Chapter 1245: The bottleneck of civilization development

The giants and natives of the barbarian world, after stepping on the road of civilization, are now living happily ever after. They have greater strength, more access to food, and no need to starve due to food shortages. They have the use of fire, they can eat cooked food, eliminate many gastrointestinal diseases, and can more easily absorb the nutrients in the food.

The use of metal tools has brought the lives of the giants and natives one step further, bringing a lot of convenience in their daily lives while giving better play to their own strength. For example, although they could not spin silk and weave cloth, with the help of sharp metal tools, they were able to make better animal skins and clothing. For example, they made metal saws and axes, which allowed them to obtain wood more quickly, which they could use to build wooden houses that were much more comfortable than caves.

Of course, as the first to be guided, the tribe that now bears the name of "Yan" naturally walks faster than other tribes on this path.

As the so-called "full of warmth and thinking about that", after solving their own livelihood problems, although the "Yan" tribe does not really think about "that", it is true that they are no longer satisfied with the status quo. They wanted to strengthen their tribe, and they were no longer satisfied with just a few hundred or so people making a small fight, so they naturally turned their attention to the surrounding tribes.

Regarding the expansion of the tribe, it is actually the need for the development of the tribe, not simply to rule more people, in order to control more people's life and death. At this stage, they did not have a deep understanding of power, and the patriarch only had more privileges in clothing, food and housing.

People always yearn for a better and better life, and few people will be satisfied with just starving to death. When people don't starve to death, they think about how to eat better. And when people don't freeze to death, they think about how to dress more decently. When "fullness" and "warmth" have reached a certain level, people have to consider higher spiritual pursuits.

After the "Yan" tribe has stronger strength, all kinds of better weapons and tools, of course, the efficiency of hunting is much better than before. However, when they are able to hunt more prey, they will naturally want to enrich their menus, such as adding fruits and vegetables to their menus.

Therefore, in addition to hunting, the tribe also needs people to pick fruits and vegetables, and people need to fish. The food problem alone, although there is no longer a fear of starvation, has led to a greater demand for manpower.

In addition to eating, there are many aspects that require manpower.

For example, in the case of metal tools, there is a need for someone to mine the ore, then someone to smelt the ore, and finally someone to cast the grinding tools. The production of leather clothes, the production of pottery, and the construction of buildings by cutting wood and building require people, and the result is that the more the tribe develops, the greater the demand for the population.

It stands to reason that it has just stepped into the road of civilization and solved the most basic needs for food and clothing, and it will take a certain amount of time for other ** to grow. However, the civilization of the giant natives was secretly guided and spawned by Ye Zan's side, especially with the ready-made language and writing.

The language and writing now used by the giants and natives were all "transported" by Ye Zan directly from the monastic world. However, the language used in the monastic world is the result of countless years of monastic civilization. As a result, some of the descriptions in the language and text are too advanced on the side of the giants.

In the process of forming language and writing, a normal civilization should create a corresponding language and writing in order to describe a new thing every time a new thing appears. However, the giants and natives reversed themselves, and were given a complete language and writing far beyond the current level of civilization in advance, with a large number of descriptions of things that had not yet appeared.

At the beginning, when the old priests of the "Yan" tribe obtained the language and writing, they were not simply engraved with glyphs, but were instilled with the meaning of the language and writing. In other words, the old priest understood the meaning of the words that described things that did not appear "inexplicably".

For example, the word "house" is used in the language, but the giant natives who originally lived in the cave did not have real houses to correspond to the word "house". So, according to the meaning of the word "house", the giant natives instead knew what the "house" was in advance. Through the word "house", they knew that there was another way to shelter from the wind and rain besides the cave.

Therefore, through the interpretation of these languages, the giants are as if they have been enlightened. They don't have to wait a long time to know a lot of new things in advance and think of ways to bring them to life.

It can be said that the indoctrination of language and words is equivalent to opening a preview of the technology tree in advance for the giant natives. They can see how their civilization should develop from the written word, without waiting for some unexpected inspiration.

Another example is "wine", in the normal development of civilization, the appearance of wine may be due to some accident, resulting in the fermentation of stored grain, and then people discovered the method of making wine. Probably, if this civilization has not had this accident, wine has been delayed, and God knows if there will be wine again in the end.

However, before there was wine, you already knew the word wine and its meaning, and you knew "wine: a drink made by fermenting grain". So, can you try to see if you can get the "wine" in the text by stockpiling some grain?

Why, after solving the evil demons outside the sky, Ye Zan didn't need the Lin family siblings to guide the giant natives anymore? To a large extent, it was for this reason that all the guidance was actually already in the language and writing, so naturally there was no need to guide anything. Unless, the giant natives are too stupid to comprehend anything from the language and writing.

The reality is that the giants, despite their tall stature, are not "simple-minded and well-limbed". As the only intelligent creature in the barbarian world, as the darling of the original will of this world, how could he not comprehend the mystery in language and writing.

Speaking of returning to the "Yan" tribe, it is because they already have a language and have learned a lot of things from the language and writing. Therefore, don't look at it as only a short year, but it is enough for them to make the manpower in the tribe more and more stretched in one "whim" after another.

If you want to increase the manpower and increase the number of people in the tribe, one way is naturally to have more children. However, the time it takes for a child to wait from birth to the workforce is not a matter of several years. Even if it is a giant, it is impossible to violate the law of growth of life, and the baby of a giant is still a baby.

In addition to increasing manpower through reproduction, another faster and more effective way is naturally to annex other tribes. As long as you annex other tribes and merge the populations of other tribes into your own tribe, your own tribe will naturally have more manpower available.

Therefore, expansion is very natural and has become the only solution to the manpower problem of the "Yan" tribe.

When Ye Zan and the others were in retreat, the "Yan" tribe relied on a slight advantage in civilization to launch a strategy against other surrounding tribes. By the time Ye Zan and the others solved the evil demons outside the sky and returned here, the "Yan" tribe had become the only giant indigenous tribe in the area controlled by the original Five Ring Towers.

In addition, because they have the same language and writing, and have the same belief in the gods, the unification war of the "Yan" tribe was not fierce and bloody. At most, there are some more dead-eyed people who have to hold on to the title of their tribe, and finally die out with the title of their tribe. The vast majority of the giant natives are not very resistant to changing tribes, and they have to work everywhere anyway.

After merging several surrounding tribes, the "Yan" tribe has reached thousands of people in terms of labor force alone. As for babies, children, and the like, they are not counted. After all, even the so-called half-sized children, with the productivity that the giant natives now have, no longer need to use child labor.

After the population increased, the "Yan" tribe also chose a new place of residence and built a large number of houses on the new living land. Judging from "normal people" like Ye Zan and them, the new residence of the giant natives is probably already a giant city. But in reality, this is just a village with a population of several thousand.

In this giant village, the giants have their own division of labor. The hunting team has not been canceled, and it is still necessary to go out to hunt on time and on time. After all, for now, hunting and gathering are still the main sources of food for the tribe. In the village, there are also people who are responsible for planting large fields, and some people are responsible for raising some domesticated animals. These things can only be regarded as investments now, and the harvest will not be until a few months or even a year or two later.

In addition, not far from the giant village is a copper mine, where a mining team of dozens of people is constantly mining ore. Several large, rough carts, wheels made from sliced logs, were loaded with ore and pushed to the village's metallurgical yard.

The metallurgical yard is piled up like a hill of ore, and a dozen giants who have inspired and mastered the power of the bloodline of fire are responsible for smelting those ores into metal, and then casting various metal tools.

At present, the natives of the giants have not mastered the real forging technology, and can only use simple molds for casting. This also leads to the fact that the performance of metal appliances is not very strong, and there will be great loss in use. This is one of the reasons why they need to constantly cast metal utensils.

Moreover, even if the metal utensils that have been used out can still be re-smelted and cast, there are always more spare parts.

In the center of the tribal settlement, in a large clearing, some children sat obediently, listening to the elders of the tribe teach the language and writing.

Although giant children are also playful and noisy, there is no saying here that corporal punishment is not allowed, and if you dare to make trouble, you will really be beaten to death. Therefore, the children are still very well-behaved, even if they can't listen to what the old man says, they have to listen carefully.

On the side of the "Yan" tribe, it has developed to such a point that it has done everything that can be done at present. The giant indigenous tribes in other regions, although they have not had the opportunity to send people to learn, are also developing in the way of the "Yan" tribe. Maybe it won't be long before there are only a few big tribes in this world, and maybe there will be real tribal wars in the future.

The development of the civilization of the giant natives is considered the limit at this stage. Even if Ye Zan does anything to guide and interfere, it will not have much impact on the current situation. After all, Ye Zan did not have the ability to change the speed of time in this world, doubling the reproduction speed of those giant natives. It can be said that population, the bottleneck of civilization development, can only be slowly solved by the natural reproduction of giant natives.

Ye Zan, who no longer pays attention to the giant natives, is busy renovating their "Welfare Cave Mansion" with the Lin family siblings and Casaro and others at this time. Casaro and the others, from the many models given by Ye Zan, selected their favorite cave design drawings. And Ye Zan made it according to their choice to transform those mobile fortresses from the inside out.

"Actually, the appearance of this thing is not very important, the key is to look at the interior layout and decoration. Ye Zan faced a mobile fortress, and while sending engineering robots to work according to the drawings, he explained to Casaro and the others beside him.

Not far away, a mobile fortress resembling a hanging garden floats in mid-air of the war fortress. And in the Hanging Garden, Lilia, the little goblin who has become the god of this realm, is still flying in and out of the flowers with her own people.

Lilia waved the staff in her hand, and one ray of light bloomed among the flowers, making them even more vivid and magnificent. As a few flowers bloomed, the newborn goblins in the center of the flowers flapped their wings and flew out.

The reproduction of the goblin clan is different from that of humans and most intelligent beings, and there is no process of "yin and yang merging". After all, among the goblins, there are only so-called "women", and there are no "men". In the words of the technological world, they can be regarded as parthenogenesis.

In the past, perhaps because of the "sending people under the fence", Lilia, as the queen of the goblin clan, did not give birth to more goblins to grow the clan. But now, she is already a god of this world, and she looks at Ye Zan for a hanging garden, but in fact, the whole world can be regarded as the home of the little goblin clan.

Therefore, Lilia finally no longer has to worry about the survival of the race, and can rest assured that she can spend her energy on the growth of the group. 2k reading web