[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

"Truly—"

"Tuk-tuk-"

Dan poked here and there in the grass among the hills with a long branch in his hand.The movement he made startled a small snake, and the snake swam away from the long grass in an instant.

"Inan, my dear god, please follow me closely. Although there are no lions or bison here, there are snakes in the grass, and getting bitten is no fun." He stretched out one hand, as if to protect Yi Nan at any time.

Yi Nan followed Dan, and she wasn't worried about the snake at all - anyway, she should be considered invulnerable to all poisons, and there was also Dan, a brave "guard".

Today Yi Nan followed Dan to a mountain near the tribal camp to survey the terrain.

Yinan wanted to find a more suitable place for the tribe to build a new resident.After all, there are many problems in the tribe's current residence. After that, they may face a series of changes brought about by population growth and raising livestock.Yi Nan wanted to take all these issues into consideration when selecting the site.

The women in the tribe were very excited when they heard Yinan's thoughts: Who doesn't want to live in a more comfortable and bigger place?After all, the original residence was dark and humid, and often encountered floods.And recently, there are more and more children in the tribe, and they live more and more crowded.

Men, especially the brave ones, are mostly dismissive: Where do you live?

However, because of Yi Nan's status as a "goddess", the men didn't say much, and just tossed Yi Nan casually.When they need to contribute, they will push back and forth.

Yi Nan didn't care whether other people supported or opposed her, she focused on selecting the site first.

"Dan, what do you think of this place?" Yinan picked a gentle slope facing south on the mountainside.It is not far from the farmland reclaimed by the tribe. The most important thing is to face the sun. The terrain is higher, warm and dry.Near the gentle slope, there is a mountain spring flowing down from the mountain, and the conditions are quite good.

"Although the station on the plain is closer to the farmland, the terrain is low-lying and too humid."

Yinan still remembers the last time Sui Huan went to check the wheat grains stored by the tribe. The ground in the warehouse was even lower than the ground outside, and there was no sunlight all day long, so it was easy for the grain and seeds to mildew and germinate early...It was easy to damage the villagers The health of the seeds is also likely to cause the seeds to fail, and there will be no harvest if they are planted.

"Before the people from the tribe move in, we can build a granary first." Yinan said, already imagining a tall and solid granary with a solid foundation and a floor covered with bricks.

She could see the indifference of the brave men, but she believed that even these men would not dare to joke about the safety of rations and seeds.

But the key lies in how to persuade these strong laborers to build the barn first.

Once there was a barn, it was necessary to have someone to watch it, and a new house for the caretaker had to be built.

When the caretakers realized the benefits of the "new house", people would naturally build houses one after another and move into new villages.

Yi Nan has this self-knowledge: it is absolutely impossible to do everything by herself, and if everything is done by herself, the efficiency will be very low.

——So we must think of a good way to mobilize the masses!

But Dan couldn't think of that far at the moment. He saw Yi Nan standing on the gentle slope, turned his head to look in the direction of the Euphrates River, and asked Yi Nan: "In this way, will you no longer have to worry about the great flood?"①

"big flood?"

Yinan recalled the past story mentioned by Wutu in the tribe: the last time the Euphrates River was flooded, the tribesmen built rafts to escape from their homes, and they did not forget to bring various crop seeds with them when boarding the raft. The seeds saved lives during the famine years after the flood receded.

The Great Flood is an important theme in the mythology of the various human races.In the myths and legends left by various civilizations in Eurasia, there are stories about "floods".

Yi Nan thought to himself: Could it be such a coincidence that the great flood was hit by her... No, missed it?

Dan nodded and said, "I didn't catch up with the time my ancestors met, but the last few times when the rainy season ends, the big river will overflow the river bank, and several times it will flood the fields we planted. Wu went to worship The river god is useless..."

Yinan heard a little trick, and asked, "Are your dry seasons and rainy seasons fixed?"

She knows that this tribe has no concept of "year". People only know that the dry season is hot without rain, and the rainy season is cold and humid.

Dan's face was confused: "What is fixed?... I only know that the dry season is followed by the rainy season, and after the rainy season is the dry season."

Yinan followed closely and asked, "Then when will you plant wheat and beans?"

Dan thought for a while, then scratched his head and said, "This... the exact date is usually determined by the witches, who pray to the oracle when offering sacrifices to the gods. But generally, wheat is planted before the rainy season, and peas are planted after the rainy season."

Yinan pondered for a while, and roughly guessed that the rainy season here should be winter and spring, and the dry season is summer and autumn.The Euphrates River originates from the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey. At the turn of spring and summer, melting snow-capped mountains can easily cause the river to swell and cause flooding.

Regarding the change of seasons, the people of the Unnamed Tribe only have a vague idea at present.As for the "oracle" that the witch prayed for, it now seems likely that it was just the witch's personal experience and judgment.

Immediately, Yi Nan had a new idea, staring at Dan with scorching eyes, which made the little boy squirm for a moment, and asked, "You...you look at me like that...is there something on my face?"

The young man threw away the long wooden stick in his hand, stretched out his hand and rubbed his cheeks vigorously, fearing that any mud on his face would make Yinan unhappy.

Yi Nan smiled: "Dan, do you want to be the greatest prophet in this world... I mean, witch?"

"Would you like to be able to predict when a big river will swell? The [-]-year flood may not be predictable, but you can predict those small floods with great precision."

"Do you want to arrange the different crops? You know when to plant wheat and when to plant peas and chickpeas, and you can stagger the time for the tribe's hands, and they don't have to work so hard and still get a good harvest ..."

While talking, Yi Nan felt that his eloquence was not bad.

Dan suddenly became short of breath: "You mean, I can become the greatest witch in the world?"

"I... I, I, of course I am willing!"

Inan continued: "Apart from that, do you want to create the greatest civilization in the world?"

This time it was Dan's turn to be dumbfounded: "My most respected god...but what is civilization?"

Yi Nan was taken aback for a moment—it wasn't because her "language chip" failed again, but because Dan's ethnic group didn't have the concept of "civilization" at all.So Dan only heard the pronunciation of the word "civilization" in Yinan's mouth, but he had no idea what the pronunciation meant.

"Civilization is..."

Civilization is planting technology and architectural level. Civilization is also writing, art, science, political system, and country...

Yinan immediately calmed down: "Civilization is something that we develop slowly after filling our stomachs first."

Dan Miao understood: "Got it, what God means is, let us do what we can do first."

Yi Nan felt that the young man was so brilliant, he couldn't help but praise him, and said: "Next, let's solve the big things related to eating and drinking first."

"Do you still remember the clay cup you showed me last time?" Yinan asked, "We have to find a way to make it completely impermeable and non-absorbent like a cup made of stone or wood."

Dan rubbed his hands together: "That's great, it's too much work to polish stone or wood into plates, let alone into cups."

"God, what do you say?"

Yinan said: "Before we start, we need to collect some dry firewood and then prepare some leaves."

Dan obviously thought that Yinan was going to light the bonfire and burn the pottery cups, so he happily agreed, "Okay!"

After the two went down the mountain, Dan quickly found all the materials Yi Nan wanted, but he didn't see Yi Nan taking clay to make pottery blanks.

On the contrary, Yinan actually ordered a group of children from the tribe to help, and dug a hole in the ground outside the village.

Seeing Dan coming with dry firewood and leaves, Yinan hurriedly called him over: "I heard that you are good at lighting fire with flint?"

Inan tried once or twice to light a fire with flint and gave up immediately.The people of the Unnamed Tribe and the Kashan Tribe are very proficient. They can knock out sparks with flint and ignite dry fibers in minutes.When she came to her place, she couldn't do anything—it was estimated that she was spoiled by the various ignition devices of modern life.

Sure enough, with the flint in his hand, he lit the dry firewood at the bottom of the cave with two clicks.

Yi Nan watched the flames rising, nodded in satisfaction, and then threw the remaining dry firewood into the pit.

Dan's face was full of doubts, and it seemed that the child was thinking in his heart: why didn't he put pottery in it?

Yi Nan seemed to have completely forgotten about the pottery, and directly piled a thick layer of leaves on the burning firewood, and piled a thick layer of soil on top of the leaves.

"Okay!" She wiped off the dirt from her hands and stood up.

"Okay?" Dan followed, puzzled.

Yi Nan: "Yes, the next thing is to wait."

Dan: Wait?

He really waited obediently and didn't ask much, maybe because he thought Yi Nan would have some other magical way to "transform" into a practical clay cup in this burning firewood hole.

However, Yinan only uncovered the soil and leaves covering the entrance of the cave the next day.

Except for the completely blackened dry firewood in the cave, there was no trace of the pottery cup—Dan looked at Yi Nan with great doubts.

Yi Nan happily took out the dry firewood that was completely burnt to pitch black one by one, and told Dan while taking it out: "This is very, very useful - charcoal!"

Dan: ...and more weird nouns!

Yi Nan looked into Dan's eager eyes and said with a smile, "Although this is not a pottery cup... But as long as you have it, pottery cups are not a problem!"

Now that she has the charcoal—she is quite sure that she knows how to "mobilize the masses".

The author has something to say: ①By the way, let’s talk about the prehistoric flood:

The Great Flood is a theme that has appeared in the myths and legends left by the ancestors around the world. The description of the Great Flood appeared in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" left by the Sumerian civilization. The story of Noah's Ark in the Bible, as well as the legend of the continent of Atlantis, etc., are also related to the Great Flood.

At present, some scholars believe that the biblical story and the description of the Great Flood in Sumerian myths and legends have a high degree of homology. It is possible that the Sumerian mythology was passed down, and then passed down by the ancient Babylonians, Jews and other ethnic groups. and become a widespread cultural phenomenon;

But some scholars believe that a worldwide flood did occur.

There are also many different theories about the time of the Great Flood. One of them is that the Great Flood occurred at the end of the Quaternary Ice Age 12000 years ago, and the other is about 8000 years ago.The age of the great flood set in this paper is relatively close to the latter one.

As for how the charcoal was used by Yinan to "mobilize the masses", let's talk about it in the next chapter.