From Chief to Ball

Furthermore, in accordance with the tradition of the Republic, a competitive sports meeting was held in Wangbei City, which left the tribal slave era as the beauty of strength, and young people from seven villages were invited to participate.

Just like what Chen Jian did in the tribal era, with the exquisite gifts of this era and the attitude of recognizing personal strength, he set up events suitable for the participation of aboriginal villages such as gladiatorial, archery, and javelin, and awarded the bronze "Ceremony of Coming of Age" medal It can be regarded as an officially recognized coming-of-age ceremony that turns headhunting into competition.

The remaining power of primitive society is the aesthetics and tribal traditions that attract both sexes, so that this way of coming-of-age ceremony has been recognized by village elders and goddesses.Of course, field artillery and flintlock muskets are also indispensable.

Following the old days of the Republic, Wangbei City will hold a grand sports competition every four years, and award medals and material rewards recognized by all villages and Wangbei City.These medals will gradually replace the facial tattoos and tattoos after their "grass" headhunting, and become another symbol of male strength in the primitive era. In this way, these aborigines will be dragged into "civilized" society in a way that will not receive too much opposition .

These aborigines may not be qualified laborers suitable for large farms, large mines and large workshops, or even qualified soldiers in the phalanx, but their customs and habits make them good skirmishers and hunting soldiers.

After the competition, the government of Wangbei City returned the banana saplings and orange saplings sent by the village elders, but scattered the soil on the ground.

"Land belongs to nature, but saplings belong to labor. Everyone has the right to work on the land, and everyone's labor results must be respected."

Such reasons and good attitudes, as well as the threat of the big village tribe and the good attitude of Wangbeicheng to teach them farming, made the people of these seven villages agree with this statement.

A simple treaty was signed.

"The seven village communities are part of the Wangbei City People's Government, and Wangbei City respects the village community's self-government system and the election of elders."

"Wangbeicheng agrees with the respect that the aborigines of the village community have for their ancestors, and the aborigines of the village community have given up the barbaric way of headhunting."

"The village community recognizes that the ownership of natural resources belongs to all residents, respects the fruits of labor, and abandons all traditional land ownership such as enclosures and hunting grounds."

"Where any village community that agrees and voluntarily becomes the Wangbei City residents' government, the Wangbei City government has the obligation to protect its members to enjoy all the normal rights of the residents of Wangbei City, but if they agree with the Wangbei City government, they must recognize Wangbei City's legal system—— Except for some special customs, the rest of the trial will be executed by the court in Wangbei City."

"All children have the obligation to study in Wangbeicheng School. If they are of the right age and do not receive education, they will be fined two buckskins. Those who cannot learn to recognize [-] square characters after the Kaimeng education will also be fined ten bundles of rice or Thirty catties of dried sweet potatoes will be fined."

"Immigrant population without Wangbeicheng identity card is not allowed to live in the village, and has the obligation to report."

"Wangbei City will set up a trade market between villages and communities. Hunting income such as deer skins and candied deer can be traded tax-free in the trade market. Wangbei City guarantees that banknotes can be used to buy any available commodities in consumer groups, and salt, cotton, Necessities such as iron must be purchased with banknotes, and buckskins, etc. cannot be exchanged in private."

"People who enter the village to buy deerskins must wear an ID card issued by the Wangbei City government. Those who do not have this ID card are not allowed to trade with them, and each one caught will be rewarded with some banknotes and three pieces of wide plain cloth."

"The purpose of taxation is to maintain the operation of the government, implement education, military training, and build roads, which are all kinds of behaviors that are beneficial to the people. Villages pay taxes under the condition that they agree with the purpose of taxation, and they will be exempted within four years. The representatives went to Wangbei City to discuss the tax rate together."

"Teachers stationed in the village community are qualified to participate in the decision-making of major issues in the village community, and have the final veto power over the opinions of the elders of the village community—the veto on the basis that the village community violates the common interests of the people in Wangbei City according to the terms. right."

"According to the population, the village community provides a small number of village community members to join the army to protect the overall interests from foreign enemies."

"The Wangbeicheng government is obliged to guide the village community's settlement planting industry, and can use low-interest loans or long-term repayment of buckskins to borrow farm tools such as cattle, horses, and iron tools from the village community."

Chapter 1 is not a colonial colonization

The seven weak villages were the first to sign a treaty with Wangbei City and became part of the Wangbei City government's jurisdiction. They also became the first group of villages to integrate into or be forced to change their habits and original structure by the development of productive forces.

The best option for short-term benefits is to forcibly collect poll taxes, exempt elders from taxes, and instigate tribal wars.But in the long run, it will bring various problems and contradictions, and it is not suitable for the development of a long-term base.

Assimilation and civilization are a long process, and it is easiest in plain areas suitable for farming, but most difficult in mountainous areas.The most important way to change these customs is the improvement of productivity. It is not suitable for mountainous areas. The problems in mountainous areas can be controlled by economic means, and we will not provoke them for the time being.

When the number of Han immigrants in the plain area reaches about [-], the problem will become serious and need to be solved urgently. Now is not the time to think about these things.

After the seven villages signed a treaty with Wangbeicheng, the Wangbeicheng government has not given up contact with the larger village with more than 4000 people upstream.

Although the two sides were in a state of hostility in the previous war, it also made the village realize that the advanced weapons of this group of people were far beyond what they could resist. The strict anti-smuggling system made it difficult for the village to contact the rest of the businessmen, and the trade between the two sides remained unchanged. normal.

This village is an important passage to the volcanic sulfur mines, coal mines and gold mines, and the contact with this village is also a matter that the Wangbeicheng government attaches great importance to.

Constantly send people to contact, or carry out trading activities in the village, or teach some planting techniques, or treat some diseases.

This kind of friendly contact also made the people in that village respect the doctors who wandered among the villages or those who taught planting techniques.

However, the conflict between the two sides finally broke out soon after.

These new diseases brought by immigrants from other places, and these diseases have never been experienced by the village community here, and the resistance is very weak.The residents of Wangbei City may only have a fever for a few days, which is fatal in the village.

According to ancient customs, when a plague breaks out, headhunters need to "go out of the grass" to obtain the protection of their ancestors, so that the plague can be quelled.

The elders and priestesses made the decision to "make the grass", and the target of the grass is the relatively weak village community or the residents of Wangbei City who have immigrated.

This is a sacred ceremony. There were still people sent by Wangbei City in the village community at that time, so they tried their best to persuade them, thinking that this was invalid. It is better to go to Wangbei City to ask the doctors there to help treat these people's illnesses. This is the right way.

Although the people in the village respected this person very much, the long-standing customs and primitive religious concepts made it difficult for them to accept it.

They do not offer sacrifices to heaven and earth, wind and rain, thunder and lightning, or anything else in nature. They only believe in ancestor spirits and consider headhunting to be a solemn ceremony.

The person who got the news seized the opportunity to escape, and wanted to tell Wangbei City the news, but was ambushed by people from the village on the way, and his head was cut off as a sacrificial offering.

When the news reached Wangbei City, people in the organization discussed it overnight and thought it was an excellent opportunity.

The next day, Wangbei City sent an envoy to the village to explain Wangbei City's solution to the elders of the village.

"The elders of the village community went to Wangbei City to apologize, and handed over the participants of the headhunting team for execution."

"Wangbei City will send doctors to help the residents of the village community. But the village community must abandon the barbaric custom of making grass and agree with Wangbei City's laws."

"Return the head of the victim, and members of the commune must attend the person's funeral."

Under the threat of force from Wangbei City, the elders, leaders and goddesses of the village responded.

They can apologize, but they will never hand over the village members of the headhunting team.At the same time, he scoffed at the so-called barbarism and civilization.

They asked:

Don't you people of the civilized world have wars?What is the difference between your war and our draft?It would be barbaric to teach us about grass after your civilized world has no wars.Using your guns to kill people without any sacred sacrifices, and our bows and arrows to hunt for gods, which behavior is civilization?

This is our land, the laws here are the laws left by our ancestors, and the customs here are the customs left by our ancestors.Is there anything wrong with our laws and customs in our land?If we do this on your land, we should be punished, but this is our land.

We didn't invite you to pass on "civilization", but you came here to pass on "civilization". To implement the habits of our ancestors on the land of our ancestors, what right do you have to object?

This was the final reply, and the envoy returned to Wangwang City to pass the news back.

But Wangbei City did not take immediate action, but waited for the plague to continue to rage.At the same time, the militia organizations in various farms and plantations are strictly guarded, and no one is allowed to travel alone to prevent attacks.

The seven villages affiliated to Wangbei City also made preparations to prevent the hostile big village from making any radical moves.

A month later, the raging plague killed many people in that big village, and their beliefs and worldviews were brutally hit...

The seven villages who took refuge in Wangbei City were not affected by the plague by relying on mandatory eating habits, calcium hypochlorite disinfectant powder and other hygienic habits and isolation systems.

And even though this village community had a ceremony to produce grass, it still didn't let the plague go away. On the contrary, many villagers died.

The original beliefs have been shaken and collapsed under this contrast, and this sacred ritual has also become a part of national habits but not the basis of world outlook.

Many people in the village community wondered, did they do something wrong?Is "civilization" better than "barbarism"?

If not, why didn't too many people die in those villages that took refuge in Wangwangbei City and did not perform the grass-making ceremony; why did so many people die when they held a solemn and solemn ceremony?

What is terrible is not those people who died, but the impact on the worldview brought about by the death of those people. People in the village community began to re-examine the previous terms. Some people thought that if doctors from Wangbei City were stationed in the village community to help them, they would not die. There are many people-the heroes who were originally sacrificed and headhunted, but in the eyes of some people, they have become the source of disasters in the village; the original respect and praise have become doubts and anger.