From late June to mid-July, the entire tribe is completely immersed in the busyness and joy of the harvest.
Moreover, the weather has been good since the beginning of autumn. There were only two heavy rains but they ended quickly, so this year’s autumn harvest went very smoothly.
When all the farmland on both sides of the Taiwan Strait was harvested and put into warehouses, the several warehouses that had been cleared out were all piled up, and there were grains scattered everywhere on the floor of the room. It really looked like he was extremely rich.
Wolf Er's flesh injuries have completely healed, and with enough food, his body has become extremely strong, but unfortunately, one leg is really lame.
But this did not affect its ability to have children. The five wolf cubs had sufficient milk and the care of the female wolf. They grew up day by day. After more than 20 days, they were able to run around happily in the yard. Every day
Following a group of children, they ran around the yard and every room without fear of anything.
Especially when I see Xu Chen, Ye He and the little witch and others interacting with a group of girls who have been in contact since they were born. Because of their aura memory, these little wolves seem to regard this group of people as their closest relatives. Whenever they see them, they will always give in.
It rolls around at your feet and hugs its legs. It's so cute that you can't put it down. You'll always pick it up and play with it a few times.
At this time, Wolf Two would usually lie down in the shade of a tree and do nothing.
It knows that Xu Chen and others will not harm their children.
The other six months of surviving in the cruel wilderness also changed her character a lot, from a little female wolf who was inexperienced in the world to a disabled mother wolf who developed a deep fear of the outside world.
Only in the Ba people can you feel this kind of safety and tranquility.
In fact, in Xu Chen's eyes, these five little wolves can no longer be called wolves, they are just five cute puppies.
Except for their milky meows and howls, which are slightly different from those of puppies, in fact, their habits and temperaments are no different from the dogs I was once familiar with.
However, this kind of dog is not the Chinese pastoral dog he is most familiar with, but a wolfdog.
In fact, it doesn't matter what kind of dog it is to Xu Chen. What's important is that Wolf Er disappeared and returned, which really fulfilled the philosophical old saying in China. A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise. He finally regained his lost dog and gained even more.
While the Ba tribe is busy with their autumn harvest, many tribes in the alliance such as the Wu tribe, the Ji tribe, the Cang tribe, the Hu tribe, the Muya tribe, the Qia tribe, the Gonghuo tribe, and the Lei tribe have actually entered the farmland harvesting stage.
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This is already the second year of farming harvest for the Ba Nationality Alliance, and the farmland size of each ethnic group has more than doubled compared to last year.
Because the Wu tribe has the largest population, the cultivated area has exceeded 1,000 acres, the Cang tribe has also exceeded 700 acres, and even if the other tribes have less, they all have more than 400 acres.
Although it is the first year for the Gonghuo Alliance to engage in farming and planting, under the personal care and arrangements of the old witch, the tribe's planting area this year is also quite large. The Gonghuo tribe has opened up 600 acres of farmland inside and outside the mountain col.
The Jia people who live farthest away have planted more than 200 acres.
Due to differences in management, the harvest gap between these farmlands is obvious, and it is incomparable to the growth and yield of the Ba people. However, the harvest in this first year also surprised all the tribes, and it was obvious that they had found a way to provide food and clothing that far exceeded gathering and hunting.
road.
The tribes are working hard to expand their cultivated land, not because of blind comparison, but because management and seeds cannot keep up, so they can only increase output through area. This is the most primitive concept of planting widely and harvesting little. Of course, this is also
Xu Chen gave them the most basic guidance.
Because it is difficult to make agricultural tools and the promotion of new technologies is slow, it is easiest to burn wasteland and sow seeds. If soil factors are not taken into consideration, there is no need for specialized technology at all.
At present, each tribe lacks everything except wasteland.
Therefore, Xu Chen encouraged these tribes to use as much energy as possible and cultivate as much land as they could.
Treat the burned land as much as you can. If it really can't be treated, just scatter some seeds randomly.
After hundreds of millions of years of plant survival, these lands have deep humus and sufficient soil fertility. Coupled with the blessing of plant ash and the tenacious vitality of wild grain species, as long as not all droughts and floods kill them, one acre of land will eventually yield far more than the seeds in autumn.
of food.
This year, if the Gonghuo Tribe's tribes were not short of grain crops, they would have sown far more area than this amount.
But after this year's harvest has been put into storage, all the tribes can't wait to start preparing for next year's larger-scale sowing plan, stimulated by this large-scale harvest.
The Gonghuo people's 600 acres of farmland have harvested more than 20,000 kilograms this year, and the spring sowing has consumed 3,000 kilograms of grain seeds. These grain seeds were completely saved by tightening their belts, and some of them were even sent by Xu Chen.
of relief food.
But all the efforts are completely worth it. If you reap five times the investment, no fool will give up on expanding the sowing area next year.
Therefore, while the autumn harvest was still in progress, the great shaman of the Gonghuo Tribe led a group of clan chiefs and leaders to begin inspecting the riverbank conditions, preparing for a larger scale of burning and reclamation after winter. She had even made plans to treat half of this year's harvest as
Grain seeds are put in.
If Xu Chen knew about the plan of the Gonghuo Tribe's great witch, he would only feel great admiration for this old woman.
Because according to this calculation, next year the sown area of the Gonghuo tribe will reach about 2,000 acres.
As long as the weather is good and there are no major disasters, the Gonghuo people will get rid of the food crisis next year and step into the farming era like the Ba people.
This is the advantage of having a great witch in charge.
Because under the guidance of the great witch's spiritual beliefs, the entire tribe can burst out with strong vitality and can overcome all difficulties to do one thing with all its strength, because this matter is related to the survival of the tribe and is the guidance of the gods. No one can resist it.
And those tribes without witches can only adapt and follow the tribes with big witches, imitate and learn, but they cannot be completely synchronized.
But fortunately, whether it is the Ba Alliance or the Gonghuo Alliance, they now have a higher spiritual leader, that is, His Majesty the Witch King, who not only taught them a large number of advanced technologies, but also pointed out a way for them to have enough food and clothing.
The tribes are very convinced, and they are also deliberately imitating and catching up.
In the Gonghuo Basin, even the Five Ghosts who had just migrated to the Uzu in the cold winter last year, under the guidance of the old witch, reclaimed two hundred acres of farmland, and used the food donated by Xu Chen to sow it as grain seeds.
After experiencing hunger and cold in winter and spring, we finally had an unprecedented harvest.
Because they did not have enough experience, facing the sudden harvest of thousands of kilograms of grain, the entire Five Ghost Clan could not find enough containers to store it.
Fortunately, the Five Ghost Tribe, with the help of the Gonghuo Tribe and the Thunder Tribe, had already built a simple wooden house before the beginning of spring, so there was no need to worry about the food getting moldy and spoiling due to exposure to rain.
Compared to the Gonghuo tribe, which was conquered a year in advance, and the Five Ghost tribe, which received special care from Xu Chen, the Yu Gong tribe, which was just conquered last winter, was more belatedly aware of it. Although their great shaman also knew the benefits of farming,
However, we did not catch up with the large-scale land reclamation. It was not until the beginning of spring that we hurriedly reclaimed two to three hundred acres of riverbanks and scattered some seeds randomly.
But even so, the Yugong clan has harvested thousands of kilograms of grain this year. Although it cannot solve the food crisis, it has also allowed them to fully see the benefits of farming.
The young great witch of the Yu Gong clan finally understood the serious reminder that the old witch of the Gonghuo clan once reminded her, that she must learn from the great witch of the Ba clan, especially respect the guidance of His Majesty the Witch King, so that the tribe can get the blessings of the gods and have enough food and clothing.
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She may not have fully understood it before, but after a trip to the Ba tribe on Mother's Day in the spring, she and all the other tribe members no longer had any doubts about it.
The power of the Ba people was beyond her ability to understand and imagine.
Everything the Ba people saw and heard was like another world to the Yu Gong people.
Especially the appearance of bronze utensils and weapons was like a heavy blow, completely smashing the last remaining bit of self-esteem and pride in her and her people's hearts, and they became extremely humble and submissive.
Although it was a heavy blow, the great shaman of the Yu Gong clan was still very excited and secretly happy after he came back, and actively called on his tribes to promote house building and farming, because compared to the poor clan who were still foreigners, the Yu Gong clan's surrender gained
It is not shame and humiliation, but a great opportunity to have enough food and clothing.
Because after accepting the inheritance of the great witch of the Ba tribe, the Witch King officially recognized her new identity as a great witch. She has the same equal status as the great witches of the Wu tribe, Gonghuo tribe, and Five Ghost tribe. She can participate in the affairs of the alliance tribe and learn from the Ba tribe.
All knowledge and technology allowed to spread by the clan.
As long as the Yu Gong clan respects the spiritual guidance of the great witch of the Ba clan and abides by the alliance rules set by His Majesty the Witch King, then all tribes of the Yu Gong clan will enjoy the same treatment as other alliance tribes. Whatever the Ba clan has, the Yu Gong clan can
have.
However, the great shamans of the poor tribe and their tribes who were invited as guests did not receive such good treatment.
There are poor people who can only have ordinary exchanges with the Ba Alliance. The Ba people will not spread advanced knowledge to them, nor will they be given a great witch ring. They only give them a witch king's dictionary, allowing them to learn Chinese characters and calculations.
High-end items such as pottery, linen, salt and bronze need to be obtained at a higher price. As for anti-personnel weapons such as bronze swords, they are not allowed to be traded and sold.
In other words, except for changing the inheritance and belief of the great witch, all the benefits gained from surrendering to the Ba people are benefits.
But if you are unwilling to change the inheritance of the great witch, although you can maintain more independence, you will not be able to enjoy all the advanced technologies of the Ba people, learn more advanced knowledge, and you will not get the guidance of the great witch and His Majesty the Witch King.
This ending was something that the great witch of the Yu Gong clan and even all the clan members never expected, but after actually thinking about it, they were even extremely grateful to Xu Chen for his last conquest journey.
Among them, the ones who have the deepest insights are undoubtedly the Maotun people.
This time, the chiefs of all the tribes and a large number of young men and women followed the Ba tribe to have an eye-opening experience and came back with completely changed mentality. Many tribes even praised the Maotun tribe and considered them the heroes of the Yu Gong Alliance.
Because if the Maotun tribe had not united with the Ba tribe to conquer the Yugong tribe last time, all the tribes in the Yugong Alliance would not be able to enjoy such good treatment.
Pottery, linen, leather armor, bows and arrows, construction, canal building, farming, kiln burning, animal husbandry and other technologies, the Ba people can teach them techniques. Even the most precious bronze tools and swords and weapons, they can teach them.
Available for purchase.
Of course, the premise is that there is enough wealth to exchange.
Although they don't have enough wealth to buy all kinds of shiny and sharp bronze knives at the moment, as long as they save money hard, they will definitely be able to buy them, and the price will be the same as that of the Wu tribe and the Gonghuo tribe.
As for the poor people, they can only stand around and drool.
Therefore, if you are poor, you will be poor, but you will be better than you are. Once you meet someone who is poorer or worse than yourself, you will naturally feel a sense of pride and superiority out of thin air.