From Chief to Ball

"Ah."

"The women in your Xiacheng are very powerful, but the women in our Acropolis are rarely so powerful."

After Wei Xi finished speaking, he probably felt that the women in his city were stupid because he was afraid of being misunderstood by Red Fish, so he hurriedly explained: "They have to take care of their children or do other things on weekdays, so they don't have time."

"Babysitting all day?"

"We are different from you. We fight with Xirong all day long, and many people die. Sometimes the female slaves who are captured will also give birth to our children, but the children born are not raised by female slaves, but are distributed to each other. The women of our own tribe have to take care of many children."

Hongyu was slightly taken aback, he never thought that Weicheng would be so weird, and he was a little curious in his heart, wouldn't those children worry about their mother when they grow up?But in the end, I didn't ask much.

Wei Xi rubbed his hands together and said, "My brother forbids our clansmen to become merchants. He said that farming and fighting are the most important things. The children in our city have to learn things like archery from a very young age. Only the best can go to war, and if you don’t fight, you can’t get slaves, and you can’t get a lot of food in normal times.”

"You are always at war, where does your food come from?"

"The slaves are planted, and the nearby tribes are also planted. They can't beat us, and they have to hand over half of the food every year."

Red Fish smiled and said, "So there are so many differences between Acropolis and Xiacheng?"

"Yeah, I just found out when I came out to have a look. Before I went to Xia City, I never thought there would be such a weird city like yours. I thought all the cities were the same as the Acropolis, but they turned out to be different."

There are many other places that are different, and Red Fish inquired about these strange things along the way.

Before that, apart from knowing that the leader of the Acropolis was named Weihe, her understanding of the Acropolis was Xiacheng with a different name.

When we arrived at the Acropolis, there was still one day before Lidong Festival.

The people around Hongyu pointed to the distant city, and asked in disbelief, "Is that the Acropolis?"

They knew that the Acropolis had many sheep, many people, and many slaves.

So I didn't expect the Acropolis to look like this at all. The city walls were low, and the entire city was not in a regular shape. The naked eye could feel the distortion of the city walls, which was far from the nearly perfect rectangle of Xia City.

Maybe the people in the Acropolis don't pay attention to these at all, or maybe they think that a strong tribe is the best city wall.

In the open space outside the city, a group of twelve or thirteen-year-old children were practicing archery and wrestling. It was already a bit cold, but those children were all shirtless. Although they were not tall enough, their flesh had collapsed. There are some lines.

A child just glanced at the Red Fish group curiously, and was immediately whipped by an adult. The child kept his mouth shut and said nothing, probably because if he made a sound, he would receive more beatings.

What he heard from Wei Xi was different from what he saw with his own eyes. Red Fish was also stunned for a long time before shaking his head and laughing: "This is really a weird city. It was about the first time Wei Xi saw our city. Was it the same feeling when you were in Yap?"

Chapter 28 Weird

The Lidong Festival is the most important festival in the Acropolis, and also the most important sacrifice of the year.

From this day onwards, winter has officially entered, and the corn has been harvested and stored, so it is necessary to pray to God on this day to pray for a good harvest next year.

In winter, there are generally no wars, and the Acropolis people who have been closely connected with wars since birth regard this day as an extremely important festival.

On this day, the leaders of the city will visit those who were injured in the war, offer sacrifices to the dead, and send a large amount of food to those families who lost their families in the war.

This year is Weihe's first year as the chief of the city. His uncle who opposed him has become a slave. With his previous prestige and his father's designation before his death, his position seems to be stable, but he still needs to pay attention to this sacrifice. Traditions of the town.

There were no sacrifices in Xia City a year ago, and the time when the sacrifices appeared was when the planting industry changed the lives of the people, and there was no calendar before, so the most important sacrifices in Xia City were before planting, which is completely different from Acropolis.

There is a very interesting habit of the Lidong Festival in Acropolis. When I was in Hwaseong, the Dongyi tribe on the seashore once said that after the beginning of winter, the pheasants in the forest will disappear, but there will be many colorful clams on the seashore.

This is just a coincidence of a natural phenomenon, but it has become a custom to prove that the solar terms are normal. Therefore, on this day, the leader of the city will dig a pit and bury a pheasant, and someone will replace it with a clam shell at night to show that next year There will be four distinct seasons.

When the pheasants were buried in the Wei River, the whole tribe knelt on the ground, praying for a good harvest next year.

The tribes conquered by the Acropolis and forced to hand over half of their food every year will also be present, and they are more devout than the people in the city.The leader of the Acropolis always kept his word. He said he would never ask for more if he handed over half of it, but he would never ask for less. Some tribes had cheated them before, and now those tribesmen can only be trusted in the city. The trade of slaves.

Weihe had been busy all day, and it was not until the second day of the Lidong Festival that he took time to see Hongyu.

Red Fish sized up Weihe. He was young, and in Red Fish's eyes, he was slightly older than Chen Jian, but he had a burly body, thick arms, and a scar on his cheek, which made him look a bit vicious.

Wearing a very simple shirt, except for the jade on the waist, it seems that there is no difference from an ordinary clansman at all.

Red Fish first presented Xia Cheng with a gift, two high-quality tanned fur aprons. After receiving them, Wei He casually put them beside him without taking another look.

"I have heard my father talk about the past since I was a child. To be honest, I have never heard of the surname Ji before. But I think your surname will be known to other cities soon, because you have a car , This is really a good thing. I think it won't be long before your surname will be more famous than that of E."

He praised a few words without hesitation, and then said enviously: "With a car, you can carry more food, fight longer, and go to faraway places... It's a pity that our tribe can't do it." come out."

Red Fish smiled and said, "In addition to wheels, our tribe has many things... such as words, numbers and..."

Before she could finish speaking, Wei He waved his hand and said: "I heard from Wei Xi that your city walls are higher than ours, and the city is also straighter, but it's useless, the clansmen are the ones who did it well. Protection. Besides, the grassbirds in the mountains can make their nests beautifully and sing beautifully, but what is the use? It is not food for the falcons. It is useless for everything except fighting.”

Hongyu smiled lightly, and didn't explain much about this issue. Weihe frowned and said, "I don't like to let my clansmen be businessmen either. You didn't plant or work, but just transported the goods here. You can get enough food for you to eat or even more, if everyone does this, who will farm the land and who will fight the war?"

"But without us, wouldn't your tribe be short of salt?"

"I just don't like my people doing this. I like it when you do this. Your salt is better than the salt brought in from the towns on the lower reaches of the river, and the exchange is less than what they want. This time Ji What is Xia going to ask you to exchange? Slaves or corn?"

"slave."

"Then let's change it. I'll also give Jixia some presents back. Go back and tell Jixia that if you give me something next time, it's better to be a car instead of this kind of fur..."

He grabbed the two beautifully sewn fur coats, shook his head and said, "If you want to keep warm, a sheepskin is enough. If all the people in the tribe like this kind of thing and exchange it with corn, that's not good. This kind of thing If not, the clansmen would not want it, but once they have it, it will be different, it is best not to bring these things next time, we only exchange salt and linen and those bronze farm tools... By the way, there are also cars."

Someone else is in charge of the exchange. When Wei He got up to leave, Hong Yu also got up and said, "Ji Xia asked me to come. There is one more thing I need to discuss with you."

"what's up?"

"He hopes that after the corn is planted in May next year, he can discuss the matters between the three cities with you and the Eyue Union. At the same time, he also hopes that the three cities can send the most powerful warriors from their tribes to compete against each other. fan."

"League? A tiger will not bite another tiger at will, even if there is no alliance. Even if a sheep has made an alliance with a tiger, the tiger will still bite him. The matter of the alliance... can be discussed or not, until the end Let's talk about it later. But, what do you mean by this contest between warriors?"

It was the first time Weihe heard such a weird statement, and he didn't know what it meant.

"When our tribe used to have disputes, they would use wooden sticks to fight each other, so that they could not kill each other, but also vented their grievances. Over time, it became a habit. It was held once a year. One is In order to continue this habit, secondly, let the tribe know who is the strongest in the city."

Wei He laughed loudly and said, "This is a good idea, is it also Ji Xia's idea?"

"Correct."

"The warriors in our city are no worse than those in other cities. They all know how to shoot arrows and wrestle since they were young. Tell me, let me hear what you all compare to."

"Archery, spear fighting, running races, javelins..."

Wei He nodded and said: "It's all related to war. It's okay to compare these things. It can let the clansmen remember these skills to protect themselves and the city, and can also choose the strongest one. Driving... your city Definitely won, but, what do you mean by the throwing bomb you mentioned at the end?"

Red Fish took out a fist-sized stone ball and said, "It's farther than whoever threw it."

Wei Xi took the stone ball, fiddled with it casually, shook his head and said, "What's this for? Although it's not heavy, it can't be thrown very far. It's used to hit people? It can only be thrown for dozens of steps at most. Throwing is also inaccurate, far inferior to bows and arrows, which is really strange..."

Chapter 29 New Army