Ma Yue listened carefully to the Third Priest's year-end report. Overall, it was quite good. If the Hai Tribe could truly receive 100 kilograms of potatoes per person per month, they would truly be able to have enough food and clothing. After all, each branch relied on growing staple crops. Even if the Sea God City mainly cultivated radishes, it would still be good to have a variety of foods.
The radishes have shrunk a lot, but the yield is also high, right?
According to Ma Yue's calculations, Haifan City has the lowest per capita grain production among all the cities in the Hai Tribe. Potatoes and sweet potatoes, these things, really... Is this considered the 'Kangxi Prosperity'? Haha!
As dried sweet potatoes gradually flowed out of Lingguo Island, a new delicious food appeared on the tables of the Hai Tribe. Dried sweet potatoes were essentially a snack. When you had nothing to do, you could grab some and eat them. They were delicious and could satisfy your hunger, right?
The main work of the Lingguo Island branch after the autumn harvest is not much, and the scale of salt boiling at the seaport is also limited. Therefore, the production of dried sweet potatoes (and salted dried radishes in Poseidon City) is very troublesome (mainly because of the laborious shredding). It doesn’t matter. There are more idle people in the Lingguo Island branch, so there are more sweet potato workers working.
Dried sweet potatoes taste delicious, are easy to carry, and most importantly, are easy to store, which greatly reduces the amount of sweet potato waste during storage.
Sometimes, these things are saved little by little.
Of course, this wasted a lot of pottery pots. Fortunately, the pottery making work at the Lingguo Island branch had already begun, so it wouldn't delay the canning and frosting of the dried sweet potatoes.
Why are dried sweet potatoes sweet? The longer they're dried in the sun, the more starch is converted into sugar, making them sweeter. In fact, it only takes about three to five days to dry the slices.
You can imagine how tempting sweet things are in this primitive world.
The Hai tribe has two treasures, dried sweet potatoes and salted dried radish. One is sweet and the other is salty, complementing each other.
"These dried sweet potatoes are softer and can be given to children in certain amounts every day." Ma Yue couldn't bear to see children starving all day long. In his previous life, parents would not let their children go hungry even if they themselves were hungry, right?
"There are also dried meat and salted radish. In short, no matter how much, you need to have a little bit every day." If a child is seriously malnourished, he or she will not grow well.
"Okay!" Since the charlatan said so, the three priests naturally took it as a big deal. Fortunately, the current supplies of the Sea Tribe are much richer than before, and the Sea Tribe can really afford to give the children a little more food.
Ma Yue did not take big steps. At the beginning, if he was short of something, no one would say anything. Even if it was a piece of dried meat, a dried sweet potato, or a piece of salted radish... Children under the age of five or six could not do any work and could not create value.
Whatever major changes Ma Yue makes, they generally need to be carried out gradually. Subtle influence is very important. As people get used to it, they will gradually accept it.
Although primitive people had a very loose family structure, with some children not even knowing who their fathers were, every child had a mother, and every mother loves her children. A mother is happiest when her children have more delicious food.
In each branch of the Sea Tribe, pregnant women, infants, and breastfeeding mothers are basically transported back to Haifan City by sea. Therefore, there are so many children in Haifan City, and the proportion of women is also very large.
"Re-plan it. Pregnant women should have a separate row of wooden houses; breastfeeding women and children should also have a separate row of wooden houses..." Haifan City could originally accommodate 30,000 people, but now it only has 20,000 people.
"Okay!" The third priest had no objection. There were many empty rooms, so it would be much easier to adjust them.
"Pregnant women and breastfeeding women also need nutrition..."
"Okay!" The third priest found that the living conditions of the Hai tribe were slightly better, so Ma Yue thought about the vulnerable groups. These pregnant and breastfeeding women were unable to work most of the time.
"Don't look at me like that. You'll understand later. In the future, there will be fewer and fewer deputy soldiers in the Hai Tribe." Ma Yue said. What are deputy soldiers? Aren't they men and women with weak constitutions? Many people have weak constitutions because of the root cause of hunger since childhood.
Is 1.5 meters considered a man of full stature? What the heck is 1.5 meters? When Ma Yue was in junior high, his family was very poor, and his height must have been more than 1.5 meters, right? Why are children in the 21st century so tall? Isn't it because they eat better?
Of course, this has to be done step by step. After all, the living standards of most people in the sea tribe are still below the poverty line.
The population can be snatched, but the best population will be the children who are gradually growing up in the Sea Tribe. Such a population has the strongest sense of belonging. Ma Yue did not expect such a large tribe to always rely on the power of his own faith to maintain it.
However, Ma Yue hopes that the residents of the Sea Tribe around him will have a stronger sense of belonging so that he can have less worries.
Ma Yue's own comparison showed that children raised this way had purer faith. What did "pure" mean? It was similar to the spiritual energy contained within a spirit stone. A mid-grade spirit stone contained more than ten times the purity of a low-grade one. The higher the purity, the higher the absorption and utilization rate.
The power of faith is probably the same. Why is it an estimate? Ma Yue is also gradually exploring and understanding the power of faith.
The purchased population and those captured in wars also had the power of faith, but their minds were full of thoughts, so the purity might be insufficient. This would consume a lot of Ma Yue's spiritual power for purification and replenishment.
Can spiritual power be purified? In theory, it is possible. Anyway, this is the principle that Ma Yue has figured out. Ma Yue even imagined that if the residents of Haifan City were all fans of the Sea Tribe who grew up together, with 30,000 pure faith power fans, he would not be as tired and troubled as before.
Among the people of the Sea Tribe, the proportion of those with high-level or higher faith power is very small, and most are below the intermediate level. Why is that? Because most members are captives, their minds are more complicated, and it is difficult for them to reach the level of high-level fans.
Without ten or eight years of immersion, it's difficult for newly captured members to truly return to their roots. Miracles aren't a panacea; in many cases, they're only temporary. Once a major change occurs, they're likely to lose their focus.
Back then, the Guiluo King Tribe's sorcery had even stripped many officers and leaders of their faith in Ma Yue, a fact that worried Ma Yue greatly. However, Ma Yue believed that no matter how powerful the Guiluo King Tribe's sorcery was, it couldn't strip the faith of people like Hai Rui and Shuichong. Hai Rui and Shuichong, having grown up in the Hai Tribe, held their bond with the tribe together, not solely through Ma Yue's faith.
Of course, in many cases, the tribe was brought together by the personal worship of Ma Yue by the numerous leaders and captains at all levels. After all, the composition of the Hai Tribe was very complex. Luo Bai, Bai Ying, Wang Chao, Ma Han, Lü Fang, Guo Sheng... including the later Ox-Head and Horse-Face, all had a deep faith in Ma Yue.
Such a structure will be very troublesome once Ma Yue is gone.
Of course, Ma Yue wouldn't worry about this. People are selfish. If they die, why would they care about the future of the Sea Tribe?
I can't die. I have to practice hard. Once I break through the Martial King realm, I can live for two hundred years and continue to lead the Sea Tribe forward.
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