Although the Ba people have temporarily got rid of the embarrassment of not having enough food and clothing to cover their bodies, it is definitely not enough food and clothing. It is just to satisfy the most basic food and clothing and not go hungry.
As the tribal population increases, the supply of meat cannot guarantee that everyone can eat it every day.
Especially with the advent of salt, the large reserves of wheat and beans gradually became the staple food, and meat began to become the supplementary food. In addition, hunting was difficult in winter and spring. When eating, everyone was satisfied if they could get a spoonful of minced meat soup.
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Under a strong workload, although sufficient salt can ensure the body's electrolyte balance, if there is not enough meat to supplement it, the caloric consumption will require more food to supplement it.
But no matter how much food you eat without oil and water, you won’t feel full.
Therefore, the more plant foods you eat, the more obvious your body’s desire for meat will be.
Cured fish and bacon are meats that are both salty and fragrant, and are recognized by everyone as the most delicious food. Especially when bacon is used to stew dried mushrooms, fungus and other mountain products, the smell alone can make people want to stop. Every time, the clay pots and pots are ready.
He was rinsed with water several times and drank soup before he gave up.
The pickled vegetables that Xu Chen mentioned were as delicious as salted fish and bacon. In an instant, everyone could not stand still, especially a group of women, many of whom were clamoring to go out to collect wild vegetables with rattan baskets and baskets on their backs.
It is now the end of January, and the riverbanks are blooming with flowers and wild grasses are tender and green. On the hillsides and hills, various plants have begun to bloom and sprout. It is the time of year when wild vegetables are the most fresh and delicious.
In previous years, at the beginning of spring, women would go out early in the morning and come back late every day to collect wild vegetables to supplement their food. However, this year the response was obviously very slow. Basically, there was no one dedicated to doing this. Everyone had farmland assigned by the group to take care of.
The harvest from the farmland was huge, and the changes it brought to the tribe were obvious to all. Therefore, there was no need for Momba and Amu to repeatedly remind them. All the women consciously went to the farmland responsible for their respective groups to patrol and weed, and drive away wild beasts and birds every day.
Occasionally they would encounter fresh and tender wild vegetables, and they would pick some and bring them back to make some vegetable soup as a supplement to their food. But just like remembering the bitter and savoring the sweet, the taste of wild vegetables is completely different from that of wheat and beans.
No one would think about eating them every day, because most wild vegetables actually don’t taste good and are mostly bitter. In the past, they were eaten because they wanted to survive, but now there is no such urgent need.
But as Xu Chen said, spring is indeed the time when all kinds of wild vegetables are the most fresh.
Regardless of whether it is crispy or tender, or bitter, if it can be stored in autumn and winter when there are no vegetables and fruits, it will definitely be a rare delicacy, not to mention that it can be as delicious as salted fish and bacon after being pickled with salt.
It is even more impossible to turn a blind eye.
So almost all the women from the two compounds went out in groups to collect wild vegetables, and Xu Chen also felt a little drooling.
Pickles, pickles, kimchi, sauerkraut, and pickles are actually dishes that can be preserved for a long time by being pickled with salt.
These dishes have one thing in common, that is, they must have salt.
Because the processing methods are slightly different, there are many varieties and the flavors are varied and rich. Some people don't get tired of it even if they eat it three times a day, or they feel tired if they don't eat it for a day.
Xu Chen also likes to eat kimchi before time travel, especially the beans and peppers made by his mother. They are crisp and refreshing, with moderate sourness and hotness. Unfortunately, he has hardly eaten them since he went to college. He can't stay at home for a few days throughout the year.
After I started working, my mother’s kimchi only appeared in my dreams.
After time travel, kimchi is just like the fairy food in mythology, as if it is several worlds away, unimaginable and unreachable.
In the past, the tribe had no salt, so they could only dry some dried vegetables. But at that time, life was difficult and food was scarce. Even if they could only eat half full every day, even if the mother goddess blessed them, how could they have the energy and time to dry wild vegetables and turn them into dried vegetables?
But now all conditions are ripe.
There is a dazzling array of pottery pots of all sizes, salt is becoming abundant, and food is so abundant that there is almost no need to collect wild vegetables to satisfy hunger. In addition, apart from taking care of family farmland and spinning and weaving, tribal women no longer need to be busy searching for food all day long.
With food, you have more time and energy to complete these things, reserve more abundant food for autumn and winter, and supplement and adjust your dietary life.
In the next few days, women from the two clans of the tribe went out early and came back late all day long, digging and collecting a large amount of fresh and tender wild vegetables.
There are shepherd's purse, mother-in-law, thorn sprouts, purslane and other wild vegetables that Xu Chen also ate when he was a child, but more of them are unique to this era and have become extinct in later generations, and these wild vegetables are very fresh and tender.
Of course, if it is just used to cook vegetable porridge with wheat beans and make vegetable pancakes, the taste cannot be said to be good. It can only be said that it is edible and can fill the stomach. Moreover, if you eat too much, your stomach will be very oily and watery, and everyone will be full of food.
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None of the women in the tribe knew how to make pickles, so Xu Chen naturally had no choice but to advance again and become an original housewife. He clicked on this new skill, changed his job to become a pickle master, and began to teach a group of women how to process pickles.
Wild vegetables.
First, simply sort the picked wild vegetables and remove the old leaves and dead grass, then wash them in the water channels, spread them out with rattan plaques to dry. If the rattan plaques are not enough, just tie them into small handfuls and hang them on the wooden rack for drying hemp skin and fish meat.
Let air dry.
When the surface begins to wilt slightly after drying, put it in a pottery pot, sprinkle with salt grains, and rub it with your hands. Leave it for half a day until the pickled water comes out. Then squeeze out the water with your hands and put it directly into the jar. Cover it with pottery clay and seal it.
Save it in the room.
This is the most common method of making pickles.
When Xu Chen was a child, he often saw his mother and grandma making pickles. In fact, every household in the countryside has made pickles like this for generations.
It can be fried, stewed, or eaten cold.
Of course, if you want to eat sauerkraut as soon as possible, you don't have to go through so much trouble. Just blanch the cleaned fresh wild vegetables in boiling water, then put them in a clay pot, seal them with salt water, and soak them for about ten days before you can eat them.
The kimchi is sour, crispy and tender. When eating, take it out, drain and dice it. Add a little chili garlic sesame oil and mix it with it. It is a delicious side dish.
Although Xu Chen didn't really make pickles before time travel, he did it for his mother himself when he was a child, so naturally he still remembered some of the procedures.
Therefore, under the command of him as a pickle master, after a few days of busy work, there were more than a dozen jars of pickles of various sizes placed in the kitchen and warehouse.
It's only early spring now, and wild vegetables have just begun to appear in large numbers. When the temperature and rainfall increase further in mid-spring and February, the growth of wild vegetables will become even more intense, and then it will be time to harvest on a large scale.
Therefore, after making a batch, Xu Chen asked the women to stop collecting wild vegetables for a while. He needed to wait for a while to see if the pickles he made were successful. If they were all spoiled, it would be a waste of work.
While he was busy instructing the women of the tribe on how to make pickles, Xu Chen also took the time to start making the fourth batch of bronze knives.
Because the shape of the vessel this time was quite special, he needed to make the mold in advance before starting to smelt the metal, otherwise he might be in a hurry.
And these knives and axes are completely different.
First, he wanted to equip Feng and a group of other hunters who often went out with sharper weapons.
The second is to use one kind of weapon to reflect the different identities of the officers of each tribe.
If an army wants to have strict discipline and combat effectiveness, the relationship between superiors and subordinates must be clear, the status and dignity of officers must be respected, and orders can be effectively executed.
Equipment is the best way to reflect your identity.
Equip officers with the best armor, weapons and horses, so that ordinary soldiers can be stimulated to be proactive and fight bravely to gain military rank promotion.
If there are not many benefits, just relying on discipline management and simple food tilt, the soldiers will gradually tire out over time.
Therefore, this time Xu Chen planned to cast a batch of real weapon-level standard swords and distribute them to the officers of each tribe and some hunters who were trained to be brave and active in fighting.
However, in order to make the swords made in line with the strength and usage habits of these primitive savages, it is necessary to first make a batch of samples so that they can choose the most suitable weight and style, and then according to these styles, a batch of pottery models can be made for large-scale production.
Mass casting production.
Because these swords were relatively large and required high straightness, they were very slow to make. It took him six days to finally complete six clay molds of different lengths and sizes.
When it was completed, the smelting workshop was allowed to start smelting the fourth furnace of bronze.
While smelting bronze, Xu Chen led several carpenters to start planning the production of carriages.
The frame is simple. Find two dry pieces of wood that are more than ten feet long and about thigh-thick. Use an ax to chop them into square wooden cubes. Then use a rope and a wooden ruler to measure them and then dig holes and tenons.
Tenons have been used since before when building doors and windows and wooden plows and rakes. However, in the past, those made with stone axes were very crude. But now that we have sharp knives, axes and chisels, these are no longer a problem. It’s just that for these square
None of the carpenters on the tenons and holes had any experience, so Xu Chen needed careful guidance to dig slowly, and the progress was very slow.
In fact, digging holes and opening mortises is considered a manual job, and it is not difficult. You only need to follow the position of the ink line carefully and you can complete it.
For a group of primitive savages who had just evolved from sleeping in caves and wearing furs to the farming era in just two years, how to design the positions of these tenons and holes was the most difficult thing.
Because this required knowledge of mathematics and geometry that was far beyond their time and knowledge.
Fortunately, these carpenters have been working with Xu Chen for three or four years. Although they have never made such complicated wooden tools as a carriage, they are all very obedient and don't ask why. They just need to follow Xu Chen's instructions to help complete the work.
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Xu Chen also knew that even if the carriage was successfully made, these so-called carpenters would still not be able to make carriages for a long time in the future, and would have to be guided by him personally every time.
As for other tribes, not to mention, even if they can't teach them step by step, if you give them the blueprints, they will probably be as confused as later generations of scientists when they get the production manual of the light speed aircraft, because they can't understand it at all.