In the center of the tribe, in the yard surrounded by the largest reed poles and mud, Xia Pingan met his mother, the tribe's patriarch, and had his first meal in this world.

Shennong's mother was a kind but lacking in majesty, with loving and wise eyes, and a straight back when sitting at home. The scepter she held in her hand and the strong female guards beside her would never let anyone dare to look down upon her.

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When Xia Pingan expressed his thoughts, everyone in the room stared at him with wide eyes in disbelief.

"Mutual market, what is this? Take out everyone's things and let others pick them up. How can people be willing to do this?" The matriarch thought while looking at Xia Pingan.

After all, what Xia Pingan just said was something that no one had ever thought of, and it would take a while for everyone to understand it.

"Ama, the mutual market allows people in our tribe to exchange each other's things. For example, I hunted a wild boar today. Our family can't finish the wild boar meat. It will spoil after being stored for a long time, and I want it again.

With a stone knife and some firewood, I can take out the excess wild boar meat and exchange it with others for what I want!

If there are people who have a lot of firewood in their homes and want to eat meat, and if there are stonemasons who have polished stone knives in their homes and want to eat meat, you can use your own things to exchange for wild boar meat with me!"

"Then who will trade with you? Do you want to take the wild boar and ask individually?" Shennong's sister asked.

It’s the first time everyone hears about something like this that has never appeared before, and it’s a little hard to understand.

"We don't need to ask one by one, we just need to find a place in the tribe, gather people who want to exchange things, and let them go there to see how to exchange their own things for other people's things, how to exchange, and how to exchange more

The amount of exchange can be discussed by both parties. As long as both parties agree, the exchange can be made. I think everyone will be willing to do so!"

As soon as Xia Pingan explained carefully, the matriarch quickly understood. The matriarch's eyes were bright and she looked at Xia Pingan with a pleased look. She was quite moved by Xia Pingan's suggestion. More importantly, Xia Pingan's today's

I suggest that the matriarch understand that her son has finally grown up and can share the worries of the tribe and herself.

"I'll leave it to you to run the tribal fair. You can give it a try. I'll arrange two more people to help you and listen to your orders. In how many days can the tribal fair be completed at the earliest?"

"It can be done in three days!" Xia Pingan said confidently.

"Okay, let's see the effect in three days!" the matriarch said, turning around and whispering to the guards around her. In just a moment, the guards beside the matriarch brought two helpers to Xia Ping'an.

, let those two people listen to Xia Pingan's orders these days.

Xia Pingan left the house with two helpers in high spirits.

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But by that night, almost everyone in the entire tribe heard one thing. In a few days, the tribe would open a market where everyone could exchange things.

What is a market? What is the mutual market? No one in the tribe understands it, but everyone finds it very new.

In the next two days, while Xia Ping'an kept people preparing for public opinion in the tribe and publicized the benefits of the market and how to exchange things at the market, he also asked people to randomly find a large open space in the tribe.

Moreover, several wooden stakes were ordered around the open space and the area was circled with plant ash.

Life in the tribes of this era originally had little entertainment and was very boring. For the tribesmen, apart from eating and sleeping every day, they did various tasks such as hunting and picking wild fruits or chopping wood and sharpening stone knives. Even if they could rest,

For a moment, I was just in a daze, with nothing to do.

I heard that there will be a market in the tribe. After three days, at noon, everyone can take their own things to the market to exchange for other people's things. The people in the tribe are excited and full of curiosity about this new thing.

and expectations.

Xia Pingan asked those who wanted to exchange things to bring straw mats and their own things to the market in three days. Everyone put the straw mats on the ground and their things on the straw mats, and then they could trade with others.

To exchange for other people's things, to barter.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. Three days later, at noon, the place where Xia Pingan was preparing for the market was crowded with people from the tribe. Almost everyone from the tribe came out to the place where Xia Pingan set up the market.

People come to the market, some come to exchange things, and some come to watch the fun.

At the beginning, everyone didn't know how to exchange things with others. Xia Pingan took the lead himself and exchanged some meat brought by his brother for some firewood and some straw mats. The two caretakers arranged by Xia Pingan also

Then I used firewood and meat to exchange for some things.

Someone took the lead and set an example. Now everyone understood that this market was a place where everyone could exchange their own things for other people's things.

This method is really good. When everyone gets together, everything can be exchanged with each other.

So soon, with the beginning of Xia Pingan, other people also tried to use their own things to exchange for what they needed.

The market on the grass suddenly became lively.

Seeing this "first market in the world" with his own eyes, Xia Ping'an was full of emotions. The ancestors of the Chinese people were pragmatic and brave in innovation. How can there be those messy sayings of later generations that reduced the status of merchants and craftsmen to nothing.

According to some traditions, Shennong, one of the Three Emperors, is the founder of merchants, farmers, craftsmen, and doctors, and is also the patron saint of these professions.

It was with these ordinary people that Shennong created the history of Chinese civilization.

No wonder Lao Tzu said, "When great principles fail, there is benevolence and righteousness" and "When wisdom arises, there is great hypocrisy." Sometimes, when there are too many "experts", the right and wrong in this world become upside down!

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Everyone in the tribe burst out with great enthusiasm for being able to exchange their own things for other people's things.

The tribal market was a huge success on the first day, and everyone who participated in the market felt that they had received benefits and benefits.

In the following month, Xia Ping'an held a mutual market within the tribe every five days. Each mutual market greatly facilitated the lives of the tribal people.

After successfully holding seven or eight mutual markets, Xia Pingan's prestige in the tribe suddenly emerged. The manpower assigned to him by his mother had increased from the original two people to four people.

Once you have manpower, many things will be easier to handle.

Xia Pingan began to lead people around the tribe to search for clay suitable for making pottery, and soon found it. With the clay, making pottery was also put on Xia Pingan's schedule...

It was actually very simple to make pottery in this era. As long as you found clay, even if you didn't have a cave, you could just pile a pile of firewood on the flat ground and make it.

Many of the funerary pottery unearthed in later generations, judging from the temperature at which the pottery was fired, were fired on flat ground with firewood, without any kiln at all.

Of course Xia Pingan was not so rough. He led his people to dig a simple earthen kiln on the hillside that was as tall as one person. In that earthen kiln, firewood could be piled for making pottery.

Xia Pingan played with clay for a day and made some crude-looking dishes out of clay, preparing them as the first batch of pottery for firing. He then asked his followers to find some firewood.

Finally, Xia Ping'an put the dishes he made out of clay into the earthen kiln, then piled firewood on them. After only two or three hours of burning, his first batch of pottery was fired, which was a success.

A few days later, when Xia Pingan took the first batch of bowl-shaped pottery he made to the mutual market, the whole tribe once again caused a stir.

That bowl is great, it can hold water and food, and it looks expensive.

In an era when there were almost no containers, the sensation caused by the first batch of fired pottery was beyond Xia Pingan's imagination.

The people in the tribe looked at the earthen dishes made by Xia Pingan, just like modern people looking at a pile of diamonds. Many people were willing to pay a huge price in exchange for a pottery bowl.

With pottery, cooking and eating can be diversified, and many foods and things can be stored in a better way.

Just by replacing the first batch of pottery dishes, Xia Pingan discovered that he had become the richest man in the tribe in just one day, and his prestige had risen to a higher level.

Everything started smoothly for the Shennong clan. In less than a month, Xia Changan completed two major events.
Chapter completed!