Ding Qi carefully sorted out the secrets of the five major tribes' hunting days, and he guessed that this hunting day should be a platform or conspiracy for the five major tribes to deal with other large tribes, in order to control the strength of other large tribes and maintain the status of the five major tribes.

The strength of the newly promoted large tribes has decreased a lot, indicating that the new tribe members who participated in the hunting day were killed a lot during the hunting day activities, resulting in the loss of the strength of the new large tribes. The tribes that participate in the Hunting Day event must have sent out the best capable warriors of their own tribe, and if they are damaged in the Hunting Day event, the overall strength of their own tribe will be damaged.

Later, when their strength is damaged, they walk on the perilous wilderness, where they are likely to be attacked by predators, and eventually they will be wiped out or only a few of them will run back. There is even a possibility that these people were attacked by a pretending cannibal tribe on the way back, and only two or three people escaped to report the news, which is also possible!

However, Ding Qi is not afraid of this kind of activity. He has already understood the purpose of the five tribes holding the hunting day event, so the next thing is to see how the five tribes make moves, and he can just break the game with his strength!

"It's okay, don't worry, it's not that you don't know the strength of the tribe, with a tribe of their level, a platoon sent out can sweep them. Rest easy. ”

Ding Qi patted him on the shoulder, widening his heart. It's not that Ben is a little unfounded, it's that he cares too much about this tribe and everything the leader brings. As the saying goes: if you care, you will be chaotic, and that's what you say.

"Tell me about other things, how is the battle between the two tribes of Blackwater and Snake? What's the news for the other five tribes? ”

Ben, who was comforted, answered Ding Qi's question very clearly at this time, no longer a little timid as the previous sentence, looking forward and backward.

"Chief, I heard that this time the battle between the two tribes has come to an end for the time being, and they are both preparing for the coming autumn, busy hunting, gathering, and storing food. They had already exchanged a lot of salt before, but this exchange meeting was not much, and it was estimated that they had a lot of salted meat in storage. That's why the tribe told them how to store meat with coarse salt, otherwise they would have to prepare more meat. ”

"In addition, I suspect that the hematite may have been found from around the Snake Tribe, and the Blackwater Tribe is reluctant to say that they probably want to monopolize it. The specific location needs to be inquired about, but the Crazy Snake Tribe has no anomaly, and there is no impression of hematite. ”

Ding Qi gave Ben a thumbs up, and it seems that he has begun to like to think. And this point of his guess is also in line with Ding Qi's thoughts.

"Except for the Blackwater Tribe, the other four major tribes have all participated in the exchange meeting, and there has been no unpleasant or bullying incident. They also exchanged a lot of axes, saws, shovels, etc., and even kitchen knives and peeling knives were bought out by them. Among these tribes, the Houtu tribe is a little abnormal, and the others have not changed much. ”

Hearing the abnormality of the Houtu tribe, Ding Qi raised his eyebrows, and Ben immediately explained:

"I have observed that the Houtu tribe has come to exchange people, and they are all about 30 people, and they have not changed or changed. The items exchanged were mainly animal skins, salt, and bronze utensils, especially axes, and they exchanged quite a lot. They all exchanged slaves, but the slaves they exchanged had one thing in common, that is, they all had their tongues cut off and couldn't speak! ”

Ding Qi was shocked, and said in his heart that what kind of cruel person would treat a slave like this? Unless he has some secrets he doesn't want to be known, or he's a very violent villain who likes to cut people's tongues!

"Hmmm! In the future, we will focus on the people of the Houtu tribe, especially the weapons they use. Based on what they've been doing so far, I have a gut feeling that they're the ones who attacked our tribe's warriors! ”

Ben's eyes suddenly lit up, and he was pleasantly surprised

Said:

"Chief, do you mean that mark?"

"That's right! You know, the weapons used by each warrior in the tribe have a special tribal marking, and these weapons are made of better materials than those that are exchanged. Not to mention, up to now, the tribe has not exchanged weapons such as mountain knives and bronze daggers, as long as you check slowly to see which tribe used the mountain knives and bronze daggers, you can basically determine that this tribe is the murderer. ”

Ding Qi knew it in his heart, and he didn't mention it before because he just didn't want to spend his energy on it. Now that I know that the Houtu tribe is so ferocious, it is better to put our minds on this. In particular, the tribe only exchanges some living utensils such as shovels, axes, saws, etc., but these few things can also kill people at critical moments, and if there are more of them, they will form a terrible military force.

"Uh-huh! The Yanhuo tribe was the same as before, but they had more men and began to hate any tribe, and they got a lot of axes in order to gain the strength to protect themselves. This is especially true after the fire sulfur that came to exchange before was killed. In addition to maintaining a certain amount of communication with us, he ignores everyone else, and even more so the other big tribes, and I suspect that something must have gone wrong between the five major tribes.

Like the Ugin tribe in the back, the people who came over all had Ugin knives, but they were better hidden, and if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see them at all. They didn't seem to have come to exchange, they kept asking for news, as if they had a group of people missing, and they came to look for someone. Fortunately, the person who knows the news is in Tongcun, and there is no possibility of leaking it for the time being.

The people of the Aoki tribe are as careful as ever, in addition to exchanging bronzes and pottery, they have been in contact with our people to inquire about the stones, asking what kind of stones we need, it seems that they are a little suspicious of our motives for looking for stones, and it is also possible that they know some of the secrets of the tribe, and they are tricking us. ”

Ding Qi gave Ben a thumbs up again, thought for a while and said:

"Didn't you say before that the tribe lost a slave who smashed stones? It is estimated that he was stolen by the Aoki tribe, but he doesn't know much information, only knows how to smash the stones in the mine, how to do it, how to do it, he definitely doesn't know. It's just that in the long run, the bronzes will be discovered by everyone sooner or later, it's just a matter of technology. As long as we can find better iron tools and master higher technology, we can always be invincible. As an eagle flying in the sky, he always has a down-looking attitude towards ants crawling on the ground.

Don't be afraid! Since we dare to do this, we don't have to worry about anything, and we should think that this is for the happiness of the whole human race! ”

Ding Qi enlightened Ben, and at the same time, as if a knot had been opened in his heart, he suddenly became enlightened.

At the end of the conversation, Ben took Ding Qi to check the large quantities of coarse salt and animal skins sent by the rats, and all the copper plates were sent to the red deer for separate preservation. In Deer Village, two squads of warriors have been left alone for protection, as well as twenty horses and ten dogs, which are enough to protect the entire Deer Village.

When he saw the neatly arranged kudzu vine fibers in a corner of the warehouse, Ding Qi's eyes lit up, and it seemed that he had something to do all winter.

"Leader, there are a total of seventy bundles of this fiber sent over from Tongcun, about six hundred to seven hundred catties. This time, it was the fox who led a platoon of soldiers to send it back, there were too many supplies, and the people I brought were still not enough, and it seemed that the scale of the exchange team would have to be expanded in the future. ”

"Let's go, let's go meet the fox, he hasn't come back for a long time, and let the people in his platoon take a good look at the strength of the Ding tribe and cheer them up!"

In the evening, the tribe organized a small celebration to welcome the people of the original Qing tribe to officially return to the tribe headquarters and become a clan of the Ding tribe. Lao Hei, Ma Zhuer and other old people who are familiar with Ding Qi are even more tearful, and they say that they live in Ding Bu when they meet people

What a lucky thing it is!

After staying in the tribe for three days, the fox immediately returned to Tongcun, and when they left, they took a lot of tin plates with them, and five dogs as guards.

After the fox left, Ding Qi returned to a busy tribal life.

Ding Qi spent two more days in the yard where the ash kiln of the red deer was, studying the most important part of the forging tool, quenching.

This is when Ding Qi accidentally remembered that in the past, when rural machinery and tools had not yet begun, a group of blacksmiths would come to the village every six months or so. They help the villagers build and repair various agricultural tools, using carbon fires.

When the red-hot tool is beaten into shape, the tip of the hoe and the blade of the kitchen knife are quenched in water. According to the master, the tools made by this are harder and more durable, and the toughness is better.

Ding Qi did not know if the bronzes were suitable for quenching, but he would not delay his experimentation. In the past two days, Ding Qi has been experimenting, and the craftsmen around him are mass-producing composite bronze weapons. First bronze swords, then bronze knives, axes, spears, etc. And all this work is inseparable from the various pottery molds made by the pottery team for their group of craftsmen, so that the work of the blacksmith group is more convenient.

Ding Qi experimented with twenty various weapons before and after, and finally found that the bronze sword, which was still conducive to stabbing, had greatly increased its power after quenching. This made Ding Qi very excited, this can be regarded as another big weapon in his hands.

Therefore, after Ding Qi's experiment was successful, he immediately re-calcined the various weapons he had made before, then forged them, and finally put them into mountain spring water for quenching, which was regarded as a secondary treatment of all weapons and improved the performance of the weapons. It's just that the surface of this batch of weapons was engraved by someone arranged by Ding Qi, and the word "change" was engraved to represent the meaning of this batch of weapons.

As for the more than 800 slaves, they were arranged in a camp, stripped naked, bathed and haircuts, and changed into clothes unique to the Ding tribe. As for their previous clothes, they were all taken to an open field and burned in order to kill some germs and fleas.

The men were also asked to drink water made from calamus grass and get rid of the worms in their stomachs as soon as possible. These people were then grouped according to age and gender, and the strong ones were selected and arranged for the strong to be trained, and began to learn the rules, systems, characters, and Chinese characters of the tribe, including hygiene habits.

Two days later, in addition to the personnel on duty, all the personnel of the Ding tribe gathered in the central square to participate in the tribe's autumn harvest sacrifice ceremony. Beneath the totem pole are a sheep, a large fish, and a large sack of rice, which are sacrificial offerings.

The deer standing in front of the totem pole is doing a dance that heralds the harvest, and she is particularly engaged and religious. After this dance, the deer took out a turtle shell and burned it in the fire in front of him. After the turtle shell was burned, the deer stepped forward to pick it up and inspect it himself, and the whole tribe was breathing, waiting for the result.

Soon, the deer was resolved to be an auspicious hexagram, suitable for harvesting crops.

"Daji!"

The deer picked up the shell for everyone to see, and announced the hexagram on it, so that everyone could clearly understand that this was a time to adapt to harvesting crops.

The crowd cheered, and soon they rushed to the east gate under the guidance of two squads of soldiers. They wanted to occupy a good position to see how the good people in the town would harvest the crops.

Outside the city gate, Yi followed Ding Qi and drove forward, followed by a circle of high-ranking people of the tribe, all of whom had come to watch the harvest.

Standing at the head of the soybean field, Ding Qi picked up a sickle, stretched out his hand and began to cut soybeans. As with rice harvesting, turn around and continue harvesting soybeans on the other side of each pile. Each of them stood beside Ding Qi with a sickle in his hand, and did the same, harvesting a tuft of soybeans.