This pattern of separating heaven, earth and man is an option after the expansion of secular power, and sometimes this method may be a strange circle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the separation, some ethnic groups chose to suppress religion all the time, and some ethnic groups were reluctantly seized power by religion after the emergence of religion, and finally repeated the religious reform that had been completed once in the era of ignorance; Some of them continue after the precocious completion of the reform in the mythological era, omitting this step of reincarnation.

The separation of heaven, earth and man does not mean that there will be no more sacrifices, because that does not conform to the way of thinking of the long-standing semi-barbaric era.

However, the chief's monopoly of divine power by formalizing and sacralizing sacrifices can prevent this irrational way of sacrifice from consuming the power of the group, and there are various excuses to complete the unification of the group.

In any case, this is a kind of progress, and it also declares that the dissolution of the clan era of the southern ethnic groups and the natural development of the ethnic groups are very likely to form a formal civilization.

From the only purpose of war in the clan era was blood hatred, to today's various reasons and excuses, it undoubtedly proves that war has become profitable, and the management level of those in power is gradually having the ability to rule a country in its rudiments.

This is exactly what Chen Jian is worried about, at this time, the tribes of the Great River, the Dongyi tribes, and the ethnic groups on the south bank of the Great River are all likely to develop independent civilizations.

The longer it drags on, the more troublesome this integration becomes, and it may take hundreds or even millennia to complete the complete annexation and digestion.

And the best way to let civilization have only one voice is to send it back to the era of clans before it takes shape, and not allow it to have a unified state prototype. Either they will be bloodily assimilated, or they will be driven out of the valley plains that are most suitable for the development of civilization, and they will lose the opportunity to develop a strong civilization.

In today's backward state of productive forces, a war that lasts for three or five years is enough to declare the complete defeat of a race. And the Great River Tribes have the technical advantage provided by Chen Jian, and it will take decades of recuperation after the defeat of three or five years, but these decades are likely to be a fatal period of time.

History is cruel, and many clans have completely disappeared without even leaving their names. In this era, in this bad environment, Chen Jian's ethnic group has a great advantage: they all look similar, there is no difference in culture, and the languages are different but belong to the same language family. In the long run, colonization, cultural invasion, and the use of force to destroy the last possible unified cities of the other side will be sufficient.

A generation has something to do with a generation, a generation has a way to do with a generation, and the matter of assimilation is handed over to future generations, and it will take a long time to dilute how to choose.

And what he has to do now is only to defeat Dongyi and cross the great river south after nominal reunification, so that the ethnic groups in the south will lose the chance of reunification.

So he was desperate to know how that race was going, so he had to speed things up.

He gathered everyone together, not to prepare for war now, and the threat was less than that of the Dongyi group, after all, it was still far away.

Before he was about to go to Sucheng to become the high priest of the tribes, he needed to arrange all kinds of things after leaving the city, prepare some gifts to show the strength of the city at any cost, and let these managers of the Xia Kingdom know something.

The world is very large, and in addition to the known civilizations nearby, there may be such races in further afield, giving them an open eye to the world that is bigger than before.

When everyone arrived, Jian Chen asked the man who had come back from the south to tell with his own eyes about a world that sounded strange to everyone.

The man who came back waited until everyone had quieted down, and then slowly told him what he had seen and heard along the way.

"After crossing the great river, there are still cities of all the great rivers within three or five hundred miles. Further south over some mountains, about five or six hundred miles there will be the cities of the southern tribes. The place near the cities of the Great River is somewhat similar to ours, but not quite the same. ”

"We followed those people from the first city and walked southeast for more than twenty days, and finally came to the largest city of their tribe."

"The city is built on the mountain, and there is a large ze nearby, and there are fierce beasts in the great ze, and the leather armor is hard, the teeth are like knives, and the tail is swaying like a fish, but there are four legs, and the strength is infinite, and the ox can be dragged into the river in one bite. There are clans and towns dedicated to this beast sacrifice, and there are also clans that peel the skin to make armor. ”

"The cattle there are also different from the cattle we have here, the hair here is yellow, while the cattle there have black hair, strong bodies, long and curved horns, and they like to swim."

"There were no horses there, but there were wild beasts much larger than cattle and horses, with very long teeth, huge bodies several times the size of oxen, ears like cattails, and occasionally tame to pack animals, or to take out teeth for ritual vessels."

"The people there grow a kind of rice, which is as crystal as jade, and the grain of rice is much larger than corn, and the color is like snow."

"They have copper and stone, all kinds of farming tools, but they don't have a sickle, and when they are ripe, they produce seedlings and ears, which are similar to how we handle corn and mash them with stone mortars. They called their mother's brother the same stone mortar they used to pound rice, and I heard that in the clan era, like us, they knew their mother but not their father, and that things like rice were done by their mother's brother. ”

"They can build boats, they are good at fishing, they catch more fish than we do, and they can build nets."

"They also have clothes, but because the weather is hot and humid, they often bare their tops, and they like to smear their naked tops with ochre."

"The thing they used to weave cloth and release thread was not hemp, but a strange thing, something that Ji Xia asked me to find. It does not grow on trees, but it is the same as grass, about one person tall, and after flowering, it bears fruit, and the fruit is like a white cloud, and it looks like a flower from afar, which they call cotton. ”

"Their method of spinning cotton is similar to ours before, they all have pottery spinning wheels, but the woven cloth is worse than ours, not as fine as ours. That kind of cloth is more comfortable to the touch than our linen, but when it is hot, our linen is more suitable for them. ”

"They also squeeze oil, it is from cottonseeds, but it is not used for stir-frying, they don't have iron pots, they don't have copper, they use it to light oil lamps, and the black smoke is very big."

"By the way, copper...... Their bronze work is good, and there is a large copper mountain near the largest city, which is why the city was built there. They will also use wax to make molds, and they will also use clay. ”

"They would dig wells because there were so many swamps that a lot of them had undrinkable water. But they don't dig the well in the same way as we do. ”

"They also have pottery, which doesn't look like ours, and it's much better than other cities, but it's much better than acorn burning."

"They also have rakes, but most of them are bone, and some are stone, and some are copper, but they are rare."

"They don't have a written word yet, but the words of the ministries are pretty much the same."

"Their house is not the same as ours, the walls are not thick because it is not cold in winter. The houses in the castle also have solid foundations, but the clay on them is hard to keep out moisture. ”

"The houses outside the city were about a man's height above the ground, supported by pillars, and covered with planks and thatch, with gaps between the planks. There are animals such as pigs and dogs under the planks, and there are also some birds that cannot fly. ”

"Their level of woodmaking is very high, similar to ours, the tenon is very good, and if it is not good, you can't use wooden railings to make a house that is higher than the ground."

"They also have workshops, and a lot of slaves, a lot of slaves are used for farming. Others were former clan relatives or priests who had violated the rules of casual sacrifice. ”

"They have a lot more mosquitoes and snakes there than we do here, so they are both scared and hated, and every year in May and June, they collect a lot of strange-smelling artemisia grass and hang it in the house or dry it to repel mosquitoes like us."

"We met the chief of their tribes in the largest city, and gave us gifts such as iron and gunpowder, and he was very happy, and asked us many things, and agreed to exchange seeds and cotton for iron and the like."

"Their chieftain, who was well versed in the calendar, had several pillars of fine wood in the very center of the city, and stood at a certain point with the mountains to the east, and through the different pillars in the four seasons the shadows of the rising sun shone through."

"They think we are about May as the beginning of the year. Their counts are the same as ours and the Dongyi people, and they are also ten or ten. ”

"It is probably because their houses are built on wooden balustrades, and they believe that there are several logs between heaven and earth, and that they are the kind of wood that the chiefs used to observe the sunrise. This kind of wood is rare, and it is said that it is only found on the mountains where the heavens and the earth can be communicated in the midst of the great wilderness designated by the chief. They believe that climbing this kind of tree on those great barren mountains can climb to the sky, and many people go to look for it, but in recent years, the leader has not allowed it, saying that he has communicated with heaven and earth, and the distance between heaven and earth has widened, and only a special sacred tree can climb to the sky, and other trees will not work. ”

"The leader is very rich, but also very wise, for a few years no one will sacrifice at will, the leader personally led the sacrifice, and led the tribe to plant, these years the tribe is very rich, and there is no flood for the time being, there are many fish and shrimp."

"Women like to wear shells, but they don't have money, so they basically exchange them with each other. There are already rich and poor, and the children born have fathers' names, not their mothers. The chief led the people to farm, fish, build ships, etc., and already had private fields cultivated by slaves. ”

"They don't have ge, but they do have spears, but they rarely use spears, they all use some bronze swords, stone axes, etc., because spears are not good to be used in places where there are many rivers, right?"

"They don't have a car, and they don't have a chariot."

"They have bows and arrows, but their archery skills may be similar to those of our Xia City people, and they don't shoot very far. But they have a poisonous weed or a snake centipede or something like poison smeared on the arrows, which can easily shoot people. ”

"Their soldiers are much better at climbing trees than we are, they are very fast at climbing, they can swim, they can hold boats, they have simple armor made of buffalo hide, and they are used to wearing horns. Oh, by the way, there's another kind of cow, which is not small, but has only one horn, but it cannot be domesticated. ”

"They are no longer the custom of the clan era as a rule, but they have more or less the same rules as us, and there are five kinds of physical criminal laws, and there is a terrible punishment for throwing people into the swamp to feed the beasts, or tying people to the woods and waiting for all kinds of insects to suck the blood dry."