Nothing else, based on the information Chen Yuan currently controls, there are as many as five or six hundred members of the salt tribe, of which nearly two hundred soldiers joined the hunting team!

And they were only 40 people in Tushan, and there were still 100 to 20 people who had not even entered the first level of body tempering. Once they really started fighting, Tushan's chances of winning were still very low.

Chen Yuan has to be on guard!

At this moment, in addition to Xiaowen, the eyes of a large number of female tribesmen in the tribe were also concentrated on the patriarch, with expectations and nervousness in their eyes.

They had enough of the tormented days of staying in the tribe every day, waiting for the hunting team, and waiting for their men to come back.

If they can practice and go out to hunt, even if they are a little hard and tired, they are willing to do so!

However, in the expectant eyes of everyone, the patriarch finally spoke with difficulty: "If everyone joins the training, no one will complete the work in the tribe. This is just one of them. Secondly, our food cannot be supplied with the whole tribe to practice together! At that time, the hunting team will run a broken leg and it will not be possible to satisfy the daily consumption!"

As soon as the clan leader said this, everyone fell into silence again.

indeed!

This is a realistic problem that Tushan has to face. Even Chen Yuan cannot guarantee that he will be able to meet the daily needs of everyone in the tribe.

If the ordinary people in the tribe only need to eat one pound of meat every day and one pound of sweet potato can live a full life, then once they participate in training, the amount of exercise will surge, and the food they need will also surge. It is common to add two or three times the original portion. That is to say, if the tribe with more than 100 people in Tushan is trained, the wounded and those who cannot practice will be eliminated, just those who participate in training will need to consume 200 kilograms or even 300 kilograms of food every day. If the food consumption of ordinary people is added, four or five hundred kilograms are possible!

Four or five hundred kilograms a day are definitely not something that can be consumed in Tushan at present!

"If we also have salt mines, that would be great!" Chen Yuan muttered. If there is salt mine, he could ask his tribe members to purify salt and then exchange food with other nearby tribes, which would greatly relieve the pressure on the hunting team.

However, all of this is still a dream for the time being. Without salt and soil, it is useless to think about it.

"Class leader, what do you think of this? More than 30 people in the hunting team rotate ten people to train their bodies in the tribe every day. The remaining people go out to hunt with me, so that they can ensure that they get more food to the greatest extent. At the same time, if conditions permit, other people in the tribe can also try to train their bodies themselves. However, if the consumption is too large and the food cannot keep up, they need to adjust their exercises. This is controlled by them. What do you think?" Chen Yuan suggested.

"But, in this way, you will have no time to practice?" The patriarch frowned with a hesitation on his face.

For Tu Shanhuai, the total number of people in the entire tribe is not as important as Chen Yuan. If Chen Yuan's strength improvement is delayed due to the improvement of the rest of the people, he would never agree.

Unexpectedly, Chen Yuan smiled and said, "Clan leader, now I no longer need to temper my body. By hunting those strange beasts and chasing prey, I can also quickly improve my cultivation. Moreover, between life and death, I can improve my strength more effectively and break through the bottleneck faster, so you don't have to worry about my problems!"

"You said so, what can I say?" Tu Shanhuai smiled bitterly, but after nodding, he couldn't help but say, "By the way, there is still one month left, which is the time for the big gathering. We must accumulate some food this month so that we can put it at the big gathering to exchange for some things we need with other tribes!"

"Is the big gathering coming?" Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment. What was the big gathering? He naturally knew that it was a location designated by some tribes within hundreds of miles nearby. At a specific time, everyone could take their own tribe's products to exchange for the items they needed with other tribes.

For example, the Tushan tribe needs food, fur, or even women, and they can take food to exchange it at the rally.

At the big rally, elders or slave owners in some tribes who are unable to survive will destroy the rest of the tribes, or accidentally captured slaves, and other specialties to sell them, and those who bid higher can get them.

As far as Chen Yuan knows, there are actually more than a dozen women in the Tushan tribe who are exchanged for it through large gatherings and transactions.

However, the patriarchs of the Tushan tribe are well-managed. Those women who have been bought will not only not be abused, but will also be treated kindly. They do not have much responsibilities. They just need to do the manual work required by the tribe on weekdays. The tribe will naturally distribute food to them. Although it won’t be much, it can also ensure that they will not starve to death.

If a tribe likes those women he bought, he can also "take them home" directly and say they are taking them home. In fact, they are just sleeping at night, being responsible for making money during the day, so that women can eat better.

In the past, Tushan not only bought women and children, but also exchanged salt and weapons. However, this time, salt should not be purchased for the time being. It’s not that Tushan doesn’t want to buy it, but whether the salt people will buy it for them!

In Chen Yuan's opinion, it is best not to meet the salt clan at the rally. Otherwise, once they meet, the salt clan will definitely ask them to ask the whereabouts of the members of the hunting team. If one answer is not good, it may cause the disaster of extermination.

However, it is impossible to stop going to the big gathering because of fear of the salt people. After all, Tushan has lost too much population this year. If some population is not supplemented, Tushan's aging will be too serious. For example, Tushan's 14 or 15-year-old children are actually the four selected by Chen Yuan, and there are eight less than ten years old left, as well as two babies aged one or two, including the one that Xiaofeng just gave birth to.

The Tushan tribe naturally did not understand what aging means, but they knew that without the women from the other tribes joining, the women in their tribe would not be enough for men to share!

This alone is enough to make many members of the hunting team work hard to hunt.

Because, in this era, there is no monogamy. Inside Tushan, Chen Yuan knew that there were two hunting team members with one level of body quenching and sleeping with two women every night. Those who can do it work harder!

"Yes, this time our main goal is to change more women, children, and ore that can be smelted. Lao Wang has refined a lot of swords and weapons in recent times. He has not much ore anymore, so he has to supplement it!" The clan leader explained slowly.

"Okay, I understand!" Chen Yuan nodded, and he was also quite looking forward to the rally.

Finally, we can finally see what the other tribes look like. Although we have seen the situation of the salt tribe, Chen Yuan wants to know the survival situation of the other tribes so that we can understand the living environment of the outside world through these.
Chapter completed!