Creating the Shennong Qin, Candle Dragon Ascends the Throne

From then on, after Shennong ascended the throne and became the common lord, he personally handled countless matters. He taught the billions of tribespeople under his command to hunt beasts with bows and arrows, and spread the methods of cultivating the five grains to every corner. From that point onward, people no longer lacked food and even had surpluses. Sometimes, when there was too much to eat and it could not be preserved for long, they had no choice but to throw it away... This was extremely wasteful, which pained many elderly tribespeople, but they could do nothing about it.

Seeing this, Shennong specifically summoned all his ministers to the main hall to discuss the matter and solicit their opinions. In the end, they came up with a solution.

Shennong ordered his people to establish a great street within Chendu City and use it as a marketplace to gather the people of the world and collect the goods of the world, allowing them to trade and depart, each receiving what they needed.

Thus, whenever people had surplus goods, they could bring them here and exchange them for things they considered worthwhile and useful. This not only greatly reduced waste but also put those goods to practical use.

At that time, aside from cultivators, the human race still wrapped themselves in animal hides. Later, Shennong processed hemp into cloth and promoted its use. From then on, people made clothes from hemp cloth instead of wearing animal hides, gradually emerging from their ignorance!

In the several hundred years before this, Fuxi had invented the se, but aside from working, the people still had no richer way of life. Shennong therefore took parasol wood from the Eastern Sea and carved it into a qin, using silk to make its strings. It was three