Chapter 6 If you want to get rich, you must first roll the tree
Open up territories, cut down trees and burn mountains.
In this huge mountain wilderness, the dense woods are the tribe's biggest enemy. Countless poisonous insects and beasts hide in them, waiting for opportunities to move. The strong flames and magnificent thunder and lightning have been driving away wild animals since ancient times.
The ultimate weapon.
Food must be accumulated as soon as possible! No matter what it is, as long as it is not poisonous and can be eaten!
From the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, one liter was equivalent to 201 milliliters, one bucket was equivalent to 2010 milliliters, and three liters was equivalent to one pound. A person would eat two meals a day without doing anything, so he would eat about three liters.
There is a saying that "the family has ten thousand hectares of fields, and a daily eclipse of three liters of millet" is said.
This is only food, not counting the consumption of meat and vegetables.
One stone of Qin is equal to 120 kilograms.
In other words, even if a person does nothing and eats three liters of grain a day, he will consume nine dan in a year. Taking the Qin Dynasty as an example, an adult man consumed a total of 18 dan in a year!
"Han Shu Food and Huo Zhi" comes from the records of Li Kui, the ancestor of Legalism. During the Warring States Period, a family of five had a yearly ration of ninety shi, with an average of eighteen shi per person.
The Akakata family now only has more than 200 shi of grain. If they only rely on these surplus grains, they will not be able to survive even one-third of a month.
Even based on the lowest consumption calculation, based on nine stones, a tribe of a thousand people, if not evenly distributed, would need 500 to 900 stones of food a month to maintain the normal survival of a thousand people!
Although if you tighten your fur whip and halve the food for the old and the young, you will only be able to eat for less than half a month, but the key point is, if you maintain it to this point, what is the difference between it and waiting to die?
How can we get food if we don’t have the energy?
Hunting and catching fish, plowing land and cutting down trees, which one can you do without eating?
In later generations, a normal person's meal will cost 250 grams of staple food alone, not counting the consumption of other meats, vegetables and fruits! In the current situation, if the rations of young adults are reduced, it will undoubtedly push the tribe towards extinction.
Take it with you on the road!
In this vast wilderness of Nanshan, where the peaks are thousands of miles away and the ferocious beasts and poisonous dragons have been haunted since childhood, the tribe only has a few people and not much food!
One month, one month against the sky, even if the land is currently cultivated, it will take two or three months at the earliest to mature and harvest, and it will take more than half a year in the long term. By then, the tribesmen will have long since starved to death!
The stone ax clanked, rubbing and colliding with the solid bark!
The teenagers were sweating profusely as they were cleaning up the site. Burning the mountain does not conflict with logging. Before burning the mountain, cut down the necessary trees and form a circle around the area to be burned to prevent the mountain fire from being affected.
Controlling the spread of disease is also one of the wisdoms of ancient people.
The young people were very motivated. They carried their longing for a better future, and one after another big trees were broken by stone axes. Even if they did not open the totem of spiritual practice, their strength was much greater than that of people in later generations.
Yu Zai also held a stone ax in his hand. What was different from other people was that he also had a brass ax on his waist, which was a symbol of power.
"Hey!"
Ruan Zai hit the last axe, and the tree that was not too tall began to shake. Ruan Zai stepped back, and a more professional and older warrior came over and hit the ax again in the opposite direction.
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Then the big tree began to tilt and collapsed with dust!
"call!"
Ruan Zai wiped his forehead, and there was sweat on his forehead. Compared with other people, Ruan Zai's physical constitution was much weaker. As for the reason, I have already mentioned it.
"Witch, if you are tired, go and have a rest. We can do this kind of work!"
The soldier in his early twenties came over and seemed very concerned. Ruanzai shook his head and looked at the sky. The sun had already risen to noon.
"It's almost done. Guofou, look at how much wood there is. If there's too much, you can't take it away."
Yu Fou responded, walked around, counted, and came back and said to Yu Zai: "There are thirty, one for ten feet, two people hold them together, seven for five feet, one person holds them, and the rest are all
At three or two feet, the small one is the mouth of a bowl or an earthen pot, and the large one is half an arm's length."
Ruanzai nodded and made some calculations in his mind. If he wanted to build a simple temporary gathering point, this wood might not be enough. The ten-foot-tall tree is indeed very good, but here, the wood cannot be divided too thin.
, otherwise it will be broken when touched by a strange beast, so isn’t it the same as having it or not having it?
Besides, there are a lot of things to make for a thousand people. These wood are enough to make a simple house that can protect against wind and rain, but it is not enough to build a simple defense facility.
But no matter how much more, it is estimated that the soldiers will not be able to drag them back. After all, none of the teenagers have opened the totem. Now the Akafang clan has nothing on hand, only the most rudimentary tools and pottery, and there is no way to make the rolling wooden Xuanyuan cart from the ancient times.
To put it bluntly, if you want to get rich, plant trees first.
"If you want to get rich, you should first plant trees?"
Ruan Fou listened to Wu's soliloquy and kept these words in mind.
What does it mean to say that?
The ancients in the Shanhai era did not have sleeves, so there was no such thing as rolling up their sleeves. However, you are not stupid, and you can basically tell that the word "roll" used here probably has the same meaning as "beat" and "cut".
However, he still seemed a little happy to learn a new vocabulary. When he met people, he would ask, "Are you lifting the tree today?"
The young warriors began to drag the wood, and the remaining people divided some of them out, because not everyone came to chop down the trees, and some of them were taken by Shuizheng Guanshu to find snails to eat.
"Come on, come on, burn the mountain, burn the mountain! Go to the other side."
Yuyu took the burning torch and burned a large area in the mountain forest. The billowing heat wave choked the young man's eyes red and made him sneeze.
But what's interesting is that Yu Zai on the other side was filled with tears, but Yu Yu's eyes were red, but she didn't shed any tears, which was quite strange.
Fortunately, the surrounding soldiers had already used rough stone axes to cut out a clearing, otherwise the fire might have rolled back.
Moreover, burning a mountain does not mean burning it all. Use an ax to cut out an area, and then burn it inside this area. In most cases, you have to identify the mountain wind to let the smoke drift to the opposite side. For areas that are too dense, you need to
Large-scale weeding and felling must be carried out before setting fire.
In this way, the first is to avoid triggering large-scale wildfires, which will lead to the emergence of animal tides; the second is to use smoke to burn animals faster than burning them directly with fire; the third point is to clean up the residential areas; and the fourth point is to
That is to obtain plant ash to obtain land with sufficient fertility.
The ancient ancestors were not stupid either. In the era of slash-and-burn farming, they all understood the basic isolation measures of setting fire to the mountains, because the fools who did not understand had already been burned to death by their own fire.
It is said that the practice of setting mountains on fire seems to have originated from Lieshan clan.
At this moment, the lamb who had slipped away suddenly returned.
"Lamb?"
Ruanzai walked over from the other side and felt a little strange when she saw Laozi wandering here again.
Speaking of which, Lambo, a lost product, was summoned by the old witch at the command of all the beasts. Then the Akafang clan rushed to the street and all the beasts ran away. As a result, Lambo had no choice but to go to the Akafang clan because he couldn't find his way home.
They stayed here and cheated on food and drink, and it just so happened that the totem of the Chifang clan was a sheep, and they inherited the Jinyun clan, so
Well, Lamb is actually living a good life in the Akafang clan. He doesn't have to worry about food and drink, and he still has to keep a portion of it when people are running out of food.
As for Gouzi, he grew up in Jinyun family originally. When he crossed the river, Gouzi even brought a child over in his mouth, which is a credit to him.
Yuan Zai also saw Laozi. This guy was still walking around with a look of contempt for everything. The key point was that this guy saw the fire burning not far away and had no instinct of being a wild animal.
It even started to pile up mud in the ashes of vegetation!
"Didn't the lamb run away before?"
Yuyu touched her head: "I don't know, but I hate fire."
Because of the lack of manpower, Huozheng also raised sheep part-time, although the Akagata family only had one sheep.
Yuzai suddenly asked: "Huozheng! Do you want to eat roasted whole lamb?"
Yuyu nodded subconsciously, then realized and shook her head violently: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"
Ruan Zai raised his eyebrows, turned his head, and actually saw what the lamb was turning over, so he walked over, kicked away the ashes of vegetation, and opened the lamb's mouth. Immediately, there was a round thing with a broken root underneath.
come out.
Ruan Zaiyi lowered his head, took a look, and was stunned for a moment. Then he hurriedly knelt down and held the round thing in his hands.