The most important topic of this meeting is undoubtedly the convening of the Wu Zhu Conference in half a year.
The Gonghuo tribe must be prepared in advance to face the huge population impact of more than 2,000 people. They must plan their garrison and living and trading venues, and they must also have certain hospitality capabilities.
It doesn't matter if the old witch is in good health. After all, she has the experience of these large-scale gatherings of the Ba people to draw on, and her rich experience and execution ability are enough to ensure that the gathering can be successfully completed.
But it's a pity that the old witch's body may not be able to survive that time.
Therefore, Xu Chen was quite worried when he made the arrangements, but he decided that he had to do it. Otherwise, if the Gonghuo tribe could not gather popularity, the trading town he planned would not be able to meet expectations smoothly, and the future royal city would not be able to meet expectations.
Construction will also be affected to some extent.
Therefore this matter needs to be arranged carefully.
Although the old witch is in poor health, because she has just been promoted to the title of Grand Witch in Blue, she still has a very eager enthusiasm and impulse to organize this party. She has repeatedly stated that she will arrange all the preparations in place when she returns, and she will definitely make the Gonghuo Clan happy.
The first witch wishing conference was successfully held, and there would be absolutely no mistakes.
In addition to these three issues that must be discussed by all the witches, Xu Chen also gave some careful guidance on the development of various tribes, especially the development of the Pi tribe and Yu Gong tribe. He hoped that they would help each tribe complete the construction of houses as soon as possible.
When reclaiming wasteland, we also tried our best to use manpower to complete the transportation routes connecting various tribes.
In addition, Xu Chen also encouraged each tribe to start looking for suitable places to disperse and settle along transportation routes based on their own conditions.
In order to let the witches realize the benefits of this dispersed ethnic group, after the meeting, Xu Chen took a group of witches by car to visit three settlements that had begun preparations for construction in the Ba Valley, and at the same time explained the farmland management and harvest distribution after the group split.
matter.
The system of contract work and grouping has been carried out among the Ba people for two years. Other tribes have also understood this management model. The construction and development of the Ba people in the past two years have indeed benefited from it. Not only the farmland management is better, but also more efficient.
Convenient, food production is higher, and the tribesmen are more interested in labor.
Although this situation of scattered living is not in line with the consistent tradition, in the process of building houses and reclaiming wasteland, the benefits of this kind of scattered settlement are also obvious. It can indeed greatly increase the tribe's control area and facilitate farming management, and it does not
It will weaken the tribe's strength.
What's more, with the Ba tribe as a benchmark and the Muya tribe who have settled in Maogong Ridge as a reference, a group of Wudu said that after returning home, they would convene clan leaders and family leaders to discuss and formulate a dispersed living plan as soon as possible according to some of the settlements proposed by Xu Chen.
Start putting it into practice.
At this point, all the important tasks of this grand Mother's Day conference have been successfully completed.
The next step is to implement it in detail after each tribe returns.
Xu Chen believes that as long as this step is completed, the entire Ba Nationality Alliance will usher in a period of rapid development next year.
On both sides of the Wulong River and the Jicang River Basin, with the Gonghuo Basin as the development center, dozens of tribes will spread out along the constructed transportation thoroughfares. It is estimated that there will be hundreds of large and small tribes within three years.
village.
The proliferation of these villages will inevitably trigger a new round of enthusiasm for land reclamation and farming, and the scale of farmland will continue to double.
In order to support the development of various tribes, Xu Chen said that after the Wu Zhu Conference, he will visit the tribes again and formulate more detailed guidance plans for dispersed settlement and development for the tribes along the transportation routes.
On the bustling river beach, trading is still happening lively.
However, this seemingly lively atmosphere actually results in very few successful transactions.
Because at present, each tribe has a primitive conservative economic model and develops independently. In addition to the Ba tribe's pottery, bronzes, carriages, stone mills, salt and other scarce items, other low-end animal skins, food, and even linen armor and other items are
Each tribe is producing on its own. Although the domestic demand is very large, due to insufficient wealth, the dependence on external demand is very low. In particular, most of the wealth, in addition to meeting the survival needs of the tribe, is more about hope and wealth.
families to exchange.
Because the Ba people have an almost complete monopoly on the most urgently needed and high-end goods such as copperware and salt.
Even large-scale pottery is something that other tribes cannot yet make.
But Xu Chen had no choice. He could give up some things, such as weaving and making vehicles and stone mills, but there were some core things that he had to hold on to in order to ensure that the Ba people had sufficient foundation and status.
As for wealth, these things all depend on accumulation slowly. Without mines, he actually can't help much. He can only guide them to solve the problem of food, clothing and development for the time being.
As the sun gradually turns westward, the most lively trading and communication time is coming to an end.
Seeing that the goods brought by various tribes on the river beach were still accumulated in large quantities in his hands, and seeing some shamans and many clan leaders and leaders commanding their masters to pack up and bundle them with helpless expressions, Xu Chen couldn't help but frown slightly.
The goods are low-end and there is no money, both of which seriously restrict the scale of trade and the development of various tribes.
Even wealthy people like the Uzbek people couldn't find many items they wanted to buy at the trade fair with their money bags in hand.
Except for some useful animal skins and some beautiful brocade feathers, all tribes have little demand for other goods.
Even the linen cannot be sold, and what occasionally makes people’s eyes light up is just a few colorful and thick beast furs.
But when the hottest summer is about to come, these winter cold-proof leather goods are not easy to sell.
In order to balance the wealth and increase the purchasing power of each tribe, Xu Chen suddenly proposed a large-scale procurement plan in the evening, using copper coins to purchase goods such as linen, animal skins, materials for making bows and arrows, gems, animal horns, pigment ores, etc.
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As soon as the news came out, the river beach was filled with joy.
Xu Chen personally led the team to inspect the purchased goods, Ye was responsible for registration, and the little witch was responsible for paying. A large group of Ba people drove a carriage, dragged a cart, and pushed a wheelbarrow to load the goods.
A group of witches and the heads of various tribes were overjoyed, and they hurriedly asked people to move out all the goods that had been bundled and packed, and waited excitedly and nervously.
Although Xu Chen's coins were anchored in copper and grain, he did not want too much price fluctuations due to too many coins on the market, so he was careful not to release a large amount of copper coins. In fact, the Ba people have been casting coins non-stop since winter.
Nearly 10,000 copper coins have been accumulated at present, of which more than 3,000 are exchanged for the Uzbek people and several hundred for the Hu people. Nearly half of these copper coins are purchased by the Uzbek people and Hu people for pottery, copper, salt, and returned to the Ba people.
Therefore, there are less than 2,000 copper coins currently circulating in the market, and most of them are still sleeping in the hands of the Uzbek people.
In other words, although all tribes are familiar with copper coins and want them, they can't get them.
If no one buys it now, most of the goods brought by all the tribes will have to be carried back through mountains and rivers. If they cannot be sold, they will naturally have no money to sell salt, copper, pottery, or even other needed items.
Therefore, after Xu Chen thought deeply, he decided to give up his previous idea and try to release a batch of copper coins at the end of the transaction to increase the liquidity in the market.
As long as all the things that these tribes can purchase are bought at once within the control of reasonable circulation, no matter whether the price is cheap or expensive, the money will become potential purchasing power for other tribes.
Money is hard to earn but easy to spend.
And money is different from anything else. Its attributes determine its special value.
The reason why the transaction success rate on the river beach is not high and the transaction volume cannot increase is because the demand for goods is not equal.
It's like a hunter is interested in a spear-making stick of the other party. This stick is tough and strong and is the best material for making spears, but the other party doesn't like anything he has, so the deal is yellow.
Already.
But money is different. As long as the price is right, the other party will definitely be willing to trade.
This is the biggest benefit of currency as a transaction intermediary.
Therefore, Xu Chen's large-scale acquisition immediately revitalized the entire trading venue. Lots of copper coins were exchanged for trucks and trucks of goods. The tribes who got the copper coins turned around in surprise.
Go to the Ba tribe to buy urgently needed items such as copper, pottery, salt, etc. You can even sell a few ducks to take home and raise. Different tribes will also start to buy from each other some items that they have long been interested in but cannot trade.
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As the sun sets, the river beach, which was about to be closed for business, becomes the busiest time of the day.
Hundreds of people were bustling around Xu Chen and others. While eagerly waiting for their goods to be purchased, they were also constantly exchanging information with other tribes.
The sky gradually darkened.
Bonfires were lit one after another on the river beach.
For more than an hour, Xu Chen's large-scale purchase carried out more than 3,000 copper coins and purchased more than ten carts of various goods, most of which were linen, various animal skins, horns, etc., and even purchased hundreds of
There were good quality materials for making bows, arrows and spears, and there were also a lot of messy gems and ores. What surprised him most was that he also saw several strange dark wooden containers from a subordinate tribe of the Pi tribe called the Gua tribe.
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However, when he took a closer look, he realized that this thing was not made of wood. It was tattered and light, and seemed to be the fruit of some kind of plant. He looked carefully and repeatedly and gestured and asked. Under the simple interpretation of several Pi tribe hunters, he
It suddenly dawned on me that this thing was most likely a gourd.
The gourd has more uses than the thorn melon. It can be eaten when it is young, and when it is old, it can be made into a gourd scoop or container.
A gourd for holding water and wine is much better than a water bladder made of animal skin. Although it is not as strong as a water bladder, it does not have the fishy smell.
So Xu Chen was surprised and happy, and spent a few pennies to buy these tattered gourd fragments. He also said that these things were very useful, and asked the Gua tribe to collect more complete and mature gourds in autumn.
When the time comes, the Ba people can purchase it.
This news immediately made the Gua tribe chief and a group of tribesmen jump and scream with joy, and the cheers and excitement echoed throughout the river beach.
The onlookers were filled with envy and jealousy, especially several tribes in the Pi Tribe Alliance.
They all know about gourds, but they are inedible and of no use. The best thing to do is to smash them after they are ripe and take out the seeds inside for food. The broken shells and hollowed out melon flesh can be used as simple containers. The melon tribe brings some to tribal gatherings every year.
There were trades during the period, but there were only a few takers. They were far less popular than animal skins, bones, teeth and other wild fruits, and no one was willing to exchange them.
But to Xu Chen, the value of gourds is much higher than ordinary pottery.
Use a gourd to make a container. It is most convenient to bring water, wine, salt, and some solid food such as fried rice and noodles when you go out.
As for other primitive tribes who think it cannot be eaten, that is because it cannot be eaten raw. In fact, gourd stew is also a good delicacy.
When the melon tribe sends gourd seeds in autumn, they can be widely cultivated in various tribes. It can be used as both a melon and a vegetable. It can actually serve two purposes.
I started with a torn fur skirt, and I had to do it all by myself.
This is true for eating, drinking, eating, sleeping, sitting, housing and traveling. Although the development has been good in recent years, the living environment and quality of life have changed rapidly, food is still scarce and the utensils are still rudimentary, especially for eating, except for coarse grains, wheat, beans, fish, meat and wild fruits.
Common whole grains and delicious fruits and vegetables are currently not available.
Xu Chen’s main focus in the past few years was on providing basic food, clothing, housing and transportation. Now, it is time to slowly improve the quality of life. Therefore, he needs to slowly find and collect more fruits and vegetables suitable for planting for purpose and scale.