Chapter 11: The Uninvited Guest
The people of the Ryubu and Ryubu tribes had never seen the soup boiling, and they were extremely excited, and the Taobu was afraid that they would break the clay pot in their excitement, so they were extremely careful. The tribe after the www.biquge.info war, the tribe was prosperous, but Long Qiupeng frowned, and he was particularly worried.
The population of the tribe has increased, and the wild beasts are still making trouble, not to mention storing food for the winter, even the current needs are not enough.
In fact, there are many ways to obtain food, but only hunting can get animal fur and solve the problem of keeping warm in winter. Humans never have an advantage in strength when it comes to fighting wild beasts, and ranged attacks are always the key to defeating the enemy. The production of bows and arrows, which had been put aside for various reasons at the time, is now back on the agenda.
The difficulty of making bows and arrows is not high, and Long Qiupeng also studied in the training camp, but at that time, the training camp had already prepared the appropriate materials and tools at hand, and now, Long Qiupeng needs to find materials again and adapt to backward tools.
The pressure made him anxious again, and the next day it was just dawn, and he carried the stone axe up the mountain without even having breakfast. Although the short knife is easy to use, if the blade is rolled one day, there is no place to cry, and after the tribe absorbed the fine grinding process, he began to try to use stone tools.
He has a clear goal, which is a small tree of about five centimeters. But in terms of hardness and other qualities, he wasn't very familiar with them, so he decided to bring back as many plants as he could.
While he was working hard, the deer ran to the mountains with two men to look for him. He saw that the deer's face was hasty and panicked, and he knew that something had happened to the tribe.
Sure enough, when the deer ran to him, he said breathlessly, "Dragon, there are people in the tribe!" ”
It is really a wave of unsettled, and the legacy of the last war has not yet been resolved. He dragged a village of old, weak, sick and disabled, is this the rhythm of another war? If you continue to fight, it is estimated that it will be the rhythm of the fish dying and the net being broken, and the jade will be burned.
However, no matter how resistant Long Qiupeng was in his heart, there was a stranger in the tribe, and as the leader, he had to face this fact. Ignoring the freshly cut trees, he ran all the way ahead of the deer.
As soon as Long Qiupeng arrived at the tribe, he was surrounded by a group of people from the Dragon and Lie tribes, and most of the people from the Tao Department were hiding in caves or houses, and the expressions on their faces were as nervous and panicked as when they left the old site of the Tao Department.
"What about people?" He asked the people where they were. The deer pointed into the distance, and he looked in the direction of the deer, but saw a foreigner, talking to the Great Lake, who bowed his head, his face was like ashes, and nodded mechanically.
Long Qiupeng wanted to step forward to stop it as soon as possible, but seeing that the relationship between Dahu and Lai was complicated, he couldn't figure out the situation for a while, so he quietly asked the people around him what was going on.
But everyone looked at each other, just saying that this man came to the tribe early in the morning, and no matter who asked, he didn't speak, and then Dahu saw it, so he went up, and then many of the workers of the pottery department also stopped working and hid.
Thinking of this, he walked out of the crowd and came to the man. With a smile on his face, he asked without humility or arrogance: "Who?" ”
The man raised his head and raised his head arrogantly, although he was not as tall as Long Qiupeng, Long Qiupeng could still see the nose hair in the other party's nose. Dahu next to him opened his mouth and introduced: "This is the envoy of the Lu tribe, Qingmang. ”
Long Qiupeng saw the arrogant appearance of the other party, and felt a little interesting, so he looked the other party up and down carefully. Qingmang's clothes are similar to those of Tao, but the material is slightly better, but unlike Tao, he wears a coarse linen dress, which is a very high-end product in primitive society.
However, compared to this, the thing pinned to the other party's waist is more eye-catching, a short knife with golden cancan, although the pattern system is very simple, but this thing itself is a symbol of strength in this era. It represents not only the strength of one person, but the strength of a tribe.
Long Qiupeng gasped and looked at it again. That's right, it's a fake bronze knife, and unlike the old ones you see in the museum, which have a green patina, it's shining with golden young combat power.
Qingmang should indeed feel proud, Long Qiupeng's tribe has just struggled out of the abyss of the Paleolithic Age, and they have already made great strides towards the rebirth of the Bronze Age.
Hard-hitting, before the dragon and the spirit, the pottery can still fight, but with the furnace tribe, it is to hit the stone with an egg.
After weighing it again and again, Long Qiupeng decided to temporarily rein in his edge, and then plan slowly and wait for the opportunity. So he said respectfully and politely: "I don't know, what are you doing?" ”
Qingmang still didn't speak, but Dahu stood aside cowardly and didn't speak, he looked at Long Qiupeng hesitantly, and then at Qingmang, so anxious that his head was sweating.
Qingmang, who had been holding his head high, saw that Dahu didn't speak, maybe because his neck was tired, and suddenly raised his hand and gave Dahu a mouth. Shouted something, the deer heard it, and stared at Qingmang, but he didn't translate it to Long Qiupeng at all, and Long Qiupeng probably guessed that this was a curse.
It depends on the owner to beat the dog, Qingmang treats Dahu like this, and Long Qiupeng's face is completely dull. What's more, such a humble posture will only increase the arrogance of the other party even more, and make the other party feel that he is a bully.
He was no longer silent, pulled across the big lake, and said to Qingmang: "I am the leader of this tribe, and the big lake is now my clansman. ”
Long Qiupeng's sudden tough expression made Qingmang lose his momentum, he was a little caught off guard, and his face was blue and red for a while. But he just held his breath and didn't say anything. Long Qiupeng saw that the other party was dumbfounded, and learned that the other party's status was actually not high, and he also had a mission to come this time, winter was just around the corner, no matter whether the other party was strong or weak, war was not the best choice.
Negotiation is a good way to go, and the key depends on what leverage each other has.
Thinking of the other party's intentions, Long Qiupeng also breathed a sigh of relief, of course he didn't want to reach an alliance with such a proud tribe, but a temporary compromise was necessary.
"Prepare for the banquet!" Long Qiupeng instructed his clansmen to go down, and said to Qingmang, it is better to rest for a long time and then slowly talk about the purpose of his trip.
Qingmang felt that he couldn't get off the stage, and at this time, Long Qiupeng showed softness, and he should also get off the donkey and follow the clansmen to rest first.
Long Qiupeng called Dahu aside and asked about Lu and Qingmang.
Don't say I don't know, when it comes to the origin of the Tao Department and the Furnace Clan, it is really much more complicated than Long Qiupeng expected. Since the crossing, Long Qiupeng has not understood what kind of marriage system primitive people have, through the description of Dahu, he understood that in primitive society, multiple clans or multiple tribes often form stable marriage clans or marriage tribes with each other.
In tribes or clans, intermarriage is generally strictly prohibited, and they will give preference to marrying clans, or marrying people from the tribe to intermarry and reproduce.
In Long Qiupeng's tribe, Long Bu has been in the matrilineal clan stage for a long time, and the social system of other people's patrilineal clans cannot be compatible, so there has been no stable marriage tribe for a long time. Because they were in the process of migration, the Liebu abandoned the original marriage tribe. And the marriage tribe of the Tao Department is the Furnace tribe in front of you.
Dahu told Long Qiupeng that although Tao Bu had maintained the name of marrying the tribe with the Lu clan for a long time, it had long lost the practical significance of marrying the tribe. Since the furnace tribe mastered the pottery process, they began to lead the development of the pottery department for a long time, until they mastered the bronze process, and the relationship between the two tribes and marriage completely collapsed.
The Furnace taught the pottery craft and grain cultivation to the Tao Department, just to let the Tao tribe work for them, and most of the pottery and grain produced by the Tao every year had to be paid tribute to the Furnace tribe. That's why this civilization, which is far ahead of others, is so weak.
However, not only that, but the Lu tribe also asked the Tao tribe to contribute women to them in the name of marriage, but these women often did not become the wives of the men of the Lu tribe, they were more like the servants of those men, serving them and their families. On the contrary, the Lu clan never married their daughters and sisters to Taobu men, but only married some of the women they captured to Taobu men.
But there is an exception, that is, before the Tao Department wants to produce a new leader, the Lu clan will marry his own woman to the Tao Ministry, and the person who can marry this woman is the new Tao Bu leader, and the Lu clan has been controlling the Tao Department through this means.
For several generations, the Taobu lived under the high pressure of the Furnace tribe and became the slaves and subordinates of the Furnace tribe. Tao Bu only wanted to attack the Dragon Ministry, but also to escape the scope of the Lu Clan's control.
But Dahu never expected that the people of the Lu clan would chase here so far. Qing Mang's status in the Lu clan was indeed not high, and he told Dahu that the purpose of his visit this time was to unite with Dahu to overthrow Long Qiupeng's dominance.
Speaking of this, Long Qiupeng also has a complete understanding of the ins and outs of this matter. However, unlike what Dahu said, Qingmang definitely did not come here this time to overthrow his own rule, or the core of the purpose was not to help anyone ascend to the throne. After all, who rules this tribe is not important to the Furnace tribe, what matters: tribute.
If, as Dahu said, the Tao tribe may inherit half of the food supply of the Lu tribe, and this year the Tao tribe is hit by the flood and has no harvest, and the Lu tribe will definitely fall into a crisis of winter food reserves for a while. They were now anxious to find a lamb to be slaughtered to replace the pottery.
If Long Qiupeng's inference is true, then it makes sense for the Lu clan to let a person with a lower status like Qingmang arrive. The Furnace tribe didn't know about Long Qiupeng, and he didn't know whether to take a tough stance against Long Qiupeng or a soft approach. Qingmang is a touchstone of the Furnace tribe.