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Chapter 164: So Savage That Chunyu Yue Shakes His Head
Such a good place is occupied by such ignorant and backward people. It is a waste of nature. This place should be taken by the Qin Dynasty and enjoyed by the Qin Dynasty!

Even Chunyu Yue, who believed that the barbarians should be treated with kindness, did not want to speak for these cannibalistic savages.

Eating raw meat and drinking blood, cannibalism, being so barbaric and ignorant, how is it different from beasts?

Even in Chunyu Yue's opinion, it would be a good thing if the Qin Dynasty really went to Yingzhou in the future. It would not be an invasion or a seizure of other people's land, but civilization driving out barbarism and ignorance, and rescuing Yingzhou from the cannibalistic savages who ate raw meat and drank blood.

Although Chunyu Yue and his group of Confucian scholars always wanted to restore the Zhou rituals and implement feudal system, their ideas were sometimes advanced. They were not like many Confucian scholars who came later, who attacked their compatriots severely but were magnanimous and benevolent towards the Hu people and other ethnic minorities.

Li Nian continued: "Compared to Xuanzhou, Yingzhou has the second longest river in the world and the largest tropical rainforest in the world. The tropical rainforest is..."

To make it easier for the ministers to understand, Li Nian thought for a while before saying, "The climate is hot all year round, but the rainfall is abundant. It rains almost every day in the dense forest. There are many birds and animals, and there are many flowers, plants and trees."

It rains every day and the climate is hot. Wouldn't this place be humid and stuffy? Plus, there are lush flowers and trees, and many birds and animals. Wouldn't the insects and miasma be more serious than in the south?
"The place I just mentioned where rice can be harvested three times a year is the same place. Yingzhou is rich in resources, and the people who live here don't have to work hard to farm, and they can get enough food to survive."

"But there are also disadvantages. A large area of ​​land is located in the tropics, and most of the area is jungle and mountainous. There are few places suitable for settlement. Therefore, it is possible to disperse and form many tribes, but it is difficult to gather into a country."

"If a tribe wants to unify other tribes and establish a country, other tribes cannot defeat them, so they can just hide in the dense forest. And because it is too easy to get food, the people here are quite lazy, and they are content with the status quo and don't want to change."

Although European colonists were not good people, if they had not broken the closed environment of the Americas, given the level of the local indigenous people, especially in South America, it is estimated that after 10,000 years, they would still be digging for food in the tropical rainforest and would not have made much progress.

There was no other way. Survival was too easy for them. Every day after waking up, they would go into the woods and find plenty of food. When they were full, they would sleep again, and when they were full, they would eat again. Even if enemies from other tribes came, they could hide in the dense forests for defense.

And why did other tribes invade them? To steal the wild fruits in the forest or to seize their hunting territories?
The fruits are innumerable, and the territory is vast and sparsely populated, so there is almost no need to fight over it.

Without the crisis of survival, what is the point of progress?
Isn't the purpose of progress to have enough food and drink well? Now that we have enough food and drink well, there is no need to move forward.

After listening to Li Nian's words, the ministers also had an idea in their minds. It seems that Yingzhou is not all good, but also has disadvantages. As expected, nothing in the world is perfect, and where there are advantages, there must be disadvantages.

If the Qin Empire enters Yingzhou in the future, the first thing it will have to solve is probably not the problem of local indigenous peoples, but the problem of the environment and climate. A group of lazy and unmotivated indigenous people will not cause as much trouble to the Qin Empire as the climate and geographical environment of Yingzhou.

After briefly talking about the situation in Yingzhou and Xuanzhou, Li Nian moved the stick to Rongzhou again and said, "The situation in Rongzhou is somewhat similar to that in Yingzhou. There is no unified country, only local tribes. However, in terms of appearance, the people are different from those in Xuanzhou and Yingzhou."

"The appearance of the people living in Rongzhou is not uniform, but varies. The main one is dark brown in skin color, with a short and wide face, a broad forehead, curly hair, and well-developed facial hair."

Just from Li Nian's words, everyone understood that the people of Rongzhou were different from them, unlike the people of Xuanzhou and Yingzhou.

Since there are obvious differences in physical features, it is obviously more difficult to govern this place than to govern a place where there is not much difference in appearance.

After all, one can tell at a glance that you look different from us, we are not from the same ethnic group, and the saying "Those who are not from our ethnic group must have different hearts" has long been around.

Li Nian continued: "Most areas of Rongzhou have a warm climate, plenty of sunshine, and moderate rainfall. Although most of the land is not suitable for planting, the grasslands and grasslands are widely covered and are very suitable for grazing." "Therefore, the people of Rongzhou make a living by grazing, hunting and gathering. Their civilization is very backward. They live by water and grass. When a place is no longer suitable for grazing, they will migrate."

But at that time in Australia, there were no cattle or sheep, nor the rabbits that would become rampant in later generations, so what were the indigenous people herding?

It was the kangaroos that in later generations numbered in the tens of millions.

It is said that kangaroo meat has a strong smell of urine, but for the Australian aborigines of that era, there were no cattle, sheep, or even rabbits, so being able to eat kangaroo was good enough. Could they possibly barbecue Australian spicy strips?
"The customs of the people of Rongzhou are also different from those of Daqin. For example, when boys reach adulthood, they must hold a ceremony to celebrate their adulthood."

It sounds like the Qin Dynasty's coming-of-age ceremony, but all the ministers were curious about how the foreign barbarians would hold their coming-of-age ceremony.

Li Nian said, "The coming-of-age ceremony generally consists of the following steps: circumcision, tattoo..."

When talking about circumcision, Li Nian paused, and then explained it again. Everyone looked strange and thought that he was indeed a foreign barbarian.

"Tattooing is carving patterns on the body. Their tattooing is not ink punishment, but sharp shells are used to regularly cut wounds on the boy's hands, legs, feet, shoulders, back, chest, etc., and charcoal powder is applied to the wounds to leave scars when they heal."

After listening to Li Nian's story, even Chunyu Yue shook his head. It was barbaric, too barbaric. In comparison, the tattooing punishment of the Qin Dynasty was nothing.

It's amazing that the Rongzhou people can survive under such cultural customs!

No wonder no tribe was strong enough to annex other tribes and unify into a country.

It’s good enough to survive under this custom, how can you want to become stronger?

But it also made the ministers more vigilant. Since the people of Rongzhou could use these barbaric and cruel customs, they themselves must be extremely barbaric and cruel. If the Qin Dynasty goes to Rongzhou, they must not be careless.

In fact, at that time, there were definitely not many Aboriginal people in Australia. Because in 1788, when the British first exiled prisoners to Australia, it was estimated that there were only Aboriginal people. Now, two thousand years ago, it would be good if the local Aboriginal population could be .

With so few indigenous people scattered across a vast expanse of land, it truly is a sparsely populated country. If someone from the Qin Empire were to go there, the chances of encountering large-scale resistance from the indigenous people would be extremely small.

Li Nian also pointed this out: "You don't have to worry too much. Rongzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and there are not many natives. According to my estimation, their population is probably less than 100,000."

How many?

Everyone stared at Rongzhou. That place was bigger than two Qin states, but it had less than 100,000 people. When the Qin state went there, it was not to steal the land of the local indigenous people, but because the land was originally unowned.

　I recently watched a video about the weird small country called "Tongliao Khan". It was very interesting. If you are interested, you can go and have a look, hahaha.

　
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