Chapter One Thousand and Twenty Three: Taixia Credentials, Powerful Tribes of Northeast Asia
"Captain Sage, this golden stone looks brilliant. It seems to be the big placer gold that my grandmother said..."
"Ancestor! These densely packed symbols are neat and strange, and they seem to indicate the guidance of the sacred deer... Are they the patterns of shaman divination?..."
The night is deep, and there are also bright stars in the starry sky of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Sailors from the Northland tribe are wrapped in thick leather robes, skillfully digging shallow pits and setting up short windproof leather shelters. They separate into a group
The team members stayed vigilant throughout the night, while others formed a small circle along several bonfires and lay on leather mats to rest. In the warmer circle further inside, there were the southern warriors of the kingdom. Although they were strong and fierce, they
They were far less cold-resistant than the tribal sailors recruited from the North, and had to stay close to a campfire to fall asleep.
The innermost bonfire was naturally the exploration captain Zuvalo and the two arriving Itelmen hunters. Zuvalo took out the gold and credentials and looked at the two of them expectantly, but their reactions were...
He had a confused look on his face, not as strong a reaction as predicted.
"Witnessed by the spirit ancestors! I come from a tribe on the Eastern Sea. I am not the tribe's inherited shaman, so I can't understand your shamanic runes!"
Hunting captain Mu Quan pulled his hair and shook his head vigorously, indicating that he had no shamanic heritage. Then, he carefully returned the paper full of "runes" to Zuvaro, and pointed to the mountains in the north, his face
There was awe on his face.
"Friend...our grandmother in Yamabe has the heritage of an ancient shaman. Maybe she will recognize your runes..."
"Hmm... you don't know it? Okay... you point to the north? Does anyone know it in the north? No, His Majesty's prophecy said it was on the big island in the south... Oh, you said the tomb of the ancestors, your tribe is in the north
?...What is there in the mountains in the north? Oh, those dancing, singing, and surrounding the fire are the priests of the tribe?..."
Seeing Mu Dog's reaction, the exploration captain Zuvalo touched his head and made gestures to guess what the other party meant. Soon, he understood, and with a little disappointment, he took back the unfolded piece of leather paper.
He looked at the first vertical line, the large square characters written by His Majesty himself, "Letter from King Taixia of the East China Sea to the King of Japan", and then looked at the red jade seal engraved at the end of the eyelid paper, carefully rolled it up and put it away. Then, he
Put this volume of "National Letter" into a small waterproof copper box at your feet, carefully put it together with several other important volumes of "National Letter", and put it away carefully.
In fact, there were only four copies of such a solemn and peculiar vertical jade seal "Certificate of Credence" in the copper box! He had already secretly read the names of these credentials. In addition to the ones for the "King of Japan", there were also "East China Sea"
"Letter from King Taixia of the East China Sea to the King of Korea", "Letter from the King of Taixia of the East China Sea to the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty"...and the most formal and longest one, with unusually neat format and the most modest words, "The King of Taixia of the East China Sea pays homage to China"
The Creed of the Emperor and the Ming Emperor!
"His Majesty has said that no matter what the Three Islands and tribal alliances, the female straight tribe alliance, the Korean tribe alliance... are not particularly powerful, they can understand the divine writings and can have equal contact. But only this last 'Great Ming Dynasty'
The "Great Alliance of Han Tribes" is as powerful as it has ever been! Their strength is equivalent to ten times that of the entire alliance!"
"Although it is incredible and unimaginable, His Majesty's divine revelation has never been wrong. It should indeed be an extremely powerful alliance of large tribes! It is said that their great chief is called the 'Tianzi', also called the 'Emperor', and he is supreme.
He is regarded as the only son of the gods. If you want to see their great emperors and chiefs, or have access to the great chiefs and great chiefs of their various states, you must show enough respect!"
"According to His Majesty's prophecy, the Supreme Emperor and Chief, and those respected Confucian priests, attach great importance to the respectful attitude of foreign envoys, even more than anything else. However, the powerful cronies around the Great Emperor and Chief
The female snakes, as well as the great chiefs in charge of the city-state, are particularly fond of gold! And the methods of dealing with these different people must be dealt with according to their different identities..."
Exploration captain Zuvalo lowered his eyes and thought over and over about the last part of His Majesty's prophecy. He didn't know what the Supreme Emperor Chief was, what a powerful alliance that had never been, nor what was respected.
A Confucian priest, a snake-woman who is a close confidant in power... He only tried to speculate based on his past knowledge and His Majesty's divine revelation!
According to His Majesty's divine revelation, the clearest and simplest way to identify these powerful tribal alliances is to look at their attitudes towards gold!
Thinking of this, the exploration captain Zuvalo smiled, took out two gold cakes with holes, tied them with slender ties, and personally put them on the necks of the two tribal hunters.
"Witness the Lord God! The tribal brothers who live in the mountains in the north... This is a specialty of our Longship tribe, two pieces of gold sun amulets, one piece weighs exactly one pound!..."
"Huh? A spiritual ancestor!...Is this a golden shaman amulet?"
Hunting captain Mu Quan took the gold cake in his hand and stared at it for a while. One pound of gold cake sounds like a lot, but when placed in his hand, it is actually less than half the size of a palm. The front of this gold cake is engraved with
There is an abstract sun with an unknown bird inside. On the back of the gold cake, there is a mysterious shamanic rune, "god", engraved on it. In fact, this one-pound gold cake is related to the alliance's missionary work.
The talismans of the main god are not exactly the same, but they are exactly the same.
"Hey! This heavy weight is really alluvial gold! Captain, the old grandmother once said that the yellow, heavy gold can be exchanged from the horse department in the west to domesticated dogs, and it can also be exchanged from the island in the south.
In exchange for edible salt...can this small piece of gold cake be exchanged for a dog? Or a bag of salt?..."
"Mulu, don't talk nonsense, think about it! Can you walk through the hostile coastal deer tribe, cross the ferocious safari camp, and see the legendary herding horse tribe, or can you row a boat?
To the south, go to those clusters of island villages to give away heads?...This piece of gold cake is not as useful as Luba. It is the shaman amulet given to us by the Longship Tribe. You can keep it well, shaman of Haibu.
It is estimated that it will attract the blessing of the sea god and bring some good luck in fishing!…”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Uh, that's right!...Captain, you think more and think more, you are worthy of being the Sag King of our Mountain Department!..."
"Haha! Our spiritual ancestors protect us! It seems that these Kaibu don't have any ill intentions now, and maybe they can become our friends in the Yamabu... Oops! We have to go back quickly and tell the old grandmother about the situation here! Lest Mu Tu's
The gangsters couldn't wait for us, so they took Ding Zhuang and fought out of the mountains!..."
Zuvalo, the exploration captain, squinted his eyes and observed the reactions of the two tribal hunters after receiving the gold. He caught the expressions of the two men, who seemed to be only slightly happy, but also lacked the greed and excitement predicted.
"Hey! It seems that these tribes in the mountains are indeed not the ones His Majesty mentioned. And the trade that Your Majesty hopes may not be carried out... Well, the powerful tribal alliance predicted in the prophecy should still be further south!
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"However, the sea is about to freeze, and this year's voyage ends here! We must quickly find a warm and sheltered winter camp to prepare for the coming terrible winter!..."
It was freezing cold, and it was late at night before I knew it. The two sides didn’t understand each other’s language, so communication was all about gestures and drawings, which took too much effort. However, the slow communication still brought about basic mutual trust, and the possibility of further cooperation.
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"Spiritual ancestors! Do you want to go to our tribe and meet the wise old grandmother of the tribe?"
"Hmm, we want to go to the mountains to the north to meet your chief or priest! We want to know the situation of the surrounding ministries, and we also want to trade with you for the crops that the four-legged riding beast can grow!"
"What? Do you want to know about the surrounding tribes? Do you also want reindeer that can transport people? Oh! And there are also berries to eat?"
The hunting captain, Mu Quan, lowered his head and looked at the four-legged riding animals and plants that were painted on the snow, and then looked at Zuvalo's serious gestures, with a vigilant look on his face.
For the Kamchatka tribes, inquiring about other tribes is usually a precursor to attack and plunder. Presumably, the opponent has a total of ninety elite hunters, with excellent copper axes, large bows and leather armor, and also
There are big boats that can go deep into the rivers...
There is no doubt that in the northern snowfields with sparse tribal populations, this is a powerful tribal force, and they will not leave in a short time! And since they want to stay here for the winter, they will inevitably look for food and food for the winter.
camp. Under such circumstances, in this snowy plain of Far North Asia where fighting continues, the most common solution is to attack the weaker tribes, kill the men who are taller than the waist, and then kill the women.
, the food and the campground are all for yourself!…
"Hmm... Ancestors with spirits! In the desolate and cold snowfields, tribal fighting never stops. The difference is just killing the enemy or being killed by the enemy!..."
"Perhaps... this Haibu that emerged from the southeast sea can become our ally in the Mountain Division to fight against the Deer Division that moves from the northwest! ... No, I have to rush back overnight to see the wise old grandmother of the tribe!"