What can knowledge change
Knowledge can change everything!
The rainy season in Daze has always been a depressing, dull, and moldy season.
Before Chutian came to the small village, every year during the rainy season, the villagers in the village were just like pigs, sheep, cows and horses, eating, drinking, making dolls, and sitting at the door of the hut in a daze. The days passed like this.
But this rainy season is like a dream. The whole village has become different, and everyone has become different.
The discussion hut in the center of the village has been built, and it is enough to accommodate seven to eight hundred strong men to hold a banquet and discuss matters. On one side of the meeting hut, a new hut was built, enough to accommodate hundreds of people.
The furnishings of this thatched hut are more "luxurious" than the hut where the village elders discuss matters. The floor is made of slag after refining the fire copper, making it watertight and extremely dry. On top of the slag, a thick layer of smooth flooring was laid. The polished smooth floor could almost be used as a mirror.
Oil lamps were made from the fat of wild beasts, and they were lit during the day, illuminating the house very brightly.
Hundreds of children of school age were sitting upright on the ground, looking seriously at Chu Tian who was standing in front of the room. They were holding charcoal pens in their hands and were learning to write from Chu Tian on the bluestone board one stroke at a time. , depicting talismans.
Behind these children, Jiu Lao and several other village elders, as well as some strong men with free time, were all sitting there with serious faces, listening to Chu Tian's lecture attentively.
They also took charcoal pens and wrote words carefully on the slate.
Even if their brains are not as flexible as those of children and it is very difficult to learn, these village elders and strong men still grit their teeth and study seriously with a trace of sacred piety.
Back to three months ago, after Chutian renovated the first furnace forged from red copper mixed with other metals, he suddenly proposed that he teach writing and talismans to the children in the village.
Chu Tian just wanted to be lazy. This extremely low-level entry-level furnace can be forged by anyone who knows how to draw talismans. It does not require any advanced skills or cultivation.
If he could teach a group of qualified apprentices in the village, he wouldn't have to calcine copper molten furnace by furnace himself!
Out of pure laziness, Chu Tian proposed opening a school to teach knowledge to the children in the village.
When Mr. Jiu and the others learned what Chu Tian wanted to teach them, several village elders knelt down in front of Chu Tian with tears streaming down their faces, as if they were worshiping their ancestral gods.
Legend has it that the ancestors of the people in Daze were proficient in various skills, whether it was forging, brewing, weaving, or animal husbandry, there was nothing they could not master.
However, I don’t know when their descendants fell into the swamps and lingered. They forgot a lot of precious knowledge and cut off many inheritances. Even a bowl of light water and wine has become a "luxury" that the villagers aspire to!
As far as Mr. Jiu and the others know, there are only three or four villages within a radius of three to four thousand miles that still retain ancestral craftsmanship.
A village worships the god of wine, and they make wine.
A village worships the god of craftsmen, and they know how to forge iron.
A village worships the god of medicine, and they cure illnesses.
A village worships the God of War. One of the warriors in their village can defeat three or four ordinary warriors. It is the most powerful village within a radius of three to four thousand miles. If it weren't for the fact that the descendants of the God of War were so good at eating, the prey they usually obtained couldn't feed too many tribesmen, and they would have been able to dominate villages with a radius of three or four thousand miles.
No matter how you put it, knowledge, in this great swamp, means wealth, power, and a more stable and secure life.
In the past three months, Chutian was busy with forging, teaching knowledge, and helping the village with suggestions.
Three months later, the eyes of hundreds of children in the village, who were usually as ignorant as stones, were filled with intelligent light. This kind of light has another name - "wisdom"!
What Chu Tian taught them was the writing language common to Fallen Star Ocean.
But the knowledge he explained was not the classics of the Fallen Star Ocean spiritual cultivators - in this vast swamp, there is a strange force that suppresses the mana and soul fluctuations, making it impossible to cultivate spiritual power and heavenly power. Those spiritual classics , Heavenly Cultivation Classics are useless.
He taught many things, including mineralogy, zoology, botany, and principles of inductive analysis. He also explained some of the most basic principles of chemistry and mechanics. He focused on smelting, how to identify the properties of materials, and how to smelt materials with stronger properties.
He even taught some architectural theories, how to build taller and stronger houses, how to build city walls with stronger defenses, and how to use talismans to strengthen city walls and houses.
Yes, Talismanology.
Chu Tian discovered that in this great swamp, all power, whether spiritual or celestial, would be sealed away.
However, on the golden lamp condensed from the "Great Dream Divine Code", the various runes appeared around the various heavenly seals, as well as the most basic runes that Chu Tian had learned before. These represent the most basic laws between heaven and earth. , but can be used freely.
So Chu Tian selected the most basic and simple runes around the Golden Lantern's Heavenly Seal, the introductory runes he knew, which the children could understand, remember, and get started with, and handed them over in one go. them.
At the edge of the village, the earthen fence that was originally more than one foot high has turned into a city wall three feet high and about one foot wide after three months of hard work.
For the villagers, who generally have more than fifty dragon powers, it only took thousands of villagers half a month to work a little longer, dig some soil, and build such a city wall. It really didn't use much strength.
Although it is a city wall made of earth, there are runes on the wall carved by Chutian's apprentices using fire copper ore powder. After the runes carved from the powder are calcined and smelted into one with fire, these runes emit light on their own. The high temperature burns the runes made of soil into a material as hard as rock.
Chutian then asked the apprentices to perform secondary processing on the city wall.
The apprentices used axes forged from hot bronze to carve various reinforced defensive talismans on the city wall. Chutian personally triggered the power of these talismans, making the city wall as hard as steel.
In Daze, a city with extremely backward productivity, such a city wall is considered indestructible!
Chu Tian also understood in his heart that such a city wall might have no use in Daze, but it was idle time. Building a city wall and building a town were such interesting things, why not have a good time