The ship is built, try the waters first.

Boats are very important means of transportation, and testing such things is of great significance to the tribe, so such activities are naturally very grand.

Therefore, the tribe held a grand sacrifice.

However, the sacrificial process has been changed beyond recognition by Ye Qing and can no longer be called a sacrificial ceremony, but should be called a celebration.

The location for testing the waters is chosen on this artificial river from the tribe to the brick and tile factory.

This artificial river is seven or eight miles long, and it is completely sufficient to test the carrying capacity and speed of the ships.

After receiving a notice from the village chief and neighbor chief, the tribe members rushed over and gathered on the two embankments of the artificial river to watch.

In the beginning of spring, the willow branches planted on the artificial river embankment have grown higher than those of humans, and are very lush with branches and leaves.

Standing at the starting point connecting the moat, these willow trees are like two thick green lines, extending straight to the distance along the banks of the artificial river, until the invisible end in the distance.

The originally bare embankment was already covered with all kinds of weeds, and the surface of the embankment seemed to be covered with a layer of green blanket.

But at the top of the embankment, due to frequent tribe-men's interactions, they were trampled on two straight and flat roads.

At this time, the embankment was already crowded.

The embankment is not wide enough and there are too many tribesmen, so the crowds line up along the embankment to the distance, leaving a distance of more than 100 meters.

I don’t know how many tribe members gathered together, which made the atmosphere on the scene extremely lively.

Laughing, conversation, praise...

The happiest thing about this scene is the children.

Children who were crazy like people were running around in the crowd, chasing and playing, attracting adults to scold them from time to time... Some children were too excited and almost fell into the river.

Besides the children, there are also dogs.

Some of them wag their tails and ran around the crowd, smelling this and that from time to time, and some chase the children and running non-stop.

Some bad dogs were lying on the slope of the embankment, not knowing what they had found, so they struggled to bury the pit.

Some dogs also started racial reproduction activities shamelessly, and the two dogs were closely connected to each other.

This aroused the interest of many people onlookers, and the bored people threw them over with stones. Then, the dog hit by the stone dragged another dog in resentment, screaming and fleeing in panic.

When Ye Qing arrived, he saw the crowded scene and felt very satisfied.

There should be more collective activities like this.

It’s not that he pays attention to pomp, but that such collective activities can greatly promote communication between tribesmen.

In this era, there was too little communication between tribes. Although the tribe members had moved and lived together, due to the unfamiliarity between each other and the different living habits, the communication between tribe members was still not frequent enough.

There is no communication, no integration.

Such collective activities and lively atmosphere can best eliminate the barrier between people and are a very effective way to promote communication and integration.

A rostrum has been set up at the beginning point.

This time is a celebration.

There were only a few red flags on the rostrum, and Ye Qing felt a little monotonous.

So he asked his tribe members to collect a large number of wild flowers and set up a rostrum.

However, autumn is already coming to this season, and there are not many wild flowers of other colors, so the wild flowers collected by the tribe members are all yellow chrysanthemums.

In addition to the rostrum, Ye Qing also asked his tribe members to build a large arched door across the artificial river.

This arched door is a frame made of bamboo, and is also decorated with yellow wild chrysanthemums.

Although the color is a bit monotonous, this is also a flower door and can set off a festive atmosphere.

After a drumbeat, the celebration officially began.

On the rostrum, the patriarch led more than thirty witches and began to chant and dance.

These witches were also very excited and excited, singing and dancing with great effort.

This is the first time for them to sacrifice of such a large scale.

However, there are also things they are not satisfied with, that is, such a grand sacrifice is not allowed to suck hemp seeds.

How to communicate with the gods without sucking hemp seeds?

Ye Qing said to them:

"So many of you sing together, and the sound is so loud that the gods can hear it, so there is no need to suck the hemp seeds."

This statement is not very convincing, but due to Ye Qing's authority, these witches can only accept this statement half-believingly.

The sacrificial activities ended ten minutes later.

This time is much smaller than the time of sacrifice before.

Ye Qing only regards the sacrificial activities as a celebration program, and does not want to really sacrifice, so that kind of long and boring sacrifice is completely unnecessary.

So after the sacrificial activities, except for the tribe leader and a few other witches, the other witches were not very satisfied, with a depressed expression on their faces.

This sacrifice was very imperfect, and it was even a bit of a play!

How do they get happy?

But their feelings cannot affect the festiveness of the whole scene.

Such a huge sacrifice is extremely new to the tribesmen.

After the sacrificial activities, they talked a lot and kept expressing their thoughts and opinions to others.

One said that the witch's dance was beautiful, the other said that the witch's chanting was very nice, and some said that the other witch had the most scepter ornaments...

The tribe members were very respectful of the witches in their respective tribes, and the witches were very respected in their respective tribes.

However, for other tribes, the situation is different. The tribe members do not respect so much witches who are not their own tribe, and they are also likely to be more casual.

Each of them talked about the witches in a big way, without any psychological barriers, because they were talking about the witches from other tribes.

However, the witches from their own tribes do not discuss them, while the people from other tribes are discussing them.

Ye Qing was very satisfied.

If there are too many such discussions, the mystery of the witch and the awe of the witches will gradually disappear, the image of the witches in the minds of the witches will gradually decrease, and the influence will gradually decrease.

This is the result he wants.

His purpose is to unknowingly eliminate the influence of witches on the tribesmen and reverse the barbaric and primitive beliefs of the tribesmen.

After the sacrifice ended, there were no other programs.

Ye Qing had no choice.

Talent performances, not even tribe members can do it without training.

For a long time recently, he has been busy training and shipbuilding, and has no time to organize talent performance training for tribe members.

The test has officially begun.

Thirty wooden boats set out one by one, heading towards the brick and tile factory at the other end of the artificial river.

In addition to ten soldiers sitting on each boat, there were also loads of logs that were sawed into more than three meters long.

This is the wood for transport to the sawmill for processing the wood boards.

As the wooden boats appeared one by one, the onlookers began to cheer.

The wooden boat was sailing in the water, and the onlookers followed the dike.
Chapter completed!