If a nation wants to truly stand tall among the nations of the world, it needs not only a strong military reserve, but also its own unique culture!
Culture can be passed down from generation to generation. It uses written language as its medium, allowing every generation of a nation to benefit from it!
Written language allows all knowledge to be written on paper and compiled into books, rather than being passed down orally!
Hou Wenjie authored books such as Enlightenment, Metallurgy, Textiles, Soldier's Handbook, Barefoot Doctor's Handbook, and Laws of the Chinese Nation.
These books contain the wisdom of our predecessors, the collective wisdom of many, and the content he himself wrote, combining it with some realities of later generations!
Hou Wenjie ordered people to carve the "Laws and Records of the Xia Dynasty" on a large stone in the tribe.
Let the children who have already learned pinyin read it to everyone in the tribe every day!
He wanted everyone to understand the importance of laws and regulations, and the consequences of violating them!
The Long Serpent Clan enjoyed two months of peace!
The original members of the Deer Antler Clan have naturally integrated into this new tribe!
They wore clothes made of tussah silk, kudzu silk, and hemp silk! These clothes could cover the whole body and looked much prettier than animal skins!
Compared to the days when they only had limited animal skins to cover themselves, they truly felt something warm flowing slowly through their hearts.
They started using iron pots, and they watched as those previously unwanted reddish-brown stones were transformed into this novel and durable cooking utensil!
They learned new cooking methods! Braised dishes and stir-fries!
They were enjoying the delicious food! It turns out that animal organs can also be cooked and eaten!
They learned from the Great Shaman that bamboo shoots from the mountains were edible!
And it tastes pretty good!
Hou Wenjie then ordered people to search for various wild vegetables so that he could carefully identify them in order to cultivate them on a large scale!
He also drew diagrams to help people find plants such as wheat, rice, and cotton! These people were the elite of the tribe!
The iron pot became a treasure for everyone in the tribe!
Hou Wenjie ordered three households to share a single iron pot!
These three households must have originally been a mix of members of the Long Snake Clan and the Deer Horn Clan.
Hou Wenjie knew that only by living and eating together for a long time could the hatred and estrangement between tribes be eliminated!
The "Laws and Records of the Xia Dynasty" ensured that the property of the original deer-antler clan members would not be confiscated without cause!
This also curbed the ulterior motives of some members of the original Serpent Clan!
Hou Wenjie would emphasize at every tribal assembly that the integration of the various Xia states was an inevitable trend, and anyone who tried to obstruct him would be crushed!
Those former prisoners of war now dedicate themselves to their work every day.
Some of them make bricks and tiles, some make cement, some make pottery jars, some make white paper, and some filter and purify salt!
They felt as if they had entered a completely new world!
Those days of eating raw meat and drinking blood are gone forever!
They then realized that houses could be built in this way!
So this is how delicious food is when salt is added!
It turns out that cement floors don't get muddy at all!
Every day after work and after meals, the soldiers on duty from the Long Serpent Clan would talk with them about their thoughts.
Led by the soldiers of the Long Serpent Clan, every former soldier of the Deer Horn Clan had to give a speech reminiscing about the bitter past and appreciating the present!
Under the campfire at night.
The soldiers of the Long Serpent Clan spoke first:
"When the Great Witch Lord was not yet a shaman, my father had his leg bitten off by wild dogs!"
Our family then began to live a life of hunger!
The days of hunger were too hard to bear! Even so, I sharpened my bamboo spear and stepped into the wilderness!
But most of the time, I can't catch my prey!
We could only pick some wild vegetables to fill our stomachs!
Now that the Great Witch Lord has become a shaman, he has received divine revelation! He has brought light to the Long Serpent Clan!
He taught us how to make clothes!
Let's all put on clothes! No more nudity!
He taught us how to make shoes, so that no one would go barefoot anymore!
He told us that the bamboo shoots in the forest were edible, which wild vegetables were edible, and which mushrooms were poisonous!
He also taught us how to make nets for fishing and how to make bamboo baskets for fishing!
Now I can drink fish soup every day! The soup has the salt that Wu Hou mentioned!
The soldier became more and more emotional as he spoke, and by the end, he was in tears.
Even though he says similar things every day, he seems to never get tired of it!
I will always feel the surging fire in my heart!
A former soldier of the Deer Antler Clan spoke up:
"I used to have a very bad life, even though I was strong and good at hunting!"
But Bama is cruel and greedy! He always takes the majority, leaving only the bones and flesh he doesn't want!
He even stole my wife! I want to eat him alive!
My brother also had his wife stolen by him! My poor brother only went to beg him to release his wife, and the brutal Ba Mao chopped off his head!
And now, my wife is back by my side. She weaves cloth, raises livestock, and manages the household chores every day!
Under the tutelage of the shaman, my child learned the knowledge bestowed by the gods!
My child told me about the "Laws and Records of the Chinese Civilization"!
I understand, no one will try to take my wife away from me here anymore!
My child is very smart. He told me that the corrupt antler clan no longer exists, and he is now a member of the Zhuxia people!
My father would help transport coal every day, mainly by whipping the oxcart!
He can also make wooden furniture! He made a rocking chair and enjoys lying on it every day!
Besides the rocking chair, there's also a wooden table and a bed!
Compared to the old thatched hut, this bed feels so much better to sleep in!
My father is much happier than before.
I am overjoyed! Although I am still a servant soldier, my accumulated merits will soon allow me to be promoted to a soldier of the Xia Dynasty!
I will conquer greater territories and more pastures for all the Chinese peoples!
As soon as he finished speaking, the Long Serpent Clan soldiers took the lead in clapping, and the other soldiers followed suit.
Atmosphere can affect people's emotions.
Another former soldier from the Deer Antler Clan spoke up:
“My father is not young anymore. According to the traditions passed down through generations of the Deer Horn Clan, an elder of this age should be responsible for herding livestock!”
However, the barbarians were brutal; they even wanted my father to join the hunting party! In the end, my father was killed by wild wolves, his body mangled beyond recognition!
I know this is just his trick; he has always had a habit of eliminating the elderly!
Now that I am among the various Xia tribes, I understand what the Mandate of Heaven and the virtue of Heaven mean!
Heaven's virtue extends to all people! Even the elderly are cared for!
They can weave nets, fish, grind grain, and make paper!
My child even taught me the Chinese script!
We also got candles! Candles made from fish oil! They allow me to study more at night!
I have already memorized "The Art of War by the Witch Doctor"!
The Witch Lord is the one sent by Heaven to save us!
He imparted knowledge to us, clothed us, and fed us!
We have received a gift from the gods, what more could we ask for!
I am willing to serve as a soldier for the Xia people and assist the Witch Lord in sweeping away the Great Wilderness!
Another soldier continued:
I don't understand that much.
All I know is that my brother was poisoned by mushrooms he ate on the mountain.
But the shaman told us not to pick mushrooms indiscriminately!
They also told us not to drink untreated water, because untreated water contains poison!
Ba Mao said that we are able to hunt because of him. His military power can suppress all sides, so he will take most of all the food!
Even though we saw the food he had piled up rotting and smelling bad, he refused to return it to us.
He said these are the rules, and the rules cannot be broken!
Now, I am in the land of Zhuxia, and the shaman tells us that Zhuxia is the land of every Zhuxia person!
It's not just him who owns all of China!
He is merely a messenger from heaven, and will return to heaven after he has completed his mission!
He only took a very small portion! He told us it was tax!
My son read the book "Taxation System" to me!
In the "Tax System," the shaman swears an oath to the heavens, telling us that the collected resources are not for pleasure, but for the normal operation of the tribe!
Tell me, who wouldn't respect such a wise and enlightened ruler?
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