What should I do if I accidentally come to the ancient times?

In the beginning, the ancient tribes were all hunting in the jungle or settled in a certain jungle and kept hunting around. This stage is the stage when food is most scarce.

Because these tribes rely on the self-reproduction of wild animals to obtain food, that is to say, their population limit depends entirely on the self-reproduction speed of wild animals. Once their demand for food exceeds the self-reproduction speed of wild animals, there will be a food crisis. What followed was population downsizing.

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Just like the Qinghe tribe back then, when the population reached thousands, they almost hunted down all the wild beasts around them, and they couldn't reproduce themselves at all. Therefore, the Qinghe tribe experienced a frenzied reduction in staff.

Of course, other tribes in the wild jungle generally have this problem. When the population reaches a certain upper limit, there will be attrition due to lack of food.

As this kind of attrition happens again and again, the hunting tribe will always learn the lesson and develop into a nomadic tribe, raising a large number of livestock such as cattle and sheep as a source of food.

At this stage, the population of the ancient tribes will increase to a certain extent, but in the end, they still cannot escape the food crisis and reach another population limit.

Because, even if the livestock are raised, their reproductive capacity is limited. Once the reproductive capacity of the raised livestock cannot keep up with the growth rate of the population, food will gradually become scarce.

Just like the current Haotian Ministry or Haotian Leader.

The number of cattle and sheep they raise can be said to be terrifying, and it is estimated that there are more than a million.

However, these are not enough to guarantee the food supply for all the clansmen of Haotian Leader.

You know, even the ordinary clansmen of the Haotian leader consume at least two or three catties of meat a day. For the young and strong, four or five catties a day is considered less. Ten catties of meat, calculated in this way, they will consume about 50 catties of meat a day!

If the meat of about 50 catties is converted into cattle and sheep, it will be more than 500 sheep or more than 200 cattle. In a year, it will be nearly 20 million sheep or nearly [-] cattle. The breeding speed of cattle and sheep on the grassland cannot keep up.

In other words, the livestock in their hands will only eat less and less, and at the end of the day, there will be no more, but the population is still there. If there is no other source of food, then it will be another terrible downsizing .

This may be the fundamental reason why ancient nomads always invaded farming peoples.

Because their population has multiplied to a certain level, there will be a food crisis. If they do not look for other food sources, the population will decrease sharply.

Ah Hua and the others still had fresh memories of the hungry life before, and Aunt Beishan knew how terrible it was to have no other source of food, so they were quite concerned about the matter of exchanging for rice.

Of course, Zhao Hao also understood this point. If the Taihua Department hadn't learned how many years in advance to grow food under the guidance of the "spirit", he really didn't have the confidence to feed the nearly [-] people.

He looked at the eager eyes of everyone, and then smiled and said: "I believe everyone has seen that the food here has piled up into mountains. These are things we use for meat and leather goods, pottery and iron, horses and carriages, knives, coins and dime coins. In exchange, other territories in Nanhua are quite interested in these things, and they have already started to reclaim wasteland and increase food production under the call of the Great Elder of Nanhua. I believe that next year, the business of Zhennanbao will be even more prosperous. We There is no problem in exchange for rations for 10 people."

Everyone was extremely excited when they heard the words. The food problem is the top priority. Once this problem is solved, other problems will not be a problem.

However, they still don't quite understand how to exchange food with people from other territories.

After all, during this period of time, Zhao Hao organized his personal guards and their families to do business with people from other territories in Nanhua, and they did not participate.

Of course Zhao Hao understood what they wanted to know most, and he smiled again: "I came to you this time to discuss with you how to exchange the meat, leather goods or pottery and iron utensils in your hands for food. Are you Do you want to exchange with people from other territories or let the clansmen in Zhennanbao replace you and exchange with people from other territories?"

This one.

When everyone heard the words, they all showed contemplative expressions.

In the end, it was Ashandai who asked: "Elder, if we trade with others, can we just open some kind of shop in Zhennanbao?"

Zhao Hao shook his head slightly and said: "One store is not enough. Think about it, how many types of meat, leather goods, pottery and ironware are there, and how many of each do you have? If you put them all in one store, how big is the store? Like the sheds by the pier, one is several miles long, right?"

This is true, not to mention anything else, just talking about meat, if they come to trade, it is estimated that at least one hundred thousand catties will be transported at a time. That guy, I don’t know how many carriages are needed. If they are piled up, the general The house can't be piled up at all.

Zhao Hao then explained: "Also, you don't just stay in Nanbao and wait for others to bring food to you to exchange, because there are not many carriages in other Nanhua territories, and some goods need to be exchanged with us. Send a carriage to follow them to pull grain. For example, a horse can be exchanged for more than [-] catties of grain. They don't have so many carriages at all, so we have to send carriages to follow them to pull food."

Is it so troublesome?

Everyone couldn't help discussing in low voices for a while, and in the end Ah Shan made the decision on behalf of everyone: "Then we'd better send the goods over to the clansmen in Zhennan Fort, and let them exchange food for us, but we don't know the reward." How do you count?"

If you work, you need to be paid, this is what Zhao Hao said a long time ago.

As for the reward, Zhao Hao had already decided on it.

He stretched out a finger, and said lightly: "I think [-]% is the most appropriate, and everyone will not suffer. For example, for a catty of meat, they can exchange ten catties of grain with others, and one catty of them will be their reward." , I will give you another nine catties, what do you think?"

This is indeed not much, and everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

Chapter 266

Early winter is coming, the weather is getting colder, but the business in Zhennan Castle is getting more and more prosperous.

Especially in the fur shops in the city, there is an endless stream of people who come to exchange for sheepskins. After all, coarse linen clothes are not very cold-resistant, and who doesn't want to live a warm winter with the whole sheepskin coat.

People from other territories in Nanhua, almost all of them who have some surplus food at home want to exchange for a thick sheepskin.

There is also a special fire that is also sold, and that is the pottery pots used to warm the fire.

Zhao Hao didn't expect this, because the Taihua Department can also make pottery, and the pottery pot for roasting fire is not difficult to make, they can definitely make it themselves, why come to Zhennan Castle to change it?

He asked the clansmen in the pottery shop to inquire about it. The reason is actually very simple, because they are not so good at making it, and they think it is very troublesome to make this thing.

It turned out that they were still kneading the pottery embryos by hand, and when kneading the pottery embryos, there was no rotating wooden disc underneath.

With such primitive methods, it is indeed laborious to make a large pottery plate, and the bigger the thing is, the uglier the shape will be.

Haotianling's method is different, because Zhao Hao likes to use wooden molds.

A lot of pottery is directly pressed out of a mold, such as this pottery plate, a pile of reconciled clay is thrown into the mold, sprinkled with water, and then pressed hard. It is simple and beautiful to make.

To put it bluntly, this is a problem of processing methods.

It’s like knife coins and dime coins. If you don’t use a mold to make rough embryos in advance, but use a piece of pig iron to forge it, it will be troublesome. Even if there are more than 200 skilled blacksmiths, it is estimated that it will be laborious to make two thousand knife coins a day. , [-], don't even think about it.

In short, relying on Zhao Hao's experience, Haotianling has advantages that other territories do not have in many things, and the business in Zhennanbao will naturally become more and more prosperous.

However, no matter how prosperous the business is, Zhao Hao can't stay here forever. After all, his main goal is not to make crazy money and become the richest man in Taihua Continent.

His main goal is to crazily improve his strength and become one of the best masters in the Taihua Continent. He can't improve his strength by staying in Zhennan Castle all the time. He has to go hunting in the Nanman Mountains.

Now that the business in Zhennanbao is gradually on the right track, he doesn't need to stay here and watch it all the time. So, after discussing with Ji Rushuang, he decided to go to Xiqinbao to see the Xiqinhous and his wife. Ji Wei and his wife rushed to Nether Valley, ready to start hunting.

On this day, he and Ji Rushuang went straight to West Qin Fort with more than a dozen personal guards and several carts of gifts.

There was nothing wrong along the way, but he saw a strange scene.

There are actually many people digging or opening up wasteland this winter.

Perhaps, these clansmen in the West Qin Territory want to open up a few more pieces of land, increase their food supply in the coming year, and go to Zhennanbao to exchange for more good things.

These people dug with great effort. They were sweating profusely during the winter, but their faces were full of excitement.

Looking at their busy figures, Zhao Hao suddenly thought of something in his mind.

This thing was rarely seen in his previous life, and he had only seen it on TV, so he never thought of it.

So what exactly is this thing?