After resuming normal diplomatic exchanges with the White Stone Tribe, and after more than a month of sitting in China City observing the White Stone Tribe's transactions, Hua Xi's attention also shifted away from the White Stone Tribe, and set his sights on the Southern Alliance and the White Wolf Tribe.
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In more than a month, Hua Xi built a checkpoint on the basis of the Yanshan Observation Tower, and dispatched a squadron of 100 people to garrison there day and night. The squadron was served by a centurion who had followed him on the expedition.
The checkpoint guard is mainly responsible for checking passers-by. Currently, only the caravan of the Baishi tribe passes through the checkpoint.
The breeze gently blew over my face, bringing with it the faint fragrance of earth and spring grass. This season, the breath of spring is still strong.
Hua Xi lay on the grass outside the south gate, closed her eyes, and heard everything in silence. She really felt like she was isolated from the world. She couldn't help but take a deep breath of the air full of spring.
Suddenly, there was a slight and rhythmic vibration on the ground. Hua Xi frowned. Judging from the rhythm of the vibration, it should be a horse galloping in his direction. Before Hua Xi had time to stand up, his rapid hooves
The sound had already come to a halt in front of him, and a voice rang out from the horse: "Clan leader, the envoy of the White Wolf Clan wants to see you! He is now waiting in the palace meeting hall!"
Hearing this voice, Hua Xi knew who it was. He stood up with a smile, lightly patted the dust on his body with his hand, put up a awning to block the sunset sunlight above his head, and looked at the man in front of him who was shouting, his bronze
His face was covered with sweat, and his large sideburns were covering the lower half of his face. Although his eyes were small, they looked capable and brave.
It is the tribe's number one warrior, Hua Xi's bodyguard "Hua Yong"
"Hua Yong, just tell the guards about these things! You are tired, take a sip to relieve your fatigue!" Hua Xi picked up the bronze kettle beside him and threw it towards Hua Yong who had just jumped off the horse.
"Hey, Patriarch, you know I can't stop talking, and I'm not tired of passing on letters! Speaking of which, I'm really a little thirsty!" After Hua Yong finished speaking, he caught Hua Xi and threw the kettle over,
Lift it up and put it into your mouth, then drink it hard
"Haha, wine?" Just after he took a sip, Hua Yong's eyes lit up and he shouted in a much louder voice: "Chief, do you still have this wine? I heard from the people in the winery that because there is not much food,
, so the brewed wine is not much. I didn’t expect you, the patriarch, to secretly come here to drink, hehe!” Having said that, the wine in the pot was quickly poured into his throat.
Hua Xi sighed softly after hearing this.
Since the beginning of spring this year, the natural disaster that I was most afraid of, "flood", occurred. Although the flood has not threatened the survival of the tribe, the impact on the crops in the farmland cannot be ignored. It is precisely because of this that I have not dealt with the affairs of the Baishi tribe.
After that, he immediately set off to the White Wolf Tribe to meet with Aizezi. Floods in the south and drought in the north seem to have been like this since ancient times.
From February to April after the beginning of spring, there has been no long spring rain. The crops have been soaked in knee-deep paddy fields for two months. Hua Xi, Hua'an and the elders in charge of agriculture led the four tribesmen.
Diversion canals were dug below and the riverbeds of the diversion canals were filled with rainwater. Although there was sufficient rainfall, which was a good thing for growing food, things must be reversed. The seedlings that have been soaked in rainwater for a long time will gradually become yellow and rotten. If
If this rainy day continues like this, this year's grain production will definitely be greatly reduced. Although the water diversion channel diverts some rainwater into the Bailong River, and then rushes out to the sea through the river, the continuous rainfall has greatly reduced the role of the water diversion channel.
According to the news reported by the elder Tukan who is in the White Wolf Clan, due to the long-term rainfall in the White Wolf Clan, the probability of catching prey has been greatly reduced, and the danger has also increased a lot, including starving to death and accidentally falling while hunting.
There are seventy or eighty corpses in the mountain stream that are very easy to rot under the wash of rain. Fortunately, the White Wolf tribe learned from the Chinese tribes about cremation and sprinkling the corpses with lime, which effectively prevented the occurrence of the plague, but other tribes were far from white.
The wolf tribe has such a good environment. There are rotten corpses everywhere and crows flying in the sky, pecking at carrion for a living.
Under this situation, both the Chinese tribes and the various tribes in the alliance are facing an embarrassing and difficult situation. It is precisely because of this waterlogging disaster, which is neither big nor small, that the alliance's undercurrent situation has undergone an imperceptible change.
No matter which tribe you belong to, the value of food has suddenly increased by 50% to 80%, and with the seriousness of waterlogging, it continues to rise (in terms of price, except for Zhonghua, Baishi, Bailang and several other tribes with China
Only tribes with intensive trade) and as the only tribe that grows high-yielding foods such as rice, corn, and potatoes, caravans rushing to buy food can be seen at the entrance of China City almost every few days.
The purpose of the caravans coming to China Town is very similar. First, they are rushing to buy food. Although the price is three or four times that before the flood, people's lives are at stake, so you have to buy food even if it is expensive. Those who can afford to buy food now are the ones who come and go.
They can buy the large tribes back and exchange them with other tribes to squeeze out more value; secondly, they hope that Hua Xi will relax the threshold of food, lower the price of food and increase the quantity sold.
The flood disaster was not only reflected in the transaction, but even Ai Zezi, who was ready to make a move, had to focus on controlling the flood. Among the White Wolf tribe, Ai Zezi was not the only one who put all their efforts into controlling the flood situation. There were several others.
The elders who have the support of the tribe have shifted their energy from fighting with the chief elder to controlling the flood situation. Everyone knows that whoever leads the tribe to defeat the wrath of the water god will be able to soar in prestige in the tribe. At that time, among the tribe leaders,
Position is also within easy reach
"Let's go see the envoy of the White Wolf tribe?" Hua Xi stood up, picked up the simple knife on the ground, put it on his body, and continued: "Does this wine taste good? If there is more food in the future, I can do it if I have time.
Make more mellow wine”
Hua Yong seemed not to have heard, still holding up the jug and drinking heavily and watching Hua Yong greedily swallowing. Hua Xi really felt a little bit hurt by the jug of fruit, wine and meat, and hurriedly shouted: "Hua Yong, leave it for me."
Be careful! Otherwise, when I brew new wine, you won’t be able to enjoy it!"
After hearing this, Hua Yong reluctantly returned the almost empty wine bottle to me, and breathed out a breath of alcohol: "Um... Chief, let's go back to see the envoy of the White Wolf tribe now to see what they are doing.
Trick!”
Hua Xi jumped on the horse and couldn't help laughing loudly when she heard his words: "Haha... you, you! Let's go..."
Hua Yong laughed awkwardly a few times, cheered happily, got on his horse neatly, laughed and raised his whip. The horse felt pain, hissed, and ran towards the south gate. Naturally, Hua Xi was not to be outdone, and his legs
With a pinch on the horse's belly and a whip with his right hand, he galloped the horse in pursuit.
After entering the meeting hall, Hua Xi discovered that it was not just the envoys from the White Wolf tribe who came to see him. Almost every large and medium-sized tribe sent envoys to come. At the same time, so many people from different tribes came to the Chinese tribe.
, no one believes this is a coincidence, but coming together is not necessarily a bad thing.
On the fifteenth day after Hua Xi received the envoys from the tribes of the alliance, a small point on the coast of the Asian continent created the pioneer of water drainage and canals in this era.
In the fourth year of the Chinese calendar, May 3rd of the lunar calendar is destined to be a day that will be forever recorded in history.
The Chinese tribe, the tribes of the entire Southern Alliance, and some small tribes near the alliance joined forces to fight against floods. According to the strength level of each tribe, a certain proportion of manpower was allocated to dig ditches for their own tribes and change the flow direction of the water in some low-lying areas.
Then jointly collect the accumulated water in large canals, or artificial rivers, into the Bailong River, and then allow uncalculated floods to flow into the sea, thereby achieving the purpose of flood control and flood relief.
Although each tribe united out of their own interests to resist the wrath of the Water God; although the area covered by the entire alliance was only within a hundred kilometers; although, during the operation, something happened
Many bloody conflicts and casualties...
Archaeologists discovered in 2010 that before Dayu controlled the floods, there was a group of people on the southern coast of China who knew how to dredge and divert water earlier than Dayu. Although they were not comparable to Dayu in terms of time and scale,
But what is worthy of recognition is that this group of people knew how to make bronzes earlier than Dayu's clan tribe, and they were better than Dayu in terms of efficiency and effect.
Later generations also left many doubts and controversies, that is, these barbarians on the southern coast and Dayu. How difficult were they to control the floods? Did they support Dayu, and did they support the southern barbarians? What the southern barbarians managed was not the surging Yangtze River or the water of the Yellow River.
, there are countless topics like what happened to Dayu!
Regardless of the controversy, this two-year campaign to control floods by the ancestors of the southern barbarians has been recorded in the annals of history by historians and archaeologists and will be remembered for generations to come!