Chapter 245 Investigation
Now that spring is coming, these peppers have begun to sprout, clumps of entangled in low shrubs and trunks.
Pepper has a very spicy smell. In autumn and winter, the wood teeth will collect some piles near the cave and dry them as firewood. In addition, it can also be spread in the nest to use its special breath to drive away snakes, rats, insects and ants. It is considered the most primitive method of deworming.
As for using pepper seeds specifically for barbecue, they never had this concept.
When used in spices, it is even more impossible for these savages who are still in the stage of eating raw meat and drinking blood.
They are still struggling not to be hungry and don’t even care about dressing.
Only people like Xu Chen who have a pursuit of food beyond the times have a need for this kind of thing.
This demand can just bring the same high-value wealth to the poor Muya tribe. Both sides will get the needs and are very happy.
During the process of finding pepper, Xu Chen also had a careful conversation with the Muya leader, hoping that they could specially clean up the places with pepper, and at the same time, they could find suitable places to sow or cut more pepper seedlings. After autumn, they should be properly stored and dried. This method of using lights to remove wax should not be used to cut trees as firewood or to cushion the nest.
The head of the Muya naturally agreed happily to Xu Chen's proposal, and at the same time expressed his sincerest thanks to Xu Chen.
Xu Chen came this time just to send the gospel.
Because Xu Chen agreed that no matter how much pepper they planted and collected in the future, the Ba people would collect it all, and the price would be very high, and the pottery and linen were exchanged openly.
After receiving Xu Chen's promise, the entire Muya tribe was filled with joy.
People cannot compare with others. After the Muya tribe left the Wu tribe and took root in this wilderness, it was extremely difficult to survive because it was not favored by the Wu tribe. Even though he gradually integrated into the Wu tribe alliance and accepted the leadership of the Great Wizard, he was still at the bottom of the chain of contempt.
Over the years, the Wu tribe has never given any good face to the Muya tribe.
At every party or transaction, the Muya tribe can take out the least items and cannot exchange for urgently needed survival supplies.
But since the rise of the Ba tribe, the Muya tribe has truly experienced the feeling of being recognized and respected.
Can be treated equally from the Ba people to the pottery they need, and can also learn various advanced skills.
At present, Xu Chen has brought them another way to make money.
As long as they plant and collect peppers well, they can gain a steady stream of wealth.
"His Majesty the Witch King, thank you!"
The white-haired Mu Teeth Chief grabbed Xu Chen's arm tightly and cried with joy.
"Moxie Moxie, it's me that I should thank you. I have found something I've been looking for for a long time. I hope you can plant it well. Just like the Ba people sow grains, the Muya tribe will definitely become very rich in the future because of pepper!"
Xu Chen's words made everyone in the Muya tribe happy, and nodded and said that they would definitely develop production according to the instructions of His Majesty the Witch King in the future and work hard to build a beautiful and prosperous Muya tribe.
Faced with the excited Muya tribe men and women, Xu Chen naturally praised it, saying that the Muya tribe is the backbone of the six-nation alliance, and the development of the alliance will require the Muya tribe to support it. This time he came, not only to see everyone, but also specially brought the great witch's earnest care and blessings for the Muya tribe. He hoped that the Muya tribe would continue to work hard, not wait or rely on it, concentrate on development, and focus on happiness.
I heard that the great witch was still caring about him every day, and the Muya tribe was excited and collapsed, and many women burst into tears happily.
After so many years of independence, the Muya tribe finally felt the strong care of the great witch for the first time and a sense of happiness that they had never experienced before.
In the following time, Xu Chen regularly held a military exercise, then presented flags and horns, distributed military waist cards and armor bows to officers, and encouraged them to train well. Next month, he joined forces with the six tribes to attend the inheritance ceremony of the Great Wizards, and made an appointment for the time to gather in the Wu tribe.
In the afternoon, under the leadership of the Muya hunter, Xu Chen went to inspect near the Shanxia River Valley, mainly to be familiar with the living environment near the Muya tribe and to provide some guidance on future development.
The Muya tribe is located in the northwest position of the Wu tribe. It is actually only separated from the Wu tribe by a mountain. There is a relatively turbulent stream in the territory. In this stream, you can still pick up some copper ore and even occasionally amber and gold.
From this, Xu Chen concluded that the Muya tribe area and the Wuya copper mine must belong to the same mining area, which means that within about ten kilometers of the Wuya tribe and the Muya tribe gathered, there must be a large copper vein.
But there are valleys and valleys everywhere, and it is very difficult to develop.
After staying for another night in the Muya tribe, Xu Chen led the team to set off early the next morning, and led by the Muya tribe hunter guide, he followed another rugged and difficult valley path towards the Ji tribe.
The Ji tribe and the Cang tribe have developed relatively rapidly.
The built house has been completed and the scale is not too large.
The situation of the farmland is roughly similar, about a hundred acres, and it has sprouted now and has begun to have a hint of pastoral life.
However, the spirit of the two tribes is much better than that of the Hu tribe and the Muya tribe.
Especially for Xu Chen's arrival, the two tribes showed extremely enthusiastic and excited expressions, which was like treating him as a witch, taking out all the dried fish and meat that was not stored. In addition, hunters were arranged to hunt and fish. They would rather be hungry than let Xu Chen and everyone who came with him eat and drink.
Xu Chen was still very satisfied with the attitudes of the Ji tribe and the Cang tribe. He also stayed in the two tribes for a few more days and seriously helped plan the next phase of the house construction and farmland reclamation plan. After reviewing and formally appointing the training commander, the two tribes and the accompanying hunter team jointly conducted a large-scale military exercise, and even entered the territory of the Cha tribe for a time.
Since the last time the Gonghuo Clan and the Cha clan were taken over, most of the men of the two tribes have become prisoners, and the youngest and strongest group of women have also been plundered, causing severe damage to the energy of the two tribes.
After the Great Witch of Gonghuo Clan returned at the end of November, he quickly arranged for the hunter to come to the Cang clan with a large amount of animal skins to apologize, and redeem part of the men in the tribe, and some of them were still left in the two tribes to help with construction and undergo labor reform.
This was Xu Chen's proposal when he left.
Redemption is part of the agreement, but the two tribes can choose whether to let go according to the actual situation. Xu Chen’s idea is to let go slowly. Staying behind can not only help the two tribes build houses, but also make the Gonghuo tribe empty for a long time so that he can have enough time to arrange personnel, and insert the guidance working group of the Six Tribes Alliance into it first to gain a certain initiative.
There are more than 200 adult men in the Gonghuo tribe, and there are still about fifty old, weak and disabled people in the tribe. Last time, they stole the tower, and more than ten casualties were killed and killed, and more than 170 were captured. Each tribe allocated 60%, and the remaining 40 remained in the Ba tribe for construction.
The adult men of the Cha tribe were nearly 60 years old and captured more than 30 people, and distributed them in roughly the same proportion.
The total number of prisoners left in the Ji clan and Cang clan was more than forty, and half of them had been redeemed.
The Cang tribe and the Cha tribe are only one day apart, and they are about 30 kilometers down the Ji Cang River.
In the past, the two tribes had a relationship. Since the conflict broke out, the tribe of Cha had shrunk its hunting area on a large scale and almost did not dare to move upstream where the Cang tribe was located.
However, the Cang tribe has recently begun to approach the downstream on a large scale, and while showing off its might, it also completely occupied the valley that produces gold.
The primitive savages have always collected gold as golden gems, but it is actually useless except for good looking. It was not until Xu Chen appeared that gold had the value of replacing pottery and linen.
The Cang tribe now knows that the new scepter and golden horn of the Great Witch are both magical magic weapons processed by Xu Chen with gold. Therefore, they think that the value of gold must be huge and is very useful to Xu Chen. Therefore, they often go to the lower river valleys to find gold during the cold winter and dry season.
The source of this river that flows out of gold is actually the canyon where the dragon encountered, so that canyon was named Yinlong Gorge by Xu Chen, and this river is naturally named Yinlong River.
The estuary where the Yinlong River flows into Jicang River is only more than ten miles away from the Cha tribe. In order to observe the movements of the Cang tribe, the Cha tribe often comes to inquire.
Therefore, when he saw several flags and the vast hunters of the Six-Grand Alliance appear nearby, these hunters of the Cha tribe were frightened and thought they were going to attack their tribe. While arranging people to go back to report the news, the hunter leader pretended to be brave enough to come up to ask about the situation.
After all, the two sides have reached a peace agreement, and they have been working hard to hunt and raise animal skins to pay compensation while wanting to redeem all the prisoners.
After learning that the six-sect coalition forces had no malice, these hunters barely calmed down from their panic.
Xu Chen warmly invited them to watch the joint military training and hunting of the three tribes. After seeing the powerful combat strength of the three tribes, these hunters of the cha tribes had no temper at all. Seeing this fully armed and majestic team, they were filled with great fear and awe.
After the two tribes were stolen last time, they were coerced by the great witch and the woman captured by Xu Chen, and had to surrender and admit defeat. But this time, they were convinced to realize the huge gap between the two sides.
Because the strength of both sides is no longer comparable, and it is not at the same level at all.
They believe that if the combined forces of the two tribes met the well-trained team in front of them last time, they would probably be completely defeated in half a day, not to mention fighting for more than ten days.
So the two tribes lost last time was not unfair.
I was even a little lucky.
Fortunately, the Six Clan Alliance showed mercy, otherwise it would be more than just a simple prisoner, and perhaps hundreds of deaths and injuries were possible.
After staying in the Ji tribe and the Cang tribe for six days, Xu Chen not only inspected the living environment and living conditions of the two tribes, but also conducted a simple survey of the mountains, rivers, animals, plants and mineral resources within the basin of the hundreds of miles, and obtained more detailed data.
The Jicang River flows up and down for hundreds of miles, with abundant water sources, and has a considerable amount of water throughout the year, so it is completely possible to sail.
If the two tribes have ships, it will only take two hours to go to the Cha tribe at most, and it will only take half a day to go to the Gonghuo tribe.
Although there are no suitable tools and skilled craftsmen to build wooden boats, in order to strengthen the connection and exchanges between several tribes in the Jicang River Basin, shipbuilding will inevitably be built in the future. Therefore, Xu Chen asked the two tribes to find places with deep water and smooth flow near their residences in advance to build a simple dock with stones in advance, and log and dry them to prepare for shipbuilding.
After everything was arranged, it was time to end of January.
Chapter completed!