Chapter 1245: The Bottleneck of Civilization Development

? The giant natives in the barbaric world are now living a happy life after embarking on the path of civilization. 35xs They have stronger power, can obtain more sufficient food, and don't have to starve due to food shortage. They have the use of fire, can eat cooked food to prevent many gastrointestinal diseases, and can absorb the nutrients in food more easily.

The use of metal tools has brought the life of giant natives a step further. While better exerting their own strength, it also brings a lot of convenience in daily life. For example, although they can't spin silk and weave cloth yet, with the help of sharp metal tools, they can already make better animal skin clothing. For example, they made metal saws and axes, which can obtain wood more quickly and be used to build wooden houses that are much more comfortable than caves.

Of course, as the first to be guided, the tribe named "Yan" is naturally walking on this road faster than other tribes.

As the saying goes, "think about that when you are full of warmth", after the "Yan" tribe solved their own livelihood problems, although they didn't really think about "that", they were indeed no longer satisfied with the status quo. They wanted to grow their own tribe, and they were no longer satisfied with just a few hundred or so people doing small things, so they naturally turned their attention to the surrounding tribes.

Regarding the expansion of the tribe, it is actually a need for the development of the tribe, not simply to rule more people and to control more power over life and death. At their stage, they don't have a deep understanding of power, and the dignified patriarch just has more privileges in clothing, food and housing.

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

After the "Yan" tribe has stronger power and various better weapons and tools, of course the hunting efficiency is much better than before. However, after being able to hunt more prey, they will naturally want to enrich their menu, such as adding fruits and vegetables to the menu.

Therefore, in addition to hunting, the tribe also needs someone to pick fruits and vegetables, and someone to fish. It is just a matter of food, although there is no need to worry about starvation, but it has more demand for manpower.

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

For example, in the case of metal utensils, first someone needs to mine ore, then someone needs to smelt the ore, and finally someone needs to forge and polish utensils. 35xs made leather clothing dignitaries, pottery dignitaries, logging and building dignitaries, and the result was that the more the tribe developed, the greater the demand for population would be.

It stands to reason that one has just stepped onto the road of civilization and met the most basic food and clothing needs, and other growth still needs a certain amount of time. However, the civilization of the giant natives was born out of Ye Zan's secret guidance, especially the ready-made language and characters.

The language and characters used by the native giants were "transported" by Ye Zan directly from the Taoist world. However, the language used in the world of Taoism is accumulated over countless years of development of Taoism civilization. This has also led to some descriptions in language and text, which are too advanced for the native giants.

In normal civilization, in the process of forming language and characters, every time a new thing appears, the corresponding language and characters should be created to describe the new thing. However, the giant natives turned the other way, and obtained a complete language and text far beyond the current level of civilization in advance, which contained a large number of descriptions of things that did not appear.

But at the beginning, when the old priest of the "Yan" tribe got the language and characters, it was not the simple engraving of characters,

Instead, they are instilled with the meaning of language and words. In other words, for those words that describe things that do not appear, the old priest completely "inexplicably" understands their meaning.

For example, there is the word "house" in the language, but the giant natives who originally lived in caves did not have real houses to correspond to the word "house". Therefore, according to the meaning of the word "house", the native giants knew what a "house" was in advance. Through the word "house", they knew that apart from caves, there was another way to shelter from wind and rain.

Therefore, through the interpretation of these languages, the native giants seem to have received divine inspiration. They don't need to go through a long process of groping and waiting, they can know many new things in advance, and they can think of ways to realize those things.

It can be said that the indoctrination of language and characters is tantamount to opening a preview of the technology tree for the native giants in advance. They can see how their civilization should develop from the language and writing, 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, which caused the stored grain to be fermented, and then people discovered the method of wine making. Possibly, if this civilization has never had this accident, the appearance of wine will always be delayed. God knows whether there will be more wine in the end. 35xs

However, when there is no wine, you already know the word wine and its meaning, and you know that "wine is a drink produced by fermenting grain". So, can you try to see if you can get the "wine" mentioned in the text by storing up some food?

Why, after solving the evil spirits outside the sky, Ye Zan doesn't need the Lin family siblings to guide the giant natives anymore? To a large extent, it is because of this reason that all the guidance is actually already in the language, and naturally there is no need to guide anything. Unless, the giant natives are so stupid that they can't comprehend anything from the language.

But the reality is that although the giant natives are tall, they are not "simple-minded and well-developed limbs". As the only intelligent creature in the barbaric world, as the darling of the world's original will, how could it be impossible to comprehend the mysteries in the language.

Speaking back to the "Yan" tribe, it is because they already have language and characters, and have learned a lot from the language and characters. Therefore, even though it is only a short year, it is enough for them to make the manpower in the tribe more and more stretched in one "wonder" after another.

If you want to increase manpower and increase the number of people in the tribe, one way is naturally to have more children. However, the waiting time between a child's birth and becoming a labor force is not a matter of several years. Even if it is a giant, it is impossible to violate the growth law of life, and the baby of a giant is still a baby.

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

Therefore, expansion is natural, and it has become the only solution for the "Yan" tribe to solve the manpower problem.

When Ye Zan and others were retreating, the "Yan" tribe relied on a little advantage in civilization to launch a strategy against other surrounding tribes. By the time Ye Zan and others dealt with the evil spirits 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 tower.

In addition, due to the same language and characters, and the same belief in the gods, the unification war of the "Yan" tribe was not violent and bloody. At most, there are some more stubborn ones who insist on clinging to the title of their own tribe, and finally die along with the title of their own tribe. The vast majority of giant natives are not so resistant to changing tribes, they have to work wherever they are anyway.

After merging several surrounding tribes, the "Yan" tribe has reached thousands of people in terms of labor force alone. As for babies, children, etc., they are not counted among them. After all, even if it is a so-called half-child, with the productivity that the giant natives have now, there is no need to use child labor.

After the population increased, the "Yan" tribe also re-selected their place of residence and built a large number of houses on the new place of residence. From the perspective of "normal people" like Ye Zan and the others, the new residence of the native giants can probably be called a city of giants. But in fact, this is just a village with a population of several thousand.

In this giant village, the giants all have their own division of labor. The hunting team has not been cancelled, and they still have to go hunting on time. After all, for now, hunting and gathering are still the main source of food for the tribe. In the village, some people are responsible for planting large fields, and some are responsible for raising some animals that are being domesticated. These things can only be regarded as investments now, and the harvest will wait until a few months or even a year or two later.

In addition, not far from the giant's village, there is a mine that produces copper ore, and a mining team composed of dozens of people continues to mine ore there. Several huge and rough carts used rounded wheels cut from sliced ​​logs. After being filled with ore, they were pulled and pushed to the metallurgical field in the village.

The ore piled up like a hill in the metallurgical field, and a dozen giants who had inspired and mastered the power of the blood of the fire were responsible for smelting the ore into metal, and then casting various metal utensils.

Now, the native giants have not yet mastered the real forging technology, they can only use simple molds for casting. This has also led to the fact that the performance of metal utensils is not very strong, and there will be great loss during use. This is one of the reasons why they need to constantly cast metalware.

Moreover, even those metal utensils that have been worn out can still be re-smelted and cast, but it is still necessary to prepare some spare parts.

And in the center of the tribal settlement, on a large open space, some children sat there obediently, listening to the elders in the tribe teach language and writing.

Although giant children also like to play and make trouble, there is no saying that corporal punishment is not allowed here. If they dare to make trouble, they 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 is saying, they have to act like they are listening carefully.

The "Yan" tribe has developed to such a point that it has already done everything that can be done at present. And the giant indigenous tribes in other areas, although they didn't have the opportunity to send people to study, they were all 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 a real tribal war will break out in the future.

The civilization development of the giant natives has reached the limit at this stage. Even if Ye Zan does some more guidance and interference, it won't have much impact on the current situation. After all, Ye Zan has no ability to change the flow of time in this world and double the reproduction speed of those giant natives. It can be said that population, the bottleneck of the development of civilization, can only be solved slowly by the natural reproduction of giant natives.

Ye Zan, who no longer pays attention to the native giants, is busy transforming their "welfare cave" with the Lin family siblings, Casalo and others. Casalo and the others selected their favorite cave design drawings from the many samples given by Ye Zan. And Ye Zan remodeled those mobile fortresses from the inside to the outside according to their choices.

"Actually, the appearance of this thing is not that important. The key is to look at the internal layout and decoration." Facing a mobile fortress, Ye Zan dispatched engineering robots to construct according to the drawings, and at the same time looked at the card beside him. Salo et al. explained.

And not far away, a mobile fortress that looks like a hanging garden is floating in the midair of the war fortress. And on the sky garden, Lilia, a little fairy who has become the god of this world, is flying in and out of the flowers with her clansmen.

Lilia waved the staff in her hand, and rays of light bloomed among the flowers one after another, making the flowers and plants more vivid and magnificent. As several flowers that were obviously different from others bloomed, newborn fairies flapped their wings and flew out of the flowers.

The reproduction of the goblins, unlike humans and most intelligent creatures, does not have the process of "yin and yang intercourse". After all, among the goblins, there are only so-called "female" and no "male". In the words of the technological world, they can probably be regarded as parthenogenesis.

In the past, Lilia, as the queen of the goblin clan, might have been because of "being under the fence", she didn't give birth to more goblins to grow the group. But now, she is already the god of this world, and she looked at Ye Zan to ask for a hanging garden, but in fact, the whole world can be regarded as the home of the goblins.

Therefore, Lilia finally no longer has to worry about the survival of the group, and can use her energy on the growth of the group with confidence. Magic Moon Academy