In the past two or three years since Ma Yue came here, he has instilled a lot of basic knowledge into the Hai tribe, whether it's the weight unit 'jin' or the length unit 'meter', the counting unit, or the time unit. They are not so precise, but it's okay to be rough.
These are all used in daily life. It is relatively easy for two priests and three chiefs to spread them to the lower levels. Although primitive people's intelligence is not well developed, they can still understand and learn simple basic things.
Ma Yue was delighted to see the language's continued enrichment. Particles, adjectives, verbs, and even nouns were enriched with each winter season. Wasn't the progress obvious? The enrichment of language was also a sign of progress in civilization.
After this winter, the primitive language of the Hai tribe was very close to the communication methods of modern people. As for writing, apart from the first and second priests who were willing to learn, there were very few people in the tribe who were willing to learn the extremely difficult Chinese characters.
Before the advent of paper and pen, it was difficult to transmit written words. Therefore, Ma Yue had no strict requirements for literacy. You see, the chief and third chiefs couldn't write a single Chinese character; the second chief, Shuichong, could only recognize less than a hundred. The best high priests and second priests could recognize several hundred characters, a perfect elementary school education—remarkable.
Standardizing weights and measures and language is a crucial means of uniting a tribe. Otherwise, how can you gain everyone's approval? Of course, regular large-scale sacrificial ceremonies every month are also a good way to strengthen cohesion. Who made primitive people of this era believe in ghosts and gods?
The river water finally began to melt, and the grass on the ground began to show signs of green. This is the arrival of spring.
Two sheep and two wildebeest died in the livestock pen. Although it is sad, it is inevitable in winter.
There's no rush for spring plowing yet. The wildebeest and sheep can already be taken out to graze. As long as there's green grass, the wildebeest will fatten up in less than two weeks, and then it'll be much easier to plow the fields with them. You can't plow the fields with wildebeests that have become thin and frail after winter, right? Wouldn't that be exhausting?
Grass is always the first and fastest growing organism.
During the past half month, part of the hunting team and two cave hyenas set out with wildebeests and live sheep, heading straight for the prairie that had begun to turn green.
Salt-cooking crew members Bo and Lang also headed to the beach with their regular salt-cooking team of fifty or so veterans and weaklings. After all, crude salt was a necessity. Even if they weren't operating on a large scale, they still had to ensure sufficient quantities, right? Ensuring their tribe's crude salt reserves was crucial for food trading.
The other hunting team went straight to the original headquarters of the bear tribe, at least to mine some fire spirit stones, which Ma Yue needed for his cultivation.
The trade expedition team hasn't returned yet. Going out in winter is too risky, with fifty strong men. They say they plan to be back in a month, but that's just a plan.
The Niupi tribe has been traveling back and forth there for many years and is very familiar with it. However, the long-distance expedition caravan of the Hai tribe is the first large-scale journey, so you can imagine the hardships on the road.
It would be good if I could come back in two months.
The old priest was counting the days eagerly. Spring plowing was extremely important to the Hai tribe. He estimated that in half a month, the land would not be so hard anymore and it would be easier to plow the soil.
"God, the ground is not so hard anymore, it can be cultivated."
He was really impatient to perform the sacrifice. On the eleventh day, he tried to turn the soil himself and became impatient.
"Okay, you can arrange the manpower first, and then participate in the plowing exercise after the wildebeests are fatter."
"Okay!" With the charlatan's approval, the high priest began to call for help. Except for the two hunting teams, all the able-bodied men and the elderly and weak were rushed to the fields as much as possible to turn over as much soil as possible. We can't just rely on the wildebeest, right?
The minimum target of the Hai tribe this year is to double the amount of radish fields. These days the tools are so simple, how can it be so easy to turn the fields?
Whether it was stone, bone, or wooden tools, anything that even remotely resembled a shovel was used. Ma Yue's point was that if they dug a little deeper than last year, half a shovel deep, they might get a bigger harvest.
Just dig deeper. The high priest doesn’t care whether it makes him more tired. He is a primitive man. He is the most hardworking and patient person for the sake of food.
With the assistance of two cave hyenas, the hunting team can always bring back some game every time they come back. With fish soup, they will not starve to death.
Seeing that the wildebeests gradually recovered their fat, a vigorous mass production campaign was fully launched. Thirty heroic plows were pulled by the wildebeests to open up new land. The gradually improved plows did achieve some results and were indeed more efficient than two strong men.
Of course, even with the most sophisticated and sophisticated bone shovels, the efficiency of tilling the soil by strong men in this era was still quite low.
Two months have passed, and the second priest and his caravan have not returned yet.
Ma Yue would not stay in the cave to practice all the time. When the mood struck, he would follow the hunting team to the prairie to have some fun. With his two closest cave hyenas around, Ma Yue felt more secure.
Ma Yue's immense strength meant his rewards would significantly increase once he joined the hunting team. At the late stage of a warrior's cultivation, his spiritual awareness could reach 20 meters, and his spear's accuracy could reach 6 or 7 meters. He didn't need to resort to the tactic of stabbing the moon bear's buttocks; he could simply pierce the bear's soft parts, such as its eyes or nose.
With twenty to thirty helpers in his hunting team, plus two strong cave hyenas, the chances of killing the injured beast are very high.
With the continuous development of the flying gun technology of the Sea Tribe and the continuous enhancement of long-range weapons, wild beasts twenty or thirty meters away will find it difficult to escape once they are hit by rows of flying guns and flying stones.
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