Aztec Eternals

Jade is hidden in the water, and white eagles fly in the sea and sky. Eight hundred miles north of the Black Snake Tribe is the kingdom's largest stronghold on the west coast, Xishan Port in Jinshan Bay. After three years of development, this natural seaport with excellent hydrology has grown from the initial two or three hundred people to a bay town with 3,200 tribes!

Last summer, the second batch of kingdom fleets heading north arrived in Jinwan. This batch of longship fleets not only brought a new batch of priests, warriors and civilians, but also brought important pottery and brick making, metal smelting and shipbuilding craftsmen, making the whole town more prosperous.

Looking around, a newly built small temple of the main god is located on the West Mountain of Haikou, overlooking the long Jinwan of 500 miles. The expansion range of Xishan Port has also extended from the winding east coast of Jinwan to the narrow west coast at the foot of Xishan, along with the newly reclaimed large tracts of farmland and the temple with the main god's flag.

Xishan Port occupies both sides of Jinwan, and is naturally divided into two towns, east and west. In the Jinwan Shipyard in Dongzhen, eight longboats have already built the most important whole keel and extended cabin decks. More than a dozen kingdom shipbuilders, more than 200 Walker craftsmen apprentices, and dozens of tribal carpenters and chieftains from the North Bay Department are busy at the skeleton of the longboat, building the largest "big ship" ever built on the West Coast.

In fact, these longboats built independently by the West Coast are obviously smaller than the longboats in the south of the kingdom. It is only about 16 meters long and 4.5 meters wide, and can accommodate 32 oarsmen, the same number of warriors, or 24 tons of cargo. In general, the size of the small longboat is only 80% of the standard longboat of the kingdom, but it uses excellent redwood. The reason for building such a large ship is, on the one hand, the lack of master craftsmen, and on the other hand, the shortage of metal connectors.

In the entire 500-mile-long Jinwan area, more than a dozen open-air gold mines have been discovered, and there are even three real large gold mines, but not even one open-air copper mine can be found, which is simply outrageous! The only metal source nearby to Xishan Port is a batch of new iron materials shipped in at the beginning of this year after iron was smelted in the northern Huwan Port. With these stable sources of iron materials, the next batch of longboats can be made into the standard size of the kingdom, or even larger scale...

Outside the Jinwan Haikou, four small longboats that have been built, three old large longboats, plus dozens of canoes, are busy going back and forth. A quarter of the population of the entire Xishan Port was mobilized to welcome the spring fishing season when fish schools migrated, and cast nets in the bay full of fish schools. When seeing the big fish caught in one net after another, the tribesmen cheered excitedly from time to time.

"Praise the Lord! Praise the great spirit in the sea for letting us catch so many fish!..."

"Ah! Look! It's a long-haired bigeye, the hardest bigeye to catch! It was squeezed out from the bottom of the lake by the school of fish, hurry up! Let the net go!..."

"Great! We caught it! This is the most delicious fish, and we must offer it to the most honorable Lord God priests who have the blessing of divine power, bring good harvests and big ships!..."

The "bigeye" mentioned by the Miwok tribesmen is the famous glass pike (Walleye) in later generations. It is a very delicious freshwater fish with almost no fishy smell. This fish is actually mainly distributed in the Great Lakes region, but it is also scattered in California, but it is extremely difficult to catch...

Soon, a canoe loaded with fish paddled to the kingdom port in the east. Hundreds of women and children in the tribe were ready, setting up rows of fish racks on the shore to dry the fish, and then using thousands of kilograms of lake salt shipped from the south to pickle the salted fish with full enthusiasm. When the spring fishing season is over, tons of salted fish will be stored in the "big fish warehouse" on the east bank, making the entire East Town of Xishan Port smell like "pleasant" salted fish. It is hard to say whether there is any unclear relationship between the eagerness of the main god priests to build temples in Xishan and open up Jinwan West Town where the priests live, and the "big fish warehouse" in East Town... However, as long as they smell this wonderful salty smell that symbolizes the abundance of food, all the Miwok tribesmen who go to the fields to farm will show a simple smile of peace of mind, joy and even obsession. Because since the big fish warehouse for storage, the tribe has a real confidence. With surplus food in the hands of the tribe, there is no need to worry about famine! As for the new fields that are constantly reclaimed on both sides of the river, although a lot of manpower is invested, the harvest is actually far less than that on the Mexican plateau. It will take at least several years for the corn fields by the river to slowly become high-yield cultivated land. At present, the only output is to be supplied to warriors and fighters first. The potatoes, pumpkins and sweet potatoes planted on the mountain side are not picky about soil and water. Even the new dry land can have a good output. They are the most important grains for the tribesmen...

The smell of salted fish diffuses from the fish warehouse. A batch of salted fish that has been stored for more than a year has just been taken out and transported to the small island in the center of Jinwan, which is also the "market" where the Miwok tribes come to trade. Before the kingdom arrived at Xishan Port, because various outputs were very limited, the trade between the tribes was not frequent. When the kingdom established Xishan Port, advanced productivity, salt and iron tools, and three kinds of grain crops... have greatly changed the status quo of the Jinwan tribes!

Especially the Miwok North Bay tribe where the Cedar Shaman is located, occupies the Napa Valley with the best soil and water. After planting the three kinds of grains introduced, it already has more than 8,000 tribesmen! Such a huge northern tribe with shamans is undoubtedly the "chief of all tribes" among the tens of thousands of Miwok tribes in the Jinwan area!

But when a trusted disciple of Cedar Shaman, brought the shaman’s knowledge of the Kingdom in the Lake, hurriedly returned to the Beiwan Department at the beginning of the year... the "powerful" Beiwan Department, with thousands of warriors, finally learned about the Kingdom in the Lake. The tens of thousands of legions understand the "true power" of the kingdom! ...Subsequently, after two months of debate, at the beginning of this month, the Elders Council of the North Bay Department officially passed a resolution declaring that the entire clan would convert to the Lord God and fall into the embrace of the "Supreme God"!

At this moment, in Beiwan, the temple of the main god is beginning to be built. The kingdom’s missionary priests were also invited to settle in the Napa Valley. Under the influence of the Beiwan tribe, the tens of thousands of meters of the Walker tribe in the Jinwan area have also successively worshiped the main god, and sent their chief disciples to Xishan Town to learn, actively and passively moving closer to the belief in the "Great God".

As for the old salted fish currently being transported to the "market" on the small island, it is used to trade with the Miwok tribes, mainly in the North Bay, for furs, bird feathers, medicinal herbs and minerals produced in the mountains, and has attracted dozens or hundreds of small tribes. , the whole moved into the kingdom's port. In fact, this kind of trading product that contains a lot of salt and is cherished by the salt-deficient tribes is, to a certain extent, more like the religious benefits brought by the kingdom to the Miwok tribes, and is the "eggs" given out during missionary work...

Since "eggs" are distributed, it is natural that a priest of the main god must be present. Jia Shu, the missionary priest of Xishan Port, was sitting in a large boat filled with salted fish and was guarded by ten warriors of the kingdom. He was wearing a Northland-style fur robe, sniffing his nose from time to time, and his face was full of determination of devotion. And when he arrived at the market island and saw envoys from more than 20 mountain Miwok tribes, and saw those "pious" and eager smiling faces, he was even more excited and beaming.

"Praise the Lord God, three more messengers from new tribes have arrived, and three more groups of 'Fish of the Lord God' have arrived! With the conversion and refuge of the Beiwan tribe, this vast land of Golden Bay is becoming the 'big fish' of the Lord God. Pond'. And in this fish pond, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Miwok tribe will surely fall into the arms of the Lord God and become the most delicious 'big-eye fish'..."

"Blessed by the Lord God! Soon, the first large city-state on the west coast will be established in our hands! And more temple towns will start from the North Bay and extend all the way east until they are spread over five hundred miles of gold. Bay! ...Haha! By that time, the wealthy Golden Bay land on the west coast will surpass the underpopulated Leijin Town and become the real political center of the North, and even establish a huge religious province and a fourth-level priesthood. The elders are coming!…”

Note: The Easter egg chapter is the map of Jinwan.