Honghuang: I, Haotian, will never abdicate

Chapter 62

Shennong enshrined Zen in Mount Tai, prayed to heaven and earth, and officially took over the position of co-lord of the human race.

After Shennong returned to the capital, he immediately launched a series of reforms.

The Jiangshui River Basin has already entered the era of intensive agricultural cultivation, and Shennong ordered all tribes suitable for farming to send people to the Jiangshui River Basin to learn farming methods.

After learning the method of farming, let him bring back the five grain seeds and promote it among the tribes.

After the various tribes of the human race brought back the five grain seeds, the first year was a bumper harvest.

In the second year, he made every effort to promote the cultivation of five grains in the tribe.

Shennong also saw that the land in some areas was barren and it was not suitable for reclaiming the land. After several days of thinking, he invented Leisi. With the Leisi people, intensive farming is more convenient, and more land can be planted.

In the third year, almost all the tribes ushered in the biggest harvest, and there was no shortage of food in the tribe, and there was no starvation phenomenon.

Since then, the productivity of the human race has made great progress, and the human race has completely entered the agricultural age from the original fishing, hunting and gathering era.

Shennong had a wife named Tingxu, the daughter of Chishui, who was beautiful, dignified and virtuous.

Tingxu and Shennong governed the tribe together. Seeing that many human races used animal skins and grass leaves as clothes, they thought of making something that people could wear every day.

Accidentally, Tingxu discovered a kind of grass called hemp, which would fall off after being soaked in rainwater, turning into strands of fine hemp threads, and inspiration came to his mind.

Take the mature hemp and soak it in warm water to get the thin threads of silk, which intersect with each other and weave into sackcloth.

With the linen cloth, Tingxu tailored the clothes, and first made a suit of clothes for Shennong.

The sackcloth is soft and comfortable to wear, and it is easy to make, so it became popular among the human race in no time.

Many tribes sent people to the capital to follow Tingxu, learn how to make hemp thread and weave hemp clothes.

After having clothes, this is a great progress for the human race.

The human race has moved from ambiguity to understanding of shame and shame, and has moved towards civilization.

In this way, Shennong ruled the world for ten years, there was no shortage of food, there were clothes to shelter from the cold, and houses to keep out the rain, and the human race as a whole moved forward and prospered.

One day, Shennong sat in the main hall of the capital city, feeling a little irritable. He had been the co-lord of the human race for more than ten years, but he always felt that there was something missing in the human race.

Like a pool of stagnant water, lacking a kind of vitality.

Shennong couldn't understand it, so he went to see the teacher.

Liu Er planted a peach grove in the Jiangshui Valley, and built a few thatched huts like his senior brother, and he was leisurely and contented on weekdays.

After Shennong arrived, he explained his feelings to Liu Er.

Liu Er looked at Baili Taolin, and his thoughts went back to thousands of years ago. At that time, he followed the teacher all day long, and remembered what the teacher once said.

"Without agriculture, there is no stability, and without business, there is no life."

I was still very ignorant that day, what is agriculture?Now the Shennong family has led the human race into the era of agriculture. This farming is what the teacher said that day.

Listening to the teacher's words, Shennong's eyes became clear, and he kept muttering, "Without agriculture, there is no stability, without business, there is no life...Without business, there is no life!"

There are still great obstacles in the communication between various tribes of the human race. Some tribes only have cattle, some tribes only have sheep, and some tribes only have grains. If you want to get what your tribe wants, you can only barter it. And bartering is quite difficult!

Some human races even take several days to get what they want.

And the value of the item is hard to measure!

"The market, the human race lacks a market, so it looks like a pool of stagnant water!"

Shennong's eyes completely brightened, and he laughed loudly: "Hahaha, no business, no life, I understand, I understand."

Now that Shennong understood, he bid farewell to Mr. Liu Er and went back to the capital.

Liu Er stayed in Taolin for a long time, and was a little bored, so he followed Shennong and went to the capital.

After Shennong returned to the capital, he immediately found a spacious place in the middle of the capital, and put up simple fences around it, "Haha, this place is called the market!"

The market is a gathering place for barter.

Shennong asked his subordinates to spread the news of the market.

On the second day, each tribe heard the news that the market came here with their own specialties.

In the market, there are cattle merchants, sheep merchants, dog merchants, linen merchants, pottery merchants, and more than a hundred kinds of various products...

In just one day, many people got what they wanted.

But Shennong still felt that something was wrong, and the value of the commodity still could not be measured.

Shennong remembered that when he was a child, adults had shells from fishing, which might be used as currency.

But the human race's currency should not be careless, so Shennong asked his men to collect shells to test it.

After a simple experiment, shells can really be used as currency, and Shennong announced that shells can be used as general equivalents to complete the exchange in the market.

But within two years, many problems occurred in the shell currency, which even caused conflicts between several tribes.

Shells exist in the rivers and seas, and the quantity is huge. One tribe sent people to salvage the shells in the river and sea day and night, and then exchanged the salvaged shells for the cattle and sheep of another tribe...

It was fine for the first two days, but on the third day, a large amount of shell currency poured into the market, depreciating several times. Usually, one hundred shells can buy a cow, but now it takes [-] shells.

Of course, the tribe that sold the cattle and sheep was unwilling and demanded that the cattle and sheep be returned.

The two tribes clashed.

Shennong immediately mediated when he learned of the matter, but Shennong also realized the problem of shell currency.

Shennong ordered those who privately fished shells to be used as currency, in order to disrupt the market, to be fined!

However, all the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit, and private fishing of shells has been banned repeatedly. Shennong realized the fundamental problem. There is a problem with the currency. If he wants to ban it, he must fundamentally change it.

Shennong began to look for a substitute for shell currency.

Seeing that Shennong was looking for a substitute for the shell currency, Liu Er began to pay attention.

Suddenly Liu Er remembered that the teacher seemed to have something, which was found in Wuyi Mountain many years ago.

Liu Er immediately turned back to the Heavenly Court and asked Haotian for the object.

Seeing Liu Er approaching, Haotian smiled lightly, "You hozen are really smart, if so, then this thing is for you."

A copper coin flew out and landed in Liu Er's hand.

Luobao money is the best congenital spiritual treasure, in the shape of a copper coin with a round square hole, with wings on the left and right sides, and an inscription of the way of heaven looming on it.

Seeing Luo Baoqin, Liu Er scratched his head excitedly, "Shen Nong should be looking for it!"

Liu Er got the Luobao money, and immediately returned to the capital to hand it over to Shennong.

When Shennong saw the copper coin with a round square hole, he suddenly realized in his heart, his face was overjoyed, and he looked up to the sky and laughed, "The round coin with a square hole, this is the currency of my human race!"

So Shennong took Luobao money as a sample, mined the prehistoric copper mine, and smelted copper coins.

The smelting technology Shennong ordered to block it. Only one place among the human race is allowed to smelt copper coins, and the rest will be severely punished if found!

Since then, copper coins have been widely used among the human race, and the market of the human race is booming!

Under the rule of Shennong, the human race progressed in five grains and agriculture, wore clothes, knew shame, was civilized, established a market, and the market flourished.

During this period, the human race developed rapidly and was highly prosperous.

(End of this chapter)