Fall In Love with the Technology Tree - Chapter 84

    “The earliest written record about Liudao appeared in Cao’s voyages during the Yanxi period of the Han calendar. When Cao’s first trip to the south to inspect the islands, he used simple area measurement techniques. Define Liudao as ‘the largest offshore island’. Cao Sheng named it himself, in ‘Tai Island’, ‘Wan Island’, ‘Liu Island’, ‘Qiu Island’, ‘Muyu Island’, ‘Left Island’ Among the many names such as “Diandao”, we chose the word “Liu Dao” with the best meaning, and praised the hot and humid Liudao as a treasure island at that time.”

    —”Liu Dao Written History Research”

    “I didn’t expect to run Liudao so soon.” Ah Sheng asked people to remove the clean dishes before he said slowly, “But about four years ago , A ship heading north to Weihai stopped at Kaohsiung Port in order to avoid the wind and waves. That is, where we are now.”

    She closed her eyes: “At that time, the seven people who went ashore to look for fresh water, including a first-year student, were all beheaded by the natives. They were all suddenly ambushed, and their resistance injuries were minimal. .”

    “Second son…”

    “So far, the seven people buried in the graves outside the fort are still seven headless bones. The island of Liuzhou is hot and humid, and the flesh rotted away in three months. Sweeping away, it’s impossible to tell which of the hundreds or thousands of skulls are the ones we want to welcome back.”

    When she said this, she couldn’t go on, but Twenty-seven added for her with a voice full of hatred: “This place is different from the South Island, the distance to the land is ten times the distance from the South Island Strait. In addition to the turbulent sea currents, it is almost a dead end for the refugees to cross the sea in small boats. Therefore, the natives on the island are isolated from the Central Plains, even more so than the southern barbarians. They plant just throwing seeds, wooden spears and stone tools for hunting, and wrapping their lower bodies. The last piece of deerskin is clothing, necklaces are made of animal teeth, copper, iron, cloth and silk are rare…”

    “The late primitive society.” A Sheng suddenly said, “Ignorance, backwardness and barbarism are not a big problem. I can trade with them and make their children literate and polite. But the problem is: Human sacrifice.”

    A Sheng suddenly raised the corners of his lips slightly, it was an angry smile, like a poisonous fire: “My poor student, it’s not because of some terrible mistake, even It’s not that I made a small mistake, it’s just bad luck, I met a beast looking for a sacrifice!”

    Emotionally out of control for a moment, Ah Sheng calmed his breath and said indifferently: “The word ‘beast’ is my misnomer, after all, it is their traditional culture. Sacrifices are required before, and sacrifices are required before harvesting. When there is drought or disease, sacrifices are also required. When the males in the tribe are adults, they will hunt the heads of other tribes to show their bravery. The person who hunts the most heads is the leader, the second Most people are warriors, the fewest are cowards, cast aside by women. This has been the case for thousands of years, piety is true piety, and simplicity is true simplicity.”

    Zheng Xuan was speechless. This Ryushima is really a place of transformation. “It’s often said that the barbarians are like this, but I can’t imagine that this is the case. Why does the son live on Liudao?”

    A pointed to Twenty-seven angrily: “It’s not that these children are not convinced, they have to go to the island to take revenge. In the first year, more than 200 people were lost, and there were countless materials, so this building was built. The army fort, opened up a hundred acres of rice fields. But the natives often come to hunt for head, and no Han farmers dare to come to reclaim the land. If you want to teach the natives to cultivate, they also turned against five nearby tribes because of the human sacrifice. Demolished.”

    And then Twenty-seven brought five hundred veterans to the island, and things changed.

    In the way of Spring and Autumn, the conflict between the Han and the natives before the 27th came as follows:

    Han: I think headhunting is inhumane. How about we agree to abolish the bad habit of headhunting?

    Turen: No, this is our traditional culture. If you want to abolish it, I will kill you.

    The first year of twenty-seven:

    Twenty-seven: I think headhunting is your local traditional culture, and we Han people should follow the local customs.

    Turen: You understand people, as long as you follow our rules, everyone is a good brother.

    After the third year of the twenty-seventh year:

    Twenty-seven: I think headhunting is still a bit inhumane, why don’t we agree to abolish headhunting?

    Turen: QAQ, your conscience finally found out.

    Twenty-seven: No, I’ll wait and be brothers with you for a few more years.

    The natives: …you go.

    The disaster of the natives on Ryu Island is like a small splash compared to this era of starvation and death. Qisui made an appointment with him to hunt for the head, killing ten thousand people in three years, imitating the barbarian custom as a sacrifice. In another three years, the island barbarians were all peaceful.”

    Asheng has been staying on Ryu Island from spring to autumn harvest. Naturally, the children who went south were groomed and left, along with Xiao Zhengyi and Xiao Taishi Ci, and only Lu Bu, Zheng Xuan, and Kong Mo stayed on the island with her.

    Zheng Xuan wanted to stay to educate the barbarians, but Lu Bu and Kong Mo stayed as planned.

    Kong Mo plans to build the second shipyard of the Cao family in Kaohsiung Port.

    The cavalry Lu Bu had suffered enough in the jungle and had a high fever, and the last bit of impetuousness was worn out. He is now in tune with Twenty-seven, and they always compete and drink together. Lu Bu was eighteen this year, and Ah Sheng imposed a drinking ban on him. A few days after he was happy, he began to dislike the taste of southern wine, so he ruined Ah Sheng’s inventory.

    After three years of savage conquest, the plains west of Liudao belonged to the Cao family. 20,000 natives put on sackcloth and tied their hair to the right, and began to adapt to the days of bathing and disinfecting every day and paying rent to the main house. Most of them have never worked like this in their lives, nor have they been so refined.

    But they are not included in the Cao family register at the moment. Only those who have learned Chinese, can write 100 Chinese characters, and have no bad records for three years can become recognized by the Cao family. Han people have lived a life of animal power planters, free breakfast and gods.

    The so-called “God Seed” is the name of the natives for the high-yield crops brought by the Cao family. To put it bluntly, it is sweet potatoes and corn.

    In addition to the paddy fields near the river, there are also large areas of sweet potatoes and corn. The machinery pulled by the two cows turned the soil while burying the seedlings and seeds in the soil, and then the irrigation water was turned into the canal by the waterwheel, and the thin water light diffused into the fields.

    In the spring, standing at the height of the dock, you can see the planters moving in the endless farmland like ants leading the tide. In the fall, it was replaced by a harvester.

    “I didn’t expect them to be able to make this. Although it is animal power, they have already started to use rubber.” Ah Sheng stood on the top of the high tower, the sea breeze was blowing on her face, ” One thousand hectares of land can barely support 20,000 people in the Central Plains, but here I can provide food and clothing for 80,000 people.”

    Sweet potato and corn are ground into feed and shipped to chicken farms and pig farms around the world, so that they can supply eggs for children and meat buns for strong laborers.

    Zheng Xuan looked at the mountain of sweet potatoes, and the calculation function in his mind has gone crazy. “If the lord’s manor continues to open northward, and if mulberry fruit trees can be planted in the forest, then only one island can feed tens of millions of people in the Central Plains!”

    “I am selfish.” Ah Sheng poured cold water on him, “I allowed Twenty-seven to hunt first because of this sweet seed of hope.”

    She squatted down and picked up a muddy sweet potato from the grain mountain. “I want to take full control of Ryushima. This island is isolated from the mainland, so there is no need to worry about the outflow of elites. So,” she stood up, looking at the still hot autumn sky, “whether it is colonization or slaughter, this A sin, I share with Twenty-seven.”

    “This is an era of ignorance. All races are fighting for their lives.”

    Bumper harvest.

    Cao Sheng put on a black costume, and at the location of Skull Mountain, he held the only head ceremony hosted by Han people in the history of Liudao.

    The heads of people with only bones left were cleaned, tattooed and painted, and new wine was poured from the middle of the upper and lower teeth. The wine leaked out of the fleshless chin, was taken into a copper bowl, and was shared by the living. The chunks of meat were then stuffed into the skeleton’s mouth and also leaked out of the chin to be eaten by the living.

    When the moon was in the sky, Ah Sheng sat by the bonfire and hummed the songs of the natives:

    “Poor alien,

    You were my enemy while you were alive,

    Now that you are dead, you are my brother.

    By my own strength,

    I invite you to my tribe,

    Under the will of the ancestors,

     Witness our friendship.

    Come on,

    Have a bar, my brother.

    Come on,

    Eat the meat, my brother.

    From now on,

    We share the same ancestor.

    From now on,

    We share the same destiny. “Note [1]

    Indigenous people from far and near, either with their heads or their hair tied, all came from the station to participate in the autumn harvest festival. They stood in the dark, humming while weeping, eating and drinking:

    “Come on,

    Eat the meat, my brother.

    Come on,

    Have a bar, my brother. “

    This is a grand farewell ceremony. From today, all tribes participating in the meeting will swear to renounce human sacrifice.

    Asheng picked up two glasses of bone wine and shook it to Twenty-seven. Twenty-seven took the cup and looked at her without speaking.

    “Two things,” Ah Sheng said while suppressing his drunkenness, “First, let this simple and romantic murder culture disappear.”

      “second?”

    “Secondly, natives who have already tied their hair are treated the same as Han people, and cannot be discriminated against and oppressed. Children who pass the Mongolian school graduation test will be sent to Shendao for loyalty assessment, and the best ones will be sent to Nandao Study. You treat them as potential apprentices, okay?”

    Twenty Seven slowly finished the wine: “I will try my best.”

    At this time, there were still hunting tribes of about 10,000 people in the mountains in the northern part of Ryu Island. Relying on the terrain, they fought with the Cao family’s armed forces until three years later, before they all accepted the Kaohsiung Oath.

    A Sheng left Liudao, where he had been together for ten months after the autumn harvest, and sailed south again. When she left, it was the Cao family’s ship to transport recruits that entered the port.

    Twenty-Seven regards Ryu Island as a training base. Anyone who joins the infantry team will first take the bandits from Jiaozhou to the front, and then send them to Kaohsiung Port of Liudao to exercise their physical fitness and fight in the jungle with the agile and fierce natives. Casualties were inevitable, but those who returned to the South Island after living for half a year became veterans with strong psychological qualities.

    A steady stream of teenagers graduated from the school and entered the family army, so after all these years of fighting for twenty-seven, there has never been a shortage of people. In another ten years, he will not be short of people.

    Only the growing army of elite soldiers witnessed his achievements in defending the isolated island.

    The author has something to say: Note [1]: Adapted from the song “Sedek Bale”.

    The Taiwan aboriginal customs mentioned in this chapter may lead to various disputes on culture, freedom, human rights, and colonization. But given the drastic annexation and fragile viability of the tribal form, there is no clear correspondence between the Taiwanese island tribes two thousand years ago and the Taiwanese ethnic minorities today. I do not intend to vilify or insinuate any existing minority here.

    In the end, this is just a YY novel.