From Chief to Ball

Soon, the sword and shield soldiers reported helplessly, and found the opponent's person in the woods, and the two sides were confronting each other.Chen Jian also smiled helplessly, it would be a fool not to prepare at this time.

Amidst the sound of drums, the opponent lined up in an army formation and appeared in the field of vision. On the right was a group of riders riding oxen, with a forest of spears in the middle, and a flag fluttering in the wind in the center of the team. Huge moths seemed to be alive. Come here in general.

The team stopped moving when they got near the feathered arrow. A man in the crowd held up a green jade ax and swung it. The crowd immediately let out a cry.

Not to be outdone, Chen Jian waved Wufeng, and the clansmen roared in unison, and the drums were as fast as a rainstorm.

The opponent put down the jade axe, Chen Jian also dropped Wufeng, each handed their weapons to the people around them, stepped forward, and stood on the line drawn in the middle, which happened to be out of reach of the feathered arrows of both sides place.

Chapter 57 The world is so big

A line divides the world before the eyes of the clansmen into east and west halves, and the two chiefs stand at both ends of the line, not daring to cross it.

The man standing on the east side is named E Yue, E is his surname, Yue is his first name, and it is also the jade ax in his hand.

The tribal surname comes from the silkworms raised by his grandmother, which made the tribesmen wear silk clothes, so the moth sound was taken as the surname.

Eyue's tribe is a well-known tribe in the far east. Everyone who wears silk knows their tribe, but they are not the most powerful.

When E Yue was young, there were two most powerful tribes.

One is the flower family and the other is the millet family.

The Hua tribe worships light. Near their tribe there is a kind of flower that always grows toward the sun. It has the same color as the sun. The tribe takes Hua as their surname, and each leader is named after Hua, which means light.

The leader of the millet tribe once led the tribe to plant millet on the river bank, which ended the tribe's history of hunting and gathering, so he took millet as his surname.

More than 30 years ago, a man became the leader of the Hua tribe. He found a salt well near the tribe to cook salt, domesticated cattle and donkeys, and learned to grow millet. The tribe gradually became stronger.

Seven or eight years later, a great battle broke out between the Hua tribe and the Su tribe in a valley with many springs, and more than 70 nearby tribes were involved in the war.

E Yue's grandmother and Hua's mother are the same grandmother, and the clan naturally sided with the Hua clan.

In the battle of Quangu, the Hua clan won a big victory, and the Su clan was defeated.

Hua did not kill them all, but married the female leader of the Su tribe, and the two tribes merged into one.

More than 70 tribes also made an oath together to promote Hua as the leader of the alliance, and more than 100 other tribes came to congratulate.

So many years have passed, even though E Yue was still young at that time, he still remembered the grand scene, when the gifts from various tribes piled up into a hill.

After the Battle of Spring Valley, Hua briefly ended the history of tribal wars. The heirs of the leaders of more than 70 tribes had to grow up in the cities of the Hua tribe.

E Yue's grandmother became a silk official because of her achievements in raising silkworms, teaching various tribes to raise silkworms and draw silk.Members of the other tribes also perform their own duties, some are responsible for teaching people to grow millet, some are responsible for raising cattle and sheep, and there is even a tribe that specializes in gelling bulls and pigs.

E Yue remembered that it was 20 years ago, when he was just ten years old, he grew up with the children of the leaders of various tribes, and he was looking forward to doing something great in the future, and being publicly elected as the leader by the rest of the tribes.

There are many things to do, and there is no need to worry about the opportunity to perform.

The unsubjugated tribes in the east are called Yi by the Hua, Rong in the west, Di in the north, and Man in the south.Hua Zeng told those children that the tribe's territory has not yet reached the sea mentioned by the Yi tribe, nor has it reached the end of the big river. Whoever can let Hua's flag be inserted on the seashore or at the end of the river will be elected by the tribe. for the leader.

After several consecutive years of war, some tribes surrendered, gave up their own culture, and sent the children of the leader to the city of the Hua tribe.

However, the good times didn't last long. After a heavy rain, the big river that raised hundreds of tribes flooded.When the tribes were discussing to move out, Hua vetoed it. Instead, he led hundreds of tribes who surrendered to build the embankment together. , Two people were also washed away by the water.

After the disaster, all the tribes wanted to be the leader of the tribal alliance, and the Hua and Su tribes that had been integrated together also had a rift, and no one could hold it back.

Everyone knew that if Hua lived another ten years, this rift would not appear, and the clan would dissolve and merge into a brand new large clan with tens of thousands of people.

But he is dead.

The various tribes were just quarreling, and eventually developed into fighting each other. Dozens of tribes fell into the situation of endless wars again, and the city of flowers was no longer a place of joy and prosperity.

Eyue's mother took him away from the city, not wanting to get involved in tribal fights, and led the tribe to migrate eastward.However, the tribes that had once surrendered also rebelled again. The leader of the Dongyi tribe seized the opportunity of the internal struggle of the Huasu tribe, and wanted to reproduce Hua's way back then, integrating the tribes and continuously attacking.

Eyue's tribe had no choice but to keep retreating, and finally, under the guidance of the priest, migrated westward to avoid the war.

They went west along the big river, looking for suitable land, burning wasteland and planting millet, and after a few years of planting, they exhausted their efforts and continued to migrate.

They no longer remember what the former homeland looked like, but only some people keep it in their hearts, telling those newly born children how powerful the former tribe was.

They still maintain their previous habits, looking forward to the day when the war subsides and they can return to their homeland, but the hope is too slim. They got the news a few years ago that the Hua Clan and the Millet Clan have been completely separated, and no one is strong enough anymore. The tribes can reproduce the glory of the hundreds of tribes in the past.

But now, when E Yue saw Chen Jian's tribe and the bronze weapons they used, he was a little surprised. He had only seen so many bronze weapons when he was a child.

His tribe also has bronze weapons, but not many. When they were in their homeland, the number of bronze weapons was not enough, because there was only one copper mountain, and that copper mountain belonged to the Hua clan, and few people knew the technology of smelting bronze.

E Yue and his tribe had tried it before, but the smelted copper was very soft, not as good as stone. He felt that there must be something mixed in it, but he couldn't guess what it was.

He didn't expect to see a group of tribes holding bronze weapons in the far west, and he didn't expect that this tribe also tied their hair, although it was not the same way as his own tribe.

Chen Jian was still a child in his eyes, but he did not underestimate the other party because of his age. It is said that when Hua became the leader, he was only in his teens.

Moreover, being able to assemble an army that is calm and undisturbed has already proved the ability of the leader - if it wasn't for Chen Jianjian to have such an army, E Yue would not have talked to him at all, but would have let the clansmen crush them They encountered many barbaric tribes on the way of migration, and E Yue never talked to them.

Under the watchful eyes of the tribesmen on both sides, the two leaders communicated with each other using different languages, gestures, and pictures.

E Yue found that the other party was very cunning, what this young man wanted was something he could not give.

He wanted to give the other party some silk, beef jerky, and millet.

But what the other party wanted were silkworm moths, cows, and seeds.

E Yue guessed that this tribe should also grow food, otherwise it would be impossible to support so many people, but what did they grow?Is it millet too?

He wanted bronze smelting, the kind of net that could catch a lot of fish in a boat at once, spinning thread and seeds, and some salt.

Each has their own needs, but it is impossible to exchange all of them. The two of them bargained like this, from the sun above their heads to the sunset.

In the end, E Yue exchanged six bulls for those six people, one of which was his sister's child.

In addition, Chen Jian exchanged a few pieces of iron for some silk, and exchanged a hundred women for seven cows and a few donkeys.

The two vowed never to attack each other, but to live in harmony. As for whether this contract can be carried out, it does not depend on whether each has credibility, but only on whether the respective tribes are strong.

Along that line, it is divided into east and west sides, and people of the two tribes cannot cross. A high mountain in the north is named the tribe boundary mountain, and two flags are planted by the river.

E Yue gave Chen Jian a piece of jade, and Chen Jian gave the other party an ugly slag glass bead, and agreed that people from their respective tribes could use these two things to cross the line, otherwise they would be caught and hacked to death.

Chen Jian wanted to ask about the situation in the lower reaches of the Caohe River, but he couldn't explain it with just those few words, so he had to give up.

The two tribes left behind the soldiers and retreated one by one.By the time the scouts behind caught up the next day, the two sides were already tens of miles apart.

Looking at the extra cows in the team, Chen Jian was very satisfied. Those donkeys were happy for the other party, but these cows were very troublesome.

With six males and seven females, it will take a few years for his tribe to have cattle. Of course, he will not use cattle as food. The cattle harness is a very simple thing. The neck of this yellow cattle is thick enough to support the weight , then the efficiency of farming will be several times faster.

In ten or eight years, my own tribe can also have dozens of cows, and with such a tribe downstream, I can also start trade, and a planting tribe has enough consumption power.