Looking at the road, the distance was only about a hundred li.
Traveling swiftly, in just a day, they could already see the place they were to garrison in the distance.
Along the way, they often saw gatherings of people, some tribal settlements already wiped out in the heavy fog. The ground was covered with fresh blood and severed limbs, with people of all ages dying tragically at the hands of their own kin. It was enough to know the terrifying things they had experienced at that time, making it difficult to imagine.
Jiang Wenji said that this kind of situation often happened, those wandering tribes would go mad and kill each other because they couldn't dispel the fog. Only large clans like the Tuoba clan were able to survive the fog season with their heritage.
The so-called fog season referred to the season when the fog was heavy. Jiang Wenji said that the establishment of the Taicang Dynasty was also due to the alliance of several major tribes in the world for survival, and they eventually elected the sage Jiang as the Emperor. Later, Emperor Xuan Jiang Yu established the national law and started the family world, fighting in all directions to quell the chaos, which led to the current Taicang.
And those who were defeated all fled into the mountains and disappeared. They called themselves cultivators of heaven and virtue, vowing to be incompatible with Taicang, and thus called themselves cultivators. Later, in the Cangling Mountains, those with strong strength all called themselves cultivators.
Jiang Wen, hearing these rumors, was surprised by the origin of these cultivators. He never thought that the hundreds of immortal families were like this a long time ago? How did they become like the later generations, with many cultivators even focusing on supporting the right path?
"But I don't know where they got the evil methods, they put people in cauldrons to refine them. They obtain the so-called Heaven-Mending Pill to cultivate the life fire in their abdomen. Taicang naturally cannot tolerate such evil arts. Emperor Xuan established the national foundation, and if anyone was found to be refining pills with humans, they would be skinned, their bones broken, and thrown into the sacrificial cauldron as firewood. The people of Taicang are naturally incompatible with such cultivators," Jiang Wenji said calmly, looking at Jiang Wen and adding.
"When I first saw you, I felt that you were different. Now that I see that you are different from those crazy cultivators, I finally understand something."
"What is it?" Jiang Wen asked curiously.
"I heard that cultivators must take pills every three days, and if they don't take pills, they will become crazy like in the fog. If they don't take pills for six days, they will completely lose their minds and not recognize themselves. If they can't take pills for nine days, they will lose all humanity. You have never taken pills during the days you have been with me, and I have been wondering why you don't need these things," Jiang Wenji looked at Jiang Wen curiously, her eyes full of exploration. Thinking of what she knew, she became more and more curious about this person.
This person seemed like he shouldn't exist in this world, always different from others. Others couldn't see his incompatibility, but Jiang Wenji could see it. Before, in the Tuoba clan's tribe, when she saw the slaves, she noticed his intolerance. Sometimes when the slave children were whipped, he would speak out to stop it.
The people of the tribe respected his strength, and would more or less stop. But Jiang Wenji knew that stopping this kind of thing was only temporary, but it was difficult to stop it forever. Although Jiang Wenji didn't like severely punishing slaves, she had something to ask of the tribe, so she naturally wouldn't annoy them.
Others didn't understand why this noble person with a name and surname would pity those slaves, after all, they were all spoils of war captured by the Tuoba clan, and it was the fate of the defeated. Just like the livestock raised in the tribe, they were just beasts.
Jiang Wen didn't explain this matter either. Others thought it was just a noble's hobby, so they didn't suspect him. But Jiang Wenji knew that his actions were all from his nature, not just a hobby.
The army arrived at the foot of a cliff, with steep cliffs on all sides and jagged rocks. Jiang Wen observed the terrain and indeed, it was a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. If a city gate was built between the two high mountains here, it would be a place where one man could hold the pass, and ten thousand men could not open it. The towering mountains that stretched for thousands of miles were the best city walls.
This was where Jiang Wenji was going, and her mission was to build a new city here. Along the way, scattered tribes joined the army, and the initial thousand people had grown to three thousand.
Jiang Wen observed that these scattered tribes were all different. Although their shapes were tall and short, and their skin color was yellow and green, their appearances were mainly human, so they could all be called humans.
The Tuoba clan was considered tall among the tribes, so they were responsible for opening mountains, smashing rocks, building walls, and building houses.
The other tribes were given the task of going out to find food.
At night, torches were lit on all sides of the garrison. The Tuoba people guarded the night to prevent wild animals from attacking. There were many fierce beasts in the old place, and it was difficult to develop it. In just a few days, many Tuoba people were seriously injured and unable to work.
Seeing this, Jiang Wen couldn't bear to see these honest Tuoba warriors die from their injuries. So he went out to find herbs, and found some available medicinal materials from the deep forest. He had seen these medicinal materials in the medical books of Dagan, and many of them were wonderful things for refining pills.
Now, in this wild world, these things were readily available, which made Jiang Wen overjoyed. In this way, he could refine some medicine to treat wounds.
Jiang Wenji was naturally very busy, but when she heard that Jiang Wen was making some medicine that could heal the warriors' injuries, she curiously came to ask about it. After all, although the people of Taicang also knew that using some herbal things could heal wounds, it was only a minority. Most people, if they were injured, could only stay in their residences and let the wounds heal themselves, or find some simple herbs to apply to the wounds and resign themselves to fate.
A doctor is a great person. In Taicang, they can also be upper-class nobles. The patriarch of a ten-thousand-person tribe can be an upper scholar, and if he manages ten ten-thousand-person tribes, he can be a doctor in Taicang. He can see the Emperor without kneeling, and can lead the superior demon's aura to transform into a great demon, becoming an extremely powerful existence.
It can be said that if one is a doctor, they are an upper-level existence in the Taicang system.
"So-called knowledge is to be shared with everyone. I am a Taoist, seeking the way of all beings. This thing can benefit everyone, and I am willing to spread it out," Jiang Wen said frankly.
Seeing the people in this world injured and unable to deal with it, he had long wanted to write a simple and easy-to-understand book of materia medica.
People here write things either by carving them on bamboo slips or by writing on animal skins. Carving on bamboo slips is easy, but Jiang Wen felt that writing on animal skins was more convenient. He also found a substitute that could be used as ink, and began to write and draw on the animal skin.
He drew all the herbal things he knew, and also made simple and clear descriptions. Even people who were illiterate could understand the effects of the herbs through the pictures.
During this time, Jiang Wenji came several times, all praising his herbs for being useful. She said that a group of fierce beasts had attacked a few days ago, and many people in the garrison were injured. These days, using Jiang Wen's mashed herbs, they had recovered quickly. The warriors of the tribe were very grateful to Jiang Wen and all wanted to thank him in person.
Jiang Wenji naturally stopped them, saying that Jiang Wen could not be disturbed during this time.
