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"If Chief Xuan is willing, then of course it's okay. I think this is great. You Jiang Clan can become more powerful in this way, and it can also improve the living standards of the tribe members. Isn't this good?" You Fu spread his hands and said, giving people the feeling that this is just his suggestion. He did not force You Jiang Clan to join, and his attitude was still very polite.
"What if we don't join, what are you going to do with the Han tribe?" Xuan asked calmly but not at all timid.
"Not very good, whether you join or not is voluntary, the Han tribe will not force others to join, you know, that will not be good for our Han tribe, such tribe members are not conducive to the unity of the tribe.
And no matter what, we will be friends in the future. If you need any help, you can ask the Han tribe for help. We can also do some transactions between our two tribes and exchange what we need. Don't you think I think you must be in great need of the Han tribe's farm tools." You Fu explained again with an indifferent attitude, indicating that he did not intend to use force on You Jiang Clan.
Xuan didn't say anything, but nodded slightly, acknowledging Youfu's statement. From the simple demonstration just now, he knew that the Han tribe had more efficient and labor-saving agricultural tools, which was a major issue related to the living conditions of the Jiang family. Xuan really wanted to exchange some from the Han tribe, but it was limited to equal exchanges. He had no intention of joining the Han tribe, because the Jiang family had their own cultural heritage, and it was impossible for them to abandon their ancestral heritage and join the Han tribe.
"Then why don't you send a few people to visit our Han tribe, just as a visit, maybe you can learn something useful, and we must do a deal, you can just go and see what you need and what to exchange, and then you can talk to our leader." Seeing that Xuan didn't answer, Youfu had to invite him again.
"Let me think about this first."
"That's perfect. There's no rush anyway. You still need more than a month to harvest the grain. Just make a decision after harvesting the grain. This way, it won't delay your farming."
You Fu waved his hand and said, and didn't continue to urge Xuan to make a decision. The Jiang clan was a large tribe with a population of more than 2,000. It couldn't be arranged casually. When the Han tribe got along with such a tribe, it was better not to bully people. It was better to conquer them peacefully. If they really wanted to conquer them by force, the Han tribe would only need to send a few hundred warriors to kill them completely, but if they wanted to capture them alive, they would not be able to do it without thousands of people. It was not enough to even form an encirclement. This was a huge burden for the Han tribe.
Next, Yong explained to You Fu and the others the precautions for planting corn and the impact of various climates on grain. These were all experiences passed down from generation to generation by the Jiang clan. You Fu and the others also talked about some scientific farming techniques of the Han tribe, especially many novel concepts, which were the first time the Jiang clan heard of them. This would change their inherent ideas about agriculture and bring about huge changes.
After the two sides discussed the farming for a while, they returned to the tribe's residence. Everyone was busy with their own things. Yong began to try to make a plow, and his sister started the hard work of pounding rice. Youfu found a place to write today's diary, and his nephew Youzhi came to Yong's sister.
"You are too tired, and the rice you pound is not enough. Why don't you change a tool?" Youzhi gestured beside him.
Yong's sister Lei didn't understand what he said. She only saw that this young man named Youzhi didn't let her work. If she didn't pound today's rice, what would she eat in the evening? Would she have to eat the rice they brought?
Lei just smiled, but didn't stop the work in her hands. This made Youzhi scratch his hair, so he ran to find Youfu and asked some questions.
"It doesn't matter, make it for them. Anyway, it's not an important secret technology. This thing is like a plow, just haven't seen it before. Once you have seen it, you can quickly figure out the key points. Go and make it, it's okay." Youfu thought about it and said to his nephew.
You Zhi got the permission from his uncle and started to work with the tools he had. He first found Yong and asked him to prepare some materials for him. He also learned from him. After the Han tribe left, Yong could make a treadmill according to this method and promote it. What
You Zhi wanted to make was a common treadmill in the Han tribe, a tool that was like a seesaw and was used to pound rice by stepping on it. However, the tools were limited. He only had an ordnance shovel, a short knife and a waist knife. He didn't have any professional woodworking tools. Therefore, due to the conditions, they could only make the simplest one.
Fortunately, this thing was not difficult. Yong first found a thick wooden stick that was not very thick, but relatively symmetrical and straight. You Zhi first cut a flat surface on one end with an ordnance shovel as a pedal, then punched a hole in the middle and back part, and passed a solid wooden stick as thick as an arm through it as the fulcrum.
Yong was not idle either. He prepared a wooden frame according to You Zhi's instructions and placed it at the back of the fulcrum. This was used for the people who stepped on the stone to hold on to, to prevent them from losing their balance and falling.
The hammer and mortar were simplified due to the limitations of the conditions. The mortar was replaced with a semi-buried pottery jar, and the stone hammer was replaced with a wooden hammer. But even with such a simple tool, everyone in the Jiang family was full of interest in it.
Lei was the first to learn how to use the tread under You Zhi's guidance. She was very happy. Compared with the wooden hammer she used before, this thing was much easier, and the efficiency was not only not reduced, but increased.
Yong was also full of emotion. There were so many good things in the Han tribe. They had never seen any of them. The key was that these things were very easy to use, saving effort and high efficiency.
The leader Xuan on the other side did not celebrate the birth of the treading pestle like their tribesmen, but stood quietly behind Youfu, watching him write quietly. Even though he could not understand anything, he did not ask questions, but tried to decipher these different symbols by himself, because he found that these symbols were very much like pictures with symbolic meanings. Even if it was the first time he saw this thing, Xuan was sure that he could recognize some Chinese characters. Maybe he didn't know how to read the word, but he could guess the meaning of some words.
For example, the word "sheep" was like an animal skeleton with two horns on its head, a spine running through the head and tail, and symmetrical ribs on both sides. Although he couldn't pronounce it, Xuan guessed that this symbol represented an animal with two horns on its head. In addition, one of the coins that Youfu showed him just now was a saiga antelope with two horns. Now he knew what the symbol represented without asking.
"Who created this symbol? Is it inherited from the ancestors of your Han tribe?"
Xuan's question was very tricky. He didn't panic like the Rat Witch did when he first saw Chinese characters and kept asking Luo Chong what they were. Instead, he guessed the function of these symbols and asked directly who created them and whether they were inherited from the ancestors of the Han tribe.
This really stumped You Fu. What should he say? Should he just say that it was created by the leader and there was no ancestral inheritance at all? That would definitely affect the image of the tribe.
"This is what our leader taught us. I was not a member of the Han tribe at first, but I joined the Han tribe a few years ago and brought all my tribe members to join the Han tribe. At that time, the Han tribe already had these Chinese characters. I learned them later and don't know who created or passed them down, but I am sure that the leader of our Han tribe knows the most characters. He can write all the characters, and he taught us these characters."
You Fu thought for a while and said, this is a way to avoid the problem, but what he said is not wrong. Before the You tribe joined the Han tribe, the Han tribe already had Chinese characters. How could he know where these characters came from?
"Oh——"
Xuan made a long "oh" sound, thinking in his heart. According to You Fu's statement, the Han tribe must have inherited from their ancestors, and it is still a very advanced one. This can be seen from the advanced farming and manufacturing technology of the Han tribe. There is no reason why so much advanced knowledge suddenly appeared all of a sudden, so the Han tribe must have inherited it.
However, due to Youfu's misleading, this guy's own imagination was indeed wrong. The reason why the Han tribe was so powerful was entirely because of the technology brought by the leader alone. There was no inheritance. Even if there was inheritance, it was fed back from another time and space.
"Joined the Han tribe a few years ago?! Is this true? Then why did you join the Han tribe in the first place? Did the Han tribe force you?"
Yong on the side suddenly asked. His focus was not on the same channel as his own leader. He only cared about why Youfu joined the Han tribe.
"I wasn't forced to join. I joined voluntarily after seeing how powerful the Han tribe was. At that time, there weren't many people in the Han tribe, not as many as you. There were only a few hundred people, but they were very rich. They had endless meat and food, as well as wooden boats and ox carts. Their ox carts, in particular, were very important to our You tribe.
I was originally the leader of the You tribe. At that time, there were less than a hundred people in our You tribe. We had no fixed place to live and survived by hunting and trading goods with other tribes. So we were very yearning for a means of transportation like ox carts. In addition, the daily hustle and bustle was very hard, so the women and children in our tribe didn't live very well. But the Han tribe was very stable. At the beginning, we just left the women and children in the Han tribe when we went out, so that they could take care of us and work with us. Later, the Han leader invited us, and I thought that since we were already living together, there was nothing wrong with joining them, so I joined the Han tribe."
You Fu squinted at the sky and said with a deep reminiscence. He himself was also emotional. He had been a member of the Han tribe for several years without realizing it.
"Only a few hundred people a few years ago? How many people are there in your Han tribe now? There should be more people than our tribe, right?" Yong continued to ask in surprise. He didn't expect that the Han tribe had only developed in recent years. He thought that the reason why the Han tribe was so powerful was that it accumulated from generation to generation, just like their Jiang family.
"There are about 80,000 or 90,000. I don't care about these things usually. Haha, I'm just a person who can't stay still. I can't be a county governor, so I'm not interested in these local management matters."
You Fu smiled bitterly and said. In theory, he was one of the elders who joined the Han tribe in the early days, but he didn't get a high official like a county governor. He has been running around all the time, but he doesn't regret it. He likes this kind of life. Besides, it's not like he can't contribute to the Han tribe. Just like the previous few times he went to the grassland to trade, he led the caravan to bring back so many cattle and horses from the grassland, so that the tribesmen had more animal power to use. Although he didn't have an official position, the tribesmen still respected him very much.
"80,000 or 90,000? How much is that?" Yong continued to ask.
"Well, probably, there are more than 30 tribes like yours. I think there will definitely be more next year." You Fu calculated and said.
Xuan and Yong almost vomited blood. More than 30 people are as many as Jiang's. Do you know how many people there are in Jiang's family? At least 2,500 people. How can people believe that you have more than 30 people as big as Jiang's family?
"So many people, living together? How big a field would be needed to feed so many people?" Xuan was the first to question.
"No, that's not it. We have many settlements in the Han tribe. Everyone lives separately. Each settlement will be managed by a group of officials, but these places must obey the orders of the leader." You Fu explained again.
"Many settlements? Can they be managed?" Xuan continued to ask.
"We can manage them. Although they are all separated, they are not far away. The nearest settlements can be reached in one meal's time by boat. The farthest place needs ten days' walk, but it can be reached in one day by horse.
There are about one or two settlements slightly larger than your Jiang's. We have four or five. We have two settlements as large as five. We have one settlement as large as ten. Well, that's all for now." You Fu counted on his fingers.
Xuan and Yong heard that, adding up these and those, there are really more than 30 settlements as large as Jiang's. If compared like this, Jiang's is really nothing to the Han tribe. There are so many people in the Han tribe, and it is estimated that the number of new babies added each year is more than the total population of their entire tribe.
More importantly, the distribution of settlements in the Han tribe, although there are many settlements, they are not far apart. Even if something happens, they can provide quick support. It also solves the problem of over-concentration of population and inconvenience of farming. Xuan has already felt this.
With the Jiang family's stable life and sufficient food, the population is also increasing steadily, with more than a hundred babies born every year. With the increase in population, the cultivated land area must be expanded, but the tribe's residence has not changed. If the tribe members want to work in the fields, they can't walk for half a day. If they spend all the time walking back and forth, they don't have to do farm work.
"There is still a lot to learn from the Han tribe." Xuan sighed in his heart.
(End of this chapter)
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