From Chief to Ball

Chen Jian looked at the jungle and meadow in the distance, shook his head and said, "Let's go back first, there are a lot of people in this tribe. Brother, you take a few people to follow behind the tribe, and run to the team every once in a while to tell me .”

Langpi had never seen Chen Jian so solemn, whistled, and led a few people to disperse.

Chen Jian returned to the team with the rest of the people. Those migrating people were already a little flustered. They guessed that something might have happened.

But Chen Jian didn't say it directly, but called the leaders together, including the leaders of the migrating tribes.

He took out the scalp in his hand and gave them a look. They immediately recognized what it was and asked in panic, "Is everyone in this tribe dead?"

"do not know."

Chen Jian stared at the migrating tribal leaders and said, "Do you know what this is?"

"Human scalp."

"Yeah, that's how other tribes treat us."

"I let you move out. It's because the mother teaches the wrong children, and the older brother teaches the younger brother who made mistakes. But you have to remember that even if the older brother can pick up the cane and beat the younger brother who made mistakes, he does not allow outsiders to beat the younger brother, even if it is just Touch your fingers."

It was the first time those leaders heard this weird statement, but they easily accepted it.

They are leaders, mothers, and sisters.

Now that I have been a mother, I certainly understand the feeling of being a mother: Even if the child makes a mistake and breaks the clay pot, I will inevitably be slapped, but I will not allow a foreigner to reprimand me.

Chen Jian put away his scalp and said: "Let's go, when we get to the Cao River, let's get together, no one will dare to treat you like this."

The leaders of the ten tribes asked nervously, "Jian, what should we do?"

"It will take some time for the wheat beans to mature, and it will snow soon. That tribe will not come out in the snow. You leave some people to take care of the tribe, and some people go to the village to build houses before the snow falls. We There are not too many acorns, you have to bring your own to eat."

"Ah."

After discussing all this, I told the tribe about it, and I didn't panic too much, because there were soldiers with stone spears and axes beside them.

The speed of going back was obviously much faster. Langpi and seven or eight people kept staring behind, and ran back every once in a while to tell him that there was no movement.

Chen Jian was thinking about the tribe that appeared. Now the world he sees with his eyes is too small, only within a hundred miles.

The development of civilization is not synchronous, it is fast and slow, and it is closely related to the environment.The previous development speed of their own tribe was obviously lagging behind, which may be related to the great migration decades ago. Only by settling down can they have enough population and figure out some technologies.

The cavalry in this era is not terrible. The upright cavalry in battle is still a supporting role. The only thing to worry about is tactical mobility. You need to beware of situations such as going around the back and attacking the house. The army's front line also needs to be thickened accordingly.

Chen Jian felt that after the harvest next year, some people must be sent down the Caohe River.

If the grass river is directly connected to the sea, it's okay, I can be counted as the overlord of this generation.

If the Caohe River is just a tributary of a big river, I have to think about the future development of the tribe.For generations along the river, there will inevitably be a primitive settlement civilization.

On the way back, there was no incident, and when they returned to the village, the leaders hurried back to their own tribes, leaving behind their clansmen. In a few days, many people would come to prepare for the relocation after Xinghuang.

Chen Jian took some tribesmen and sent the migrating tribes to a place about fifteen miles downstream of the village.

Villages were arranged every few miles, and stakes were used to determine the land that each tribe could cultivate to avoid disputes.

The weather is already cold, and the most urgent task is to help them build their house.

In order to distinguish their identities and to save time, the houses built this time are completely different from those in the village.

Dig a hole in the ground, and use the excavated soil to tamp the walls around the hole.

This can save half the time and belongs to the semi-basement structure.

The disadvantage is that it is a bit dark, but at least it will not be cold in winter.

Using this method, within half a month, the tribes who moved here had their own houses, forming seven simple villages.

The amount that each village needs to pay each year is also determined according to the population, which is not too much. They must also participate in the ancestor worship every year, and they also need to contribute prey, firewood, etc. to the ancestor worship.

After the slap is a sweet date.

In order to appease them, Chen Jian sent them some clay pots and bowls and stone tools for punching holes, and promised to plant seeds for them after harvesting the wheat beans without repayment.

In addition, each village also gave a pair of sheep and a pair of horned deer.The sheep are domesticated for the convenience of the live sheep they captured, and the horned deer can notify him in case of any emergency.

They were also told free of charge how to clean the soaked acorns, and declared that it was the protection of their ancestors.

They can come and go from the village freely, and even if someone is sick, they can go to the village to seek help.

The most important point is that when they prove their loyalty, they can live in the village, become soldiers, share the spoils, and live in houses built on the ground.

Of course, they also need to serve corvee.

After building their own villages, all the men of the seven tribes headed upstream.

Chen Jian estimated that there will be nearly 2000 people in this village next year. It needs to be planned, and it is impossible to live together in such a disorderly manner.

Simple city walls and ditches must be dug, and non-residential religious places for worship also need to be built as soon as possible, such as schools, tribal warehouses, public warehouses, simple market streets, threshing grounds, vegetable fields, fish ponds, barns... Everything needs to be created from scratch, and now that there is finally enough population, this village can also be counted as a city in the future.

When the population is sufficient, you can also try to smelt the first batch of copper in winter. With metal, you can have saws and chisels, etc., and you can make stone mills, rollers, planks, and wooden boats...

And the most important thing - the wheels.

The wooden rope is straight, so that it can be turned into a wheel.Without metal tools, it cannot be straightened.

Chapter 28 The Beginning of Inequality

The snow has not yet fallen, and the hut in the village closest to the cliff of the back mountain has already lit a fire.

In the two large pottery basins were newly fired charcoal. It was obvious that the fire in the kiln was a little hotter, but at least it was not full of green smoke like firewood.

Tiger skins are spread on the ground made of red bricks, and a huge deer head hangs on the wall. The long and forked horns show the strength of the hunter.The two big pots of gourds are growing tenaciously, relying on the temperature of charcoal burning, they are not afraid of the frost outside, and the protruding vines have already wrapped around the antlers.

This is a house carefully "decorated" by Chen Jian as the hall of the tribal council.

Two stacks of bricks and a large bluestone slab became his work desk, and a layer of birch bark and charcoal were piled up next to him for paper and pen.

There were seven or eight people sitting in the room at this time, looking curiously at Yuqian'er who was sticking some hemp fibers to the white flower stamens of the gourd, wondering what Chen Jian was asking her to do.

These seven or eight people are from the two tribes plus the rescued two tribes. Except for the leader, they can be counted to ten thousand, and the rest of the tribes are still on their way.

Chen Jian signaled everyone to be quiet, and he took out a piece of bark, which recorded everything that the four clans had.

"When the wheat beans are harvested, other tribes will also come here. You are the first to live here with our tribe. You also know that if you want to eat meat, you need to hunt first. Now that we have finished hunting, the meat is of course not It may be eaten by other tribes for nothing."

These people are very clear, after living these days, they are very clear about the difference between family property and public property.

"Now we can make wine, burn pottery, burn lime, burn charcoal, boil salt... These things are what they need, and they need to exchange things if they want them later. After those tribes come, the scope of public property will change. Now, can you tell the difference between yours, mine, ours, and everyone's?"