The biggest change in Haifan City is that no outsiders are allowed to live in the coastal areas. This means that other large tribes have no chance of understanding the coastal conditions of Haifan City.
After all, the location of Haifan City completely isolates the east and west parts. Even if you can reach the warm area in the west of Haifan City, you cannot cross Haifan City to the beach.
What about the Sea Tribe's navy? The spies couldn't reach the coast of Haifan City, and there was no news of Haifan City's navy. As for tracking the navy at sea? The ocean is vast, and it's impossible to stumble upon them by chance. Even if you did, Haifan City has the most advanced sailing technology, so you can't catch up.
For bulk trade, when we arrived at the seaside, we could see a few ships from Haifan City, but that was obviously not all.
The ships we'd traded with the Qinghai tribes soon vanished. What were they doing? They couldn't just sit there, they were off to Sea Area 7 hunting whales. Whales are good things: their meat is edible, their oil can be used as a fire weapon, and their skins can be used to make sails. Of course, the more the better.
To go whaling in Sea Area No. 7, three or five ships are enough.
As for whether Huoshi and Hai Rui were there, what did it matter? Many of the naval commanders of the Sea Tribe had experience in whaling.
Tiedan is back, and so are the half-grown children we took out with us. Since Haifan City is safe for now, what's the point of running away?
Gradually, Haifan City regained its general structure. With the continuous influx of militiamen from the northern and southern branches, Haifan City's population now stands at approximately 25,000, with 6,000 regular and deputy soldiers.
That’s about it. Haifan City doesn’t need any more people.
Come and fight if you dare! Add in the old and weak who can throw rocks and join the defense, and Haifan City can still muster tens of thousands of people. Most importantly, we have plenty of black oil in stock, so we're confident, right? Burn you to death!
Unable to find a way to break the balloon fire, the many large tribes did not want to provoke the Sea Tribe for the time being.
The most important thing is, does everyone have the copper plow shovel technology of the Sea Tribe? Is it worth it to provoke the Sea Tribe again?
Of course, the battle between Haifan City and the southern grasslands' army was brutal, witnessed by spies from the surrounding major tribes. Taking down the overseas branches of the Hai Tribe seemed relatively easy. Attacking the Hai Tribe's navy would have resulted in heavy losses for each clan. As for attacking Haifan City? How many warriors from their own tribe would have to die?
The Alliance, that thing, is really unreliable. If a tribe loses a lot of people, it will be painful. What if the losses are really heavy and the nearby big tribe takes advantage of the situation to rob?
For example, the Tengu Tribe and the Guilinwang Tribe on the East China Sea Island have constant friction and are wary of each other.
There are more tribes of all sizes on Lingguo Island. The Guiluowang Tribe and the Hongzang Tribe finally won the battle. If they suffer heavy losses again in the attack on Haifan City, can they still keep the copper mine?
Both the copper mine in Guishan and the copper mine in Lingguo Island are "joint ventures". Everyone wants to monopolize them alone, and everyone has their own thoughts.
After a year of silence, no coalition forces came to trouble the Hai Tribe anymore, and the Hai Tribe was finally able to develop peacefully for a year.
The wheat produced by Lei Shen City is doing a booming business. The white flour steamed buns are delicious, and the scallion pancakes are also delicious. No matter how poor the tribes are, they cannot let the leaders at all levels of the tribe suffer, right?
What is this? If you don't know how to make a stone mill, I'll teach you. Haifan City doesn't hesitate to use its stone mill technology. It's very difficult to make, and it will be well promoted.
Okay! How about we build our own stone mill?
The peanut transplantation of the Hai tribe finally achieved the final result. After repeated screening of peanut seeds, Ma Yue felt that the grains were already quite large.
The warm area of the Hai tribe has a good climate and sufficient sunlight. After the spring plowing, new arable land is opened up to grow peanuts. After the summer, roughly between summer and autumn, the peanuts are harvested.
Peanuts are theoretically annual plants, but the different climates in different places dictate different growing seasons. Some areas have shorter growing seasons due to varying climatic conditions. In the warmer areas of Haitu, growing peanuts doesn't require that long.
The fullness of the grains is just right. The new recipe of the Hai tribe requires peanut oil.
In his previous life, Ma Yue had witnessed the traditional oil pressing process in the countryside. The traditional oil pressing steps mainly include seed grinding, steaming, cake making, chambering, wedging, etc.
The millstone was about four meters in diameter and had three wheels, all made of wood. The millstone would ideally be powered by water, but the oil presses Ma Yue had experienced were powered by oxen.
The Hai Tribe had no cattle, but they had plenty of donkeys. Actually, it didn't matter if they had nothing; people would just push the millstone.
Finally, the oil cakes are filled in the oil tank. When the oil is pressed, the master who is in charge of the hammer holds the oil hammer weighing about 30 kilograms suspended in the air and slowly hits it on the "feed pile" in the oil tank. Then, the squeezed oil cakes will flow out of the golden oil from the small hole in the middle of the oil tank.
Ma Yue was no stranger to the old-fashioned oil-pressing model. He told the masons and carpenters to do whatever Ma Yue asked them to do. Although the craftsmanship of that era wasn't very good, the oil mill that had picked up the opportunity finally came to fruition.
Ma Yue was tired of eating pork, so for the first time, he squeezed and fried three large clay pots of peanut oil. But then, nothing happened. Most of the plump peanuts were saved for seed; large-scale peanut planting and harvesting would have to wait until next year.
This time, Ma Yue selfishly took all the peanut oil for himself and asked the chef to store the three large clay pots of peanut oil in a cool cellar and lock them up to prevent them from being stolen by rats (the teacher couldn't eat the clay pots either, right?)
We have white flour and peanut oil. Is this the life that people should live?
Peanut oil is needed for stir-frying shredded potatoes; peanut oil is also needed for making fried cakes; peanut oil is also needed for stir-frying meat; peanut oil is also needed for stewing fish...this little peanut oil is not enough.
The only peanut oil treatment that cadres of sufficient level in Haifan City enjoyed was frying peanuts in the oil.
Crispy and delicious!
However, there was too little peanut oil, too few peanuts, and too little fine salt. Each person was given a small plate of fried peanuts, and that was really all that happened.
In fact, when it comes down to it, animal oil is better for resisting hunger. Ordinary people in the sea tribe are not interested in peanut oil. It is good enough to have a few full meals. If there is a little fat and salt in the potato porridge, they will be super satisfied.
Only cadres at the bureau level and above are qualified to not go hungry and further enjoy the right to a better life.
Of course, the Hai Tribe does not have a complete range of seasonings now. We will slowly search for and cultivate more in the future.
As the Hai Tribe's cultivated area continued to expand, the people of the surrounding tribes, both large and small, also benefited greatly. After all, it was a cooperative business model, so even if the elderly and weak people from the surrounding small tribes participated in the farming, they could still get a good share of the harvest.
For the elderly and children, being able to participate in the labor and eventually get a share of the food is simply a paradise. In the warm areas, the main crop is potato cultivation. After all, potatoes have the highest yield per mu and can be harvested twice a year.
Corn cultivation shouldn't be neglected either. Not only do people enjoy eating cornmeal, but large livestock also need a certain amount of cornmeal to sustain heavy physical labor. Large livestock doing heavy work will really lose weight if they don't have food to supplement their diet.
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