Jade is hidden by the waterfront, and white eagles fly in the sea and sky. Eight hundred miles north from the Black Snake Department is the Kingdom's largest stronghold on the west coast, Xishan Port in Jinshan Bay. After three years of development, this place with excellent hydrology
The natural seaport has grown from the original two to three hundred people to a large bay town with 3,200 tribes!
Last summer, the second fleet of Kingdom ships heading north arrived at Golden Bay. This fleet of longships not only brought a new group of priests, warriors and civilians, but also important supplies of pottery, brick making, and metal smelting.
and shipbuilders, making the whole town more prosperous.
Looking around, a newly built small main temple is located on the West Mountain of Haikou, overlooking the 500-mile-long Golden Bay. The expansion of Xishan Port is also accompanied by the newly reclaimed large tracts of farmland.
The temple with the banner of the main god extends from the winding east bank of Jinwan to the narrow west bank at the foot of the Western Mountain.
Xishan Port occupies both sides of Jinwan, so it is naturally divided into two towns: East and West. In the Jinwan Shipyard in East Town, eight long ships have already set up the most important entire keels, and built extended cabin decks. More than a dozen kingdoms
Shipwrights, more than 200 meters of Walker craftsman apprentices, and dozens of tribal carpenters and chieftains from the North Bay are all busy working on the skeleton of the longship, building the largest "ship" ever built on the West Coast.
Big Ship".
In fact, these self-built longships on the west coast are obviously smaller than the longships in the south of the kingdom. They are only about 16 meters, 4 and a half meters wide, and can accommodate 32 rowers and the same number of warriors, or 24
tons of cargo. Generally speaking, the size of the small longship is only 80% of the kingdom's standard longship, but it uses excellent redwood wood. The reason why it is only built so large is, on the one hand, the lack of master craftsmen, and on the other hand
This is also due to the shortage of metal connectors.
In the entire 500-mile-long Jinwan area, more than a dozen open-pit gold mines have been discovered, and there are even three real large gold mines, but not even an open-pit copper mine can be found. It is simply outrageous! Xishan Port
The only nearby source of metal is a batch of iron materials newly shipped from the northern Huwan Port after the iron was smelted at the beginning of this year. With these stable sources of iron materials, another batch of long ships can create the kingdom's
Standard sizes, even larger sizes available...
Outside the entrance of Jinwan, four small long boats that have been built, three old large long boats, plus dozens or hundreds of canoes are all busy going back and forth. The entire Xishan Port was dispatched for four minutes
One of the population, welcoming the spring fish flood when fish migrate, cast nets in the bay where fish are everywhere. When seeing the big fish picked up one after another, the tribesmen would cheer excitedly from time to time.
"Praise the Lord God! Praise the great spirit of the sea for allowing us to catch so many fish!..."
"Ah! Look! It's a long-spur walleye, the most difficult walleye to catch! It's been squeezed out from the bottom of the lake by the fish. Hurry! Lower the net!..."
"Okay! I caught it! This is the most delicious fish. It must be dedicated to the most noble priests of the Lord God who have the blessing of divine power to bring good harvests and big ships!..."
The "big-eye fish" in the mouth of Miwok tribesmen is the famous walleye in later generations. It is an extremely delicious freshwater fish with almost no fishy smell. This fish is actually mainly distributed in the Great Lakes area, but it is also scattered in California.
, it’s just extremely difficult to catch…
Soon, canoes loaded with fish were rowed to the kingdom's port in the east. Hundreds of women and children of the tribe were ready to set up rows of fish racks on the shore, and then used the south to
Thousands of kilograms of lake salt have been transported, and the pickled salted fish is full of enthusiasm. When the spring fishing season is over, tons of salted fish will be stored in the "big fish warehouse" on the east coast, making the entire Xishan Gangdong Town
They all exude the "pleasant" smell of salted fish. It's hard to say whether there is any difference between the main god's priests who eagerly built a temple in Xishan and opened up the Jinwan West Town where the priests live, and the "Big Fish Cang" in East Town.
What inexplicable relationship...
However, as long as they smell this wonderful salty smell that symbolizes the abundance of food, all the Miwok tribesmen who farm in the fields will show a simple smile of relief, joy and even obsession. Because, since they have stored big fish
After the warehouse, the tribe has real confidence. With surplus food in hand, the tribe no longer has to worry about famine!
As for the new fields that are constantly being cultivated on both sides of the river, although a lot of manpower has been invested, the harvest is actually far less than that on the Mexican plateau. It will take at least several years for the corn fields by the river to slowly turn into high-yielding cultivated land. At present,
The only output is given to samurai and warriors first. The potatoes, pumpkins and sweet potatoes grown on the mountain side do not require water and soil. Even new dry land can produce good output, which is the most important thing for the tribesmen.
Important subsistence food…
The smell of salted fish spreads from the fish warehouse. A batch of salted fish that has been stored for more than a year has just been taken out and transported to the small island in the center of Golden Bay, which is also the "market" where Miwok ministries come to trade. Arriving at Xishan Port in the Kingdom
In the past, because all kinds of output were very limited, trade between various ministries was actually infrequent. But after the kingdom established Xishan Port, the advanced productivity, the tools for transportation, salt and iron, and the three kinds of spread cereal crops... all changed greatly.
Understand the current situation of Jinwan tribes!
Especially in the northern part of Miwok Bay where Cedar Shaman is located, it occupies the Napa Valley with the best water and soil. After planting three imported cereals, it already has more than 8,000 tribal people! Such a huge,
The large northern tribe with its shaman is undoubtedly the "leader of the tribes" among the tens of thousands of Miwok tribes in the Golden Bay area!
But when a trusted disciple of Cedar Shaman, brought the shaman’s knowledge of the Kingdom in the Lake, hurriedly returned to the Beiwan Department at the beginning of the year... the "powerful" Beiwan Department, with thousands of warriors, finally learned about the Kingdom in the Lake.
The tens of thousands of legions understood the "real power" of the kingdom!...Subsequently, after two months of debate, at the beginning of this month, the Beiwan Council of Elders officially passed a resolution announcing that the entire clan would convert to the Lord God and devote themselves to the Lord God.
The embrace of the "Supreme God"!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At this moment, the temple of the main god is beginning to be built in the North Bay. The kingdom’s missionary priests have also been invited to settle in the Napa Valley. Influence on the North Bay
Next, the tens of thousands of Miwok tribes in the Jinwan area also successively worshiped the main god and sent their chief disciples to Xishan Town to learn, actively and passively moving closer to the belief in the "Great God".
As for the old salted fish currently transported to the "market" on the small island, it is used to trade with the Miwok tribes mainly in the North Bay for furs, bird feathers, medicinal herbs and minerals produced in the mountains, and attracts dozens or hundreds of small tribes.
, moved the whole body to the port of the kingdom. In fact, this kind of trading product, which contains a lot of salt and is cherished by the salt-deficient tribes, is more like the faith benefits brought by the kingdom to the Miwok tribes, and is a missionary
Shifa’s “eggs”…
Since "eggs" are being distributed, it is natural that a priest of the main god must be present. Jia Shu, the missionary priest of Xishan Port, is sitting in a large boat filled with salted fish and is guarded by ten warriors of the kingdom. He is wearing a Northland-style fur sacrifice
He was wearing a robe, sniffing his nose from time to time, and his face was full of determination of dedication. And when he arrived at the market island, he saw envoys from more than 20 mountain Miwok tribes, and saw those "pious" and eager people.
After the smile, there was even more excitement and joy.
"Praise the Lord God, three more messengers from new tribes have arrived, and three more groups of 'Fish of the Lord God' have arrived! With the conversion and refuge of the Beiwan tribe, this vast land of Golden Bay is becoming the 'big fish' of the Lord God.
Pond'. And in this fish pond, tens of thousands or even one hundred thousand meters of Walker tribe will surely fall into the arms of the Lord God and become the most delicious 'big-eye fish'..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! Soon, the first large city-state on the west coast will be established in our hands! And more temple towns will start from the North Bay and extend all the way east until they are spread over five hundred miles of gold.
Bay!...Haha! By that time, the wealthy Golden Bay land on the west coast will surpass the underpopulated Leijin Town and become the real political center of the Northland. It will even establish a huge religious province and a fourth-level priesthood.
