Hadu looked at the two innocent-looking craftsmen on the ground speechlessly, his heart full of anger. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He was not angry that these craftsmen would fight each other when they disagreed, but that he was angry at the tangled and complicated language system on the grassland. It seems that this is already a critical period when it will not be possible to implement simplified symbols, and if we do not quickly standardize and rearrange the technology, knowledge, experience, fighting methods, and names of animals and plants that differ from each tribe, then today it will only be a brawl between craftsmen, and tomorrow it may be a fight between hunters, and in the end, it will only lead to the division of "Shin'ne-Nu".

Without much thought, in order to prevent them from stirring up any more disputes, Hadu raised his hand and plundered the relevant knowledge of the two craftsmen. He then ordered the craftsmen to take charge of mining, cutting down trees, and preparing the smelting site—all of which were relatively "normal." Hadu returned to the tower, directly called the simplified character system in his head, ordered someone to carry the slate and the sap of the bitter tea tree, and began to paint directly.

At this time, Hadu thought of a simple and crude method: first unify the terminology and vocabulary of each special technology, then unify the vocabulary of the people's life, and finally bring together the various vocabulary parts to achieve the final simplification. The advantage of this method is that it can give priority to solving the problems of various special technologies, such as hunting, smelting, logging, farming, mountain opening, domestication, etc., in terms of character conflicts, and at the same time, it can also play a mediating role in the existing runes.

Now that he was confronted with problems with the craftsmen who specialized in mining and smelting, he had to standardize the symbols for them. Hadu did not have knowledge in other areas at present, and could only plunder one aspect at a time, gradually advancing the simplification of the characters while spreading the technical knowledge and experience to all the people.

While Hadu was doing big things in the tower, the steppe ushered in a grand scene every two seasons: the Great Hunt of the Fire Season.

By this time, the snowmelt has been completed, the water level of the main river is high, the upper reaches of the river are starting to warm upstream, and the animals are migrating back to the mountains. Migratory hordes, mainly horned sheep, spotted deer, shorthaired horses and bison, travel upstream from the lower reaches of the river, bringing in millions of dust clouds. This is the peak hunting season for all tribes in the entire grassland, and if any tribe is not unlucky, it will be possible for any tribe to obtain five times more livestock and grain than the population of their own tribe. In addition, wild fruits that ripen at the beginning of the fire season can also be harvested at this time, and after being harvested, they are placed in a vessel for storing grain, and after half the fire season, they become delicious fruit wine. Of course, the hunt comes with its own dangers - the bison herd is not a formidable enemy for hunters. Since it is to fill the stomach, it must not be lost because of this, most of the hunters are to choose lone animals to start, and such animals are not a few, whether it is the first to return to the young horned sheep, or the habit of solitary spotted deer, are the best targets for hunters.

In addition to this, the fire season hunt represents another extremely important thing for the steppe tribes: mating and reproduction.

Even in this less civilized era, it has been noted that the richer the variety of food a pregnant woman consumes, the more abundant and the fresher the quality, the stronger the physical fitness and the stronger the ability to adapt to the environment. Only the fire season hunt can meet the above conditions, and the herds of animals provide an abundant source of food to ensure that the reproductive activities can be carried out smoothly and freely.

Looking down from the tower, you can see that the new camping camp spreads in a straight line in the direction of "Fare", the camps built on both sides of the river are piled up with dried mud and piled up high waterproof fences, and groups of hunters with sharpened knives and axes are ready to "welcome" the returning animals, while the riders also feed the horses and patrol the vicinity of the camp to prevent foraging animals from disturbing the camp.

Near the stockade in the camp, there sat a girl with a hesitant face, an expectant face and a hint of shyness. According to the tradition of the steppes, the young lads would hunt the biggest and strongest animals they could on the fire season hunts, carry them on their shoulders, and return to the camp to attract the hearts of the maidens. After choosing a son to their satisfaction, both men and women will work together to dispose of the returned animals, separating the bones from the flesh and internal organs, and the large and long bones will be used to make bone blades, and the small pieces will be used to make ornaments. The internal organs can be stored for a long time after being developed with the sap of the bitter tea tree, while the flesh is cut into long strips and air-dried.

Men and women who have finished handling their livestock begin to enter the stockade for mating, and the proportion of large tribes that successfully enter the mating link is 7 and a half percent, and the proportion of small and medium-sized tribes is more than 5 percent. The fire season hunt lasts about 80 rises and falls, and pairs of males and females need to mate enough times every day to be able to ensure pregnancy as much as possible, even so, the fertility rate on the grasslands is difficult to improve due to various internal and external factors, and in the period of absolute abundance of livestock, the probability of 2 out of every 5 pairs of males and females being able to conceive is very high.

The migration of animals mainly occurs at sunrise, midday and sunset every day, and the mating time is mainly concentrated in sunrise, afternoon and evening. Of course, due to the phototaxis of most animals, it is possible to use fire to attract animals to hunt, but hunting at night is more dangerous and is generally not promoted.

Affected by external factors such as disease, war, natural disasters, and stability of food sources, as well as internal factors such as hunting ability, the ratio of men and women, the sacrificial method required for sacrifices, and the stability of the tribe, the natural growth rate of the steppe tribes hovers around 1~2% all year round. In this era, the average age of human beings is about 40 years old, and the long-term lack of population growth will make the tribe suffer from aging, and eventually the tribe will eventually die out due to the lack of inheritance of the knowledge and experience of the older generation.

Now that the tribes of the steppe are unified, war is at least no longer a threat, natural disasters should have enough manpower to be able to fight a little, disease will not be difficult for Hado, and finally the only external cause of food may be fundamentally solved by widespread rice cultivation. The ability to hunt can be compensated for by the widespread use of metal knives, and the stability of the priesthood and tribe is a matter that does not need to be considered at all, so the problem of the ratio of men and women needs to be dealt with.

If we discuss the share of the average ration, on the basis of the general amount of food, it can be observed that the men of the tribe show signs of aging after the age of 24 and the women after the age of 26, which indicates that the optimal age for the children of men and women in the steppe is under 24 (26) years. Due to the precocious puberty of children in this era, secondary sexual characteristics often begin to appear around the age of 10 and reach sexual maturity at the age of 14. Therefore, the best reproductive age for steppe tribes is 14~24 (26) years old.

The perennial inter-tribal wars seem to result in the death of a large number of young men of working age, but they are not. The main goal of inter-tribal warfare is to limit the population growth of other tribes, that is, to reduce the proportion of women in other tribes. After about 1,000 years of warfare, the ratio of men to women in the steppe tribes gradually stabilized at 112:118.5, so the number of "vacant" women of childbearing age in the large tribes would greatly exceed that of the small and medium-sized tribes. This phenomenon of "monogamy" is also real in reality: the rules of the prairie require that after the male and female have completed mating, the male must take care of the female until the baby is born. Since this reproductive activity is carried out periodically, there is no chance for both men and women to "cheat" in the period before the next fire season. In addition, due to the need for the inheritance of the Shenyin runes, the father or mother who enjoys the Shenyin is required to select the descendants of the Shenyin inheritance within a "definite" range, which further ensures the corresponding social structure of one male and one female. Although there is a chance of multi-directional correspondence between the opposite sex, polygamy will inevitably lead to a significant increase in the demand for food and living space, and under the condition that the average hunting ability remains unchanged, only a large hunting harvest year with good weather can appear in a short period of time.

In the afternoon, the chorus of fertility could be heard from the towers, but Hadu didn't have time to find his sweetheart. Only reproductive activities do not need to be explained and reconciled by words, and putting men and women of the right age together is a ready-made dry fire. And this is also the best time for Hadu to arrange and simplify the runes - after the reproductive season, the new runes of the slate painting will be completed, and then the people can be guided to learn the new language rune system step by step.

It's not that Hadu is a living immortal who doesn't eat the fireworks of the world, or that he is cold and has no interest in the cause of childbearing. In fact, he is also curious, with his current outstanding physical fitness, what kind of offspring will he produce. But after going through so much, he also understands the priority of things, anyway, the suitable age for childbearing is a full 20 seasons long, and he doesn't need to worry about these needs that can be postponed when there are big hidden dangers in the tribe.

Hadu did not stay in the tower all day, but would visit the tribe every afternoon to inspect the reconstruction and relocation work, and this time added the task of healing hunters injured by hunting. The scars on these young hunters ranged from punctures and contusions from horned sheep and bison, to lacerations and infections caused by untreated wounds - oh, and soft tissue sprains and lacerations from excessive force during mating. Hadu only needed to walk within 10 steps to easily remove the damage, and the pain that came with it.

Patrolling the central axis of the camp, even though Hado himself was reluctant to take on any substantive position, the people knew who he was, both as a former high priest and as a "protector of the steppes."

Girls in the vicinity of the village were jumping and playing, some weaving beautiful ornaments from fine rattan, and some using small stone chips to cut fur to make clothes. Seeing Hadu come here, they all stopped what they were doing with a gleam in their eyes, and turned to look at him carefully. Even Hadu, who was accustomed to seeing big scenes, was a little hot because of this: these girls were staring at his body, their eyes were burning as if they wanted to penetrate the leather armor on his body to see his solid chest and strong waist and abdomen, and there were several eyes that looked at his crotch unabashedly, which naturally meant that the other party was curious about the quality and energy of the object behind it.

Hadu had never encountered such a scene between the opposite sex, because his face became more and more red, and his heart became more and more hot, and finally he ran away shyly. Hearing the sound of laughter and crowds of chattering behind him, he slowly stopped, touched the position of his thumping heart, and breathed a little uneasy. Looking at the girls next to the village behind him, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. For the rest of the day, Hadu continued to patrol the camp, but he looked a little out of the world, and even when he returned to the tower in the evening, he still looked confused - yes, Hadu was in the spring.

This state lasted for a whole fire season hunting, during which he basically completed the simplification of the runes related to the smelting process, began to proofread and finalize the link, and then began to write common vocabulary and hunting terms, and also every day non-stop, without a foot to fill this big hole in the tribe as soon as possible. He had already begun to gather veteran craftsmen who had mining, smelting, charcoal-making, and forging skills at the same time, and spent half a day explaining the pronunciation and writing of these new runes. Most of the new runes can be completed in just three or four strokes, while also inheriting the previous pronunciation, much to the delight of the craftsmen - the culture of their original tribes has been largely preserved.

While promoting the new runes, Hadu also experimented and improved the knowledge he plundered: the traditional charcoal making is to put the dry wood tightly stacked in the cave carved out of the mountain for firing, but the smoke exhaust of the cave is difficult, the air intake is inconvenient, and the structural stability of the cave after heating also needs to be discussed, and the plug of the wood after the water is evaporated is also a problem; It cools quickly and can be easily promoted over a large area in the steppe.

This improved method has great benefits for both copper and iron smelting, reducing the manpower consumption in the early stage of traditional charcoal making, and is no longer affected by the terrain, and can also manually avoid accidental fires in large areas. Although the smelting of this era was still very primitive, and the proportions of various times and masses in the alloy were not so easy to find (there were no definite weights and measures at this time), the efficiency and basic quality of smelting were still improved to a certain extent.

In fact, there are not many tribes like "Mo-Ruq-Fa" who have discovered the value of copper alloys, but they have not studied the exact properties of the fuel used to smelt minerals. Speaking of which, without using a fuel with a higher calorific value, such as charcoal (or coal, etc.), it is impossible to smelt copper by burning wood alone. At the same time, the burning environment is also very important: "Mo-Ruq-Fa" first dug up the chloro-copper-zinc ore while digging a cellar, and accidentally made charcoal by making a fire in this confined environment, reaching the melting point of copper and zinc, and then obtaining the brass alloy. However, they did not know how the physicochemical reaction took place, so they had to smelt in this cellar as it was. Speaking of which, every time this cellar is smelted, it is very deadly: whether it is high temperature or toxic exhaust gases. As a result, they were only able to smelt metal discs for armor, and even brass blades for spearheads were scarce.

Even tribes like Mu-Tua-Yin, who discovered the secret of charcoal, were unable to produce iron on a large scale, and even if they were able to produce molten iron, they would only produce spongy and inferior iron with a lot of bubbles inside. Of course, they came up with a "unique way" to use this alloy. Coincidentally, the method they used to increase the hardness and toughness of the alloy was discovered by chance: a craftsman took the condensed iron and calcined it again, and then tried to take it out with his bare hands (what a daring artist). I found that it was hot (isn't this nonsense), and threw it into a pool next to it to extinguish the fire. After the iron cooled down again, the craftsman didn't want the things that had been refined so hard to be wasted, so he hurriedly took it over and tested it, and found that its mechanical strength had actually increased. Thus, the quenching of "Mu-Tua-Yin" after ironmaking was developed.

However, due to the limits of this era, there was no way for craftsmen to separate copper and zinc from brass alloys, otherwise it would not be a problem to make bronze.

Having solved the threshold for the manufacture of fuel, Hadu began to think about the agricultural side. The leaders of the farmers came to report that they had searched the grasslands in a wide range of nets, found large quantities of natural rice, and if they could, they hoped to be able to start experimenting with cultivation on large areas of wasteland. Hadu, who had eaten cooked rice, naturally knew the benefits of this kind of thing, and immediately expressed his affirmation of rice planting, and also said that he would complete the update of the symbols in this aspect as soon as possible.

Following the leader to the experimental field that the farmers had mentioned, Hadu found that they needed to burn all the grass on the experimental field after separating the area of the experimental field. According to the leader, after doing this, the crops will grow stronger and produce more rice. Seeing such a scene, after plundering the relevant knowledge and experience, Hadu suddenly had an idea of a good resource recycling process.