blueteamnovel Chapter 456 - 193: Journeying (Part 2)
Chapter 456 - 193: Journeying (Part 2)
When the tribe members left the village, Shen Can also left the village.
Just as Huo Xian had said, he really needed to go out and take a look at the real situation across Yongyi.
However, unlike the tribe members who headed directly south, Shen Can first took a walk around his own village.
When eating with Huo Xian, the millet they ate was improved by the wizard of the Agricultural Division, which he was unaware of.
This also shows that since the establishment of the Agricultural Division, he, as the Ancestral Temple Keeper, had not given appropriate attention.
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When leaving, Shen Can brought along a small notebook, not for holding grudges, but for recording what he saw.
Amidst the undulating mountains and forests, a Mountain-Splitting Kui carried a robust tribesman and two little children, swiftly traversing through the woods.
"We’re almost at the Jiangyuan Ruins Market, by then I’ll get each of you a deer antler hat."
The robust tribesman cheerfully embraced the two children, pointing to a small market built by the water up ahead.
This was a small market spontaneously organized by people from different settlements within the Blazing Flame Race Territory for bartering.
It was also the first time Shen Can saw this, as he had not paid attention to such things before.
As life stabilized, besides farming, tribesmen occasionally obtained some minerals and witch medicine during hunting and gathering.
Besides what was handed over to the village and used personally, there was still some left over.
Especially because of the trial matters before, every household was keen to buy witch medicine and weapons, naturally leading to transactions.
Shen Can strolled around the Jiangyuan Ruins Market, discovering that quite a few people were present, numbering four to five hundred, all from nearby neighboring settlements.
In the past, his focus had always been on martial cultivation, but now, after calming down and stepping outside, Shen Can’s gaze fell on the tribe members.
He noticed most were wearing animal skin clothes, while a few wore hemp clothes.
When traveling, everyone carried bows and arrows, short blades, and some even carried long spears.
Regarding weapons, the village indeed wasn’t lacking.
The items in the market were quite ordinary, commonly used by tribesmen, like animal meat, wild fruits, animal skins, hemp cloth, clay pots, woven baskets, etc.
After a quick observation, Shen Can didn’t stay long and continued on his way.
Along the route, across mountains and ridges in a flat valley, he saw orderly fields, and in some scattered flat areas outside the fields, tribesmen were using crooked plows to reclaim land and pickaxes to break stones.
Along the way, Shen Can also encountered Little Dragon Fish and Little Cyan Simurgh Sparrow performing rain-making.
The two little creatures were quick and well-loved.
Shen Can noted all of these observations down.
In the Blazing Flame Race Territory, the Agricultural Division selected over a dozen settlements with moderately abundant source power for grain improvement experiments.
The Military Division selected several tribes near mineral veins to develop these settlements leveraging the veins.
In every settlement, a portion of the tribesmen’s households had looms, though the output wasn’t high.
Hemp cloth was another resource needed by the village for bartering with various groups in Yongyi when heading south.
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After touring his own clan division, Shen Can discovered many issues.
Within the tribe, there were many reclaimed farmlands, and they even used farming tools such as crooked plows, iron hoes, and iron rakes, but the variety of cultivated crops was quite disorderly and lacked reasonable planning.
For example, some areas suitable for planting millet were instead planted with wheat and millet, and the tribesmen were still fixated on harvesting grain without caring what was being grown.
The related spirit rice experiments were even more scattered.
In terms of clothing, animal skin clothes were durable and wear-resistant, but the raw material acquisition process could be dangerous, not to mention the cumbersome and labor-intensive process of repeatedly kneading the skin.
Many settlements built houses by mountains and waters, which was fine but also ignored dangers like landslides and floods.
The tribe’s travel mostly relied on walking, with few riding seat beasts.
Additionally, the rearing of small wild beasts and fish pond farming were also scattered.
Communication between settlements was inconvenient.
Previously, Shen Can hadn’t focused his attention on these simple matters.
But now it seemed that change wasn’t difficult, and with appropriate guidance, the tribesmen could indeed do much better in these areas.
For example, travel could be revolutionized with small flying ships, about ten feet in size, and the small witch array serving as the power core was already not a challenge for the tribe’s wizards.
Systematic farming, fishing, and hunting, systematic plantation bases, systematic weaving, and mulberry planting.
In this way, the resources produced would far exceed the current scattered state.
These things could be exchanged for resources to feed back into the clan division, improving tribe members’ lives and cultivation.
To become a center for passing down the flame of civilization, one’s village must first stand above other villages in terms of civilization level.
Not only in martial arts, but also in the aspects of ordinary people’s daily lives.
After recording his thoughts in the little notebook, Shen Can walked into the river valley.
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The sun had just risen.
The sound of weaving resonated within a large hall.
Inside the hall, there were ten looms, with ten weaver girls already engrossed in their weaving.
The looms carried unfinished cyan cloth, which occasionally shimmered with a glint.
The Weaver Girl walked around the looms, giving guidance to any weaver who made errors.
After checking the work of the many weavers, the Weaver Girl proceeded to sit before a massive loom at the innermost section.
On this loom, she was weaving another length of cyan cloth, featuring a tree pattern more intricate than those of other weavers.
The Weaver Girl would pause to contemplate after weaving for a bit, then unravel some of the warp and weft threads to reweave them.
She had been experimenting for two years, and this was the eleventh length of ’Cyan Cloud Gauze’ she had woven in those two years.
This cloth used kudzu vine silk and Artemisia silk as materials, and by quality classification, it was considered Tier One, with Tier Two Celestial Silkworm Silk as the framework.
Of the ten previous Cyan Cloud Gauze garments manufactured, the one with the best defense had already withstood a full-force arrow shot by a Mountain Opening Realm Martial Artist using fifty-three Power of the Three Desolations.
But the Weaver Girl was still somewhat dissatisfied, feeling that the texture of the Cyan Cloud Gauze needed improvement and that its defense could be further enhanced.
Able to withstand a direct arrow shot by one in the Mountain Opening Realm, Elder Huo Chong of the Military Division was already very satisfied and ordered the weaver girls to make a batch first.
Thus, the Weaver Girl taught the weaver girls how to weave the Cyan Cloud Gauze while making further improvements to it herself.
The weaver girls in the great hall had been specially selected from within the tribe; weaving was simple, but not everyone could weave the Cyan Cloud Gauze.
The Weaver Girl considered requesting the tribe to allow her to select a batch of skilled weaver girls from across the clan division once she made a Cyan Cloud Gauze with better defense.
Outside the Weaver Girl’s hall, Shen Can had already used his Divine Sense to observe the interior situation clearly.
Particularly the toughness of the cyan cloth on the looms, which greatly surpassed that of ordinary cloth by dozens of times.
The dozen or so people inside the hall were young, neither wizards nor mastered in Rotating Martial Dao with much Power of the Three Desolations, yet the cloth they wove had great defensive strength.
Especially the Weaver Girl’s loom, the cyan cloth with intricate patterns resembling a dense, verdant old tree, and the taut warp and weft lines rang with a steely sound.
If they could indeed create such fabric, its defense would certainly be stronger.
In Shen Can’s eyes, the weaving materials were nothing special, utterly ordinary and easily replaceable with better ones at any time.
But if they could practice with such ordinary materials and weave fabric with greater defense, then using Tier Two and Tier Three Celestial Silkworm Silk or Spirit Vine Silk could surely create fabric for making Tier Four Defensive Battle Robes.
The protection for these weaver girls needed to be strengthened.
As of now, it wasn’t critical, but once Tier Four Defensive Battle Robes truly appeared, they would indeed be coveted by others.
Shen Can hadn’t expected to make such a significant discovery by merely taking a stroll.
The production of ordinary tribesmen could influence the outcome of magical combat among Tier Four Martial Artists, a notion he previously hadn’t considered.
Afterward, Shen Can roamed through the river valley, seeing more ordinary tribesmen, who were cultivating medicinal herbs and concocting witch medicine pills alongside the wizards.
In these foundational tasks, they were no less competent than the wizards.
From this, it was evident that the potential of ordinary tribesmen was substantial, merely undiscovered.