Lu Yao overlooked the two divine kingdoms.
Three days after Sand City, the emissaries of the two countries returned, and the reactions were varied.
The Spectral Ghost Realm was in a lying down mode, continuing the slow pace of the past; the Bamboo Reed Kingdom, however, had launched a general mobilisation of the entire population, and was frantically engaged in construction.
However, one could not look at the surface of everything.
Lu Yao noticed that the two apostles of the Spectral Ghost Realm ran between the tombs.
Buluo and Hobald split up to count the Funeral Race and Ghoul groups and sift out the individuals with [Intelligence] among them.
They focused this small group separately, allowing the Funeral Clan to integrate all kinds of knowledge and try to design new types of tombstones, and making the Ghouls focus on training related to engineering and construction, giving these two groups more resources.
A clearer social division of labour slowly took shape in the Ghost World.
This was laying the foundation of talent and education for the Divine Kingdom, which required continuous investment and was time-consuming and labour-intensive, but it was difficult to see any results in a short while.
On the side of the Bamboo Reed Kingdom, however, it was a thunderous endeavour, more concerned with timeliness and material feedback visible to the naked eye.
All the reed people were asked to participate in the planting and excavation, and the hills were covered with bamboo shoots, and the bamboo forests increased as far as the eye could see.
In addition to traditional cultivation, the Lumin people and the bamboo people officially started farming.
The first livestock they raised in captivity was bamboo rats.
This wild animal was originally the scourge of the bamboo forest, they like to gnaw on bamboo and all kinds of roots, and used to be the target of the bamboo people’s priority extermination.
The bamboo forests of the Bamboo Reed Kingdom were massive, and the number of bamboo rats remained high. This small animal usually hide underground, when no one will drill out to secretly gnaw bamboo leaves and bamboo shoots, bamboo where there are bamboo rats.
Nowadays, Luminous people will catch the bamboo rats and centralised breeding, feeding them bamboo, wild fruits and grass, so that the number of bamboo rats immediately raised up.
In the stone enclosure, the bamboo rats eat, sleep and eat, and usually have nothing to do but turn their bellies and run in the pit. A comfortable life goes on week after week until the day they are released from the pen.
Bamboo rat farming has brought a stable source of meat and a fixed output of leather to Juk Lu Kuk. Although the production of both meat and leather products is relatively small, it has made a qualitative breakthrough from hunting to farming.
In addition, the country has also made many bold attempts to use bamboo as a basic raw material to build cities, digging and exploiting underground minerals, and making bamboo books using bamboo sheets as carriers. ……
Except for raising bamboo rats, none of these experiments were successful.
The plains of the Bamboo and Reed Country are fewer, mostly mountains and hills, and the Reed People live on a mountain, which is their most important resource. It was difficult to concentrate the rushes, and building cities was more difficult than it looked.
The same is true of surveying for mineral deposits.
This industry involves surveying, digging and smelting. The Rumin and the Bamboo People did dig up some ores that shimmered red, silver or yellow. However, just by piling up firewood and dry leaves to burn the fire, the temperature could not be high enough to obtain the metal.
Lu Yao was optimistic about the Bamboo Reed Nation engaging in bamboo jian.
Playing with bamboo, the Lu people and the bamboo people were professionals.
They did pound out bamboo tablets and bamboo books, but the most crucial ink was stuck.
The Luminans burnt grass ash from weeds and wood and made it with water, but found it hard to hang on the bamboo tablets. It was hard to write down a symbol, but when it dried out a little, it was hard to see clearly, and it was also easy to paste off when touched by hand.
Seeing the successive failures of the Bamboo Reed Kingdom on the bamboo slips, Lu Yao was anxious for them.
If you can’t get the ink to work, you can carve it with a knife.
Lu Yao suddenly realised that the knives of the Bamboo Reed Kingdom were all made of polished bamboo blades, which were fine for cutting meat and fighting, but it was a bit difficult to do carving.
There are no proper knives here.
My.
Only then did Lu Yao truly appreciate that the invention and development of every tool had gone through a long period of trial and error, and could rarely be achieved overnight.
The Yao Clan had also gone through two epochs of settling down, integrating with and learning from different communities before a mini golden age was ushered in.
The two divine kingdoms out there still needed to complete the first step of primitive accumulation.
Lu Yao is satisfied with Slimer s ability.
The three-day tour of Sand City looked like an invitation-based exchange visit, but there were actually numerous details behind it.
Firstly the timing was subtle.
Three days would allow the visitors from the two Divine Kingdoms to observe the overview of Sand City, and would allow them to visually see the many manifestations of the outward appearance of the Yao Race’s civilisation.
However, this time also made it impossible for them to learn the Yao language and writing, making it difficult for them to truly understand the various facilities and tools, and only allowing them to see those advanced city planning and production methods.
As a result, it was just out of reach.
Furthermore, there was the macro strategy.
Shacheng was an emerging city and the first bridgehead for the Yao tribe in the outer world. It was both a test of the Yao Clan’s cultural output and influence on the outside world, as well as a test of the Yao Clan’s civilisation’s ability to transform its new environment.
The city itself was a large-scale experiment on an unprecedented scale.
Sand City was not only going to introduce visits from foreign civilisations, it was also going to officially go out.
The next stage was an exchange at the apostle level.
Compared to the Yao Race, the Phantom Ghost Realm and the Bamboo Reed Kingdom were relatively backward groups. But a ruler has its strengths, the Funeral Race of the Ghost Realm was a masterpiece of natural evolution, and the ecology of the Reed Folk and Bamboo People of the Bamboo Reed Country was also of great interest to Lu Yao.
Now it was time to decide who would be the apostle who would go out.
Lu Yao asked Isabelle and Slymod for their opinions.
“My lord, I am willing to go out as an apostle.”
Isabelle took the initiative, “The two divine kingdoms are gradually being influenced by Sand City, this is a chance to get to know them better.”
“Regardless of whether it’s the ghosts, the Funeral Race or the Luminaries and Bamboo People, it’s their attitudes that represent the true status quo of the entire Divine Kingdom.”
Lu Yao agreed with Isabel.
The backstage could view the history and racial situation of a divine Kingdom, but it could not accurately judge the current situation. This was because the descriptions under the rules were recorded after they happened, not established in advance.
If various figures, major events and gods were used to directly represent the current state of existence of the inhabitants of a divine country, it was likely to produce a misjudgement in the middle of the pipe.
Lu Yao refused Isabelle’s invitation.
Isabelle had a special identity and was formerly the God of the Forest. Nowadays, with sufficient manpower, try to avoid letting her go out to attract attention as a last resort.
Slymod then said, “Lord God, I humbly apply for this errand.”
“My humble self has three advantages.”
“One, my humble self has a certain amount of experience from dealing with the gods and title deities for many years.”
“Second, if my humble self goes over as an alter ego, I don’t have to worry about danger and can self-destruct and get away at any time.”
“Thirdly, the grand blueprint planned out by the Lord Deity requires the selection of suitable Gods. By going over this time, I can probe the attitudes and positions of the two Gods of the Gods.”
Lu Yao slapped his thigh.
You’re it.
Give it to me, Master Slime!
“I have another small suggestion.”
A dialogue box surfaced on Slimer’s brain, “Lord God, should we consider, directly allowing the two Apostles to visit the Yao Race World?”
“Since it is necessary to deter divine nations at the civilisation level, past experience has proven that the more powerful the gesture, the simpler and more effective it is, and the common tactics of title deities are display and deterrence. You have created such a brilliant and diverse Yao civilisation, which in itself is a powerful weapon …… It is a pity to hide it.”
Lu Yao thought carefully.
Indeed.
It wasn’t like the Gods could find the location of the Yao Race’s world anyway, there was no threat.
Since the footsteps of cultural output had already been taken, it might as well go a little further, give the Apostles of God’s Kingdom a boost to listen to the sound, and drag them running into the Fire Vapour Age.
Lu Yao named it: the Apostle Exchange Student Programme.
