Xu Chen actually didn't feel confident.

The main reason is that this primitively collected grain crop has not undergone any domestication at all. Not only can it be planted, but the yield is still terrible.

At present, the only one staple food that looks like oats, and several types of mixed grain beans can be sown on a large scale.

But whether it is oats or beans, they are all wild species. Even if the river beach is everywhere, a woman can collect three or five pounds in a day. More than a dozen women keep collecting them. During the ripe summer and autumn, they will only get a thousand pounds.

The collection range of these thousand pounds is almost spread across most of the valley area at the foot of the mountain. In Xu Chen's opinion, labor and harvest are completely disproportionate.

But it is through this hard work year after year to ensure that dozens of people in the ethnic group can survive.

In fact, these oat beans were collected even less in previous years because there were fewer tools that could be shipped.

After having the vine baskets and backpacks this year, the scale and quantity of harvesting have been so large.

However, this year, I have collected more and eaten more. As more and more people build kilns and houses at the foot of the mountain, the food consumption has become increasingly large. If Xu Chen had not invented a wooden hoe that could dig a lot of yam, made fishing nets to catch fish, and invented bows and arrows in advance, increasing hunting harvests, the Ba tribe would definitely not be able to support such huge expenses.

In order to allow more than 30 strong foreign workers to work hard, their daily food consumption is almost as fast as the previous consumption rate of the entire tribe.

Therefore, the tribe's food crisis has not been resolved.

It's just that technology improvement is temporarily stable.

Xu Chen knew the current crisis deeply, so no matter how low the planting yield was, he had to upgrade his farming to the most important schedule.

Slash-and-burn farming does not require too much manpower.

In the premise that intensive cultivation is impossible, and without good seeds, the seeds are only needed to be planted in the ground. In spring and summer, people are mobilized to insist on weeding and dispersing birds and wild animals during maturity. He believes that the benefits generated by planting are far greater than those in pure wild state.

After the house at the foot of the mountain is repaired and all the tribesmen live at the foot of the mountain, it will become easier whether it is to take care of or harvest.

The wasteland he has now enclosed is about one hundred acres.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to circle more, but because there are not enough seeds.

He could not use all the food he collected to sow, otherwise when spring begins, the whole tribe will have to endure hunger or even drink the northwest wind.

In addition, this is also a small-scale attempt. To let Muba and his tribe see the effect of planting. As long as farming is really greater than pure wild harvesting, he will not need to mobilize and explain next year. Muba and a group of women will naturally arrange for larger-scale sowing.

Strive to completely change the tribe's original collection habits in three years.

There are few people at present, so there is no need to have a large planting scale.

As long as one acre of land harvests more than fifty kilograms, one hundred acres will be five thousand kilograms. One kilogram of grain is distributed per person every day, which is enough to eat for three or four months. In addition, there are hunting harvests and other food supplements, which can almost solve the food security problems of the entire tribe.

Without the food crisis, tribes can truly free up their hands to develop other industries and improve the level of demand.

...

A fire slowly went out from morning to afternoon.

A long-lasting smoke filled the valley.

What remains is a large area of ​​charred hills, with only a few sparse thorn bushes and a few not-too-large trees, which look very open.

In the middle of the empty wasteland, some places were still breezeing with blue smoke.

Although the isolation zone was cleaned up in advance, because the fire was too fierce, several flames actually ignited the weeds on the outside, and several large open spaces were burned around.

However, these flames were quickly extinguished and did not cause a large-scale out-of-control and spread.

A group of foreigners who stayed to help the Wu tribe and Muya tribe, who were left to help, did not know what Xu Chen did to burn the weeds.

I only thought that the Ba people had even bigger construction projects, so I was still imagining that after the big house being built, I could continue to stay and help with the construction.

According to the agreement agreed at the time, they had already earned a lot of urgent pottery for the tribe. As long as the house was repaired, they could bring the pottery they had exchanged for labor back to the tribe.

In fact, after this period of time, they were no longer in a hurry to ask for pottery, and they didn't want to rush to go home.

Although there are no women here to sleep and do piles, they eat well every day and sleep well, which is fuller than at any time in the tribe. They have two hot porridge and meat esophagus meals in the morning and evening. In order to welcome the joining of the Cang tribe and thank everyone for their hard work a few days ago, Xu Chen also brought a small can of vine fruit wine from the foot of the mountain, allowing everyone to taste the sashimi that they could not describe and describe in simple language.

The food is sweet, crispy and tender, and after eating it, it is dizzy and clouds. The wonderful feeling is simply unimaginable.

After eating, I woke up and felt so full of energy that I could pierce the ground. Because I couldn't vent my energy, everyone was crazily exporting it like chicken blood, holding stones and carrying wood on the river beach and the woods.

Because of the temptation of this delicacy, many of them have actually begun to consider not going back.

The Ba people eat well and sleep well, and this kind of unforgettable delicacy that they will never be able to enjoy once they leave.

Anyway, I am not from my own tribes. There are even several men who were originally married from the Ba tribe, and they naturally have a bloody sense of intimacy with the Ba tribe.

Instead of being a cattle and a horse in other tribes, it is better to go home to help, so that you can enjoy various benefits from the tribe.

They are at the foot of the mountain with sufficient fish and meat food every day. In fact, I heard that the Ba people on the mountain eat better. In addition to fish balls and sashimi every day, there are some delicious foods that they have never eaten before.

What made them most envious is that after the big house was repaired, all the Ba people would move to the mountains to live, and each of them had their own separate rooms and soft and comfortable large beds.

These two things alone are enough to make these foreigners envious.

My own tribe is still busy with the lack of pottery, and the Ba people have piled up like mountains.

His own tribe is still working on food every day, but the Ba people can't finish their daily captures.

His own tribe is still wearing messy animal skins, and the Ba people have already put on soft and light linen underwear and exquisitely made animal skin coats.

They eat big fish and meat every time, they will soon live in this kind of warm and comfortable stone house that blocks the rain.

No, after some comparison, these foreigners have begun to feel a strong sense of sadness and inferiority.

Everyone regretted why they didn't choose to intermarry and come to the Ba people.

"Let's go, go back to work!"

The flames were extinguished, and just as Xu Chen was about to lead a group of foreign workers who were full of worries to defect to continue to repair the house, suddenly there was a burst of urgent calls from the mountainside.

Everyone stopped and looked to the mountainside.

"Yoho~yohoho~"

"Hohohohohohoho~"

In the blink of an eye, the shouts became more and more intense.

The faces of a group of men of the Ba tribe changed drastically, and Xu Chen became nervous in an instant.

Half an hour ago, seeing the wasteland was about to burn and the fires around it were under control, Mo Ba took a large group of women, children and children back to the mountain to continue working, but it seemed that he had just walked to the cave location, so why did he suddenly send a message calling for help?

And it seems that the sound is very dangerous, and it seems to have been attacked.

"Go ahead, go up the mountain!"

Without time to think more, Xu Chen yelled and led the Ba people straight to the foot of the mountain.

The remaining group of foreign hired workers looked at each other for a moment, and all followed them in a hurry.

Although they are not Ba people, they cannot stand by and watch when they encounter danger.

There shouldn't be any foreigners invading the mountain, but there are still many wild animals. If a tiger, leopard and other beasts attack a group of women, I'm afraid there will be a lot of casualties.
Chapter completed!