In order to make good use of this friendly contact with the Ana tribe and unify the people's understanding of the transaction, Yan Zheng decided to carry out a "big internal propaganda".

He deliberately asked people to pile up the hides and food sent by Anab in the tribal open space so that the tribesmen could see it directly.

He also announced that he would distribute these things to everyone, and when they were all attracted to it, Yan Zheng smiled and said loudly: "Look, so much food and animal skins! ”

"We only pay a little salt, a clansman can get so much salt for a day, but a clansman can't get so much food and hides when he goes hunting!"

"And these animal skins, we treated them with nitrate, and then exchanged them, one can be exchanged for three of them, we only deal with it, but we can have two more animal skins!"

"So, as long as we keep exchanging with their other tribes, we can get more!"

The leader and the witch listened silently, such a simple quantitative relationship, they could still intuitively understand.

"But they are enemies! Their young people will come out of the grass on us. The chief asked many of the people who were puzzled.

Yan Zheng replied with a smile: "Headhunting does not affect our exchange, trading is like hunting, we will not give up hunting after being headhunted!" In the same way, we should not give up trading with other tribes just because we have had headhunters. ”

"Of course, we have to set a rule, that is, we are not allowed to search for heads when trading."

"They won't." The leader said worriedly: "If there are more tribes coming to exchange, they will come together to kill us and then take our things." ”

"No, as long as we're strong enough, they'll follow the rules!" Yan Zheng continued to admonish: "As long as we agree on a place, we will go to that place to trade every time, and let all the tribes who are willing to trade swear that they are not allowed to hunt heads in the place where they trade." ”

"If they don't comply, we will go with other tribes to fight that tribe and no longer trade with that tribe."

The leader thought for a moment and said, "We are not strong enough!" ”

"Nope. We have iron axes, and there will be more in the future, and there will be more powerful weapons. ”

Wu Chang sighed and said, "But there are few of us. ”

Yan Zheng said confidently: "There are not many people from other tribes, and most of these tribes are headhunting each other, so it is impossible to unite against us immediately." When they get used to trading, then they will no longer have the idea of breaking the rules of trading, because trading is good for everyone. ”

"Moreover, we will have more people in the future, and we can let other tribes exchange people for our things. We can also trade to control small tribes and make them dependent on our tribe. ”

The leader glanced at Wu with a faint look in his eyes, and there was a glimmer of brilliance in Wu's eyes.

"And headhunting is bad!" Yan Zheng said in a low voice: "Our tribe should not continue to hunt heads!" ”

The leader looked up in astonishment and said, "Children who don't hunt heads, their souls can't cross the rainbow bridge after death!" Cannot be accepted by the Ancestral Spirits. ”

Wu silently looked up at the sky and let out a long sigh.

"But headhunters have killed more young people and made us distrust each other with other tribes, which is why we don't even dare to trade." Yan Zheng's tone was a little excited, "If Zu Ling knew, he would definitely not let the young man go headhunting again." A true warrior should have made a great contribution to the tribe and ensured the continuation of the tribe. ”

"Just like me, I'm not headhunter! But I gave the tribe a lot of good things, even an iron axe! If everyone in our tribe had an iron axe, it would be easy to hunt heads. But shouldn't the best use of an iron axe be to cut down more trees, kill more prey, and make life better for the people? ”

The leader glared at Yan Zheng, pointed to the tattoo on his face and said, "Do you want every child's face to be as clean as your face?" ”

Yan Zheng was a little unhappy: "No matter what, in the future, we should not hunt the heads of the tribes that trade with us." We will not retaliate unless they come out of the grass on us. ”

"And our revenge, we must inform the other tribes, let them understand that our headhunters are not arbitrary!" He couldn't be persuaded for a while, and he could only retreat

Wu's eyes lit up, and he said in a deep voice on the side: "If you don't trade with us, we can't get more benefits, you can hunt heads." If we trade with us, we can get benefits from trading, so we don't hunt heads? ”

"Exactly! Anything that does not trade with us will only do us harm, not good, and we don't have to treat it in the same way. So in the future, we can't do the same thing to each tribe. We will give preferential treatment to those who are friendly with us, and we will take revenge on those who kill us! Yan Zheng said with a sneer.

What the leader and Wu didn't know was that Yan Zheng's words actually contained a set of trade colonization system, and they also had the due meaning of differentiation and co-optation.

"Chief, you can't accept it at this time, and I won't force it. After some time, if the life of the tribe does not get better, and the tribe does not become stronger, I will give up the trade and treat the other tribes in the same way as the tribe used to. Yan Zheng continued.

The leader lowered his head and was silent for a while, but after all, he did not say a word.

Wu smiled, his sunken eye sockets narrowed into a slit by him, "You can trade with the other tribes of our Mao Wu Society first." ”

"Mao Wu Society? We? Yan Zheng was puzzled.

A sly sly burst rose on the witch's face: "We are a part of the Mao Wu Society, and there are three more around here." ”

"How many are there?"

Wu thought for a while and said, "I don't know, on the other side of the river, there are many more. ”

This surprised Yan Zheng a little, this tribe turned out to be a branch tribe of a large tribe.

"Then why were we assigned to the river?"

The leader sighed and looked at the sky, a look of sadness in his eyes.

Wu said: "When the tribe is large, the hunting ground can't catch so many prey, so let the tribe keep migrating out. The same is true of other tribes! Our leader was the son of the great chief of the Mau Wu tribe and was banished here. ”

"The other three tribes on this side of the river were also banished to this side. Let's face the other tribes over here, big and small, and let's fight for our own hunting grounds. ”

The leader whispered, "At the beginning, I came here with forty-seven people who were willing to follow me, and we had a hunting ground, and after many years of guarding, we really lived here. ”

Yan Zheng nodded, understanding that this was actually an alternative way of expansion for hunter-gatherer tribes, which eliminated the pressure of population growth while spreading the culture and consciousness of his own tribe.

And don't underestimate this way of expansion, it was in this way that early humans expanded to almost all corners of the Eurasian continent.

So he was sure that all the tribes here were probably the same tribe thousands of years ago.

It is only in the process of continuous exile and separation that some tribes form their own consciousness and culture, and gradually begin to become a new tribe.

"Is it possible to trade with them?" Yan Zheng asked.

Wu smiled and said: "We divided the hunting grounds between each other, and promised that they would kill us only if we entered their hunting grounds, and that they were not far from us, and we would change relatives." ”

Yan Zheng was overjoyed, which showed that the basic trust between relatives and tribes already existed.

This kind of thing is also a kind of chain, tying several tribes together.

The birth of the primitive era of parenting and patrilineal society was due to the fact that marriage between close relatives was easy to give birth to offspring with diseases.

So it is necessary to know who the father is, and at the same time it is better to marry someone from another tribe.

"Then why don't we completely give up headhunting among the various tribes of the Maowu Society?" Yan Zheng asked.

The leader sighed: "Back then, in the battle for the hunting ground, the people who killed us the most were the Bamo them. ”

"Why can't we hunt together if we are from the same Mu Wu tribe?"

"In the beginning, there were several tribes on this side of our big river, and the leaders had personal enmities with each other."

Yan Zheng was stunned for a moment, it is not easy for this special savage to play politics!

Banished to an area far from the core of the tribe, it is especially a group of people with personal vendettas.

It's good to borrow a knife to kill people and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight.

Wu Hehe smiled: "Their life is more difficult than ours, we trade with them, better!" ”

Yan Zheng instantly understood that Wu was obviously not making up his mind with the intention of helping his relatives and tribes.

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