After some inquiry, everyone retreated, and Chen Xu looked at the several animal skin maps in his hand with bright eyes, took out the topographic map representing the Red Dragon Tribe, and began to look at it carefully.

According to the envoy, this piece of sulfur was exchanged from the Red Dragon Tribe, and it is said that it was brought by the Red Dragon Ape Man from a distant place, which is very precious, and there is only such a piece in the entire tribe, which can emit a thick yellow breath after burning, driving away all beasts and trying all kinds of spirits.

However, in Chen Xu's opinion, this Red Dragon Tribe is likely to be talking nonsense with their eyes open, although the sulfur is not easy to find, but as long as a piece can be found, the others are not a problem, according to the concentration of this piece, there must be a large sulfur mine around this piece, and the Red Dragon Tribe cannot only have this piece of sulfur.

"It seems that the leader of the red dragon is a strange thing!"

A strange light flashed in his eyes, Chen Xu touched his chin, thought about it, and immediately called a few elite apes and asked them to go around the Red Dragon Tribe a few times to take a good look and see if there were any volcanoes or hot springs.

"In any case, this sulphur mine is bound to me, and with the sulphur, plus the collected nitrate, and the addition of charcoal or refined coal, the appearance of gunpowder is not a big problem. ”

"One sulfur, two nitrate and three charcoal, simple gunpowder can be prepared, only with gunpowder, in this era, we have the foundation to challenge nature, then there is no need to worry about the question of which tribe to attack next, the tribe of the red dragon is the most suitable choice. ”

After making a decision, Chen Xu immediately took action, and the entire Vulcan tribe was fully operational, and he also began to arrange some affairs.

War always needs a reason, and now that the population of the Vulcan tribe has reached six thousand, some apes still need to be trained, so they can't go to war immediately.

After the pottery for population strategy was put into operation, a steady stream of apes joined the Vulcan tribe, which not only provided sufficient manpower for the development of the Vulcan tribe in all aspects, but also gave Chen Xu the possibility of expanding the army.

This time, Chen Xu directly split the eight brigades, transferred some of the elites out of them, and formed the framework of two brigades, so that the warrior team in the Vulcan tribe was expanded to ten brigades.

Due to the continuous addition of ape-men, the newly formed ninth and tenth brigades were quickly replenished, in order to allow these troops to run in and smelt as soon as possible, Chen Xu stipulated that at all times, four brigades must enter the jungle to fight and temper, and only six brigades were left in the tribe to be responsible for the safety of peacetime.

In order not to let other tribes scruples, and also to better hone the newly joined apemen, after the manpower gradually became sufficient, Chen Xu sent some apes to the jungle to assist in the development of the Vulcan tribe in the jungle, constantly opening up the road from the Bird Mountain tribe to the Black Rock tribe, and working in the copper and salt mines at the same time.

After getting on the right track on this side of the boundless land, Chen Xu sent the old ape man back to the jungle, along with him there were two thousand Vulcan apemen, the old ape man was responsible for directing all the affairs of the Vulcan ape in the jungle, and under Chen Xu's instructions, the first school with a church surname was formed in the jungle.

Chen Xu stipulated that in the future, all apes who have just joined the Vulcan tribe must go to the jungle for a while, work in paving, mining, carrying salt, etc., and then enter the Vulcan School to study for a period of time.

During this period, the number of Vulcan Apostles increased to more than three hundred, and there were also upper and lower ranks.

In order to facilitate management, Chen Xu only divided them into one, two, and three classes, the first class was the smallest, and they were just getting started, the second class controlled a certain amount of power, and of course they also had sufficient knowledge, and the third-class apostle was the leader of one party, and the Vulcan tribe had not had a third-class apostle so far.

Above the third rank, there are naturally four, five, six, seven, **, etc., and the highest level is the great god of fire, the conferment of these apostles is carried out by Chen Xu himself, and under the witness of all the apes with heads and faces in the tribe, they have extremely sacred rituals and meanings, which is the greatest glory of the tribal apes.

These apostles faithfully carry out every command of the god of fire, are the spokesmen of the god of fire in the world, and are also the defenders of the majesty of the god of fire.

The Vulcan tribe gradually grew stronger and stronger, but the population of the vast land has always remained at about four thousand, which greatly relieved the surrounding tribes, and it is difficult for them to understand the true strength of the Vulcan tribe without the concept of numbers.

They just knew that although the Vulcan tribe was very powerful, it was still not invincible, and in this way, the surrounding tribes began to trade with confidence, which further promoted the progress of the Vulcan.

Due to the establishment of the formal church school, the ideology of the entire Vulcan tribe was completely established, the quality of the ape-man began to improve steadily, and the entire tribe entered a stage of rapid development.

Due to the transaction, all the strange things were traded to the Vulcan tribe, from which Chen Xu found several major food crops in later generations, including wild rice, although the particles are shriveled up now, and there are not many grains on it, but this is wild rice after all.

With the millet in the original tribe and several newly discovered crops, the cultivation industry finally formed a model in the Vulcan tribe, and Chen Xu began to direct the apes to build agricultural tools for ploughing the fields, most of which were made of stone tools, such as heads, wooden shovels, etc., etc., and even some agricultural tools have begun to be made of bronze.

In the deep dense forest, around the Vulcan tribe, patches of fertile land are scorched, and there are apes in front of them to take care of it, due to Chen Xu's attention, planting has now become the top priority of the Vulcan tribe in the jungle, such as mining, digging trees, etc.

Unconsciously, the weather is getting colder, the late autumn is gradually receding, the early winter is gradually coming, the grassland is showing a withered yellow state, and the fat animals that were originally leisurely and swaying have gradually disappeared, and they have begun to find a place to prepare for the desolate and withered winter.

The carnivores have also stored the last of their fat and no longer go out, but are entrenched in their respective territories, waiting for the first snow of winter.

At a time when all things were at a standstill, trade was in full swing on the edge of the boundless earth, and the sturdy leather armor, the soft fur clothes, and the delicate fine salt that the Vulcan tribe had completely driven some apes crazy in this winter.

Trading not only boosted the development of the Vulcan tribe, but also brought great progress to the surrounding tribes, who obtained valuable pottery, leather armor, etc., from the Vulcan tribe, and then went deep into the interior of the vast land to find opportunities to exchange it for rich rewards.

Although this kind of in-depth operation is very dangerous because of the infinite dangers in the infinite land, as long as it succeeds once, the benefits brought by it are enough for them to be comfortable for half a year, so although they are robbed from time to time, the leaders of the various tribes are still happy to do it.

After this abnormal transaction, the various tribes are also changing at a speed that is visible to the naked eye, and they are more or less influenced by the Vulcan tribe, and the wind of civilization is gradually spreading in this fringe area.

Branches that could not be called houses were erected, and the leaders of the various tribes also broke away from their original cave dwelling life and moved into this kind of house in a decent way, and under the influence of the Vulcan tribe, class divisions gradually appeared among several other tribes.

Some of the apes began to do nothing to enjoy the fruits of the labor of other apes, classes gradually emerged, and the organizational forms of the various tribes began to change dramatically.

In this case, the ten brigades of the Vulcan tribe were completely run-in, and they regained their original strength in the jungle, and after countless battles, what remained was the evil qi in the Dominating Universe.

All senior officers officially graduated from the Vulcan School, systematically studied some knowledge compiled by Chen Xu, had a complete world view, and completely got rid of the state of ignorance.

The number of apes in the entire Vulcan tribe has reached eight thousand, and it is quite an elite four thousand people in the boundless land, and in the jungle, it is another four thousand people, and now the road in the jungle has been completely opened, and the obstacles along the way have been cleared, with the foot strength of the apes, it only takes less than five days to go from the boundless land to the Vulcan tribe.

This greatly shortened the time of communication between the two places, allowing the Vulcan tribe to completely unify in form and distance, forming a group.

The number of apes expanded, the socialized division of labor gradually became clear, and the hunting team gradually replaced the responsibilities of the original ape army, and began to be semi-militarized, responsible for the safety of the Vulcan tribe and some hunting activities in Pingyueli.

The original ten ape-man brigades were completely separated from the production system, and truly formed the first army of the Stone Age only used for combat, they no longer had to engage in production activities, and naturally had the right to distribute prey and food every period of time.

Under Chen Xu's guidance, these apes became the first professional soldiers in human history, with a total of more than 2,500 people, and for Chen Xu, who now has 8,000 apemen, he has been able to raise them for training and fighting.

The gradual clarification of the socialized division of labor has gradually refined the classes in the Vulcan tribe, and the establishment of the Vulcan Church, the continuous education of the church school, and the grading and glory of the Vulcan apostles have made the class completely obvious in the Vulcan tribe.

Since then, the class system with Chen Xu as the leader and the god of fire has been formally established, and after realizing this, on a public occasion, Chen Xu gathered all the figures with heads and faces of the fire god tribe, and for the first time the real meaning of everyone's position was limited, and the real class was established.

Following the model in the army, among the civilians, there are also five ape-man households, ten ape-man groups, five teams form a large team, one brigade has 250 ape-men, four brigades and one regiment, theoretically, a regiment has 1,000 ape-men, but now there are very few ape-men with families, so this thousand households is almost a thousand.

In addition, there were specialists in each field, who were qualified to command the apemen across the team, and with the distribution of various duties, the entire class framework was completely formed.

At this point, the Vulcan tribe completely broke away from the original ignorant development model and entered the class society, under the influence of class consciousness, private ownership completely appeared, and all the apes broke out with a fiery passion, all wanting to go further, pushing the development of the Vulcan tribe to a peak.

(To be continued)