The great power of nature, which is not subject to human will, will inadvertently influence the course of civilization for a long time.

Perhaps a certain warm, humid and hot will make the originally weak plateau grassland peoples rise; Perhaps a cold drought will tear an empire apart.

The progress of human civilization is to minimize the impact of this accident, and the beginning of progress is thinking.

Jian Chen didn't know that the distant tribe had also sent scouts, so he was spending his time trying to get the people to learn to think.

On the last day of the month of Momotsuki, he took his people and carried the beehives to catch bees.

Because the wild bees in the vicinity have been basically wiped out by the clansmen, they can only go farther away.

Bored on the way, he picked up a wild pea that had fallen to the ground, pointed to the navel of the pea with a smile, and asked the tribesmen as a joke: "You said that when we plant this in the future, its navel will be facing upwards?" Or is it downward? ”

"Of course it's facing up, you see their leaves are all upward, you have to have leaves to grow"

"Of course it's downwards, you see their roots are all downward, and they have to have roots to grow."

The two groups argued as a matter of course, and both felt that what they said was reasonable, and that neither could convince anyone.

In the end, the issue was kicked back to Chen Jianjian.

"Ken, do you say it's up or down?"

Jian Chen spread his hands and said, "I don't know either." In this way, our argument is fruitless, and we will try it when we plant it in the future. What if you lose? ”

These people all felt that what they thought must be right, and they shouted one after another: "Whoever loses will help win the land of 300 more steps." ”

"Okay, pick up some seeds and bring them back, Yu Qian'er, you remember who said up and who said down."

"Huh."

Yu Qian'er wrote it down carefully, and quietly ran to Chen Jian's ear and said, "Brother, you must know it, don't you?" ”

Jian Chen smiled: "Then do you say it is facing up or down?" ”

"I don't say anything, what I want to say, I have to wait until I grow it myself."

She shook her little head, smiled slyly, and then whispered: "I used to think that the inside of the fire was the fastest to roast, but when I roasted the meat a few days ago, I found out that it was the top of the fire that roasted quickly. What you think is not necessarily right, you have to rely on your eyes. ”

Jian Chen was very happy and asked Yu Qian'er to talk about this matter to the clansmen. Yu Qian'er asked, is it about barbecue and fire? Chen Jian said no, it was the latter sentence.

In order to prove Yu Qian'er's later sentence, Chen Jian grabbed a handful of poplar leaves from the ground that had been blown off by the wind, poplars don't only fall in autumn, so he wanted to take advantage of this topic to let the clansmen remember something.

When there was no wind, he threw the leaves into the sky and asked the people to guess whether the leaves were more heads or tails when they fell.

Strange answers abounded, and the leaves didn't have to wait a few days, but soon they had answers, and the people were surprised to find that most of the leaves were backside up.

"Why is this happening?"

The clansmen also grabbed handfuls of leaves and threw them down, amazed that these things they hadn't noticed were so magical.

Jian Chen smiled: "Why? I don't know. But we have to know that the leaves are facing down before we can ask why, and maybe one day we will know why. If you think it's head-on and ask why, I'm afraid you'll never know it for the rest of your life. ”

He flicked a pea away in his hand and said, "It's the same as planting peas." If we get it wrong and face up and down, we're going to waste our efforts. Therefore, whatever you do in the future, you must first see it with your eyes before you can think about why. Don't think you're right. ”

The clansmen lowered their heads and pondered the question, some of them might remember it, some of them might make a joke at the time.

But someone will always remember that this is enough, he doesn't want the people to come to a conclusion with a pat on the head in the future, and he doesn't want to make some jokes that are taken for granted - the five generations of horse breeding technology have already had a backblood mating method, and now the breeding prototype of thoroughbred horses. It seems that the nephew of the horse and the aunt mate to achieve the purification of the horse, but in the Song Dynasty, some people take it for granted that this is contrary to human ethics and the way of heaven, and proudly write a book and say that the short life of the five generations has a great relationship with the violation of human ethics. It's a joke made by patting your head.

Of course, he knew that the Navel Dynasty was the same everywhere, and the people would know it in the future. But taking things for granted is not the same as taking things for granted after observation, he still hopes to silently influence the way of thinking of the people, and replace the assumptions with reason.

Whether it's the falsifiable god or the difference between hypothetical and actual today, the process will be long and boring.

It may take hundreds of years, but today is the first step towards rational thinking. When the beans sprout, these people will learn not to take the land for granted as they hoe the land, and that's enough.

The tribesmen were still arguing about whether the bean navel was up or down, until the wolf skin in front of them ran over and said that they had seen the beehive, which made the tribesmen stop arguing and hurry away with the beehive.

Before I could see the hive, I heard a buzzing sound. Chen Jian looked up, a half-human-sized beehive was on the branch of a big tree, it was the season of mountain flowers, and the bees were busy collecting honey, coming in and out in an orderly manner.

Bees at this time can only live for half a month, and they are much more industrious than humans, so they will not waste time on stinging.

The rest of the people retreated into the distance to see what to do, and Chen Jian brought a few people who were not afraid of stinging to the bottom of the tree and opened the lid of the beehive.

I took a sip of the weird-tasting apricot wine, took it in my mouth and sprayed it inside. The two men below carried the hive, which was held high and placed directly below the hive.

Chen Jian found some willow branches and weeds and tied a simple broom, climbed to the branch with a wolf skin, and a few vigilant bees immediately circled around them, not knowing whether to sting or not.

"Don't hit them, the more you hit, the more they sting."

Resisting the urge to reach out and slap the buzzing bees to death, he picked up a small broom and swept all the bees that had gathered on the hive into the hive.

Seeing the queen bee wandering around on the bee's spleen to lay eggs, it was much easier to sweep her inside.

So he saw it, and with a slight wave, the bees scattered and separated. The two of them shook the branches vigorously and shook all the bees on it, and then cut off the beeswax with a stone knife and threw the beeswax into the beehive.

Jump under the tree, cover with a fabric cloth, and finally cover the plank.

A large number of bees buzzed outside in search of their queen, which was scary to look at, but at this time they were not stinging.

The beehives were carefully placed on the ground, the entrances and exits were facing south, and the people retreated to the back.

Yu Qian'er pointed to the flying bees and asked, "When will they go back?" ”

"Don't worry, they'll be in their new home in a moment. Let's go first, come back in the evening, and carry them back when all the bees that were out collecting honey have returned. ”

He called the wolfskin and told the wolfskin to continue to lead the people to find other wild beehives, and he and his people were to stay here.

Honey is an infinite temptation for bears in the forest, and if you leave it alone, you may come back with a beehive smashed to pieces by the bear.

The rest of the clan sat nearby, and were delighted to find that the bees had indeed crawled into their new homes one by one, as Jian Chen had said.

In the evening, when the weather is cool, these bees will spend the night quietly at home, and when the time comes, they can be brought back safely without shaking too hard.

There are many sources of honey near the village, and honey harvesting is not a problem, and this should also be one of the jobs of the women in the clan in the future.

Jian Chen is going to find a day to tell the women what a queen bee is and what a drone is, so that they can recognize it clearly.

Once a new queen bee is born, some people will be taken away to find a new home. It's a bit like people, and when the population is large, they move separately.

At that time, a few willow trees will be transplanted in the beekeeping area, and the new queen bee will take her subjects to wait in the nearby trees for a while, and then fly away when all the people are together.

When swarming, sweep the queen bee into the hive in the same way to prevent them from escaping.

It's all very simple stuff and it's easy to learn. A little more will let the women learn what is the queen bee's platform, artificially control the number of colonies, the stronger the colony, the more honey and beeswax can get.

Worker bees and queen bees who collect honey are the same fertilized eggs, but the same eggs have different lives, one drinks royal jelly to grow up, and the other drinks a small amount of royal jelly and mainly eats pollen, and it is not the same when it grows up. The worker bees in charge of feeding only choose the feeding method by the size of the room, and they do not consider whether there are too many queen reserves, so they can only rely on artificially helping them cut off a part of the royal platform.

Chen Jian calculated, this thing is also easy to understand, and it is not difficult for the current clansmen. It's nothing more than to distinguish which one is big and which is small, and children can learn it.

It's just that he knows a rough idea, but he can't tell what kind of bee population this is, and he doesn't know whether this is the ancestor of the Chinese bee or the Italian bee in the state of redistribution of the species.

The Chinese bees in the memory of the past life suffered the same as the Chinese nation, and with the sound of the cannons of the Opium War, the Chinese bees also ushered in their old enemy, the Italian bee.

The frequency of the Italian bee flapping is the same as that of the Chinese bee, so the Chinese bee will let these robbers come and go freely, and the first thing these robbers do after entering the hive is to kill the queen bee, go back to report the news, and let their robber accomplices fly together to steal the honey of the Chinese bee.

Sometimes many things have fateful coincidences, and there is always some embarrassment when you think about it.

"I hope the bees of this world will have a different fate."

He tapped the beehive and muttered to himself.

Yu Qian'er heard this, but she didn't understand what her brother was saying, and when she was about to ask something, there was a noise in the jungle in the distance.

Wolf Skin hurriedly ran over and said, "Jian, there is smoke on the other side of the mountain." ”

It only took two months for Smoke to go from being a sign of friendship to becoming a terror in the hearts of the people. The encounter between Birch and Pine makes them realize that there is something more terrifying than wild beasts, and that is the same kind of people who walk upright like them.

"What should I do?"