Task 5

Late at night, the task completion reminder sound that had not sounded for a long time finally rang again.

[Ding, the system prompts that the agriculture, animal husbandry, and commerce of the Mu tribe have begun to take shape. ]

[Task 4 completed, a total of 750,000 infrastructure points awarded. Please check. ]

【Task 5: Read thousands of books and write like a god. Books are the ladder of human progress! Start a literacy campaign to help more people learn to read! 】

[Each person will be rewarded 10 infrastructure points for each word they learn, with no upper limit, and settlement will be made once a month.]

After receiving the new task, Shen Nong wondered for the first time whether the system had deliberately sent him a construction point. He had just told other tribes about the orcs' enrollment when the system task was updated.

Although the system has updated new tasks related to orcs' calligraphy, Shen Nong also knows that things that are too easy to obtain are often not cherished. Therefore, other tribes need to pay tuition fees to enroll.

Shen Nong did not set the tuition too high. Children aged between five and ten were charged two pieces of raw meat a day. Those aged between ten and eighteen were charged three pieces of raw meat a day. Orcs aged eighteen and over only studied for two hours a day and were given two pieces of raw meat a day. Those who studied all day were given five pieces of raw meat.

Orcs from all tribes come to work here, and they can take back a lot of pickled meat and animal skins every month. If they really want to send the young children of the tribe to school, the tribe can save money.

If it was pickled meat, it would be cheaper. According to the orcs' appetite, the "tuition" Shen Nong collected would not be enough for the orcs to eat for a day.

Regarding going to school in the Wood Tribe, the priests of each tribe returned to their respective tribes and carefully selected suitable orcs to send to school.

The tuition fees were completely affordable for the Mountain Tribe, which had long been a subsidiary of the Wood Tribe. The Mountain Tribe also sent all the children there as Shen Nong had said, including those under the age of 18 who worked there to study all day.

Building a house can take time, but learning characters cannot wait. Shan Feng thought clearly that it would be better if everyone could read or only half or a few people could read.

The Wind Tribe priests and Shanfeng had the same idea, but it was a bit difficult for them. They had more orcs over ten and under eighteen than the Mountain Tribe, but fewer children than the Mountain Tribe. Because of this, the Wind Tribe had more orcs working in the Wood Tribe, and they built three more houses than the Mountain Tribe.

The priest of the Wind Tribe thought about it again and again, and finally determined that the number of orcs aged ten to eighteen who studied full-time in the Wood Tribe was half that of the Mountain Tribe.

Among the other tribes, only the other five tribes that had agreed with Shen Nong from the beginning to send their tribal orcs to work in the Mu tribe could guarantee that all children over five years old and under ten years old would come.

In the remaining tribes, there were few young children who were sent to study all day, and even fewer who were over ten years old. In the poorest Ant Tribe, only the newly appointed young priests came to the Wood Tribe to study.

These small tribes had never worked in the Mu tribe before. They were more concerned about saving up pickled meat and animal skins for the winter. It would be better for those who can work to work more.

The total number of students who finally enrolled in the Mu Tribe was more than 70. There were more than 30 students in each class, which could be divided into two classes. Most of them were children from the seven tribes who had been working in the Mu Tribe. The other small tribes only sent a total of seven people.

Although only two classrooms were full, Shen Nong was satisfied. It was not realistic for all tribes to send all the children of the appropriate age to study.

After all, the tribe must first consider how to have enough supplies to survive. Learning characters is a long-term thing, and it will not be too late to learn them when there are enough supplies in the future.

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The sky was clear and strange noises were coming from the largest two-story brick building in the Mu tribe.

"Ah...oh...uh..." This strange voice has a touch of childishness, loudness, richness, and old age. The old priests sat together with the little kids, reading and writing pinyin seriously, and they studied for a whole day under the guidance of Shen Ba.

In addition to learning pinyin for two hours every day, the orcs of the Mu tribe's medical team, production team, and pottery team also have to learn professional knowledge systematically and comprehensively from Chinese medicine expert Shen Jiu, architecture expert Shen Shi, and art expert Shen Shiyi. After class at school, Shen Jiu, Shen Shi, and Shen Shiyi will also follow the three teams to help make the things they need.

The task assigned by the system is literacy and learning to read and write, so Shen Nong’s professional courses are not open to the public.

There was no other way. After all, Shen Nong knew that he was the priest of the Mu Tribe. He had to consider the Mu Tribe more. Professional courses could only be opened after the Mu Tribe's skills were fully mature, and the number of places would be limited.

Although the school has started operating, it still needs to add a dormitory area. When Shen Nong established the school, he did not think that the distant tribe would become a subsidiary tribe of the Mu tribe in a short time. Therefore, in order to save time and manpower, the school only reserved the land for the dormitory area, but did not build any houses yet.

Now, due to the system tasks and the ten tribes on the seaside, the dormitory area has also started construction. Due to classes, the construction can only start after the students finish school.

Shen Nong handed this matter over to Shen Shi. He only needed to go to the school twice a day and listen to the teachers' reports after school in the afternoon.

Shen Yi also sent over all the tools used for weaving. The newly established cloth-making team was watched by Shen Twelve, a textile expert. Shen Nong did not need to look at it much, as it had already reached the combing stage.

Shen Nong had a lot of free time, spending every day in the farmland and orchards, going to and from work with Ze. He also brought Lu Shuang with him to teach him how to use and control his supernatural powers.

Lu Shuang learns quickly and has mastered it very well. While teaching Lu Shuang, the use of water-based supernatural powers makes Shen Nong feel relaxed and happy. The wood-based energy gathered around him also doubled, and Shen Nong felt that his supernatural energy was also increasing. Due to the complementary nature of the supernatural elements, water produces wood, it won't take long for his supernatural power level to rise to the next level.

After practicing for a while, Lu Shuang made rapid progress. Now her ability level is already level three and she is about to enter level four. She only needs an opportunity to upgrade.

A few days later, Shen Yi asked the orcs of the Yu tribe to deliver a glass cutter made of diamond. Shen Nong had listened to Shen Wu's advice before and knew that he could find diamond, so he didn't buy the cutter from the system, saving a lot of infrastructure points.

Shen Wu found the diamond on the first day he went out, turned on the flight mode and immediately sent it to Wushan to make a glass cutting knife for Shen Yi.

It was just that the speed of installing the glass was delayed, otherwise the school, his small courtyard, and the brick house where Hu Xiao and the other two lived would have been replaced with glass windows.

Yu Ji also came along this time. When Shen Nong heard that Yu Ji had also come, he thought something had happened, so he left the fruit trees he was cultivating halfway and hurried back to the Mu tribe.

Yu Ji did come here for something, but it was not what Shen Nong thought. It was because Yu Ji heard about the tribe by the sea, and there were people from the Yu tribe there, so it was impossible for Yu Ji not to know.

After knowing that except for the three major tribes, all other small and medium-sized tribes on the seaside became affiliated tribes of the Wood Tribe, Yu Ji told Ying Xi that he also wanted to make the Yu Tribe a affiliated tribe of the Mu Tribe.

The two thought about it for several days, and they were afraid that the Wood Tribe would not agree. When a large tribe chooses a subordinate tribe, it depends on whether the tribe is useful and what it can bring to the large tribe. Otherwise, why would the large tribe protect the subordinate tribe and develop with it?

But Yu Ji also thought that the Yu tribe was no worse than the tribes on the coast, and they could fly, and they had been working for the Wood tribe. It shouldn't be a problem to become a subordinate tribe of the Wood tribe.

In the end, Yingxi said that it would be useless to keep thinking about it, so it would be better to come to the Mu tribe directly to ask. This led to the scene where Yu Ji appeared in the Mu tribe.

Shen Nong was relieved to know that the Yu Tribe was fine, and he was also very happy that the Yu Tribe became their affiliated tribe. The value that the Yu Tribe brought to the Mu Tribe was currently unmatched by other tribes.

Shen Nong was of course happy that the relationship between the two tribes could be further improved.

Shen Nong wanted to let the priests of the subordinate tribes take the marrow cleansing pill to awaken their superpowers. He originally wanted to give one pill to each of the priests of the Mountain Tribe and the Wind Tribe, and then select five priests with the purest spirit cores from the ten tribes on the coast.

The purer the spirit core is, the higher the ability qualification is. Lu Shuang's spirit core is very pure, and his ability qualification is very high. The second is the Wind Tribe priest. Although he is old, Shen Nong has used his ability to detect it before. His spirit core is purer than the Mountain Tribe priest. If he awakens his ability, he will practice very quickly.

But now Shen Nong obviously cannot do this, because the Mu tribe has too many subordinate tribes.

Shen Nong finally decided that when the Mu tribe held the autumn martial arts competition, they would also summon priests from various tribes to come, and then select those with the highest purity of spirit cores from among the many priests and give them the marrow cleansing pill.

If there is a priest who is unwilling to awaken his supernatural powers, he will be next in line.

It just so happened that the reward infrastructure points for Task 4 had been distributed. He didn't have the bonus from the novice gift pack now. The original price of the Marrow Cleansing Pill was 100,000 per pill, but now he could only buy a maximum of seven with 750,000 infrastructure points.

In order to be on the safe side, it is impossible to use up all the infrastructure points. He can buy two or three more marrow cleansing pills. If he encounters spirit cores with relatively high purity, he can also choose two or three more.

Shen Nong told Yu Ji in advance the time of the Mu Tribe's autumn competition and asked him to come to the Mu Tribe on that day. Yu Ji nodded in agreement and stayed in the Mu Tribe for one night before returning to the Yu Tribe with the tribe members.

A big thing happened in the Military Guard recently. Chief Hu Xiao and Deputy Captain Mao Yun, who never liked to go back to the tribe to sleep and slept in the Military Guard every day, began to go back to the tribe to sleep like Captain Ze.

However, because the military guard must have a captain, Chief Hu Xiao and Deputy Captain Mao Yun take turns going back to the tribe every day.

Every time the orcs in training passed by Chief Tiger Roar and Deputy Captain Mao Yun, they would hear Chief Tiger Roar finding all kinds of excuses to beg Deputy Captain Mao Yun to let him go back to the tribe to sleep for one more night.

This made the orcs of the military guard very curious. What was so attractive in the tribe that the chief and the deputy captain, who never went back, wanted to go back to the tribe to sleep?

There was nothing else to do, it was just that Shen Nong fulfilled his promise to Hu Xiao and the other two to install windows.

When the three of them were choosing the glass, their eyes were drawn to it. It was an indescribable feeling. They felt that such a beautiful thing could only be found in the residence of the Beast God.

The priest actually agreed to install such beautiful glass in their house. The three of them were very careful when they touched the glass. The priest had warned them that the glass was fragile and should be treated with care.

But they couldn't hide their excitement. The smiles and amazement on the faces of the three people were so great that they never went down again after seeing the glass. Such a good thing actually belonged to them!

After choosing the glass, the three of them finally got the news that the priest would help them install the glass. The magical and beautiful glass windows replaced the wooden windows on the brick house, and the house instantly became bright.

Even if the window is not opened, it can be bright. You can see the scene outside the window clearly through the glass. If it is winter, wouldn’t you be able to sit in the house and watch the snow in warmth!

Lu Shuang chose embossed glass, which is not very transparent and looks blurry, but it does not prevent the glass from transmitting light and still looks very beautiful.

The glass in Shennong's yard is both fully transparent and embossed. The embossed glass is mainly used for decoration, while the glass in the school is all transparent.

After the glass was installed, it set off a craze in the Mu Tribe. The beastmen did not dare to approach Hu Xiao and Mao Yun's houses, and they were even more afraid to approach Shen Nong's small courtyard. Even if they approached, they could not see inside because of the wall outside. They could not enter the school, so they all gathered outside Lu Shuang's house to see the glass.

Every morning when Lu Shuang woke up, he could see the crowds of people outside the window through the glass. He couldn't help but pat his chest. Fortunately, he had chosen patterned glass before. Unlike Hu Xiao and Mao Yun, he couldn't see inside clearly from the outside.

Otherwise, how could he sleep well with so many people staring at him?

However, Lu Shuang was still affected. When he went to bed at night, he always felt that someone was staring at him outside the window, and he couldn't sleep well. During training, Shen Nong saw that Lu Shuang's dark circles were getting worse. After knowing the reason, he asked the orcs in the clothing team to make a curtain with fish skin for Lu Shuang. He asked him to hang it in the window and pull it up when he went to bed at night.

Shen Nong also sent one to Hu Xiao and Mao Yun.

The priests from other tribes who saw the glass were extremely amazed, but unexpectedly no one asked Shen Nong whether he wanted to trade the glass.

They knew without asking that such a beautiful thing must be very expensive! Very worthwhile meat! But they really didn't have any extra meat or animal skins to trade, but they really wanted it!

In order to suppress their surging desire to trade, the priests dared not even let their peripheral vision fall on the classroom glass when they were in school every day, for fear that they would lose control and go to Shen Nong to make a deal.

The glass factory has now started producing glass cups and glass bowls, but Shen Nong also knows that the Mu tribe cannot trade glass products for the time being, as they have already emptied their pockets to go to school.

So Shen Nong currently plans to use these glasses to trade with marginal tribes.