Chapter 45: The Bronze Age Grand View Garden (Part I)

Yangya is the priest of the Tang tribe, and she came up with the idea of making fake pottery money, and the tribe that originally went to the upper reaches of the Tao River from Tang to exchange birch bark boats, who knew that the birch bark boats exchanged for Tang were used for two days and then sank to the bottom.

The clansmen salvaged it and found that the wicker skeleton had been completely separated from the bottom of the boat and the boat gang, which annoyed Sheeptooth for a while, but she couldn't come to the door to theorize, after all, they had lost money in the first place and used fake pottery money.

If you completely tear your face, then you may not be able to trade with that tribe with fake pottery money next time.

Now the tribe of Sheeptooth has made hundreds of fake pottery coins, just waiting for the next wave of tribal gatherings to trade a big wave.

The hottest time of the year is coming, and this time people no longer gather for the purpose of procreation, because because of the time, pregnancy at this time will give birth to babies in winter, which is extremely bad for both adults and children.

Several of the girls who attended last year's meeting were pregnant, and the long journey was a burden for both the pregnant woman and the fetus. In view of Tang's unfriendly behavior last time, this time Yangya was ready to go out in person, except for the people who had been to the Gu tribe last time, she set off with a group of fourteen people.

The group carried a variety of objects, ranging from animal skins to exquisite pottery.

The Yangya tribe is far away from the cultural circle of Gu Guo's group of tribes, and they do not communicate with them when they gather in late autumn, and their productivity is already ahead of many tribes further down the Tao River, so Gu Guo has not seen people from the Yangya tribe at that gathering last year.

With the potter's wheel, the Sheeptooth tribe was able to make more complex pottery tools, crafts that would take the tribe days to knead, and utensils that only priests and chiefs could use.

If it weren't for Gu Guo's cross-forked feet, the Yangya tribe might have unified the many tribes in the lower reaches of the Tao River valley in a few hundred years and become the leader of the tribal alliance.

But at this moment, the sheep teeth walking on the bank of the Tao River, touching the pottery money exchanged from the upstream tribes in his hand, fell into deep thought.

This coin is more elaborately crafted than their imitation of the fake pottery coin, with a smooth glaze on the surface. Yangya knew that without a few years of exploration, it would be impossible for his own pottery people to master this technique.

Tightening the rope on her back, and the basket contained dozens of fake pottery coins, she felt that this transaction might be even more unsmooth than the last one.

The birch bark boat of the sheep tooth tribe is still being made, because the pig skin destroys the hull structure, the sheep tooth is much more difficult to imitate than to make fake pottery money, so that a complete birch bark boat can not be made before departure.

The group walked and stopped, the closer to the upstream position, the more people accompanied them, and people found that the Yangya tribe was also carrying supplies in the direction of the upstream like them, just stepped forward to ask a few words and then stopped talking, and hurried away.

Sheep Tooth heard from those who were in a hurry that the tribe upstream had made something new, and it was said that the new thing was sharper and more durable than the stone axe, which made Sheep Tooth feel very uncomfortable.

For many years, their tribe has been ahead of the surrounding tribes, and the appearance of the potter's wheel has made pottery an important tool for the Yangya tribe to export influence.

Over the years, the tribe of Yangya harvested the food and animal skins of the surrounding tribes at a high price, causing those tribes to regard pottery as gold and jade pearls and shells, and refused to share the trade with outsiders, which directly led to the fact that after Gu Guo crossed, not a single pottery could be seen in the cultural circle located in the upper reaches of the Tao River.

Sheeptooth felt like he was in the lead, about to be changed hands by the tribe in the upper reaches of the Tao River.

Seven days later, Yangya and the tribesmen around him could see a brown line on the bank of the Tao River from a distance.

When everyone approached, they realized that the brown line was a wall that was two people high!

And in the middle of the wall, there is a tread made of wooden planks that spans a trench at least six paces wide around the perimeter of the wall.

Without the aid of tools, it is impossible to cross a six-pace-wide trench under which rows of neat wooden thorns are inserted!

"This ...... This ......"

There are four such walls!

The walls enclose the house!

Yangya was speechless for a while, and Rao was well-informed, and she couldn't adapt to such a big impact for a while.

"Every wall is four hundred steps, four hundred steps!"

On the periphery of the wall, Sheeptooth counted the length of the wall step by step, and when she had counted all four walls, she sat on the ground in horror.

When the tribesmen saw the city wall, they had already lost their speech, and when they saw their priest looking dejected, they quickly knelt down and helped him up.

"Sheep...... Sheep's teeth, do we still need to use those fake pottery money? ”

A clansman whispered in Yangya's ear to remind them that their series of measures had attracted frequent sideways glances from the Gu people standing on the city wall.

"Let's see before we ......"

The sheep's tooth patted the dirt stuck to the animal's skin skirt, calmed the people, and walked in the direction of the city gate.

It is said that it is a city gate, but in fact, it is a wooden board three meters wide and more than two meters high, which is lifted in the air by a pulley block and fixed with a bronze buckle, which may not be as big as the gate of the family yard in the 21st century, but it is an indisputable city gate in this era!

The pedal that lay across the trench was jointly fixed by mortise and tenon joints and bronze rivet strips, which Gu Guo had prepared in advance for the appearance of the carrying animal cart in the future, and now it was really envied by everyone.

Stepping on the pedals, Sheeptooth found that there was a shelf at the gate made of wood and something that glittered in the sun, and there were several round things connected by ropes, and at the end of the rope were the pedals under her feet.

She didn't recognize the pulley set composed of fixed pulleys and movable pulleys, and pedaled the pedals under her feet with her feet, which were very thick. The surface of the log is very flat, unlike that made with stone axes and flames, because the surface of the wood still retains its original color.

It is true that the surface of the log can be straightened and smoothed using stone axes, bone rakes, and fire, but that is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it would take at least twenty or thirty days to make such a large pedal.

Yang Ya shook his head, his eyes were unwilling, and there was a little loneliness.

At this time, she had not yet entered the city wall, and just a few things on the outside made her feel that this tribe was even more powerful than Tang dictated.

And her clansmen were following behind her with cringe at this time, the arrogant and domineering expressions they used to have in front of other tribes no longer existed, and those born proud temperaments were now driven to the scum by the powerful productivity of the Gu tribe.

However, the people of the sheep's tooth did not know anything deeper, and they were now discussing how to spend the fake pottery coins in hand.

Trading with the hosts was no longer possible, and now they had to find a way to trade counterfeit money with the other tribes who came to the party.

After entering the city walls, the Yangya people followed the crowd forward, looking for those who did not belong to the Gu tribe.

At this time, there was a "crunching" sound from outside the city, and children were singing around the place where the sound came from.

Sheeptooth could hear the pronunciation of the lyrics, but she couldn't understand them when they were put together.

"Wooden straight rope, you think it is a ...... wheel"