After the eleven groups received their own food, I also began to arrange today's affairs for them. Now there are two most important things. The first is to stock up on food for the winter as soon as possible, and the second is to quickly build the city wall. After all, it is said that a lot of things will run out of that tiankeng. Before, I could hear a lot of noises coming from below, which shows that there are quite a few of them. In this case, we should quickly think of a way to resist, and we should keep this matter in mind.

As for hoarding food, in the past the hyena people only relied on blacksmithing to make handicrafts and some low-cost labor to exchange some fish and shrimp with the mermaids. But now the population is small after all, and they have to arrange for mining, blacksmithing, and stall setting. Among them, most of the female hyena people have to take care of children, and they can't do anything else except setting up stalls. Therefore, relying solely on this method to obtain food will inevitably lead to a situation of insufficient resources. So I thought about it and decided to add another way to supplement their food.

So I made the following arrangements. The ten male hyenas were divided into three groups. Four were responsible for the blacksmith shop business, three were responsible for mining, and three were responsible for building city walls. I would be responsible for teaching the relevant techniques. All the female hyenas were also divided into four groups. Four were left in the cave, mainly responsible for taking care of all the little hyenas, three were mainly responsible for farming, four were specifically responsible for the original stall business, and two were mainly responsible for Yunwen's arrangements.

I found a team leader for each person in charge, so that it would be much easier to report the work. So after the hyena man delivered the things back to the cave, he started to act according to my arrangements.

The three responsible for farming and the three responsible for building the city wall chose Yunwen and me for the time being. I first took them to the yard and let them visit our farmland and the final effect of our house. Then I took the potatoes that we planned to save for seeds this time, about twenty of them. If they could be cut into pieces, this amount would not be a small amount for planting. I took them to the right area enclosed outside the courtyard and used this folding engineer shovel to teach them how to cut potatoes, how to loosen the soil, sow seeds, the spacing between seeds, watering, etc. Yunwen was responsible for translating all the way, so the female hyena mastered it quickly.

In addition, I was supervising and guiding them along the way, correcting any mistakes immediately. Therefore, they quickly mastered the technique. I repeated it more than ten times until I was satisfied that there would be no problems. Then I gave this batch of seeds to three female hyenas. One of them was relatively smart, so I made her the team leader.

After I, who was responsible for farming, took care of the farming, the next important thing was to build the city wall. This was easier to learn. I just had to dig out some loess, make a wooden template according to the ratio of water to soil, fill it with mixed cement, form it into blocks, and place it on the ground to dry to form adobe, similar to bricks. I then mixed it with cement and stacked it up layer by layer, and it would be tall and strong.

The male hyenas were a little slow in understanding, and I had to demonstrate many times and Yunwen also explained many times before they gradually mastered it. However, once they have mastered it, it is just a matter of time, so after making sure that they could complete it independently, could make adobe bricks, wait until they were dried in the sun, and then fix them with cement, hay, etc., and after seeing that they could stack several relatively neat layers, I handed it over to them with confidence, and also gave them a wheelbarrow to facilitate transportation and stacking.

Once the tasks were assigned to them, they just kept working on them, and they were not in vain in terms of labor.

On the other side, the market was opened, and gold, silver, copper and iron were still being sold. The mermaids soon came to patronize the market, and the blacksmiths began to work. The caves on the hill began to bang and clang again. Everything was going on in an orderly manner. Yunwen was followed by two hyena maids who were very well-behaved. Yunwen gave them names. The one with a pattern like a plum blossom was named Xiaoying, and the other with darker fur was named Xiaochun, borrowing the name of Yingchun so that we would not forget that we once had such a comrade-in-arms.

Xiaoying and Xiaochun are the right-hand men we need most right now. First of all, Yunwen asked them to inquire about the current market situation, what a metal ornament can be exchanged for, and what the profit is, etc. They are responsible for asking and providing information.

Now a beautiful iron object can be sold for up to three fish or nearly one pound of giant shrimp meat, but this is not common. From the actual situation, most of them are around two fish, and not every metal object can be sold. After all, if it is not practical but some kind of luxury, those mermaids are just here to have fun, and probably only two out of ten customers will come to buy.

In a word, it is probably impossible for the processing industry to earn enough to feed so many mouths. Looking at these hyena people, they are all skinny and bony, which shows that they have never had a full meal under Huahua's rule.

Yunwen and I also visited the hyena people who were setting up stalls to see what they had on display. There were some thick iron bracelets, necklaces, lotus roots, lotus flowers, medicinal herbs, and iron weapons. The only decent thing was the gold bracelet, the size of which was designed according to the hand of a mermaid. There were also a few wood carvings left by Yingchun, or those Hello Kitty ones, but there were not many left. They were not far from the house, so I took five potatoes to replace them as a memorial to my old comrade.

"The problem now is that many products are a waste of resources. Although I don't know how to do business, at least I know that I should do it only if there is profit. If I want to feed so many mouths of the hyena people, I can't rely on this method." I said.

"Yes, two fish can buy an iron product that consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, and the transaction volume is too low. If the hyenas eat one fish a day, and the finished product takes two days to make, there is no profit at all. Add in the time cost, and the fact that they often cannot be sold, it is basically a loss, and is no different from begging." Yunwen said.

"If we plant potatoes now, it will take at least two or three months to harvest. If they keep hunting for food like this, we may have to open our own warehouses and put grain in them to feed them. Otherwise, they will starve to death. We can also rely on Yingchun and the Iron Cavalry monsters to survive by hunting, but in that case, I don't know how much prey we have to kill in one winter to feed them, which may cause species extinction." I said.

"There were no other living creatures near the territory where they lived originally, which shows that they were all hunted to death. So we can't learn that way. We should find a way to solve the current problem." Yunwen said.

"My suggestion is that you would rather spend more time to improve product quality, and then offer a higher price, such as six fish. In this way, although the time cost is increased, the profit can be much more stable," I said.

"Yes, the market should be managed." Yunwen said.

"So starting today, we should do two things well. The first is to standardize the blacksmith shop and try our best to make the best products with limited resources. The second is to manage the market price. It is better to sell less metal products and make more profit instead of selling them at a bargain price." I said.

"Zhou Bo, I have learned some design. I will be responsible for the design of the products manufactured in the blacksmith shop these days. As for the products that are not good enough, we will collect them all, send them back to the furnace, and remake them to see if the next batch can be improved. As for the market, I will let Xiaoying and Xiaochun supervise it slowly, and arrange to slowly increase the price to test the market situation." Yunwen said.

I nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to you. I don't really know much about this. Ask me to come over after you finish the first product. And since you're in charge of the blacksmith shop, just ask them to make three hoes. I'll need them. The iron railing on the uphill slope is useless. Dismantle it and reforge it. If you need anything else, I'll let you know."

Yunwen nodded. Since they were nearby the house, she took Sanfu and the two little hyena men with her and went up the hillside to the blacksmith shops to complete the task I had assigned to her.