From Chief to Ball

Amidst the restlessness of thousands of people, those few people cried and begged for mercy, but to no avail.Several relatives rushed forward and slashed on their heads with stone axes, even their own elder brother.

Of course they couldn't be buried here after they died. Their hands and feet were tied together behind their backs with ropes, and an earth pit had already been prepared far away from the village.

Facing the ground, with his back facing the sky, he was buried in a hurry.The clansmen feel that this posture will be very tiring, and they will not be able to see the sun in that world, instead of sleeping on their sides like those clansmen.

The thirteen chiefs together told all the clansmen what they had just decided in the hut. Since they agree with the same ancestor, they must abide by this law: Anyone who betrays their relatives and kills their blood relatives is the same as these people.This is not a matter within one clan, but an agreement that all fourteen clans must abide by.

The clay plate has been fired, and it will be hung in the village in a short time. Everyone who passes by will see it and think of the deaths of these people—it is even more terrifying after death. There are no ancestors in another world Asylum, but also always maintain the posture of the tribe, unable to see the sky.

Some people are thinking, if there really is another world, how should these people face those relatives who were killed by their own hands?

More people just take it for granted, without much emotion, anyway, they never thought of killing their relatives with their own hands.They think again, will that law really come in handy in the future?

Chen Jian felt that it would definitely be useful. Time can quickly erase memories, but not those pictures carved on clay panels.

As long as that clay tablet is still there, this story will be passed down forever, and told to those children who have not experienced it in later generations.

I thought that some clansmen would vomit when they saw the beheading, but in fact these people were very calm. In their view, these people deserved death, and they would not betray their relatives. Why should they be afraid?

Besides, it’s just a dead person. Those who were eaten by tigers, bitten by snakes, and died after eating poisonous fruits, I have seen a lot. Maybe they will cry when they die like that, but people who die like this can’t even see them in their dreams. I don't want to see it again.

Getting used to death means living a difficult life. In such a difficult life, it is even more difficult to tolerate people who betray their relatives.

After dealing with all this, it was already noon, and people from all tribes returned to the village. Under the guidance of some people, they sat in front of the meal and formed a big circle.

The meals are simple, mutton with wheat rice, fish sticks, ripe pears after picking... The cooking is not exquisite, but it is still a sumptuous feast in the eyes of these people.

The leaders and Chen Jian sat together, and the meals were the same, just for the convenience of discussing some things.

Chen Jian's clansmen lined up in the center of the field, advancing with the sound of drums, and bursts of applause came.After an earth wall rammed in advance was knocked down by those people holding wicker shields charging at the same time, the applause broke through the sky even more.

Yuqian'er knew that his brother had splashed water on the bottom of the earthen wall long ago, and even hollowed it out a little bit, thinking that this was something that many people had been busy all afternoon. Could it be that it was just to knock it down?

The leaders didn't know what was going on, and looked at the dusty place in horror, tsk tsk in amazement, and had a more intuitive impression of Chen Jian being able to win the battle.

After all the performances, according to the usual practice, the masters of each tribe came out one after another after eating and drinking, either fighting sticks, throwing spears, or running races.

Amidst the applause one after another, Chen Jian took advantage of the situation and made several suggestions with these leaders.

Children from all tribes over the age of eight are all concentrated in the village, regardless of boys or girls, Chen Jian promised to teach them various skills, and they can return to their own tribe when they are 14 years old, and they don't need food from these people.

The second suggestion is that each tribe will select one out of ten men according to the male population to participate in the training for a period of three years, and can only return after three years.When going out for an expedition, ten men from each tribe will be dispatched to follow the expedition as supply soldiers. They will not participate in the battle, but will be responsible for transporting food and the like.The spoils of war will be divided into three shares in the future, one for each person, one for those who died in battle, and the other will be confiscated and counted as shared by several tribes in preparation for future wars.

The third thing is to hope that they will learn how to grow wheat, and at the same time, I also hope that they will move out of the mountains and live near their own villages. There is still a lot of land here, which is also convenient for jointly defending against the enemy.

These leaders easily agreed to the first two things. Those children can't do much work and have to eat, so it's better to send them to the village to grow up.And I can learn a lot, and it will be very useful for my tribe when I grow up, maybe their life will be as good as this tribe in the future.

There is no problem with the men's training. They have seen the results of the training, and this time they robbed a lot of trophies. Each tribe can share nearly a thousand catties of wheat and beans, as well as a few sheep and horned deer.There are only four or five people from each tribe, not too many, and it will not affect the life of the tribe.

But the third matter is still arguing. They haven't seen the effect of planting wheat with their own eyes. What if it doesn't work?The clansmen always have to eat. If each clan is far away, all kinds of fruits and nuts on the nearby mountains can survive the winter.But if you live very close, you have to go far away to collect them to ensure the survival of the tribe.

Out of trust in Chen Jian, two tribes decided to move here to grow wheat and settle down like them.The remaining tribes hope to wait until next year when the apricots are yellow and see the results of wheat planting before making a decision, at least through this winter.There is a certain level of trust, and it is not enough to crush the experience handed down from generation to generation.

Chen Jian didn't insist either. It was fine if two tribes moved here. The land on the south bank of the Caohe River was also very fertile and hadn't been cultivated at all.My tribe has boats, the grass river is not too wide, and the land is enough now.

After these three important things have been said, the remaining things are relatively simple, and there are basically no voices of opposition.

First of all, the various tribes in the clan are responsible for themselves, and the rest of the tribes are not allowed to intervene.If there is a conflict between the two tribes, the leaders should also be contacted to discuss and resolve it together.

The other is that one and a half months later, these tribal leaders will bring men to the village to punish those tribes who violated their oath.

The reason why it is one and a half months later is that winter wheat will be planted soon, and some tribes will also collect nuts to prepare for winter, so one and a half months can just be busy.

After discussing a few things, the thirteen people made a joint oath that they would never violate it.After drinking the blood wine, Yu Qian'er told the leader what each tribe could get. Naturally, these things did not include those captured slaves, because those tribes didn't need them for the time being.

At Chen Jian's invitation, they decided to stay another day to learn how to burn wasteland and grow wheat.

Chapter 21 Autumn Busy

The white dew is early, the cold dew is late, and the autumn equinox is the time for planting wheat.

The autumnal equinox is the day in the solar calendar when the sun is directly above the equator and the day and night are the same.

The people of the tribe now use a simple to broken lunar calendar, and they don't know when the real autumnal equinox is.

However, Chen Jian estimated that it should be within a few days, or it might be a little later.The land is not ripe and the wheat seeds are not good, so there is no problem a few days earlier.

Worship the ancestors like last time, and pray for the blessing of the ancestors to have a good harvest next year.

Because people from other races were watching, they didn’t plant the reclaimed land on the first day, but chose to set fire to the mountain. Now time is limited, let these people learn it early, and let them go back to plant early.

The weather is slightly cool, the grass leaves are slightly yellow, although they are not completely dry, they can be ignited.

Chen Jian led his clansmen to mow some grass with a stone scythe, and now there are a lot of seeds, which can appropriately expand the scope of slash-and-burn farming.

Setting fire to mountains is a very technical job, water and fire are ruthless, if the forest is ignited, all acorns and wild fruits will be burned, this winter will be very sad.

Lead the tribe to clear a passage that is more than two people wide, form a large circle to surround the place where the mountain is going to be set on fire, and set fire from both sides.

The channel where the grass and trees have been cut is not too wide, just enough to prevent the fire from spreading.

The temperature of the burning place is higher, the air pressure is lower, and the wind will naturally blow towards the burning place, and the two fires are ignited at the same time, and the two fires are like the Cowherd and Weaver Girl who are about to meet, hugging each other in the center and gradually extinguishing.

He taught other tribes how to burn mountains, and took them to the land that had already been burned to learn how to sow seeds.

If the sowing is dense, the seeds are wasted and the sun is blocked; if the sowing is sparse, the yield is too low and the weeds cannot be covered.

Sowing seeds all over the sky is of course not possible, and the ridges have not been dug out, so Chen Jian asked his tribe to find ropes, and several ropes were pulled in parallel, with each rope spaced one step apart.

The children who have nothing to do are responsible for pulling the rope, and the adults are digging along the rope with bone plows and scattering wheat.In addition to wheat, peas were sown between the two ropes.

Wheat has a strong tillering ability and a shallow root system; peas need support and can just lie on top of the wheat, with deep root systems and nitrogen fixation, and the two crops can be mixed.

The only downside is that the wheat and peas are easy to separate when harvesting next year.But now you only need to think about eating, and crushing them together is also a good food.

He made a demonstration for everyone in front, estimated the working time, signaled everyone to do it first, and turned around to discuss something with the old grandmother and Shitou.

After two months of reclamation, the two clans have cultivated a total of about [-] mu of land. On average, each labor force can cultivate less than half an mu of land a day. Without metal farm tools, this efficiency is not bad.

Since the land was cultivated jointly by the two ethnic groups, it is time to distribute it.As a demonstration, there will be a comparison when other tribes move over in the future.

According to the number of laborers who opened up the land, the land was divided by steps. Chen Jian's tribe was divided into about [-] mu, and the Shitou tribe was divided into the remaining [-] mu.

Now there is no government, just a simple tribal alliance, and there is no way to divide public land and private land.

The two tribes eat according to their ability, and turn over part of it as food for the army every year. The soldiers from the other tribes do not need them to provide food in the first year, and then gradually regulate after they settle down and plant.

In addition to these reclaimed land, the burned land is also under their own jurisdiction. With the reclaimed land as the boundary, the upper reaches belong to the Chen Jian tribe, and the lower reaches belong to the Shitou tribe.