After the spring beast tide passed, nearly 3,000 people of the Hawan tribe were killed or injured.
It sounds like a lot, but if divided among 800 villages, the casualties in each village were less than four.
Compared with the past, this is an extremely incredible thing. You must know that even if the Hawan tribe hid in caves in spring, the number of casualties would not be less than dozens.
Thanks to the weapons provided by Zhang Ke, not only were there very few casualties this time, but a large amount of resources were also harvested.
Among them were not only the corpses of various ferocious beasts, but also many monsters that had been killed, and even many injured beasts that had been captured.
Countless tribesmen beamed with joy. It should be known that wild beasts can also be tamed.
Not only can it provide meat, but tribesmen who have awakened related magical powers can also drive wild beasts and make them become hunting assistants.
Beast invasions in the past symbolized suffering and danger, and even if something was gained, it would eventually be taken away by the tribe.
But things are different now. With the establishment of private ownership, tribesmen have their own items for the first time.
The corpses of a large number of beasts and monsters were taken away by the soldiers who contributed the most, but the tribesmen who had contributed to the beast tide were also allocated a lot of prey.
Once the Wanwan people had their own prey in their hands, the transaction happened naturally.
I exchanged the wings of a certain bird monster for your pair of beast fangs.
He exchanged several brightly colored furs for me for the body parts of some kind of beast.
In addition, some gems, spiritual herbs, ores and other items containing spiritual energy are gradually appearing in transactions.
Flame Red Silkworm and other tribal leaders witnessed the birth of the trading market with their own eyes. When they saw the bustling tribesmen there, they finally realized how important 'commerce' was to the development of the tribe.
A year later, Yanhong Silkworm made public the calendar perfected by Zhang Ke and Bu Chan.
In fact, there are vague calendars in this world, but they are not accurate enough. Most of them are based on weather changes.
Zhang Ke used the winter solstice as the basis and derived the year, month, day, and hour from the winter solstice after a tropical year.
For this reason, he put forward the concept of "Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches" in the calendar.
The so-called ‘Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches’ are laws derived from the observation of celestial phenomena.
The ten stems refer to Yan Feng, Zhan Meng, Rou Zhao, Qiang Yu, Zhu Yong, Tu Wei, Shang Zhang, Chong Guang, Xuan Qian and Zhao Yang.
The twelve branches refer to Kundun, Chifenruo, Shetige, Shanlan, Zhixu, Dahuangluo, Dunzang, Xiexia, Hutan, Zuowei, Yimao and Dayuanxian.
The simplified Heavenly Stems are ‘A, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui’.
And ‘Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai’ are the twelve earthly branches.
The ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches match in turn to form sixty basic units. The two cooperate with each other in a fixed order to form the stem and branch era method.
According to this calendar, the Flame Red Silkworm designated this year as the first year of the lunar calendar.
The word "Nong" in it represents the advent of the farming era and people's simplest and most ardent expectations for food.
The abolition of public ownership, the learning of writing and arithmetic, the promulgation of the calendar, the strengthening of the farming system, the emergence of ore smelting, the birth of commercial activities, the establishment of the administrative system and the formation of professional sergeants.
Various changes have promoted the rapid growth and development of the Hawan tribe.
Spring passes and autumn comes, time flies by, and more than thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye.
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July 33rd of the lunar calendar.
Sucheng.
After more than thirty years of development, today's Sucheng is no longer the village it once was. It is a fortified city built of bluestone standing like a mountain.
The square city is more than three times larger than when it was first established, and row upon row of stone and wooden houses are neatly distributed on each street.
Bustling people flow through the street market.
After development, the population of Sucheng now exceeds 200,000. In addition to the more than 100,000 people scattered in surrounding villages and towns, there are about 50,000 tribesmen living in this city alone.
Only a handful of pedestrians walking in the city were still wearing animal skins. Most of them were wearing clothes made of cotton and linen, or were carrying farm tools or weapons such as bows and arrows.
There is a stall every few steps on both sides of every street, and some vendors are selling loudly.
Pheasants and wild animals, jade and rhinoceros horns, elixirs and minerals, linen cloth and ironware are all available.
Attracted passers-by lingered in the market, stopping from time to time to check out items and trade.
As early as ten years ago, under Zhang Ke's promotion, the Xiawan tribe cast copper and issued currency.
Bartering is very inconvenient. After all, you can't carry a wild boar or a large amount of grain to trade with others every day.
The currency units are divided into three types: one qian, ten qian, and one hundred qian. The specifications are simple but the shape is extremely exquisite.
Its shape is similar to the copper coins in Zhang Ke's dream, with holes on the outside and in the middle for easy carrying on a string.
The front is marked with the denomination, and the back is etched with the date the currency was issued and the name of the tribe.
In order to distinguish them, the three copper coins have completely different colors, shown in red, white, and gold. They are all made of a special red copper mixed metal unique to the Wufeng area.
The shape and proportioning technology of the coins and the coin-minting equipment were all provided by Zhang Ke.
As the earliest currency issued in this world, copper coins not only have a special meaning, but also carry the luck of this world.
Therefore, the first coin of the three types of copper coins was retained by Zhang Ke.
The birth of currency brought great convenience to the tribesmen.
This measure not only makes the tribe more recognized by the tribe, but also improves the credibility of the tribe.
Some strong sergeants wearing helmets and carrying armor patrolled the market in small groups. Whenever someone had a dispute or started a fight, these sergeants would step forward to stop them.
Originally, there were no sergeants patrolling the market, but there were always some people who thought the transactions were unfair and had disputes.
In recent years, a large number of tribesmen have fought because they were dissatisfied with the transactions. After discussion by the tribe's senior officials, sergeants were deployed in the market to maintain order.
The winter and summer seasons in ‘Mountain and Sea Realm’ are very extreme, with extremely hot summers and extremely cold winters.
This time of year was in the morning, so it wasn't too hot yet. When it passed noon, there were basically no people on the streets.
'Su City' has undergone many repairs in the past thirty years. The ten-foot-high city walls are all made of huge stone barriers, and there are densely packed huge crossbows on the top of the wall.
This is a giant city defense weapon modified by Zhang Ke based on the style of the 'Eight Ox Crossbow' and suitable for use by the humans in this world.
This crossbow machine was entirely made by craftsmen from the Xiawan tribe. Apart from the drawings, Zhang Ke did not provide any assistance.
It can be seen from this that the craftsmen of the Hawan tribe have reached a very high level in creating artifacts.
This world is not a peaceful one, as the mottled bloodstains and various large and small cracks on the city walls fully prove this.
Outside the city is farmland as far as the eye can see, with nearly two hundred villages and towns surrounding Sucheng like satellites.
The 800 villages of the Xiawan tribe are basically distributed in this way, but now the population in the villages has increased dramatically, and there are rumors that the tribe is preparing to open a new city.
In the fields outside the city, people can be vaguely seen working, and from time to time, singing and laughter can be heard.
The sky in July is like a child's face, it changes at will.
One moment the sun was shining brightly, but a moment later a large number of dark clouds quickly gathered in the sky.
Seeing the change in the weather, countless pedestrians rushed to their homes.
The dark clouds gathered unusually fast, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the entire sky was covered by rolling black clouds.
In the clouds, there are faint electric lights flashing one after another, and the dull sound of thunder is like a herd of animals galloping in the fields in autumn.
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Flame Bay City.
On the top of the highest mountain among the five peaks in Hawan, Bu Chan looked up at the sky with his hunched body and frowning eyebrows.
His right hand is holding a long green staff, and the five fingers of his left hand are flexing and stretching to make calculations secretly.
After a while, Bu Chan, whose face was covered with age spots, muttered to himself in a hoarse voice.
"Strange, shouldn't there be wind and rain at this time?"
Thirty years have passed, and this wise man from the Xiawan tribe has reached the point where his oil has run out like a candle that has burned out.
Behind him, two burly tribesmen were accompanying him, and not far away was a palace built specifically for Bu Chan by his tribe.
Since the tribe grew, Bu Chan no longer participated in clan affairs and devoted himself to studying some of the classics given to him by Zhang Ke.
These classics record knowledge about celestial phenomena and changes in the four seasons.
The derivation of the lunar calendar is the result of the joint efforts of Bu Chan and Zhang Ke.
At this time, the changes in the celestial phenomena in the sky were not in line with the laws of nature, and Bu Chan had a bad premonition in his heart.
"Let's go! Take me down the mountain."
Bu Chan gave an order and walked towards Zhongfeng with the support of two tribesmen.
Naturally, he was old and frail and could not walk as fast as he used to. When he arrived at the entrance of Zhongfeng Cave, he happened to see a small figure walking out of the cave.
It’s the Ruyi layman’s attendants!
Bu Chan smiled and greeted Wanxiang.
"Wanxiang, I went to play with the children again..."
Before he finished speaking, Bu Chan felt something was wrong.
Thirty years of getting along will always deepen our understanding of each other. Through questioning, Bu Chan actually already knew that Wanxiang was much older than himself.
But because of Wanxiang's body shape and appearance, and because he likes to play with the children in the tribe, he always subconsciously regards Wanxiang as a child.
Wanxiang is not like Zhang Ke who lives in seclusion and only imparts knowledge in the school. Instead, he does his best to help everyone who asks for help.
From putting out fires and eliminating troubles to helping the tribesmen take care of their children, she never gets tired of it.
Although his dazed state always makes jokes, he is still loved by many tribesmen.
At this moment, Bu Chan saw that everything was no longer in its usual dazed state, and he immediately noticed something strange.
Wanxiang looked up at the endless dark clouds in the sky and said casually:
"The vibrating frequency of the vitality is wrong. It seems like there is a monster causing trouble. I'll go take a look."
As he was about to fly away as he spoke, Bu Chan asked hurriedly:
"Does the layman know about this?"
Wanxiang shook his head and said:
"The master's derivation of skills has reached a critical moment. The cave was completely sealed two years ago, and the inside and outside were isolated. Even I can't see him."
Bu Chan is still aware of this matter. As early as two years ago, Zhang Ke notified Yanhong Silkworm and others to retreat.
Fortunately, Zhang Ke has trained tens of thousands of disciples for the school in the past thirty years, which is enough to promote the normal development of the tribe. Even if he retreats into seclusion, it will not have much impact.
After Wan Xiang finished speaking, he shook his shoulders and turned into a golden red flame and flew up.
Looking at the stream of light disappearing in the sky, Bu Chan's eyes flashed with a hint of envy.
No matter how many times he had seen such a scene, he could not restrain his desire.
'Oh! If only I could learn the art of flying.'
Putting away his scattered thoughts, Bu Chan pondered for a moment, then turned and walked towards the city council hall.
Since Master Ruyi has not come out of seclusion, there is no way he should tell Yan Hongcan and others about this matter.
The meeting hall is located in the center of ‘Yanwan City’.
This hall is three feet high, rectangular in shape, with a flat roof, forty feet long and ten feet wide.
There are sixteen stone pillars standing at the door, and the polished light of the thirty-three white stone steps is discernible.
This is where the Flame Red Silkworm and other tribal leaders discuss important matters, and all the government orders in the tribe come from here.
When Bu Chan came to the door of the meeting hall, a tall and burly guard came over.
This guard was covered in armor, holding a spear in his right hand, a short blade on his left waist, and carrying a huge bow and arrow on his back.
When he came to Bu Chan's side, he clasped his hands and saluted.
"Elder!"
Bu Chan said ‘hmm’.
"Is the patriarch here?"
"The patriarch is here with several leaders."
The guard responded, Bu Chan nodded, and with the help of the two people behind him, he stepped up the steps and entered the meeting hall.
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The wind varies ten miles away, and the rain varies within a hundred miles.
Although there are dark clouds gathering around the 'Flame Bay City', they are only the second largest. However, near the 'Su City', it is already pouring with heavy rain.
All the Xiawan people hid.
Since the beginning of summer, this is already the sixth large-scale rainfall. Although the rainfall is much heavier than the past few times, it has not attracted people's attention.
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The sound of sudden thunder was like countless giants roaring in rage, the lightning flashes were like thunder god waving his long whip, and only blue and white light could be seen bursting out in the sky.
As time went by, the rain not only did not weaken, but intensified.
Too much rain fell too quickly and could not be diverted in time, and some low-lying areas were quickly submerged.
Water gathered on the ground to form depressions, and thousands of currents converged to form pools of water that were submerged above the feet.
The humans in this world are tall. If they were in the blue world, the water level at this moment would be enough to reach their calves.
The name of the Hawan Tribe comes from the lower reaches of the "Water Bay Land", and they originally lived by the river.
This river is named Shuiwan because of its many bends. It is no more than ten feet wide and less than two feet deep. It has nurtured countless creatures along the river.
In the past hundreds of years, there have been heavy summer rains, and although the river water has surged, it has never brought much harm to the tribe.
But things are different today. With the rapid growth of the population of the Hawan tribe and the reclamation of farmland, the tribal gathering areas are continuously extending outward.
Today, there are several villages in Sucheng that are only a few hundred feet away from Shuiwan River.
‘Suicun’ is one of them.
In the village, the stagnant water on the ground mixed with the soil has turned into mud, and the level of this turbid stagnant water is constantly rising.
Seeing this situation through the doors and windows, some tribesmen who reacted quickly felt that something was wrong, and quickly called their families to leave the house and walk to higher ground in the heavy rain.
The human race in this world has been in a dangerous environment all year round and is very sensitive to danger.
Although it was raining heavily outside, there were still many villagers running on the street with their families.
From time to time, you can see people falling in the muddy water, and some families shouting urgently after their families are separated.
Lin Shi carried his father with disabled legs on his back, holding his five-year-old girl with his left hand and running quickly in the rain.
Next to him was his mother, also carrying one on her back and holding the other in her arms.
'Suicun' is very close to 'Shuiwan River', and the terrain in the village is lower in the east and higher in the west. What Lin Shi wants to do now is to send his parents and younger siblings to 'Yanshi Peak' in the west of the village.
'Yanshi Peak' is named after a wild goose resting on this pillar. It is said to be a peak, but in fact it is just a stone pillar. However, this pillar is more than five feet in diameter and more than ten feet high. It is the highest place in the vicinity.
place.
Although the road was muddy, Lin Shi was traveling extremely fast. He had awakened the magical power of earth and was not affected by the slippery road.
'Suicun' is not big, and his residence is not far from the west of the village. It didn't take long to reach the destination.
Lin Shi braved the wind and rain to help his family climb to the top of Yanshi Peak. More than 40 people have already climbed up here.
Lin Shichong greeted a few of them, but saw that everyone was staring in the same direction in a daze, and no one paid attention to him.
He couldn't help but look in the direction of several people, and what he saw made his heart sink.