In addition to farming and reclaiming wasteland, the production of bronze farm tools cannot be left out, especially the production of plows.
Weaving and beating hemp, breaking ores and boiling salt, and feeding many animals all need to be done, and none of them can be left behind.
At the same time, the trade team also needs to continue to carry salt, pottery and other things to trade with the surrounding tribes.
The tribe found copper and tin mines, but they couldn't let go of the trade.
On the one hand, it is to have more contact with the surrounding tribes, and on the other hand, in the process of trading with these tribes, unexpected surprises may appear if not done well.
In addition to these things, there are still many miscellaneous and trivial things that need to be busy in the tribe.
Everything needs people to do it. If people don't do it, it won't be completed automatically.
So after doing this calculation, the manpower is not enough.
Moreover, Han Cheng also plans to send people to Tongshan to open up the Tongshan residential area. Judging from the current situation, it is impossible to say that this matter will be postponed in the future.
After all, those in the tribe who are now independent from food production include the trade team, plus craftsmen such as Hei Wa, Lai, and Second Senior Brother, plus Wu and Shitou, two civil servants who are not very involved in production, as well as textile workers represented by Bai Xuemei.
personnel.
All these people add up to almost forty people.
If you add in the large number of minors in the tribe, there will be even more people who are not very involved in food production.
Without lowering living standards, the number of unemployed people the tribe can now support has almost reached its upper limit.
Under such circumstances, it is obviously not suitable to build a Tongshan residential area.
After all, if you want to set up a Tongshan residential area, you need at least ten or twenty people.
In this way, people in the Tongshan residential area can mine and refine bronze while farming there to obtain enough food for themselves.
Of course, if you want to achieve such self-sufficiency, you have to wait at least a year for the land to be reclaimed and the newly planted food to be harvested.
In this year, there is basically no need to expect too much output from the Tongshan residential area. The daily expenses of these people need to be provided by the Qingque tribe base camp.
Moreover, this does not include the manpower to transport food there, and the food consumed on the road...
After such a lap was completed, Han Cheng found out uncomfortably that lack of manpower had become a problem before him again.
With the bronze farm tools, the efficiency of farming can indeed be improved, but with Han Cheng's grand goal of saving edible food for three years, don't expect those who farm the land to be idle.
Because after improving efficiency, they will cultivate more land.
Calculated in this way, after the Tengshe tribe was captured before, the labor force in the tribe did increase greatly. However, with the increase in various things in the tribe and the increase in demand for food, the population or adults
The problem of insufficiency once again faced the Qingque tribe.
Han Cheng felt a little pain in his head.
The most direct and quick way to increase the labor force in the tribe is to integrate other tribes into the Qingque tribe.
One is active integration with other tribes, and the other is passive integration.
Active integration is like the pig tribe, donkey tribe, green tribe and so on at the beginning.
Because they were attacked or because of some other reasons, they took the initiative to move closer to the Qingque tribe.
Those who are passively integrated, such as the Bone Tribe and Soaring Snake Tribe, join the Blue Que Tribe after being defeated and captured by the Blue Que Tribe.
At present, it seems that the fastest way to increase the population is to send people out to attack the surrounding tribes and capture all their people.
Rescue them from poverty and backwardness and join the bright, great Qingque tribe.
With bows and arrows, rattan shields, and now bronze weapons, as well as the well-trained teams of the Qingque tribe, it is really not difficult to attack the surrounding tribes.
And because of the existence of the trade team, Han Cheng had already figured out the locations of the small tribes around the tribe.
From this point of view, sending troops to plunder is really a very appropriate method.
After thinking about it for a while, Han Cheng finally suppressed this tempting thought.
He really wants the tribe to develop, but he doesn't want to use such methods.
It has nothing to do with anything else but character. For those enemies who invaded the Qingque tribe first, Han Cheng sent people to attack without any ideological pressure. When necessary, it was not impossible for him to personally cut off the enemy's heads with his sword.
But when it came time to take the initiative to lead people to attack those tribes that had no grudges against the Qingque tribe, he always couldn't get over that hurdle.
Whether it's pretentious or anything else, he really doesn't want to do such a thing.
With a personality like his, he is destined not to be the type to do big things and dominate.
Fortunately, we have come to the primitive era. If we had gone to troubled times, we might have been caught and killed for meat as soon as we passed by...
Taking the initiative to plunder the population and let the surrounding small tribes join the Qingque Tribe cannot be implemented, so the only way left is to let the surrounding tribes actively integrate into the Qingque Tribe.
Compared to plundering people with a knife, this thing is a bit too technical to do.
After all, if their own tribe can survive, ordinary tribes will not give up their tribe easily and join another tribe without a certain reason.
However, this kind of thing is slow to do. Compared with population plunder, people absorbed in this way are the most stable.
If I had known this, I wouldn't have uprooted the Soaring Snake tribe at once.
With such a powerful external threat, it is much easier to absorb the small tribes around it.
Han Cheng, who was rubbing his head, thought helplessly.
Moreover, when I think back carefully at this time, I was a little too panicked when I faced the Soaring Snake Tribe.
At that time, I just wanted to eradicate the Soaring Snake Tribe at the lowest cost possible, and then absorb prisoners of war from the Soaring Snake Tribe.
But they forgot to use this opportunity to absorb and integrate the surrounding small tribes.
If after getting the news that the Soaring Snake tribe has attacked the Donkey tribe and is preparing to attack their own tribe, they can send people to spread the news that there is an evil and powerful tribe watching around.
There is a powerful threat from the Soaring Snake tribe outside, and internally Han Cheng will take advantage of this opportunity to attract and attract one or two tribes.
If you have a darker heart, you can deliberately indulge the Soaring Snake tribe and let them wreak havoc on the surrounding tribes to deepen the fear of the surrounding tribes...
Unfortunately, it was too late for him to think of such a thing, and the powerful and evil Soaring Snake Tribe was pushed away by him in a hurry.
As a result, he missed an opportunity to rapidly increase the Qingque tribe's population. Now he has to scratch his hair over the population issue.
It's like this many times. I thought I had caught the best, but only later did I realize that there were bigger and better things that I had missed.
But fortunately, I have caught something in my hand. If you hesitate in front of many fruits and end up with empty hands, you will regret it for three lifetimes.
It seems that this matter will still fall on the business led by Shang and Mao.
After pondering for a long time, Han Cheng finally made a decision and got up to go find Shang and explain the matter to them.
