Chapter 54: Six Thousand Years of Tribes' Defeat

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With the phrase "the new boss voting activity begins", 3,107 new leaders from various positions sat in the council hall of the shelter cave, picked up the wooden darts placed in the wooden cylinders on the stone table in front of each person, and threw them at the bullseye used for resolution. This mode of resolution is a new product of Hado's reform before he left the tribe this time, it allows the new leaders to vote on various matters in the tribe, and does not require them to leave their seats and throw the dart directly at the corresponding bull's-eye.

The starting position is for approval, the end position is for opposition, and the middle target is abstention. Every time a vote is needed, the new leader who proposes the bill will speak on the stage, and then everyone can throw a wooden dart to vote. In order to save time and avoid the cumbersome process of reissuing darts, 200 darts are specially prepared for each new boss, which is definitely enough.

Before voting, new leaders are allowed to canvass for votes with each other, and in order to create a more relaxed atmosphere, each new leader has two votes, so there is the result of throwing one target and throwing two different targets at the same time.

After throwing the darts, count the number of darts on each target, and if you agree with more, you will reject it, and if you abstain more, you will ask for amendments (if you abstain and agree more, you will revise a few articles, and if you abstain and oppose more, you will basically completely change the entire proposal). In addition, since the total number of new leaders is not a multiple of three, it is unlikely that the number of targets on the three targets will be the same, so this method of voting is also relatively efficient.

During this period, the new leaders voted to adopt new systems and regulations in many aspects, including technology, farming, fishing and hunting, dwelling construction, and mapping, which really brought the development of the tribe to a new level. For example, the craftsmen of the border fortress (formerly the "Mu-Tua-Yin" fortress) found that equipping the trolley with one wheel on each side could effectively improve stability, and when the speed of the two wheels was different, the trolley would turn along the side with the fastest rotation. The craftsmen in charge of digging caves found that by inserting a dry mahogany wedge into a stone crack and then pouring enough water on it, the wooden wedge could absorb enough water to expand, and then crack the rock, so that the rock formation that needed to be excavated could be broken efficiently; the hunter who managed the granary and wheat seed suggested that through the application of wind power and new gears (mainly ratchets), a wind-powered hinge grain smashing machine could be created, and the wind power could be used to push the winch to lift the weight to a high place, and then the protrusion on the weight hit the clip of the ratchet, and the winch would immediately relax to let the weight fall, smash the grain.

These "high-tech" proposals were all voted on by the new leaders, and a large number of technologies and processes in the tribe were voted on by the new leaders, and many of the technologies that were actually sorted out were 4,000 years ago: they have not been put into practical use for so many years, and I don't know whether to say that they are back to basics or backward in thinking.

In just half a month, the scene in the tribe has changed dramatically: the cement sintering process has been improved, a cement calciner weighing 400 people per day has been built, iron powder has been coated with tubular clay, and the original iron bars have been formed and tested to be fully suitable for house construction, high-purity flat glass has been manufactured to keep out the wind and light for concrete buildings, weaving technology from the two river basins has been absorbed and improved into a water-powered automatic loom, and the aqueduct made of standard stone blocks (2x1x1 cubic arm length) is now availableThe water source of "Falie" directly supplies water to the cave where there is a danger refuge, and on the terrain with elevation difference, a waterwheel is also used to create a mechanical structure of "lifting water with water": where there is a height difference, an additional waterway will be built, and when the water flowing from the main waterway falls to the additional waterway, it will drive the waterwheel to lift water from the front section of the main waterway to the higher waterway, which can not only meet the demand for water transportation, but also will not waste water resources.

Of course, no matter how the tribe is changing day by day, in 2371 B.C., on the day of the full moon in the river, the "Sjal'lo" tribe submitted their proposal.

First, they proposed to add managers to the new leader's vote.

In the current voting process, the guards are in charge of the on-site affairs, but this in itself conflicts with the duties of the voting site, but if the new leader is allowed to come and maintain the on-site affairs, then there may be a problem of fraud. Therefore, "Sjal'lo" wants to be able to directly elect voting managers, whose main responsibilities are to collect proposals in advance, publicize existing proposals, count the results of votes, supervise the execution of voting, etc., as well as collect, produce and redistribute darts, and notify new leaders to vote now.

Hearing such a proposal, the clansmen looked a little commotioned, and they didn't know what they thought, and the results of the first round of voting, 4,221 abstentions, 1,029 votes in favor, and 784 votes against, it seems that there are some problems with the terms. A new leader stood up and asked a very crucial question: how to elect the voting manager. and what kind of identity the manager is, whether he is at the same level as the new leader or the first level (it is impossible to be one level higher), and whether he has the same voting power as the new leader.

The "Sjal'lo" had been prepared for the idea: they didn't intend to pass the bill directly in the first place, but just wanted it to get enough abstentions to leave a shadow in the minds of the new boss.

"Sjal'lo" then went on to make a proposal: because the tribes were far away from the shelter caves (half a day for horseback riding in the border fortresses, one day for the eastern fishing and hunting areas, one and a half days for the nut-growing areas in the northwest, and three days for the settlements in the Niger River basin), a lot of time was spent on the road back and forth each time, which made voting and execution inefficient. Therefore, it is suggested that the new leaders in various tribal areas can form a grassroots voting meeting in the local area, and after obtaining the preliminary voting results, they can go to the "Fa Lie" to participate in the voting of the whole tribe. In addition, in order to allow the excellent implementation plan to be quickly spread to other settlements of the tribe, the settlements can be specially stationed in "Falie" to transmit information through carrier pigeons.

This proposal seems to be for the sake of the new leaders in various places, after all, the distance is long, and it is a long way to and fro, which is likely to affect the judgment of voting and implementation. In addition, due to the different distance from the "Falie", the timeliness of obtaining new information from long-distance settlements will be greatly reduced, and it is easy to produce uneven development.

But in reality, this proposal is quite vicious: if each region brings the results of the vote to the "Fa Lie", it means that the local government will definitely vote in favor of their own proposal in full, and if there is any opposition among them, it will not be reflected; and the number of new leaders is not the same in each place, as long as the "Sjal'lo" controls the largest number of districts, then the chances of winning the vote are the greatest; at the same time, the popular vote system can no longer be reflected in a centralized manner, and in fact it is "Fa Lie" In addition, since the new leaders are allowed to canvass for votes in advance, as long as they send someone to canvass for votes in other settlements, they can know the results of the votes of the other party in advance (the new leaders can go in and out of the voting site at will, after all, no one dares to care), so that they can take countermeasures in advance.

If this proposal passes, then "Sjal'lo" will implement a third move: change the first proposal to "elect voting managers in all camps and shelters", and select the guards from among the local guards with the most divine notes in their names, and the administrators themselves do not have the right to vote.

The result of the vote was that the second proposal, with more than 5,000 votes in favor, seemed to everyone wanted to "settle the affairs of their respective camps themselves", while the third proposal, with more than 3,800 abstentions, still outnumbered votes against.

At this time, "Sjal'lo" sacrificed their real big killer weapon: using carrier pigeons as the main way to convey information, and the representatives of the "Fa Lie" stationed in various places directly voted in the "Fa Lie" to maximize the efficiency of the execution of the vote.

This fourth step is what they really want to achieve: since the people of the steppe tribes generally lack secrecy ("Sjal'lo" themselves recognize this), and carrier pigeons can be intercepted halfway, the information they carry (papyrus) can be forged. If there is no need to let the new leaders come to the "Fa Lie" again, it will inevitably lead to a situation in which the situation between the two places is not unified and the exchange of information is not timely; because when the voting results are implemented, the clansmen will not care about the actual number of votes cast by the new leaders, they only need to know whether the relevant decisions need to be implemented.

From this, it can be seen that the "Sjal'lo" made such a calculation: let each region form its own voting team, and the results of the vote were passed on to the "Fa Lie" by carrier pigeons, and then the representatives of the "Fa Lie" announced the proposal at the voting meeting, and finally sent the information back to the various camps. In this way, in fact, it is only the representatives stationed in various localities who are voting on the "Fa Lie."

So, who keeps carrier pigeons? It is the "Sjal'lo" clan. !

Like the current post office, the carrier pigeon transmission at this time also let the carrier pigeon fly to the pigeon cage first, and the pigeon keeper took out the letter scroll, and then handed it to the corresponding recipient. Among them, the pigeon keeper is perfectly able to see the contents of the letters, and the "Shin'ne-Nu" symbol is carved, and it is easy to forge the contents of the letters - it is worth mentioning that the standard of stationery in the tribe has just been unified, and all of them are papyrus rolls of the same size and thickness.

In fact, each camp has its own pigeon breeding, but only "Sjal'lo" has the largest number of pigeons, accounting for 70% of all pigeons. Coincidentally, the breed of "Sjal'lo" is also the best among all: slender, long stay in the air, balanced food (the amount of food can be the same in different camps), not picky eaters (like the Albanian pigeon only eats wheat, the Ethiopian pigeon eats more nuts, and the Sudanese pigeon only eats insects), the injury recovery is fast, the life expectancy is longer (up to 25 years), and the training age is the lowest (the average breeding pigeon can be completed when the breeder is three years old). Almost every year, "Sjal'lo" takes their pigeons to the camps to breed in order to optimize the pigeon population in these camps - and this has been implemented since 2,000 years ago.

It has to be said that "Sjal'lo" is very advanced in terms of information management, and they are indeed able to obtain the benefits they want relatively easily. And if their plan succeeds, it is basically needless to say: the development of the entire tribe will be under their control, and they will be determined by "all the new leaders", so they will not violate Hado's ideas and will be able to achieve their own goals.

However, "Sjal'lo" did not realize that they themselves had actually fallen into the consequences of the limitations of their predatory abilities.

Since the loyalty of the entire tribe is attributed to Hadu, the "Sjal'lo" has the idea of controlling the tribe by voting. In fact, from a bystander's point of view, the proposal itself is the source of inefficiency: when everyone took the time to come to the "Fa Lie" and vote for it, everyone had an idea to put it forward at the same time, but now the left one has to form a local voting body, and the right one has to transmit information through unsafe carrier pigeons, and each camp sends a message to the "Fa Lie" at a different time, which leads to those who are stationed in the "Fa Lie" Either they just keep meeting or they pile up all the proposals for a specific cycle. The former is bound to be very inefficient and ineffective in the execution of the camps, because of the constant influx of enforcement orders, which will lead to confusion in the management of the camps; the latter is even more troublesome, and if the 400 bills are passed in a day, if they are piled up and dealt with in a day, then the deputies will not be able to deal with all the bills without eating or sleeping--it will take a long time just to deal with contradictory bills.

That is, the sowing period of the river has just passed, and now the new leaders of the camps still have time to return to the "Fa Lie" to have a collective meeting. When it comes to Bud Green, everyone has to domesticate the livestock and take care of the crops, and there is no time for meetings at all.

Originally, Hadu wanted to improve the relationship between the various camps through the voting system, so that they could come back to "Falie" to strengthen their movement, so that the interaction and transmission of various information within the clan would be richer, and the development level of each camp would be averaged. And the "Sjal'lo" project has sent back the tribesmen from other areas who have just arrived in the "Fa Lie", and even in addition to the basic material exchanges, these new leaders may not (and do not have to) meet again for a few years, ten years, and decades. This has a strong counter-effect on the development of the tribe, and will also bring a devastating blow to the inheritance of technology and craftsmanship.

In the 20 years that Hadu spent exploring the Central Asian-Central Siberian Plateau, the exchange of camps among the tribes had dropped to less than 40% of what it had been before the introduction of the new runic lexicon, and after the death of the old skilled craftsmen, the inheritance of iron tools, fishing gear, and quarrying was even broken. Since "Sjal'lo" has been controlling the voting results of the new leader, a large number of proposals that do not conform to the ruling ideology of "Sjal'lo" have been rejected, and for a time various camps have complained, including the construction of water conservancy and the improvement of irrigation patterns, all of which are opposed by "Sjal'lo" (because "Sjal'lo" has the least number of farmers, and the new water conservancy will definitely reduce their voice).

In 2349 B.C., Yanggao, a riot broke out in the border fortress, the hungry tribesmen rose up and killed all the new leaders who were voting, blocked the river with a large number of tree trunks and rocks to form an artificial dammed lake, and spontaneously used the lake water diversion for irrigation, and it took only one full month to increase the yield of the fields near the border fortress by 400%. Due to the fact that the pigeon keeper who was in charge of sending the letters was held down by the tribesmen at the time of the riot, the situation of the border fortress was never sent to "Falie". However, the messages of the "Falie" continued to be sent to the border towns, and one of the ones that ignited the rebellion in the border towns was that "Sjal'lo" demanded that all camps reduce the amount of grain grown and increase the domestication of livestock, because of the increase in the number of people in the domestication of livestock in the "Sjal'lo" in the past 20 years.

The problem is that domesticating livestock requires the consumption of grain.

Unlike the nomadic areas, the Shin'ne-Nu tribe had pigs (susceptible to parasites and swine flu) because they did not get sick, and pigs accounted for 60% of all livestock (30% sheep, 6% cattle, 3% horses, 1% cats), and the food consumption of such animals was huge (although the amount of meat was also large), and if the amount of grain cultivation was reduced, the domestication of livestock could not be increased unless the rations of the tribe were also saved to feed the pigs. !

This is also unacceptable to the people of the border city in any case, although they are all loyal to Hadu, but they don't need to be loyal to the resolution of "Fa Lie". Even if they have to obey the voting system of the new leaders left by Hadu, the new leaders of the border cities have been killed. !

The people of the border city tribe with such a logical chain soon became entangled in a huge rebel army and attacked the "Fa Lie" all the way from the border city fortress. Only during the new moon and the last full moon in Yanggao, the rebels collected other clansmen along the way at high speed, killed the new leader, restrained the pigeon keepers (they also knew that without the pigeon keepers, it would be difficult to exchange information in the future), and finally temporarily attacked the city of the steppe tower at the full moon of the sun.

The guards guarding the tower were stunned: Why did so many clansmen come here, what happened? Generally speaking, without the leadership of a new leader, the tribe will not run to other campsites casually. Then, such a large group of clansmen, there must be a new leader leading them. In that case, it's better not to disturb them.

In this way, more than 70,000 rebels in the border city bypassed the tower and went straight to the shelter cave.

On the way home, Hadu was suddenly frightened by the change in the space of consciousness.