Xu Chen actually didn't have much confidence in his heart.
The main reason is that these primitively collected food crops have not undergone any domestication at all. There are only a few varieties that can be planted, and the yield is horribly low.
At present, the only staple food that can be sown on a large scale is a staple food that looks like oats, and several types of cereal beans.
But whether it is oats or beans, they are completely wild species. Even if they are everywhere on the river beach, one woman can collect three to five kilograms in a day. More than ten women continue to collect, and throughout the summer and autumn mature seasons,
Just make thousands of weights to lift the sky.
The collection range of these thousand kilograms covers almost half of the valley area at the foot of the mountain. In Xu Chen's opinion, the labor and harvest are completely out of proportion.
But the tribe relies on this kind of hard work day after year, year after year, to ensure that dozens of members of the tribe can barely survive.
In fact, fewer of these oats and beans were collected in previous years because of the lack of tools to ship them.
This year, with the introduction of rattan baskets and backpacks, the harvest scale and quantity were so large.
However, this year we have harvested more and we have more to eat. As more and more people are building kilns and houses under the mountains, food consumption is also increasing. If Xu Chen hadn’t invented the wooden hoe to dig large quantities of yams, and made fishing nets to catch them,
Fish, and the invention of bows and arrows in advance increased hunting harvests. Nowadays, the jawans will never be able to support such a huge expense.
In order to allow more than thirty strong foreign laborers to have the strength to work, the daily food consumption almost caught up with the previous consumption rate of the entire tribe.
Therefore, the tribe's food crisis has not been resolved.
It's just because technology improvements are temporarily stable.
Xu Chen is fully aware of the current crisis, so even if the planting yield is low, he must upgrade farming to the most important schedule.
Slash-and-burn farming does not require too many hands.
On the premise that intensive farming is not possible and there are no improved seeds, he only needs to plant seeds in the ground, use their free time in spring and summer to mobilize the tribe to weed, and drive away birds and wild beasts in the mature season. He believes that the benefits of planting are still far greater.
In a purely wild state.
After the houses at the foot of the mountain are repaired and all the tribesmen live at the foot of the mountain, both care and harvesting will become easier.
The wasteland he has now delineated is approximately one hundred acres in size.
It's not that he doesn't want to circle more, but because there are not enough seeds.
It was impossible for him to sow all the grain he collected, otherwise when spring came, the whole tribe would have to starve and even drink from the northwest wind.
In addition, this is also a small-scale attempt to let Muba and the tribe see the effect of planting. As long as farming is really more harvested than pure wild collection, there will be no need for him to mobilize and explain next year. Muba and a group of women will naturally
Arrange for seeding on a larger scale.
Strive for three years to completely change the tribe's primitive gathering habits.
There are few people at the moment, so there is no need for large-scale planting.
As long as one acre of land yields more than fifty kilograms, one hundred acres equals five thousand kilograms. According to the distribution of one kilogram of grain per person per day, it is enough to last three to four months. In addition, there are hunting harvests and other food supplements, which can almost be enough.
Solve the food security problem of the entire tribe.
Without the food crisis, tribes can truly be free to develop other industries and improve the level of demand.
…
A fire burned from morning to afternoon before slowly extinguishing.
A thick, persistent smoke filled the valley above.
What was left was a large expanse of charred rolling hills, with only a few sparse thorn bushes and a few not-too-large trees left in the middle, which looked very open.
In the middle of the empty wasteland, smoke is still rising from some places.
Although a circle of isolation zones had been cleared in advance, because the fire was so intense, there were actually several flames that ignited the surrounding weeds, and burned out several large open spaces around it.
However, these flames were quickly extinguished and did not cause widespread loss of control or spread.
A group of foreigners who stayed to help, such as the Wu tribe and the Muya tribe, did not know why Xu Chen was burning the weeds.
I just thought that the Ba people had even bigger construction projects, so I was still imagining that after I finished building the big house they were currently building, I could continue to stay and help with the construction.
According to the original agreement, they have already earned a lot of urgently needed pottery for the tribe. As long as the house is repaired, they can bring the pottery exchanged for their labor back to the tribe.
In fact, after spending this time together, they were no longer in a hurry to get pottery, let alone go home.
Although there are no women to accompany them to sleep and drive piles here, they eat well and sleep well every day. They are fuller than at any time in the tribe. They have two hot porridge and meat meals in the morning and evening. Even a few days ago, in order to welcome the Cang people to join and
Thanks to everyone's hard work, Xu Chen also specially brought a small can of vine fruit wine from the bottom of the mountain and let everyone taste the sake lees sashimi that they couldn't describe in simple words.
That kind of food is sweet, crispy and tender, and you feel dizzy after eating it. The wonderful feeling is simply unimaginable.
When I woke up after eating, I was so full of energy that I wished I could punch through the ground. Since the energy in my body could not be vented, everyone worked like crazy, holding rocks and wood on the river beach and in the woods.
He walks as fast as he flies.
Because of the temptation of this delicacy, many of them have actually begun to consider not going back.
The Ba people eat well, sleep well, and have this unforgettable delicacy that once they leave, they will never be able to enjoy it again.
Anyway, I am not from the respective tribes, and there are even several men among them who were originally married from the Ba tribe, so they naturally have a blood affinity with the Ba tribe.
Instead of working as a cow or a horse in another tribe, it is better to go home and help, so that you can still enjoy various welfare benefits of the tribe.
They have plenty of fish and meat meals at the foot of the mountain every day. In fact, I heard that the Ba people in the mountain eat better. In addition to fish balls and sashimi with sake lees every day, there are also chicken stewed with mushrooms, mutton stewed with yams, and green onions.
Flower fish and other delicious food they have never eaten before.
What makes them most envious is that it is said that after this big house is repaired, all the Ba people will move down the mountain to live, and everyone will have their own separate room with a soft and comfortable big bed.
Just these two things are enough to make these foreigners jealous and heartbroken.
My own tribe is still busy with the lack of pottery, and the Ba people have piles of pottery.
Their own tribe is still working hard for food every day, but the Ba people can't finish their daily catch.
While their own tribe is still wearing messy animal skins, the Ba people have already put on soft and light linen underwear and exquisitely made animal skin jackets.
After eating a lot of food and fish, they will soon want to live in a warm and comfortable stone house that can protect them from the rain.
No one knows that after some comparisons, these foreigners have begun to feel a strong sense of sadness and inferiority.
Each and every one of them regretted why they had not chosen to intermarry with the Ba people in the first place.
"Let's go back to work!"
The flames went out, and just when Xu Chen was about to lead a group of foreign workers who were worried about defecting from the ethnic group to go back and continue repairing the house, suddenly there was an urgent call from the mountainside.
Everyone stopped and looked towards the mountainside.
"Yo ho~yo ho~"
"Hoohohoho~"
In the blink of an eye, the cries became louder and louder.
The expressions of a group of men from the Ba tribe changed drastically, and Xu Chen also became nervous instantly.
Half an hour ago, seeing that the wasteland was about to burn out and the surrounding fires were under control, Muba took a large group of women and children back to the mountain to continue working. But now it seemed that she had just reached the cave, so why did she suddenly send out a message for help?
And the sound sounded quite dangerous, as if he had been attacked.
"Let's go up the mountain quickly!"
Xu Chen didn't have time to think too much, he roared and led the Ba people straight to the foot of the mountain.
The remaining group of foreign hired workers looked at each other in disbelief for a moment, and then they all followed suit.
Although they are not Ba people, they cannot stand idly by when the Ba people are in danger.
There should be no invasion by foreigners on the mountain, but there are still many wild beasts. If tigers, leopards and other wild beasts attack a group of women, the casualties may be high.
The Ba people were also worried about this situation, so they were even more anxious. A group of people rushed up the mountain along the rugged mountain road without stopping at all.