The agricultural researchers who had left behind had returned with good news: they had found numerous areas of wild peanuts growing on Kirishima. As for the sand in the soil, it wasn't surprising; light, sandy soil was more suitable for peanut production.
The peanut production season is long, so if you want to eat peanuts, don’t count on it in the next two years.
Peanuts are very fertilizer-intensive. Wild peanuts, without fertilizer, probably won't grow big. That's okay. As long as the seeds are selected well and fertilizer is sufficient, the peanuts grown by the Hai Tribe will grow bigger and bigger in the future.
Just leave the peanut issue to the bird's Ministry of Agriculture.
The world is at peace, and there are fewer things to do in the Sea Tribe. Even if there are problems, there are two priests from the Civil Affairs Department in the Sea Tribe, so Ma Yue doesn't have to worry about much and he should practice well.
Most of the power of faith in Haifan City is pure, and Ma Yue's cultivation state is also relaxed. The fire-type spirit gathering bed has played a very positive role in Ma Yue's cultivation. In terms of cultivation accumulation, Ma Yue's progress is acceptable.
With so many favorable conditions, Ma Yue is full of confidence in his own cultivation.
Aside from the summer harvest festival, Ma Yue was out for a while, calm and focused on his cultivation. If it wasn't a big deal, the two priests, Shuichong, and Wu Qi were in charge of the overall affairs of the Sea Tribe and wouldn't bother Ma Yue.
Ma Yue's simple and unpretentious behavior means that the Hai tribe is at peace.
In fact, the Hai tribe is indeed showing a trend of vigorous development, especially the northern and southern branches, which have established more than a dozen villages respectively. With these villages as the center, they radiate to more arable land in the south and north.
The villages varied in size, some with 500 people, others with only 200. It didn't matter; as long as the Sea Tribe's banner flew, no one dared to deny the Sea Tribe's large livestock and copper plowshares. Even the materials for the chest harness were provided by the Sea Tribe. The surrounding tribes were gradually coming to terms with the Sea Tribe.
After all, you survive on the Sea Tribe's large livestock and the copper plowshares and breast-strap harnesses.
The summer harvest was booming, and a large number of potatoes were harvested. More surrounding tribes got food, and more people felt at ease.
Once primitive people got used to scraping food from the ground, they wouldn't be willing to return to a life of hunting and fishing, right? This was the result of the Sea Tribe's guiding trend.
"There are fewer and fewer people in Qiu Haicheng." When Ma Yue was not around, several high-ranking officials in Haifan City often got together during meal times to discuss things.
"There's nothing we can do. That place is really not suitable for farming. We can't provide relief to all of them, right? Our food isn't blown in by the wind, is it?"
"The most important thing is that the people there aren't suited to military service; they're very cowardly," Wu Qi said. Primitive people usually fish, hunt, and farm, but in wartime, you need to be able to fight with swords and guns. The people in Qiu Haicheng are relatively weak, trembling in the face of a fight. Isn't that nonsense?
"It is becoming increasingly difficult to mine the copper mine in Qiu Haicheng, and the output is gradually decreasing." The second priest was worried that the most troublesome thing would be if there were no copper raw materials.
"Our copper reserves have recovered quite well. If it really doesn't work out, we won't trade copper plows and shovels." The third priest said. The sea tribe also consumes copper plows and shovels for farming. They are enough now, but what will we do if they are gone in the future?
"Well, the Xingxing Tribe took away 500 copper plowshares and stopped trading them," Shang Yin said. Without Ma Yue's explicit instructions, many decisions could be made through discussion among these few people. The last large-scale trade of copper plowshares was decided by Ma Yue. Didn't the charlatan say that normal copper workshop production should be restored?
"Harumi, how's the copper mine over there in Ghost Town?"
"It's a bit cold, but that's a rich ore mine with large reserves, making it relatively easy to mine. Production won't decrease in the next few years," Chunwu said. "It's too cold over there in Ghost Town. The charlatan's decision is correct. If the two major tribes in Ghost Town weren't growing potatoes, they probably wouldn't be able to support the miners in the copper mine."
"Are there two seasons of potatoes planted in Dongshuiwan?" asked the second priest.
"Yes, the climate in Dongshuiwan is pretty good. We harvested quite a few potatoes from the spring plowing in the summer. While the yield per mu isn't as high as here, it's still pretty good," Chunwu said. "I heard that the summer potato yield per mu in the area occupied by the grassland people in Dongshuiwan is almost catching up with our Hai Tribe."
"Yes, the people on the grassland have many large livestock, so at least they don't lack manure. It's normal that the yield per mu is higher than that in Taki City." Fertilizer is also needed for farming.
The Hai tribe's natural composting and fermenting feces is right there in the grassland wilderness far away from Haifan City. It's not difficult to learn.
"If we don't trade the copper plowshare, the copper mine in the ghost town will probably be controversial again." Shuichong said.
"Yeah, if there's no copper ingots, why would we trade them for copper plowshares?"
"For the sake of the copper mine, those big tribes will have to fight again." Wu Qi said.
"The mid-grade spirit stone mine and salt water lake in the water system of Donghai Island, isn't that right? Whoever sees it can get a share, otherwise... hehe!" Chunwu had a sly grin on his face.
"No wonder the charlatan said that the emergence of bronzeware is epoch-making."
"Fortunately, our Sea Tribe is once again ahead in the art of copper forging."
"Yes, this is what the charlatans call early primitive accumulation. Even if other tribes have mastered the appropriate copper-tin ratio in the future, our primitive accumulation will have been almost complete, haha!" said the second priest with a smile.
"It's a pity that Qiu Haicheng's copper mine is becoming less and less powerful." What the hell, isn't it the most reassuring to have it in your own hands?
The copper mining technology of the time was very backward. Digging in shallow depths was OK, but digging at great depths was very difficult. Besides, there weren't many suitable mining tools, right?
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