Chapter 386 Quantitative Change to Qualitative Change
Only by continuous innovation and enterprising spirit can the Ba people firmly maintain their position as the leader of the alliance. Relying on the power of science and technology and the spiritual leadership of the great witch, they can harvest more wealth and further promote the prosperity and development of the alliance tribes.
Right now, the four mining tribes are Xu Chen's core driving force.
As long as he firmly controls these four mines, Xu Chen's kingdom can develop in an orderly manner, and its connections will become increasingly closer.
Therefore, when the Mongols, the Five Ghosts, and the poor proposed exchanging metal and salt for bronze swords, axes, and weapons, Xu Chen naturally agreed and said that he could provide a batch of swords, axes, and weapons according to their needs. As for the exchange conditions,
At that time, you can wait until Mother's Day and discuss it with the shamans and clan leaders of each tribe.
In addition, the Ba people not only have ordinary swords and axes, but also recently made some novel items, such as hand drills, chisels, copper saws, etc. These novel tools are very useful for logging and building houses, and Xu Chen recently
We also plan to bake a batch of pottery hoes, pickaxes, plowshares and other molds to prepare for the vigorous development of agricultural equipment.
He plans to launch these things together on Mother's Day, and hold a bronze tool exhibition and sales conference at that time to open the eyes of all the tribes who come to participate in the sacrifice, and then go back and work hard to find ways to make a fortune and obtain these new tools and tools.
farm tools.
In fact, the current large-scale promotion of weapons is far less effective than the promotion of knives, axes and agricultural tools.
Because at present, the external wars of each tribe are almost zero. They are all guarding their own one-third of an acre for development, and the scope of activities is still limited to an area of half a day to a day.
Even if there are horses and rafts to help travel far, the scope of such activities is limited to familiar alliance tribes, and it is unlikely to encounter unfamiliar hostile tribes.
Because Xu Chen had basically found out all the tribal groups within a few hundred miles.
The only one who is somewhat hostile may be the Cicha clan, the original alliance of the Five Ghost clan.
But the Cicha tribe is still more than ten days away from the lower reaches of Gonghuo Basin.
If there were no guides or familiar people to lead the way, and if there was no way to pass by water, Xu Chen believed that if the Cicha tribe was given ten or even twenty years, they would be unlikely to come on their own initiative.
In fact, he has always been a little regretful. The Cicha tribe is also very powerful. The super large lake near their habitat is also a unique living environment. If they can conquer it, they can cut and make lacquer locally on a large scale in the future.
, it can also hunt large aquatic fish. You must know that fish skin, fish bones and isinglass are all good things.
Unfortunately, there were too few people brought there, and the local environment was too unfamiliar, so it was not easy to conquer. If a large-scale army was raised to conquer, at least a team of hundreds of people would need to be mobilized, and almost all the most elite members of the two alliances would be mobilized.
Hunters also have to build a large number of rafts and prepare a large amount of food. The journey takes at least more than a month, which consumes a lot of manpower and financial resources, and may also cause a lot of casualties.
Therefore, Xu Chen could only forget about this matter for the time being, and then think about it slowly when the time comes.
The most important thing is that the Cicha tribe has no mines, so it is not very attractive to him at the moment. He feels that the gain of recruiting a large number of people to rob a few people is not worth the loss.
After receiving Xu Chen's promise, the hunter representatives from the Mongolian, Five Ghost and Youqing tribes who came were very happy, but Feng and others were very depressed.
Every time I go out, I always come back to the tribe with a few new and novel items that I have never seen before, making this group of hunters feel as if they have been abandoned by the tribe.
When I came back this time, the biggest surprise was naturally the unicycle.
Therefore, even if Xu Chen has developed standard weapons such as waist knives and broadswords, they are far less attractive to them than wheelbarrows.
Because this kind of car is so amazing, it can push it wildly on one wheel, and it can also carry goods that usually require at least three people to carry. It is not only fast, but also very labor-saving and easy.
When they first left, only one-fifth of the landfill in Yuanba was filled, but in just over ten days, when they came back this time, nearly one-quarter had been filled.
You must know that the first fifth is a task that takes the entire winter and half of the spring to complete.
This shows the working efficiency of this magical wheelbarrow.
What depressed him the most was that they couldn't push the wheelbarrow, and it would tilt when pushed. Just now a large group of people tried it, and they were all laughed at by a group of guys who were usually only qualified to do hard work.
The hunters who came from the Gonghuo Tribe and other tribes were even more speechless about the wheelbarrow.
This kind of thing is completely beyond their ability to understand, and it is impossible to imagine the structure and function, especially the wheels and copper shafts, which make these single-minded hunters just as dumbfounded as earthlings looking at alien spaceships.
, except for the screams of ghosts and wolves, there is no more way to express emotions.
But whether they understand it or not, everyone knows that this is an unparalleled good thing.
Each tribe now has great potential for building houses, burning kilns, or mining and smelting.
It's a pity that when they wanted to exchange some for them, Xu Chen refused.
It's not that Xu Chen doesn't want to give it to them, but it's just that it's very troublesome to build. Only four of them have been produced so far, and five more are in the process of being produced.
Several carpenters of the Ba ethnic group have not yet fully mastered the craftsmanship of unicycles, and almost every one of them is still built under the guidance of Xu Chen.
Besides, after Xu Chen finished these wheelbarrows, he also wanted to get the carriage out as soon as possible.
Establishing this kind of craftsman system with a unique heritage cannot be accomplished overnight.
At present, the only system of craftsmen he has successfully cultivated is pottery making.
The derivatives of pottery are burning lime and smelting metal.
Now he is cultivating both casting and carpentry systems.
Smelting and casting will become the most profitable industry for the Ba people in the future, replacing pottery making. However, Xu Chen still hopes to train several craftsmen in each tribe to develop independently.
After all, wooden furniture and agricultural tools and carriages will be a popular demand in the future, and most of them are huge and clumsy. It is impossible for the Ba people to dominate this technology.
Moreover, only by vigorously promoting the carpentry system to mature as soon as possible can the shipbuilding technology be more smoothly upgraded, especially the manufacture of large river boats suitable for long distances. He cannot afford to rely on the strength of the Uzbek people alone. The base for building large ships in the future must be in
Gonghuo Basin, not in Bazu.
The Jicang River in front of the Gonghuo Clan is a natural shipbuilding base.
However, at present, a group of carpenters can't even use a knife, axe, or ink dipstick, and they can't even complete the manufacturing of a wheelbarrow independently. Therefore, shipbuilding still has a long way to go.
Xu Chen's plan is to build a few carriages before autumn this year to increase the speed of freight and at the same time strengthen closer exchanges with the Uzbek people.
After sending away a group of hunters from foreign tribes, Xu Chen plunged into the smelting workshop again and began to cast axes, knives and standard weapons on a large scale.
At the same time, the development of agricultural tools such as hoes, pickaxes and plowshares began.
He even tried to make daily tools such as scissors, pliers, and copper needles with more complex and exquisite structures.
Although these things are not urgently needed, thousands of kilograms of copper, tin and lead are currently piled up in the warehouse. They need to be transformed into useful items as soon as possible so that they can be turned into labor tools that promote the development of the tribe, rather than lying in the warehouse as wealth.
The emergence of bronze was undoubtedly a qualitative leap for the development of tribes.
It is said that quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. When various metal utensils and weapons are widely used, production and life will inevitably be greatly improved.
The emergence of knives and axes can make felling trees easier.
The emergence of copper saws, hammers and chisels can be upgraded to wood processing.
The emergence of copper hoes and pickaxes and plowshares made agricultural production easier.
The emergence of wheelbarrows and horse-drawn carriages can make work transportation more convenient and faster.
Tools such as scissors, pliers, and copper needles can make it easier and more convenient to make daily items such as clothes, armor, leather boots, and packages.
In short, the more tools there are to liberate and promote the development of the labor force, the faster human civilization will develop.
The success of bronze smelting is the cornerstone of this progress, allowing Xu Chen to slowly start doing things that he could only think about but not do before.
In fact, at present, the civilization of the Ba people has successfully completed the upgrade, from a barbaric primitive civilization that drank hair and blood to a period of large-scale farming and metal civilization.
Compared with the Cicha tribe further away or even those tribes near the river further downstream, the gap between the two sides is no longer measured in miles, but in tens of millions of years.
This kind of lead will allow the Gonghuo Clan, the Yu Gong Clan, the Five Ghost Clan and even the poor tribes to get on his express train and start to advance by leaps and bounds every year.
If Xu Chen did not take the initiative to continue to expand the territory, then ten years later, when their large ships began to travel back and forth on the Wulong River and larger rivers, the barbarian tribes in other places would still be there for decades and hundreds of years.
If they continue their primitive hunting and gathering life of living in caves, eating flesh and clothing and wearing furs, there won't be much change at all.
At that time, the differences in civilization between tribes will be even greater, just like when the Spanish and Portuguese navigators arrived in Africa and America.
The same world, but two completely different levels of civilization. At that time, the shamans of these primitive and backward tribes will only worship them as gods.