Section 564 The Art and Civilization of the Barbarians
The punishment for the monthly examination also follows the 60-point passing system, but the punishment is more severe, and there is no 59-50 "light punishment" threshold, no matter who the monthly examination score is less than 60, they can only wait for death, and they will suffer a tragic punishment of 300 knives.
In the eyes of all white trainees, the ink-printed dragon textbooks are simply more important than their own parents. If you lose it, you will never get a passing score, let alone a good score. In the face of brutal death threats, they are desperate to race against time to learn frantically, whether they disagree with polyphonic words or the same word, compared to death, the complex concept of understanding seems so cute.
There are always those who are unbelievers. There will always be a few thorns in the prisoners of war, who refuse to obey discipline and refuse to learn. In fact, the Imperial War Office was glad that these archetypal models had come forward to help the officers and sentries educate the other captives———— poking them through the middle of their buttocks with a red-hot iron, making an opening in their stomachs for the rats to actively seek fresh food, cutting off their fingers and toes, and tying up the prisoners and throwing them at the ant's nest...... There are too many methods, and every execution will organize everyone to watch, and write down what they have seen in dragon language, and attach the experience of this observation and learning.
Tianhao's requirements for these white dragon teachers are not too high, as long as they return to the south and provide basic education to white students. No literature, no art, no music.
Of course, this is only for white people. In the vast land north of the Shenwei Fortress, Tianhao is carefully caring for the cultural sprouts that poke out from the people.
The old woman Cuihua has become a celebrity. The song "My Motherland" became popular and became the most popular and important track wherever she went. Although she is getting older, her teeth are falling out, her mouth is leaking, she often babbles more than she sings, and the lyrics are often not remembered, and she can only hum with the syllables, but the audience does not care about these, they often overwhelm the old woman Ah Fang standing on the stage holding an iron microphone with a chorus of hundreds of people, causing the solo concert to completely become a national party on and off the stage.
In life, there must always be entertainment and pastime.
There is no tribal division, and there is no war. People who truly enjoy peace no longer have to worry about their women being snatched away by foreign enemies, and they no longer have to worry about their sons and daughters becoming meat in other people's mouths. Blackhorn City, Buck City, Rock City, Xindu, Tianjing City...... Cities and villages, large and small, began to build new temples. Instead of worshipping the gods that the tribes used to believe, there stood a young king with a heroic image.
"Without Your Majesty, we would not be able to live the way we are today. They have enough to eat, they have clothes to wear, and they even have meat and wine during the New Year's Festival, and they are not short of salt and oil. ”
The old people often said these things when they got together, and the topic of conversation always revolved around the young emperor who was fighting in the south of the continent.
The eyes of the people are bright.
The war in the South went well. Most of the territory of the Saxon kingdom has been occupied, and with the help of many leading parties, including Count Laurent, Tianhao's looting of Saxon wealth has also reached its extreme. Among the units under the command of the Imperial Logistics Department, nothing was busier than the fleet. They established a new route between the port of Le Breen and the city of Rock, where all transport ships are running at high speed every day. Huge quantities of cloth were brought in from the south, tons of grain, potatoes, and corn filled the holds, as well as staggering quantities of gold and silver.
The title of "Pig Farm Manager" was very prominent within the Empire, and Yongkang was promoted to become the Minister of Agriculture of the Empire and the Director of the Animal Husbandry Bureau because of his outstanding achievements in breeding all year round. In response to the "Macbeth" pigs unique to the Saxon kingdom, he designed and developed a special transport ship, which looted more than 4 million pigs from the front-line troops and transported them to the north.
This is only a part of the existing pigs in Saxon. If it weren't for Tianhao's timely stop to the reckless action of the front-line troops, which was tantamount to killing chickens and eggs, the number of pigs that were transported away would have been even higher. Even so, the number of pigs in the Saxon counties still exceeds five million, and possibly even more than seven million.
Oxen, sheep, horses, donkeys, mules...... These large livestock, along with prisoners of war and civilians, traveled overland along the Kamui Fort passage to the north.
Cattle and sheep in the south are small and cannot participate in cultivation and transportation in the form of animal power. Their greatest use is as food, slaughtered in a designated location, separated from fur and other products, and then salted, smoked, and dried to become meat products that can be stored for a long time.
Livestock in the north of the continent must be kept so that they do not need to be slaughtered as a supplement to the daily diet. Tianhao has built feedlots in various towns in the Saxon occupied areas, and a meat processing industry has emerged. In those fiefdoms that had been promised and given to the nobles of the defectors, livestock would be traded at the price set by Tianhao. Of course, the price will not be too low, at least let those people make a little profit.
Poultry farms are an important part of the plan. The dwarf southern chickens and ducks are not on the list of surviving species, and Tianhao intends to completely extinct them, and instead use the chickens and ducks introduced from the north to become the main products of southern farms. This is completely from the perspective of a giant, and Tianhao ignores the various consequences that may be caused by this...... Species extinction has no weight in his logical framework, nor does it have the slightest sense of existence. As long as my people can be fed, clothed, and live a rich and happy life, even if all the animals in the world are killed, it is worth it in Tianhao's opinion.
As for what white people think...... Hehe......
When exactly did the first giant painter appear?
There is no way to answer this question. According to the results of the investigation by local officials, the origin of imperial painting was a "zoo" located in the seaside fishing village of Rock City. A dragon guard serving as a sentry, or multiple guards, was on execution and cut off the head of a white prisoner of war with a knife. A large amount of blood spurted from the broken neck, and there was a concrete clearing next to it, and the red liquid slowly flowed on the gray ground, and a picture appeared that seemed quite interesting to the guards.
Someone cut off the fingers of the dead white and used them as paintbrushes, dipped them in the blood, and gradually sketched out houses, guard towers, slave camps, and even smeared the sea with large areas of blood.
From the point of view of a professional painter of the civilized era, all this is crude, and it should even be said that it is extremely clumsy children's painting.
These guards may have been born with artistic cells, and they have been out of control since then, and they have begun to like this new art of painting.
Yes, in the eyes of Tianhao, who later learned about this, this was indeed the beginning of art.
There are not many colors that can be used, nothing more than mineral pigments mainly red and black, and of course blood from white people. In order to satisfy the guards' strong desire for personal artistic expression, at least twenty white men in the "zoo" were cut off their fingers in batches at different times during that time, just to get fresh blood.
They later found that painting with charcoal strips was more effective, and this "craft" gradually spread, and was liked and accepted by more people.
The first person to paint the walls of a room as a decoration was an old man who lived in Thunderhorn City. He was a veteran who had lost his left leg on a tribal battlefield, and he painted all four walls of his residence with charcoal. The content of the paintings is his own personal experience: there are prayers and sacrificial ceremonies, scenes of siege and victory, bloody battles, and happy life after the battle...... There are no specific character sketches, but there are six small figures dancing hand in hand, representing him and his wife, brother and sister, and two adult children.
People come and go, and they all like to visit the door.
The "wall painter", a new profession that had never been seen in the history of the northern barbarians, appeared.
Women love flowers, especially young girls, who want to see bright petals all year round, and also put more demands on wallmen. In order to meet their needs in terms of color, wall-painters began to look for more sources of color, especially plants.
Impatiens can be exploited, and variants of pansies can also be collected and pressed to get a lovely blue color. It has long been discovered that orange peel can be dyed yellow, and sulfur by-products from the Jeju Island military factory can be used for color mixing.
In this era, there was no painting teaching subject, but it did not prevent people who pursued art from discovering the law of the three primary colors, and then produced more harmonious colors.
Mocking Wind is Tianhao's fourth son, and he has loved listening to stories since he was a child. Ayi is a competent mother who always meets her children's requirements in this regard before they go to sleep. Gods and warriors, patriarchs and clowns, beautiful princesses are of course included in the story, and wars that all boys are interested in.
Mocking Wind didn't know that there was a profession called "writer" in the era of civilization. Although under the age of 10 and not an adult, Mock Wind believes that the meaning of writing and recording is to make oneself happy. He recorded all the stories he had heard from his mother, and in turn raised the demands of the stories to seek knowledge from all the people he knew.
Tribal Wars, the Rise of Panshi Village, the young King of the Thunder Ox Tribe, the staunchest supporter of the Great Brother, the great regent of the Ox Clan...... No one would have thought that a long book would be born in the hands of a child. The status of the prince of the mocking wind had a special effect at this time, and he used his pocket money to print the first book at his own expense. The content is very simple, telling about the contradictions between ancient tribes, which in turn led to wars. The story was not surprising to the old people, who had all experienced something similar, but the young people did not think so, and as more than a hundred of the original books circulated among the crowd, the book quickly became hot and sought after. In this way, word of mouth spreads, and those who have never seen it feel itchy and scratched, so they ask everywhere where they can sell it......
Ayi didn't understand this at all, she didn't understand why Mockery's fame suddenly became so big overnight. In a panic, she ordered these books to be temporarily withheld, wrote down the details of the matter in the letter, and sent someone to Tianhao as soon as possible.
It was a critical moment in the battle against the Deer Clan. He smiled at this, he didn't expect his youngest son to show amazing talent in this regard. The reply to Ayi is also very simple———— let go and let him do it!
Soon, more than 60,000 copies of the book, titled "Tribal Wars," were printed, and more than 95 percent of the book was actually sold.
At that time, there were no dragons, and Tianhao's identity was only the regent of the Niu clan. The entire cattle tribe has a population of less than 10 million, and this proportion of publications is already very high.
The mocking wind opened a door for many people, and they saw a whole new world. The young shamans, in particular, suddenly discovered that there was still this way of life that was dedicated to writing and writing. In this way, driven by the ridicule, poetry and prose became an important part of the cultural circle of the empire. Although the number of shamans who are dedicated to writing is small, they have a strong and strong sense of creativity. After all, there is so much to write about, especially the war in the South that is currently going on, and just looking at the millions of white captives makes people's blood boil, and they want to record it all with their pen and go down in history forever.
The flute was driven by Tianhao from the Panshizhai period. Although there was no bamboo, Tianhao got a few copper pipes from the blacksmith. At that time, he was very lonely, and there was no entertainment after the sun went down every day, and in order to pass the time before falling asleep, Tianhao transformed one of the brass pipes into a flute, although the sound was not very good, but it surprised the two brothers and sisters, and also brought him the happiness he wanted.
The most common musical instrument used by the northern barbarians was the drum. The best quality drums are made of bear skin, and they have to be fierce and terrifying maned bears. Rinse the hair with furnace ash, scrape off the grease from the inner layer of the bearskin, make it tough, cover the surface of the prefabricated wooden hoop, and after post-processing, it can become a drum of excellent quality.
Tianhao "invented" the erhu and harmonica, in addition to the flute, which was the instrument he was most familiar with in the era of civilization.
The existence of neighborhood committees and neighborhood offices allowed the empire to control the common people to the extreme. In particular, the birth of new things will always be noticed by local civil affairs officials at the first time.
An instrument between the Yueqin and the Biwa appeared, and it could be played in many ways, either by playing it on your lap or by holding it horizontally and flirting with your fingers like a guitar.
In this regard, Tianhao could only smile.
That's a good thing. The birth and development of art will always run through civilized society. Although the words "northern barbarians" sound powerful and majestic, they have an indescribable sense of vulgarity. White Southerners, in particular, had their awe based entirely on war. Subconsciously, they still feel disdain for the northern giants.
The word "barbarian" is enough to explain the problem.
The attitude of the superior towards the new is everything.