Ma Yue was very supportive of Wu Qi and Ma Han's business model. To put it bluntly, if a large number of powerful enemies came, they would just run away. Besides, the Thunder God City branch had at least 6,000 regular and deputy soldiers. Ordinary enemies couldn't defeat the Thunder God City branch, right?
After all, the Sea Tribe's main focus of farming is still in the warm zone, so there aren't many large livestock left for the Thunder God City branch, only about 4,000. That's a lot, but how much is too much?
Wu Qi also knew that if these large livestock remained in warm areas, more new arable land could be developed and grain production would be greater.
Of course, the Thunder God City region has its advantages, being suitable for growing sweet potatoes and winter wheat. The Sea Tribe can't just eat potatoes all the time, right? Even the corn produced in the warmer regions mostly feeds livestock.
Do you think it's easy to raise so many large livestock? Thunder God City has the excellent grasslands of Howling Valley, so it's OK for large livestock to have grass to eat. In the poor Sea God City and Sun City areas, the surrounding grasslands, ravaged by the climate, are almost deserted.
It’s said that Sun City couldn’t even afford to raise 6,000 large livestock, and yet 4,000 large livestock were transported back to Haifan City.
Poseidon City couldn't even afford to support 2,000 large livestock, so they simply kept 500 of them and sent the rest back to Haifan City. What if the enemy really attacked? Just run to the nearest forest.
Poseidon City is an important seaside transit station for shipping from Haifan City to Sun City. Its current salt production is also good, so we can’t just throw it away.
In the great forest near Poseidon City, the former Bullhead City had been taken over by the Cloud Tribe, and the annual radish production was quite abundant. Now that Poseidon City was once again under the control of the Sea Tribe, the Cloud Tribe was willing to trade the radishes for salt or, more resistant potatoes.
Perhaps due to the forest cover, the farmland near Niutou City is not greatly affected by the climate. Although there is not much arable land, the radish yield is still quite high.
Although radishes are delicious, they are not a staple food after all. Therefore, the Cloud Tribe of Niutou City exchanged most of their radish harvest for potatoes from the Sea Tribe. It can be said that everyone gets what they need.
The radishes obtained from Poseidon City were pickled into salted radishes to supplement the dining table of Haifan City. That was a good idea, wasn't it?
Many small tribes in the Great Forest dug up coal and brought it to Sun City to exchange for potatoes. In short, the potatoes of the Sea Tribe were of great significance. For people, food was the most important thing.
After the war between the Sea Tribe and the southern prairie people, there were probably not many prairie people left in the nearby prairie. For a certain period of time, both Poseidon City and Sun City were safe.
After the Sea Tribe defeated the grassland army, despite losing many strongholds on Donghai Island, Qiuhai City, Lingguo Island, and Baiwu Island, more than a year has passed, and the Sea Tribe still has no intention of fighting back, which makes many surrounding large tribes feel relieved.
However, gradually, the Hai Tribe's foreign trade continued to decline. While the Hai Tribe's cultivated land was constantly expanding, and its total grain output was constantly increasing, its external demand was drastically reduced. Even the amount of salt and copper that could be exchanged was very limited.
It's no secret that the Sea Tribe discovered a massive copper mine in Sun City, so it's understandable that the Sea Tribe is reducing copper imports. Sun City's salt mountains also produce a significant amount, and combined with the salt output of Poseidon City and Sea Sail City, that's more than enough, so there's no need to import large quantities of salt.
As for the large amount of grain produced by our own country, grain is never enough. In this era, it is always unprofitable to exchange grain for foreign trade materials.
Fortunately, the copper plowshare technology had already spread, and the production of copper plowshares in the surrounding tribes was gradually increasing. The tribes gradually became self-sufficient.
With the second year of a bumper winter wheat harvest, the focus of the Hai tribe's foreign trade shifted to wheat. Ground into flour, it's delicious! But it's also expensive! Whether you want to trade or not, wheat's good exchange rate is something most large tribes can't afford.
The Tengu Tribe of Donghai Island occupies a saltwater lake and has a large salt production capacity. They have no shortage of salt, which is the largest source of salt for the Sea Tribe's wheat. It's no problem for the Tengu Tribe to trade salt for wheat.
The Sea Tribe is not interested in any other materials. Even if the wheat cannot be exchanged, they can just grind it and eat it slowly. Flour is also the staple food.
Haifan City's maritime trade is gradually decreasing, or perhaps Ma Yue is deliberately doing this. When it comes to self-sufficiency, no one can match the Sea Tribe. With the reduction in maritime trade, there are almost no ships traveling to Haifan City. That's good, quiet down!
The great integration of the Sea Tribe with the surrounding tribes in the warm zone has led to a growing number of its own people. The Sea Tribe itself consumes a lot of food, so what's wrong with leaving as much food as possible for its own people? The people of the Sea Tribe thought that the charlatan's decision was wise.
The Sea Tribe's navy was gradually expanding. Besides connecting Haifan City with Poseidon City, the Sea Tribe's navy spent most of their time fishing and whaling, greatly enriching the tribe's people's dining tables. No matter what kind of fish it was, it was a dish, right?
Meanwhile, the Sea Tribe had already completed its fifth round of transport of black oil, and its reserves had reached an astonishing level. The Sea Tribe had been developing steadily for two or three years, and while the westward expansion toward Sun City hadn't made much progress, its internal development had flourished.
Ma Yue's cultivation has been steadily improving in recent years. Cultivation is a process that accumulates over time and cannot be rushed.
Being able to obtain the intermediate-level fire spirit stone from the representative of the Divine Mountain is of great significance to Ma Yue's cultivation. Ma Yue's spirit gathering bed is of the fire element.
The population of Haifan City was kept at around 25,000. Whenever new residents arrived, the elderly and weak from the original population would be relocated to the northern and southern branches, where they could still work and eat. The elderly and weak in the Hai Tribe were also suited to farming, and they were more experienced and patient in the daily care of the fields.
The warm zone continues to expand its arable land area, with the focus still on the north and south divisions. Therefore, in fact, the north and south divisions require more labor than Haifan City.
Because there are too many large livestock in the warm regions, the corn cultivation area in both Haifan City and the Abe Division is expanding year by year. The large livestock need food, and humans also need to eat some. Eating potatoes all year round is not good. Corn is a good dietary supplement.
If people want to eat corn, they don't have to grind it into powder (if large livestock want to eat it, they have to grind it into powder). You can just break it off and cook or roast it.
After two or three years of this cycle, Haifan City's population has become younger, and the proportion of combat-ready soldiers and deputy soldiers has continued to increase. There's nothing wrong with this; in the last battle with the grassland people, Haifan City suffered because of its lack of soldiers. The proportion of elderly and weak defenders is too high, resulting in unnecessary casualties. It's not worth it!
With more children in Haifan City, there is more pure power of faith, which is a great help to Ma Yue's practice.
The work of the Ministry of Education and the Propaganda Department has long been straightened out. The children grow up and become instructors at all levels, and then are assigned elsewhere. The presence of instructors is the best supplement to the new villages that are constantly being established in the Hai tribe.
It doesn't matter if the child has just grown up and has no experience. Can he first gain experience in the village? What is experience? It is accumulated through continuous work.
Yushan, Tianxiong, Zhang Feng and Liu Ta are the generals who gradually grew up from instructors of the Hai tribe and serve as good role models.
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