I am a Primitive Man Chapter 412: I also have an... ID

Chapter 412: I also have an... ID

The sunlight filtered through the grass shed, reducing its scorching intensity.

The breeze blowing along the river made this place significantly cooler than elsewhere.

Under the grass shed, Heiwa, the first pottery maker of the Green Sparrow tribe, held a small jar in one hand and a brush made of animal fur, tree gum, and wood in the other. He gently brushed wood ash onto a small clay block about four centiters long and two centiters wide with more focus and care than he had shown when brushing other pottery pieces.

This rectangular clay block, less than a centiter thick, wasn't perfectly smooth; its surface bore traces of carvings.

The piece Heiwa was working on had four characters engraved on its front face: the top two were "Green Sparrow," and the bottom two were "Heiwa."

There were many such small clay tablets, more than a hundred in total, matching the tribe's population of people aged three and above.

After brushing the front face of all the clay tablets, the ones at the front had already dried.

Heiwa ca over with a thin bone shard and carefully flipped the clay tablet over.

The back of the tablet depicted a soaring Green Sparrow bird with outstretched wings.

The portrayal of this Green Sparrow bird was remarkably vivid.

Heiwa flipped through five clay tablets in succession, each with a soaring Green Sparrow bird engraved on its back.

As Heiwa's gaze swept over these Green Sparrow birds, his eyes revealed unmistakable affection and respect.

Not only were these Green Sparrow birds depicted vividly, but more importantly, each one was identical!

When the Divine Child made this request, even the best artisans in the tribe hesitated to agree. Drawing a Green Sparrow bird wasn't difficult, but making every single one identical was the challenge!

Handling one or two would have been manageable, but the Divine Child requested more than a hundred.

Anyone with a basic understanding of the matter knew how difficult this was. So even believed it was impossible.

Not only did Heiwa believe this, but even the tribe's shaman and those most skilled with characters, like Shi Tou, also believed it was impossible.

However, this belief didn't last long. Three days after the Divine Child returned to the house with a piece of wood and sniffed, their inherent understanding was shattered.

They believed that the impossible task had been solved in a way that wasn't too difficult.

The solution was the small piece of wood held by the Divine Child.

With just a little force, pressing that piece of wood onto the newly shaped, not yet dry clay tablet imdiately revealed a Green Sparrow bird.

Seeing the solution, Heiwa felt suddenly enlightened and began to slap his head continuously.

Why hadn't he thought of such a thod?

When making pottery, he sotis used fish bones or wooden sticks to press marks onto them, a thod not much different from this.

How couldn't he have considered imprinting a Green Sparrow bird on them?

After staring at the unique Green Sparrow bird on the back of the clay tablet for a while, Heiwa still felt sowhat regretful and couldn't help but pat his head twice more before continuing to brush the wood ash water onto it.

He did this work ticulously because the Divine Child had previously emphasized that after these clay tablets were fired, they would beco the tribe's...?

Identity cards?

Scratching his head, Heiwa felt sowhat uncertain.

Hmm, it seems that's how it's called.

According to the Divine Child, this is called an identity card, and it corresponds to each of them, one per person, to prove they are mbers of the Green Sparrow tribe.

Facing the Divine Child's actions and explanations, Heiwa found it sowhat difficult to understand.

Aren't they, and everyone else in the tribe, already part of the tribe?

Why would they need such a pottery piece to prove it?

After brushing all the clay tablets again, Heiwa looked at them, pondering the Divine Child's intentions in doing these things, and felt puzzled again.

After a while, he could only attribute it to his lower level of understanding, unable to grasp the Divine Child’s superior thoughts.

Two days later, these ticulously fired "identity cards" were fresh out of the kiln.

Han Cheng picked up "one" identity card and carefully examined it for a while, nodding slightly in satisfaction.

Although these identity cards were sowhat crude, they had all the necessary elents to serve as the tribe's generational identity cards without any issues.

When ti and technology allow, they can be updated and replaced.

Issuing identity cards to the people in the tribe seed sowhat like a joke now.

After all, with the current population of the Green Sparrow tribe, everyone knew each other very well, living together, eating together, and working together in the sa courtyard.

As the people of the tribe thought, confirming soone as a mber of their tribe didn't require such a seemingly unnecessary thing as an identity card.

Han Cheng naturally understood this. However, an identity card wasn't just for proving identity. If other things were added to it, its significance would change.

In addition to this batch of ticulously crafted pottery identity cards, Han Cheng planned to produce another batch of small wooden plaques.

This second batch of identity cards wouldn't be for the Green Sparrow tribe mbers who already had pottery identity cards; they would be for newcors joining the Green Sparrow tribe.

Those with pottery identity cards would be considered first-class citizens of the Green Sparrow tribe, while those with wooden identity cards would be second-class citizens.

First-class citizens could enjoy many privileges like the Green Sparrow tribe currently lived.

Second-class citizens would have so restrictions on their rights, such as their daily food intake and living quarters, which would differ from those of the elderly in the Green Sparrow tribe.

This differential treatnt wasn't unfair.

Treating everyone equally would be the greatest injustice.

After all, how much effort had the elders of the Green Sparrow tribe put into achieving the current state of carefree living?

Regarding these newcors, the Green Sparrow tribe wasn't nurous in the past and was still weak. Therefore, Han Cheng didn't adopt such asures towards the Pig and Bone tribes.

Now that the Green Sparrow tribe was no longer considered weak in this place, it was ti to proceed with this matter.

Of course, those with second-class status didn't always remain second-class. After living in the Green Sparrow tribe for a certain period, their identity cards were replaced by wooden plaques rather than pottery.

If soone showed outstanding performance or contributed significantly to the tribe, this transition period could be considerably shortened.

Han Cheng hadn't set specific standards for this yet. When newcors join the Green Sparrow tribe, they make decisions based on the situation.

Doing so would not only effectively capture the hearts of the tribe's elders, preventing them from feeling resentful due to perceived unfairness, but it would also provide a clear path for newcors to progress quickly into the Green Sparrow tribe, encouraging them to contribute more to their tribe.

With these additional elents, what seed to be a useless identity card now beca of significant importance.