Chapter 223 There is no regret medicine in the world
Then, Jiang Xuan looked at Chishao and nodded to her.
Chishao took a step forward and said in a calm voice: "On behalf of Teng Shen, I sentence you to death. Law Enforcement Hall, prepare for the execution!"
The strong warriors standing on both sides who were responsible for the execution immediately held bronze heavy swords, walked behind the first batch of prisoners, pushed them to the ground, and then stepped on their backs with their feet to prevent them from getting up.
Then, these warriors raised their bronze heavy swords at the same time. Under the sunlight, the bronze heavy swords gleamed with cold light.
Bai Zhu shouted loudly: "Behead!"
“Puff, puff, puff…”
All the bronze heavy swords fell at the same time, blood gushed out on the ground, heads rolled everywhere, and the scene was extremely terrifying.
"good!"
"Well done!"
The members of the Teng tribe were not afraid at all. Instead, they cheered. They had no sympathy for these defectors, only hatred.
With repeated swings of the sword, all the defectors were eventually beheaded, and the ground was stained red with blood.
After the execution, the soldiers of the Law Enforcement Hall saluted in the direction of the altar, then put away their bronze heavy swords and returned to both sides.
Jiang Xuan shouted to all the tribesmen: "These sinners have received the punishment they deserve. I hope everyone will remember today's scene and take it as a warning. Don't take any chances!"
"Let's go!"
At Jiang Xuan's command, the members of the Teng tribe dispersed and the corpses were transported to the woods outside the tribe.
When the tree people saw the corpses, they suddenly became excited. They quickly pulled out their roots and rushed over to grab the corpses. Every time they occupied a corpse, they wrapped it with their roots so that other tree people could not grab it.
“Pah pah pah…”
In order to snatch the corpses, these tree people frantically attacked each other with branches and roots. After all the corpses were snatched away, there were many broken branches and roots on the ground.
The battles between plants are no milder than those between animals.
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After leaving the altar, Jiang Xuan did not return to his yard, but rode Crescent Moon to the north of the tribe, into a forest outside the vine wall.
This forest is only separated from the Teng tribe by a wall and the terrain is relatively flat.
More than a thousand captives from the Wild Boar Tribe were temporarily detained in this place.
After Jiang Xuan walked into the forest, he saw a simple wooden fence, like a pigpen, enclosing people inside.
The guards patrolled the fence day and night to prevent the prisoners from escaping.
Jiang Xuan came to the gate of the fence, and the guards hurriedly opened the door and let Jiang Xuan in.
The person in charge of this side is Cangli, the leader of the second guard team. As soon as Jiang Xuan entered, he immediately came up to him and complained to Jiang Xuan.
"Chief, we can't keep so many people locked up like this. Even if they only eat once a day, they will consume a lot of food. Why not just kill them?"
Right now, although the Teng tribe has become stronger, its territory has not expanded much and it is still developing its original territory, so it still has sufficient manpower.
But this put the captives in an awkward position because there were too many of them and the existing territory of the Teng tribe did not need so many people.
Jiang Xuan thought for a moment and said, "No, we can't kill these people. As long as they are human, they are useful. What's more, they are all warriors. It would be a pity to kill them."
Xanthium said helplessly: "What should we do? We can't keep it like this forever, it's such a waste of food."
Jiang Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "It's time for our Teng tribe to expand its territory. Let them stay and cut down trees and open up wasteland."
Cangli said with embarrassment: "If we untie the ropes on them and let them go to cut wood and open up wasteland, we won't have enough manpower for the second guard team."
The second guard team guards the east bank of the Feiyu River, which is the heavily guarded primitive industrial area, which itself requires a large number of manpower.
Now, with half of it allocated to this side, we are even more short of manpower.
"Let me think about it. There will always be a way."
Jiang Xuan looked around and finally turned his gaze to the Teng Tribe, or to be more precise, the tall vine wall of the Teng Tribe.
A simple wooden fence cannot prevent the prisoners from escaping, but a tall and thorny vine wall can!
Jiang Xuan thought about this and said to Cangli: "You guys keep working hard and take good care of these captives. I'm going back to the tribe."
After saying that, Jiang Xuan turned around and left.
Cangli watched Jiang Xuan leave, opened his mouth, but said nothing in the end. He could only continue to guard the prisoners in frustration.
On the other side, Jiang Xuan rode Yueya back to the tribe and found Chishao.
He first talked about the situation of the captives, and then said to Chishao: "I plan to find the vine god and use vine walls to enclose another piece of land outside our current territory. If the tribe wants to continue to grow, it can no longer defend the current territory."
Chishao asked, "Do you plan to include the forest in the north?"
"Yes, but it's better to keep them in a separate area, not connected to the current territory. After all, those captives still have hatred towards the Teng tribe, so it's best to keep them in a separate area."
Chishao nodded and said, "I will ask the Teng Shen first. If the Teng Shen agrees, we will expand our territory."
"good."
Chishao turned to face the huge divine vine in the fog, closed his eyes, and communicated with the divine vine.
Soon, Shen Teng responded: "Yes!"
Jiang Xuan and Chi Shao both heard this, and smiles appeared on their faces.
Soon, an extremely large green vine flew out from the mist behind the altar and quickly grew towards the forest to the north of the Vine Tribe.
“Drip, drip…”
The huge vines sprinkled a large amount of divine liquid around the forest, and the rich breath of life filled the entire forest.
When the vines on the ground came into contact with the divine liquid, they immediately merged into their stems and leaves.
“Ka-ka-ka…”
The vines grew rapidly like crazy and intertwined with each other to form a vine wall.
Afterwards, the vine wall grew taller and larger, and each vine was thicker than a bucket.
The vine wall continued to rise to about thirty meters before it gradually slowed down its growth and eventually stopped growing.
"It's done!"
When Jiang Xuan saw the vine wall, he was very excited.
Because all the places surrounded by the new vine wall will be the territory of the Vine Tribe in the future! "We surround a forest today, and a forest tomorrow. Our Vine Tribe's territory will grow larger and larger. One day, we will become a truly big tribe!"
Jiang Xuan clenched his fists, and a scene of the Teng tribe owning a vast territory in the future emerged in his mind.
After the vine wall was built, the huge vines of the divine vine spread toward the circle of large trees on the outside.
Every tree touched by the vines grew eyes and mouths, gained some intelligence, and acquired the ability to move.
“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh…”
The tree people were so happy that they pulled their roots out of the soil and ran around excitedly.
At this moment, Shen Teng's loud voice came: "Guard this territory!"
When the tree people heard the voice of the divine vine, they stopped immediately. Some returned to their original places to take root, while others chose a new location to take root and then remained motionless.
With these tree people, the security of the new territory of the Vine Tribe will be better guaranteed.
After everything was over, the divine vine retracted its vine, and the fog shrouded the place again, with the divine vine looming in it, mysterious and unpredictable.
"Thank Fuji-gami."
Jiang Xuan and Chishao sincerely thanked Tengshen, and then Jiang Xuan went to the northern forest again.
The new vine wall is a perimeter wall. Since it is currently mainly used to detain prisoners, it only has one doorway facing the direction of the vine tribe.
In this way, the soldiers of the guard team only need to guard that one doorway, and the prisoners cannot escape, so the difficulty of defense is greatly reduced.
"Xanthium, is everything okay now?"
Jiang Xuan walked up to Cangli again with a smile on his face.
"No problem, absolutely no problem, Chief, rest assured, we will definitely keep these prisoners safe!"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "With the vine wall, the tree people, and the soldiers from your second guard team, we don't have to worry about the safety of this area."
"But you can't let your guard down. If anything goes wrong, I'll hold you accountable!"
"Don't worry, Chief. Nothing will go wrong!"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "Starting today, untie the ropes on the captives and let them start working. The food from the Teng tribe is not free. Even the captives have to work to get food."
"yes!"
Under Jiang Xuan's order, Cangli immediately brought a large number of people and untied the ropes on the captives.
He then gave some tools to the thousand captives and asked them to cut wood and build houses themselves.
After a small number of captives got the tools, the first thing they did was to attack the people who gave them the tools.
However, the warriors of the Teng tribe were well prepared, and just as the captives were about to attack, they were killed by the guards who outnumbered them several times.
Cangli held a blood-dripping bronze spear upside down, standing in front of the captives, and asked fiercely, "Who else wants to die?"
The captives suddenly dared not speak. After all, survival is human instinct, and those who are not afraid of death are a minority.
Xanthium looked around and said, "Since there is nothing, then take the tools and work hard. If anyone dares to mess around again, I don't mind sending him off!"
Xanthium waved his hand, and the corpses were immediately dragged away and pulled outside the vine wall to serve as food for the tree people.
Although the remaining captives were reluctant, they had no choice but to obey Cangli's words and started working with their tools in order to survive.
The first thing to do is to cut down trees, because the trees in the forest are too lush, and some of them must be cut down to have extra space for building houses.
After building the houses, they have to cut down more trees to open up wasteland for farming, raising various livestock, etc.
It won’t be long before this new territory can produce something, and it may even become a new production base for the Teng tribe.
After dealing with these things, the hot summer has long passed and the fruitful autumn has arrived.
The annual autumn harvest of the Teng tribe has begun again.
This year, the grain and vegetables were indiscriminately harvested by the wild boar tribe, causing damage to a large area, which made Gan Song and the members of the planting team very sad.
Fortunately, the Teng tribe has a large area of arable land and grows a large amount of tuber crops. Even if some of them are damaged, the remaining crops and vegetables can still meet the needs of the Teng tribe members.
Except for the soldiers of the planting team, all the free people in the Teng tribe went into the fields and joined the autumn harvest team.
After the busy autumn harvest, the granary of the Teng tribe was full again.
Coupled with the more than 2,000 giant wild boars that had been smoked into jerky, the Teng tribe's food reserves were very sufficient.
Security was guaranteed by Fujigami, food was no worry, and as for labor, more than a thousand captured soldiers were added.
With everything being relatively stable, Jiang Xuan was finally able to free up his hands to do other things.
The first thing to do is to solve the problem of roof leakage.
Most of the roofs of the Teng tribe are made of tree bark and thatch.
The raw materials for such a structure are readily available, no special tools are required, the production process is simple, and there are many advantages.
However, this type of roof has a fatal flaw, which is its short service life.
It only takes one or two years for the thatch and bark to rot easily under the triple effects of wind, sun and rain, and then be eaten by insects, causing leaks.
Especially if it rains for a long time, or if it is sunny for a long time and then suddenly rains, the leakage will be very serious.
Among the houses in the Teng Tribe, except for the granary whose roofs are regularly inspected to prevent leaks, the other houses are generally inspected only once in a long time.
Even Jiang Xuan's house was the same; it often leaked when it rained heavily.
Therefore, the problem of house leakage must be solved. Otherwise, once the rainy spring and summer seasons arrive, you will have to look for containers everywhere to collect the rainwater leaking from the roof.
The solution is to burn tiles.
Once a mud brick house is covered with tiles, it becomes much more durable, and even if it leaks, it is relatively easy to repair by simply replacing a few tiles.
The firing process of tiles is similar to that of pottery, or even simpler than pottery.
Jiang Xuan found a pottery workshop and personally made two types of tiles out of clay.
One is a simple curved tile with a very simple style.
The other type is the drip tile, which has a triangular end that allows rainwater to gather at the end and drip down.
With flat tiles and drip tiles, you can make the simplest tile roof.
If you want to make it more exquisite and complex, there are also tubular tiles, ridge tiles, carved drip tiles and so on.
Given the current conditions of the Teng Tribe, we don't need to be too particular about it for now. It will be fine as long as it can shelter from the wind and rain. The aesthetics can be left for later.
After listening to Jiang Xuan's explanation and looking at the model he made, the owner of the pottery workshop agreed immediately: "No problem, Chief, how many tiles do you want?"
Jiang Xuan said: "From now on, all roofs will be covered with tiles. Since they are going to be burned, of course the more the better."
"Go to the woodworking workshop and ask them to make a few cylinders. Then put the mud on the cylinders and press them into even mud slabs."
"After the cylindrical clay tablets have dried in the shade, they can be cut evenly with a bronze knife, and several tiles can be obtained at a time."
"Bend the ends of a small number of finished tiles and smooth them into a triangle to make a drip tile. The process is not complicated."
The abbot nodded repeatedly and wrote down Jiang Xuan's words one by one.
"Okay, you guys go ahead and get busy. If you encounter any problems, think of more solutions. I believe in you!"
After Jiang Xuan finished speaking, he turned and left.
The pottery workshop began to produce tiles in large quantities according to Jiang Xuan's requirements.
(End of this chapter)
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