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The sudden visit of the Wu people did not cause much trouble to the Ba people.

The Witch Lord Conference is held every fall when the moon is full in the last month.

As the host tribe, the Wu tribe arranges people to come and notify you every year at this time.

The time is almost around the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, and the solar calendar should be the end of October and early November.

And the weather is the brightest and coolest season of the year.

Although the temperature became colder and the mountains and rivers began to fall and leaves turned yellow after autumn, the overall climate was still warmer than the earth's environment that Xu Chen was familiar with. Similar to the Jiangnan area, the rolling mountains still seemed lush and green, occasionally mixed with these colorful colors, which added a bit more soothing than the ubiquitous and rich green in midsummer.

The Witch Lord Conference is a place to showcase the strength of the tribe.

At that time, a hunting competition will be held. The bravest hunter will receive the blessings of the great witch, become a warrior respected by all tribes, and be favored by the most tribes. Each tribe is willing to spend a lot of money to get them, and at the same time they can enjoy the mating rights of the youngest and most beautiful women in the tribe.

Men in all tribes do not stay in the tribe forever if they marry into a certain tribe, but are in a semi-travel system. If there is a better place to go, they will also switch to other tribes. However, with the development of the tribe, the situation of joining other tribes in the middle is slowly disappearing. The marriage life of a fixed tribe is the main theme at the moment.

The so-called walking marriage means that men and women do not live together. Although they are husband and wife, they are actually similar to one-night stands, the tribe recognizes this kind of gender relationship, and the offspring they give birth to are raised by the woman, and the man is only responsible for pile driving and waves.

This system was popular during the matriarchal clan period and still existed in the 21st century. The Mosuo tribe in Yunnan inherited this ancient marriage system, and the tribes were still matriarchal clan characteristics.

In addition to the competition between men, tribes will also show their wealth at the Witch Lord Conference, such as the horns, teeth and claws of beasts they have hunted, and also display some beautiful brocade feathers, animal skins, and even made polished stone swords, stone axes, spears or some rare jewelry ores.

Although these primitive tribes, which were still in a savage state, have been busy with their stomachs, they have also begun to pursue beauty.

The most common thing is to apply pigments on the face. Some of these pigments are plant juices, some are soil, and even some ore powder.

In addition, it is decoration. The patriarch will wear feathers. Some older women can also wear a few feathers. Men mainly wear wild beasts' minions, bird beaks or tattoos, etc.

Some rare ores that exist in nature are also objects that primitive people like to collect.

However, due to the difficulty of processing, most of these gems are in natural states and rarely have traces of processing. Even if they are simply polished, there is no obvious significance.

As for drilling and processing to become an artifact, it is even more impossible. Chinese jade culture has a long history, but it was not until the Xia Dynasty that it slowly developed and matured after entering the slave society and emerged from the royal power, and jewelry and jade gradually became luxurious items that the ruling class could enjoy.

Therefore, Lao Tzu said: Do not value the virtuous, so that the people will not fight; do not value rare goods, so that the people will not be robbed; do not see desires, so that the people will not be confused. Therefore, the sage's governance is to weaken their hearts, to strengthen their abdomen, to weaken their ambitions, and to strengthen their bones. It is always to make the people ignorant and have no desires.

Lao Tzu's words do not mean that the ruling class should deceive the ignorant people, but that the ruling class should not use wisdom to design systems to rule the people, not use extravagant and luxurious things, and stay away from the enjoyable life that makes people greedy. Only in this way can the people return to a simple and natural primitive living state, and in this way the world can be ruled.

The primitive tribe is the natural state I pursue.

The communist and the wife share no desires or demands.

However, even so, it is impossible for people to have no selfish interests. At least they compete for mating rights and reproduction and development of tribes, which are selfishness and core interests that humans cannot escape from.

And as long as there is profit, there will inevitably be competition and struggle.

Therefore, the Witch Lord Conference is actually an opportunity for tribes to compete with each other and show their tribes' strength.

Of course, in addition to display comparison, there are also relatively primitive trading activities.

Each tribe displays its own wealth. If there is something that other tribes value, they will take out things to exchange.

In fact, this can also be regarded as a kind of oldest original commodity fair.

Therefore, the Witch Lord Conference is not only a rare opportunity for communication for all tribes, but also the most lively festival of the year.

In order to prepare for participating in this witch master conference, Feng led a group of hunters down the mountain every day to practice archery hard.

A group of women were spinning and weaving cloths that were busy day and night.

The four workers in the kiln factory lived directly at the foot of the mountain, and fired pottery and tiles at night.

Xu Chen didn't have many ideas, he just wanted to follow and open his eyes.

The most important task at the moment is to build the large courtyard at the foot of the mountain as soon as possible, so that you can move down the mountain to farm in the spring.

Therefore, since the Ukrainian tribe visited, he has taken most of the men in the tribe to go out early and come back late every day to build houses.

First clean the open space after burning, then measure it with a rope and then apply lime lines to excavate the trench at the base.

The building size this time is at least five times that of the small houses in the kiln factory. With the central courtyard, the entire courtyard covers an area of ​​thousands of square meters.

The overall design is a rectangular pattern. In addition to the central living courtyard, there is also an expanded space on both sides, leaving food, farm tools, and raising livestock such as chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, cattle and horses.

Although I have only got one pony right now, there will definitely be one.

Although the dog training plan has not yet been effective, the two little wolves have been given up since they were forced to feed a few shits by him and have begun to slowly eat some cooked food and leftover meat bones. However, they are still wild. When they see anyone approaching, they will grin and whisper, and will scream at the moon in the middle of the night.

However, there are no traces of wild wolves in this valley within a radius of more than ten miles. This kind of call cannot summon any wolf clan to rescue them.

Xu Chen believes that as long as these two little wolves get used to eating cooked food, even if they leave humans in the future, they will not be able to survive well in the wild, and will gradually become dependent on humans, which will have a foundation for domestication.

The courtyard is large in scale and does not have enough manpower. It took seven or eight days to dig the foundation trench alone. Several wooden hoes were dug, and a large number of simple wooden shovels were even dug.

Digging the trench is just the most basic project. The following construction project is even larger, requiring a large amount of stone and lime clay. In addition, to build so many houses, more wood is needed.

The project volume this time is too large, and Chen Xu no longer intends to build all the stone walls, he wants to use mud bricks.

However, to make mud bricks, you need brick molds of appropriate specifications and sizes.

There are no wooden boards at present, so it is still possible to use ceramic boards instead.

Therefore, he could only ask the kiln factory to make a batch of suitable pottery plates.

Making mud bricks requires a lot of clay and weeds, and you also need to find river beaches that are closer to the water source to dig pits to extract soil and tile bricks.

Mud bricks were actually very simple. In the past, many rural houses had mud brick structures.

Add some straw with very little sand content, add water and trample it repeatedly to make mud, then pour it into a rectangular brick mold and lay it in a square shape, and put it on the grass to dry.

In order to prevent being damaged by rain, mud bricks are usually made in autumn and winter.

If the weather is sunny, it will be dry for about half a month. In order to speed up the drying speed, you need to turn it on and stand it up halfway.

In addition, it is not enough to have mud bricks alone, because mud bricks are afraid of water and tide, so the foundation of the house must be built with stones at least half a meter high stone wall before it can be built with mud bricks layer by layer.

However, after the excavation of the foundation trench was completed, all projects were temporarily stopped.
Chapter completed!