In the center of the tribe, in the courtyard surrounded by the largest reed and mud, Xia Pingan met his mother, the head of the tribe, and also had his first meal since he came to this world.
The mother of the Shennong Clan was a kind but not dignified woman. Her eyes were kind and wise, and she sat straight at home. The scepter in her hand and the strong female guards beside her would never let anyone look down on her.
When Xia Pingan spoke out his thoughts, everyone in the room stared at him with their eyes wide open in disbelief.
"Mutual exchange? What is that? Taking out everyone's things for others to take? How can people be willing to do that?" The head of the Shennong Clan looked at Xia Pingan as she pondered.
After all, what Xia Pingan just said was something that no one had ever thought of before, and it took them a little effort to understand it.
"Mother, the purpose of trading is to let people in our tribe exchange things with each other. For example, I hunted a wild boar today. That wild boar meat can't be eaten by our family, and it will spoil after a long time. If I want a stone knife and some firewood, I can take out the extra wild boar meat and exchange it with others for what I want!
If someone wants to eat meat with more firewood, or a stonemason wants to eat meat with a polished stone knife, they can exchange their own things with me for the wild boar! "
"Then who will exchange with you? Do you want to take the wild boar and ask them one by one? " The elder sister of the Shennong Clan asked.
It was the first time for everyone to hear about such a thing that had never appeared before, and it was hard for them to understand.
"We don't need to ask them one by one. We just need to find a place in the tribe and gather everyone who wants to exchange something. Let them go there and see how they want to exchange their own things for other people's things. How much they want to exchange and how little they want to exchange will be discussed by both parties. As long as both parties agree to the exchange, I think everyone will be willing! “
After Xia Pingan's detailed explanation, the Matriarch quickly understood. The Matriarch's eyes brightened as she looked at Xia Pingan with a gratified look. She was quite moved by Xia Pingan's suggestion. More importantly, Xia Pingan's suggestion today made the Matriarch understand that her son had finally grown up and could share the burden of the tribe and her.
"I'll leave the matter of organizing the tribal market to you. You can try. I'll arrange two more people to help you and listen to your orders. How many days will it take to finish the tribal market?"
"It can be done in three days!" Xia Pingan said confidently.
"Alright, let's see the results in three days!" After saying that, the female clan head turned around and whispered something to her bodyguards. Only after a short while, the female clan head's bodyguards had brought two helpers to Xia Pingan and told them to follow Xia Pingan's orders these days.
Xia Pingan excitedly left the house with his two helpers.
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But on the same night, almost everyone in the tribe heard that in a few days, there would be a fair in the tribe, where everyone could exchange things.
What was a fair? What was a mutual market? No one in the tribe knew about it, but everyone felt it was a novelty.
In the next two days, Xia Pingan had his people constantly create public opinion in the tribe, spreading the benefits of the bazaar and how to exchange for things in the bazaar. At the same time, he had his people casually find a large open space in the tribe and set up several wooden stakes around the open space, using grass and wood ashes to encircle it.
In this era, there was no entertainment in the tribe, and it was very boring. For the people in the tribe, in addition to eating and sleeping, they would hunt, pick wild fruits, chop firewood or sharpen stone knives. Even if they could take a break, they would just be in a daze and have nothing to do.
Hearing that there was going to be a fair in the tribe, and that in three days, at noon, everyone could take their things to the fair to exchange for other people's things. The people in the tribe became excited and were full of curiosity and expectation about this novelty.
Xia Pingan told those who wanted to exchange things to bring straw mats and their things to the fair in three days. When they came to the fair, they would put their straw mats on the ground and put their things on the straw mats so that they could exchange things with others.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Three days later, in the middle of the day, the place where Xia Pingan had prepared the market was packed with people from the tribe. Almost all of the people in the tribe came out of their nests, and all of them rushed to the market set up by Xia Pingan. Some came to exchange things, and some came to watch the fun.
In the beginning, they did not know how to exchange things with others. Xia Pingan took the lead and used some meat that his brother had caught to exchange for some firewood and straw mats. The two underlings arranged by Xia Pingan also used the firewood and meat to exchange for some things.
With someone taking the lead and setting an example, everyone understood that this market was a place where people could exchange their own things for other people's things.
This method was really good. When everyone gathered together, they could exchange anything with each other.
Soon, with Xia Pingan taking the lead, others also tried to exchange their own things for what they needed.
The fair on the grassland became lively all of a sudden.
Seeing the "World's First Fair" with his own eyes, Xia Pingan sighed with emotion. The ancestors of Huaxia were pragmatic and brave to innovate. Unlike the messy sayings of later generations, which degraded the status of merchants and craftsmen to be worthless.
According to some traditions, the Shennong Clan, one of the Three Emperors, was the founding ancestor of Merchants, Farmer, Craftsmen, and Doctor. They were also the patron saint of these professions.
The Shennong Clan led these ordinary people to create the history of Huaxia civilization.
No wonder Laozi said, "When the Great Dao is useless, there is benevolence and righteousness", and "When wisdom comes, there is great hypocrisy". Sometimes, when there are too many "experts", the black and white in this world will be reversed!
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Everyone in the tribe burst out with great enthusiasm for being able to exchange their own things for others'.
The tribal fair was a great success on the first day. Those who participated in the exchange felt that they had gained benefits and benefits.
In the following month, Xia Pingan held an exchange every five days in the tribe. Each exchange greatly facilitated the lives of the people in the tribe.
After holding seven or eight exchanges successfully, Xia Pingan's prestige in the tribe suddenly rose. The manpower assigned to him by his mother had increased from the initial two to four.
With more manpower, a lot of things were easier to handle.
Xia Pingan began to lead people around the tribe to look for clay suitable for firing pottery, and they quickly found it. With clay, firing pottery was put on Xia Pingan's schedule … … … … … … …..
In this era, firing pottery was actually very simple. As long as you found the clay, even if there was no cave, you could fire it by piling a pile of firewood on the flat ground.
Looking at the temperature of the pottery that was unearthed in the later generations, many of the buried pottery were fired by piling firewood on the flat ground. There was no kiln at all.
Of course, Xia Pingan would not be so crude. He led people to dig a simple clay kiln that was taller than a person on the hillside. Inside the clay kiln, firewood could be piled up to fire pottery.
Xia Pingan played with the clay for a whole day. He made some crudely made bowls and plates out of the clay, preparing to use them as the first batch of pottery to be fired. Then he asked people to find some firewood.
Finally, Xia Pingan put the bowls and dishes he had made out of clay in the kiln, and then piled up the firewood. After burning for two or three hours, his first batch of pottery was fired, and he succeeded in one try.
A few days later, when Xia Pingan took the first batch of bowl-shaped pottery he made to the exchange, the whole tribe was stirred up again.
That bowl was good. It could hold water and food. It looked very expensive.
In an era where there were almost no containers, the sensation brought by the first batch of pottery was beyond Xia Pingan's imagination.
The way the people in the tribe looked at the clay bowls and plates made by Xia Pingan was like how modern people looked at a pile of diamonds. Many people were willing to pay a huge price in exchange for a pottery bowl.
With pottery, cooking and food could be diversified, and many foods and things could be stored in a better way.
Just by exchanging the first batch of pottery bowls and plates, Xia Pingan found that it only took him one day to become the richest man in the tribe, and his prestige went up a level.
The Shennong Clan started off smoothly. In less than a month, Xia Changan had completed two major events.
With things, achievements, prestige, and people listening to him, it would be easy to invent and lead people to farm and open up wastelands...
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