Chapter 46 Zhou Xu’s Thoughts
The name is a problem. There are only about 60 people in their tribe now, but the problem of duplicate names in this tribe has become very serious.
The fundamental reason is that primitive people could only think of too few names.
To put it bluntly, it means being uncultured.
He had already asked the people in the tribe. Although there was an old civilization ruled by old gods in this world, they were completely illiterate.
But think about it, it's not easy for them to survive every day, how can they have the time to learn literacy? In fact, even now that the tribe has begun to take shape, Zhou Xu doesn't have the time to do this.
But the issue of the name needs some attention.
In the future, he couldn't just call out "Da Shan" and a group of Da Shans would come running over to ask him what he wanted, right? Thinking of this, Zhou Xu immediately gave orders to Ye Jinghong.
He himself did not have the time to name the other tribal members one by one. Otherwise, he would have to name them all in the future. How long would it take him to finish?
In this way, Zhou Xu directly read out a string of hundreds of surnames to Ye Jinghong and asked him to write it down first. Then he let the tribal members choose a surname at random and add it in front of their own names.
They are all mountains, Zhao Dashan, Li Dashan, and Sun Dashan. As long as they are called by their full names, people can be effectively distinguished, and this problem can be solved in a makeshift way.
Ye Jinghong's intelligence ceiling is three stars. If his potential is fully tapped, his brain is enough to make him stand out from ordinary people and become one of the very few in this world.
After following Zhou Xu to memorize several times, he quickly memorized those surnames.
Considering that it was getting late, they rested for a night at the Salt Lake Camp.
That night, Ye Jinghong called all the tribal members in the camp and arranged the naming.
The next morning, Shi Lei, as the person in charge of the Salt Lake Camp, stayed there, while Ye Jinghong followed Zhou Xu to the Black Moon Camp.
Of course, before setting off, Ye Jinghong also took Shi Lei with him and familiarized himself with daily affairs.
After that, they set off quickly. They moved quickly enough and arrived at the Black Moon Camp before noon. Nothing unexpected happened along the way.
Of course, the people from the Salt Lake Tribe all knew him. As for the people from the Black Moon Tribe, after seeing Zhuang Mengdie's abilities, they naturally did not dare to underestimate Ye Jinghong who had also parachuted in.
After the brief introduction, Ye Jinghong was not vague at all and once again carried out the naming task assigned to him earlier, with no intention of taking a break.
The task itself was not difficult and he basically didn't need to worry about it. At this moment, Zhou Xu's attention was completely focused on the noose trap in front of him.
There have been so many things to do recently that he has no time to study this.
But this thing has already been studied almost to the point where I calmed down and thought about it for a while, and soon I figured out the key.
"It's done!"
Holding the finished lasso trap in his hand, Zhou Xu grinned.
He then quickly signaled to his subordinates to catch a wild rabbit from the rabbit cage for testing.
In order to prevent the hare from escaping accidentally, they tied a long enough bark rope around one of the hare's hind legs in advance, and then led it to the deployed noose trap.
The next second, the moment the hare was touched, the trap popped up immediately and caught one of the hare's hind legs.
The frightened hare struggled desperately, but the more it struggled, the tighter the noose became, making it impossible for it to break free.
Needless to say, the lasso trap was a success.
"Mengdie, come and help me edit this."
Now that the lasso trap has been successfully developed, the previous basket trap can undoubtedly be officially retired.
It’s not that it’s not easy to use. In fact, the basket trap is easy to use, but it’s laborious.
In comparison, the lasso trap does not require as much manpower.
After deploying it, you don't need to keep an eye on it all the time. Basically, you just need to check it every once in a while.
Only one person is needed to be in charge of a large area, which can be said to greatly save the manpower of their tribe.
As for those discarded basket traps, they are essentially just bark baskets. When they are brought back to the tribe, they can be used as baskets. There is no waste.
After understanding the steps, making a lasso trap is simple. Basically, one can be done in a few steps, which is far less tedious and time-consuming than weaving a basket.
Under this premise, Zhuang Mengdie and her friends no longer need to continue making bark baskets. What should the handicraft department do with the extra manpower? Of course, they should start weaving new fishing nets! Raising rabbits takes time. Although they can eat some of them in the process, they certainly cannot regard them as the main source of food at present. The focus should still be on fishing.
In this way, upgrading fishing nets and improving fishing efficiency have become the main tasks of the manual department.
However, the polishing and production of stone tools such as stone axes and stone pickaxes cannot be stopped.
Because stone tools like these are typical consumables, especially stone pickaxes, which are currently mainly provided to the mines in the salt lake camp for miners to use in mining.
This also results in a lot of wear and tear on stone pickaxes, and they have to be made continuously every day.
Under this premise, the stone axe was originally a stone tool with the least wear and tear. After all, for Zhou Xu and others before, they would only use stone axes in battle.
But now the situation is different. They now need to use stone axes to cut down trees and accumulate wood.
Not to mention the need for wood for the future development and construction of the tribe, let's just talk about the present situation. He plans to increase the number of rafts at the Black Moon Camp to four.
At present, there are only two rafts for fishing in the Black Moon Camp.
What does this mean? It means that they can send out at most two rafts and two fishing nets to fish on the lake at the same time.
But if the number is increased to four, the efficiency can be doubled! During this period, as a modern man, Zhou Xu certainly thought that if they fished the fish in this lake so frantically, they might accidentally overfish, thus affecting the output of freshwater fish in this lake in the future.
After all, people like them who are engaged in development all focus on long-term development, and he doesn't intend to do things that kill the goose that lays the eggs.
Based on this point, Zhou Xu concluded that there would not be any major problems in the short term.
These primitive people did not know how to fish before. In other words, the fish in this lake had never been caught before. This also led to a huge number of freshwater fish in the lake, and each of them was fat and strong.
Under this premise, considering the area of the lake and the current population of their tribe, it is difficult to pose a threat to the freshwater fish in this lake at the species level.
But even so, Zhou Xu has already thought of the follow-up plan.
The core of this lies in the breeding of wild rabbits.
This rabbit can give birth to six to eight litters a year, with each litter containing about six to eight baby rabbits. The baby rabbits can be bred after five to six months, and can be born after one month of gestation.
With this reproductive capacity, after giving birth to one or two litters of baby rabbits, their tribe will soon be able to have a stable supply of rabbit meat.
When they have new food, their demand for fish will decrease, and overfishing will naturally cease to occur.
(End of this chapter)
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