there is endless news about copper coins. People are talking about them everywhere, and they all say they have noses and eyes. Even the Uzbek and Hu people even gave out a lot of copper coins for people to watch.
A kind of light golden small copper vessel with a round square hole is called a copper coin. Each coin is worth one pound of copper and can be exchanged for five pounds of grain or a pottery bowl from the Ba people.
Of course, the more money you have, the more things you can buy. Two cents can buy a sheepskin, ten cents can buy a dagger, twenty cents can buy a hatchet, and fifty cents can buy a hatchet.
A bronze axe, one hundred pennies can buy a wheelbarrow...
As long as you have money, you can buy everything from the Ba people.
And with the strong strength of the Ba people and the credibility of His Majesty the Witch King as a guarantee, this kind of copper coin attracted everyone's attention as soon as it appeared at the party, and all the tribes began to ask where and how they could exchange it for copper coins.
Because as long as you have copper coins in hand, you can directly buy whatever you want from the Ba people in the future, instead of having to carry large and small bags of various leather goods and property back and forth.
Moreover, other tribes will not refuse the copper coins that the Ba tribe accepts. The Uzu tribe says that as long as each tribe takes the copper coins, they can exchange them for anything the Uzu tribe has, including animal skins, gold, brocade feathers, gems and even pottery and linen skins.
Armor bow and arrow weapons etc.
Therefore, as the participating tribes arrived one after another, the news about stone mills and copper coins were the two most discussed and lively things in the entire venue.
In fact, it is not just the Wu and Hu tribes who own copper coins now. In fact, the Muya tribe, the Ji tribe, and the Cang tribe all own a small amount of copper coins. Some were given by Xu Chen originally, and some were acquired by them after they learned that the Wu tribe had been purchasing large quantities of various coins.
To grow food, I also gave away the excavated plant roots and caught fish meat in exchange for some.
These tribes received copper coins, which were sent to the Ba tribe from time to time to be exchanged for urgently needed items such as salt, copperware, pottery, etc.
So this came and went, and in the few months from winter to spring, the six tribes of Bameng were actually very familiar with the use of copper coins. Although the scale was small, the acceptance rate was already very high.
Thanks to the recognition of the tribes of Bameng, the tribes who came to participate in the meeting could no longer resist surprises and temptations. They began to conduct private transactions with some tribes of Bameng in private, using the goods they brought in exchange for the exchange ratio set by the Bamen.