Chapter 329 Crushing Defeats, One After Another
Just like this, back and forth, a tall city wall was quickly piled up.
Once the city wall was established, the Beast-eared Girls jumped up excitedly.
“Wow, Ye, I didn’t expect you to be so smart! This city wall can stop the Pig-headed Men’s direct attacks,” Yun shouted happily.
“Exactly, it’s truly admirable,” Xing said with equal joy.
Hearing everyone praising him, Lin Ye became instantly excited and said, “Alright, let’s quickly prepare some tools, like catapults or slingshots, to deal with those Pig-headed Men later.” As soon as he said this, the Beast-eared Girls exclaimed, “What tools? Catapults, slingshots, what are those?” Lin Ye drew pictures on the grass with branches, illustrating the slingshot he spoke of.
Then Lin Ye explained, “We use a “seven twenty-seven” plank of wood, with a stone as the fulcrum in the middle. Place a stone on one end, step on it, and the stone on the other end will be launched, attacking the enemy…” Lin Ye then drew a picture of a slingshot and explained, “A slingshot uses the forked part of a branch, with springs attached to both sides and a stone in the middle. Pull it back and shoot it at the enemy.” Sakura suddenly shouted, “Wow, Ye, how are you so amazing? You can even think of this!”
Lin Ye also pointed to the city wall they had just built and said, “These are essential for the city wall. When the Pig-headed Men come, we’ll use these two weapons to send them running with their tails between their legs.” “Hooray, hooray! Then I’ll go prepare branches.” “Then I’ll go prepare the sharp little stones for the slingshot.” “Okay, then we’ll go move stones.”
The Beast-eared Girls began to divide the labor in an orderly fashion.
Soon, all the materials were ready.
“Oh no, the Pig-headed Men are getting closer and closer to us,” Shi suddenly shouted excitedly.
Lin Ye stood on the high city wall, took a look, and then shouted, “Quick, set up the launch devices, and slingshooters get ready too.”
The Pig-headed Men originally thought this attack would be a great victory like before, but unfortunately, they didn’t know that crushing defeat awaited them.
“Heh, you think a wall can stop us Pig-headed Men?” the Pig-headed Man leading them shouted up.
But the Beast-eared Girls ignored his words completely. Instead, they followed Lin Ye’s plan and prepared to utterly defeat the Pig-headed Men.
“Prepare to launch, slingshooters get ready,” Lin Ye shouted loudly, raising his right hand.
“Yes,” the Beast-eared Girls shouted in response. “Prepare…”
“Launch…”
As Lin Ye lowered his right hand, countless large stones rained down from mid-air, leaving the Pig-headed Men nowhere to hide.
The stone slingshots also made the Pig-headed Men cry out in pain.
Before long, the Pig-headed Men were either fleeing or dead, a true crushing defeat.
“Wow, that’s great! We drove away the Pig-headed Men!” Xing cried happily, like a child. Seeing that the Pig-headed Men had fled far away, Lin Ye smiled and said, “We won’t have to fear those Pig-headed Men anymore.” The Beast-eared Girls excitedly shouted, “Yes, we won’t be afraid anymore!”
Then Lin Ye continued, “Actually, for our tribe not to be bullied by enemies, the most important thing is to make this tribe powerful. Only when the tribe is strong will it not be attacked by opponents.” “Yes, Ye is so amazing, from now on, we Beast-eared Girls will listen to you.” The Beast-eared Girls said in unison.
In the time that followed.
For a tribe not to be bullied by opponents, it must be prosperous and strong.
To achieve stability, it is necessary to promote education, emphasize industry and commerce, and establish official residences.
Therefore, in the following year, Lin Ye spent his time doing these things in the Primitive Tribe.
A year is enough time to accomplish many things. Time flies by, and nothing can hold it back, but the passage of time was recorded by everything in the Primitive Tribe.
A large warehouse, filled with food. In ancient times, major cities usually stored enough grain to feed the entire population for at least three years.
Countries with abundant national strength could even store enough for six or nine years, ensuring that residents had food even if besieged by enemy countries for ten years, so they wouldn’t starve to death. Now, the Primitive Tribe had over eight hundred people, and every day, the sound of reading from the academy filled Lin Ye with infinite emotion… The Primitive Tribe Academy now had over a hundred students, ranging from six or seven years old to early teens, with the oldest being fifteen.
Those older would only come once a week. The lifespan of people now was much shorter than in later generations, with people in their fifties considered to have lived a long life.
Generally, in other tribes, regardless of age, as long as they were capable of doing work, they would do it. There was no concept of being too young to work or being a minor, as Lin Ye knew from his past life.
However, here it was different. As long as they could walk and were beginning to grow, around five or six years old, they had to do what they could.
Generally, children of five or six years old in Lin Ye’s childhood were still playing in the mud behind their houses. But these children now were already doing what was within their capabilities.
Although they weren’t doing heavy work, they were at least working and following the instructions of the adults.
However, after arriving at the Primitive Tribe, the tribe did not require these people, who didn’t have much strength yet, to work, as they were not lacking in labor.
Lin Ye, considering future development, sent all those fifteen years old and younger to the academy.
He couldn’t implement nine-year compulsory education, but he had to ensure everyone had a third-grade level of education. This was the bare minimum.
At the very least, everyone should know how to spell phonetically, pronounce Mandarin correctly, and write common characters, meaning they should have at least a primary school level equivalent to the first, second, and third grades.
Of course, this was the lowest standard. Beyond that, there weren’t many who could teach, and only Lin Ye could.
Therefore, in the past two years, Lin Ye not only organized and wrote down what he knew but also compiled it into scrolls of bamboo slips, which were placed in a room on the second floor of the academy.
That room was specifically designated by Lin Ye as a library. On the east side was a large bookshelf. Though there weren’t many books, because each scroll couldn’t hold many characters, it appeared to have many.
If one were to compare it to modern novels, which often exceed a million characters, you wouldn’t be considered a writer online without at least a million characters. By that standard, not even one book could fit on this entire bookshelf.
Therefore, although Lin Ye covered only a few categories, there were still twenty to thirty scrolls there.
