According to Xu Chen's plan, as long as the Uzbek people arrange for some people to go off-duty for mining and smelting, the copper output will be higher, and in the future they can obtain all the production and living resources they need from other tribes.
Under the temptation of such powerful interests, a large group of Uzbek leaders gathered together and began to quarrel.
The copper mine belongs to the entire Uzbek tribe. Although mining and smelting were divided into two parts in the past, the benefits still belong to the entire tribe. Now that the scale of mining and smelting is to be expanded, the number of people mining, transporting, smelting, and cutting firewood will also increase accordingly. This
It is an overall expansion, and it is definitely not just a matter of arranging part of it to move in.
After more than a year of hard work, each family has finally arranged the number of people for mining and smelting. Now it is suddenly adjusted. Moreover, in the future, these people will be separated from farming, hunting and gathering, specializing in mining and smelting, which will lead to the personnel structure of each family.
Great changes have taken place.
In addition, the more people involved in mining and smelting, the greater the family's right to distribute profits.
As for Xu Chen's condition of exchanging copper for food, each family also has its own Xiaojiujiu. Even if they were not out of work in the past, the food for these people was actually provided by each family themselves. Now it has become a disguised purchase transaction, so
Providing food will also increase the family's wealth.
In other words, there is actually no essential change other than the expansion of scale, it is just a transfer from one pocket to another.
Or rather, it's just another way of saying it.
At most, after freeloading too much, your own tribe may not be able to supply enough and need to exchange with other tribes.
This is why all the Uzbek families did not reject Xu Chen's plan at all.
As for how to exchange and what the price of the exchange is, that is a problem that His Majesty the Witch King needs to solve. They are only responsible for helping with mining and smelting copper. If the food supply is not available, then they will have to reduce the scale.
Anyway, the copper mines are in Uzbekistan, and the amount of smelting is also the Uzbek people's business.
Xu Chen's face twitched as he listened to a group of middle-aged and elderly women making noisy noises.
But in order to arrange this matter as soon as possible, we could not delay it for too long, so we calmed down a group of people and then put forward some of our own opinions and suggestions.
Although mining and smelting can increase wealth distribution, in fact, providing food can also obtain wealth distribution. Then those who are strong, honest and honest can go to mining, those who are not flexible in mind and physical strength can participate in smelting, and those who are young and strong can
Those who are agile can go hunting to provide food for smelters and mines.
People do their best and things make the best use of them. Anyway, as long as you work hard, you will benefit from it.
After Xu Chen explained, a group of family leaders finally woke up. In fact, they were arguing and arguing. In the end, these jobs did not make much difference. If the Uzbek tribe could not meet the food needs of the smelters and mines, they could still start from
Introducing external services actually reduces the pressure on the Uzbek people.
The goal of the Uzbek people is to use their greatest efforts to smelt the most copper on the premise that food can be satisfied. Xu Chen said that he does not require people in mines and smelters to work hungry.
As a result, a group of leaders had no interest in quarreling. With the little witch sister intervening with the clan leader, and Xu Chen standing by to give some guidance, each family soon reached an internal agreement again, preparing to expand the scale of mining and smelting as soon as possible in accordance with Xu Chen's requirements.
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After settling this matter, Xu Chen saw that it was still early and decided to go to the Hu tribe not far downstream.
It is about twenty miles from Wuzu to Huzu, walking along the thorn bushes at the junction of the river beach and the foot of the mountain. Although the passage is a bit difficult, the speed is not too slow. It only takes more than half an hour to reach Huzu.
"Horse riding is really fast!"
When entering the valley where the Hu people live, Xu Chen couldn't help but sigh when he saw that the sun had not yet set.
If there were no horses, it would take a whole day to walk from the Ba tribe to the Hu tribe, with no rest on the way. But now that he had horses, he set off from the Ba tribe in the morning and stayed at the Wu tribe for four or five hours. However,
After just one meal, I ran to Huzu again. This kind of traffic speed was completely unimaginable before.
There are only sixty or seventy people in the Hu tribe, which is similar to the Ba tribe three years ago. The increase in population is the women plundered from the Gonghuo tribe and the Qia tribe in the past two years.
Compared to the expansion of the Ba and Lei tribes, the Hu tribe is almost standing still.
But this is the normal population growth rate for most tribes.
In fact, overall, the population growth of the Ba and Lei tribes is opportunistic. If there are more of them, the population of other plundered tribes will naturally decrease, and the total population will not change.
In the end, the growth of population depends on natural reproduction, and there is no shortcut.
The only way to speed up the population is to have enough food, improve living habits and environmental sanitation, and increase the birth rate and survival rate.
As long as each tribe can maintain its current development momentum and the baby boom comes, in fifteen or twenty years, the population will naturally increase greatly.
At least this good momentum can be seen from the Ba tribe. In the past three years or so, the tribe has given birth to nearly 30 babies, and the survival rate is quite high.
With the affluence of life and the improvement of the living environment, coupled with the large number of plundered young women, it is estimated that in less than fifteen years, the population of the Ba people will exceed 300 in ten years, doubling the current number.
The same is true for other tribes at the moment. They are also experiencing a peak of baby births. And this has just begun and is not yet the peak period. However, the situations of each tribe are different, the population base is different, and the ratio of young men to women is different, resulting in a large number of babies being born.
Big gap.
But in any case, during this round of housing and farming reforms implemented by Xu Chen, the living environment of each tribe has undergone tremendous changes, laying a good foundation for large-scale population growth.
The Hu people are preparing dinner.
Hearing the sound of horse hoofbeats coming from far away, he was surprised and at the same time a hunter leader led people on horseback to greet him. When he saw Xu Chen suddenly arriving, he was extremely excited and excitedly called all the tribesmen to come and greet him.
Among the excited and cheering welcoming team, many women were either holding children in their arms or with big bellies, similar to the situation of the Ba people.
Faced with Xu Chen's sudden arrival in the evening, the men, women, and children of the Hu tribe all cheered excitedly. The patriarch was so excited that tears filled his eyes, and he led his tribe to squat all over the place to welcome him.
The Hu people are what they are today because Xu Chen brought them all.
I went out with Xu Chen several times to make soy sauce, and now I have women and horses. Now I am building houses and opening up wasteland for farming. I have harvested thousands of kilograms of grain this year. The whole tribe is full of joy and temperament. Everyone is wearing clean and light linen.
The clothes no longer looked like the hardships they had when Xu Chen came on his first tour two years ago.
This is Xu Chen’s second visit to the Hu tribe.
Everything he saw in front of him was pretty much what he imagined.
There are two adobe huts connected together at the foot of the mountain. On both sides of the valley and river are a lot of farmland left after harvest.
The last time I came, it was spring in February and the valley was full of flowers.
Although I couldn't see any flowers this time, I saw happy and excited smiling faces crying with joy.
Xu Chen came here not for sightseeing, but to discuss something with the Hu people.
There are no minerals near the Hu people, and there are no other cash crops such as pepper and tung trees. Even the fishing environment is not as good as that of the Ba and Wu people.
Although the valley has a beautiful environment, it is relatively small, with poor living conditions and poor development prospects. Especially if there is no source of wealth growth, the development of the tribe will lag far behind other tribes.
Farming can only provide food and clothing, but cannot bring about wealth growth.
At present, of all the tribes in the Ba tribe alliance, the Hu tribe is developing the slowest, and even the pottery has not yet reached the point where it is sufficient.
The main thing is that all they can exchange for is animal skins, and the quantity is not large.
On the contrary, the Muya tribe, whose living conditions are even worse, because of their pepper production, used pepper in exchange for enough pottery, linen, and even bronze knives and axes from the Ba tribe for two consecutive years. Their living conditions have improved rapidly, and they are currently developing very well.
Since they are neighbors and so close to each other, the Ba people have developed to the point where they no longer need to live a life of living in isolation. Therefore, Xu Chen is ready to let the Hu people take a share of the pie and find a way and opportunity for them to increase their wealth. In addition,
It can alleviate some of the work pressure of the Ba people, and then devote more manpower to innovative research and development and technical training.
Charcoal is an important fuel for future smelting and metal processing.
However, felling wood and burning charcoal is a very tiring job.
There is no advanced technology in this matter. You just need to control the heat and time of sealing the kiln. The Ba people are currently upgrading the three high-tech industries of carpentry, stonemasonry and smelting, so Xu Chen decided to make charcoal making a painful and tiring job.
work is subcontracted out.
Surrounded by the men, women, and children of the Hu tribe, Xu Chen and others entered the compound where the Hu tribe lived, and soon lit a bonfire in the center of the yard. The chief and several girls wearing burlap cloth personally gave Xu Chen
In the morning, freshly cooked multi-grain porridge and some meat soup and bone soup were served to warmly entertain them.
Xu Chen and others also spent the whole day running back and forth, and were not polite. After half-full of hot porridge and soup, they slowly explained their purpose.
After listening to Xu Chen's words, the courtyard was stunned and quiet for a while, and then suddenly burst into cheers.
The white-haired old patriarch clung to Xu Chen's sleeves and burst into tears, unable to be wiped clean.
Charcoal burning is not a profound technology for the Ba people, but for other tribes, it is definitely still a very mysterious thing.
Of course, they have no idea why the Ba people need to add such an extra step, what is the difference between burning with wood and burning with charcoal.
However, the Ba people were willing to teach them how to make charcoal, and said that in the future, the charcoal burned by the Hu people could be exchanged with the Ba people for any desired items. This great news immediately shocked all the Hu people, and many people cried with joy.
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So before the meal was even finished, dozens of people were squatting in front of Xu Chen, and some even prostrated themselves on the ground to express their infinite respect and love.