From Chief to Ball

Since then, Renjun can brag wantonly, saying that he has talked and laughed a lot with so-and-so God in the sky, and even drove together in a car—if the southern ethnic group has a car.It is no longer the previous lower level that can only ask for instructions, meet, and worship.

Chapter 99 Messages from afar

This separation of heaven, earth and man is a choice after the expansion of secular rights, and sometimes this method may be a strange circle.

After the separation, some ethnic groups chose to suppress religion all the time, and some ethnic groups were helplessly seized by religion after the emergence of religion, and finally carried out the religious reform that had been completed once in the age of savagery; some ethnic groups completed it precociously in the age of mythology After the reform, it has been continued, omitting this step of reincarnation.

The separation of heaven, earth and man does not mean that there will be no more sacrifices, because that does not conform to the way of thinking of the long semi-barbaric era.

However, the leader monopolizes the theocracy by standardizing and sanctifying the sacrifices, which can prevent this kind of irrational sacrifice from consuming the power of the ethnic group, and there are various excuses to complete the unity of the ethnic group.

In any case, this is a kind of progress, and it also declares that the disintegration of the clan era of the southern ethnic group and the natural development of the ethnic group are very likely to form a formal civilization.

From the time when the only purpose of war in the clan era was blood hatred, to today's various reasons and excuses, it undoubtedly proves that war has become profitable, and the management level of those in power is gradually possessing the ability to rule the embryonic state of a country.

This is exactly what Chen Jian is worried about. Given the current situation, the tribes of the Dahe River, the Dongyi tribes, and the ethnic groups on the south bank of the Dahe River may all develop independent civilizations.

The longer the delay, the more troublesome this integration will be, and it may take hundreds or even thousands of years to complete complete annexation and digestion.

The best way to make civilization have only one voice is to bring civilization back to the clan era before it takes shape, and not allow it to have a unified national prototype.Either bloody assimilation, or driving out the river valley plains that are most suitable for the development of civilization will make them lose the opportunity to develop a strong civilization.

In the current situation of backward productivity, a war lasting for three to five years is enough to declare the complete defeat of an ethnic group.However, the tribes of Dahe have the technical advantages provided by Chen Jian. After three to five years of defeat, it will take decades of self-cultivation, but these decades are likely to be a fatal period of time.

History is cruel. Many clans disappeared completely without leaving their names.In this day and age, Chen Jian's ethnic group has a great advantage: they all look alike, their cultures are the same, and they speak different languages ​​but belong to the same language family.In the long run, colonial fortification, superior cultural aggression, and force to destroy the last possible unified cities of the opponent are enough.

A generation has what a generation has to do, and a generation has a method for a generation, and assimilation is left to future generations, and it will take a long time to dilute any choice.

And what he has to do now is to defeat Dongyi after nominal reunification, and cross the great river south to make the southern ethnic groups lose the chance of reunification.

So he is eager to know the development of that ethnic group, so he must speed up some things.

He called everyone together not to prepare for war now. Compared with the Dongyi group, the threat is less, after all, they are still far away.

He is about to go to Sucheng to become the high priest of the various ministries. Before that, he needs to arrange various things after leaving the city, prepare some gifts that show the strength of the city at any cost, and let the management of the Xia Kingdom know some things.

The world is very big. In addition to the known civilization groups nearby, there may also be such groups in farther places, so that they can open their eyes to see that the world is bigger and different than before.

After everyone arrived, Chen Jian asked the man who came back from the south to use his own eyes to tell about a world that sounds weird to everyone.

The person who came back waited for everyone to calm down, and then slowly told what he had seen and heard along the way.

"After crossing the great river, there are still cities of the tribes of the river within three to five hundred miles. Going south and crossing some mountains, there are cities of the southern ethnic groups about five or six hundred miles away. Those who are close to the cities of the tribes of the river The place is somewhat similar to ours, but not quite the same."

"We followed those people from the first city, walked southeast for more than [-] days, and finally came to the city with the largest ethnic group."

"The city is built on the mountain, and there is a big swamp nearby. There are ferocious beasts in the big swamp. Their leather armor is hard, their teeth are like knives, and their tails wriggle like fish. They have four legs, and they are so powerful that they can drag an ox into the swamp with one bite. Middle. There are clans and cities dedicated to offering sacrifices to this fierce beast, and there are also clans that strip the skins to make armor."

"The cattle there are also different from our cattle here. Our cattle have yellow fur, while the cattle there have black fur. They are strong, with long and curved horns, and like to swim."

"There are no horses there, but there are wild beasts that are much bigger than cows and horses. Their teeth are extremely long and their bodies are several times larger than cows, and their ears are like cattail fans. They are occasionally tamed to carry loads, or to use their teeth as ritual vessels."

"The people there grow a kind of rice that is as crystal clear as jade. The grains of rice are much larger than corn, and the color is like snow."

"They have copper and stone, and all kinds of farm tools, but they don't have sickles. When they are mature, they pluck out the ears of seedlings and pound them with stone mortars similar to how we process corn. When they call their mother's brothers, they are the same as the stone mortars they use to pound rice. It is said that in the clan era, we knew the mother but not the father like us, and things like pounding rice were done by the mother's brother, so it is called this."

"They can build boats, are good at fishing, catch more fish than us, and can spin nets."

"They also have clothes and hats, but because of the hot and humid weather, they often bare their upper bodies, and they like to smear their bare upper bodies with ocher."

"The thing they use to weave and thread is not hemp, but a strange thing, which Ji Xia asked me to find. It doesn't grow on trees, but is like grass, about as tall as a person, and blooms In the end, the fruit is like a white cloud, and it looks like a flower in the distance, they call it cotton."

"They spin cotton in the same way as we used to. They all have spinning wheels made of pottery, but the cloth weaves is worse than ours, not as fine as ours. That kind of cloth is more comfortable to the touch than our linen, but it is hot to wear. The sackcloth is more suitable for them."

"They also press oil, which uses cottonseed oil, but it's not for cooking. They don't have iron pans or copper ones. They are used to light oil lamps, and there is a lot of black smoke."

"By the way, copper...their copperware is not bad. There is a big copper mountain near the largest city, which is why the city was built there. They also use wax to make models, Same with clay."

"They dig wells, because there are many swamps, and the water in many swamps is not drinkable. But their way of digging wells is different from ours."

"They also have pottery. They don't look the same as ours. I don't know how they compare with other cities. Anyway, they are much better than acorn-fired ones."

"They also have Leisi, but most of them are bone, some are stone, and some are copper, but they are rare."

"They don't have written words yet, but the discourse among the ministries is similar."

"Their houses are not the same as ours. The walls are not thick because it is not cold in winter. The houses in the city also have solid foundations, but the clay above them is hardened by firing pottery to block water vapor."

"The houses outside the city are all about one person high from the ground, supported by pillars, covered with planks of thatch, and there are gaps between the planks. Under the planks, there are animals such as pigs and dogs, and there are also some flightless birds. .”

"Their level of wood making is very high, similar to ours. The mortise and tenon is very good. If it is not good, it is impossible to use wooden railings to make a house above the ground."

"They also have workshops, and there are many slaves. Many slaves are used for planting. Some are former clan relatives or priests who violated the rules of free sacrifice."

"There are much more mosquitoes and snakes there than here, so they are both afraid and disgusted. Every year in May and June, they will collect a lot of wormwood with a strange smell, and hang it in the house or dry it to repel mosquitoes just like us. "

"We met the chiefs of their various tribes in the largest city, and presented gifts such as ironware and gunpowder. He was very happy and asked us a lot of things, agreeing to exchange seeds or cotton for ironware and the like. "

"Their leaders are proficient in the calendar. In the very center of the city, there are several excellent wooden pillars. Together with the mountains in the east, they stand at a certain point. In the four seasons, they can use different pillars to make the rising sun exactly. The shadow came over."

"They regard us around May as the beginning of a year. They count the same as us and the Dongyi people, and they count by ten and ten."

"Probably because their houses are built on wooden railings. They believe that there are several pieces of wood between the sky and the earth, and they are the kind of wood that the chief used to observe the sunrise. That kind of wood is rare, and it is said that only It can only be found on the mountains that can communicate with heaven and earth among the several wildernesses stipulated by the leader. They believe that climbing this kind of tree on those wilderness mountains can climb to the sky, and many people are looking for it, but the leader has been inaccurate in recent years, saying Because he communicated with the heaven and the earth, the distance between the sky and the earth has widened, and only a special kind of sacred tree can climb to the sky, and other trees can’t do it.”

"The leader is very rich, but he is also very wise. For a few years, no one will sacrifice at will. The leader personally leads the sacrifice and leads the people to plant. These years, the people are very rich, and there is no flood for the time being, and there are many fish and shrimp."

"Women like to decorate with shells, but they have no money, and they basically exchange with each other. There are already poor and rich, and the children born are named by their fathers, not by their mothers. The leader leads the people to farm, fish, and build ships. There are already private fields cultivated by slaves."

"They don't have spears, but they have spears, but few of them use spears. They usually use bronze swords, stone axes, etc. Because spears are not easy to use in places with many rivers and swamps, right?"

"They have no cars, let alone chariots."

"They have bows and arrows, but their archery skills may be similar to those of our Xiacheng people. They can't shoot very far. But they have poisonous weeds or snakes and centipedes on their arrows, which can easily kill people."

"Their soldiers are much better at climbing trees than us, and they can climb very fast. They can swim and punt. They have simple armor made of buffalo leather, and they are used to be decorated with horns. Oh, yes, there is also a kind of Cows are not small in size, but they only have one horn, but they cannot be domesticated."

"They are no longer the customs of the clan era as the law and rules, but they have rules and laws almost like us, and there are five physical punishments, and there is a terrible punishment of throwing people into the marsh to feed fierce beasts, or It’s about tying people up in the woods and waiting for all kinds of bugs to suck the blood dry.”

Chapter 100 The High Priest's Rehearsal

The returnee was still talking endlessly about all the things he had seen and heard two thousand miles away from the Nandu River, and some people in the house were a little foolish.

Crocodiles that can devour cows and horses with their mouths wide open, weird and huge elephants, huge pythons, edible rice grains like broken jade...

The difference caused by the distance of fifteen or six hundred miles made them realize the vastness of the world for the first time.Even though some of them have followed Chen Jian to Dongyi, but that is basically the difference of the same latitude, slightly warmer but there is no such a big difference.Anyway, there are no elephants or crocodiles near Onozawa.

As for rice, some people have seen it before, and the two ethnic groups have communicated before, but they don't carry much, just some people tasted it once.

The biggest difference between cross-longitude and cross-latitude is that those unimaginable species, existing objects beyond people's imagination, are easier to let people know the vastness of the world than oral preaching.