Three years ago, after Xu Chen conquered the Yu Gong clan, he arrived near Weishan Lake by land and encountered the Ming clan affiliated with the Cicha clan. He did not want to cause casualties to his own side due to the conflict, so he left behind the method of making bamboo rafts and left.
The waterway from the Cicha Tribe to the Jia Tribe is more than two hundred miles long. It takes at most two days if you go along the current, but about ten days if you go against the current.
For tribes who are not yet familiar with the operation of bamboo rafts, this time may take even longer.
To survive in the wild for so long away from the tribe is almost like risking your life.
This is also the reason why Xu Chen judged that if he did not go, the Cicha tribe would not reach the Gonghuo tribe in ten years.
Because the Wulong River is relatively shallow and stable only for about four months from late autumn to winter and spring, it is suitable for traveling by raft. At other times, even wooden boats must be cautious.
Not to mention the primitive savages who have just learned to use bamboo rafts and have no survival experience in long-distance wild adventures.
The Cicha tribe knew that Xu Chen followed the Five Ghosts from the northwest, and Xu Chen and others made bamboo rafts to leave from the big lake. Therefore, the Cicha tribe must also know that Xu Chen and others came from the upper reaches of the Wulong River, so these
Nian must have been constantly exploring upstream, trying to find the gathering place of Xu Chen and others.
However, this kind of exploration was too difficult for the Cicha tribe. Three years passed before they finally reached the vicinity of the Jia tribe.
But even after they arrived here, there was still a fast and narrow river upstream. In the cold winter of December, it took Xu Chen and others a full day to cross this canyon, but it only took them more than ten minutes to come down.
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Now in mid-September, the water in the Wulong River is bigger and faster than in December. It is almost impossible for a bamboo raft to go up through it.
Therefore, in the future, even if the Cicha tribe wants to continue exploring the upper reaches to track Xu Chen and others, they will at least be blocked by this canyon for a long time.
The final possibility is that they first came into contact with the Jia tribe, then abandoned the bamboo raft and landed here, followed the Jia tribe overland to Gonghuo Basin, and then gradually came into contact with Xu Chen.
But in this primitive wilderness era, the contact and understanding between stranger groups took decades or even hundreds of years.
I am sure that no tribe will be able to make the other party bow down and surrender completely as soon as the hairy body is shocked.
Different ethnic groups are like wild beasts, with a very strong sense of territory, and generally have very bad attitudes towards foreign invaders. If you are not careful, it will be a fierce battle. If you win, you will eat meat, and if you lose, you will become a daddy.
And if the two ethnic groups want to get familiar with each other, it can only be achieved slowly during this long struggle and war.
Just like the original Wu League and Gonghuo League.
The two tribes have been neighbors for hundreds of years, and the great wizards of the two tribes also had some high-level intellectual contests and exchanges, and finally managed to reach a point where they could live in peace.
Once this balance of peaceful coexistence is broken, war may occur at any time.
War between ethnic groups is completely different from war between tribes, because it involves ideological barriers caused by different beliefs, just like in the Middle East in later generations. Under the influence of religion, countries have been able to fight for thousands of years.
If you can fight it out, no one will obey the other, because the gods and doctrines they believe in are completely different.
In other words, whether human beings have advanced civilizations of thousands of years or ancient barbaric civilizations of tens of thousands of years, there is actually no fundamental change in their treatment of belief in gods. In fact, the more civilized the era, the more obvious this conflict becomes.
and intense.
At least for the moment, Xu Chen can conquer by force, coerce the witches to change their beliefs, and achieve peaceful reunification and integration.
But when religion is fully mature, various spiritual systems and doctrines are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the military has become a tool to maintain religion, this kind of conflict will only become more and more intense, and it will become increasingly impossible to live in peace.
Therefore, even if the Cicha tribe in the lower reaches can reach the vicinity of the Jia tribe, it may take decades or even hundreds of years for them to continue to have in-depth contact with the Gonghuo tribe and the more distant Ba tribe.
sad.
Just like right now.
Originally, a group of Jia tribe hunters who were fishing were about to disperse and send Xu Chen's boat to turn around and leave, but suddenly they heard that a raft belonging to a strange tribe had appeared downstream, and the crowd suddenly became excited. They rowed the raft downstream to drive them away, howling like ghosts and wolves.
Xu Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He ordered Mo to stop turning around, but continued to catch up with the raft to see what happened.
Originally, he had planned to wait until next year to build a few large ships to conquer the Cicha tribe, and then bring the sumac tree under his jurisdiction.
But since the Cicha tribe has also been eager to take the initiative to contact them, they cannot give up this opportunity.
Therefore, it is important to understand the motivations of the Cicha tribe.
If it can be recovered peacefully without the use of force, that would be the best outcome.
The big ship rushed down the middle of the river and was suddenly two or three miles away.
It seemed that the rafts downstream also discovered this strange and terrifying-looking ship that they had never seen before. They were so frightened that they lost their minds and fled wildly on the rafts downstream, crying and howling.
However, the raft was not as fast as the wooden boat after all. With the huge animal skin sails swaying, and more than a dozen hunters rowing and scudding together, the big boat rushed down the fast river like an arrow from the string, and it took only more than ten minutes.
, the distance between the two sides is less than 100 meters.
Xu Chen had already seen clearly that this was indeed a bamboo raft, not the common rafts found in the Ba Gonghuo tribe, and the group of savages on the bamboo raft were also very unfamiliar.
"Horn!" Xu Chen raised his hand and commanded.
"Woo~~~"
A low and long horn sounded, echoing along the howling river wind for miles across the river.
The speed of the raft as it was being paddled to escape suddenly slowed down. The big boat was getting closer and closer, and soon it was less than twenty meters apart. It looked like it was about to collide with it with a condescending crushing force. Seven or eight people on the raft were covered with blood.
Naked savages were so frightened that they lay trembling on the bumpy bamboo rafts, and some even fell directly into the river out of extreme fear.
"Help!"
In the roar of Xu Chen, the big boat passed by the raft in an instant. A hunter on the boat stretched out a long wooden pole and dropped a rope with driftwood. Under the loud shouting of the little witch of the Five Ghost Tribe, she fell into the water and was horrified and unaware.
The overwhelmed savage quickly understood, then grabbed the driftwood and was pulled onto the deck by a group of hunters on the boat.
As for the remaining guys lying on the raft, Xu Chen also asked people to get them on board. Only an empty raft and a few simple bamboo oars floated away quickly with the water.
On the ship, Xu Chen began to interrogate these strange men under the translation of the little witch of the Five Ghost Tribe.
As expected, these naked guys are members of the Cicha tribe.
Following the guidance of the great witch, they rowed a bamboo raft upstream to find out the whereabouts of Xu Chen and others.
The purpose of the inquiry was to have some peaceful and friendly contact with Xu Chen, hoping to obtain magical items such as pottery, linen and salt.
However, after learning that Xu Chen was the hunter leader who led the team to the conflict between the Cicha tribe and the Ming tribe, these guys were frightened and excited. They lay on the ground and screamed and drew pictures to express their awe for Xu Chen.
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Xu Chen and others left a deep impression on the Cicha clan.
Since they made bamboo rafts and left without wanting to fight, the witches of the Cicha tribe were frightened for a long time.
As time went by, although this panic gradually disappeared, the desire to contact Xu Chen and others became stronger and stronger.
She feels that she has missed a lot, and because of her mistakes, she has caused a huge trouble and a terrifying enemy for the Cicha tribe. She must find a way to resolve this misunderstanding.
After a long period of slow exploration, the Cicha tribe finally succeeded in learning how to make bamboo rafts from the bamboo raft model that Xu Chen left behind. They also learned to make bamboo rafts based on the rattan baskets left by Xu Chen and others.
Slowly learned to make rattan baskets and backpacks.
Of course, they also learned to build simple tents using animal skins.
But that's all.
These skills are already the earliest inventions of the Ba people.
And they are also the most basic and crude technologies.
As for the remaining pottery, linen and salt, they are almost like alien items to them. They cannot understand them at all, and there is no way to learn or imitate them.
Pottery, linen, and salt are still hard currencies within the Ba Clan Alliance. These things are not even popular among the Yu Gong Clan. As for the Pi Clan who finally joined, they are still as precious as treasures and are extremely valuable.
Scarce items.
Therefore, for the Cicha tribe who have never had direct contact with Xu Chen and others, these things left by Xu Chen and others have always made them linger but also frightened.
Especially their great witch, since Xu Chen and others left, he has fallen into deep regret and self-blame.
In the past three years, after they learned how to make bamboo rafts, they have been exploring outside the Great Lakes and the upper reaches of the Wulong River.
But in the face of the vast lake that is hundreds of miles long and the Wulong River that is even more unpredictable and unfamiliar, human strength is like that of ants, appearing humble and ridiculous, overturning again and again, failing again and again, and even asking for help because of it.
After suffering many casualties and missing people, this fall they finally broke through the rapids and shoals, encountering countless wild beasts and difficulties along the way. After several months, they finally followed the route they had been exploring and arrived near the Jia clan.
However, when they arrived here, they did not dare to go further because they found traces of the Jia people and had been patrolling nearby for several days.
If Xu Chen hadn't been standing on the higher cabin deck, he might not have been able to find their traces. This chapter has been completed!