The Cicha tribe is actually not far from the Ba and Wu tribes. It took about half a month for the raft to travel backwards from the lower reaches, and the distance would not exceed 400 miles, and it was only more than 200 miles from the mouth of the Jicang River.
If you take a raft or wooden boat down the river, you can reach the vicinity of Weishan Lake in at most two days, then transfer into Weishan Lake, and you can find the headquarters of the Cicha tribe in half a day.
In other words, it used to take nearly a month to walk from the Ba tribe to the Cicha tribe without roads and in an unfamiliar environment. Now it takes less than three days to take a boat along the river. The distance in time and space has shortened to that of the League.
Within the standard range of activities for communication between tribes and tribes, the conditions for conquest and integration are fully met.
However, the cost of this conquest was still high.
Because the Cicha tribe is an alliance ethnic group with seven or eight tribes, with thousands of people. The Cicha tribe with a great witch in charge is similar to the Gonghuo tribe, Wu tribe, Yu Gong tribe, Pi tribe, etc., all with a population of four to five hundred people.
Even more large tribes.
Even if we can get there quickly by boat, it won't be possible if there are few people going. If there are more people going, more large wooden boats will be needed.
Last time Xu Chen brought forty people and they didn't dare to fight against the Cicha tribe.
In his opinion, if you want to take down the Cicha Alliance in one fell swoop, you will need at least hundreds of people, and you must be well prepared. If you cannot create a crushing force, there will inevitably be heavy casualties.
Although there is a certain probability of being outsmarted, for Xu Chen, if he cannot lead the team himself, he will not take such risks, but will try to be as safe as possible.
Just like the conquest of the Pi tribe, this is because the violent combat power of the war horses enhances the combat capability of the entire team. Fifty people can attack hundreds or even thousands of enemies, but infantry cannot, and in complex environments, archers cannot.
Very useful.
Because the battlefield of archers is the same as that of war horses, it is suitable for fighting in vast and open fields, rather than fighting in complex waters and mountainous woods.
And if he wanted to transport a team of hundreds of people, food supplies, and weapons and equipment at one time, he would need at least a larger and more large wooden ship, and right now, he didn't have one.
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In mid-to-late June, farmland crops begin to mature.
Xu Chen suspended shipbuilding and began to join the harvest with his tribe.
The first thing to harvest is still the milk fruit, but this wild fruit has now become a fairly delicious snack.
There is more farmland this year, and since the construction of ditches and embankments has been completed, there has not been much damage due to rising water in summer. Therefore, the overall crop growth is good, and the yield per mu should be similar to last year.
However, because the area extends to almost the entire valley, a lot of time is spent on unnecessary transportation during harvesting.
The distance from the Ba ethnic compound to the outermost farmland is six or seven miles, and the one-way trip takes nearly an hour. If it weren't for the carriage, just transporting the harvested grain back would consume a lot of money.
Manpower.
Therefore, during the autumn harvest, what everyone talked about most was not this year's record-breaking harvest, but Xu Chen's plan to disperse settlements.
This matter has now reached a point where there is basically no need to doubt or discuss it anymore.
Everyone saw the benefits of dispersed living, management, farming and harvesting.
Therefore, Muba and Amu unanimously decided to quickly start house construction after the autumn harvest, and must complete the task of dividing the clans before spring.
And this also made the men and women of the entire tribe have mixed emotions.
Some people are excited and happy, some people are disappointed and depressed, and some people don't care.
According to the initially discussed plan, most of the people in the main courtyard of the Ba clan will be retained, and the rest will be divided into women from three different ethnic groups, including the Gonghuo clan, the Yu Gong clan, and the Pi clan. Since the Pi clan has the fewest women, the courtyard will
Add a few more, thus forming four families of roughly equal size.
Everyone has roughly chosen the leaders of each family.
After this separation, all cultivated farmland will be divided into four, and each family will be responsible for cultivating a part. In the future, each family will be able to keep half of it in their own granary for free disposal, and the remaining half will be handed over to the main courtyard for storage.
, used for the distribution of reserve grains when there is a shortage.
This is just a general policy. In fact, many people are worried and concerned about not only farmland and food, but also the distribution of various tools, carriages, horses, animal skins, linen, pottery and other production and living materials.
Because these are the key to the development of production of each tribe. Although the Jaw tribe can ensure that all families are fed and clothed, everyone still wants to eat better and wear better clothes.
Just like tools like stone mills, each family must be assigned one at that time, otherwise it will not be easy to go back and forth from the settlement at the mouth of the valley to the Ba clan compound, even if there is a carriage, it will not be convenient.
Therefore, the division of the clan has not yet begun, but in fact the entire tribe has already begun to fight Xiao Jiujiu to seek more benefits for themselves.
And this is still the current situation of the Ba ethnic group, which only has two families with more than a hundred people, and nearly half of them are foreigners who have little say in the situation.
Think about a huge tribe like the Wu Gonghuo tribe with five to six hundred people, with more than ten internal families living together all day long, and their respective calculations and conflicts are simply countless.
Therefore, a big family and a big business also brings many conflicts, and ethnic relations are complicated and troublesome.
But this matter can only give the two family leaders, Mu Ba and A Mu, a headache for the time being. However, there is still a big witch sitting in charge, so there will definitely be no disturbances in the separation of the family, because it is a peaceful separation of the family, not because of conflicts.
Although there was noisy separation, more people actually preferred to live together, but Xu Chen just didn't want to.
It's too stressful for hundreds of people to live together. Not only are they eating, drinking and sleeping, there's also mental stress.
There are people everywhere inside and outside the compound all day long. Children cry and adults laugh. There is almost no peaceful time all day long. If Xu Chen hadn't been young, he would probably have suffered from neurasthenia and schizophrenia.
There are dozens of babies and toddlers in two courtyards, which is noisier than a kindergarten. The crying can make people want to die. Especially in this hot summer, there are many mosquitoes, and the children are often rushing to the scene.
The same crying all night, almost never stopping for a moment.
So Xu Chen could only lie in bed sweating and tossing and turning every night, listening to the child crying and fussing, and it was almost dawn.
This time of separation, Xu Chen wanted to further divide the tribe and slowly implement the contract responsibility system and then privatize it, but in fact he couldn't stand the noise day after day at all.
After the family separation, the entire compound will be reserved for the Ba people, and the number of rooms will be doubled. He plans to propose that all the children with children live in the second courtyard, so that they can take care of each other more conveniently, and the other men, women and children live in the larger courtyard, and then
After cleaning up a few more rooms, they opened kindergartens and classes, with themselves and Ye, the little witch as managers and teachers respectively, to start basic education for the Ba people.
In the past, education was all about doing whatever you wanted, mainly involving Xu Chen and a group of children having fun. When there were more rooms, the teaching quality could basically be guaranteed to be of high quality. However, as more and more Ba people came, the rooms became increasingly tight.
Xu Chen spent more and more time out, and spent three days fishing and two days drying nets while teaching.
After a group of older children who started learning in the mountains learned simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as well as literacy and writing, many of the educational contents could no longer keep up. Every time they went to class, they were just playing around, not painting.
It's just singing, and the little witch is mainly in charge, but Xu Chen has less and less to do.
In fact, he hasn't been to class for a long time.
The newly grown children like Sheng Sheng, Gong, Jing, and Tao were born after Xu Chen's time travel. The oldest was over five years old. Because they were young and needed special care, Mother Ba and Amu arranged for some elderly and weak children to be taken care of every day.
Or if a girl plays with a child, one person can lead two or three of them, carrying them on their backs and holding them, which is tiring and a waste of manpower.
If you open a kindergarten, arrange for a few women to take care of it full-time, and let the kitchen prepare meals on time, this will reduce confusion and greatly reduce the care pressure of the tribe.
In the next ten years, Xu Chen believes that the number of Ba children under the age of ten will reach a terrifying and astonishing number, at least hundreds of them.
If the care, training and growth of these children cannot be properly handled, almost half of the Ba people's labor force will be tied up in taking care of children in the future, and the tribe's production and life will also be greatly affected.
The baby boom brings not only the hope of the tribe, but also a huge pressure and torture. Xu Chen hopes that they can all receive certain knowledge and culture education so that they can go further along his path when they grow up, instead of waiting for him to die.
After that, the huge tribes and alliances came to a standstill.
Food and clothing, housing, education, and medical care have always been the four basic needs for human survival.
Now that the Ba family has completed two tasks, education is his next task.
Although he has been doing this work, the Witch King's Dictionary has been spread to the six alliance ethnic groups, and serious study and promotion has begun at the witch level, and assessment ratings have even been drawn up. However, only the rise of more literate and numerate classes can support it.
Get up more industrial, commercial and managerial classes.
Due to the different outlooks of Xu Chen and his clan members and the complicated emotions of family division, after more than half a month of intense work from the end of June to mid-July, this year's autumn harvest work has slowly come to an end.
There are about 1,200 acres of farmland in total, and more than 40,000 kilograms of grain are dried and weighed into the warehouse.
Twenty tons of grain were enough to fill five warehouses and ten granaries.
Faced with such a huge harvest, a group of older women such as Muba and Amu smiled from ear to ear all day long.
On the last day of the autumn harvest, after the last batch of drying grain was put into the warehouse, the Ba people held a grand bonfire dinner.
Use new wheat flour to make various pastas, use new soybeans to grind pulp to make tofu curd, slaughter dozens of old ducks to make roast duck, in addition to sauerkraut, meat sauce, salted duck eggs and mixed fruit wine brewed in spring and summer, freshly picked in the mountains
Wild fruits, etc.
All the food was served on earthenware plates and basins like running water. Men, women and children gathered together, eating, drinking and chatting around the bonfire.
Everyone's faces were filled with happy smiles, and everyone was so excited and happy.