Chapter Seventy-Seven: Alchemy
In the end, I "invited" the poison woman to the oracle, but she was overjoyed, in other words, she received more from me than she had expected;
I promised her that the only forty or fifty remaining pregnant women in the Ministry of Narcotics would be raised by me with rice and meat, and that I would ensure a daily supply of fresh fruits, at least to ensure their food and clothing;
It is clear that I am not such a good person, and in exchange, the existing people of the Poison Ministry, including the woman of the Poison Ministry, will be reduced to slaves;
But this kind of subordinate slaves are different from slaves, they are not anyone's slaves, but they are not assigned to cultivate the land, and all subordinate slaves will be personally assigned their own labor content, such as dirt road care, fertilizer cultivation, aqueduct construction and other civil engineering work;
Above all, this reproach will only befall their generation of poison tribesmen, and their next generation, including these children in their wombs, will be my people, no different from the other white robes;
The look of joy and joy on the face of the poison woman when she left the oracle made me immediately feel that I might well have suffered a loss, but so what? What I want is complete integration, not let them hang the name of the Ministry of Drugs in the future, to put it bluntly, there will be no Ministry of Drugs in the future, as long as they land on this island with long legs, they will all be Lao Tzu!
But this feeling of loss was not a taste after all, so at the moment when she had just stepped out of the oracle on her front foot, I shouted again: "All poisonous tribesmen who are more than four months pregnant and less than eight months old must still participate in the labor", but this did not make her feel unhappy in the slightest, but as if she had received some favor, she leaned down in front of the oracle steps and bowed to me a few times, and then turned back and left again;
"The Protoss is full of people, and we are willing to become such a slave, as long as you are willing to leave us in the Qi clan like the Ministry of Poison";
Qi Wu looked at the back of the Ministry of Poison leaving, turned around and saw that I did not answer her in the slightest, so he also bowed to the ground like her and continued:
"The Qi tribe doesn't have so many ready-made gestations, but my people are willing to breed offspring for the God Clan, and we are willing to contribute half of the beautiful tribesmen like Huangya to you, so that Shanman you are satisfied";
But how did she know, what I'm thinking about now is the one that was just added to the Ministry of Drugs... In the eyes of the natives, those who are pregnant and infertile have to work, and they don't need any special treatment at all......
Seeing that I was holding my cheeks, my face was still expressionless, and he didn't mean to be moved at all, and his face was extremely embarrassed:
"You must not let my people become your slaves, not even the slaves of the ......," said Qi Wu, as he reached out to touch the crutches on the ground, and saw that the posture was so humiliating that he wanted to leave angrily;
"Stop! Who made you slaves? We don't need slaves," I said to Qi Wu;
"That's... So what do you want us to do? Are you...", she said, looking at me in surprise, as if to say, "Do you want all the women of my Qi tribe?" ”;
I smiled and shook my head, "You are neither slaves nor slaves," and then leaned forward a little, looked into the old woman's eyes, and said, "I will treat you as if I were my own people, and give all my people land to cultivate, to raise their own livestock, to give you mud houses and new linen clothes";
I thought that this old fox would be as happy as the woman of the poison department when she heard my words, but who knew that after hearing this, her brows actually wrinkled even tighter, and a big Sichuan character was formed on her forehead:
"Do you really want all the women of my Qi clan to be enjoyed by you alone?";
"No, I don't! I'm sure you've heard that this island doesn't allow you to have the same way of having sex as before, and I only allow single men and women in my clan to unite with each other, so that you can get the favor and protection of the wood god, otherwise you will violate the divine right and will be punished very severely, and even I am no exception";
As soon as the words came out, I immediately thought of the Sichuan girl and the Qi girl in the house behind the oracle, and thought that I had really stumbled on myself again!
Qi Wu wanted to ask something, but I stopped him: "Don't worry, listen to me, answer me a question first, how did you make that mask substitute?" ”;
She was stunned by what I said, seemed to be relieved but immediately became nervous, and then looked at the wooden box beside her: "I told you, will you take us in?" ”;
I nodded without the slightest hesitation about her question, because I had just figured out one thing, if I could really understand the process of metal smelting and making molds that can withstand high temperatures, there would be enough metal weapons and working tools, and as for whether these hundreds of people of the Qi tribe are standing alone on the mountain... Don't forget that the Qiang and Jurchen people in Chinese history, and even the plateau peoples who hit the Rhine River, did not escape the fate of being integrated after being "invaded by culture";
After all, in the future, they will wear the clothes of our tribe, eat unique food, live in comfortable earthen houses, use the unique cultural rules and writing of this island, and have warriors armed with metal weapons to ensure their safety, and the ghosts will be willing to follow this old witch back to live that life without food and clothing, and this is my cultural invasion;
"This mask is a sacred relic of Li Zu, and in order not to be surprised, generations of Qiwu will make a substitute ......";
The Qiwu in front of me spoke for more than twenty minutes, the local language was too complicated, and there were too many proper nouns that I had never heard before, and I even had to call out the Sichuan girl to help me explain those words, so I understood a rough idea;
Luckily, it's a craft and not a borrowing from some accidental natural resource, such as a volcano......
In the final analysis, she just uses hardwood as the mold carrier, spreads sand on the lower layer, and injects water into the bottom layer, throwing an extremely hard-to-find crimson stone into a one-person-high earthen oven made of clay to melt into a liquid state at high temperature, and then injecting the metal liquid into the mold, at the moment when the metal heat flow burns the hardwood mold, a large amount of heat energy on the lower sand wood mold is introduced into the bottom water, and the cold new water that is constantly injected will squeeze out the hot water to form a simple cooling principle;
But it's easy to say, in the countless experiments I had with the old stonemason, we had never thought of using such a complex process, and we didn't even understand how to liquefy the ore to soften the unknown metal, so we had to abandon the plan;
It wasn't until Qi Wu drew the appearance of the entire earthen furnace with the carbon blocks found by the Sichuan girl that I realized that this was a primitive blast furnace, something that I had only heard of but had never seen in the past.
"Protoss Shanman, did you promise me and my people to stay?" Until I fully understood her words, Qi Wu confirmed to me noncommittally;
"Yes, in the future, regardless of the Qi tribe and the Banpo tribe, you will all be my clansmen", I looked at Qi Wu with a sincere face and said slowly;
"Your people? Didn't you just say ......"
"I promised to let you stay, but we have to live together, my people are also the descendants of Li Zu, they are Ji Ya's people, you should know this"
I paused and said: "You have a common Li ancestor, you all guard the blessing of the sun god and the wood god, no matter why it fell apart dozens of generations and hundreds of generations ago, now that you are back together again, I will not treat you differently, please rest assured, not to mention, in the future, you will be the deputy leader of this tribe, with the same rights and status as me";
"Deputy Chief?";
"Yes, deputy chief, the only deputy leader of this tribe today, you have full authority to handle the production of tools in the tribe in the future, can you do it?";
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