The Jiang Tribe.
Jiang Shennong succeeded as chief.
His first act was to use the tribe's strength to search for all kinds of plants in the Great Wilderness.
To stir the tribespeople's enthusiasm, Jiang Shennong personally ventured deep into the Great Wilderness and returned after slaying many powerful beasts.
Once he offered beast meat as a reward, the people's enthusiasm clearly rose considerably.
Thus, among the Jiang Tribe's more than two thousand people, tribespeople gathered plants and presented them to him every day.
Under the Jiang Tribe's influence, the small tribes along the Jiang Water were also swept along despite themselves.
After the first outsider from a tribe other than the Jiang Tribe exchanged plants for beast meat and hides from Jiang Shennong.
All the tribes along the Jiang Water learned that the Jiang Tribe's second chief had an eccentric request-he loved different plants.
And after Jiang Shennong announced that his tribespeople should gather different plants for him.
He received a great many different plants.
Some plants clearly failed to meet his requirements, some fell short, and some, though somewhat related to what he had imagined, were not the kind he wanted.
Jiang Shennong had originally intended to discard these plants outright.
But his father, Jiang Yang, who had already stepped down, suddenly told him that perhaps these plants might have other uses.
Jiang Shennong wholeheartedly agreed, suddenly seeing the light.
He had once seen animals lick certain herbs in the forest to heal their wounds; perhaps he really might discover something.
And so, to verify these plants' effects.
Jiang Shennong personally used his body as a furnace, tasting different plants himself to test their uses.
After a long period of research, he discovered.
Most plants had little use, a small number offered various benefits to the human body, and