Ma Yue finally agreed to Poseidon City's request to expand production. After all, the Sea Tribe's grain production mainly came from Haifan City and Lingguo Island. Even if Poseidon City suffered losses, the Sea Tribe could still afford it.
Shang Yin was right. Even if they couldn't trade, they could just eat it themselves. Eating just potatoes and sweet potatoes wasn't enough. After all, radishes were a vegetable, and eating more radishes would be good for the health of their own people.
It’s just tens of millions of pounds of radishes, which is a piece of cake for the Sea Tribe with more than 50,000 people.
To Haifan City, another one thousand large livestock and two thousand tribesmen were shipped over by sea, so Poseidon City now had five thousand tribesmen and three thousand large livestock. As for the cooperative farming model, that was Wolf's business.
The news from Poseidon City is not good. This winter, Poseidon City has had an extra half month, so the winter is already four and a half months long, and spring plowing will start even later.
This trend isn't good. Will next year's winter be even longer? What if Poseidon City becomes like the Ghost Mountain Peninsula, unable to grow crops? If Poseidon City could only boil salt from the sea, its significance would be diminished.
In Haifan City, Ma Yue adopted the advice of the three priests and planted sweet potatoes during the spring plowing. They were allowed to grow slowly, and the annual yield per mu would be at least 800 to 900 kilograms.
Ma Yue doesn't like sweet potatoes, but primitive people like to eat sweet potatoes because they are sweet.
All major regions are busy with spring plowing, and no one wants to fight during this period.
The Thunder God City area was also busy with spring plowing. If they didn't do a good job of plowing, what would they eat? However, an accident happened.
Unfortunately, at this time, the coalition forces of the Moon Tribe and the Qingfeng Tribe returned to attack. This was the sequelae of not completely destroying the Moon Tribe and the Qingfeng Tribe.
Although the Thunder God Tribe was also mentally prepared...
The question is, what about spring plowing? The large livestock have all been sent back to fight, so we're plowing the fields with chicken feathers. We've said that these days, it's impossible to forge metal shovels and pickaxes. Stone and bone shovels and pickaxes are too difficult to sharpen and break easily, so we can't afford to waste them.
Without large livestock, how can you farm?
How can we live like this? A large number of elderly and children are starting to migrate, carrying the elderly and children with them. Where are they going? To warmer areas, even if they help the sea tribe dig coal, twist ropes, or weave bamboo baskets, at least they can get a bite to eat.
The Hai tribe has more than 17,000 adult livestock in the warm zone, but has a population of just over 40,000, including about 5,000 to 6,000 children under the age of five or six who are unable to work... Compared to so many livestock and production tools, the population of the Hai tribe is too small, and much of the farming is done in a cooperative management model.
Is it just farming? There's also salt boiling, copper making, tool forging, and so on. Even for a city as large as Haifan, there must be a certain number of troops on rotation for military training and part-time defense, right? Besides, when the Sea Tribe is busy, you can even weave some simple straw ropes and sell them to them.
The three priests were surprised to find that the manpower of Haifan City, including the north and south branches, was almost used to its limit, and almost half of the arable land was being cultivated in a cooperative model.
All right! I'll give you 20% of the food harvest. After all, the Sea Tribe still has 80% left.
Farming is not just about turning the soil over. It also requires basic soil breaking, rough ridges, sowing, fertilizing, weeding... all of which require manpower.
In cooperative farming, people from other tribes who participate tend to their crops more carefully, so they can harvest a few more pounds of grain. In theory, this type of farming should yield a higher yield per mu. But crops, if you don't take good care of them, how can they grow well for you?
If this trend continues, the farming of the Hai tribe will move from super extensive to intensive farming.
Your tribe is short of manpower, so what can you do if you don't farm extensively? If you cooperate with other tribes, there will be more idle people, and more people will participate in farming, which will make it possible to farm intensively.
The development and promotion of farming in the Hai Tribe has inspired many other tribes, leading to the emergence of many professional farmers. If you farm well and increase yields per acre, the Hai Tribe will naturally be more willing to cooperate with you in farming, right? It's a virtuous cycle.
There were many small tribes in the North and South branches that engaged in long-term cooperative farming. Relatively speaking, Haifan City had fewer. Ma Yue's intention was to expand farming further south and north as much as possible. Consequently, the distribution of large livestock favored the North and South branches.
It's hard to imagine that the Northern Branch of the Hai Tribe, with a population of only 10,000, received 7,000 adult livestock. Just imagine how much additional labor the Northern Branch must have required. Numerous smaller tribes south of the Southern Branch were collaborating with the Northern Branch on farming.
Are there so many small tribes south of the Southern Branch? Just think about how many people are left in the Thunder God City area, which is known as the core area, and you will know where these small tribes come from.
The Southern Branch also received 5,000 adult livestock, although the Southern Branch only had 8,000 people.
Haifan City, the most populous city, had a population of 23,000, but only 5,000 adult livestock remained. Of course, there were also many children in Haifan City.
The people who farm outside Haifan City are almost all from Haifan City itself.
Ma Yue explained that for security reasons, large-scale gatherings of people from other tribes were not allowed to the west of Haifan City.
Shuichong agreed with this. What if someone pretended to be a cooperative farmer and launched a surprise attack on Haifan City on land?
As long as Haifan City does not fall, no one dares to attack the Hai Tribe easily.
There are more than 5,000 adult livestock in Haifan City, and those animals need to give birth to young. In short, everything needs manpower. It's generally manageable, after all, the labor district east of Haifan City can still employ quite a few people, and some jobs can be done by the labor district staff, at most in exchange for food.
The fighting in the Leishen City area is in full swing. Leishen City has the support of Xueyun Mountain, Qingfeng Tribe has the support of Fenghuang Mountain, and even the Moon Tribe has relied on Wuyun Mountain. The new high priest of the Moon Tribe is the messenger of Wuyun Mountain.
Small-scale battles erupted from time to time among the spiritual cultivators, and the battles for the Thunder God City region were exceptionally fierce. Why? It was all because of that mid-grade fire spirit stone mine, which everyone coveted.
Blood Cloud Mountain could no longer hold on, so a new ally emerged and Qifeng Mountain joined the battle.
Where are the people?
War means death. No one can rely solely on spiritual cultivators to fight, right? Ma Yue was right. War is not a game for spiritual cultivators. If a few volleys of guns were to fly over, even spiritual cultivators would be killed.
The Thunder High Priest drew his sword and looked around, bewildered. On the battlefield, able-bodied men were constantly being killed or wounded, and on the periphery, even the elderly and weak were almost fleeing. What was he trying to achieve?
This war has been going on for over a month now, and there's basically no hope for spring plowing. What will we eat? The sheep are almost all gone.
This wasn't the end of it, as other Divine Mountain cultivators continued to join in, belonging to two different alliances. Although war wasn't a game for Divine Cultivators, when Divine Cultivators formed groups, their combat effectiveness was terrifying.
Yue Guang, the chief of the Moon Tribe, was equally bewildered. Why? Their third chief, Yue Yan, had fled with over five hundred cavalrymen. In this battle, the Moon Tribe had nearly lost all their capital. Even if they occupied the Thunder God City area, without the population and food, what value would it have?
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