The rules of this year's competition are similar to last year's. The ferocity, size, and quantity of the beasts are used as the judging criteria. In addition, there are special rewards for catching various stipulated large and small beasts alive.
The livestock breeding industry of the Ba people has developed very rapidly. In just four years since they first started raising ponies, the horse and duck herds have grown to a very large scale.
Not to mention horses, that mainly relies on rounding up, and natural reproduction has just begun.
However, the expansion rate of the duck flock is very alarming. In just over two years, it has expanded from a dozen to nearly two hundred ducks. Although most of them are ducklings that have just hatched this spring, by next spring, the income from duck eggs alone will be
It reaches nearly a hundred pieces every day.
Such a large amount of duck eggs can almost guarantee the food supply of a small and medium-sized tribe, and duck meat is also a very large amount of meat.
Although the Ba people are not willing to kill a duck for meat yet, Xu Chen is already preparing to do so this winter. After all, too many male ducks will only cause bad things. Now that there is enough salt, these male ducks will turn into wax ducks.
Smoked duck has become another unique delicacy of the Ba people.
Originally, Xu Chen was still thinking about salted and preserved eggs, but these wild ducks, which have not yet been domesticated, generally do not lay eggs until the breeding season, so they can only wait until next spring.
In addition to the horses and the rapidly expanding duck herd, other wild boars, pheasants, geese, wild sheep, wild donkeys, pheasants, etc. are more domesticated, but they all have their own groups.
There are still only six wild geese, eight pheasants, seven wild boars, two wild ass mother and two, and five wild sheep.
The most coveted among them is a group of wild boars. The four boars gained weight very quickly after being gagged. They have grown to more than 100 kilograms in a year. The other gilts have also gained almost 100 kilograms in more than a year.
Already.
But after all, wild boars are not improved and domesticated domestic pigs. They grow very slowly just by eating wild grass and omnivorous food. In addition, they are kept on the river beach and exercise a lot every day. They are no match for the large pigs that can be fattened to more than 200 kilograms in a few months in later generations.
Comparable.
Although they grow slowly, Xu Chen has no intention of letting them go, and plans to kill two of the boars for tusking sacrifice in winter.
He has eaten wild boar several times. The meat tastes fishy and woody, but the boar raised in captivity does look fatter. In this era when wild animals generally lack a lot of fat, lard is also a kind of meat.
A very rare high-nutrient substance.
The most important thing is that with lard, he can start making copper pots for cooking or cooking hot pot.
Thinking of being able to sit around the stove and eat a delicious hot pot meal in the cold wind, Xu Chen's mouth watered every time and he couldn't stop himself.
He had already arranged the fate of these lousy boars, which was to eat their meat, sleep on their skins, scald their blood, and drink their bone soup.
As for a few sows, Xu Chen still plans to raise them and look for opportunities to catch a few more boars for breeding. In this way, his pig breeding scale will become larger and larger, and he will be able to provide more and more meat in the future.
Less and less manpower will be needed.
The wild sheep Xu Chen also has such a plan. As for the wild donkeys, it is more difficult to deal with. Now there is only a lame female donkey and a calf that is only half a year old. They stay with a group of horses all day long. They are very tame and can't see much.
of wildness.
The Ba people have raised so many poultry and livestock, which has made all tribes see the benefits. Naturally, they are jealous and want to raise birds and livestock. Therefore, every time the tribes gather to communicate, these poultry and livestock of the Ba people will become the heads of all tribes.
Of course, the leader's biggest focus is that some tribes have begun to try to raise captured wild ducks and other wild beasts in captivity, and some tribes have succeeded.
Xu Chen believed that as long as this situation continued, in ten or eight years, the alliance tribes he conquered would begin to raise poultry and livestock on a certain scale.
In this hunting competition, the participating teams are more targeting the wild boars, wild sheep, wild donkeys and other wild animals raised by the Ba people, and are preparing to capture a large number of them alive.
At that time, not only the Ba tribe will buy it, but other tribes who want to breed it can also trade it.
The patriarchs and leaders of many tribes can realize that living trade will gradually become a new category in the future.
Just like the Ba people, they can already trade a small amount of wild ducks to the outside world. After buying these wild ducks, they can raise them in captivity and start laying eggs and hatching them next spring. If they are raised well, they will become a large group in two or three years.
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However, although the hunting competition has always been the most important event of the Witchcraft Conference, in fact, for all the tribes participating in the conference, tomorrow's roundup of wild horses is the most exciting and anticipated event.
After all, raising poultry and livestock in captivity is a very time-consuming and energy-consuming thing, and it will take several years to slowly see the results.
But rounding up wild horses is simply a pie-in-the-sky opportunity to make money.
Therefore, during the hunting competition, when Xu Chen led his team to the lower reaches to observe the herds of wild horses on the other side of the river, a large number of hunters who did not participate in the hunting competition were busy preparing various horse-catching tools, or repeatedly practicing their hunting skills on the river beach.
These tools have long been familiar to people, and hunters of the Ba and Wu ethnic groups use them the most.
Although the roundup of wild horses near the Uzu last year was fruitful, there were also many problems, such as poor cooperation, unskilled use of tools, and poor communication of orders. Although we finally succeeded with the help of the peculiar valley terrain, this kind of success could not be achieved.
copy.
On the other side of the river, the terrain downstream of Yelangtan is very open and overgrown with weeds. The terrain is complex. The most important thing is that the environment is not familiar yet. Although the Ba and Wu tribes arranged for hunting teams to go there several times to investigate, the information they got gave Xu Chen a headache. The area
It was too big and not as familiar as outside the Uzu River mouth, which brought great uncertainty to this roundup.
However, in view of the huge demand for horses from various tribes, and the rare opportunity for hundreds of hunters to gather, Xu Chen had to give it a try no matter what, and he had to try his best.
If unsuccessful this time, these wild horses may escape, and the chances of capture in the future will become less and less.
At noon, Xu Chen returned from the lower reaches with a group of hunters.
Hunters who were training on roping horses on the river beach came around to ask about the situation.
Xu Chen said that the wild horse's activity area has not changed much, and tomorrow will go on as planned, so the hunters from each tribe cheered and continued to prepare hard.
The situation of the hunting competition has not changed much. There are already many wild beasts hunted by various tribes piled on the other side. In addition, there are also some seven or eight captured live animals, large and small, which have been transported back on rafts by the hunters in charge of the competition.
Hemp ropes were tied near the dock.
Time flew by and it was around two o'clock in the afternoon. Due to hunger and fatigue, the mood of the audience gradually became quieter. Xu Chen also felt a little dizzy from hunger, so he ordered the horn to sound the end of the hunting competition.
Although the hunting competition is a competition for the title of warrior, it is actually more of an entertainment event.
Because in the past, the purpose of most tribes participating was just to have a free meal of flesh and blood, and then the men would also have the opportunity to have romantic encounters with women from other tribes.
As for the great witch's blessing and the title of warrior, I basically don't have much hope. There is only one warrior for each term, and they still have to hunt the most ferocious and dangerous beasts. Generally, small and medium-sized tribes do not have this strength and have no intention of competing for this spot.
After the Ba tribe hosted the witchcraft conference, Xu Chen adjusted the rules of the hunting competition and limited the number of people to ten people. Although it aroused the hope and interest of all tribes, the gap still existed. In addition, after limiting the number of people, the number of people hunting large beasts
The chances are much smaller.
This small number of people is still enough to deal with an ordinary group of three or five wild wolves. There is basically not much that can be done about large beasts like tigers and bears. As for the large-scale gathering of huge buffalo groups, they will not touch it.
Therefore, the harvest of such hunting competitions is relatively mediocre. Last year, a battle with a group of wild wolves was quite exciting, but this year, all the teams harvested were wild sheep, wild deer, even rabbits and badgers.
Small and medium-sized beasts.
As the hunting team on the opposite side gradually gathered up and began to cross the river on rafts, all kinds of harvests were also carried off the rafts.
For hunters who like those ferocious beasts, this year's harvest was mediocre. The largest ferocious beast was just a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms killed by the Youqiong tribe, and a wild boar weighing more than 300 kilograms hunted by the Yugong tribe.
deer.
However, since a large group of wolves were exterminated in Wild Wolf Beach, the number and types of herbivorous beasts have increased a lot, so the number is quite large. More than thirty wild sheep alone have been killed.
However, these harvests are much inferior to the harvest of dozens of wild wolves last year.
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In addition, the goal of most participating teams this year is not to hunt, but to capture. Each tribe has prepared a large number of rope nets, ropes and other tools in advance, and most of their energy is spent on catching wild beasts, so the number of hunted animals is small.
It's also reasonable.
As a result, the number of live animals this year has increased five times compared to last year. Hundreds of wild donkeys, wild boars, and wild sheep, large and small, were caught alive.
Facing this huge harvest, not only did Xu Chen regain his energy, a group of shamans and the heads of tribes were also extremely excited.
With so many live animals, many tribes can imitate the Ba people and start raising livestock.
In the evening, the mighty army returned to the valley river beach with trumpets and drums.
Hunted wild animals of all sizes were placed all over the place, and the captured live animals were tied with ropes on the river beach.
Next is a voting event involving all participating hunters.
The hunters stood side by side to watch the harvests of all the tribes, and then stuck their spears or sticks in front of the tribe they thought had won.
After all the participating teams were selected, Ye led several boys and girls who had learned to write and calculate and started to record and register, and then took the registered animal skins to Xu Chen.
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