From Chief to Ball

Nearly a hundred slaves were also divided into two shares, and Chen Jian didn't say much about how to use these slaves.

Stone knew that his tribe still owed a lot to Chen Jian's tribe, and it would be repaid next year after the land was separated.

She decided to learn from Chen Jian. She didn't understand a lot of things, and the clansmen might not understand them either, but she thought that if there was anything she didn't understand, she would learn it step by step, and she would never make a mistake.

In her opinion, no matter how weird the decision is, as long as it is proposed by Chen Jian, she will agree.Because they are close and live together, this kind of trust is stronger.

Unlike those tribes living in the mountains, stones and tribesmen can see the daily changes with their eyes, and their intuitive feelings are deeper, instead of just staying on the surface of clay pots and houses.

Their tribe was assigned more than 30 slaves. The stone did not use it immediately, but followed Chen Jian to see how he used these slaves. Even if he didn't understand why, he still had to learn.

The use of slaves is a very troublesome thing, especially farming, which cannot be directly inspected.For example, future weeding and harvesting can be checked, but it is impossible to dig out a little bit to see the depth of the seeds they sow.

According to farmers, jobs can be roughly divided into sub-workers and piecework workers.Maozigong, as the name suggests, works at Maoshi and rests at midnight, works at sunrise and rests at moonset, no matter how much you work, as long as you do it there; piecework workers are paid according to how much you work.

Of course, slaves are not paid, but the efficiency of workers must be low. Anyway, the things they grow are not their own, so why do they work so fast?

Chen Jian estimated the labor efficiency, took more than 60 slaves assigned by his tribe to a piece of land, and even told them that they could rest after planting the land today.

They also used ropes to separate a part of the land, and told them to do so much more, and ten people could eat one more fish for dinner.

The same job has completely different meanings to different people.

The people of the tribe are looking for a better life, and they have hope in their eyes. They have not forgotten Chen Jian's original promise, a life without having to leave the village too far to have enough food.Every bending down now is for not chasing wild animals in the future, and every drop of sweat is for the joy and sweetness of future harvest.

Slaves have no hope, they just want to live, and the purpose of working is only to avoid being beaten and to have a meal.Meals are not enough every day, whether it is bending over or sweating, it is just repetition for survival.

For the sake of that fish, they have to work hard, and there are people around to watch, and a certain amount of food will be deducted if they deliberately plant sparsely. One person's mistakes need to be borne by everyone.

After planting for a certain distance, they were pleasantly surprised to find that it seemed that it could be done when the sun reached the edge of the mountain, and two more fish could be produced before sunset.

However, they don't know that Chen Jian has already taken into account the decrease in efficiency caused by exhaustion. This is the experience summed up by some management talents in his previous life. It is suitable for managing slaves, including the fish like a picture cake: the normal quota of food It is not enough, only by "voluntarily" working overtime can they get enough food, if Chen Jian does not allow them to work overtime now, they probably will not be happy.

These slaves were not like Spartacus. Those slaves were eager to return to their hometown and be happy village farmers, at least a little bit.And these people's homes have been destroyed, they have nowhere to go, and they cannot survive alone in the wild. As long as there is a little hope of being alive, their sense of resistance will not be too strong for the time being.

Chen Jian was not prepared to oppress them as much as possible now, there was still a lot to do recently, it would be best if he could take care of these slaves less.

During this month and a half, my tribe will also be very busy.Counting the slaves and the two rescued tribes, the population of the own tribe has exceeded 400 people, plus the children sent by each tribe, the food in winter will be a little tight.

The two rescued tribes are still nominally independent tribes, but no matter how you look at it, they will be tied together. The purpose of keeping them in the tribe is only to gain the support of the majority in the chiefs council. A transition to dictatorship.

Fortunately, this year is a big year. There are many acorns on the mountain. The starch content of acorns is not low, and they can be used as food.

But there is also a fatal shortcoming. There is too much tannin in the acorn fruit, and the tannin will complex with protein. If you eat too much, it may agglomerate in the stomach, which will not be digested, leading to swelling and death.

Apples turn yellow when cut open because of this thing, and persimmon stones in the stomach are also because of this thing when you eat too much persimmons, including the astringent taste of wine, and even the better taste of wine in oak barrels. thing.

If you want to make the acorns not dead, you have to soak them in clarified lime water to calcify the tannins.

This creates another job, taking the clansmen and slaves to dig limestone and burn it back into quicklime.

Fortunately, some tribe brought limestone in the last transaction, otherwise Chen Jian would not dare to let the tribe live on acorns in winter.

In addition to acorns and limes, we also need to harvest hemp, peel hemp seeds, prepare ewes, crush struvite, retting hemp, peel hemp skin, cut the wings of geese and geese to prevent them from learning to fly, spin thread, and weave fishing nets...

This month and a half is destined to be busy, and every day must be carefully calculated. Chen Jian has given up his plan to improve wheat seeds this year. There is not enough time at all. There is really no time for the tribe to go to the mountains to pick day lilies and lilies at this time. .

Thinking of all these things, Chen Jian felt a little headache, he had to think about all kinds of things, and the time was too short and there was no suitable helper around him.

The chapter on cutting sandalwood in "The Book of Songs" once said: Cutting sandalwood in a rough way, the dryness of the river.The river is clear and rippling.No crops, no crops, three hundred grains of rice?If you don't hunt, don't hunt, Hu Zhanerting has a scorpion?He gentleman, don't eat vegetarian food!

They are also slave owners, so the gap in life is too big.

He was thinking, when will he and his clansmen be able to live a life of vegetarian meals without crops or hunting...

"Labour is the most glorious...but labor is so tiring!"

He muttered with emotion, and continued to lower his head to dig the ground full of grass roots...

Chapter 22 Mother Chen

After working for nearly seven or eight days, I finally completed the sowing before the first autumn rain. The rest of the tribes had already gone back, bringing with them the method of sowing, and also a doubt - this method can really guarantee the future of the tribe. food?

After the autumn rain, the black swallow flew away, and after staying on the two ropes for the last time, it disappeared without a trace overnight.Sometimes a group of wild geese would come flying from the sky, telling in a loud voice the fact that the sky was already cold, which would always attract the echo of those geese and geese whose wings had been cut off, but unfortunately they could no longer fly.

From the time of planting the seeds, the first thing the clansmen do every morning is to see if they have sprouted.The children took small bows and arrows, wandered around the wheat fields, and shot down those who tried to eat the wheat seeds.

Two straw men covered in fiber cloth stood around the land, with some broken porcelain pieces tied to them, and they would jingle if there was any movement in the grass, to scare those lazy, non-migrating resident birds that like to eat seeds.

All hope lies in that land, and it will be the most important hope of most people in the future for more than a thousand years.

When the sprouts were finally exposed, the clansmen felt relieved. Seeing the neat arrangement of the wheat seedlings, the happiest thing was Yuqianer, who left a string of bare footprints in the wheat field.

It's just that Chen Jian is not satisfied, he has sown a lot, but may not reap much.In the previous life, with the support of improved fertilizers, the yield per mu reached seven to eight hundred catties, but now there is only a little struvite, and it is not bad to be able to harvest fifty catties per mu.

The land here is fairly fertile, but it's a pity that it's not an alluvial plain, and the Caohe River doesn't carry nutrients from the upper reaches like the Yellow River.

The influence of the geographical environment is still quite large. Chen Jian estimated that if his tribe was near the flood plain or the estuary delta, he would have been able to develop planting agriculture long ago.

There is a saying in the Southwest of Shandong in the previous life: Dongpingzhou, nine out of ten years will not be harvested, and one year will be adopted to raise Kyushu.In the year of harvest, the necessary precondition is that the Yellow River is full of water. In the silt left by the Yellow River, the wheat is scattered casually without fertilization. In the second year, it can produce four to five hundred catties per mu.

The planting in ancient Egypt is also about the same situation. After the water is flooded, the seeds are dropped in the mud, which does not require weeding and has enough nutrients.

Nowadays, without such conditions, we can only rely on intensive planting of wheat and peas to block the sun and make those grass roots rot. If we want to plant raw land into mature land, it will take two or three years. Hand farming.

He had tried farming with horned deer instead of horses and cows, but the thing didn't want to, and its neck and chest didn't support the harness well.

Niu Gengdi relies on his thick neck to put on his harness, and Ma Gengdi relies on his strong chest to support his harness. The horned deer have neither of these two things, nor do they have enough stamina. They pull the wooden roller and turn it around dozens of times before lying down and saying something. Also did not leave.

They can't be farmed, and they can't be left idle all day long barking, always thinking about lying on the doe, and they have to play a role.

So I made a few simple grass sledges to slide on the slippery grass after the autumn rain, and the three-horned deer can still load some goods by dragging one.

Grass sledges are easy to make. Two pieces of wood are bent with fire to scrape off the bark. After they are smoothed, two crossbars are laid on them with a mortise and tenon structure to clamp them, so that they can slide easily on the horned deer.It's better if it's snowing, but grass will do just fine, especially if it's more relaxing after the rain.

Just use this simple grass sledge to bring back a lot of limestone from a distance, and burn it into quicklime in the built brick kiln.

The tribesmen also went to the mountains to collect enough acorns by using grass sledges or carrying wicker baskets on their backs. The acorns fell all over the ground, a bit like chestnuts, but smaller than chestnuts, and the taste was quite different.

After the women planted the winter wheat, they began to weave the twine, pulling out the twine bit by bit with simple and primitive spinning wheels and unskilled fingers.From the beginning, it was broken by one foot, and finally reached the point where it was continuous for several feet.

With thread, simple cloth can be spun by drawing gourds in the same way, and the women in the clan have experience.

After the first batch of simple linen was woven, the women touched the soft fabric and felt the unique astringent feeling of nettle fibers from their fingertips, and finally felt that it was worth peeling off those smelly rotten linen skins , the marks drawn by the hemp thread on my fingertips seemed to be less painful.

They really want to wear a coat, and it is cold in the morning and night, but it is hot in the afternoon, wearing animal skins will always cause prickly heat, the river is cold, and the old grandmother does not allow these pregnant women to take a bath.

However, Chen Jian snatched back the first batch of linen from the woman's hands with a stern face, and used it to sew a few simple right lapel robes. It's sewn up and there isn't even a sleeve.