Chapter 263 Feng Shui
The next two days are trading hours.
Xu Chen arranged for people to take out the pottery, linen, fishing nets, hemp ropes, needles and threads they brought to trade with several tribes of the Gonghuo Clan Alliance.
Unfortunately, these tribes did not seem to be planning to trade with the Ba people this time. They came with a troublesome mentality, so they basically did not bring any valuable items.
In addition to the three tribes closer to the Gonghuo Clan, the remaining tribes do not even know that pottery and linen exist, two things that are super-era. Although they have seen them a few days ago, they can’t even get anything to exchange for them except drooling.
As for the Gonghuo tribe, a group of poor people are now paid for the slightly decent things to the Cang tribe, and the rest are still redeemed for the hunters. At present, those who are poor are eating soil and can barely survive.
Even Xu Chen didn't have the nerve to ask the Gonghuo tribe to provide all the food. In addition to the dry food he brought, he arranged for hunters from the six tribes to go out to hunt and be self-sufficient every day.
Therefore, the transaction ended in a hurry after only one day.
Of course, Xu Chen did not intend to take back the things he brought, but threw them all to the Thunder Clan, asking them to be responsible for future transactions. Regarding the items they traded, Xu Chen reminded them to mainly include animal skins, animal horns, animal tendons and ore, and except for some extremely rare feathers and gems, no one would be charged.
Of course, in order to express your gratitude to the Thunder Clan for help, some of them can be given to the Thunder Clan as a reward.
Lei was naturally surprised and happy about the task arranged by Xu Chen.
Even if he didn't understand business, he knew how rare and expensive pottery and linen were. As long as they completed Xu Chen's mission well, they could gain some of the wealth and bring a lot of popularity to the Thunder Clan.
But now the Thunder Clan has just moved here, and it can be said that he is poor and has no place to live. He still sleeps in a small shack built by plants and trees every day. He can barely shelter from wind and rain. How to preserve these precious pottery and linen, and how to protect the items exchanged have become a headache for him.
In addition, as the weather gets warmer, there are more and more insects and snakes in the wild, and the rainy season is coming soon. Living will be a huge trouble for tribes to survive and needs to be solved quickly.
The easiest thing is to find a suitable cave, but this is a basin, and the river is several miles away from the foot of the mountain. It is extremely difficult to find a huge cave that accommodates so many people, as well as a family of more than 50 people.
Because if there were such a large cave nearby, it would have been occupied by the Gonghuo Clan long ago.
Therefore, the only way to do it now is to repair the house.
But the rainy season is coming soon, and it is definitely too late to build a brick building.
Looking at Lei's tangled look on his face, Xu Chen was a little confused.
I originally gave the things I brought to the Thunder Clan for help, and from then on, the middlemen made some difference from it. Logically, this guy should be very happy, but he looked strange with constipation. Could it be that this guy had no business mind at all?
Therefore, he couldn't help but explain a few words carefully. Unexpectedly, Lei quickly shook his head and said that he was not unwilling to help, but thanked Xu Chen for the opportunity to make money. However, the situation facing the tribe made him very worried, and he was afraid that he would destroy these treasures and property inappropriate preservation.
After listening to Lei’s explanation, Xu Chen realized it. He pinched his chin and thought for a moment. Looking at the huge wooden platform standing on the river beach to hold the inheritance ceremony, his eyes suddenly lit up and had an idea.
It is definitely too late to build a brick and stone house according to conventional methods, at least it has to wait until after autumn.
Originally, Xu Chen brought a group of craftsmen to give instructions on the road. After arriving, he would build a fire kiln near the foot of the mountain, build some pergolas and shacks to imitate the Ba people's kiln factory to live temporarily, and then build houses in the autumn.
The dozens of people from the Thunder Clan are just similar to those who came to the Ba tribe to help. There is no problem rushing to spend spring and summer for the time being. Anyway, they are all a group of savages living in caves, and they usually sleep together.
Besides, they are not from their own tribe. They just need to work. You are here to work hard to develop human civilization, not to enjoy happiness.
But the so-called plan does not change quickly.
Nowadays, it is indeed necessary to solve the housing problem, especially the linen animal skin, which is prone to rot after soaking in water, and is completely worthless.
In front of me, the wooden platform, which was covered with a group of savages of all sizes, was no longer useful in the future. Instead of staying here to decay from the wind and rain, it would be better to demolish and build a few wooden houses.
The purpose of building this wooden platform is to show off.
Hundreds of people cut down for three days, and more than 200 straight woods, the thickness of calves and thighs, were definitely a huge fortune in this era, and it would be a pity to waste it.
He did it right away, and Xu Chen immediately summoned the hunter team he brought to start demolishing the wooden table.
He took a few craftsmen familiar with building houses and Lei to find a suitable building location near the foot of the mountain.
In summer, Canghe will definitely rise in water, and the water level will not be small.
In order to find out where Ji Canghe will flood in summer, he also specially invited several older adult men and women from the Gonghuo tribe to ask about the situation carefully. It took a short half a day to find a good place near the foot of a slightly open mountain two miles away from the valley where the Gonghuo tribe lives.
This place has a high terrain, flat terrain, and there is not many trees around. There is a stream not far away to provide domestic water. The terrain on the left is a protruding mountain mouth, which can block the northwest wind. On the left is the direction that leads to the Gonghuo Clan's valley. You can see the entrance of the valley at a glance. It is very wide. It is opposite to the Ji Cang River, and the water in front and the mountains behind, hiding wind and gathering energy. It can be regarded as a rare Feng Shui treasure land.
The so-called Feng Shui is not feudal superstition, but part of metaphysics, and can also be explained by science.
However, scientific research on the meticulous and subtle things is to solve the knowledge of human cognition of nature from the particle category from the microscopic to the macroscopic.
Metaphysics is to incorporate all natural factors into it, to coordinate the cognition of the world from heaven, earth and man, and from macro to micro knowledge.
In the eyes of scientists, the world is matter, and all things are attributed to particles.
In the eyes of metaphysicists, the world is chaotic, and all things are attributed to qi.
The two have different positions and different starting points, so the process of cognizing nature is also completely different.
Westerners do not understand Feng Shui, so the West basically cannot retain too many cultural monuments with humanistic value. It is not that they do not have one, but that they do not know nature in a coordinated manner and cannot learn to preserve history through natural methods.
Feng Shui is an ancient and very grand school of metaphysics.
Choose a place with good feng shui to build a house, which can make the living environment more comfortable, the body healthier, and the mood more comfortable.
Only with energy can there be vitality, and the five qi that are attributed to metal, wood, water, fire and earth is to build everything in nature, and Feng Shui is to build on observing qi.
The so-called Qi is the energy that dominates all changes and development after the creation of heaven and earth. It is the source of all things. Chinese people are accustomed to using Qi to describe the changes of all things, such as climate, solar terms, backbone, vitality, wind, morale, righteousness, luck, etc.
Xu Chen is a five-good young man in the new era who has received formal science education. He didn't believe in these ancient things at first, but when the geological expedition team was in the first place, the old professor who led the team was not studying surveying theory all day long, but studying Yi theory and Feng Shui.
He used to think that geological and mineral surveys were conducted through various instruments according to the theoretical knowledge learned in the school, and the geological structure was analyzed through various instruments. However, he later found that the old professor did not use these instruments and equipment, and often he could see what the structure was, the direction of the ore veins, and geological dynasties by his eyes.
So the entire survey team was gradually led by the old professor, and Xu Chen also learned a lot of Yi Ching, and I and some Feng Shui knowledge.
Finally, I gradually discovered that the grandeur of Feng Shui was not something he could easily understand. The old professor suggested that he first study the Book of Changes, read more of Laozi and Zhuangzi, and then learn Feng Shui.
Unfortunately, he didn't have the patience and died before he could understand the Book of Changes.
After traveling to this primitive and wilderness era, he truly discovered that all scientific things are not very good here. On the contrary, ancient metaphysics such as traditional Chinese medicine, astrology and Feng Shui have been gradually abandoned by the Chinese.
Primitive people did not understand geology, but they understood nature.
They respect nature, follow nature, use the most primitive animal instincts to understand nature, learn nature, and at the same time summarize experience and make continuous progress.
To understand Feng Shui scientifically, it is to abide by natural conditions and find places with fertile soil, warm climate, abundant water sources and abundant animals and plants.
Finding this kind of place is almost a human instinct, but the Chinese summarize it in words and a macro method, forming a complex science.
People who don’t understand say it is feudal superstition.
But those who truly understand it know that it contains much more than nature, but the way of human survival.
Therefore, Feng Shui is the Tao, but it is too difficult to find the Tao. Very few people are truly proficient. Even the old professor said that he had been studying it for more than 30 years and had just learned some basic knowledge.
Chapter completed!