[229] The totem sacrifice of the Huangqiu tribe
"Uh, hehe. At first, Chi wondered who this Lie was from Zhu Chun, and he cared so much about her, thinking that it would be a rival in love or something, but in the end, he really didn't expect Lie to be Zhu Zhen's brother, this is really a coincidence, it turns out that everyone is a family.
Presumably, the Lie's family must have been very good to Alder before, and raised her until she was fat and fat, not to mention, even if Alder was married, they would still be worried about Alder's food and clothing, whether they could eat well or something in the Huangqiu tribe.
"By the way, Auntie asked me to bring you this thing this time. Lie suddenly reached out and took out a piece of clothing from a bamboo basket he was carrying, handed it to Trush, and said.
This dress is a real garment, made entirely of linen, and although it is similar in shape to the style of animal fur clothing, the overall weight is very light, and it will be very light on the body.
Seeing this linen clothes, Shen Nong, who was standing next to him and watching, couldn't help but be stunned, if the animal skin clothes are the Stone Age in the clothes, then this linen clothes are the real Iron Age!
Since returning from the ten-part conference held in the Cangtao tribe, Shen Nong has been thinking about the flax specialties of the Honggu tribe, and he originally planned to bring some pottery to the Honggu tribe to barter with them, but then they were delayed by some sudden accidents, and the Honggu tribe has never been successful, and this transaction has not been completed.
But now, this idea has been reborn in Shen Nong's heart, he wants to trade linen fabrics with the Honggu tribe!
"Lie, do you still have more of this thing in your tribe?" Shen Nong asked aloud.
Hearing Shen Nong's words, Lie couldn't help but ask Zhu Zhen, "Is he?"
"This is the witch of our tribe. Zhu Chun hurriedly replied, his hand was also pushing Lie, and motioned for him to hurry up and talk to Shen Nong, don't let others think that you are disrespectful to Wu.
"Oh, Wu, I'm the Lie of the Red Valley Tribe, and the linen you mentioned is still a few in our Red Valley Tribe, all of which were just made by everyone. ”
Shen Nong nodded: "Then are you willing to use linen to trade other things with our Huangqiu tribe?"
This question stopped Lie, he is not a person who can make decisions in the tribe, he is just an ordinary clansman of the Honggu tribe, how can he represent the Honggu tribe to make a deal with the Huangqiu tribe.
"Wu, I'm going to go back and ask the chief and Wu what they mean. Lie said.
"It's okay, don't worry, anyway, with the current relationship between our two tribes, we will definitely have to make a deal in the future. Shen Nong didn't urge, but changed the topic and said: "You come to Huangqiu this time, just stay for a few days before leaving, it just so happens that our tribe is going to hold a totem sacrifice ceremony recently, you can stay and see." ”
"Totem Sacrifice Ritual?!Okay!" Lie immediately laughed happily when he heard Shen Nong's words.
For any tribe, the three activities of spring hunting, totem sacrifice ceremonies and shaman ranking are always the most lively and interesting.
Spring hunting refers to the passing of the cold season, the earth begins to recover, the snow melts, and those wild beasts have run out of their lairs, and at this time, in order to celebrate their tribe can survive in the cold season, each tribe will hold a spring hunt, which means that the crisis has passed and ushered in a new life.
The rank of shaman means that when a witch dies, the shaman he selected and taught during his lifetime will replace the position of the previous generation of witches and become the new witch of the tribe, which is equivalent to an 'enthronement' ceremony.
And the last totem sacrifice ceremony is what Shen Nong is about to do, the totem sacrifice ceremony, only when there is a quasi-warrior who is willing to become a real warrior will be held, the tribe of the tribe will use the bones of the beast to build a bone altar for him, and then prepare three large, medium and small living beasts for sacrifice.
This is only the first step of the ceremony, the next steps have to rely on the quasi-warrior himself, first he has to be accompanied by a second-level warrior, to find a mutual-blooded beast, and then the second-level warrior does not interfere, one-on-one with the mutual-blooded beast.
Everyone knows that only a second-level warrior can easily defeat a mutual-blooded beast, and a first-level warrior can only fight with a mutous-blooded beast, and no one can subdue anyone.
And when it comes to quasi-warriors, for quasi-warriors, the hybrid beast is a nightmarish existence, and it is impossible for a quasi-warrior to defeat the hybrid beast.
Of course, the purpose of this step is not to send the would-be warrior to death, but to test whether he has the ability to withstand the totem brand.
In this process of fighting the Mixed Blood Beast, as long as the quasi-warrior can rely on his own strength to inflict a little injury on the body of the Mixed Blood Beast, even if the quasi-warrior has the qualification to accept the totem brand, the second-level warrior standing by and watching the battle will immediately help kill the Mixed Blood Beast and use its blood to water the tribal totem.
This is the process of the entire totem sacrifice ceremony, in this primitive era when there is no entertainment at all, the totem sacrifice ceremony is undoubtedly the existence of the anniversary carnival.
This time, when I came to the Huangqiu tribe, I was able to visit a totem sacrifice ceremony, and the hearts of the Lie and his party were simply happy.
"I was so lucky. Lie couldn't help but think to himself.
"Chi, you call a few clansmen, and then take your men to build wooden houses for your friends from the Honggu tribe. Shen Nong said to Chi.
"Yes. Chi nodded, and immediately turned around and went to action.
Since Shen Nong used those imprisoned eel slaves to implement the squad system within the Huangqiu tribe, the status of each Huangqiu tribesman has been raised by one level, because each of them has their own eel slaves that they can call at will.
It can be said that the current status stratification within the Huangqiu tribe is as follows: Shen Nong (the highest) - Xiong Yao (chief), Red - Chi, Qiu Zhi, Sha Tiannu - ordinary people - eel slaves.
I believe that as long as this squad system is maintained, after more slaves are captured in the future, it can be used to fill the total number of each squad, and when the number of squads finally reaches an upper limit, Shen Nong will select a few of the most obedient and accustomed slaves who have accepted their slave status as slave squad leaders, and continue to manage more slaves for the Huangqiu people.
At that time, the hierarchical stratification would look like this: Huangqiu people - slave captain - slave squadron leader - slave squad leader - slave.
If there are slaves who perform well and are loyal enough to the Huangqiu tribe, Shen Nong can also promote him to have a free status, be able to move around the ancestral land at will, find women, sit by the bone pot to eat, have his own wooden house, and many other luxurious benefits, and grant him the position of slave chief, who is responsible for managing the captain of the slave brigade, and then the status of the Huangqiu tribe can be upgraded by one level.
And this practice of catching slaves can also be applied to deal with those scattered tribes, if Shen Nong feels that the Huangqiu tribe cannot be able to assimilate the received scattered tribes in a short period of time, then he can directly ask Xiong Sickle and Chi to take some quasi-warriors to destroy this scattered tribe, and then capture all the tribesmen of the scattered tribe, regardless of gender, old and young, back as slaves, so that the population of the Huangqiu tribe will not skyrocket at a crazy speed.
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Lie and his party lived in the Huangqiu tribe like this, while Shen Nong took Luo Man to Bai Ze every day to bomb the white coccus, trying to restore Bai Ze to normal as soon as possible, after all, the current water storage in the Huangqiu tribe is not much.
For Shao Hao's totem sacrifice ceremony, everyone in the tribe got busy, and went to the big cave to take out the animal bones that had been saved before, and went to the open place next to the grass to set up a bone altar.
The bone altar is made up of a large number of bones, and at the same time, it is necessary to ensure the stability of this altar, so that the witch and quasi-warriors will not suddenly collapse when they stand on it for the ceremony, and use various bone sticks, bone legs, and broken bones to build a stable altar. The altars used by these first-level warriors in the totem sacrifice ceremony were also built by them.
Looking at the bone altar on the grass that was getting higher and higher, and gradually had the outline of the altar, Shen Nong couldn't help frowning deeply, I don't know why, when he saw this altar, he always felt as if he had forgotten something important.
"Wu, we knew that when we were in the Mud Eel Tribe, we should have dismantled their altar and brought it back, but now there are not enough bones in our tribe to put up the altar. Peck the bone and walked up to Shen Nong with a bone stick, complaining very casually.
Mud Eel Tribe!
Shen Nong's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, but he said excitedly: "That's right! It's the Mud Eel Tribe, I actually forgot that thing!"
I still remember that on the white bone altar in the ancestral land of the Mud Eel Tribe, there was a skull, this skull looked ordinary, but it contained a very terrifying cyan fireworks, Shen Nong had no means to take it away, so he left the skull in the Mud Eel Tribe, planning to invite Luo Man to go out to see what the origin of the skull was and what mysteries it hid.
But it's a pity that with many days of beast tides, insect tides, and going to the western forest to collect honey, so many days have passed, but Shen Nong has forgotten about the skull, if he hadn't suddenly thought of this matter today, I'm afraid he would have forgotten it for a long time.