Chapter 365: Civilization (4)

The old woman, who was immersed in victory and gain, soon changed her face, and after more than fifty years of silence, she received the oracle for the first time, and her heart, which had once doubted the existence of the bluestone god, became firm again. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, her surprise soon turned into extreme panic and uneasiness, she looked at the oracle in front of her, and was completely unable to understand the message of the bluestone god - the great bluestone god actually asked her to treat the prisoners of war preferentially, otherwise the bluestone tribe would become an outcast of the gods.

The old woman entered the temple with tears in her eyes, and kowtowed like garlic. To tell the truth, seeing an old lady pitifully bowing to the stone, Ah Heng really couldn't bear it, but when he thought of those brutal acts, Ah Heng's heart was like a stone.

However, the other party's sincere and repentant appearance still made Ah Heng's anger a little less.

Just as Ah Heng was about to forgive the other party, the old woman began to pray, and when she heard it, Ah Heng was so angry that she almost vomited blood, and those strange tones were to the effect of the following:

"The great bluestone god, your most loyal servant, the fifty-second generation of God's chosen one, Chi You cannot understand your will. Am I doing something wrong to make you so angry?

Great Bluestone God, for fifty-three years, the Chiyu clan has not been able to hear your holy voice, so it is inevitable that he will do something wrong. Maybe you were flying birds in the sky and stars, walking in the clouds. The bluestone tribe is like a lonely child walking in the dark, and our hearts are full of fear.

Allow me, your most loyal servant, to tell you carefully what has happened in the past fifty-three years...... "Chi You held the animal bones and began to tell the hard stories of these years, and Ah Heng listened to it with a sense of sleep.

From dark to dawn, and from dawn to dark. Chiyou, who was still in good spirits, finally concluded: "Under your guidance, the Qingshi tribe has lived a stable and prosperous life. However, the abundance of bluestone aroused the greed's covetousness, and wars broke out continuously, and we had to give up hunting and go to the battlefield.

In the past few decades, many people have died in the bluestone tribe, but with the efforts of the bluestone women to reproduce, the tribe is still growing, and in order to feed the warriors and the tribe's children, the people of bluestone can only keep fighting.

Great bluestone god, this is all that has happened in the fifty-three years that you have left us. If we do anything wrong, we hope to be forgiven by you and continue to bless your people!"

Ah Heng sneered, this stupid old woman, does she think that she can please herself by patting her ass? You know, the most terrible thing is not to deliberately commit crimes, but to take crimes for granted. Ah Heng can understand the move of starting a war because of the increase in the population of the tribe, but it is too frustrating to rob other people's land and kill the other party's population.

Wiping her snot and tears, Chi Yu knelt in the temple all night, and without receiving any oracles, she could only leave the temple with staggering steps, and the whole person was much older.

Ah Heng was unmoved. If he wants to reverse the brutal habits of these tribesmen, he must not be soft-hearted. At this time, Ah Heng didn't notice the subtle changes in his mentality at all, he no longer regarded himself as an indifferent bystander, but really participated in the development of the Qingyu world. He educated the people, developed the tribe, and even began to interfere in the tribe's decision-making.

Through this incident, Ah Heng discovered the disadvantages of the tribe linked by blood, although they have strong cohesion, they also have incredible xenophobia. When the living space is squeezed, they treat their non-bloodline counterparts much better than they do to beasts.

In Ah Heng's view, the preferential treatment of prisoners of war is actually a good thing to kill two birds with one stone, these prisoners of war can not only bring more labor to the tribe, but also establish the moral concept of the bluestone tribe, which is an important difference between civilization and barbarism.

After the Chiyou clan obtained the oracle, the bluestone tribe faithfully fulfilled Ah Heng's decision, and the prisoners of war were no longer killed, but lived on the bluestone grassland like the tribesmen. The only difference was that the prisoners of war were not distrusted due to their lack of blood origin, they had no freedom and lacked the necessary tools and weapons.

A few years after the oracle, Ah Heng suddenly found that the Bluestone Academy Palace had become empty. The number of scholars has decreased dramatically, and they have put down their tortoiseshell bones, left the academy, and re-sharpened their weapons with stones, serving as warriors of the tribe.

At the same time, Ah Heng found that the scope of his spiritual power was getting narrower and narrower, which meant that the faith of the people of the Qingshi tribe had been shaken. When those believers turn their backs on the faith, Ah Heng's control over the world will become less and less, which is not a good phenomenon. Once he closed his eyes and listened, Ah Heng would no longer be able to find the exit of the secret realm of the ancient temple.

Ah Heng had to walk out of the temple to find out why this change had happened. Then he was stunned by what he saw, the tribe became depressed, the people did not have enough to eat, and there was war everywhere.

It didn't take much time, and Ah Heng found the crux of the problem from people's complaints.

The main culprits of decay were the captives with whom Ah Heng sympathized, and although they were driven to do all kinds of labor, their output was simply not enough to make ends meet. In a word, they couldn't even feed themselves, but they used up the excess output of the Qingshi tribe, and in the end, even the bluestone academy palace that the bluestone tribe was tightly clothed and enshrined had to be abolished.

Ah Heng sighed, the Qingshi Academy Palace is of great significance for stabilizing the beliefs of the tribal people. But now that the scholars of Lian Xuegong have doubts about their faith, who can he count on? This time, he was really wrong!

Ah Heng was extremely ashamed, he never thought that his small decision would have such a far-reaching impact! Position determines the head, an ordinary person, a general, and an emperor must treat the same thing differently.

Kindness is a virtue in an ordinary person, but it is a fatal flaw in a general, and in an emperor, I am afraid that it is a disaster for the whole country.

Ah Heng quickly figured out the problem - he underestimated the primitiveness of the Bluestone tribe and overestimated the production capacity of those prisoners of war. Whether it's the Bluestone tribe or the enemies of the bluestone tribe, morality is a joke when survival is in question.

When the victory in the war did not bring a harvest to the bluestone tribe, but added an endless burden, the suspicion of the oracle naturally occurred. When the other tribes discovered that the mighty Bluestone tribe was so "stupid", their wars became even more unscrupulous and endless.

Ah Heng had to return to the temple and summon his only loyal servant, the dying Chi You.

The old woman wept aloud, the fall of the temple had already filled her heart with fear. Over the past few years, her firm belief has made her dare not doubt the correctness of the bluestone gods. However, the tribe is declining, and she has nothing she can do.

Finally, when her life was about to run out, she finally saw the oracle, and this time, it was ...... The great bluestone deity was apologizing to her.

Chiyu immediately begged the god of bluestone for permission to kill the captives, believing that by executing the disgruntled and lazy aliens, the bluestone tribe would regain its glory. To her disappointment, however, the bluestone deity once again rejected her request.

Ah Heng ordered the Chiyou clan to lead the people to find a stone called malachite, which resembled the green of the spots on the peacock's feathers. Just throw it into the stone furnace where the pottery is fired, and you can save the decaying bluestone tribe and move towards a stronger future.

The apprehensive Chiyu left with the last trust and hope.

Ah Heng began to consider the matter in its entirety, and the problem of prisoners of war was the low production capacity. In order to make use of those prisoners of war, they must first be able to feed themselves, and the most suitable option is for them to reclaim the wasteland. Coming from a more advanced continental civilization, Ah Heng naturally knew that the land produced not only wild beasts, but also grain.

Moreover, farming, unlike hunting, can greatly restrict the freedom of prisoners of war and make them less threatening. In this way, the prisoners of war were not only able to support themselves, but also to support the bluestone tribe. The biggest trouble is the agricultural tools, those stone grinding tools are not only difficult to make, but also limited in variety, which cannot meet the needs of agriculture.

However, since the bluestone tribe can fire pottery, it is not a problem to smelt copper that does not require high requirements - pottery can be used to make molds, and the temperature of burnt paper pottery is also enough to melt malachite to obtain copper embryos.

Whether it is smelting or agriculture, Ah Heng only knows a little about it. He can only carve a crude idea on the bluestone, and he believes that the bluestone tribe with the "scholars" will definitely solve this problem, and all they need is time.

Ah Heng didn't know that his unconscious actions had opened the door to another era, which was undoubtedly more prosperous, but also destined to be more bloody.

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A few years later, the extremely old Chi Youshi slowly chewed the roasted ears of wheat, looked at the majestic warriors holding bronze weapons and went on the expedition, and said the last words of his life: "Great bluestone god, it turns out that you have never missed it, and it is us ignorant mortals who are wrong." We misunderstood you, but you helped us start a great era!"

Only a hundred years after this sentence was spoken, a dynasty rose to the name "Qingshi Dynasty". Tens of thousands of slaves, driven by bluestone soldiers, built a miracle bluestone temple. The temple stands in the bluestone meadow and becomes an immortal spectacle.

With the expedition of the Bluestone tribe, the original blood-related tribe has faded and been replaced by a slave state bound by power and profit.

When Ah Heng stood on the top of the newly built bluestone temple, his spiritual power had crossed the distance of tens of thousands of miles, and in this vast world, he even saw a civilization that also had bronze, maybe even without his promotion, a country dominated by bronze would appear sooner or later. He's just bringing the process forward.

Looking at the vicissitudes of tens of thousands of years, Ah Heng suddenly thought of a question, if the civilization under his feet continued to develop, would it have a brilliant civilization like the three major powers on the mainland?

The Bluestone Dynasty developed from the primitive tribes, and the mainland civilization came from the ancient gods, which one is real? Why did the Bluestone Dynasty appear in the Qingyu world of the ancient temple, and what did it tell itself?

Ah Heng thought back to the ten thousand years of the Qingyu world, and thought of the ancient temple outside, as well as the more distant continental civilization. He suddenly felt that the place where he was standing seemed to be a link between the ancient and the future.

Ah Heng couldn't help but have a bold idea: Could the Bluestone Dynasty be the past of the Ancient Divine Race, but it was recorded in the Qingyu World of the Ancient Temple in a strange way, and the mainland civilization was the future of the Ancient Divine Race, and both worlds were real.

If this is the case, then if the Bluestone Dynasty under his feet continues to develop, will it have terrifying powers comparable to the legendary Ancient Protoss? Or, will the Ancient Protoss appear in the Qingyu World? Why did they disappear? Why is the Protoss on the continent so weakened now?Why does the Eternal Night exist?

Ah Heng believes that even if people will die and civilization will die, there are always some things that exist forever, and these things reveal the secret of the rise and fall of civilization.

What Ah Heng didn't notice was that at the end of the sky in the Qingyu World, a pair of deep eyes showed an admiring gaze, as if they were thinking about something?

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