251 Children's Ceremony

Am I planning against Rock City just for the money?

I am a witch, and I need power and wealth.

I am not a power aristocrat in the true sense of the word, and I can only get this through the introduction of a monetary system. Therefore, all those who stand in my way to prosperity must die!

Once an enemy, now an ally.

Such a change of identity is simply too big.

Wu Yuan sat alone in the room and fell into a long period of contemplation.

……

The god of winter has descended upon the earth once again.

Ayi gave birth to a daughter, who gave birth naturally and did not have a caesarean section.

Everyone doesn't know what reason Bai Hao named the child ...... "Jianxi", these two words are complicated and difficult to read, and the meaning is also inexplicable.

The eldest son, Niu Niu, lay on the side of the bed and touched his sister's face curiously with his fingers. Soft, soft, and bouncy, she laughs beautifully, cries earth-shatteringly, and must be held by her mother to stop her mouth that bursts out with alarming volume.

The bedrooms are well heated, the peat burns in the fireplace, and the chimney goes straight to the roof, so it doesn't cause gas poisoning.

Tianhao walked to the bed, raised his hand and stroked the soft hair of the prisoner cow, and smiled to hide his sigh.

The strong fertility of the northern barbarians is really terrifying, and in less than two years, Ayi gave birth to a boy and a girl one after another, which is still carried out in a state where Tianhao, as the lord and lord of the city, is entangled in many affairs and is extremely busy.

According to the latest statistics of the grassroots officials (ten heads), as of yesterday, the total population of the entire Panshi Territory exceeded 300,000.

The shortened pregnancy period to five months turned the barbarian woman into a powerful fertility machine.

Tianhao knew very well that this was the result of the modification of the artificial breeding plan made by the computer of the residual base after the extinction of the civilization era. Automatic reproduction programs were fed into computers as early as the boom era, and the frozen sperm (harmony) subbank ensured a huge supply. Although it is impossible to determine when the first barbarian appeared on the northern continent, it is certain that he or she and his or her race overwhelmed the cruel environment with their powerful reproductive abilities, allowing humans to return to this world once again.

White women in the South also had a shortened pregnancy period, but it was slightly longer than that of the northern barbarians, who needed eight months to give birth, and children reached adulthood in about fifteen years.

The northern barbarians only need ten years.

While the importance of maintaining populations by quantity is self-evident, food is the fundamental limitation.

The world has suffered too much turmoil, and there are various ways to destroy the world in the age of civilization, but neither careerists nor warriors who defend peace have imagined that the source of destruction will come from space, not the nuclear war, the spread of viruses, and climate change, which people are clamoring for and worried about all day long...... The asteroid impact also caused widespread nuclear radiation, which may be the reason why corn and potatoes grow very differently on the north and south continents of Suolongguan.

The white southerners benefited too much, producing as many as two tons of potatoes per acre, and in doing so, they ensured that most of the people would be fed, and then they would be multiplied, and the five kingdoms and the Holy See, with a total population of more than three billion, left the 20 million northern barbarians far behind.

The same potatoes, the varieties grown in the north of the continent are much less productive than in the south. This point has been verified by Tianhao from Bonnard and Shi Yong respectively.

The war and the terrain prevented the possibility of communication between the north and the south, and even a man with great vision like the great power division could not imagine that the southern white skin had such enviable food resources.

The Lion King was a real fool, including his ancestors, who kept the corn and potatoes secret, but never dreamed that while they were smug in seclusion in order to monopolize the grain gains, the southern whiteskins stood on a higher position and sneered, as if watching a group of beggars desperately fighting for leftovers.

The parasitism was successful, and there were very few memory fragments about the original owner in Tianhao's body. The images were bloody, brutal, heartbreaking, full of hunger and pain.

In the eyes of the northern barbarians, strong fertility is the foundation of the continuation of the race, but it is a supplement to food. Every winter, it is a time when the elderly and children die in large numbers. Either starve to death or be killed, every village, every city, every ethnic group...... Over time, it became an ancestral practice.

This is cruel natural selection. In the case of mass killing, age-appropriate targets must be selected, and only the strongest children are eligible to survive, they will become warriors, and they will be eligible for distribution of adequate amounts of food. The same is true of women, who prove their worth with their wombs and bellies, so that the most fertile woman is always the most valuable on the list of goods exchanged between the tribes.

The terrible and cruel selection became the basis for the continuation of the northern barbarians to this day.

Tianhao felt it was time to break this sturdy and ugly crockpot.

It is not so much that the barbarian is lucky, but that it is a personal opportunity given to him by God. Jia43 is a treasure land, although no high-yielding potatoes were found there, YC0045 seawater rice was found.

It is a treasure left over from the era of civilization, and its value far exceeds that of gold and diamonds.

Large tracts of wasteland were exploited, and seeds were sown in laughter and doubt. Barbarians are not lazy at all, but there is too little land suitable for cultivation to produce enough to satisfy an empty stomach. During the Great Apocalypse, the earth's crustal changes caused by planetary impacts squeezed the land plates, leading to the formation of new mountain ranges, and the remnant bases carried out the human reinvention plan based on the old world continents, but they did not know that the barbarians paid a heavy price for this, and countless people starved to death, were killed, and struggled as a result.

The arable area for sowing seawater rice is about 80 percent of the current wheat cultivation area. This is equivalent to nearly doubling food production out of thin air.

This is a real treasure, Tianhao does not plan to make it public for the time being, except for Mishui City, which has a close relationship, the entire Niu clan is only held by the Rock Leader.

More than 50,000 new people in the territory were children.

They are the lucky generation to be well fed.

They are also a happy generation because of the beets and sugar cane that can taste more sweetness than their parents.

In peat workshops, it is common to see pregnant women working with big bellies. Staying at home all day to rest and protect the baby is equivalent to a fantasy for them. After giving birth to a child in the field, she got out of bed one week after giving birth, and carried the child up the mountain to chop firewood for two weeks...... These things seemed to women in civilized times to be horror legends, but here, everyone took it for granted.

There was a knock on the door outside, and the maid walked over to pull the door open, and the tall Yonggang walked in.

He wore a black bear fur coat, which was Yonggang's prey for showing martial prowess more than ten years ago, he was very careful when taking the skin, keeping most of the bear's head intact, using a knife to remove the flesh and bones little by little, and gluing the sharp bear teeth with fish glue to make a beautiful bear mask hooded leather robe.

"My lord, when the time comes, they are all waiting for you outside." Yonggang owed a debt and bowed respectfully to Tianhao. Today is an important day, and if he had changed his usual times, he would not have taken out this leather robe that symbolized his identity and strength at all, and dressed it so formally.

Tianhao smiled and nodded, stretched out his hand and patted the prisoner cow on the shoulder: "Come on!" ”

Ayi hugged her daughter, sat on the bed, and watched the father and son walk out of the room and out of sight with respect and pride.

On the square outside the city lord's mansion, as many as tens of thousands of children lined up in five horizontal lines. They gathered densely, the youngest was two years old, the oldest was five years old, and the captains of each team were also children, and everyone's eyes were focused on Tianhao.

The hazy sky was covered with thick clouds, and the wind swept the snowflakes and howled wildly. The snow was not heavy, but the wind was strong, and it hurt to blow on the face.

Tianhao glanced at his son standing beside him, and the prisoner cow understood the meaning expressed in his eyes, then nodded, raised his feet and ran towards the crowd in the square.

Today, he is one of them.

Broken Tooth held a microphone made of thin iron sheet in both hands and handed it to Tianhao. He picked it up casually and let out a loud and deafening roar.

"Run for me!"

The large group of children began to turn around, and began a steady and orderly long-distance run on the main streets of the city, which had been marked in advance.

Exercising on cold winter days has always been a tradition of the northern barbarians. They don't know what a marathon is, but they understand that only by running fast can they catch up with the enemy. In order to cut off the opponent's head, in order to be fed, it is necessary to train from an early age.

The frontrunner is an adult, and he is also the personal guard around Tianhao who has been rewarded for his military exploits.

Strictly speaking, this cannot be regarded as normal training, but the beginning ceremony of Tianhao's latest promulgation of the "Rock Collar Children's Winter Training Plan".

The old priest clutched his warm leather robe tightly and stood beside Tianhao, looking at his tall silhouette, his heart full of excitement.

It was the first time in his life that he had participated in such a ceremony. It is more solemn and meaningful than sacrificing to the gods.

In this harvest season, which has just ended, the old priest saw with his own eyes that a huge amount of grain was filling the storehouse.

In the past, when there was no Rock City and it was a small village, who would have thought that precious rice could fill an entire wooden house?

Today, tall warehouses are built of stone, and the internal capacity is unimaginably large. The act of carrying grain in cotton pockets was really a luxury in the eyes of the old priest, but countless examples in the past proved that Tianhao was right, and he really couldn't find a reason to refute it. In units of 100 kilograms, bulging grain bags are piled up. The old priest was a man of good heart, and he calculated that the storehouse in the city had enough rice and flour to consume 500,000 people for a whole year.

Note that it is "attrition" in the case of full food, not "normal supply" to ensure a minimum standard of survival per capita.

And that's not even counting the food stocks of the other newly built fortified cities.

Counts of dried fish and cured meats are also excluded. Before the start of this year's harvest period, Tianhao clearly defined the concept of "grain", which does not belong to rice noodles and is included in the category of "meat" and "commodity".

As a high-ranking officer of the Rock Lord, the old priest certainly knew about the existence of Jeju Island. It was a special place, and according to the latest reported figures, Quqi was doing a good job there, especially when a large area of burned forest land was cleared, and the abundant amount of plant ash contributed to the island's bumper grain production this year. At present, those people sent to the island can't eat at all, and Tianhao ordered that the excess food be stored on the island, waiting for the order to take it at any time.

Only those who have been hungry can understand how happy it is to be fed.

The sound of neat and heavy footsteps wafted over the city, and civilians were ordered early on that those living near the long-distance running route were not allowed to leave their homes, but to open their windows to watch the ceremony.

"Whoever offends me, kill!"

"Whoever insults me, kill!"

There are just two slogans, simple and clear, catchy, shouted from tens of thousands of mouths, although not too neat, but earth-shattering.

The old priest never dreamed that so many children would get together and run. This scene is not only spectacular, but also has a deep foundation support that shocks and empowers him.

There were more than 300 priests in the city. They undertake the task of educating all school-age children. Tianhao's requirements are higher than in the past, and in addition to normal literacy learning, a lot of additional content is also stipulated.

The Three Character Classic is a basic textbook. Tianhao made a modification and asked the priests to teach the students the etiquette of loyalty and filial piety, and to love the family and family.

The "second-level priesthood title exam" is a bad taste made by Tianhao. In this day and age, the title "teacher" was clearly less catchy than "priest". The lord stipulated that the high priest could receive a higher salary, provided that he attended an advanced school taught by the lord himself, passed an exam, and received a signed document proving his identity.

Mathematics courses for school-age children have begun, and elementary classes in physics and chemistry have been prepared.

Literature and art are forgotten, there is no need for this at present, especially before toilet paper is fully popularized, Tianhao feels that it is really a waste to teach children to draw on paper. Even if the Rock Collar can produce a figure comparable to Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Xu Beihong or Qi Baishi in the next few years, what is the use?

I need warriors who can cut off the heads of my enemies, not artists.

The exception is the old woman Osmanthus, who is allowed to become a specially appointed musical priest at the Rock City School. The prefix "music" was added to distinguish her from the other priests and to indicate that she was not a true witchcrafter.

"My Motherland" is all the rage in Rock Lead, and now adults and children can sing it.

In the eyes of all, the great young lord was no different from the gods. He soon came up with a new musical composition, "Descendants of the Dragon".

There is a dragon in the far east, and its name is China.

There is a group of people in the far east, and they are all descendants of dragons.

is different from "My Motherland", Tianhao has not changed a word about this song. He had seen these words in the clay stencil of the Royal Archives of Pointe-Noire, and the barbarians did not know the rhythm of music, and did not know that it was a song. Genetics have a strong memory, which motivates them to retain these vague meanings and difficult to identify.

In the concept of the barbarian, the "dragon" is a kind of sacred object, but no one has ever seen it.