From Chief to Ball

Chen Jian took out a piece of birch bark and said: "The city wall and the moat have a total of [-] steps, the seven rebellious tribes are responsible for [-] steps, and we are responsible for [-] steps."

"Since the city wall is to protect everyone, of course everyone needs to dig it together. According to the population of each tribe to live in, please tell us the number of people in each tribe."

The leaders talked about the population of their own tribes, and Chen Jian counted them to find out the length of digging for each tribe.

Several tribes couldn't help but ask after listening, "Jian, there are still some captives in your tribe, are they not counted?"

"Of course not. This city wall is not to protect them, but to protect us."

Those leaders didn't speak anymore, thinking about how long it would take, Chen Jian said with a smile: "I've done the calculation for you, each man digs six baskets of soil a day, and we can dig a trench in a month."

"Six baskets of soil? That's easy, our tribe can dig ten baskets a day."

"That's your business. I will show you where each tribe is going to dig. It's up to you when you finish digging, but if you can't finish digging before Xingzihuang, then you should never live in it."

The chiefs all laughed and agreed to the proposal.

"The second thing is that we will grow wheat and beans in the future. We need training in war, and we need food in battle. I have two opinions. You can choose one."

"One, it is to divide the family land and the public land. Each tribe must cultivate the public land first, and then go back to cultivate its own family land. The grain harvested from the public land belongs to all tribes. It is used to prevent famines, fight wars, and support children. Rewards Those who have made great contributions to the clan."

"Secondly, there is no distinction between clan land and public land. Tribal land belongs to the tribe, but every time the grain harvested, fifteen catties must be handed over to one catty as public property. All tribes that do not pay will be driven out of the city wall , deprivation of the right to discuss the matter."

After the two opinions were finished, the leaders discussed in whispers, and almost unanimously chose the second method.

"Then it's settled, let's follow the previous method and engrave what we have decided on the clay board."

The clay board had already been prepared, and when the leaders stood up and were about to make the same handprint as last time, there was a sudden sound of drums and noise outside, and the leaders were startled.

"What happened?"

"Nothing, my family is fishing with nets."

"network?"

Chen Jian walked to the window, opened the grass curtain and took a look. The clansmen were paddling into the Cao River singing some weird tunes and laughing while holding birch bark boats, throwing down the fishing nets carrying hope.

Chen Jian pretended to be indifferent and walked in front of the leaders and said with a smile, "Let's go out together and see how many fish our ancestors brought us with their guidance and protection."

Chapter 30 The Dumb Redfish and the Smart Redfish

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and the Caohe River originates in the west and ends in the east. The boat floats along the current, and the people on the boat leave a shadow of the people under the setting sun.

The slanting light is reflected on the emerald green autumn river with its long tail, broken by the ripples of the wood pulp.

The women on the bank echoed the songs sung by the fishing men on the river, looking at the fishing nets thrown in the dim twilight.

The stone pendant sank underwater with a conical net forming a huge ring.

The men on the boat tightened the ropes, gathered the sinkers below, and shouted to bring the net of fish to the boat.Sometimes there are too many, and the boat shakes a little when pulling the net.

The ten leaders who had never seen a real fishing net were fascinated by the picture frozen in the setting sun.This scene of fishermen singing in the green water at sunset is tempting for those who have eaten enough acorns.

I can't tell how many fish I caught, but I can guess a lot from the posture of bending over to pull the net.

"That's the net?"

"Yes, that's a real web."

The leaders waited for the first small boat to land, and rushed over. Several big fish kept jumping and churning in the small boat, opening and closing their round mouths, and flapping their tail fins.

This is much better than rounding up in the river branch in the cold weather, and now the weather will cramp soon after entering the river.Although the hook can catch big catfish, its efficiency is not high, and it is far less convenient than a fishing net.

They thought that with this kind of net, the clansmen could at least eat a little less acorns.

But after seeing the fishing net with their own eyes, the leaders were disappointed. They couldn't learn this kind of net because they didn't have twine.

The twine is very thin, at least much thinner and lighter than a rope made of randomly wound bark fibers, and it is impossible to make such a net with bark rope.

"Jian, we want to replace this net. Use... use acorns."

One of the chiefs was a little embarrassed and said what he could exchange, and his voice was already very weak when he reached the back.

Chen Jian shook his head and said: "We don't like to eat acorns. Besides, there are not many twines now, only these are the nets. But let's do this, you can use them when we don't need them, but just give us some of the fish you catch every time." .”

The leader was overjoyed, she already knew Chen Jian's style, thought for a while and said, "We will give you one catty if we catch ten catties of fish."

Chen Jian turned around and asked the clansmen, and the clansmen all agreed, so the lease transaction was considered complete.

A few light and strong people followed on board the boat to learn how to throw the net and how to pull the rope. Although the people on board were not very skilled, but because there were so many fish in autumn and also because they hadn't caught them before, the harvest was good.

Chen Jian reckoned that the first batch of goods that his handicraft industry could sell were fishing nets, which was a good advertisement.

After selling the fishing nets, the rest of the tribes will have a lot of fish, and they will have things to exchange for consumption. My own tribe can save time for fishing to do other things, and always maintain that my tribe is slightly higher than the rest of the tribe. The tribe has enough surplus products for exchange.

As a celebration of the "first" fishing with a net, the rest of the tribes were invited to drink fresh fish soup for dinner, and the staple food was acorn cake, which tasted acceptable.

Especially the addition of some dried coriander added a bit of flavor to the fish soup. These people were discussing what to do tomorrow, talking to each other around the fire, and killing time.

A few caught red crucian carp were thrown into the lotus pond. It won't be too cold in winter. As long as you dig out the ice for ventilation, these fish will not die.

There are already many red fish in the lotus pond, and they often swim together, which is really beautiful, and the children often throw some food.

As time goes by, even if you spit, those red fish will come around. Every time Yu Qianer sees it, she will say: "The red fish is so stupid."

The red fish in the pool is indeed stupid, but the woman who used to be called red fish is very smart. At this time, she is having her own dinner with several women. There is only fish soup and no fish meat. It looks like she was kept in captivity in the pond. Like the fish, in fact it is not.

Twelve of them were locked in the house to spin. Today's quota has just been completed, and they are not yet eligible to eat fish.

In fact, the spinning speed of these twelve women is the slowest among all female slaves. They don't have this talent. It takes time to continue, which is very troublesome.

After these female slaves learned to spin, they were divided into four groups according to the speed of spinning, each group had a small room, and they basically could not touch each other.

Red Fish is also among the twelve women who spin the thread the slowest, but she knows that if she spins for her lover or child, she can spin several times more thread every day.

She tries to slow herself down because she's smart.

After putting the stone in her mouth, it took two months to understand what these people were talking about, but she still pretended not to understand - every priest who inherits the wisdom of the tribe must be smart.

Because of his cleverness, he discovered Chen Jian's cunning.

She found that Chen Jian would group these people according to their spinning speed.The women in other rooms must have a lot of daily quota, but the food they get is the same as them.

Correspondingly, if you want to eat fish, you have to spin more excess quantities.

So it took her seven days to learn to spin, and then it took her half a month to keep her spinning speed at an extremely slow level.

A few days ago, I heard that some members of my former tribe intentionally smashed the spinning wheel, and some men deliberately broke a bone while clearing the land.