Even though these primitive people lived in caves, wore animal skins, and drank blood, they also knew how to collect some colorful gems and gold, which are rare things in nature. In other words, as long as they met the most basic survival needs, humans have begun to recognize these rare things.
Things have value.
Because good-looking decorations are also a way to reflect value, just like beautiful feathers are more valuable. They are just worn on women's heads to reflect their status. As a result, feathers, which have almost nothing to do with survival, have become a very important thing.
Important trading items.
At this trade fair, the Muya tribe exchanged three brocade feathers as red as fire for a bear skin from the Wu tribe.
In terms of practical value, bear skins are much more valuable than feathers, but the Uzbek people did not feel that they were losing money. Instead, they burst into enthusiastic applause after buying them.
This is the value generated by demand.
Rare items such as turquoise, amber, and gold will definitely gain greater value over time, so as long as other tribes are willing to exchange them, he will not refuse.
Doing so will not only promote pottery and improve the survival ability of these neighboring tribes, but will also promote the prosperity and progress of the Ba people and enhance the reputation and popularity of the Ba people.
With the exchanges and exchanges with more distant tribes, these pottery and cloth will gradually spread further, and the Ba people's reputation will become greater and greater.
The most important thing in business is reputation.
If others don’t have it, I have it, but if they have it, I have it.
Although the methods of making pottery and weaving will spread sooner or later, at least in the next few years, they will still be firmly in the hands of the Ba people. Xu Chen must use this time difference to spread the reputation of the Ba people. As for fighting them out
What consequences will follow, he cannot yet predict.
But when the soldiers come, they will block it, and when the water comes, the earth covers it.
If you want to lead the human race to rise in this primitive and barbaric era, you must take the initiative to communicate with other tribes. Whether it is peace or war, the interaction must be continuous and fierce.
Ten thousand years is too long, and he is seizing the day. He cannot afford to wait for the slow evolution of human civilization according to the historical trajectory.
But whether it's making pottery or spinning and weaving cloth, these things just need to be arranged by manpower to do it step by step. It can't be done quickly because there are only so many people and such a big place.
Therefore, after arranging the kiln factory, Xu Chen devoted his main energy to the major matter of building a house.
The foundation of the house has been dug, and it is just waiting to be laid with stones for the footings. There is still a large shortage of stones.
In addition, a house of this size requires hundreds of logs, and none are available at the moment.
Furthermore, the house was too big. Xu Chen planned to use mud bricks to speed up the construction, so he had to dig out a large number of mud bricks first.
At present, the total number of men of the Ba tribe who can participate in labor is only eighteen, including four in kilns, six in hunting, and the remaining three men, including Xu Chenguju, only have eight.
And these eight people have to be divided into three groups, one group cuts wood, one group lays bricks, and one group builds footings. Each group has less than three people.
There is a shortage of people, there is a shortage of people!!!
Xu Chen finally felt that his step was too big, and he was pulling his balls.
The construction of such a large project requires at least thirty people. It would be better if there are a hundred people.
But now not only are the manpower stretched thin, but most of them are still old, weak and underage.
Therefore, after working for two days in a row, everyone was exhausted. Xu Chen didn't want to move. He slept in the stone house in the kiln at night and was too lazy to go back to the cave.
Xu Chen didn't want to go up the mountain, and Gu Heju didn't want to go up the mountain either.
Anyway, the kiln factory has five houses, all equipped with fire pits and stoves, and the kiln factory also has stocks of various pottery, so a group of people simply packed up and planned to live in the kiln factory.
As a result, Muba and a group of women on the mountain felt uneasy and worried that they would not be able to eat or drink well, so they had to arrange for a few women to come down every morning and evening to help cook.
In order to see Xu Chen, Ye brought a group of children down every day.
The pony has been raised in the kiln factory since Xu Chen and the others started building a house at the foot of the mountain. During the day, they can be tied to the river beach and left alone.
In order to facilitate training, Xu Chen simply took down the two wolves and threw them in the kiln. They gave them some food and meat soup every day, and during their free time, they did some simple training like training dogs, such as training to sit and lie down, training to pick up things, and training
Simple commands and more.
Although the two little wolves are still very fierce in temperament, they will grin and whimper and threaten anyone they see, and there is almost no progress in training, but Xu Chen did not give up, and practiced when he had time, using meat, bones and food to seduce.
Anyway, it’s just a test product. If it doesn’t succeed, it will be successful.
Stupid pigs, stubborn donkeys, honest scalpers and chickens in the middle of the night.
Being useful means having character, being useless and stubborn leads to death.
With the large-scale construction of houses starting, the life of the entire ethnic group has been almost completely disrupted.
There is a group on the mountain and a group at the bottom. Except for a few full-time hunters such as Feng, the group life between men and women is almost completely isolated.
This made Xu Chen feel much better. He finally no longer had to endure the noise of pile driving every night. In addition, although the snoring, teeth grinding, and farting were still the same, the situation was greatly improved with the walls separating them from each other.
Since living at the foot of the mountain, I have spent more time working every day. I get up at dawn and work until dark. Although there is a serious shortage of manpower, as time goes by, various tasks are gradually completed.
obvious changes.
Every day Xu Chen took Gu Heju to the river beach to pick up stones in the morning, and then carried them back with rattan baskets. In the afternoon, he used clay pots to carry water and mud to build the wall. In a few days, he had built more than 20 meters. It seemed that within a month
There is no problem when it is finished.
Another group of three people were responsible for cutting down trees near the foot of the mountain. There was no need to move them back after they were cut down. They only needed to cut them into suitable sizes according to Xu Chen's requirements and leave them at the foot of the hillside to dry.
Two other adults were responsible for rolling out the mud bricks.
This job is relatively simple, but the most tiring.
First dig a hole near the river beach, pour soil into the water, throw in some dried wild grass, then step on it with your feet to make it into mud, and surround it with fired pottery boards to form a square brick on the flat grass.
To make a mold, pour the mud in and smooth it out with your hands. After removing the mold, just put it on the river beach to dry slowly.
This is a pure physical activity and does not require any skills.
But for primitive people, any technical work is difficult, but any physical work is simple.
Therefore, the two men, who didn't seem to be very strong, got up early and came home late every day, rubbing bricks with the mud non-stop. After seven or eight days, a large area of mud bricks appeared densely and neatly on the river beach.
Six to seven hundred yuan.
According to Xu Chen's rough calculation, it would take tens of thousands of mud bricks to completely repair this large house. Just laying out the bricks would take three months. In order to keep up with the progress, Xu Chen had to let Feng and a group of hunters complete the hunting mission every day.
Then come back quickly to help.
After a few days of this, the situation improved, and the brick laying speed accelerated a lot. As long as nothing unexpected happened, the required mud bricks should be laid out within two months.
Although everyone was very tired, when they thought of Xu Chen's description of a beautiful life in which every two people would have a single room to live in, everyone was very motivated. Xu Chen hardly needed repeated instructions for anything. He only needed to say
I will do it right away.
In the busyness, October flies by.
The mountains and fields began to show large areas of withered yellow, and the weather became cooler and colder.
But in this coming winter, the enthusiasm of the entire tribe is growing day by day.
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"嘢嚯嚯嚯~~~"
From the direction of the entrance of the valley, there was the call of the wind waiting for a group of hunters to set off.
Although they are far apart, driven by the full lung capacity, the empty valley echoes, and people working at the foot of the mountain can hear it clearly.
Xu Chen looked up at the sky and felt a little strange.
It's not yet noon. Normally, the hunting team would have just arrived near the river at this time and would have just started hunting. Why did they come back from work so early today?
Could it be that today's hunting went well and the big guy was killed right away?
Xu Chen was still wondering, but Gu Heju beside him kept looking nervously at the mouth of the valley. Two men who were laying bricks on the river beach in the distance also rushed over and pulled out the spears stuck in the construction site.
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"What happened?" Xu Chen quickly dropped the trowel and stepped forward to ask.
"Someone... is coming!" A man quickly explained with gestures.
Xu Chen became nervous when he heard this, but then he thought that there might be foreigners coming to exchange pottery and linen, otherwise Feng and others would not have brought them in so easily, so he shook his head to comfort him and said, "Don't be nervous, they might be Uzbek people."
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"Uga?" Both men were surprised.
"Wuga, change the pottery!" Xu Chen pointed at the kiln and nodded.
After hearing the tension, the two men slowly relaxed, but they still did not put down their spears. Instead, they ran to the kiln factory and called the four kiln workers. They took their bows, arrows and spears and headed toward the entrance of the valley.
Go up.
As a man of the tribe, guarding the safety of the tribe is his top priority.
The signal sent back by Feng and others was that an outsider had come in, and they must be nervous and worried.
A group of people walked forward for more than 20 minutes, and saw a large group of people approaching from a distance. The leader was Feng and several other familiar hunters of the Ba tribe. Moreover, a group of people were still talking and laughing loudly. It seemed that the atmosphere was very
Harmony.
Therefore, Xu Chen's guess should be correct.
So a group of people put down their spears, bows and arrows.