Chapter 688: Xuanyuan's Ambition

Zhishou and the others were on the Large Ship, sitting quite leisurely; it was just that those musicians were still not used to being on a boat, having some symptoms of seasickness, and they kept lying by the side of the boat to retch.

The water volume was still relatively low now, and the speed of the boat was slow; the people of the Navy inferred that they might encounter the peach blossom flood on their return journey, but it would not be a big problem.

However, as they got further and further away from Huaxia, they still discovered that something was not quite right; the scenery on both banks had changed greatly compared to last year, mainly due to the fallen trees everywhere and the fragmented riverbanks, as if a massive flood had continued for a long time, yet Huaxia had not discovered anything amiss, and according to their experience, it was completely impossible for a flood to occur in Winter.

Along the way, they also did not find any conditions that would form a Quake Lake, so everyone was extremely surprised and puzzled; Zhishou also felt some unease in his heart, so he returned to the cabin alone, took out fifty stalks of Yarrow, and began to divine.

Fortunately, the divination result was not too bad, and Zhishou's unease was also relieved a little; he also felt that a person chosen by Guangchengzi could not suffer a serious natural disaster; he believed in Guangchengzi's divination ability, as that was his master, and it was absolutely impossible for it to be wrong; even if he believed that Huaxia would be destroyed, he would not believe that the Xuanyuan Tribe would be destroyed.

The Xuanyuan Tribe was also cleaning up the aftermath at this time, and the temperature in the Xuanyuan Tribe had long been higher than in Huaxia; Huaxia had only just started to set out to plow the land, while the wheat seedlings of the Xuanyuan Tribe had already grown out.

Therefore, the Xuanyuan Tribe was extremely busy now, so busy that they even forgot to consider when the people of Huaxia would arrive.

Previously, Xuanyuan had personally gone into battle to farm together with the tribespeople; this year, their cultivated land had increased by a lot, and the tribe's stored grain had successfully supported them through the Winter; one point where the Xuanyuan Tribe was superior to Huaxia was that the four seasons of the Xuanyuan Tribe were almost even, but the Winter of Huaxia seemed a bit longer; in terms of Geography, the Xuanyuan Tribe occupied a great advantage.

Even when discussing the migration of human civilization, it was such a pattern; in an era earlier than Shennong, a Yangshao Culture was born in the location where Baifeng was now; later, they expanded, then moved south along the Yellow River, forming a second Yangshao Culture of the same lineage in a later province, and afterwards, a third Yangshao Culture was formed in the Central Plains; perhaps it was this civilization that gave birth to the Shennong Clan.

Discussing mythology again, Fuxi was also born in the place where Baifeng was, but the tomb of Fuxi was in the Central Plains, which was the same as this point; therefore, it was not unreasonable for dynasties in history to fight for the Central Plains; Xuanyuan later also founded his state in the Central Plains, all because he took a fancy to the suitable climate and the plains suitable for farming in the Central Plains; as an agricultural civilization, the Central Plains were the best.

But in periods with more wars, the Central Plains did not have much of an advantage; they were only suitable for establishing a capital in a prosperous age, otherwise, it was difficult to effectively resist attacks in a place as flat as a pancake.

The current Xuanyuan was constantly advancing toward the Central Plains; he extremely wanted to turn that endless plain into his tribe's farmland; he felt that it was a bit wasted in the hands of the current Shennong Tribe, as they did not have farming techniques like his and could not fully develop this land.

If he could turn this entire plain into farmland, how many people would that be able to feed? Even if there were hundreds of thousands more people, it could easily feed them.

When Xuanyuan saw this land, he was already planning; the Lieshan Clan had already disappeared, and he had occupied a large area of land here, while the rest had been seized by the Shennong Clan; to achieve his goal, he had to go to war with the Shennong Clan.

But the current Xuanyuan did not yet have enough confidence; even if he developed well, he could not deny that the current Shennong Clan was the most powerful tribe on this land.

Therefore, Xuanyuan could only strengthen his cooperation with Huaxia now to obtain technical support from Huaxia and accelerate the construction of his Xuanyuan Tribe, and he continued to contact the Chiyou Tribe to purchase their Iron, Weapon, and animal skins, especially Crocodile Skin; Huaxia did not have much demand for Crocodile Skin now, as they were increasing the quantity of their Iron Armor; the protective power of Iron Armor was far superior to Leather Armor, but it also had its drawbacks.

The cost was high, and the production cycle was long; even under an assembly line model, not much Iron Armor could be produced in a year; the Blacksmiths still had to forge other things for Huaxia, such as various tools, iron nails, and so on; Huaxia needed Iron in too many places, but the output of Iron had always been stable and had not increased much.

If Huaxia wanted to greatly increase the output of Iron, they either had to train Artisans and expand the iron smelting factories, or improve the iron smelting technology, but Baifeng felt that the former might be more reliable; a technology could not be improved just by saying so; if one did not understand the reaction principles within it, improving technology was nonsense.

There were many types of metals, such as silver and aluminum; silver was not of much use to the current Huaxia, but aluminum was; however, in history, the value of aluminum was even higher than silver, until the technology of electrolytic aluminum appeared, which caused the price of aluminum to fall.

Speaking of electricity, it was not that Baifeng could not build a generator; the structure required for electromagnetic induction was not a difficult problem; magnets could be found, and the conductivity of gold was much higher than that of copper, but once electricity was generated, what could it be used for? To electrocute fish?

In the absence of finding a use for it, Baifeng was not willing to waste this effort; he could not make a light bulb either, mainly because as a Liberal Arts student, he really could not think of how to make a Glass vacuum, otherwise, the filament would only shine for a few seconds in the air.

But Baifeng had not completely abandoned these technologies; in the book he left for his children, he wrote down everything he had not forgotten; when he wrote the book, he did not use any formal language or pedantry, but rather wrote it in great detail, as if he were giving a lecture to his son.

He even annotated clearly how to solve a certain problem and in what direction to work, because although he could not use it in this era, he felt that there would definitely be a time when it could be used in the future; as long as this book existed, his descendants would be able to save a lot of trouble.

Recently, Baifeng, who had more free time, was racing against time to record, taking out what he had written before, correcting it, recalling it, and organizing it together with Changle, making all the content neat and categorized.