"Mm, delicious, very chewy."
Even in the past, many people liked to eat dried sweet potatoes, as they were sweet and chewy. Of course, those with bad teeth didn't like them. Primitive people, even though they didn't brush their teeth, had very good teeth.
"Swindler, do these dried sweet potatoes need technical protection?" Cai Ji asked.
"If possible, exclusive operation would be the best, haha!" Keeping it secret is not easy. Of course, being able to keep it secret for a while is always good.
"Then, let's just make dried sweet potatoes on Lingguo Island. The Lingguo Island branch is relatively isolated, and few people come back. It just so happens that sweet potatoes are mainly grown on Lingguo Island." Cai Ji said.
"Okay! You go and arrange it. This year, let the people on Lingguo Island learn how to dry sweet potatoes, so that they won't be caught off guard during the autumn harvest and less sweet potatoes will be wasted." Ma Yue had no objection.
Even though Lingguo Island doesn't have winter, I guess there aren't many sweet potatoes left in the cellars. It's okay, right? The main thing is, I'm going to teach you how to make dried sweet potatoes.
"Huangpi, making dried sweet potatoes requires a lot of clay pots." Dried sweet potatoes are not just the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture.
"Okay! Just give me a number." Huangpi had no objection. As long as they could contribute to the Sea Tribe, the existence of the Pottery Brigade would be meaningful. "Are all of them this size?"
Of course, the pottery jars do not need to be fired in Haifan City, they can be made on Lingguo Island, which is close by and avoids the trouble of sea transportation.
Specific matters are handled through consultation between departments. The Hai Tribe already has a well-established mechanism for interdepartmental collaboration. Some technical departments have non-rotating leadership, such as the Ceramics Bureau. Each branch has its own Ceramics Bureau, and the Bureau, based at headquarters, mostly provides guidance to the branches, most importantly supporting their technology.
The most important technical update and research departments of the Hai Tribe are all in Haifan City. Once the technology is improved, it will be disseminated to the technical bureaus of each branch. Of course, if there are special reasons and the branch needs to strengthen its strength, the headquarters will transfer personnel there.
For example, this time a large number of pottery jars are needed to make dried sweet potatoes, but the Lingguo Island Pottery Bureau probably does not have enough staff, so the Pottery General Administration will need to allocate some staff to the Lingguo Island branch for temporary reinforcement.
The Ministry of Agriculture, the Salt-Boiling Brigade, the Animal Husbandry Bureau, the Tool Manufacturing Detachment, etc. basically all follow this model.
As long as the technical talents of the General Administration are preserved, the Hai Tribe will not have to worry about major changes. If these technical talents are gone, it will be difficult for the Hai Tribe to recover once something happens.
The sweet potato dried production technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the support personnel from the General Administration of Ceramics, set sail for the Lingguo Island branch.
"That's a bit too many donkeys."
"Charlatan, why don't we recruit some more people? We can also use these newly acquired donkeys to plow the land, right?" said the third priest.
"No!" Ma Yue rejected it without even thinking. There were 20,000 people in the nearby Haifan City, and his mind was still clear. If there were more people, his sea of consciousness would be unhappy.
"The ratio of population to livestock in this branch is at least two to one. If we divide it up further, we won't be able to do it without people."
"Doesn't the Northern Branch have 10,000 people?"
"You charlatan, that's not how it's calculated. Many of the 10,000 people in the Northern Branch are children under the age of four or five. It's the same in our Haifan City." The third priest said this, and Ma Yue understood.
For safety reasons, the Lingguo Island branch, Poseidon City, and Qiuhai were poorly populated by the elderly and the weak, who could still work with large livestock, and the proportion of children was very small. However, Haifan City and the North Branch were special, as most of the children were in these two places.
“How many donkeys are still idle?”
"The limit of Haifan City is that there are still a thousand large livestock that are idle." The third priest said. Only the Hai tribe is so powerful. With such a large population and many large livestock, they actually caused the large livestock to be idle and no one to cultivate the land.
With a thousand large livestock, two to three thousand acres of land can be cultivated during spring plowing.
“Rent it out!”
"Okay!" Ma Yue said as the third priest guessed. The early Hai Tribe had used this leasing model with other tribes, with the Hai Tribe taking a cut of the profits.
The three priests did some calculations and decided to give 500 donkeys to Poseidon City, which had a population of more than 3,000 people (the men and livestock taken from Lingguo Island were returned by Poseidon City to the Lingguo Island branch).
After all, renting out the land was a bit of a loss, as they only collected 20% of the grain harvest. Other tribes didn't have copper plows and shovels, so the turnover rate of cultivated land was very low.
The Red Feather messenger from Poseidon City returned quickly, saying they wanted a thousand donkeys. "You're renting them out anyway, aren't you? Poseidon City is very experienced in the leasing business. Even in winter, Poseidon City can rent out large animals to transport coal, right?"
The third priest was still confident about Poseidon City. After all, the second priest was in Poseidon City. With this experienced leader of the Ministry of Civil Affairs around, the possibility of wasting the value of the large livestock was extremely small.
So, the navy took a thousand donkeys and headed straight for Poseidon City.
"How do I rent it out? Summer plowing is about to begin." Looking at the thousand donkeys, Wolf was worried.
"Renting it out? It's not worth it. The most you'll get is 20%. Didn't you see I'm even bringing in the copper plowshares in reserve from Haifan City?" The Second Priest said confidently, "Do you remember those two branches of the jungle plow we built?"
"Where are the people?" Of course, Big Bad Wolf remembered the jungle branch, but the construction branch also needed people. There were only about 3,000 people in Poseidon City.
"Partnership! We provide the animals and the plows, and they provide the men. It's only five hundred animals."
"Is this possible?"
"Why not? Even if we give them half of the harvest, they'll be happy as hell. How can the copper plowshares of our Sea Tribe compare to the garbage plows of their tribe? We can plough twice as much land, understand?"
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