In the next few days, Xu Chen went out early and came back late every day, busy with land reclamation work.
During this period, the Ji clan also came to exchange pottery, and also wanted to keep some people to help repair the house and exchange pottery. Xu Chen readily agreed and left five of them.
Now that we have fishing nets, we can catch dozens or even hundreds of catties of fish almost every day. Coupled with the rich yam resources, there is no shortage of food right now, and we can fully support a huge construction team.
What he lacks right now is people and time.
These tribes were willing to exchange labor for pottery, which actually did him a big favor.
Of course, the premise is that the Ba pottery is sufficiently attractive to these tribes.
A group of hunters from the Ba ethnic group are now completely obsessed with fishing. They go out with fishing nets every day, and they can get a lot of big fish back in basically half a day. Of course, the fishing nets are broken almost every day when they come back, so Xu Chen has to take advantage of the situation.
Teach them how to make and mend nets during their busy free time.
A group of hunters came back early, so Xu Chen naturally couldn't let them idle. He fished in the morning and followed them to clean the fire break in the afternoon.
After eating the delicious fish balls and sashimi, two unique foods, everyone fell in love with these two delicacies.
Under the guidance of Ye and Xu Chen, a group of women learned to make fish balls and fish fillets.
So every night everyone can enjoy a feast of fish and meat.
Although the resistance to alcohol is almost zero, the delicious taste of sashimi marinated in vine fruit lees makes a group of men unable to stop. Every night, everyone still fights for a few bites, and naturally they feel dizzy after eating it.
Ever since, those who are resistant have greatly increased their interest, and they take advantage of the wine to brag, and some have greatly increased their sexual interest. They hum and moan to express their love to women and ask for pleasure. After receiving a response, they will naturally touch each other's butts and enter their holes to have fun.
The women had fed and drank enough to appease a group of men, and they would still spin and weave around the firepit.
Xu Chen instructs the wolf to continue training the two wolves tirelessly. After training until dark, if he has some thoughts and gains today, he will write a diary.
Nowadays, hundreds of characters are densely written on the walls of the cave. There are not only characters invented based on daily vocabulary, such as sun, moon, star, mountain, water, stone, earth, fire, wood, fruit, etc.
text, and a large number of his innovative languages.
In addition to these separate simple words, sometimes he will also use a simple sentence to record what he has done, and the important thing will be to record the time later.
In addition to words, he also wrote some simple addition and subtraction operations on the cave wall, some of which were written by Ye. In addition, he also wrote the multiplication table a few days ago, but because it was too difficult to understand, he simply taught it
After killing Ye several times, she could only calculate five times five, and there was nothing she could do about the more difficult ones.
The reason why he wanted to teach multiplication was because the two transactions with the Muya tribe of the Wu tribe gave him the urge to vomit blood and die. He didn't want the Ba tribe to continue to be so stupid in the future, otherwise it would be detrimental to his future hegemony.
In addition to words and calculations, there are two graphics on the cave wall.
One is a moon phase chart. Now Ye can fully understand it and calculate the time based on the daily changes of the moon.
The other is a simple map, which depicts the distribution of mountains and rivers in the Ba and Wu areas and the approximate locations of several ethnic groups.
At present, these six tribes are all distributed in a large area of mountains and river valleys on the north bank of the river.
The Wu people are in the middle, the Ba people are to the north, the Muya people are to the west, the Hu people are a day's journey downstream of the southeastern river, and the Ji and Cang people are farther to the southwest. The overall living area is not the same.
More than fifty kilometers.
According to what I learned at the Witch Lord Conference and recent exchanges with the Muya tribe of the Wu tribe, the farther down you go along the river, the more open the terrain becomes and the mountains become gentler and gentler.
Therefore, Xu Chen guessed that the area where the Ba and Wu people lived was bounded between the plains and the mountains. It was estimated that a few hundred miles down the river would be the plains.
But these are too far to talk about.
At present, his scope of interaction is still limited to a one-day round trip radius. It is even said that their main scope of activities is limited to the area of the river beach in one direction of the river to the southeast. As for the west and north, there are bigger mountains.
I don’t know if there are any tribes there, but the terrain is more dangerous and complex, and for the Ba people, they won’t explore it at all.
As more and more characters and figures appeared on the cave wall, this stone wall slowly became more and more mysterious in the eyes of all the tribesmen.
Everyone now looks at this cave wall and feels a sense of awe.
The main reason is that these densely packed words, numbers and graphics look too obscure and complicated, and you will feel dizzy after looking at them for a few more times.
Even in Mu Ba's view, the things Xu Chen left behind were far more mysterious and important than the mysterious patterns and symbols on the cave where the great witch lived.
She takes people to attend two gatherings of the Uzbek people every year, one is the witchcraft ceremony in the autumn, and the other is the sacrifice of the late mother in the spring.
The Great Witch had always been the person she respected and even feared the most.
Until Xu Chen appeared, especially after this witchcraft meeting, she became not only dissatisfied with the Uzbek people, but also faintly dissatisfied with the great witches.
The wise and fair witch didn't even know what Xu Chen invented, and she insisted on refusing to acknowledge Xu Chen's identity.
Although Mu Ba was reluctant to admit her thoughts, as it seemed that doing so would be blasphemous and even bring disaster to the Ba people, there were indeed some cracks in her heart that could not be healed.
Because of this psychological change, she became more and more convinced that Xu Chen came to life with the help of the gods and received guidance from the gods to help the Ba people.
So after what happened a few days ago that Xu Chen and Ye slept together all night.
An indescribable atmosphere began to fill the hearts of the adult women in the clan.
According to ethnic rules, this kind of thing is not allowed to happen.
Ye usually sleeps with Muba and a group of women with children, completely separate from adult men and women with mating rights, while Xu Chen, Gu, and other semi-adult men sleep outside of Muba and others.
, even closer to a group of adult men and women.
But that day, everyone was a little drunk and fell asleep early. When Xu Chen hugged Ye and went to sleep, several busy pregnant women didn't notice it, and they didn't find out about it until dawn.
After the incident happened, Muba and a group of adult women felt a little troublesome, but they tacitly did not reveal the incident.
Because once exposed, Xu Chen must accept the punishment of the tribe, either expelled or sent to another tribe in exchange for a man of similar age.
But now who is willing to chase Xu Chen away?
Not to mention that they didn't rush, the other tribes were eager for Xu Chen to leave the Ba tribe. As long as the Ba tribe said they wanted to replace him, the other four tribes would rush to take him back.
In the face of the survival and interests of the Ba people, Mu Ba and others are willing to accept this seemingly unethical ending and would rather destroy the ancient rules passed down by the ethnic group.
And the reason why they can accept and admit these things is because the generation from Muba's mother to Chen and Ye has reached the fourth generation, but the blood relationship is actually very weak.
If the Ba tribe is large enough, like the Wu tribe, the tribe will have been dispersed into more than ten families, and in fact, internal marriages have begun. However, they have not completely separated from the tribe to find their own homes and live independently like the Ba tribe.
Otherwise, for a tribe as big as the Uzbek tribe, there simply would not be enough foreign men around for marriage.
According to ancient tradition, blood relatives within three generations of the maternal line are not allowed to intermarry.
Chen and Ye have already crossed the boundaries of time and blood.
If the two can really get married, then the Ba tribe can, like the Uzu tribe, split into a new family, and then continue to form a unified tribe to thrive.
Xu Chen naturally didn't know what Mu Ba and a group of women were thinking.
He just wants to be a quiet primitive inventor and lay out his grand plan to unify Kyushu.
So I kept the diary and drank the fruit wine without taking it to heart at all.
Since returning from participating in the witchcraft conference, he has basically given up on finding a savage woman as his wife, and started to focus on construction, striving to contribute to the upgrading of human civilization.
Wine, this is a word that was invented just a few days ago. The left side is water and the right side is a combined pictographic pattern of a clay pot.
In addition, after learning how to build a net for fishing, the tribesmen gradually learned some new words such as net, fish ball, and fish. During the exchange of life on the construction site, the Wu, Muya, and Hu tribes also gradually learned these new words.
of words.
This is a kind of diffuse cultural dissemination.
It is through this kind of mutual communication and learning that human civilization gradually forms a broader language and writing system, and then relies on these same language and writing exchanges to form a larger sense of tribal group identity. Eventually, these tribes and groups will slowly
Slow integration has become a more advanced new form of civilization.
Therefore, language and writing are the most important inheritance of human beings besides blood relations. After reaching a certain scale and height, they will transcend blood relations and become a broad sense of racial identity.
However, to reach this point, it is necessary to rely on language and writing to form a mature ideological system.
For example, the inheritance of ancient myths and stories, the creation of the god system, the understanding of the nature of heaven and earth, etc.
For example, the Chinese inheritance, from ancient mythology to the Contest of a Hundred Schools of Thought and then to Confucianism becoming the ruling ideology of the feudal dynasty, its core essence is the pursuit and identity of morality.
This process is very long.
But tracing back to the core of this inheritance, it may be related to the oldest Tai Chi Bagua Yi Jing and other primitive theories that have begun to appear and form before the writing period.
Articles convey the truth.
With words, we can elaborate, explain and record these theories to form an ideological system. After dissemination, it will then gain widespread recognition. A group with broad ideological identity will naturally form a broader society that transcends blood relations.
structure.
Therefore, Xu Chen is very serious about creating words.
Compared with the obvious technical communication such as rope-twisting, basket weaving and pottery weaving, he values the convenience of communication brought by language and the cultural identity formed by it.
As the savages from the Wu, Muya, Hu, and Ji tribes who stayed to help bring back the new language and writing they learned from the Ba tribe, Xu Chen can believe that the exchanges between the tribes will become smoother in the future.