From Robinson Crusoe

After two consecutive nights of not getting much rest, on December 12, Chen Zhou slept until noon.

After getting dressed and taking a quick shower, he climbed up the wall and took a look outside, fearing that the two natives would ignore his warning and play with fire outside.

From a distance, I could only see two natives squatting beside the wooden house with a large clay basin in front of them. They had their hands in it, seemingly washing clothes seriously, but actually playing with bubbles.

Shaking his head helplessly, thinking that he would tell them to use detergent sparingly later, Chen Zhou walked back to the cave.

Although the mysterious reward of laundry detergent weighs 400 kilograms, the challenge is too long. If you use kilograms of laundry detergent freely, it will only be enough for more than ten years.

Just as he was reminding himself not to forget to warn the natives to save resources, Chen Zhou just stepped into the kitchen and then remembered that these laundry detergents might not last for ten years.

The shelf life of laundry detergent is only 24 months. Even after the expiration date, it can still be effective for three to five years, and at most seven years.

There was no need for him to worry about whether there was enough detergent, because even if there was enough, it would not last until that time.

"Forget it, forget it. They are just kids who have never seen the world. Let them be happy for a while."

Chen Zhou finally compromised.

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After rescuing the natives on December 12, he was busy taking care of the two natives for several days and neglected the management of the fields and sheep.

Considering that the purpose of rescuing the indigenous people is to relieve the pressure on himself, on the 21st, in addition to consolidating the life knowledge that the indigenous people learned yesterday, Chen Zhou officially began to take them to engage in important work.

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The white clay board teaching materials that I had worked so hard to draw came in handy.

Chen Zhou set up a shelf next to the cabin and placed the white mud slabs neatly on it in a row. Then he took the two natives to visit the farmland and demonstrated to them how to sow, irrigate, weed and other processes of growing crops.

It was also during this process that the two natives learned new words - rice, barley, and wheat.

From Chen Zhou's serious tone, they understood the importance of these unique plants planted in groups next to the house.

Based on the clear diagrams on the white clay board, we understood how plants grow from seeds and then slowly bloom and wither.

These were all knowledge that the tribe had never had before. They not only felt novel to them, but also overturned their understanding of the world.

In the past, most of the knowledge they learned came from priests, and the priests would not explain it to them.

According to the priests, everything in the world is a gift from God. God makes the trees grow edible fruits and makes the water produce catchable fish.

The docile beasts are gifts from God, and the ferocious beasts are God's minions for punishment...

If they are hungry, it is because they do not respect God enough; if they are well fed, it is God's blessing.

Everyone in the tribe believes in the existence of God, and most people firmly believe that sacrifices can indeed communicate with God. No one has ever told them that fruit can grow even without God.

Those trees do not need their gratitude, worship, or sacrificial ceremonies. They only need sunlight and water, and at most some fertilizer.

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The more he learned, the more questions he had, and Duodulu had a lot of things he wanted to ask Chen Zhou.

But he couldn't understand Chen Zhou's language, and Chen Zhou couldn't understand what he said. He could only quietly write down many things, keep them in his heart, and discuss them with Atun after dark.

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Originally, he wanted to take the two natives to see the sheep, but teaching them would take much longer than Chen Zhou had imagined.

He did not leave the fields until dark, but just let the natives consolidate what they had learned over and over again to prevent future mistakes.

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They were worried that the natives would learn too much knowledge and would not be able to digest it all at once.

Since December 12, Chen Zhou has personally taken the indigenous people to work in the fields every day to help them develop correct living habits.

The rest of the time, he would go alone to the hillside to tend to the sheep, and to the mountain stream to look after the sugarcane fields.

Wild sugarcane is planted in the field. Although it is much thinner than modern improved sugarcane varieties and has a lot of fiber, it is tougher and more adaptable, and does not require too much nutrients to grow. So far, the sugarcane field has slowly expanded to a scale of nearly one acre at a very stable rate.

After a while, when the two natives have fully mastered how to take care of the crops and sheep, Chen Zhou plans to push the cart to the river valley plain and bring back more sugarcane.

It would be best to expand the sugarcane field to three to five acres at one time, so that sugarcane sugar can be produced as soon as possible.

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In addition to teaching the indigenous people life skills as early as possible, Chen Zhou has always been troubled by their beliefs.

Obviously, since being rescued, the original gods in the hearts of the two indigenous boys have completely collapsed.

Even if their priest came back to life and ran to the island to find the two, he probably wouldn't be able to erect the statue called "Benamaki" again.

After all, compared with the technology that transcends the times, the so-called "God" power still seems too mediocre.

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The indigenous boys did not know how to conceal their feelings. After spending a few days with them, Chen Zhou realized from their words and actions that they regarded him as a new god in their hearts.

This feeling of being blindly worshipped may make some people feel comfortable, but for Chen Zhou, blind faith brings him more troubles and discomfort.

He once thought about disguising himself as a "new priest" and then taking the two natives to the Wang Lingguan Temple that he had worked so hard to build and creating a new god for them.

However, with modern thinking, he has taught the natives a lot of correct, materialistic knowledge in order to help them take care of their fields and sheep.

In the minds of indigenous people, food can be said to be the most important resource in the world.

When they understand that food is not a gift from God but grows from the ground themselves, it becomes extremely difficult to construct the concept of an "Almighty God".

Besides, Chen Zhou knew very well that the power held by Wang Lingguan had nothing to do with food.

It is more reliable to say that he punishes evil and promotes good, and symbolizes bravery, thunder and fire.

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“If we can’t put the authority over food into Wang Lingguan’s hands.

So can we give the power of firearms and force to this Taoist guardian deity?"

Late in the evening of December 12, near the year 28, Chen Zhou had an epiphany.

“Food and livestock are natural phenomena that you can understand after careful observation for a few years.

As for the firearms, they are like foreign objects to the natives. Even if I really want to explain the principles of firearms to them, they can't understand it. "

“In that case, why not take advantage of the situation and assign all the rewards I have received and my personal bravery to Wang Lingguan.

Let these two guys believe that as long as they sincerely believe in the new God of War, they can also gain invincible power. "

Sitting at the desk, Chen Zhou scratched his messy hair, slapped his forehead, and decided to arrange it this way.

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There are three most important things in the survival of indigenous people. The first one should be food. Without food, there is no survival.

The second should be reproduction, which can be seen from the fertility worship in many primitive cultural relics.

Chen Zhou felt that the third option must be force.

Military force is the basis of conquest and annexation. As long as they have military force, primitive tribes can plunder other people's food and women to strengthen themselves.

Believing in the new god who represented military force would not only facilitate his rule over the two indigenous peoples, but also make it easier to trick them into charging into battle if he subsequently rescued more indigenous peoples or even brought them into conflict with Spanish raiders.

As for the issue of work, in Chen Zhou's opinion, even if he did not find an excuse to order the natives to farm and feed sheep, they would be able to complete the work very well based on their own initiative.

The desire for food has long been implanted into their bones during the long process of survival. (End of this chapter)