With the speech and support of the sorcerer Moromi, Fishwalker forcefully broke down the divine book into pages for Fish Company to study and compare.
The little green book icon in the [Enchantment] slot directly disappeared without a trace.
Lu Yao’s experiment had a result: for things that could not be comprehended, the pixel villains could not be directly grasped through the pantheon. They could only understand [Enchantment] on the basis of established cognition.
Soon, a prompt appeared on the screen.
[The Fishing Company invented paper.]
[The Garlic Tribe learned to make and use paper, and their faith was boosted.]
[The Garlic Tribe learnt to make and use books, and everyone’s intelligence was slightly improved.]
Inventing and using paper and books, the Garlic Tribe gave Lu Yao 400 points of faith.
Shortly after the appearance of paper, the leader, Fishwalker, passed away.
The young man who once said, “The gods love slippery fish,” the hero who nearly died in battle in his blind confidence, and the villain who took on the responsibility of leadership in his old age, ended his life.
The monument reads.
“Fish Away: one of the tribe’s two earliest heroes, who fought valiantly against demonic believers and fought cave monsters in defence of the tribe. He was a strong advocate of boat building, spread the Garlic Tribe’s footprints across the water, fused the East River Tribe with the Cave Monsters, and helped the Fishing Company make paper, and he will always be missed.”
The spirit of Fishwalker was picked up by Scotty and travelled south to Sanilo to begin a new journey in life.
The era of the Garlic Tribe’s first generation of leaders and heroes came to an end.
After Fishwalker’s death, the caveman sorcerer Morimi took his place. Fishing Company was also recommended by Morimi and became the youngest leader the tribe had ever seen.
The second generation of the Garlic Tribe’s leadership class took shape.
The caveman sorcerer Morimi was the decision maker for the tribe’s major events.
The astrologer Shahan spends most of his time in the temple, serving as an attendant to the gods and also in charge of the tribe’s writing and book compilation.
The fishing company was the living force among the leaders, and he began to propose a series of reform programmes to advance the tribe.
He said, “Our oarboats have been to Saniro, which is also a place of faith for Lord Yaojin.”
“Lord Apostle said that Saniro is the city of ghosts, inhabited by a multitude of ghosts that we cannot see. Many of the tribe’s dead are picked up there.”
“I have been to Saniro by ship. It’s a marvellous city, with clean streets and houses, roads that aren’t afraid of rain or sludge, straight, flat streets, and tall, strong walls.”
“The Garlic Tribe is going to build a city like that.”
“Cities will make make make us live more comfortably, less prone to illness, and more able to unite our faith and confidence.”
This suggestion was rejected by Moromi on the grounds that the tribe currently had insufficient manpower to support such a huge, time-consuming and massive project.
It is commonly known as taking too big a step to rip your balls off.
However, Morimi agreed with part of Fishing Company’s argument.
The sorcerer believed that road construction was a top priority for the tribe. The road between the Salt Pond Settlement and the Garlic Tribe’s base camp must be opened so that goods from both places could circulate quickly.
With roads, the two places could also support each other if they encountered a dangerous situation.
But building the road was harder than they expected.
It took all the labour of the cave monsters just to create a road from the mountains.
The cave monsters worked day and night to open up the mountains and dig rocks. They were very experienced in digging holes, but even so, they encountered several landslides and several rainstorms, killing several cave monsters.
Lu Yao also lent a hand and used the [Blazing Sun] to dispel the heavy rain, which allowed the road project in the mountains to continue.
After the roads between the two places were opened, the circulation of goods increased drastically, and there were more and more camels transporting goods back and forth.
The merchants immediately became active. Aiming at the profit difference in trading between the two places, they began to frequently resell feathers, salt and garlic between the two places and gained a lot of profit.
Problems followed.
To transport the goods, camels were needed to carry them, or manpower was needed to carry them on their backs. In the trade between the two places, the bartering method was inefficient and costly, and the merchants had been very frustrated.
Not long after, Lu Yao saw a prompt pop up on the screen.
[Shangli invented the currency “Sea Shell.”]
[The Garlic Tribe has learnt to make and use currency, their faith has been boosted, and everyone’s intelligence has increased slightly.]
-Great God, there is a believer who has performed a feat far beyond his peers, is it necessary to transform him into a hero?
[Yes] [No]
Lu Yao tapped on the temple.
Inside the temple stood that Shang Li.
He was also only 18 years old, younger than even the present-day Fishing Company.
Lu Yao converted him into a hero.
In the detailed personal panel, Shang Li was a young man with a clean-cut face and tresses.
He wore linen clothes and trousers, and his feet were sheepskin boots. Shang Li led a camel along the path, and on the camel’s back he carried merchandise wrapped up in cloth.
Underneath the standing image is his personal aphorism.
–How I wish everything was a commodity, clearly labelled and priced, and when you buy it, it’s yours, and you don’t have to worry about losing it ever again.
……
[Hero Lv1] Shang Li
Attack 0 Defence 0 Knowledge 2 Mana 1 Luck 2 Morale 0
【Abilities
Wisdom Lv1: Wisdom is the key to an apostle’s ability to listen to the will of the gods. The higher the level of Wisdom, the easier it is to improve and comprehend the abilities.
Trade Lv1: Being good at trade, having better business abilities and a certain probability of making business inventions.
……
The appearance of Business Profit was an unexpected blessing.
Lu Yao originally thought that progress at the institutional level of the tribal civilisation might not happen until they got into iron or engineering or something like that.
It didn’t occur to him that the merchants stepped forward.
They were eager to gain more profits from trading. The need for profit made them the most enthusiastic group for change, and Shangli is a microcosm of the power of merchants to advance tribal civilisation.
The sea shells invented by Shangli, with the permission of the sorcerer Morimi and others, quickly gained popularity in the tribe.
Currency made transactions more efficient and clear, and bartering became a thing of the past.
The tribesmen even learnt to set up stalls and hawk their wares.
But some drawbacks arose as a result.
“Mutton, 40 shells a piece.”
“Mutton, 39 shells a piece.”
Two little men selling mutton began a price war.
“Why do you have to be lower than me?”
“Idiot, of course it’s because that’s the only way to buy it. You can sell it at a lower price too.”
“Lamb, 38 shells a piece!”
“Mutton, 35 shells a piece!”
The two villains argued and almost fought. In the end, it was only when the fishing company intervened that the dispute was settled.
On top of that, currency trading raises the classic issue of missing pounds.
“You sold less meat than the others!”
“Nonsense, it’s clearly the same.”
“It just has to be less!”
“Forget it if you don’t want to buy it.”
“Give me back the sea shells! I’ll buy it somewhere else!”
“I’ve already bought it, how can I possibly want it if you give me the spoiled meat again.”
“Damn it! You bast*rd!”
“That’s how the deal works, just look at it clearly.”
Lu Yao also looked at it and shook his head.
He kind of wanted to send a shot of [Lightning] to split this tribal adulterer to death. The fruits of the labouring people’s hard work had been swindled into their pockets just like this, it was really detestable.
However, it was useless to kill this traitor.
If one traitor fell, there would be millions more.
Lu Yao was curious and wondered if the Garlic Tribe had any countermeasures.
Soon, the tribe gave a countermeasure.
[The Fishery Company invented the unit of weight measurement: jin/two.]
[The Garlic Tribe unified weight measurement.]
The Garlic Tribe learnt to develop and use units of measurement, and everyone’s intelligence improved slightly.
Lu Yao said that’s right.
The merchants, in the guise of catfish desperately fighting for food, stirred up this puddle of silent water, and brought pressure and challenges to the tribal leaders.
The gears of the new era slowly turned under the impetus of countless people.
