Most of the Hai Tribe's laborers boiled salt on the beach. This winter, the combined concrete basins and stoves on the beach numbered nearly 4,000. The coal's firepower was so strong that there was no need to cut wood or burn firewood, making better use of labor.
Of course, the prerequisite is that you have to have enough coal to burn.
In this area, almost all the laborers of the tribes are helping the Sea Tribe to dig and transport coal, supplying it to the Sea Tribe for cooking salt and burning coal. It should be about the same.
Once this cycle becomes virtuous, even with the high cost of salt wages, the Sea Tribe's salt production will increase by at least 50% to 60%, or even more than double. The high priest is extremely confident in this. He has inherited the nature of primitive people. Even at his age, he personally sits on the beach and truly exploits the able-bodied laborers...
Ma Yue couldn't stand it anymore and could only slowly adapt to this cruel labor mode.
"Charlatan, we all know that you are soft-hearted. However, in order to get more food and live a better life, we should work." Along the way, Shuichong rode the wildebeest and followed Ma Yue.
"Isn't it?" Ma Yue didn't know what to say. Whether he could adapt or not was actually Ma Yue's own problem.
"Shenggun, I know you're good to us. Otherwise, I should have become a waste..." Shuichong's eyes were a little blurry. This was probably the Sea Tribe where Shenggun was. There were still opportunities for disabled people to make a name for themselves. The lame Shuichong and the disabled Gray Wolf with his left arm.
Primitive people are still human, and everyone wants to be useful. A water bug with a lame leg, riding a wildebeest, is almost like a normal person.
"Shuichong, that's your own ability. If you don't have the ability, even if I say you are the leader, others will not accept it, right? Haha!" Ma Yue felt that the atmosphere was not right and wanted to adjust it.
"Okay, Shuichong, let's get down to business. I asked you to go to the jungle branch in person. How's the situation?"
"It's very calm! charlatan, is there really something happening over there?" Shuichong asked.
"Shuichong, do you know why I would rather leave the Seven Hundred Cities empty than leave the Jungle Branch?"
"Backhand?"
"Shuichong, I'm glad you said that." Ma Yue nodded. "Both Seagod City and Seven Hundred Cities are the target of public criticism. Shuichong, I may be a charlatan, but I'm not a true god!"
"I make mistakes, too. But I'm the leader of the Sea Tribe. If I make a mistake, can you imagine what will happen to the Sea Tribe?"
Shuichong had suffered hardships and was not very smart, but he was calm and composed. "Spiritual charlatan, are you still worried about the grassland tribe?"
"Yes! Our Sea Tribe wants to develop on the grassland, which creates a conflict of interest with the Grassland Tribe. Shuichong, I'm exhausted!" Ma Yue said, "Actually, I just want to live a good life. But managing such a large tribe is exhausting. I... need a place where I can make mistakes and still have a place to live, do you understand?"
"Jungle Branch!"
"Yes! Tieshi lost his temper," Ma Yue said. Being thrown into the jungle branch, far from headquarters, and not even in a glamorous place like Seven Hundred City, it was no wonder that someone with a bit of ambition like Tieshi lost his temper.
"What should I do?" asked the water bug.
"From now on, you are no longer the chief of the Sea Tribe, but the chief of the Grassland Tribe. Do you feel wronged?"
"God charlatan, I should have been a useless person, haha!"
"Shuichong, I believe you. Don't tell anyone about our conversation today, understand?"
"Waterworm swears in the name of the Sea God..."
"After the spring, the jungle branch will need to be reorganized. You will decide who will be needed. You will also decide who will be the deputy second-in-command."
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The population of the Hai Tribe was growing. Even though Ma Yue hadn't started any wars or bought any people, life in the Hai Tribe was relatively prosperous. With their spirits high and their energy high at night, the Hai Tribe had plenty of newborns, even in winter.
Ma Yue's limit of controlling the power of faith is three thousand people, so now, Ma Yue does not need that much power of faith from the population of the Hai tribe. As long as he can sense the majority of the backbones and able-bodied men with the power of faith, there will be no trouble.
Ma Yue had complete trust in Shuichong. Why? Shuichong was a huge fan of Ma Yue's faith in the power of his faith. So, when Shuichong drafted the list of future jungle branches, Ma Yue simply glanced at it and agreed.
Ma Yue truly needed the Jungle Branch as a retreat. The prairie was too vast, and the Sea Tribe hadn't been harassed in the past two years. Could a bigger storm be brewing? The prairie tribe, comprised mainly of cavalry skilled in archery and horsemanship, was truly formidable, and Ma Yue was unsure.
Once the Seven Hundred Cities are captured, will Poseidon City still be difficult?
The grassland cavalry is very powerful on the grassland, but once they enter the forest, without the impact acceleration of the wildebeest, they are much worse.
As long as the jungle branch still exists, even if the grassland tribe gathers tens of thousands of troops to capture Qibai City and Poseidon City, as long as Ma Yue can retreat to the jungle branch, he will definitely have a chance to make a comeback.
Is the third stone city necessarily on the grassland? Haha! Ma Yue laughed. What good would a pincer movement do if facing a large group of grassland cavalry?
It has been a year of peace and stability, a year of steady development. With the emergence of coal and the accumulation of coarse salt, it is almost time to build a stone city in the jungle branch.
Ma Yue was tired and needed a rest. He had handed over all matters to the High Priest, Water Bug, and Gray Wolf. Ma Yue was a cultivator, and cultivation was his foundation.
There was nothing major going on, just ordinary matters that the High Priest, Water Bug, and Gray Wolf could just discuss and deal with. Besides practicing, Ma Yue would go out with the hunting team to relax.
With the added power of the spiritual weapon, Ma Yue became even more formidable during hunting. It was hard to imagine that a cave bear would be dazed if hit by a bone staff from the side; a cave lion would almost fall down if hit by a staff from the side...
Although Ma Yue's strength was not great, he had the power of the spiritual weapon bone staff to rely on, and the spiritual power of his attack was penetrating and powerful. Ma Yue did not confront the beast head-on, but looked for opportunities and attacked from the side.
In the past, when there were no spiritual weapons, they could only rely on flying spears to deal with small soft spots such as the eyes and buttocks of wild beasts. Now, Ma Yue's attack range is larger, his ability to assist the hunting team is also greater, and the hunting team's success rate is also higher.
After all, the bone staff is made of the skeleton of a spiritual beast, and it has extremely high hardness and toughness. Ma Yue is very satisfied with it.
No one knows where the largest and best target mammoths have gone. They must have migrated to other areas of the grassland.
The two largest hunting teams of the Sea Tribe, Feiniu and Boji, were based in Qibai City, while Huoshi and Ju were the main hunting teams in Haishen City. Ma Yue rarely participated in Huoshi and Ju's hunting teams; that was arranged by the High Priests.
Ma Yue set out on the prairie, leading his hunting team: Chun Wu and Xia Wu. These two lacked ambition, not even caring about being squadron leader or brigade leader. Instead, they enjoyed being by Ma Yue's side. Not bad, they were considered Ma Yue's personal guard.
The Royal Guards were a unique organization, not originally there. But, since Ma Yue couldn't go hunting without someone accompanying him, right? So, Chun Wu and Xia Wu, who were used to following Ma Yue around, were taken along.
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