The second season of radishes has indeed grown again. Ma Yue is very pleased. It would be so beautiful if there were two seasons a year.
As the tribe grew in number, the number of livestock raised also increased, and the demand for food and feed also increased. Radishes, with their high yield and high yield, could yield nearly 2,000 kilograms per acre. They were indeed a good thing.
Regardless of whether this radish can help you resist hunger, it is still food. This is primitive society. When there is no food, fruits can also satisfy hunger, not to mention the more substantial radish.
Even in ancient feudal society, most farmers could not get enough to eat. How could we expect people in primitive society to eat meat and fish all day long? After salt, hot water, meat broth, and fish soup were available, primitive people were satisfied with just drinking meat broth or fish soup to fill their stomachs.
The large quantities of radishes harvested in the summer are cut into strips, poured into a ceramic basin, stirred with salt, and the pickled radish strips are placed in the sun to dry for a day. The dried radishes are then put into a ceramic jar container, sprinkled with some salt, and sealed.
Pickled radish is easy to make. When Ma Yue was a child, his mother often pickled radish strips.
Salted dried radish is easier to preserve. If you feel tired after doing heavy work, you can eat a few salted dried radish to regain your strength, right?
It is said that salt is the most important thing. Only with salt can we have the strength to work. Ma Yue was very glad that this was by the sea. If it was inland, Ma Yue would not know what could be used to make salt.
Salt is precious, isn't that nonsense? Even in the relatively prosperous late feudal society, salt was controlled by the government and many ordinary people could not afford it.
Ma Yue was not abusing the able-bodied men in the tribe. They made them do heavy work and were only given some salted radish to eat. Where else could they find such a good life?
As for the other tribes, they basically lived by hunting and fishing. Do you think fishing and hunting are easy? What do they do when they often don't get much? They go hungry. Going hungry is the norm for primitive people; they're basically used to it.
The appearance of radishes, especially salted dried radishes, was a cause for celebration for the people of the Sea Tribe. As for the hard work? As long as there was food, primitive people were the most hardworking and unyielding. So where could we find so many dedicated laborers?
As long as it's for food, everyone's enthusiasm is extremely high. Even the high priest who used to hate leaving the cave, now in his old age, often plows the soil, cuts grass, and carries manure. What doesn't he do? Isn't it just to get more food?
Of course, the lazy Ma Yue is an exception. Is he a charlatan? The one who can chat with the sea god is of course the most special one in the sea tribe.
Radishes, sunflowers, and green onions basically all had a good harvest. No matter whether it was human feces or wildebeest or sheep feces, none of them were wasted and were buried in the farmland. The fertility of the farmland should still be good next year.
A row of large wooden houses had been built in the outer city. As for the sheep and wildebeest pens next to them, the smell wasn't bad, so the primitive people probably didn't mind. As for Ma Yue, who was the most hygienic, living in a cave and unable to smell, he certainly didn't care.
Gradually, some people moved into the large wooden houses in the outer city. Originally, the large wooden houses in the inner city only housed more than 400 people, which was a bit crowded.
Before winter comes, the biggest task is to collect fodder and firewood. There is a lot of open space in the outer city, so we just pile them up.
As for making salt, as long as winter has not come, you have to work overtime. Every bowl of coarse salt you harvest can be exchanged for more tools, people, livestock, and furs. Isn't the huge value there?
In the month before winter, Ma Yue stipulated that no matter how busy they were, they had to adhere to the rotational military training. An army without a coherent formation had no fighting power. Whether it was the original Bear Tribe or the later attacking "Bullhide" Tribe, that kind of chaotic charge was unacceptable.
Whether attacking or defending, you have to be organized. Ma Yue didn't know much about military matters, but at the very least, he had to be able to organize his troops neatly. The order of attack between the various arms, the basic military orders, all had to be gradually honed.
The wooden shield was covered with a layer of leather, hard wild boar skin or woolly rhinoceros skin, in short, the defense was even stronger. It was not a big deal if the wooden shield was a little bigger, because the strong men of primitive people were really strong.
Whether it is a large wooden shield or a small wooden shield, the attack and defense of the large team, or the attack of the sword and shield soldiers of the small team, if you practice it in peacetime, there will be no chaos in the war.
Ten men made a squad; forty men a squadron; a hundred and forty men a battalion. No matter what number of troops we would use in the future... as I said, we couldn't do it without training.
Normally, everyone has their own work to do, so brigade-scale training is not possible. However, squadron and company-scale training is still possible.
In order to survive, it is necessary for the tribe to maintain the necessary combat effectiveness.
Ma Yue thought about it carefully again. In this era, it was still extremely difficult to use fire to attack. Firstly, starting a fire was very difficult. Secondly, and most importantly, to use fire, you needed oil.
In this day and age, hunting wild animals is difficult, so where can we find so much animal oil? The last battle with the "Niupi" tribe was a special case. It was because of the large amount of fat boiled down from the harvest of two large whales that the Sea Tribe had such a large oil reserve.
Without oil, how could a timber fence be easily ignited by just a flying musket, or at most a torch? Even if your musket hit the timber fence... Ma Yue had someone experiment with it, and they found that pouring a pot of water from above the timber fence would extinguish the fire.
Without oil, the super combustible resource, fire attack is really difficult.
If that's the case, Ma Yue would feel a lot more at ease. A wooden fence is also a good idea, haha!
Of course, this presupposes that there are enough pottery basins in the Hai Tribe to pour water. Fortunately, the current pottery technology of the Hai Tribe is quite good, and the tribe has a lot of pottery basins and pots.
"That's great. We have stored so much salt, haha!" Ma Yue was still very satisfied with the fruits of the large-scale production.
"If it really doesn't work, we can still give you credit. After all, our Sea Tribe has a good reputation." said the high priest.
"It's very troublesome to keep livestock alive through the winter, you charlatan, it's better to buy people." said the second priest.
"Okay, whether it's people or livestock, you two can discuss it." Livestock have a hard time surviving the winter, and people consume just as much as livestock. Fortunately, we've stored a lot of radishes and sunflowers this winter, and with some fishing, life will be better.
This was quite good, of course, compared to the hardships of primitive people. At least, the high priest and the second priest, who had experienced so much hardship, were extremely satisfied. In the past, every winter had people starved to death? Even able-bodied men would lose weight during the winter.
"Goddammit, the demand for our salt from the Niupi tribe is indeed decreasing," said Chief Hai, who went to the Niupi tribe the most frequently for trade. "The Rain Tribe is coming less and less too."
Ma Yue's worries were gradually becoming a reality. No one could tell how long the initial advantage of coarse salt could last. After all, salt already existed in the Niupi tribe.
"How many tribes and people are there in this area?" Ma Yue asked. The market's size determines the capacity of the product, and after all, the main consumers of salt are people.
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