"The Ghost Mountain area really does produce spirit stones." Huo Sickle raided the lair of the Ghost Fish King's tribe and seized a large number of water-type spirit stones. It is estimated that they were for the witch cultivators of the Ghost Fish King's tribe.
"You are lucky. We seized some wood-type spirit stones in the ghost town. Take them." After all, the ghost town is a trading center. Buying and selling spirit stones seems normal. It is not strange to seize spirit stones in the ghost town. Ma Yue has no use for the wood-type spirit stones, so he gave them all to Bing Yueyue and Bing Yueshui.
Seeing Bing Yueyue and Bing Yueshui, Ma Yue thought of Lei Qing again. After all, she was the first woman he had seen in this world.
The navy went to the Guishan Peninsula, and it was indeed much more peaceful there. They contacted the Qinghai tribe and completed a large transaction of sea beast skins. At present, the salted dried radish produced by the Qinghai tribe is still a best-seller.
The navy needs to develop. It can't just stay coastal. It needs to vigorously develop sailing technology and strive to advance into the deep sea. Of course, Ma Yue knows this is a long-term process and not something to rush. Once the navy has set its goals, it's up to them to strive for them.
There are many ocean currents, and we need to be bold to understand, try, and explore them.
The Ministry of Agriculture has made the latest discovery: vegetables have made a great contribution.
Ma Yue only had a general idea of composting, but he wasn't very clear about the details. Through years of observation and practice, he had developed a method for composting.
The Hai tribe had many large livestock and sheep, and a lot of manure, most of which was buried directly in the farmland as fertilizer. Ma Yue knew this.
I have been researching manure. I have piled up some animal feces, dried them in the sun, and then turned them over with a fork. Over time, the feces became more and more smelly...
Ma Yue roughly understood it and guessed that this was what composting manure meant.
The extremely smelly livestock manure (actually fermented manure) is then used as fertilizer in cultivated land, reducing a lot of crop root damage, diseases, weed damage, etc.
After years of experiments, the yield of potatoes per mu has increased by nearly 200 kilograms, and the yield of vegetables per mu in the experimental field has reached as much as 800 kilograms.
A lot of manpower was consumed, and Haifan City fermented a lot of animal manure. During the summer plowing, the three priests decided that half of the potato farmland would use this smelly manure.
The autumn harvest yielded over 800 kilograms per mu. This was a major technological advancement; an extra 150 to 160 kilograms of potatoes per mu meant so many more people would be spared from hunger.
Of course, this kind of 'natural composting and fermentation of feces' takes a long time, four or five months is necessary, and it will also produce some pollution.
That's pretty good. Primitive people, what's the big deal? If it stinks, it stinks. As for the wasted manpower? To harvest more potatoes, using more manpower is fine. Food was the primary motivation for survival.
Besides, there are many people in Haifan City, men, women, young and old, who can all participate in collecting livestock manure, composting and transporting smelly fertilizer, etc. How to reasonably arrange the labor force of various levels is the responsibility of the three priests.
It doesn't mean that people will just leave the land after large livestock have plowed it. Even if it is extensive farming, general weeding, weeding, fertilizing and other work are still needed. Everything requires manpower.
Ma Yue is right. As long as one is a human being, regardless of gender, age or status, he or she can create wealth. It just depends on how you use it.
The Sea Tribe had these conditions. Most primitive tribes were primarily fishing and hunting. Those with less physical strength couldn't hunt or fish, and the elderly and children had little use. The Sea Tribe mainly relied on farming and animal husbandry, and also had to boil salt, so the manpower required for various tasks was too much.
The population of the Sea Tribe, including all its branches, is about 20,000, and not a single person has starved to death. In this primitive world with extremely backward productivity, this is a super miracle.
Cai's meticulously developed "natural composting and fermentation of feces" undoubtedly made a huge contribution to the Hai Tribe. Ma Yue fully commended Cai and officially appointed him as the Minister of Agriculture of the Hai Tribe, renaming him "Cai Ji."
The original name only had one character, which was inconvenient to call and address. After "Hai" was changed to Hai Rui, Cai became the second elder in the Hai tribe to change his name.
Cai Ji's promotion to Minister of Agriculture was just an opportunity. The main reason was that Cai Ji was a stable person, good at thinking, and suitable to be a leader.
Even primitive people didn't know what the term "minister" meant, knowing only that it meant leadership. Within Haifan City's Ministry of Civil Affairs, the minister's status was second only to the three priests. Currently, there were only two officially designated ministers, the other being Shang Yin, the former Minister of Commerce.
Cai Ji and Shang Yin have become the three priests' most important assistants in the civil affairs department of Haifan City.
The next lower-level leading cadres are Director Huangpi of the Pottery Making Detachment, Director Bo of the Salt Boiling Team, Director Lu of the Tool Manufacturing Detachment, Director Shang Yin (part-time) of the Animal Husbandry Bureau, and the newly promoted Director Wang Chao of the Justice Bureau.
What does the Judicial Bureau do? With so many people in Haifan City, it's inevitable that there will be some arguments. In the past, primitive people preferred to resolve disputes privately with their fists. Has everyone gotten used to that? Isn't it said that among primitive people, able-bodied men hold a high status?
Normally in the army, because they are used to order and obedience, such disputes do not appear to be a problem. However, once the work requires it and they are assigned to the production department to supplement the labor force, such disputes will arise frequently.
So, Ma Yue, who couldn't stand it, set up a Judicial Bureau to maintain the daily law and order in Haifan City. Coincidentally, Wang Chao has good abilities, so why not give him a promotion?
Wang Chao had handled some of the more significant disputes, and his decisions were generally reasonable. That was fine for now. As for the legal provisions, they were far too advanced, so Wang Chao would figure them out slowly.
The Third Priest felt that a lot of labor had been underutilized for a period of time, meaning there was a lot of seasonal idleness. So... expand Haifan City!
Fine, you decide. After all, Haifan City only has a capacity of 10,000 people, and many people live in the shantytowns east of the city. Over time, the population living outside the city will feel unbalanced.
Ma Yue felt that the current situation was good. He actively developed internal production and tried his best to ensure that everyone lived a good life. With the basic relationships in the Hai tribe straightened out, he had fewer things to worry about.
Is cultivation the fundamental thing?
So Ma Yue returned to his secluded life.
Ma Han did a good job and was sent back to Qiu Haicheng by Ma Yue to take charge of the work of the Civil Affairs Department. Gray Wolf lacked patience and meticulousness in the production work of the Civil Affairs Department, and Ma Han filled this huge gap.
Qiu Haicheng has a large area of radish cultivation and an extremely important copperware production workshop, so its status is very important. It is basically impossible for the Hai tribe to come up with another talent like Lei Qing who is both talented in literature and martial arts.
With Gray Wolf and Ma Han in Qiu Haicheng, one civil and one military, Ma Yue felt more at ease.
In addition to two thousand cavalrymen and many copper mining "slaves", Ma Yue also moved some old and young people to Qiuhai City. Soldiers alone would not be enough.
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