Chapter One Thousand Two Hundred and Forty Two: North, and North Again
"God bless you! Light the fire and burn the kiln!"
"The Great God of Firestone bless you! Light the fire!..."
The sacrifices in Leijin Town begin at sunrise and end at noon. Next, there is the lighting ceremony of the brick kilns! A row of eight three-meter-high brick kilns are filled with thousands of red clay brick embryos, black with holes.
Prepare the briquettes and firewood for igniting the fire. Following the order from the Songbird Priest, the eight priest apprentices all looked sacred and lit the fuel for the ignition port!
"Huh...boom!..."
Eight flames rose slowly, getting bigger and bigger. A faint green smoke emerged from the kiln mouth, getting thicker and thicker. Many tribesmen were full of piety, looking in awe at the magical kiln house that could turn mud into stone.
He bowed his head and saluted. Not far away, the pottery-burning kiln was also smoking, and the bronze-smelting workshop was full of fireworks, day and night.
Looking from a distance, the entire Leijin Town is like a huge volcano, not only filled with light smoke and dust, but also surging with the power of magma! The source of this power lies in the rich metal mineral deposits on the northwest coast, which comes from the continuous
The hundreds of miles of flint and coal mine belts come from the divine power of fire guided by the Lord God!
In the eyes of the surrounding ignorant tribes, although the Leijin tribe has "thunder and gold and copper", what is more feared and desirable is the "god-given skill" of manipulating flames and making masonry and metal! And it is precisely with this
With this god-given skill, tall pyramid temples rise from the ground, and walls two to three meters high gradually surround them. Even the middle and upper classes of the tribe live in brick houses that are warm, strong, and waterproof!
As for the baskets and boats of bronze tools and weapons, as the most sought-after and valuable goods in the northern continent, they were traded from Leijin Town to all directions, in exchange for a steady stream of coal, copper, grain, salt, cloth and fur.
.Thousands of kilograms of gold and silver that have been smelted can only be used in the construction of temples to make the statues of the main gods shine. In fact, this stretch of wilderness and mountains bordering thousands of miles is exactly where the Pacific Ocean and the
The junction of the North American plates. The continuous Eastern Mountains were uplifted due to the geological activities at the junction of the plates. There are many large and small gold and silver mines in them. The surrounding tribes are commonplace and never regard such common yellow and white stones as valuable goods.
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"The Lord God bless you! May your flame and light cover the northern continent!..."
The temple flashed with golden light, and the chants of the songbird priests also floated farther north. Five or six hundred miles away in the north, the large tribes of Yome and Guayma both added "
Wooden statues of the "Great God of Thunder and Fire in the South". With the spread of faith and trade, the Opata Alliance, 1,400 miles away, also possesses the talisman of the main god of the hummingbird sun. These wood carvings, stone carvings, gold and silver engraved talismans, and even
Through the plunder of the Northern Apache Alliance and the battle with the Navajo Alliance, it finally flowed into the upper reaches of the Colorado River. And the main god of Huitziloppo, as a tribal god in the far south, was for the first time three thousand miles away.
It is known to all tribes in the Great Basin.
Sail five to six hundred miles southwest from Leijin Town, the center of the smelting, to the increasingly prosperous struvite producing area, Nanguoshi Village. This port of Kingdom Village, the southernmost part of the Baja California Peninsula, already has 900
Population. Most of the young people in the village are struvite miners. Hundreds of tons of struvite are transported thousands of miles south by galleys and canoes.
Transshipment. According to the inspection of the Institute of Divine Inspiration, 1 ton of struvite applied to 60-80 acres of fields can steadily increase the production of 4 tons of grain that year, and in the next two years, the production will gradually increase by about 1 ton.
In other words, for every ton of struvite transported away, as long as it is properly fertilized, it can increase the cumulative income of the fields by 6 tons! This gray-white stone fertilizer has become the flag team of the people in the Lake Kingdom and the warriors who grant the land.
The enfeoffed nobles, a sacred item that everyone strongly desires to increase production! Every shipload of struvite is potentially tons of grain!…
From South Bird Rock Village around the peninsula, and more than a thousand miles to the north, you will find North Bird Rock Village, which also produces struvite. At present, this village has a population of 400, most of whom are converted Kochimi people.
There are also a small amount of Chumash tribesmen brought in. This place is too far away, and its geographical location is far inferior to that of South Bird Stone Village. Most of the struvite produced is to supply the nearby West Coast ports farther north.
The priest of Beitorishi Village, Sha Hongyao, is from Tekos. He is very unique among the sailing faction in the north where Prepecha people are the majority, so of course he was placed in this "good place for birds to poop all day long". He hanged
He tried his best to use the barren dry land outside the village to plant a lot of sweet potato fields, but the yield was just that. The places where struvite can be produced are severely drought-stricken and there is naturally no fertile soil for farming. He
He built some more canoes and personally took the tribesmen fishing, which was enough to make ends meet for the village.
In this barren and desolate place, the only thing that gives people some hope is the "salt salt field" that Sha Hongshu is studying. The sunshine here is extremely abundant and there is no rain, so it is very easy to produce a large amount of bitter salt. But this "bitter salt"
"There are too many impurities. If you eat too much, you will get headaches and stomachaches. You have to study it carefully and find a way to filter and purify it."
However, the efforts of Priest Sha Hongyao were just a result of unwillingness and ambition. In fact, they were destined not to make too many splashes. Because, 1,500 miles north of Beidorishi Village, there is Kumeya who has converted to the main god.
People are a large tribe of Yipa with their main god priest Kuimu! Priest Kuimu is stationed here and only does three things: one is to spread the belief of the main god, the other is to teach the tribesmen to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, and the last one is to transport salt!
Yes, the Kumeya tribes control the natural Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake extends for more than a hundred miles, and the natural salt piles are endless. The large salt lake tribes here also produce endless salt, supplying the southwestern tribes of the entire North American continent.
The Salt Lake tribe is only about 400 miles away from the Yipa tribe, and half of it is waterway. Through the transshipment trade of the Yipa tribe, dozens of bronze axes can be exchanged for a ton of lake
The salt was then loaded into the kingdom's galleys and transported to the west coast of the entire northern continent.
This salt will be unloaded at various kingdom strongholds, not only for daily consumption, but also used in large quantities to marinate fish and meat to store food for the winter. As for the remaining half, it will eventually arrive at the whale port and be used to marinate for whaling.
Huge amounts of meat are being consumed.
The huge amount of marinated whale meat was the most important food source when the kingdom was developing in the Far North. In the bitterly cold Far North, these storable marinated whale meats have a sharply increased trade value, and even
It can directly replace the population of young men and women, allowing the kingdom's base to expand rapidly...
Five or six hundred miles north from the large salt-producing Yipa tribe is the Kingdom's Sanshan Port. Surrounded by three mountains, this port has rapidly grown to 1,600 people, the vast majority of whom are converted Chumash tribesmen.
Thousands of acres of corn fields, pumpkin fields, and potato fields have been cultivated in the valley where the port is located. And small stone altars are everywhere in the valley with a radius of a hundred miles. Many altars are crowded, and even one day
There are three sacrifices. Although the Chumash people are ignorant and are semi-savages on the North American continent, their beliefs after conversion are extremely pious. Perhaps it is precisely because of their ignorance that they are so pious.
Only then will they become the first batch of fully assimilated Jiao people!
Four or five hundred miles further north from Sanshan Port, at the mouth of a river full of oak trees, the Oak Tribe of the Salinan Tribe, which once had a population of nearly a thousand people, has disappeared, or has been completely annexed. And in the Oak Tribe, which was once large,
At the tree totem, a wooden carving of the sun hummingbird as the main god was erected, as well as an ancient black snake flag!
