The death of Mother Ba made the Mother's Day sacrifices that should have been very lively become extremely boring.
But the dead have passed away, and the living should move on.
The Ba tribe is now a tribe of more than 200 people, and the four families within it are divided into two places to live. They still need a core leader to coordinate and manage the exchanges and affairs within the tribe.
After Xu Chen convened a meeting of the men, women, and children of the Ba tribe, the eldest mother obliged and assumed the position of clan leader, succeeding the new clan leader and the title of mother Ba.
Grandma is not much younger than Mu Ba, and she is also already full of silver hair. After experiencing the pain of Mu Ba's death, she seems to be much older, and her energy is much worse than before, so Xu Chen can only
He told a group of older men and women in the tribe to share some management responsibilities on weekdays and take good care of grandma.
After arranging the tribe's affairs, there were only two days left before the arrangements for the Mother's Day sacrifice. When the witch of the Yu Gong clan arrived with a group of tribal leaders, the sad atmosphere gradually became more lively.
After the adjustment, the number of participants in the Mother's Day sacrificial ceremony was much smaller, only a quarter of the size of previous years. Including the men, women, and children of the Ba ethnic group, the number of participants was only about 500. Therefore, the entire sacrificial event seemed very quiet and no longer looked like a traditional festival.
It was as loud and noisy as ever.
However, the small number of people did not reduce the solemn atmosphere of the sacrifice, but instead made it more serious.
After the sacrifice, Xu Chen convened a meeting with the witches and decided to adjust the arrangements for the Mother's Day sacrifice again.
It is now March, the temperature is already very high, and the rains are frequent. Basically, it is not much different from summer. The rivers have begun to swell, the plants are growing luxuriantly, and various beasts, snakes and insects have begun to enter the most active season of the year.
The activity season is actually not suitable for traveling far away at this time, otherwise you will encounter many dangers.
Moreover, after losing the two most important core contents of the gathering, marriage exchanges and transactions, this pure sacrificial activity is also a huge burden for distant tribes.
Therefore, Xu Chen proposed to change the ceremony of worshiping the Goddess of the First Mother in the Ba people to once every two years, and move the time to mid-February. In addition, the marriage exchanges on the Mother's Day in Wangcheng and various tribes should be moved to the first day of March.
None of the group of witches expressed any objection to Xu Chen's arrangement, and even thought it was very reasonable.
Because whether it is Mother's Day in the spring or the Witch Festival in the autumn, in fact, it was not unified before. Although each ethnic group had roughly the same gatherings and exchange activities, the times were also different, and there was not even a fixed time.
Based on the great witch's observation of the changes in animals, plants, sun, moon, and stars, and sensing the arrival of the season, he arranged for people to go to the affiliated tribes to inform them of the gathering.
It was the same with the Uzbek people in the past. Every time there was a gathering, the Dasha would arrange someone to inform them of the gathering time in advance.
This situation was not until Xu Chen appeared and proposed a lunar calendar based on the phases of the moon that the years, months and days were gradually fixed. With the promotion and popularization of writing, calculations and the moon phase calendar in these years, the great witches of all tribes
It is also possible to estimate more accurate dates based on the changes in the moon phases, and set the spring and autumn gatherings on March 15th and September 15th respectively.
If we still communicate with the seven or eight tribes in the previous alliance, there will be no problem in these two times.
But as more and more ethnic groups are conquered, the scope of Pakistan's territory becomes larger and larger, and exchanges become increasingly closer. At the same time, for those ethnic groups who are far away, participating in these two activities has become a big challenge.
The burden is even accompanied by huge dangers.
When traveling in the wild and sleeping in the open, you have to face attacks from various wild beasts and venomous snakes and insects. Waterways also have to face rising rivers and sudden violent storms.
These two festivals are actually derived from the gathering forms inherited by the Uzbek people. Other tribes are not like this. It is just that Xu Chen inherited the traditions of the Uzbek people and fixed them.
At present, Xu Chen is making adjustments according to the situation, and there will be no resistance or opinions from various tribes.
For Xu Chen, this adjustment is more in line with the future development of Pakistan.
Each tribe goes to the Ba tribe to hold a sacrificial event for the Mother Goddess once every two years. This not only maintains the Ba tribe's sense of identity as the birthplace of the religion, but also has only half a month's time difference with the Mother's Day. After coming to participate in the sacrifice, all the shamans and
Tribal leaders can also stay in the royal city for a few days to participate in festival celebrations and feel the festive atmosphere of the royal city. At the same time, they can also get together to discuss some government affairs and construction arrangements in Pakistan.
In short, the divine authority must serve the royal authority.
In the future, there will be more and more various festivals and sacrificial activities, and the time arrangements and activity rituals will become more and more formal, and at the same time, they will be more conducive to national management and development.
The establishment of Pakistan marked the beginning of a new era.
The death of Mu Ba also marked the end of an old era.
Amu does not have the prestige and majesty of Muba, so in the future management, the Ba people will inevitably undergo some internal changes.
Especially now that they have been divided into four families, and they are still separated in the royal city and the Ba people. In this situation, the simple centralization of power by the patriarch is no longer appropriate. Just like the relationship between relatives who have moved to the city for development and relatives in the countryside, it will gradually develop in the future.
Estrangement and alienation.
This is inevitable for the development of human civilization. Therefore, the Ba people will gradually form two different groups with the same origin in the future. Although they will be closer due to blood inheritance, they will eventually split into two different ethnic groups.
It's just that this kind of division is recognized and accepted by all ethnic groups, and they are also happy to see it. After all, this is the process of primitive tribes spreading their branches, multiplying and growing.
As time goes by, this relationship between ethnic groups and tribes will gradually turn into a clan and branch relationship within a large family. If the clan leader is more powerful, he can still maintain unity. If the clan leader cannot guarantee fairness and justice, he will be able to maintain unity.
If each clan cannot live together, it will gradually split into different families, and then each will inherit and develop.
However, Xu Chen believed that with his core leader, the Ba people would remain relatively united for a long time. As for the future, no one could control it and could only let it develop naturally.
Xu Chen has no control over where Pakistan will go in the future. What he can do now is to slowly reform and straighten out everything in Pakistan, and then make it more stable and develop more
Reasonable.
After the Mother's Day sacrificial activities, the little witch and the group of witches went to the Royal City first. After all, it was not easy to go there. They still had some trading and purchasing tasks this time, and they also wanted to see the new changes in the Royal City.
Xu Chen and Ye stayed for a while, not only to appease the emotions of the tribe after their mother's death, but also to stay with their mother and the tribe for a while.
The sudden death of his mother Ba made Xu Chen feel a little ashamed and guilty.
However, the person is gone, and no amount of guilt is of any use. We can only do some reminiscence and compensation. What is more important is to allow the Ba people to unite and go further together, without causing rifts and barriers.
Xu Chen himself is the best glue for the Ba people. As long as he is around, all men, women and children of the Ba people like to chat with him, and it will be more lively every day.
The Ba tribe has developed very well under the management of Mu Ba in recent years. Grandma has always been a deputy to help, so there is no problem in handling tribal affairs. Xu Chen is still very relieved.
However, as the focus of development has slowly moved to the Gonghuo Basin in the past two years, the development of the Ba people has become a bit sluggish, especially after a large number of capable men, women and technical personnel were transferred. Some industries that the Ba people used to develop were booming.
Almost all gone.
At present, except for farming and raising poultry and livestock, the Ba people's car-making, ship-building, stone-making, and lime brick-making have almost stopped.
The only two remaining industries are pottery and foundry.
At present, pottery production only retains the production of large pottery. Ordinary utensils such as cups, dishes, and dishes are basically not made much anymore, because many tribes have begun to learn to make these pottery. Only large pottery is made by other tribes.
Still can't keep up.
As for bronze casting, although it has always been the core technology of the Ba people, some of the best craftsmen have been transferred to the Gonghuo Basin to open new foundry workshops. The only ones left in the Ba people are to satisfy the needs of the U, Hu, Muya, etc.
In order to meet the needs of several nearby tribes, the main task of the Ba Clan Foundry is to cast money. However, the coins can be used to trade with other tribes and need to be transported to the royal city and unified under the control of the kingdom. This also makes the casting of copperware actually a consumption.
As a large family, the Ba people continue to buy copper from the Wu people, tin from the poor people, and carbon from the Hu people, but they don't get any profit.
It is precisely because of the dispersion and stagnation of various industries that the Ba people have become somewhat depressed in the past two years.
Perhaps this was also an incentive for Muba to die of a serious illness.
In order to change the current depressed mood of the Ba people, but also to strengthen the internal unity of the Ba people and boost the confidence and vitality of the tribe's development.
Xu Chen stayed this time and decided to transform and upgrade the Ba industry again.
First of all, he decided to vigorously develop the winemaking industry among the Ba people, and part of it was to carry out large-scale mixed fruit winemaking cooperation with the Muya people in Maogongling.
In this cooperation, the Ba people will provide hundreds of wine jars to the Muya people every year. In addition, in order to facilitate the sales of fruit wine, they will also customize a large number of wine bottles.
In order to stimulate the wealth growth and income of the Ba people, these wine jars and bottles can no longer be provided for free. Wangcheng will purchase them from the sales of wine at the normal price of pottery. These incomes will become the private wealth of the Ba people, completely different from Wangcheng.
Allocate clearly.
Moreover, after so many years of pottery development, technology has begun to spread. The Ba people's leading advantage has disappeared, and there is not much room for development. Therefore, Xu Chen decided to start developing better pottery, that is, glazing the pottery.
Pure porcelain is not necessary at the moment, firstly, the consumption capacity and consumption level are far from being reached, and secondly, the materials and processes are too complicated.
Earthen pottery has developed to a very high degree of popularity. However, because earthen pottery does not have an enamel layer to protect it, food will continue to be water-permeable and breathable when stored for a long time. Especially wine and pickled foods cannot be stored for a long time and are prone to moisture and mold.
But if you add a layer of glaze to the surface of clay pottery, these problems can be perfectly solved.