It is not without reason that the Yuyu clan has this idea. They can make boats and build nets for fishing, so they look down on the relatively primitive and backward wild people in the mountains. After the Qingshui clan was overthrown, although the number of outside traders decreased, there will still be
Yes, because of the location, most of the things brought by the traders are now exchanged with the Youyu Village people, and then taken to the Central Valley to be exchanged with other tribes. They have a monopoly on trade with the outside world.
There are more than 600 tribesmen in Youyu Village. It is the most prosperous tribe in the wilderness, and it also has many monks who have entered the first level of cultivation. In comparison, if Lu Village did not have the two masters Ruoshan and Ruoshui,
The strength cannot compete with Youyu Village. But outsiders don't fully know how powerful Ruoshan is, and they know very little about Ruoshui.
At the beginning, the ambitions of the Youyu clan were not too excessive. They just wanted to take advantage of the greatest benefits after the Qingshui clan was destroyed. But after a few years, they thought they had clearly seen the situation in the wilderness and their thoughts.
There are more and more. The leaders of the Youyu clan gradually not only want to replace the Qingshui clan, but also want to rule the tribes in the wilderness to obey orders and order other tribes. This will inevitably lead to more and more conflicts.
The earliest conflict was caused by a very special and precious thing, which is salt. The Qingshui clan dug several salt wells on the edge of the valley. The salt wells can extract salty springs and boil the salty springs to produce salt. This
The salt needed by the various tribes in the wilderness used to come from only two sources, either made by the Qingshui clan or brought in by traders from outside the mountains.
But in the past, the final destination for traders outside the mountain was the Qingshui clan's walled city, so each tribe still had to go to the Qingshui clan's walled city to exchange their products for salt. After the Qingshui clan was destroyed, the salt wells were abandoned for a time.
No, the tribes in the mountains were extremely short of salt for a period of time.
Lack of salt means that there is no way to handle and preserve fresh meat, and it is impossible to season other foods. These are secondary. Anyway, the fresh meat of various tribes in the mountains will be eaten quickly, using drying and roasting methods.
It can also be stored for a period of time; more importantly, the body cannot bear it, and people's tolerance will decrease during long-term work, and it may even cause various diseases.
Each tribe began to draw salty springs from salt wells, and then took them back for the tribesmen to drink directly. However, transporting the salty springs on the steep mountain roads was too laborious, and later they began to cook salt. However, maintaining salt wells is a sophisticated and complex skill that requires
A large amount of manpower and proprietary tools are not something that ordinary tribes can afford.
The Youyu family took the opportunity to occupy the salt well. They knew how to fish, and many times the fish they caught could not be eaten at one time, so they needed salt to process and preserve it. Moreover, they learned from outside merchants how to dig and maintain it.
Salt well. It is certainly a good thing if someone can dig the well, maintain it and cook the salt. It requires nearly a hundred men and women to maintain it.
Although salt is very important, it is not food and clothing after all. It is impossible to live with only salt. It is difficult for a tribe to dedicate nearly a hundred people to produce salt. Their food and clothing must be supported by the work of other people. Even if there is a fish tribe like this
It was very difficult to do. But after the fish village occupied the salt well, it had more benefits. The salt produced was not only used for its own use, but also exchanged with other tribes for products at a high price. The so-called "price" is a concept of measurement, indicating that exchange is required.
The price to pay for something.
This cost can be estimated. If these nearly 100 people do not collect salt, how much products they can get from doing other work can be roughly exchanged for the salt they produce. This is the simplest concept among primitive tribes.
.Youyu Village also did this at first, but later the price became higher and higher, far exceeding this limit, causing dissatisfaction among other tribes, and conflicts were of course inevitable.
Youyu Village first appeased the furthest monster villages in the depths of the wilderness and promised to exchange salt with them for some special items that other tribes did not have. Then the remaining disputes occurred in the relatively nearby villages.
Among the human tribes, Youyu Village showed a arrogant attitude.
In this case, the only one who has the strength to compete with Youyu Village is Lu Cun. But the patriarch Lu Shan also knows in his heart that if he and Ruoshui, the two masters, are not included, Lu Cun cannot beat Youyu Village. They
Such accidental masters do not often appear in the tribe, and he also traveled to Ba Yuan in his early years and saw with his own eyes the wars between the various tribes fighting for the king after the division of Ba Kingdom. He did not want the various tribes in this wilderness to fall into that same situation.
In the midst of fierce strife and chaos.
Ruoshan thought of the legends of Taihao, Shennong, Xuanyuan and other heavenly emperors in history when they were human emperors. They all united various tribes to form alliances to resolve disputes and resolve matters together, so Ruoshan also wanted to use this method to solve the problem. But establishing a
For a tribal alliance, you must first convince Youyu Village, and a large alliance must start with a small alliance.
It is still difficult for Lu Village to compete with Youyu Village alone, but together with Huahai Village, which is not weak, it is enough to make Youyu Village lower its head and negotiate. With their call, they can also get the support of other tribes to
The settlement of the salt well conflict served as a basis for resolving other disputes in that valley, eventually forming a tribal alliance.
Ruoshan, who has experienced conflicts and wars, knows in his heart that the Yanjing incident is just a sign and a beginning. If the conflict is not resolved in the bud, it will lead to a larger scope and more serious disputes, and even trigger conflicts between tribes.
The melee caused many people's fate to be miserable, and many tribes in the wilderness could not withstand such an impact.
The day before yesterday, Ruoshan took Bo Zhuang, Zhong Zhuang and other tribesmen to the valley where the Qingshui clan's fortress was originally located, just to discuss this matter, but at the same time, it happened that the monkeys of Huahai Village defrauded the villagers of their belongings. As a result,
Taking advantage of the opportunity, he negotiated an alliance with Huahai Village upon his return.
A knot is a connection, just like two things tied together by a rope, while an alliance means abiding by a common agreement.
Of course, the five-year-old Huwa had no idea what a big deal Shan Ye had accomplished. He was not aware of the disputes outside the village, which were matters that adults worried about. However, the bridge built on the cliff aroused his strong interest.
This was also the first time he intuitively understood something like a "bridge". For a long time, Huwa always believed that the bridge was invented by Gu Xin and improved by Shan Ye. After a long time, when he walked out of the wilderness, he saw more
, the more ancient bridge, it became clear that this was not the case.
Having this bridge has also brought great changes to Huwa's life. He has more fun in his childhood, can go further, and has a broader horizon. After crossing the cliff of the bridge
Over there is a relatively open gentle slope. Then walk up through the forest for about three miles and you will reach Huahai Village on the coast of Huahai.
There are various dangers in the mountains, and children in the village are not allowed to run around. But since the bridge was opened, people have been traveling frequently, and the area from Lu Village to Huahai Village has become relatively safe. In
In the area surrounded by mountains, looking at the mountains, the most open scenery that Huwa saw during his childhood was the sea of flowers, which was also the most beautiful scenery he had ever seen in reality.
The reason why it is said to be in reality is because he still has dreams. Since entering the first realm of cultivation, Huwa rarely has other dreams, but his cultivation is far from reaching the dreamless realm, and he still has dreams in the second half of the night.
He would naturally fall asleep, and occasionally dream while asleep. He often had the same dream, but it always felt hazy and misty, and he couldn't remember clearly after waking up.
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In addition to hunting and raising chickens, and digging for kudzu and other things in the mountains, the main products of Lu Village are elm pods, fruits of green oak, hemp and beans. There are large forests of green oak and old elm in the mountains behind the village.
It was a gift from God, and hemp and beans were grown by the tribe themselves. However, due to terrain constraints, there was not a large area of land around Lu Village that could be intensively farmed, so a hemp forest could only be carved out on the hillside behind the village.
Surrounded by bean fields.
They also scattered hemp and bean seeds in the surrounding mountains and forests, causing them to grow chaotically. This can only be harvested by wild seeds. The yield and difficulty of collection of wild seeds are far inferior to those of opening fields on your own.
Farming. After the bridge was opened, there was a large area of suitable land on the other side of the cliff. Lucun had more laborers. They walked across the cliff and opened up new hemp forests and bean fields.
Later, the people of Huahai Village also learned to grow hemp and beans. They opened fields from the mountains downwards, which gradually connected with the fields opened by the people of Lucun. Many years later, Huahai Village not only formed an alliance with Lucun, but also established an alliance with Lucun through exchanges.
With intermarriage, lifestyles and various habits gradually get closer until assimilation.
People in Huahai Village originally had no surname. Later, some people took Lu as their surname, while others took Hua as their surname. The two tribes that were originally very close were assimilated and merged because of a bridge. Lu Village and Huahai Village formed a small village in the mountains.
A small tribe with two villages connected by fields.
The clear water of the distant tree also nodded secretly. Ruoshan, the patriarch of Lu Village, was indeed one of the most outstanding figures in this wilderness. It was under his guidance that Ruoshan passed through the first stage and practiced, and entered the third level before he was forty years old.
He has reached the fifth realm. Unfortunately, like most monks in the world, it is difficult to reach the sixth realm in his lifetime. In the past few decades, Ruoshan's cultivation has been at the peak of the fifth realm and nine realms.
Ruoshui entered the fifth realm decades later than Ruoshan, but now he has reached the seventh level of the fifth realm. His cultivation level is not much different from Ruoshan's. Of course, you can't evaluate a person only by his cultivation level. Cultivation is only a personal matter.
Ruoshan still has to deal with others, and has various identities and achievements. In Li Qingshui's view, Ruoshan's alliance with Huahai Village can be said to be an alliance between Ruoshan and Huahai Village.
Of course, it took a long time for Huahai Village and Lu Village to merge into one tribe. During Huwa's childhood and adolescence, they were still two tribal villages that had just formed an alliance and were still developing relatively independently. However, the two villages formed an alliance.
Soon after, the salt well dispute in the wild Central Valley was resolved.