The Lingguo Island branch's spring plowing was largely underway. After two months of hard work on 4,000 acres of land, it was ultimately largely successful. Although the harvest would not arrive until autumn, there was hope.
The emergence of four thousand acres of land indicates that the hard work of the Lingguo Island branch in recent years has not been in vain. As long as it can be cultivated, the Lingguo Island branch will be on the right track.
How can a large branch of 7,000 people live on relief food? Can't you just eat fruit?
Ma Yue also received the report on the Lingguo Island branch, and he finally felt relieved. The Lingguo Island branch had a population of 7,000, with approximately 3,000 to 4,000 regular and deputy soldiers stationed there. This basically guaranteed the supply of spiritual fruit trees and spiritual stone mines.
In other words, from now on, Lingguo Island will be the most important resource base for cultivating immortals for the Hai tribe. Do you think it is important or not?
After the spring plowing, the Lingguo Island branch would continue to reclaim wasteland, expanding the arable land as much as possible. With more time, Lei Qing organized a hunting team, led by Lü Fang and Guo Sheng. Hunting was only one aspect; the main goal was to further explore the interior of Lingguo Island.
What if we find another spiritual fruit producing area? There's no such thing as too much spiritual fruit. Right now, the Spirit Fruit Island is still a desert, so whoever develops it first will naturally own it.
Several sea outlets on Wu Island have been occupied by other large tribes. Currently, it is not too close to the Baiwu branch, so everything is peaceful. The naval squadron that explored Lingguo Island also reported that there were fleets from other tribes wandering around Lingguo Island, and they were looking for a good sea outlet to land.
However, the biological environment of Lingguo Island is extremely harsh and extremely unsuitable for farming. Even if there is an outlet to the sea, it is too narrow. Even if salt can be boiled, the scale is limited.
It's like the earliest landing site of the Hai Tribe at the estuary, with cliffs hundreds of meters high. How can people live there? Unless there are some valuable spirit stones produced there, it might be worth developing.
Ma Yue estimated that it was only a matter of time before other large tribes would move into Lingguo Island. Since the Hai Tribe could find precious Lingguo trees and spirit stone mines, Lingguo Island was so big that there were probably other places where they could be found.
The most important thing is that there is no winter on Lingguo Island, so there is no need for a large amount of thick fur coats, which greatly reduces the cost of development.
However, the overgrown shrubs and trees made the cost of development prohibitive. The Hai Tribe had only 4,000 acres of land, and it took them two years to develop it before they could start large-scale farming. They had lost a lot of food.
The farming and development of the Lingguo Island branch exposed many problems. Wang Chao summarized them and wrote a summary report. Ma Yue asked someone to copy it and gave it to the leaders of the headquarters and various branches. These were experiences and lessons.
Ma Yue praised Wang Chao's self-critical attitude and spirit of hard work. As for Lei Qing, he did not need to be praised.
After the Lingguo Island branch became relatively stable, Lei Qing focused his main energy on cultivation and led the hunting team out less frequently.
The planned revenge operation against Ghost Town was largely abandoned after Ma Yue lost interest. The expansion of the Lingguo Island and North branches had consumed too many of the Sea Tribe's resources. Ma Yue needed two years of steady growth; accumulation took time.
It’s not possible that the tribe will become poorer as it gets bigger, right?
Someone once suggested taking advantage of Ghost City's relatively backward naval vessels and sailing technology to attack it... Ma Yue rejected the idea. The general formation had been decided, and no military action would be taken for two years. The focus would be on the civilian sector, ensuring that the people were well fed as much as possible.
According to Ma Yue's plan, copper plows and shovels must be fully popularized, and the speed of popularization of curved plows must also be accelerated. The farming of the Ministry of Civil Affairs should be as refined as possible, and increasing the yield per mu is the fundamental.
Whether it's the civilian or military sector, talent cultivation should be as standardized as possible, and a competitive mechanism would be even better...
The sea tribe has quieted down and the world is basically at peace.
After all, the Sea Tribe's army had already swept through the two major tribes on the East Sea Island. Who wouldn't be nervous? Who could be next? Do you think the three major tribes in Ghost Town weren't worried? The Sea Tribe's vengeance was strong, and they had the power to exact it.
With the bumper sweet potato harvest of the first quarter at the end of the year on Lingguo Island, it was officially announced that the Lingguo Island branch was on the right track and no longer needed charity from others to survive.
Without the huge food gap left by the Lingguo Island branch, the Hai tribe finally didn't have to suffer so hard this year. The autumn harvest festival became more and more lively. Each branch lavishly slaughtered a lot of pigs and sheep, and the tribesmen's happiness was beyond words.
Most primitive people were innocent and simple. They felt that life was so beautiful as long as they could go hungry less often and have a good meal.
The military leaders knew that persuading Ma Yue to send troops was unrealistic, as the Hai Tribe indeed needed time to build up its own wealth. If they started a war at this time, Ma Yue would probably be furious.
It's not that you can't attack Ghost Town, but what happens after that? You've taken down not only the three tribes in Ghost Town, but also Qiu Haicheng's copper mine, which is within Ghost Town's threat range. If you disrupt the copper mine's production, wouldn't that affect the Hai Tribe's production plans?
The copper plowshares of the Hai tribe have become popular after all, and it is necessary to continue production and storage. Many copper production tools need to be further copperized. The Hai tribe needs more copper axes, copper hammers, copper planes, copper knives, copper shovels... Production tools are very important.
Even the bronze weaponization of the army and Ma Yue were ranked last. They were all for production, and food was more important than anything else.
The generals of the military department found the big boss of the civil department, and after conspiring, they all agreed that the copper axe was the most practical. It could be used to chop trees and make tools with wood. In wartime, it could also be used as a weapon. Isn't it killing two birds with one stone?
Ma Yue had no objection, as long as it didn't delay the accumulation of a large number of production tools, it didn't matter.
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