Chapter 387 Corporal Punishment
The Fire Tribe began to develop quietly in Fire City. After several months, no one from the Sword Tribe came to inquire about the situation of their delegation.
This made the Fire Tribe alert for a time. The eighth-generation witch asked the Wolf Tribe to expand the search range of the scouts, but no trace of the enemy was found.
"They won't come. Maybe this is just his way to completely eliminate me."
The old leader of the Sword Tribe finally sighed like this. The "he" in the old leader's mouth refers to the new leader of the Sword Tribe who defeated him to take the position.
Whether this is the reason or not, the Fire Tribe cannot find out, but through the exploration of the surrounding small and medium-sized tribes, the eighth-generation witch gradually figured out the arrangement of the Sword Tribe.
These small and medium-sized tribes are more or less connected to the Sword Tribe. They are stationed here to monitor the Fire Tribe and to serve as the first line of defense for the Fire Tribe to move south.
"The leader of the Sword Tribe is very smart."
Yue Tuteng commented on the leader of the Sword Tribe because he used a knife to kill people to eliminate the old leader's influence in the Sword Tribe, and because of his use of these small and medium-sized tribes.
These small and medium-sized tribes will surrender and let the Fire Tribe deal with them as long as they are targeted by the Fire Tribe. However, if the Fire Tribe leaves them where they are, they will secretly collude with the Sword Tribe, and have the character of being a fence-sitter.
When the Fire Tribe strictly controls these small and medium-sized tribes, the Fire Tribe will find that the small and medium-sized tribes in the outer circle will be infiltrated immediately, playing a role of monitoring and prevention.
The Sword Tribe relied on their familiarity with this land and the prestige they had established early on to completely blind the Fire Tribe on this land.
The witches and the leader had a tense discussion for a while, but Diwu Xuan did not participate. In his opinion, this was not a serious matter.
The Sword Tribe had already lost because they did not dare to attack.
You must know that the leader of the Fire Tribe was not there at this time, and many warriors were outside. Under such circumstances, the Sword Tribe was still timid and did not dare to fight. It was obvious that this was an overly rational guy.
Looking at the way he treated the old leader of his tribe, it was obvious that he was a guy who was good at using conspiracy and tricks.
In this era, all conspiracies and tricks would be torn apart and crushed by barbarism, and the Fire Tribe had such barbaric strength.
Although the Fire Tribe has few people, if the Sword Tribe really dares to pull them over for a fight, we can't say that we can wipe out all the enemies, but at least we can hold out.
As long as they can hold out and survive, it will only be a matter of time before the leader comes back to expand outward.
After considering all aspects, the Fifth Xuan finally focused on internal excavation, that is, cultural education.
Except for the warriors who went out hunting, all the rest of the people had to participate in cultural education. For this reason, the Fifth Xuan specially cleared a large area on the east side of the altar and established what may be the first school in the world: the Fire Tribe Alliance Academy.
There is currently only one course in the school: literacy.
Let these guys with strong muscles and rough hands learn to read, which is like nailing a nail in their heads. After knowing this, the Fifth Xuan finally understood why the inheritance of witches must be identified.
A witch can vaguely sense a person's mental strength, and the level of mental strength is basically proportional to intelligence.
Although Diwu Xuan felt it was difficult to educate these witches, he did not feel hopeless. He even felt that the performance of these guys exceeded his imagination.
After all, this is a primitive society, so don't have too high expectations for primitive people.
But when these tribesmen began to learn, Diwu Xuan thoroughly understood the stupidity of primitive people.
At the beginning, he was still patient enough to ask the witches and literate people in charge of teaching to slow down the course, but gradually Diwu Xuan found that the stupidity of these guys really exceeded his imagination.
So Diwu Xuan began to change his strategy. For these stupid primitive people, Diwu Xuan used a rather primitive method: corporal punishment.
Teach a few words every day, and if you forget a few words the next day, you will be beaten for the corresponding number of words. For the convenience of calculation, you will be beaten 100 times for forgetting one word, 200 times for forgetting two words, and so on.
At first, Diwu Xuan thought that the punishment should be carried out by the teacher, which would help establish the teacher's authority, but the next day he found that his idea was too naive.
Among more than 3,000 students, only three people remembered all these words.
"Let them go home, bring weapons back, and then fight each other."
Diwu Xuan had to give up his original idea and let these guys hit each other in the square.
More than 3,000 people hitting each other in the square was still a spectacular scene, but Diwu Xuan saw someone in the team laughing.
He was completely furious. This was contempt for knowledge and contempt for the punisher, so he carefully observed to see if anyone was lazy and not doing their best.
However, he lost again this time. Everyone was beating the tribesman on the opposite side with all their strength, but the side being beaten was screaming in pain, with a smile on the face.
They were afraid of pain, but they were more afraid of learning. Being beaten could help them avoid learning, so for them, it was: pain and happiness.
The Fifth Xuan was in great pain. This was the highest level of ignorance and stupidity he could understand. In the end, the Fifth Xuan had no choice but to let the Tapir Shaman take charge of this matter. He was afraid that he would keep paying attention and get angry.
As a result, within three days, the teaching led by the Tapir Shaman had undergone a great change.
When Diwu Xuan couldn't help but go to the academy to observe, he found that these guys wanted to stick their heads into the animal skins in their hands, watching and learning seriously.
He even saw a sturdy warrior pulling out his leg hair to motivate himself who was always in trouble.
Diwu Xuan was quite curious about the methods of the Tapir Witch, but he was embarrassed to ask, so he chose to get the result through observation.
That night, the Tapir Witch chose the exam. She moved the exam time from morning to evening. There was nothing special about this. The problem was the way the papers were graded after the exam.
Unlike before, countless teachers did not go down to check one by one, but they came to the bonfire in the square and handed over the animal skins for the exam one by one.
There were some tribesmen who were responsible for cooking around the teacher, and each candidate received food according to his or her performance.
"Use hunger?"
Diwu Xuan's eyes lit up, and he was amazed by the method of the tapir witch.
If we were to ask what was the most important thing for primitive people, the first thing that came to mind was food.
For the sake of food, these unlearning savages worked hard to become stronger. Diwu Xuan even saw that the guy who plucked his leg hair to refresh himself during the day actually achieved very good results.
He did not cheer wantonly, but with tears in his eyes, he took the fish soup offered by the tribesman next to him, and drank it down with a gulp, regardless of the boiling soup.
"He looks like he hasn't eaten for a day."
Yue Tuteng had a look of disgust on her face. After Diwu Xuan talked about some etiquette, she began to dislike this kind of crude guy.
"He should really have not eaten for a day."
Niu Tuteng's voice was quite bitter. Diwu Xuan looked over in confusion, and saw that Niu Tuteng's eyes were filled with reluctance, and he was staring at a corner of the square.
Diwu Xuan looked over and saw that the people gathered there were members of the Bull Totem tribe. Not all of them participated in the study. After all, with their stupid brains, Diwu Xuan was afraid that he would be mad at them, so he only selected some smart ones.
However, the facts proved that these so-called smart ones were too stupid. They sat there with bitter faces, without even a stone bowl in their hands, and their animal skin test papers had been handed in.
This proved that not only did none of them who participated in the exam pass, but none of them could even get a bite of meat.
You know, even if you write just one word correctly, you can get a bite of fish meat. These guys actually...
"If you think the people of the Bull Tribe don't need to learn... or let them progress a little slower..."
Diwu Xuan was thinking about how to say it so as not to hurt the Bull Totem's fragile heart, but he saw that this guy was hardened and shook his head vigorously.
"They have several stomachs, so they should be able to last longer."
Diwu Xuan looked at the Bull Totem who looked determined, and really couldn't bear to tell him that the more stomachs, the faster the digestion.
But since he dared to make the decision, Diwu Xuan naturally had no opinion. Educating children is still a matter of being ruthless.
The tapir witch found the secret of education, and the study of the Fire Tribe Alliance was on the right track. Diwu Xuan found through observation that some of the tribesmen who studied would have extra meals after returning home, so he asked the eighth generation witch to take away all the private fish.
This was of course a violation of the principle, but for the culture of the Fire Tribe, Diwu Xuan was quite decisive.
If they can't read, it will be more difficult to make them abide by the law.
In this way, under the leadership of the tapir witch, the Fire Tribe Alliance Academy was on the right track, and the Hammer Totem who witnessed all this was very envious.
He wanted to promote this system in his own tribe, but there were only a limited number of people in his tribe who could read, so it was almost impossible to do so.
Even in the Fire Tribe, the maximum number of people who could be taught at one time was about 3,000, because there were only about 30 literate people who could be teachers, and one person teaching 100 was already the limit.
In the end, the Hammer Totem made up his mind and selected 500 people from the tribe, letting them cross mountains and ridges to come to the Fire City to receive the "higher education" here.
The Fifth Xuan was very supportive of the Hammer Totem, because he knew that these international students who came from afar would become closer to the Fire Tribe after studying there, which would in turn affect the relationship between the Hammer Tribe and the Fire Tribe.
With the support of the Fifth Xuan, the Hammer Totem became even bolder and temporarily added another 300 people.
The Fifth Xuan naturally accepted all of them with a smile, and said that he would give them priority in education - after all, they were one year younger than the others.
During this education process, Diwuxuan discovered through observation that female primitives, who were not good at fighting and physical fitness, were generally better than male primitives in learning characters.
This phenomenon was not only discovered by Diwuxuan, but also by Yuetu Totem. She even used this as an argument, believing that women should be the real masters.
Diwuxuan of course ignored this. Primitive tribes all worship power. It is not a good idea to rely on brains to make female primitives turn over.
What Diwuxuan tried to do was just equality.