From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 51 Tribe Current Situation and Target Selection

Now that he has the idea of ​​​​conquering foreign countries, Blade Ya has to understand the specific situation of the tribe now.

He found the records submitted by the 'Statistical Committee' and after looking through them carefully, he finally had a clearer and more intuitive understanding of the current situation of the tribe.

Compared with when he was a child, the total population of the tribe has increased by nearly half in recent years. Adding in 125 full-time soldiers, 43 witch doctor apprentices, and 9 witch doctors, there are now 2,270 people, evenly divided between men and women.

Most of them are growth-stage trolls who have been supported by abundant supplies over the years.

Among them, there are 350 sub-adult trolls (16-19 years old). They have basically begun to participate in hunting activities and can barely be regarded as a complete labor force;

There are a total of 600 young and teenage trolls (4-15). Their main task is to study, and they usually only undertake auxiliary tasks such as collecting and processing prey;

There are also 200 juvenile trolls (0-3 years old).

As for the mature trolls, because they occupy a life cycle of about 240 years, the largest number of stacked trolls is 820, and they are the main members of hunters, warriors and other teams.

In addition, there are 140 elderly trolls in the tribe;

250 of them still have some working ability (about 30-50 years of life remaining), are capable of some less heavy production activities, and undertake tasks such as collection together with the teenage trolls;

The remaining 10 have completely entered the dying stage (with 2-3 years left to live), and their body functions are no longer sufficient to support them in participating in any form of productive activities.

The eating, drinking, and diarrhea of ​​so many trolls is undoubtedly a heavy burden, especially 'eating'.

A mature troll is 2.8-3.1 meters tall and weighs about 800-900 kilograms. It eats one meal a day (48 hours), each time eating nearly 10 kilograms of various foods;

Due to the gradual deterioration of the digestive system, the elderly troll can only eat 1 kilogram per meal, but he must eat at least 4 times a day;

A sub-adult troll whose digestive system has initially been improved still needs to eat a total of 6 kilograms in two times a day;

"Well, it will take about two or three days?"

This means that the tribe needs to consume about 10 tons of meat and 3 tons of plant food every day, and with 480 days in a year, it consumes a total of about 4,800 tons of meat and 1,400 tons of plant food.

"Sir, if you are asking which tribe is geographically closest to us, it is undoubtedly the Finai tribe. It is located to the north of us, between the Black River (from north to south) and the White River (flowing from northeast to southwest).

The angle between the tribe (which merges into the Black River not far to the north) is exactly opposite us across the White River (actually invisible)."

Blade Ya, who has hardly left the tribe for so many years, asked this question.

But large livestock can produce milk, which can replace part of the meat consumption.

This kind of supply means that at least 50 animals must be killed every day to meet the tribe's entire consumption. However, there are only about 1,000 large animals in total, and the number is far from enough for circulation.

Today, there are roughly three sources of food: hunting, gathering, and animal husbandry.

In the troll's diet, various meats account for almost three-quarters, and the other quarter is filled by the collected fruits, roots and leaves.

The fruits produced by fruit trees three times a year are also sliced, dried, ground into granules and frozen for later use.

"Your Excellency the Chief Consul, you are the one in the tribe who has the most frequent contact with the outside world. Can you give us a general explanation of the situation of the tribes in the Black Forest? Which tribes are suitable for us to digest?"

"Well, it used to be only slightly weaker than us, but now it should be far behind us. If we use our strength 20 years ago to calculate, there should be nearly a thousand people and six to seven hundred hunters who can fight."

If there were more witch doctors, I believe the changes brought to the tribe would be far greater than they are now.

The tribe currently has a total of 100 refrigerator trees, each of which can provide an effective volume of about 300 cubic meters (the functional area is 12 meters high, 5 meters long, and 5 meters wide). Together, they are enough to store about 7,000 tons of frozen meat, which is larger than the tribe's total.

The annual consumption is much higher.

It takes an average of about a year for the large livestock raised by the tribe to grow to 500 kilograms. After slaughtering, you can get about 200 kilograms of meat;

Young trolls only need to drink milk every day, but lactating female trolls who are responsible for feeding have to consume an extra 2 kilograms of food a day to produce milk;

The dying troll eats much less and can only digest less than 1 kilogram of food per day.

In the past, old trolls who were still able to move around had to run far away every time to barely get enough fruits, which was very inefficient.

In addition, because the witch doctor's production capacity is taken up too much by fruit trees and refrigerator trees, the tribe currently only has 40 weapon trees in total.

Although the production of weapons trees is simpler than that of refrigerator trees, it is not easy either. The energy required is far beyond what can be compared with the improvement of fruit trees.

As a result, he became more and more eager for the increase in the number of trolls.

Finally, after a vote, ‘conquest’ officially became the next key project, and the only things that needed to be considered were the method and goal.

A weapon tree requires the cooperation of three witch doctors for 2 days to complete; if it is done by one witch doctor independently, it will take at least 10 days of work.

The source of meat mainly relies on hunting, and the scale of livestock farming can only supplement it for the time being.

After obtaining these detailed data, Blade Ya lamented the development speed of the tribe over the years, and at the same time regretted the scarcity of the number of witch doctors.

"Probably like this, I suggest that we first send a hunter team to investigate along the way, and try to understand the road conditions as much as possible. It will take time. Well, we will add two witch doctor apprentices. The hunting team will be responsible for protection, and the witch doctor apprentice will be responsible for recording the conditions along the way. You guys

What do you think?"

Therefore, each hunting team of the tribe will hunt in batches to meet most of the meat needs.

Milk produced by livestock is also boiled into a nearly solid state and then frozen.

In addition, adolescent trolls also need to eat 3-5 kilograms in total 3-5 times a day;

Among them, there are 10 steel shield trees and a monthly production of 30 steel shields;

There are 10 heavy-throwing spear trees, with a monthly output of 60 heavy-throwing spears;

10 dual-purpose short-throwing spear trees, producing 150 hunter-throwing spears per month;

There are 10 epee trees, and the monthly output is 80 epee trees.

In addition, there is another most critical element - the refrigerator tree, which is an important pillar for the tribe to support such a large population.

At the meeting, although conservatives such as the Great Witch Doctor expressed uneasiness about starting a war, a large number of data showed that the vast majority of participants expressed support for conquest.

"What about the distance?"

With 4,000 plants, the annual output would be about 800 tons, meeting half of the tribe's needs.

"What about the strength? How many warriors can be dispatched?"

Among them, gathering is a very ancient tradition and has always been the only source of plant food for tribes.

But this situation has now changed a lot. The tribe spent several years clearing an open space of 300 meters by 300 meters nearby (about 90,000 square meters, 135 acres), and successively planted 4,000 plants improved by the witch doctors.

fruit trees (in modern times, an average of 1,000 apple trees covers an area of ​​less than 20 acres. The witch doctors here cannot keep up with their production capacity, otherwise they can grow more).

And these fruit trees are planted next to the tribe, making the collection work quick and efficient.

This is undoubtedly a terrifying number. If it were placed 20 years ago, the tribe would not be able to afford such a huge consumption.

The production capacity of these improved fruit trees is nearly 20 times higher than that of their wild counterparts, and the production capacity of these improved fruit trees has been changed from one crop a year to three crops a year. The average annual output of an apple tree can reach 200 kilograms (in modern times, an apple tree

The annual output seems to be about 50 kilograms).

Of course, not all of these refrigerator trees will be used to store frozen meat.

Therefore, immediately after digesting these data, Blade Ya convened a meeting of all members and formally proposed a proposal for external conquest.

"Can."

"So much the better."

Isn’t this kind of content a bit thankless? If you don’t want to fill in the data randomly, you have to put a lot of thought into sorting it out, which is very time-consuming.

If you don’t write it, you feel like something is missing; but if you write it, you’re afraid readers won’t like it.

Alas, I am not sure about this degree.

(End of chapter)