Chapter 23 [Independence Era]

Time flies like a white horse passing by.

Twenty years passed quietly.

The Yang clan tribe has been developing rapidly under the advanced ideas and concepts brought by its leader Yang Yu. It has now developed into a small village with more than 230 tribesmen.

The previous batch of hunting team warriors have already returned to the earth, but their spirit has been fully inherited by the next generation. In the past twenty years, many geniuses have emerged in the tribe and contributed to the development of the tribe.

Yan also completed his feat of tasting hundreds of herbs.

summer.

Under the banyan tree.

Yang Yu's face remained the same, he was gently pushed and sat on the swing, his face was old, but you could vaguely see some of his youthful appearance.

"Yu, I feel like my life is just like a dream."

"I never thought that the tribe would develop so well under your leadership."

There was happiness in Lin'er's cloudy eyes. She looked at the children playing and fighting, with a smile on her face, and spoke softly.

"The future will be better." Yang Yu stroked her gray hair, his voice slightly hoarse.

"sit."

Li'er gently patted the swing board beside her, looked at her husband whose face remained the same and whose body functions were at their peak, and said, "Yu, I am sitting with you, just like a child accompanying his mother, to spend the next short time together."

"What are you talking about, you damn girl?"

Yang Yu sat beside her, feeling sad.

He has witnessed many, many deaths. Is his wife's turn next?

"Yu, the tribe is already under a lot of pressure now."

“It’s time to abolish the tribal extended family system.”

Lin Er looked at her husband tenderly and said, "I suggested to you at the beginning that the family system and the tribal system should be separated, whether it is eating or drinking, they should be separated."

"I know, I'm already adjusting to the changes as quickly as possible."

Yang Yu nodded.

During these twenty years, he has made some adjustments.

It even went from copper ware to the Bronze Age.

It is much earlier than the bronze ware in history.

The words fell.

He felt Lin'er resting her head on his shoulder, but he did not disturb her. He just watched the children playing and fighting in the sun in front of him, with a smile in his eyes.

After a moment, he turned his head to look at Lin'er, who was only in her forties, but found that Lin'er had stopped breathing and was leaning quietly on his shoulder.

"Lin, Li'er?"

He gently pushed his wife beside him, but there was no response at all. An indescribable emotion rose in his heart.

That is the pain of losing a loved one.

Being in your forties is considered advanced age, not to mention in this era, even in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Not to mention, this was in the era of primitive tribes.

He is in charge of external affairs, while Li'er is in charge of internal affairs.

It is conceivable what kind of responsibilities the two of them are shouldering.

……

Three days later.

After burying Li'er, Yang Yu summoned all the members of the tribe and held the first tribal meeting.

"Chief, my condolences."

Yan, who was about to enter middle age but looked like a man who was about to be buried, looked at the slightly haggard patriarch and spoke softly.

"No problem." Yang Yu waved his hand slightly and said, "You should pay more attention to your health. Look at your age. You are only in your thirties, but you look like an old man who is about to enter the earth."

"Haha, I'm used to it."

Yan laughed and said.

He has contributed his value to the tribe, found many kinds of medicinal herbs, and solved many diseases.

This is the value of his existence. "Clan leader, what is the matter with you?" The once arrogant Lie has been worn down by life. He looks very old, holding a cane in his hand, with a sad look on his kind face.

"Next, it's the development of our tribe."

"The development of the tribe has reached a bottleneck."

"The tribal era is no longer suitable for our tribe."

Yang Yu looked at the many tribesmen present and said, "From now on, the tribesmen will no longer eat and drink together, and will cook for themselves."

"Patriarch, is this inappropriate?"

"Will it affect the unity of the tribe?"

Yan immediately raised his objection. Now he is also an elder in the tribe and his influence in the tribe is quite huge.

The plan proposed by the patriarch is really inappropriate.

The people below were also talking and whispering to each other.

They all didn't understand why the patriarch did this?
"This is an inevitable process in the history of human civilization."

“Suppose the population of the tribe increases a hundred or a thousand times in the future, will we still eat and drink together?”

Yang Yu asked.

Suddenly, Yan, Lie and others chose to keep their mouths shut.

"As for what you said, will it affect the unity of the tribe?"

"Have you ever forgotten which tribe you came from?"

Yang Yu looked at the tribesmen present and asked.

"Yang clan (zhi) tribe."

Everyone said in unison.

"Not bad, not bad!" Yang Yu nodded in satisfaction, his eyes fell on Yan, Lie and others, and said: "We are all members of the Yang clan. We can have grudges, conflicts, and even the kind that we never have any contact with each other again. That's fine."

"But remember one thing, if there is an invasion by foreign enemies, or even when foreign enemies come to bully you, then unite and fight against the foreign enemies together."

"why?"

"Because you have the same blood flowing in your bodies, you are from the Yang tribe."

“That’s what I ask of you.”

"If Yan and I have a life-and-death conflict, and we don't even want to meet, but one day, when enemies outside the tribe come to bully me, Yan, will you help me?"

"meeting."

Yan nodded firmly.

This is the truth.

Outsiders are not allowed to bully people of their own ethnic group.

If they bully our people, then we don’t mind putting aside all grudges and giving priority to fighting the foreign enemies.

"Not bad, very good."

Yang Yu nodded and said, "The prototype of the family has already existed in our tribe for twenty to thirty years. Now it's time to change."

“And your houses should also be expanded.”

“From now on, tribal people can build stoves, animal sheds, dig pits, cultivate land for planting, etc. in their homes.”

"If you don't have any livestock, you can borrow a male and a female from the tribe. The livestock will breed cubs next year, and you can return the two cubs given to you by the tribe..."

"And they need to pay 30% of their annual income to the tribe every year."

"Also, the hunting team can be disbanded, but we must organize warriors to protect our homeland."

"The tribal school will still be open to your descendants..."

"The warriors who defend your homeland need food and drink, and the scholars who teach your descendants need to survive. This is why the tribe requires you to pay 30% of your annual income."

"Did you understand?"

Yang Yu told everyone present about the tribal plan.

After all, 95% of the people in the tribe have been enlightened since childhood.

"We know."

(End of this chapter)