Mountains and seas can be flat

Fang Zheng guessed it from several places.

The first is the copper mask. It is said that Jiuli Chiyou's "copper head", "main gold" and "soldier making crossbow" are the earliest beautiful copper smelting technology in history and the harbinger of oriental bronze culture.Maybe Yu Yi's method of making copper was passed down from Jiuli.Back then, Chiyou and Huangdi fought against each other, and their combat power was very powerful, partly due to these metal weapons.

The second is the woman, the yellow bamboo-like decoration hanging on her waist is a musical instrument called Lusheng.Jiuli is skilled in copper, and uses it as a reed tongue.

Furthermore, they hang the decoration on the curtain under the door. There is a wide white pattern and a thin white pattern on it, which has been passed down to later generations of Miao costumes. It represents the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. Thousands of mountains and rivers.

These characteristics have been handed down to modern times and are reflected in Miao costumes and utensils. Therefore, it is not difficult for Fang Zheng to guess that he is a descendant of Jiuli Chiyou. Yes, the chief witch with a crimson pattern on his chest asked in a hoarse old voice: "Who are you and how do you know?"

Fang Zheng's way of making a head start is to win the right to speak for himself. He has found a very useful banner in this era. As a kind of "divine-given" spokesperson, its effect can be seen from the execution of Xie Ling up.

"My name is Fang Zheng." Fang Zheng took off his mask, revealing a young and handsome face. He thought of a suitable name for himself, "I am the heir of the Chinese clan."

The Chinese originate from China, but not all of them.The term Huaxia is used to refer to the orthodox lineage of the Yanhuang tribe up to the Zhou Dynasty, which is distinguished from the surrounding Siyi. "Hua" appeared in oracle bone inscriptions, which means holy.In the Yangshao pottery culture, there are patterns of five-petal flowers, and "flowers" are used as totems. "Hua" is the embryonic form of "Hua", and "Xia" is undoubtedly the Xia Dynasty. "Huaxia Alliance" was used by later generations to refer to the unification of the Yanhuang lineage in the Central Plains.

However, the word "Huaxia" was not widely spread until the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period. People in this era did not know what "Huaxia" was.I only know that the big country in the north is called "Xiazhu".

Fang Zheng didn't know whether the time and space he traveled through was the world in "Shan Hai Jing" or another parallel time and space, and he was embarrassed to take advantage of his ancestors, but he also recognized his own culture, so he only took half of it, saying I am a "Chinese".

The term "heir" is also very particular. Each tribe has some secret methods that are not passed on to the outside world, most of which are medical skills or methods of war. If they learn some divination or the tricks of communicating with animals, they are expected to develop into a large tribe.Those of each clan who can be called "heirs" are very capable.

Although these people have never heard of the Chinese people, but he called himself the "heir", and the way he looked at Fang Zheng changed all of a sudden.

"how do you……"

"Being locked up in a pigsty is not the right way to deal with heirs." Fang Zheng looked around, "Where's your chief?"

During the day today, the soldier Fang Zheng pretended to be called Gu Ya once yelled at the door to see the chief, hoping to interrogate the prisoners early, but the people inside stopped him, saying that the chief was very ill .

Their faces are subtle.Fang Zheng added: "Or, the one who made the decision has changed?"

Another shaman in a scarlet robe said: "The Chief is ill, just talk to us."

"Sick?" Fang Zheng sneered, pointing to the long white curtain behind them: "I can only smell the smell of dead people, although you smoked a lot of herbs to cover it..." But Fang Zheng's sense of smell is better than ordinary people .

The Chief Secretary is not sick, but dead.

Those people clenched the crossbow again in an instant, and the three soldiers had fearful and sad eyes on their faces.They roared angrily, and rushed forward with spears, stone spears and copper knives, trying to kill Fang Zheng.

How could Fang Zheng be hurt by them? He was nimble, holding his breath and concentrating, recalling the first move on the tortoise shell, and simply took a horse stance.Those people just had a flash in front of them, Fang Zheng had already held the Chang Ge and the Stone Spear with both hands respectively.The remaining soldier's qualifications should be the oldest among them. It was a copper knife that slashed at Fang Zheng's face. Fang Zheng bit the blade head-on without avoiding it.The blade cut only a little of his lip.All three weapons were immobilized.

The three soldiers stared wide-eyed, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't shake Fang Zheng.They looked at each other, and at the same time withdrew their weapons and let go of their weapons, clenched their fists and threw them at Fang Zheng. Originally, they moved very fast and cooperated tacitly. If Fang Zheng wanted to let go of his weapons and then meet their moves, it would be too late.

Fang Zheng fought back against them even more simply by clenching the edge of the weapon, loosening the copper knife in his mouth, and kicking in a direction with his feet.

They had no choice but to levy, and even lost their weapons.They had to stand in the farthest corner of the room with fear, listening to Fang Zheng's words vigilantly.

Fang Zheng used his skills to quickly force out the blood from the broken skin of his lips, so as not to be stained with tiny rust after being cut by the copper knife, and then said:

"Let's talk. I'm not interested in who you are in charge of, and I don't even know your Chief Secretary. Pretend to be kidnapped by that soldier named Bone Fang today—"

One of the soldiers suddenly realized: "By the way, where is Gu Ya, what did you do to him?"

"Whatever the person at the door is, so is the bone tooth. Just sleep until dawn." Fang Zheng said: "I don't care about them. We were looking for something nearby, and when he heard it, he attacked us. I'm curious, nine When did descendants of Li guard the tomb for someone else?"

The blood-robed Wu Chen said: "What are you doing looking for Emperor Yao Yu's grave?"

Fang Zheng knocked on the table with a smile: "You have been using questions to answer questions, so it is very difficult to talk about." Fang Zheng quietly stretched out the small drug tablet and swiped lightly on the table in front of them.The spreading black instantly corroded a large piece of the tabletop, which collapsed to the ground with a clatter.

It is necessary to use deterrent measures repeatedly to establish the conditions for the conversation.

The eyes of those people changed. The blood-robed witch picked up a half-corroded piece of wood. Fang Zheng saw that he stretched out a copper needle to stab it. Black quietly climbed up the tip of the copper needle, making it change After picking up some colors, I continued to climb up.The blood-robed witch hurriedly threw away the needle and the board together.

Seeing this, Fang Zheng said: "I'm not here to be your enemy. How about this, let's ask a question in turn. If we can't tell you, we will ask another question until we can answer it."

Those people made eye contact with each other. Although they were not reconciled, even their most elite fighter combination could not beat Fang Zheng, so they had no choice but to nod in the end.

Fang Zhengdao: "Since it was my idea, I will answer your question just now and show a little sincerity. You want to know why I looked for Emperor Yao Yu's grave. You may have heard this reason many times. For the sake of Emperor Yao Yu's grave good stuff."

What Fang Zheng thought was that the mausoleum of a king must not only contain Dayi's bow and arrow, but also many precious treasures.It is not a lie for him to say this, even if the other party has some detection methods (he is wary of the technology of this era), it will not be exposed, and the core object he is looking for will not be exposed.

Those people really nodded and said: "It is indeed a very common reason."

Fang Zhengdao: "In this case, let me ask. How did your Chief Secretary die?"

Although Fang Zheng is also interested in the origin of this tribe, the opportunity to ask questions is precious, so he starts with the most important ones first.

The blood-robed witch paused, and exchanged a gloomy look with those people: "I can't answer this one, change another one."

Fang Zheng said: "Okay, then ask about your respective identities." Fang Zheng can also know the power structure of this tribe through this.

A blood-cloaked witch said: "We are called 'Xiangyou Wu', he is Shechi, I am Tamo, who cures diseases and grows seeds—"

Fang Zheng endured, leaving the question to the next question, and listened to their introduction first.

"Those three warriors are 'Big Bronze Tooth', 'Second Bronze Tooth' and 'Three Bronze Tooth'."

Fang Zheng took a closer look, and there was a circle of animal teeth necklaces around the warrior's neck, connected with a string of copper beads, with different sizes, it should be a person with a higher level of ability, the bigger the animal teeth on the necklace, the more copper beads up.

It was "Big Tongya"'s turn to ask Fang Zheng, "Where is your tribe?"

In the past few years, the middle area where Badian and Yu Yi have not fought is very large, and Fang Zheng is not worried about being found the exact location. "In Qinglongling. It's time for me to ask, what do you mean by being responsible for distributing the seeds?"

"One crop cannot be planted on a piece of land all the time. Collect the seeds of the good plants and throw away the bad ones..."

Fang Zheng understood it as soon as he heard it. Although he was a little surprised, it has progressed to the stage of conscious artificial cultivation and selection.I also understand the reason that land and crops cannot be planted in a single way.It can be regarded as an excellent early stage of farming civilization.

It was the other party's turn to continue to ask Fang Zheng: "How many people are in your tribe?"

"Two hundred." Fang Zheng said.

What Fang Zheng didn't tell them was that the tribe was well hidden, there was no threat of war, the crop resources were abundant, and the women of the tribe had a strong will. In recent years, many newborn children have been born. This is an excellent population structure, and it will grow very quickly.

Those people exchanged looks, weighing whether 200 people is a little small.

"This question is meaningless." Fang Zhengdao, "I am talking to you, not to let my people fight with you." He pointed to himself, "It's me. Does every time the enemy who comes to attack you rely on crowd tactics? ? The number of excellent fighters like Yu Yi and Zu Jiang is also very limited."

A few "copper teeth" representing the highest level of tribal fighting over there exchanged unwilling eyes, and their teeth gnawed loudly: "Of course we know, but you—" Their eyes hesitated as they glanced at the planks corroded by poison on the ground, " You are indeed very strong, the strength just now and these poisons are..."

"I'm more than capable," Fang Zheng said with a chuckle, "If there are more of you, I won't be afraid."

The healing witch said a little tiredly, "Your combat skills can be seen when you receive arrows. But our matter... cannot be solved by one or two high-strength fighters."

"That's right," Fang Zheng pondered. "The number of you soldiers is not small. If there are three or four in each of the houses under the wall, then you..." He said solemnly: "All the people are soldiers? It's a bit too much."

Looking all the way, Fang Zheng observed that the population capacity of this platform area is about 2000 people, and the number of soldiers in the circle of houses under the wall exceeds [-].Fang Zheng also saw that there were men and women working under their houses, which should be the husband and wife family structure in the farming society.At this natural birth rate, the number of men of adult age has reached its limit.

If all men in farming society are warriors, it is a very extreme social structure.It is different from the primitive gathering and hunting communal system.The family system in the farming society is based on the joint resistance of men and women to risks. If all men are to be soldiers, it means that the living conditions are very poor.And the family labor that should have been shared is bound to be all on women, resulting in a sharp drop in the number of newborn children.

Therefore, Fang Zheng felt that it was too early for them to enter the farming society. The many human and animal heads on the outer wall, such a harsh living environment, were more resistant to the commune system.

But if they had entered the farming society before, they would not regress back to the primitive tribal system, but were forced to migrate to this harsh place, and their living conditions would naturally plummet.

Fang Zheng thought of their crossbows and arrows and the reeds worn by the women, and asked, "Where's your copper? The copper furnace is so big, you shouldn't be able to see it."

"Three Bronze Tooths" just said: "We have already-" was interrupted by a Xiangyou witch, "We don't make copper in a wind furnace, we don't need fire. What do you want to talk to us about?"

Fang Zheng didn't expose his lie. Even if it's copper smelting, it's impossible to make acid and iron without fire.The problem of this tribe gradually became clear in his mind, "Talk about it, why are you trapped here?"

Exquisite stilt-style house structure, understanding of farming, and the production of weapon raw materials... If this tribe settled and developed by the Xiangzhu water frieze where Fang Zheng was captured just now, the situation would be very different.But now they walled themselves in on a platform on the mountain wall, with the cliffs below.The land here is not fertile, so they have to use the method of planting crops to conserve it; wild birds and animals are not easy to hunt here, so they have to use the space to the extreme to raise pigs.

Judging from Fang Zheng's arrest, it's not that they can't go to the land with rich resources; judging from the dead bodies planted on the wall, it doesn't make much sense to say that it has some concealment effect.They are like soldiers stationed in a natural danger that everyone knows, facing threats every day, and are responsible for patrolling the surroundings.Fang Zheng felt that it was impossible to guard the tomb of Emperor Yao Yu for some ideal oath or ancestral contract. He couldn't survive. How many people would abide by it?

There should be other reasons why they had to stay here.

The three copper teeth looked at Fang Zheng with complicated expressions, and the two Xiangyou witches were a little weak, and said dejectedly: "Curse...it's all a curse..."

"Curse?" Fang Zheng didn't believe those ghosts and ghosts, "Tell me."

"Let's discuss it first." A few of them exchanged looks, and then they whispered to discuss. Although the voice was very small, Fang Zheng could still hear it, but he could only stand aside as if he didn't hear it.It's nothing more than "tell him in case he has a way" "kill him if it leaks" and other clichés.

After a while, they negotiated, and the blood-colored robed Xiangyou Wu came forward, and the other party Zheng said, "We are indeed guarding the tomb of Emperor Yao Yu. Many people don't know that we are a descendant of the Jiuli tribe. Only Knowing that our ancestors had an agreement with Emperor Yao Yu, to move the tribe to the entrance after he passed away. At that time, we had no other choice. But later we found that the conditions here were not good, and we wanted to leave...but... I can't go away."

"Can't you leave?" Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows and asked.

"We first moved to the waterside of the bamboo forest, where the natural conditions are the best. But within a year, everyone got strange diseases one after another, and they couldn't be cured. More than half of the tribesmen died... We had to come back here In the end, everyone’s illnesses were really cured. But after that, we were always unwilling. Every year, people ran out, but no matter where they went, they would get that kind of illness. Only by returning here can they be cured...” Xiangyou Wuyan With tears in his eyes, he said, "At the beginning, the messenger told us that we could not leave this place for life after life. If we left, we would be punished. This is a curse. A curse that cannot be escaped."

Fang Zheng's heart tightened, and he said slowly: "Could it be that your chief director..."

Big Bronze Fang's face was gloomy, "The Chief Chief has wanted to break this curse all his life. He has made a lot of medicine and said that he can solve the curse by taking it. He really left for a long time a year ago, and it's fine when he comes back. We Thinking that he succeeded, he also said that this year the medicine will be produced and distributed to everyone. But not long ago, he suddenly suffered from the disease and died within a few days. Before he died, he said...the curse cannot be escaped. "

The first thing that Fang Zheng thought of was that there was any mineral element content that exceeded the standard in this land, but it happened to be able to synthesize some toxins in these human bodies.He pondered and said: "Show me the body of your Chief Secretary, I may find a way to help you."

Those few people obviously didn't believe it, but they were dead horses as living horse doctors, holding the hope that nothing was better than nothing, and sighed: "Look. But—" They suddenly showed strange expressions on each other, "This land that has been cursed , once you arrive, you cannot leave, and if you leave, you will die like him. You can only join us."

"Really?" Fang Zheng smiled, "In order not to stay, I have to try my best to help you. After all, your place is really not beautiful, and it is far worse than my valley."