Speaking of which, the current Stone City is a bit small. Ma Yue plans to expand it in the future. The current Stone City is at most a jar-shaped city. The future Stone City will need at least 1,000 able-bodied men and a population of 3,000 to ensure Ma Yue's own safety.
If there are so many able-bodied men, including their families, the population will be even larger.
The future is the future, it is just planning and imagination. For now, we should try our best to ensure that the people in the tribe have enough food to eat.
Speaking of which, the scale of the Hai tribe is now considered a super large tribe. After two years of stability and efforts in developing its own agriculture and animal husbandry, its self-preservation ability is already quite good.
More and more people in the Hai tribe were involved in making salt, and more and more people were involved in growing radishes and green onions. It was difficult to keep the secret. If someone really wanted to keep the secret of the Hai tribe's salt making and radishes and green onions, it would not be difficult.
However, in this area, the Sea Tribe is currently too powerful, and other tribes will not easily come to cause trouble. Didn't the ambitious Purple Tribe leader Zi Ya also shrink?
Ambition must be backed by strength.
Ma Yue had made the decision. All that remained was for the two priests and the water bug to come up with a plan for distributing the wildebeest plows for next year. What would be the basis for distribution? Ma Yue wouldn't give any specific instructions. You three could use whatever basis you chose.
Population? Able-bodied men? Distance? Ma Yue himself wasn't sure, so why was he still pretending to be so cool?
The only certainty is that in winter, most able-bodied men will have to come to the headquarters to participate in the large-scale salt-boiling campaign.
In fact, the headquarters didn't need to maintain such a large number of able-bodied men in normal times. Currently, the land was mainly cultivated using wildebeest plows, with the auxiliary able-bodied men being sufficient.
The main reason is that there were too few bone shovels, stone shovels and the like in this era, it was difficult to make and polish them, and the labor efficiency was too low.
For able-bodied men, hunting and grazing should still be the main means of livelihood, and meat should be supplemented as much as possible as a food source.
Seeing that winter was about to pass, a vigorous movement to separate the tribes began under the auspices of the high priest and the second priest. The two tribes and the two villages were each allocated their own wildebeest plows, and most of the able-bodied men gathered in the Stone City were also divided among the two tribes and the two villages.
Personnel are also being assigned to the tool group, pottery group, and planting technology group. Wouldn't it be possible without technical support?
The wildebeest herds were dwindling, the sheep herds were dwindling, even the rabbits were dwindling. Distribution, of course, was necessary. Even so, headquarters still had 150 strong wildebeest left, all in need of spring plowing. Relatively speaking, headquarters had more arable land.
At this time, people do not have strong ideas about private ownership or small groups, and they just take whatever is allocated to them.
The Hai tribe is already familiar with the vigorous mass production movement: wildebeests working in the fields, the elderly and weak boiling salt on the beach, hunting and grazing teams galloping across the prairie... Isn't this what life is like?
Hai came back and gave a brief report on the trade situation and the situation of the Kirishima Branch Three.
The Kirishima Branch Three is relatively stable in Kirishima. After all, the larger tribes in the surrounding areas have been swept away, and there are not many threats anymore. In this spring plowing plan, corn is basically a sideline, and most of the crops have been replaced by radishes, green onions and the like.
Kirishima has no winter, so as long as the land is cultivated continuously, it doesn't matter whether corn is planted or not. Adding one piece together, the area is only a little over a hundred acres.
It is really not cost-effective to grow corn. If you want to eat corn, just exchange it for the salted radish you produce at home. It is super cost-effective.
The crude salt production of the Kirishima Branch was also quite good, and they exchanged a lot of furs for it, which were all transported back to the Stone City headquarters.
With these furs, the Sea Tribe can free up a lot of productivity in winter.
Ma Yue was very satisfied that the Kirishima Branch 3 could make such a great contribution to the Stone City Headquarters.
"It's not cost-effective to trade from here to Ghost Town, you charlatan. It's more cost-effective for our headquarters to trade with Sun City." Hai is becoming more and more familiar with business, which is good.
"Alright, you should go out to sea less often from now on. Trade with Ghost Town will be directly handled by Kirishima Branch Three." At this time, the Sea Tribe's greatest need was for wildebeest. Even if they were exchanging fur, it would be the product of Kirishima Branch Three.
To put it bluntly, there was nothing new in the ghost town at that time to attract Ma Yue.
"I think so too. For maritime trade, having white skin is enough." Hai said.
"Okay! In half a month, Baipi will take Shuichong and the others out to sea."
Kirishima Division 3 needs a rotation, not just Mizumyoshi, but also Ban, Lang, Mushi, and others, all need to go there to be replaced. After being in Kirishima for a long time, I feel like I've been abandoned.
Not only the leader, but also the subordinates, need to rotate in several hundred men as needed. Otherwise, over time, the sense of belonging to the Sea Tribe will fade. A little over a hundred able-bodied men, and three to four hundred dependents—that's roughly the rotation rate. The Kirishima Tribe has a population of around a thousand, and the able-bodied men are generally kept at around 300, ensuring a rotation every three years at most.
The Sea Tribe has fifty ships, so it’s no big deal to carry a few hundred people back and forth.
The changes in ocean currents are due to the alternation of the four seasons, so making two trips back and forth a year is not a big problem.
"No, this stone city is still too small." Ma Yue muttered, smacking his lips.
As for the expansion, will it be done all at once or gradually? Besides, the outer city, at three meters, is indeed too short. The Sea Tribe's population has grown, and Stone City, the headquarters, can only accommodate a thousand people—far too few. This year, the Kirishima Third Branch will bring in another five or six hundred people.
Let's expand eastward first. At least there's a gate on the east side, and if we expand a little, there'll be a gate opening, right? More importantly, the east side won't occupy arable land. Does a city have to be square?
If we expand further, we will have to leave a few more doors.
Shouldn't we put stone houses on the agenda now and then? This is our headquarters, after all, so wouldn't it be a nuisance to keep using wooden structures? In winter, a stone house is warmer than a wooden one, right?
In the future, with gradual exploration, it is estimated that things like kangs can also be researched and developed. Theoretically, kangs should be able to be built.
Are we still going to build dormitories? Hundreds of people living in one dormitories? If we're going to build single-family homes, how big a city would we need... Urban planning can't just be impulsive. Damn it! There are so many problems.
"Spirit, news has come from the north that the Purple Tribe has already cooked salt." The high priest arrived.
"Huh? The Purple Tribe isn't near the sea. Did they discover some salt mountain?" Boiling salt, the scale of the Sea Tribe's seaside is so large, and there are so many people involved. Ma Yue estimated that it was only a matter of time before the secret was leaked.
Many areas are far from the sea, and some areas have the sea in the distance, but there are cliffs blocking the way, so you can't get down. Cliffs dozens of meters high...
Of course, there are more in the interior of the forest. It is said that many tribes migrated to the interior of the prairie, and no new discoveries have been made so far.
"The Purple Tribe expanded far eastward, wiped out a small tribe, and found a cliff slope leading to the sea..."
That's possible.
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