Chapter 16: The Divine Stick
Wang Lang understands the power of faith, and has seen a lot of information about this from the book and on TV, and there are almost countless conflicts that have erupted because of different religious beliefs.
In the period of slavery, the killing of the living to sacrifice to the gods, the burial of the living, in the dark Middle Ages in Europe, the church judged that witches were burned alive, and scientists were also called heretics, and it was difficult to escape the fate of being burned.
Wang Lang does not want to establish such a religious system, as an orthodox Chinese descendant, Wang Lang certainly does not want his descendants to kill each other for a certain unwarranted god, there is no morality in this world, there is no shame, in this case, Wang Lang founded a primitive religion can teach people, what is beautiful, what is ugly, what is good, what is evil, teach the people to distinguish between civilization and barbarism, and God is just the guide in the heart, there is no need to blindly follow, there is a heart to distinguish between right and wrong, this is the religion that Wang Lang wants to establish in his heart.
"Lang, what does God look like, male or female?"
When people calmed down, they began to be curious about what God looked like.
Wang Lang pretended to recall for a while and said: "I didn't see the appearance of the god clearly, maybe the god didn't want mortals to see his true face, but there was a huge beast next to the god, the beast could fly into the sky, the body was like a snake, the scales of a fish, the claws were like a bird, there were antlers of a deer, the horns of the mouth had whiskers, there were beads under the forehead, and it could call the wind and rain, it was very magical, God told me that this strange beast was called a dragon." ”
"Dragons? Could it be a dinosaur? Someone wondered.
Wang Lang shook his head and said, "I also asked God like this, and God said that the dinosaur we are talking about is called a lizard, and the dragon is in charge of the yin and yang between heaven and earth. I don't know what yin and yang are, but God conjured up two fish, one black and one white, and those two fish were connected head and tail and formed a circle, and God said that this was yin and yang. As to why, God doesn't say, He leaves it up to us to understand. ”
Wang Lang said while drawing a Tai Chi pattern on the ground, Wang Lang couldn't help but want to laugh at his nonsense, but at this moment he had to put on a solemn expression, Wang Lang doubted that after making these up, he was going to hold back his internal injuries.
People looked at the Tai Chi diagram on the ground, looked at it for a long time, and couldn't see the reason, and after killing a large number of brain cells, they finally gave up this useless behavior.
"We will study this yin and yang in the future, but God told me that he is called the Tao, and I asked God what is the Tao, and God said that everything in heaven and earth is the Tao, you are the Tao, and I am also the Tao. God's words are hard to understand, and God didn't get angry when he saw that I didn't understand his words, but taught me a lot of wisdom, and I tried to remember, but only remembered a small part, and by the time I came back to God, God was gone. ”
After Wang Lang finished speaking, everyone was stunned by Wang Lang's words, God, Yin and Yang, Dragon, Dao, these things that they had never heard of, constantly echoed in their ears, from now on they knew that the name of God was Dao, instead of blindly praying to heaven.
The seeds of religion gradually took root in their hearts, and the rest depends on Wang Lang to constantly improve the system and let it grow in the direction he needs, all of which will take time to complete slowly.
Looking at the noisy crowd, Wang Lang motioned for everyone to be quiet and said, "God gave me guidance and let me know that it is wrong to drink blood, and God told me that salt can replace drinking blood and can make people more powerful." ”
After Wang Lang finished speaking, people looked at the bags on the ground with different eyes, and their eyes became solemn from their previous disgust, what God said must be right, people thought so.
Wang Lang looked at people's expressions and knew that his flickering had worked, and when he got them a few simple dishes tomorrow, he would know how important salt was.
The people followed Wang Lang to carefully move the salt back to the tribe, put the salt bags, and the people looked at Wang Lang and waited for his next order.
Wang Lang saw that people were looking at him directly, and his heart was a little furious, and said: "Everyone don't surround me, let's disperse, I'll think about what to do with this salt." ”
At this time, Wang Lang is not just a leader in the hearts of everyone, in their cognition, Wang Lang is the messenger of God walking in the world, after Wang Lang finished speaking, people automatically dispersed, weaving cloth, cutting trees.
Wang Lang asked Fanxing to bring the woven cloth, and it didn't take long for Fanxing to take out the cloth more than one meter long from the cave and hand it to Wang Lang.
Looking at the yellow-white linen, although it is still a little rough, but this is already a cloth in the real sense, Wang Lang pulled hard, the cloth is very strong, there is no damage in the slightest, Wang Lang looks at it more and more satisfied.
"Lang, although this cloth is very beautiful, how to use it!"
"This cloth is still too small to be used to make salt, and if there are many of them, of course there are other uses, but now it is of no great use."
Fanxing was a little disappointed when he heard this, how could such a beautiful thing be useless.
Wang Lang did not explain the specific use of the cloth to Fanxing, touched Fanxing's belly, yawned, lay on the small bed in the cave, and fell asleep not long after, the three days of running made Wang Lang very tired, and at night Fanxing saw that Wang Lang slept sweetly, so he did not wake up Wang Lang to get up to eat, and he didn't wake up until the next morning.
When he woke up, smelling the smell of meat, Wang Lang's stomach growled, and he hadn't eaten a full meal for almost a day.
After eating the barbecue sent by the clansmen, Wang Lang recovered his spirits, and today he plans to make edible salt, which is not very complicated, it is nothing more than the process of filtering and boiling to remove impurities.
Wang Lang found an empty clay pot, lit a fire, put the clay pot on the fire, poured water, and then took out a large piece of yellowed salt and threw it into the clay pot, holding a branch and stirring it constantly.
As the temperature of the water rises, the salt dissolves little by little, and the water in the pot quickly becomes like muddy soup.
Seeing that it was almost dissolved, Wang Lang took a new clay pot, and after the clay pot on the fire cooled, Wang Lang folded the only piece of cloth into three layers and covered the mouth of the clay pot.
The yellow mud-like water, filtered by three layers of cloth, has flowed down a lot of water, when all poured out, the cloth has left a thick layer of impurities, faintly some unpleasant smell.
Wang Lang washed the cloth with water, and filtered the water in the clay pot again, and Wang Lang repeated this step three times, knowing that the linen cloth could no longer filter out impurities.
Next, the clay pot containing the filtered liquid is boiled on the fire, and the time passes little by little, the liquid begins to boil, and as the temperature rises, the water in the liquid is evaporated, the solution begins to saturate, and the insoluble salt begins to form small particles that float in the water.
Until a thick layer of white viscous substance was left in the clay pot, Wang Lang was worried that if he continued to burn, he might scorch the salt, so he turned off the fire and poured out the remaining water in the clay pot, found a wide leaf, and poured the salt in the clay pot on the leaf to dry.
According to today's light, Wang Lang estimates that the salt can be dried in two or three hours.