Be a Leader In a Primitive Tribe

While tribal education is well under way, other work is also starting in full swing.

Last year, I promised the Rock Tribe that their cassava planters will come to observe and learn this year.

So one month after the snow melted, the Rock Tribe sent ten people over.

Gao received them instead of Sangyu, and asked Zhi to arrange the planting team to start spring plowing and sowing.

The ironworks haven't had time to forge farm tools yet. The most important point is that Sang Yu doesn't want her iron tools to be exposed to other tribes.

She can trust Ya, but she.

Therefore, when plowing in spring, we still have to rely on stone shovels and Leisi made of wild animal lute bones, and manually plow the ground bit by bit.

After the people from the rock tribe left, they put in the iron farm tools.

Among the ten members of the Rock Tribe, some of them escorted the wounded with Ya before it snowed last year, and also buried cassava stalks together.

After everyone loosened the soil together, they began to sow the seeds.

As the captain of the planting team, Zhi has two full years of experience in farming.

The leader arranges to impart knowledge, and she is naturally conscientious, telling them how to plant, how to fertilize, what is the difference between cassava and bean planting, etc., explaining in detail.

These ten people are Ya's confidantes, and they are also hardworking and capable people she specially selected.

They study very hard, but fortunately this job is not difficult, the difficult thing is how to organize productive labor.

But as long as the tribal leaders pay attention to it, it is not difficult to organize labor.

But this spring, the Phoenix Tribe only left enough seeds and cassava stalks for their own planting. They have to wait until the summer harvest to reserve seeds in a new round of harvest, and then distribute them to the Rock Tribe for planting.

Then they can keep their own seeds.

At present, in the absence of iron tools such as sickle and hoe, the planting team has to take care of farming such as land planting and harvesting. The land that can be reclaimed in a year is only about 100 mu.

Now the total land owned is more than 300 mu, which is equivalent to one mu per capita.

But this is far from enough for Sangyu. The land must reach at least five to ten acres per capita before the people of the Phoenix tribe can be truly prosperous.

Fortunately, once the farm tools are built, the efficiency of farming work will increase to more than three to five times.

Therefore, on the blacksmithing team, she also continued to follow up, urging the other blast furnaces to start blacksmithing as soon as possible.

The ten blacksmith shops in the blacksmithing yard have all been online, and Yan is also constantly testing the combustion performance of several blast furnaces to ensure that the combustion of the entire furnace can be optimized under the drive of the blower.

On weekdays, he led the construction team to build the drainage system of Xindi. But if other places need to build some complicated kilns and furnaces, he will spare time to deal with them.

After the rock tribe planters went back, Ya brought people back to carry the iron ore. However, they didn't go out as a whole. The Phoenix tribe was not in a hurry, so they memorized them in small batches.

Sang Yu entertained them well.

It is indispensable to play a football friendly match.

When they were resting by the court after the kick, Sang Yu asked, "Will your tribe still go to the market this year?"

Ya directly shook her head and said: "We used to go to the market to exchange salt and pottery. Now you have them here, and they are better than others and you can exchange more. Why should I go there?"

After finishing speaking, he asked again: "Why, do you want to go? It seems that you don't need anything."

Sang Yu went to the market to exchange seeds and slaves. But according to the situation last year, I am afraid that there are no good seeds.

"I want to buy slaves. Now our tribe has too few people."

Ya nodded, "It's indeed a little less. With your current strength, you can completely support a medium-sized tribe."

In terms of scale, a tribe with a population of less than 500 is considered a small tribe, a tribe with a population of 500 to 2,000 is a medium-sized tribe, and a tribe with a population of more than 2,000 is considered a large tribe.

In Ya's consciousness, the infrastructure and configuration of the Phoenix Tribe can fully support the population of a large tribe.

"There are not many slave sellers in the market near us. There can be at most thirty or forty people. If you want more, you have to go to a bigger market."

Sang Yu regained his energy immediately and asked, "Where is there a bigger market?"

"The Heishan Tribe continues to go north, and after another ten days, we will arrive. It is called Bahe Market."

"Have you been to it?"

"I went there with my father when I was young, but later I felt that it was too far away, so I stopped going there much."

"Is that market also open at this time?"

"Well, there are two big markets there every year, and there is a small market every three days. But the first market has already started, and you may not have any good goods if you rush there now. If you want to buy a lot of slaves, you can take advantage of the Go when the leaves start to turn yellow."

Sang Yu immediately understood that this market is divided into two big festivals a year, spring and autumn.

"Will you go or not? Let's go together this year."

Ya doesn't have anything to change right now. Therefore, he was not very interested, but seeing the expectation on Sang Yu's face, he finally nodded.

"Okay, let's go together."

Hearing that there was someone for company, Sang Yu instantly felt a sense of security rushing up.

The traffic of the primitive people is blocked. When she first came here, her vision was always stuck in this small place. She thought that the world only had the rock tribe, the Heishan tribe and a few other small tribes, but she didn’t know that there were people outside the world, like the Bahe market. I am afraid that there are many large tribes in the big market. As a result, the Phoenix Tribe is not enough.

Sang Yu suddenly felt a sense of crisis rushing over her face.

At this time, the benefits of having an ally are also reflected.

However, there is still half a year left for the autumn trade fair, so she temporarily shelved this plan and waited until July to make preparations.

So I put my energy back on the blacksmithing business.

At the beginning, the people in the ironworks were a little puzzled when they heard Sang Yu say that the farm tools should be forged first.

"Leader, shouldn't we make weapons first to ensure the tribe's armed forces?"

Sang Yu said with a smile: "Our tribe defeated the Eagle tribe twice in a row, and went to the Rock tribe again. Now that we are famous, we don't take the initiative to provoke others. Who do you think will dare to come to provoke us now? Even if they disagree, there will be some quarrels , but it is almost impossible to lead troops to kill them on a large scale."

The Phoenix tribe is still suitable for living. Only when it develops internally can it drive external forces.

A few people thought about it, but Sang Yu still ordered Jiao to arrange a stove to make a big knife.

"The last time I went to the Rock Tribe and left Zhuang at the back of the tribal hall, it was said that the first weapon the tribe built was given to him first, but later, I used a hatchet, an awl, and a butcher's knife. I haven’t cashed him yet. If I don’t call, I won’t be able to speak next time.”

As soon as she finished saying this, everyone else laughed, Zhuang was so stupid, but it made sense. If he knew to hit the farm tools first instead of his big knife, I'm afraid he would talk to the leader about her dishonesty.

Jiao waved his big hand and said: "Okay, I will fight the strong sword myself."

Sang Yu nodded, "I drew a few more drawings, all of which are models of farm tools that will be forged next, including iron plows, hoes, and sickles. The planting team must have a **** and sickle, and the breeding team usually mows the grass. , the sickle should also be equipped, and a few more firewood knives should be made, which will be used by the deaf and your handicraft team on weekdays."

There are also saws, shovels, and scissors.

There are more than a dozen of these drawings in total. If you still have to do it by hand. In this year, the ten furnace tasks on the blacksmithing yard are fully arranged.

It was originally said that weapons will be built in the second half of the year. It seems that the construction will not start until the end of the year or next year, and even the big iron pot of the tribe has to be in the back row.

Under the busyness of the blacksmiths, the first iron plow was finally built in June.

But before that, the first thing he got was Zhuang's broadsword.

This weapon made him wait too long. After learning that the blacksmith was striking his weapon, he would wander around the blacksmith every day after hunting.

The blacksmithing yard has confidentiality rules for other team members, so he can only wander outside, listening to the tinkling sound of iron hammering inside, feeling anxious and happy.

Everyone said that their weapons would be ready immediately.

The people around didn't dare to expect when they would get the weapon when they saw it. After all, Zhuang's weapons were not available, let alone them.

But it is impossible not to be envious.

After the strong big knife was drawn out, it was equipped with a handle of more than one meter. It looked majestic and majestic, blinding everyone's eyes.

Yan even gave him the weapon directly during the drill.

Zhuang's mood was that excitement, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that his weapon looked good, and then he danced.

The sharp blade dazzled people's eyes.

He yelled loudly, and the tip of the knife slashed across a small tree beside him, cutting it off at the waist, causing everyone to exclaim.

The human body is made of flesh and bones, no matter how hard the bones are, they are almost as hard as this small tree, let alone the rest of the body is made of flesh.

This knife can cut a person in half, which is simply too terrifying.

Immediately, Yan asked someone to bring a horse, let him mount the horse, and rushed towards the cassava field ready to be harvested with a big knife.

With a gust of wind passing by, Zhuang waved his arms, and the two rows of cassava were cut off in a row, until they reached another field, which was unstoppable.

It can be foreseen that holding such a big knife and riding into the crowd on a war horse will cause much destructive power.

The joy on Yan's face could not be concealed, Zhuang was so excited that he chopped off two more rows of cassava sticks.

Seen by Zhi Zhi who was working in the field, he was furious, and chased after him with a **** in his hand. Seeing that all the cassava stalks in the field were ruined, he was caught and beaten.

Zhuang didn't dare to fight back, and was beaten by his mother so that he ran away with his head in his arms. Fortunately, Yan rushed up to make a rescue.

Seeing him, Zhi became even angrier: "There are so many trees on the mountain, why don't you ask him to go up the mountain to cut them down, and why come here to ruin my cassava field."

Yan hurriedly argued: "The cassava is almost ripe, so I just practice my hands, it doesn't affect it."

"Why doesn't it matter? This year, the rock tribe will come to get the seed cassava stalks, and they can't even break a single one."

Zhuang hurriedly dropped his big knife to hug Zhi's leg, telling her not to curse, Zhi hit him with a hammer and then left cursing.

Seeing this scene, Sang Yu couldn't help laughing.

The others couldn't help laughing when they saw that the always majestic instructor and the strong man with explosive force value were now being subdued by a little woman.

The production of several other farm tools happened just in time for the sowing season of the second crop.

As for these iron plows, they are all made according to the Quyuan plow in the late Tang Dynasty. This kind of plow can not only break up the soil, but also push the plowed soil to one side, reducing the resistance of the plow to advance.

The iron plow was sent to the planting team.

Previously, the 300 mu of land had to be plowed and cultivated by manpower. In Sang Yu's view, it was a waste of a lot of human resources.

Only by continuously improving productivity and driving work efficiency can we increase the yield per mu and liberate people from such heavy and repetitive production labor.

Now that the iron plow has been produced, it is time for the few cows that have been raised in captivity for more than two years to work.

On the day of the trial plowing, the field was surrounded by tribesmen who witnessed the process of plowing the plow for the first time.

Those who drive the oxen and plow, in addition to the planting team, the handicraft team also take turns.

The manual team has to follow the plow to experience the working method of this plow for themselves. Whether the soil is deep or not, which place is not used well, after going back, sum up the experience and write it down. On the basis of the existing plow, it will be modified and improved, and the production A plow that is more suitable for people to use.

In the past, we used bone shovels to turn the land bit by bit. Twenty or thirty people turned a few acres of land together, and it took a few days to complete the work. Moreover, the tools were easy to break, and the people were easily tired.

Now the iron plow is put on the ox, and when the plowman is yelled, the **** ox runs forward, and the soil is plowed by the iron plow and becomes soft all the way. This speed really stunned the people on the edge of the field. everyone.

Moreover, the iron plow is hard and eats deep soil. As long as there are no messy stones blocking the road, it will basically not stop.

In this way, one person, one ox and one plow can plow three acres of land, five plows and five oxen can plow fifteen acres a day, and it takes about a week to plow one hundred acres of land, which is faster than five or six people working on one acre a day before. too much.

In fact, the planting team was only 25 people at the beginning. Later, as the land became more and more, every autumn harvest required the whole tribe to put down their work and harvest together.

Sangyu later had to send more people to the planting team, and now the planting team has fifty people.

But now with the iron plow and the input of animal power, the work efficiency of the planting team has been greatly improved, and the difficulty of work has also been greatly reduced. Finally, everyone is not as tired as before.

The land in the Xindi Plain is fertile, and the people in the planting team are also very diligent, weeding and plowing the ground frequently. This year's summer is still a bumper harvest of grain.

The beans and millet are dried and stored in warehouses.

Under Sang Yu's guidance, Yuan turned the beans into bean sprouts, and poured animal fat into a small iron pan. It was delicious after frying.

These are all the conveniences brought by ironware that benefit the people's livelihood. Although the blacksmithing progress was slow, at least everything went according to Sang Yu's plan.

And the next thing she has to prepare is to participate in the autumn trade fair.