Xu Chen planned to use rammed earth to build the royal city, so since he built the settlement last year, he has arranged for craftsmen to make a large number of rammed earth wall building tools, wooden molds, copper pestles, and a large number of wooden frames for transporting soil.
Springboards, cutting down a large number of thorns used as internal tendons, etc.
When construction began, hundreds of able-bodied men were recruited and divided into several engineering teams. Under the leadership of a group of craftsmen who were already familiar with rammed earth construction, they each performed their duties and began to build these buildings.
The soil used for construction is all locally sourced. Excavate the soil at the planned ditches and ponds, clean out the tree roots, grass roots, stones and debris, and then add a certain amount of lime and stir.
So in just a few days, the core area in the center of the royal city became lively and busy. Groups of men dug and stirred the soil, and carts and loaders transported the soil up the wall along the springboard wooden frame.
, and then rammed into earth walls under the command of craftsmen.
While Xu Chen was busy here, the mission fleet he arranged had already arrived near the downstream lake under the leadership of Mo and several Cicha tribesmen, and successfully found the Cicha tribe where the great witch was.
Facing this group of strange foreigners who suddenly descended from the sky again, the Cicha tribe was frightened from top to bottom.
After receiving detailed reports from his tribe in a huge panic, the great shaman of the Cicha tribe was surprised and happy, and soon the two sides formally contacted each other.
After the little witch of the Five Ghost Tribe read out the animal skin document on behalf of His Majesty the Witch King, the great witch of the Cicha Tribe and all the tribesmen, after a short period of panic, finally had no intention of resisting and cooperated very cooperatively to express their willingness to accept the blessing of the great witch of the Ba Tribe.
Change your faith and submit to the rule of His Majesty the Witch King.
The process of conquering the Cicha tribe was extremely smooth, and the mission encountered no danger.
It's not that the Cicha tribe didn't threaten the mission, but that the strength shown by the Ba Meng was so powerful that no one from the Cicha tribe, from the great witch to the ordinary tribesmen, dared to resist.
Not to mention the wooden boats that they had never seen before, even if they were accompanied by a group of elite hunters who were armed to the teeth, each of them looked like a strong and powerful man with strict orders and prohibitions, it was enough to scare the courage of all the Cicha tribesmen.
Especially after knowing that Bameng now has five tribes with more than 30 tribes, and also has six great witches, the young witch from the Cicha tribe was so frightened that she almost collapsed. She lay on the ground in fear to express her regret for offending Xu Chen.
I deeply regret the behavior of others.
According to Xu Chen's arrangement, in order to appease the Cicha witches and their clansmen, the envoys brought down animal skins, linen, pottery, salt and various novel delicacies that they had never seen or eaten before in baskets and rolls from the ship.
After that, the Cicha tribe completely gave up any thoughts of resistance.
These are things they have never dreamed of or could not imagine.
The great witch of the Yugong clan, who was the chief official of the mission, explained that these were just greeting gifts given by His Majesty the Witch King and the great witch.
As long as the Cicha tribe is willing to surrender, there will be more of these things in the future.
So a panic turned into an outright ecstasy.
In the next few days, the witches of the Cicha tribe convened the clan chiefs and leaders of the seven tribes they belonged to to formally convey the Cicha tribe's decision to submit to the upper reaches of the Bameng League.
Although the other affiliated tribes were still confused, they had to readily accept this reality.
What happened three years ago is still fresh in their memories, especially the Ming and Cicha tribes that suffered the heaviest casualties. Even now, whenever they mention that group of powerful hunters with unfamiliar origins, they feel as frightened as if they were in a nightmare.
Now that the other party came again, not only did they not cause trouble for them, but they also sent a large number of novel gifts. Submitting to such a mysterious and powerful alliance tribe and a magical leader was a blessing for them, rather than fear and fear.
The mission stayed with the Cicha tribe for about ten days.
The powerful and incredible hunting and fishing methods displayed by the mission also opened the eyes of all tribes in the Cicha Alliance and excited them at the same time.
These hunters, who wear leather armor and are fully armed, can hunt as easily as drinking water. As long as they go out, they will definitely come back with a big catch. There are a lot of beasts of all sizes every day.
The same is true for fishing. They row boats and set nets in the big lakes, and they can easily catch food that is not enough to eat.
Complete big fish.
"Savage Gaga!"
Every time when they came back with a big catch and saw the stunned look of the Cicha tribesmen, the hunters of Bameng couldn't help but laugh out loud, as if they were happy to see a country bumpkin.
But the Cicha people didn't show any resistance at all, they just felt humbled and in awe.
Compared to people like Bameng, whose clothing and weapons are exquisite and luxurious, they still wear shabby and simple animal skins and carry rough and primitive sticks and spears. They are all unkempt and look like wild beasts.
As for the magical wooden boats, bows and arrows, and fishing nets, they didn't understand the principles at all, so they could only smile and please and let them touch them a few times to open their eyes.
A powerful tribe that even the great witch has to prostrate himself on the ground to show his submission, they can tolerate and accept any outrageous behavior.
What's more, apart from occasionally laughing at them, these people didn't do anything too offensive, and they were very respectful to their great witch. They would also give the best food to the great witch and the tribe leader, and also teach them how to row a boat.
, fish, use bows and arrows, and even teach them how to twist ropes, make baskets and make straw sandals.
And these skills that seem very mysterious to the Cicha tribe are, to these people, basic skills that everyone knows and will soon abandon.
Because none of these people wore straw sandals, they all wore animal skin boots, and no one used straw ropes or bark ropes. They all used well-made hemp ropes.
As for rattan baskets, they are indeed still in use, but more are made of wooden boxes that are more sophisticated and stronger.
The structure of the wooden box alone was astonishing to the Cicha people, let alone the wooden boat, which was completely incomprehensible.
As for the bronze weapons carried by the hunters and the several bronze knives and axes they sent, they are like divine objects and can only be worshiped. Their souls are so confused that they cannot believe that they will appear in front of them.
After the witch of the Cicha tribe had arranged everything for the alliance, she took the chiefs of the seven tribes and more than a dozen hunters and followed the envoy by boat to the Gonghuo tribe to pay homage to His Majesty the Witch King and the Great Witch.
Ever since Xu Chen and others descended from the sky three years ago, easily defeated their team of more than 200 hunters, and left behind the linen, pottery, salt and bamboo raft manufacturing methods.
The witch of the Cicha tribe has been feeling anxious and uneasy.
This anxiety lasted for three full years.
After the Cicha tribe learned how to make bamboo rafts, they kept exploring upstream, but found nothing.
She even wanted to arrange for people to take a detour to the northwest of the lake and go through the mountains and dense forests to find the whereabouts of Xu Chen and others, but the fear of the cursed land deterred the tribesmen.
This time Xu Chen arranged for people to come and conquer the tribe. Although it exceeded her expectations, it finally made her feel completely relieved.
At least Xu Chen didn't have any ill intentions.
Although she had no choice but to change her faith, she did not hesitate to make the best choice between facing a mysterious and powerful enemy that she could not defeat and peace and tranquility.
The mission of the shaman is to protect and guide the development of the tribe.
Rather than genocide to persist in your beliefs.
What's more, the other party has conquered four powerful ethnic groups and has six great witches. She has no reason to refuse and resist.
Because it must be a tribe with the care and protection of powerful gods, and no one can defeat them.
October 12th.
After a seven-day journey, the mission fleet returned to Gonghuo Basin.
At this time, the Gonghuo Basin has entered the busiest construction period. The entire royal city and the two sides of the Jicang River, which are dozens of miles away, are full of hunters driving horses and moving rocks and wood. More than 2,000 people are working on this hot land.
Busy and busy.
More than twenty days have passed, and large-scale architectural prototypes have been constructed in the once bare royal city.
On the criss-crossing river plains, various tribes are also building roads and digging ditches and ponds on a large scale.
Each ethnic group's settlement area is undergoing massive construction and infrastructure construction just like a large village.
Xu Chen rode his horse back and forth with Gu Heju and others on both sides of the Jicang River every day.
While supervising the construction of the palace
, are also constantly planning and guiding roads and drinking water irrigation projects connecting various tribes.
Now these projects have taken shape, and the grand scenes make people excited.
From a distance, I saw the fleet returning along the Jicang River.
The long sound of the horn resounded across both sides of the basin.
Countless people dropped their work and headed straight to both sides of the pier.
Groups of hunters riding horses greeted and shouted at the river beaches on both sides of the river, and the scene was a lively mess.
The Witch of the Cicha Tribe stood on the deck of the largest wooden ship and looked at everything in front of her. A group of clan leaders and hunters were all the same as the Hunters of the Cicha Tribe who came here for the first time. Their bodies were shaking violently and their minds went blank.
There are houses and farmland everywhere on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. With so many people gathered here, the bustling and grand scene has completely made them lose their ability to think.
They had never thought that such a powerful ethnic group existed within only seven or eight days of their own tribe.
It took them three years to find this place.
Moreover, they did not find it on their own initiative, but the ethnic group here discovered their expedition team and then arranged for the envoys to take the initiative to contact it.
According to the exchanges on the way here, it only took two days to take the boat from here to the Cicha tribe. If the wooden boat hadn't been slow to go upstream and some rapids took a lot of time, maybe they could have arrived two days earlier.
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After learning about this distance, the Cicha witch and a group of tribesmen were completely confused.
After they came into contact with the people of Bameng, their brains could hardly stay fully awake for a moment.
No matter what they heard, saw, or thought, it was completely beyond their ability to understand and accept.
Apart from admiration and worship, there are no other superfluous thoughts. This chapter has been completed!