Farmland harvesting has been underway from the end of June to mid-July.

Fortunately, after the beginning of autumn, there are few heavy rainstorms, and there are basically no violent scenes like April and May. Even if the next heavy rain comes, the clouds will soon clear and the sunrise will rise.

Although rain will affect drying and entering the warehouse, it has not had much impact on this year's grain harvest, because there are also pergolas and enough houses and tools to be spread out and stored so that it will not be as pure as before.

As the farmland harvesting work comes to an end, the numbers for drying into the warehouse are gradually completed. The last batch of grains entered into the warehouse are the experimental fields. The grains are large and full, and the yield is gratifying. The yield per mu is nearly 70 kilograms, which is equivalent to one stone in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Although Xu Chen was not satisfied, he also knew that this was the limit that human farming can reach.

In the absence of better seed pesticides and fertilizers, this yield will become a historical record and remain unbreakable for a long time.

Because the manpower, material resources, time and so on investing in this experimental field are not supported by the current tribe, it is impossible to promote it on a large scale and can only be used as a breeding experimental field.

As for real farming, even if the cattle and horse farming tools are available, the farming method of this hundred acres of mature fields will be as high as 50 kilograms per mu.

This yield also includes seeds.

According to the results of two years of cultivation, five to ten kilograms of seeds per mu of land are far from enough, and the plants are too thin, so it is difficult to double again. If you want to truly increase the yield, the seeds of one mu of land must reach at least twenty kilograms, then 400 mu of farmland will invest 8,000 kilograms of grain next year.

However, the seedling density is high, so it naturally requires more fertility, so a lot of manpower and time are needed to accumulate fertilizer.

In industrial and agricultural production, input and output are generally proportional.

But it is impossible for the Ba people and other primitive tribes to continue to invest so much manpower, financial and material resources to cultivate.

Because there is a bottleneck in the development of anything, under the current production conditions such as soil, climate, environment, seeds, manpower, technology, etc., seventy kilograms are the peak, fifty kilograms are definitely considered high yield, forty kilograms are a bumper harvest, and twenty or thirty kilograms are considered normal.

What's more, in the situation where the land is vast and sparsely populated, what is now lacking is not land, but people.

If you burn a piece of wasteland and sow a few kilograms of seeds, you can harvest twenty or thirty kilograms of grain in autumn. Under this kind of money-picking model of picking up money, no one is interested in fighting a few acres of thin fields.

This is why there were a large number of land reclamation in ancient times.

The same is true for Xu Chen. Instead of working hard on a single acre, it is far better to work hard on the area.

The planting area of ​​the same number of seeds has expanded to 800 to 1,000 acres, which can be more extensive and relaxed in farming and daily management, but in the end, there will be no difference in yield. This is the value of increasing yield in the era of slash-and-burn planting.

Although Xu Chen was not satisfied with the harvest in front of him and even gritted his teeth, in the eyes of Moba and all women, this was an unprecedented harvest, especially the experimental field.

In the past, when harvesting in the wild, it would be enough to harvest about five kilograms per acre of land, and it would take half a day to harvest seventy kilograms. One person would have to get half a month. After a season, more than twenty women could get a thousand kilograms.

That is the entire income of the entire tribe.

But in just two years, under the leadership of Xu Chen, the tribe's grain collection income increased by at least ten times, reaching an astronomical figure that no one dared to imagine.

The final statistics show that the total farmland income this year has reached 17,680 kilograms, of which more than 1,300 kilograms of experimental fields are collected, and the remaining 80 acres of mature fields are nearly 30% more than that of new fields.

Although this yield increase is not very obvious, under the premise of seeds, the total increase after large-scale planting is quite considerable.

Gathering sand makes a tower, and gathering armpits makes a fur. Any wealth is slowly accumulated through volume changes. If the overall output of 400 mu of land increases by 30% next year, the total grain output will exceed 20,000 kilograms.

If all the full seeds selected from the experimental fields are promoted and the cultivation is more refined, the yield may increase by about 20%, and the total output will exceed 26,000 kilograms.

According to the current situation, the Ba tribe does not include more than 40 prisoners, and all 130 men, women, young and old are all left to allocate rations. If one pound of coarse grain can maintain basic survival every day, these grains can be eaten for nearly seven months.

In fact, the food configurations of all tribes are now half meat and half food, and many times meat is even more common.

With so much food reserves, both men and women can save a lot of labor time on weekdays. Instead of hunting and collecting temporary food in the wild all day long, they can spend more time on agricultural production and livestock breeding, and eventually evolve to the point where they can be self-sufficient without having to do field operations.

This not only further reduces the risk of survival, but also greatly increases food safety guarantees. It also has more time and manpower to develop other industries, such as spinning and weaving, making pottery, mining and smelting, building roads and canals, making weapons, and developing business, etc.

What follows is that the division of labor will become more and more detailed and clear, and various industries will gradually develop.

At present, the Ba people have actually embarked on this path.

With such huge profits, Xu Chen believes that Muba and others will definitely further demand the expansion of the planting area this winter. In two or three years, the grain planting of the Ba people may eventually expand to a scale of 1,000 acres. The gentle slopes of the mounds that cannot be flooded on both sides of the river will basically be slowly opened into grain fields.

To celebrate this great harvest, the Ba people once again held a grand bonfire dinner.

At the dinner, Xu Chen asked several jars of fresh fruit and mixed brews from May to praise everyone as always and drink with everyone.

As the spiritual leader of the tribe, the little witch released her powerful aura of blessings singing and dancing at the bonfire dinner. While celebrating the harvest of Ba people, she gave the blessings of gods to all the Ba people.

Dozens of prisoners of the Gonghuo tribe were invited to participate in this grand celebration party, and everyone was lucky enough to taste a few sweet and sour fruit wine.

This is the second time they have been treated for drinking.

One by one, one was filled with excitement, and some even burst into tears.

There is no doubt about the harmony and strength of the Ba people.

Although they were all slaves in the Ba people and had to work and receive labor reform every day, this kind of tribe with endless food and drink, wealth and harmony is the heavenly life they dream of.

Unfortunately, they are not Ba people. After being redeemed, they will never see such a grand and rich harvest scene again, and they will not be able to eat such peerless and delicious food.

The farmland harvest is over, but the autumn harvest has just begun.

There are also a large number of wild wheat beans that need to be harvested on both sides of the valley and on the big river beaches.

Although the yield is low compared to farmland and the environment is complex and dangerous, for women who are used to wild collection, they feel inexplicable distress when they see the grain mature but do not harvest. Therefore, in the following time, Muba and Amu led the women of two tribes to start a large-scale wild harvesting activity.

Compared with farmland, this kind of harvest is too big. A person can only harvest five or six kilograms a day. However, because of the large number of people, there are more than 60 adult women of the Ba people. If it continues until mid-August, the grain reserves of the entire tribe can increase by at least 5,000 kilograms. The total grain reserves of the tribe will exceed 22,000 kilograms. Excluding the thousands of kilograms of grain left for next spring plowing, the rest is still full of warehouses and houses, which is enough to ensure the grain supply of the entire tribe for more than half a year.

The women were busy collecting, and the men naturally didn't rest.

July and August are the most expensive Zhongshan goods in the year.

In addition to normal hunting and fishing, a large group of prisoners were arranged to pick chestnuts, hazelnuts, acorns and other nuts on nearby mountains. They used a basket to move back every day like an ants moving, and the inside and outside of the yard were full of drying.

In order to drive away wild beasts and birds to steal food, Xu Chen put all the beast legions except horses into the guardian and security team.

The heads of the wolf and the leopard were tied to the open space outside the yard to take care of the dried wild fruits. Two big eagles were tied to the two yards to drive away the birds and birds. A group of monkeys squatted on the roof as mobile troops to take care of the overall situation.

With these wild beasts guarding the house, basically no birds or beasts come to steal food.

Especially the two big eagles are completely natural enemies of all small and medium-sized wild beasts and any birds. As long as they sing, they will be filled with birds and animals flying around for several miles.

Every day, Xu Chen carried a small basket, took Gu Heju and four close followers, and carried wooden hoes and stone axes up the mountain. His target was not the common nuts, but some mature medicinal materials and other mountain products.

The decaying tree discovered in the first year has now become a mushroom cultivation base that is the key to guarding of the Ba people.

In order to increase the yield of mushrooms, Xu Chen arranged for people to cut down many oak trees after autumn last year. The chestnut trees and some miscellaneous trees leaned around the big trees. After a year of wind, sun and heavy rain erosion, these woods have begun to decay, and some have begun to grow mushrooms.

The super-large rotten wood, which is a species of fungi, is still covered with dense wild mushrooms.

These mushrooms are delicious and nutritious, and are the most rare high-quality delicacies at present. Cooking them with meat can not only improve freshness, but also greatly supplement the various amino acids needed by the tribe and enhance immunity, especially women, children, young and old.

And stewed with mushrooms in chicks is still the favorite delicacy of the entire tribe.
Chapter completed!