Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!

Chapter 1124 - 335: The Stairway of Civilization

The Earth Worshiping Tribe had developed fully, acquiring more land and a larger population.

At the same time, they gained metals, lighting up this skill point.

Finally one day, when the Hunting Tiger Tribe came to their senses, they suddenly realized that this Earth Worshiping Tribe, which had always submitted to them, had grown to have ten times their population! Moreover, it had become a massive entity proficient in using metals!

A tribe with ten times your population, a grain yield dozens of times yours, and the same metal weapons as you.

The only disadvantage perhaps is that their single soldier’s combat power might be slightly lower than yours, but that’s all.

Fate was already decided.

The Earth Worshiping Tribe had submitted to the Hunting Tiger Tribe for two generations.

For two generations, the chiefs of the Earth Worshiping Tribe traveled to the Hunting Tiger Tribe’s territory, kneeling before the chief and kissing his feet.

Every year they offered grain, giving up meat that was meant for their ancestors.

The humiliation of two generations was washed away by the Earth Worshiping Tribe with two wars!

They did it even smarter!

They did not declare war directly on the Hunting Tiger Tribe, but first contacted a group of tribes that had been oppressed and conquered by the Hunting Tiger Tribe, forming a large alliance.

This alliance, as recorded in scroll documents, told a very interesting story.

The Earth Worshiping Tribe sent a very clever envoy—considered a legendary figure in the history of this tribe.

This envoy visited the chief of a tribe holding a grudge against the Hunting Tiger Tribe, asking him to join in the fight against them.

The chief said, the Hunting Tiger Tribe warriors are strong, and we can’t defeat them. Usually, in battles, it takes three of our warriors to kill one from the Hunting Tiger Tribe.

The envoy asked: If the loss is one of your warriors for one warrior from the Hunting Tiger Tribe, would you accept such an exchange?

The chief immediately said he would if compared to this exchange.

The envoy immediately made a promise and signed a contract with the chief.

Then, he went to see another tribe similarly oppressed by the Hunting Tiger Tribe.

The chief of this tribe also had the same concerns, and the envoy gave the same assurance.

He traveled to a total of fourteen tribes, offering each tribe the promise: lose one warrior, and you can trade for one warrior from the Hunting Tiger Tribe!!

Then, all fourteen tribes deployed their forces! They joined up with the Earth Worshiping Tribe, performed the heavens worship, and established an alliance.

Finally, the alliance waged war against the Hunting Tiger Tribe.

In the first battle, the alliance, though suffering a higher number of casualties, crushed the strong warriors of the Hunting Tiger Tribe.

The casualty exchange ratio, maybe three to one, maybe four to one.

But it was definitely not fourteen to one!

They severed the heads of all the Hunting Tiger Tribe warriors, placed them in a cart, and sent them to the tribe under the Hunting Tiger Tribe’s mining area.

All tribes involved in the alliance were very satisfied.

Because they found that the battle loss ratio was much lower than the "one to one" promised by the Earth Worshiping Tribe!

In the second battle, the alliance, under the leadership of the Earth Worshiping Tribe, wiped out the Hunting Tiger Tribe’s settlements, burned down their tribe, and killed all the Hunting Tiger Tribe’s men!

The chief of the Hunting Tiger Tribe was thrown into a mine shaft, and the entrance sealed with stones.

The women of the Hunting Tiger Tribe were taken back by the Earth Worshiping Tribe, expanding their tribe’s population and becoming a force for reproduction.

The once-prestigious Hunting Tiger Tribe vanished.

In its place, the Earth Worshiping Tribe advanced significantly on the ladder of civilization evolution!

A generation after the destruction of the Hunting Tiger Tribe, the Earth Worshiping Tribe became a gigantic entity.

They used a combination of alliances, annexations, or wars to gradually integrate many tribes.

But more often, they didn’t even need to initiate wars, as their rich and stable grain production could absorb the populations of surrounding tribes.

Refugees and escapees from other tribes became part of their population.

And other angry tribes, unable to defeat the Earth Worshiping Tribe, were eventually either annexed or destroyed.

A generation later, the Earth Worshiping Tribe occupied the river basin where they thrived and multiplied.

From the upstream to the downstream, all the fertile alluvial plains, suitable for farming, became the territory of the Earth Worshiping Tribe.

The extent of the Earth Worshiping Tribe’s power, from east to west, required ten days on a fast horse.

Moreover, dozens of large and small tribes depended on the Earth Worshiping Tribe for survival, existing in its favor and recognizing the Earth Worshiping Tribe as their Common Lord.

The prosperity of the Earth Worshiping Tribe persisted for sixteen generations of chiefs.

Their expansion reached the limits of their productive capacity.

Then, civilization quietly underwent another transformation.

Because the limit of productivity defined the maximum scope of a civilization’s rule... more distant places could no longer be governed effectively.

Thus, new seeds were sown.

Enfeoffment.

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Regarding the system of "enfeoffment," many modern people in the real world do not understand or have a mistaken perception.

The mistaken perception is that a king had conquered and ruled an entire nation’s land (this is the premise), then pointing to Shandong on a map of the country he ruled, he tells a subordinate vassal, Zhang the Third, this land is granted to you, and henceforth you are the king of this land, and you only need to pay a little tax to me.

Therefore, if modern ordinary people do not study history, they might find such a system absurd!