Chapter 40: The Clash of Old and New Forces
The process of wheat sowing, Gu Guo knows a little bit about it.
The first thing you need to germinate is to germinate the seeds, not bury them directly in the soil, but soak the seeds, place them on a moist and ventilated petri dish, wait for the seeds to germinate to two to three centimeters, and then put them in the sun.
Friends who have done broad bean germination tests must be familiar with this.
After three days of waiting, the buds on several pottery dishes have grown to the length of fingernails, and it is time to choose a fertile piece of land for planting.
In spring, the soil temperature is shallow and higher than the deep layer, so it should be sown shallowly, so that the wheat seedlings germinate quickly, emerge early, and the root system is more developed.
As for the sowing spacing and when to fertilize, Gu Guo's eyes were dark, in his previous life, he only followed his grandfather to beat the ears of wheat with a grain sieve and catch frogs in the field.
The relevant knowledge is all based on the black and white booklets handed down in the seventies and eighties of the last century, there are few pictures in the booklets, and Gu Guo, who was still in kindergarten at the time, did not know much literacy, so he could only guess from a little memory.
The seedlings of the first generation of wild wheat had been planted, and a light rain was falling in the sky, Gu Guo found that the solar terms on this planet were somewhat similar to those on the earth, and he estimated that it was probably the end of February and early March in his previous life.
Public toilets built years ago are in handy at this moment: where the fertilizer comes from.
After a quarter of fermentation, the stench of rotten proteins in the feces was almost invisible, and the initial excrement two or three months ago had been mixed with a part of the soil, and Gu Guo could pull a large piece with a poke with a wooden stick.
Fresh manure cannot be used as fertilizer directly, and these "hard lumps" that have been piled up for dozens of days can be directly crushed and sprinkled on the soil.
The clansmen curiously gathered around the edge of a field that Gu Guo had enclosed with tree branches, watching Gu Guo scatter fecal powder there.
A couple of naughty kids jumped over the fence and took off their leather pants to poop in the field.
"Oops, hey, I'm going to and go to the toilet!" The movements of several children frightened Gu Guo a lot.
"Brother Goo, you can poop on the ground, why can't we pull it!"
"I can't tell you now, I recognize a few words, and now I'm going to run out to play?" Placing the bamboo basket containing the feces on the ridge of the field, Gu Guo pointed with his right hand to the child who was talking, looking like a parent urging him to write his homework.
"Humph!"
A few children crooked their mouths and ran away to play elsewhere.
In order to prevent the organic fertilizer from burning the seedlings, Gu Guo, who had finished spreading the fertilizer, poured some water into the ground.
In the past few days, as long as he has been on the ground, a group of people who are weaving ropes and burning pottery at home will gather around him, and they will discuss with each other when the barnyard grass in the field will grow to the height of the leg and stomach, and when will it bear seeds.
Except for Hua and others, who train by the river every day, no one could have guessed that these unsightly barnyard grasses would become a staple food on people's tables in the future.
They only think of it as a hobby in their spare time, just like the grassroots will put a few clay pots in the windows of their houses, in which the seeds of wild flowers are buried. Speaking of this, a group of people ran to discuss the growth of wildflowers after resting.
Just as Gu Guo was concentrating on cultivating the first generation of wild wheat, the Songzi tribe, which was dozens of miles away, ushered in a change of power in the leader.
Songzi and his tribesmen went to the tribe of Gu to transport ore twice, the first time sleeping in the house and the second time on the kang.
The good sleeping environment made most of the people fall to the Sanna faction.
With the onset of winter, the conflict between him and San was put aside, and despite having bows and arrows, it was not very long for them to store food for the winter.
Both Matsuko and Sangji knew that if there was a conflict between the tribes in winter, then no one would survive.
Acorn, who is the younger brother of the priest, naturally saw the break between his sister and Songzi, but he didn't understand why Songzi insisted on not merging with Gu Guo's tribe, so wouldn't the sub-clan people be better off?
Power is a poison that corrupts people's hearts, Acorn doesn't understand, but Songzi is deeply involved, he doesn't want to give up the power of the leader to others, even if it allows the people to use smoother pottery and sleep more comfortably.
So the third shipment of copper ore was carried by acorns instead of pine nuts. During this time, Matsuko and his people hunted diligently outside in order to pray for more food and higher prestige and support among the tribe.
However, when Acorn told the people what he had seen and heard by the Tao River, the people who had gathered around the pine nuts were shaken.
People's desires always drive them to move towards a better future, and the selfishness born from this makes the leadership of Songzi a rootless pinch.
When Maslow's hierarchy of needs crossed from the first layer to the second layer, the power of the leader of the pine nuts completely collapsed in the tribe.
The snow melted, everything recovered, but the tribe of pine nuts began a revolution without gunpowder.
Mulberry began to add some hallucinogenic mushrooms to the pine nut food, and as time passed, the toxins accumulated in the pine nut finally exploded. When the hallucinogenic dose exceeded the threshold of human safety, the pine nut passed away after a persistent vomiting and diarrhea and high fever.
Sang used the most disgraceful means to become the final winner of this power struggle.
The leader of the tribe naturally fell on the acorn who invented the sling.
No one has an opinion, and no one dares to have an opinion.
The tragic scene before Songzi's death was vividly remembered by the clansmen, even if Gu Guo later asked about the cause of Songzi's death, they were secretive about it, and only said that they were bitten to death by a tiger.
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Looking at the acorn's dragging team, Gu Guo was speechless.
Before the invention of the cart, human settlements had a very limited range of movement, and limited space meant limited prey.
Gu Guo relied on a large number of tools such as bows, arrows, fishing nets, etc., to pull out a settlement of more than 200 people within a radius of dozens of miles, and at this moment, there were eighty-six more mouths for eating, which gave Gu Guo a headache.
If it is said that after three or four years, when the wild wheat is almost domesticated, and the yield per mu reaches one or two hundred catties, Gu Guo can absorb all the tribes in the surrounding hundreds of miles, and it is not a problem to support thousands of people.
However, the development of events is not always subject to human will.
This group of people who begged Gu Guo to take in them stayed, at the cost of the disbandment of the training team of camelina and pigskin, and now the tribe could no longer afford to raise an army that was out of production.
Gu Guo arranged for a few clansmen with acorns to build their own houses first, but saw Santsu walking towards him with a scepter made of unknown wood.
Sang handed the scepter in his hand to Gu Guo.
Taking the scepter, he saw that it was made up of a single block of roots and trunk, the top of which was intertwined with tendrils that had been sharpened by sharp bone tools, and the surface of the scepter had been incomparably smooth by years of caressing.
"What is this?"
"The scepter representing our tribe is handed over to you, Ji Gugu."
"Give me the leadership, San, what do you want?"
"I don't want anything, and from that meeting, I felt that those who were guided by our ancestors should lead everyone to live better."
Sang's sincere statement didn't seem to be fake, but Gu Guo couldn't figure out the motive of the woman in front of him for doing this.
He put the scepter on the ground and asked, "Have your people agreed?" What about pine nuts? I didn't seem to see him in the crowd. ”
"Yes, who doesn't want to live a little better? As for the pine nuts, they were bitten to death by a tiger when they went out hunting in winter. ”
The people did agree, because the opponent was dead.
After listening to Sang's explanation, Gu Guo nodded, this transfer of power was silent, and Sang's people acquiesced to him as everyone's co-master.
Gu Guo didn't expect a deeper contradiction at this moment, because he saw that several children in the Sang tribe had already gotten into his wheat field at this moment and began to take off their pants!
Sang looked at the back of Gu Guo running wildly, and turned around to join the crowd of people who were building the house.