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Published at 4th of January 2023 11:21:13 AM


Chapter 453

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It took Mufeng three days to paint the dragon, and all the tribesmen came to worship the totem of their tribe—the dragon.

The entire Dajiang tribe was in a state of boiling.

Everyone couldn't help shouting after seeing the dragon, thinking that such a totem was their totem, their ancestor.

Wooden wind felt very pleased.

He also sent people to look for giant wood suitable for carving, and planned to carve totem poles again in the tribe.

When the technology matures in the future, teach craftsmen to carve stone carvings.

As for the production of the totem flag, Jiang's conditions are not perfect at present, and it has been put on hold for the time being.

Even so, after seeing the dragon, the members of the Dajiang tribe were united unprecedentedly, and everyone worked hard in the tribe to do their own work.

As a result, there was an accelerated development of the tribe's affairs.

A total of four tulou on the other side of the 30% protective wall have been completed, and the construction of the new four tulou to the west has started.

The trees in the forest in front of the Great Jiang City Wall were pushed down tens of meters again.

A large open space was cleared, soil was dug, kilns were built, bricks were fired...

Although the technology is relatively backward, the whole Dajiang presents the busyness that can only appear in "industrialization".

It is precisely because of everyone's efforts that the construction speed of the Great Jiang City Wall has also doubled. In less than half a month, the city wall accounting for one-sixth of the entire protective wall has been erected.

Mu Feng was also worried about whether the speed would affect the quality of the city wall, but he was completely relieved after going to the field to investigate.

He underestimated the enthusiasm of the entire Dajiang people to build their homes, and even more underestimated their will to want a safe and powerful tribe.

It can be said that, apart from digging ditches and tamping roads that the slaves are doing step by step every day, all the things that the Dajiang people are doing themselves are speeding up!

While Mu Feng continued to cool off in the earthen building, counting the days and looking forward to passing the hot day as soon as possible.

Of course, even though he lived in the tulou to enjoy the cool air, he did not forget to think about Da Jiang's next development plan.

When it comes to the development plan, Mu Feng thought of a sentence that he hadn't thought about for a long time-a century-old plan, education is the foundation!

Now there are more people in the tribe, and there are more children. Before and after, Da Jiang has more than 300 children who are underage, and more than 200 of them are between the ages of eight and fourteen.

When the number of children was small, they all followed Lihu and Mingguang in the courtyard of the tulou to learn various sample skills.

But now that there are many children, it is not realistic to continue in the courtyard.

Moreover, these children originally learned skills such as netting, hunting, and identifying wild animals, but now Mu Feng feels that these are far from enough!

Because there are more than two hundred children divided into male and female, not all children can learn the same skills, after all, they will have different things to do in the future.

With regard to the education of children, new problems arose.

One is an educational venue;

Second, educational content;

The third is education personnel.

Although these problems seem small at the moment, they are decisive factors that can directly affect the future strength of Da Jiang, and should not be underestimated.

He found Li Hu and asked him to choose a site within the tribe's first protective wall and build a "school" with an independent courtyard wall away from the training ground and various livestock pens.

The location of the school and the number of people that can be accommodated in the classrooms are all explained in detail by Mu Feng, and they are completed by himself - even if Li Hu told him that the store would reopen, he just let Han Shu lead the people there. And personally supervise the work.

Compared with the construction of earthen buildings, the school's small house was built much faster. It took only five days. With the intensive construction of one or two hundred people specially arranged, the "Da Jiang School" was completed.
There are eight classrooms inside, and each classroom can accommodate fifty to sixty people. The space is large enough to completely mimic the size of the primary school in the previous life.

As for the tables, chairs and benches, we can only urge the craftsmen to rush to make them.

The place of education is resolved, then the next step is to determine the teaching content and teaching personnel.

This involves the inheritance of ginger and even the strength of the entire tribe.

Mufeng decided to set up subjects such as herbal medicine, hunting, fighting, weaving, and numbers in Dajiang.

Herbal medicine involves some basics, identification of common herbal medicines, introduction of some medicinal properties, and some common disease treatments, which are taught by Bai Fang.

Hunting is more focused on physical training for these kids, wildlife identification, and some hunting skills. Shuofeng took the time to teach.

Combat is the warrior's combat skills, horsemanship, spearmanship, and the use of various weapons, which are jointly completed by Hanshu, Baiyue, Konoha and others.

Weaving is specially aimed at girls, in order to prepare the women of the tribe for future work, and is taught by the women of the tribe who weave every day.

Numbers are divided into two parts: "number" and "character". Numbers are simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. If there are too many, they probably won't be able to use them under the current situation.

Characters are literacy and hyphenation, which can facilitate the recording of events and the transmission of information between tribes.

Especially the subject of numbers, not only the children of the Jiang family, but also most of the young and strong labor force in the Jiang family, and even some women must learn it!

They desperately need literacy!

No one can take the subject of numbers except Mufeng.

But in this way, the problem arises again, whether it is literacy or numbers, it needs special inheritance tools-pen, ink, and paper!

It is easy to solve without brush and ink, no matter whether Mu Feng mixes the diluted "color ink" with his painting skills, or replaces it with fired "charcoal", there will be no big problem.

The problem is the writing tool - paper!

It’s not that sand tables cannot be used instead, but that these things can only be used when communicating, and it’s inconvenient to teach Mufeng or test the results of learning.

So, he needs to make paper!

He has a ready-made method for making paper, and he doesn't even need to exchange it with the system.

After all, he was an archaeologist before, and he still knows some paper-making methods that have appeared in history.

One of them he knew was the paper made from the bark of the mulberry tree, which was soft and thin.

The specific method is also relatively simple, that is, peel off the bark of the tree, scrape off the outermost layer of skin, dry it and soak it in water to remove the skin impurities.

After soaking for seven or eight days, remove and drain the water, put it in a pot, add plant ash, and boil for more than an hour.

Then take it out and wash it, knead it repeatedly, drain the water, and beat it repeatedly on a flat stone with a wooden hammer to form a cake.

Then chop up the pie-shaped bark and mash it—the kind that can be mashed as much as you can.

Then put the mashed bark paste into a certain amount of water, mix and stir evenly.

Then use wood ginger cotyledon juice - here Mu Feng tried to use mountain pepper leaf juice to pour in, and then continue to stir and beat.

At this time, use a straw curtain made of a layer of thin grass stalks to pass through the pulp. After it comes out, there will be a thin layer of pulp on the surface, and it will be paper after drying!

This method was also taught to him by a paper maker in an ancient local village when he visited Huinan in his previous life. Of course, the quality of the paper produced is not as good as that produced in the factory, but it is better in that it is soft and does not absorb ink well.

And the bark of the mulberry tree is the most indispensable material for ginger—because there are mulberry trees everywhere on the first protective wall, the second protective wall, and even the entire foot of Dongshan Mountain!

In other words, big ginger, there is no shortage of paper!

(end of this chapter)





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