Having obtained wheat.
Jiang Shennong began a series of follow-up plans.
He spent another ten years researching it and finally developed some fairly useful planting techniques.
He named them "cultivation"!
From that point onward.
The Jiang Tribe's food reserves increased greatly, and precisely because of this.
The population the Jiang Tribe could support also increased.
Yet Jiang Shennong did not keep such a miraculous and precious plant as wheat to himself. Instead, he wanted to pass it on to all the tribes of the Great River Basin.
He began sending people to the various tribes to spread the methods of cultivation and bring them wheat seeds.
His intentions were good, but the results were unsatisfactory.
In the Great River Basin, apart from the tribes along the banks of Jiang Water, no one was willing to put effort into cultivating this plant called "wheat."
For one thing, these tribes observed the ancient rule of splitting off when their population reached a certain size.
For another, their ancient traditions made it difficult for them to change their deeply rooted ideas.
Besides, planting wheat was something that only yielded returns after a long time, and they lacked the patience.
With that time, they might reap greater rewards by making a few more hunting trips into the forests of the Great Wilderness.
What Jiang Shennong had not expected was that the tribe most resistant to cultivation would actually be the one the Jiang Tribe had originated from-the Fuxi Tribe!
The Fuxi Tribe had its own pride. They held to the ancient methods of fishing and hunting, looking down upon all the tribes of the Great Wilderness on that account.
They believed that their ancestor Fuxi was the Sage who had opened a path to survival for the people of the tribes.
And now, a