There were so many prisoners in the tribe, and the Black Wolf Alliance did not wear too many animal skins when they came. Later, they took out a lot of animal skins to make shields, which were all ripped off from their bodies.
Although they are prisoners, they cannot be allowed to freeze to death. Basic animal skins must be provided, and there is not much firewood for the prisoners. If there are too few animal skins, they will really freeze to death.
However, it doesn’t have to be too good to use for the prisoners. Most of them are small pieces of animal skins. Then throw them some animal skin ropes and let them piece them together by themselves.
However, even this is still not enough. In addition, it is very necessary to improve the utilization rate of animal skins for Soaring Snake's own needs. At least in the winter of this era, animal skins are warmer than all other things. , and it is relatively easy to obtain. In the vast mountains, there are many animal skins for keeping warm.
Although the animal skins given to the prisoners were not very good, there was still no problem in ensuring that they would not freeze to death. In addition, there were more than a dozen prisoners in a room, so it was acceptable to close the door.
In the past, the beds in the tribe were covered with animal skins directly on the ground, but everyone found that the straw the prisoners slept on seemed to be quite good. It was covered with a thick layer, which was soft and warm, and then a layer of animal skins was laid on top. Leather, it will be much more comfortable to sleep on, and now Tengshe has also popularized this kind of floor covering.
The prisoners don't have so many animal skins now, so they basically sleep on straw. Soaring Snake has also spread the original animal skins on top, and originally it may have been necessary to spread two layers of animal skins in winter to completely block underground transmission. The cold air that came here only needs a layer of animal skin.
There is plenty of straw in the tribe, so it can be spread thickly. Even if it collapses after sleeping for a long time, you can still get some more in time to cushion it.
Although the surroundings would be exposed, Song Xuan asked everyone to block the surroundings with wood, so they would not run around, and the stove was a certain distance from the bed, so there was no need to worry about catching fire.
Although the snow outside is not very thick, it is still falling continuously. If everyone does not go home to rest, they will chat in the main house or find some work casually.
Teng She now has three slightly larger rooms. In addition to the two rooms in the inner courtyard, there is also one room for the prisoners, but it is slightly smaller than the one Teng She had before. This room was left by Song Xuan. I gave them something to use in class. It was just winter and it was time to learn the Chinese language of Teng She.
Although the difficulty is a bit high, it will definitely be much easier to communicate after you learn it. This has been unanimously recognized by everyone in Teng She.
And just learning how to speak is not that difficult. At least big guys like Teng She can do half-work and half-attendance.
The most difficult aspects are still reading and learning to calculate, but Song Xuan does not make it difficult for Teng She's children. The characters he teaches are all commonly used in daily life. Now he only teaches a few hundred, and arithmetic is only one or two in later elementary schools. At the grade level, it is just simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and multiplication is limited to two digits.
With Song Xuan's level, he can teach Teng She the next level, even functions and the like, but that is really not necessary. Judging from Teng She's current development, it is estimated that Song Xuan will not be able to teach Teng She until he dies. I won’t be exposed to equations and functions, and what I teach can already handle daily things. Even so, there are not many places to use them, and most of them are mainly addition and subtraction.
It’s pretty good to be able to teach these things. In fact, people’s huge heads can’t put too many things into them. It just looks bigger from the outside. Not all children can master these things, let alone Talk about adults.
Therefore, everyone is consolidated every year, and this year the task is even more arduous. In addition to the dozens of new children, people from the Yuan and Xiong tribes as well as the captives also have to be taught how to speak. Song Xuan's request is also Not high, that is, communication will be smoother next year without having to make gestures like now.
Dozens of children learned early, and Shi Yan would take them with him every day, so the progress was pretty good, and they could now use simple words.
Teng She also has a lot of experience with this set of procedures. Although it will be very troublesome to teach, it is not difficult to achieve the goal as long as you follow the previous steps and teach it slowly.
The larger houses on the prisoners' side are for them to study. In addition, they have to go here to do their work in winter. It saves firewood and kills two birds with one stone.
However, these two days are the relaxation time that Song Xuan promised. After a while, these prisoners will really enter the devil's class, but the people who teach them will still be Wumu and the others.
But sometimes Wumu and the others didn’t learn particularly well. After all, they all came from auditing, and they didn’t need many of them in daily use. Song Xuan also sent a few people to them to teach as assistants, and of course they could also play a role in supervision. .
Naturally, Song Xuan took action on Teng She's side. Although there were not as many captives as there were, they were more mixed. The people from the Bear Tribe were Song Xuan's followers. They were not even closer to Teng She than Teng She, and logically speaking, they were only You need to obey the orders of Song Xuan alone. Yuan Yu is also the leader of a tribe. Although he is already learning and has no problem with the simplest communication, except for Song Xuan, it is not good to be too harsh on them.
Once Song Xuan starts teaching, he becomes a completely different person. But no matter who you are, you will still be punished if you make a mistake and you will still be punished. Moreover, no one dares to object if your identity is placed here.
If you team up with the water witch and form a black and white face, no matter who comes, you will have to imitate him.
Although the children of the Wolf Tribe are all very knowledgeable, they have also been taught by people from their own tribe, so their attitude is still serious, at least they are studying seriously, which is much easier than teaching Shipi and the others at that time.
Although everyone in the Wolf Tribe did not get better conditions than they imagined after this, at least they all knew Teng She's concern for the children. Even if they knew Teng She's intentions, the conditions were really good, and the children did not care. The food and clothing are much better than them.
This was enough for them. Although they made a big mistake, Soaring Snake did not take his anger out on others. Even their conditions were better than those of Karasuba, at least not so crowded.
Teng She doesn't have many additional tasks this winter. It's not much different from the winters of the previous two years. They are all about polishing weapons, making tools better, and preparing for hunting and planting in the coming year. But next year The goal of the tribe's struggle has changed.
Although hunting is certainly still very important, rice cultivation is obviously more important. Without rice, it is still very difficult to feed so many people in the tribe.
After spring and during autumn harvest, a lot of time and manpower are still needed. Of course, a lot of people are needed in normal times. This is not the hundreds of acres of rice fields this year. Song Xuan can just pick a few people from the tribe to handle it. , even if it is dredging ditches and hundreds of acres of rice fields, it is not something that a few people can solve.
In addition to tasks such as clearing weeds, a certain amount of manpower will have to be left in the tribe from now on.
Although life may not be so good before the harvest, once the harvest is abundant, there should be no need to worry about food, of course, provided that the population does not increase significantly.
Next year, Song Xuan still wants to take people to the Black Feather Tribe. Even if there is no direct confrontation, he still has to go there to get some copper ore back. Although there is still a little bit left, it has a place to go and can be used as a tool. Next, a few sets of bronze plows will be built so that plowing the fields next year will be much easier.
Naturally, the more plows, the better, but I don’t know if the remaining ones can reach more than ten pairs. The copper refined in the third time is relatively soft, and Song Xuan doesn’t know how to make it into plows. Although I am not sure whether it will be useful, it is definitely more wear-resistant than stone.
If you do it, you will definitely make something. As for whether it can be used, it depends on the results.
But apart from the plows, the saws and sickles during the autumn harvest were what really gave Teng She the headache. You must know that everyone polished at least three or four of them last year, but even so, they were still not enough for the actual harvest.
Even if there is a dedicated person responsible for polishing, it still has to be done intermittently, and after cutting a few handfuls of rice, it is no longer very sharp. It is very painful to use. Now Qing Qing has experienced the benefits of the copper knife. For the saw that was polished with stone before Everyone in Sickle was a little scornful, not wanting to suffer that kind of torture again.
But the ore collected from the Wuyu Tribe has been basically used. Even if there is a little bit left, it will definitely not be able to meet the needs of Soaring Snake. You must know that if you want to ensure that the rice is harvested in a short enough time, you need to see the sickle. At least one person must have a handful of the gadgets. Even if you don't count the children in the tribe, you will need nearly three hundred.
In this way, even if all the Teng She had extracted before was melted, it would be completely impossible to reach this number, and it would definitely be unrealistic to do so. Melting and pouring back and forth would be more troublesome.
The best way is of course to go to the mines of the Black Feather Tribe and try to get a batch back.
songs It's not easy to smash into the right shape, and it's quite laborious to sand.
The copper mine of the Karasuba Tribe is about two days away from where their tribe is located. According to Karasura, the Karasuba Tribe will send people to find some stones every once in a while.
When they first discovered it, the Black Feather tribe even sent some people to stay there alone, but seeing that the efficiency was not very high, they finally chose to dig back and work slowly. If you dig more, you can share it with others. And there are only a dozen or so people left there, so the efficiency is naturally not even the slightest bit worse.
So if you're lucky, you might even be able to get some ore back without attracting the attention of the Black Feather Tribe.
When he first defeated Wu Yu, Song Xuan was ambitious for a while. He wanted to strike while the iron was hot and led his people to try to destroy the Wu Yu tribe in one fell swoop. However, thinking about it carefully, Teng She's situation at this time still did not allow such a long distance. And a difficult battle.
Although there are more people, most of them are prisoners of the Black Feather Tribe. Apart from them, there are less than 300 people, and minus children and other things, there are only more than 100 people. People from the Wolf Tribe, and they must be careful about the captives in the tribe when they go out to fight, so the number of people who can be sent out will be very small.
Even if it was what Song Xuan thought at the time, and people from several other tribes were called, there would only be two to three hundred people at most. Although it sounds like a lot, there are still thousands of Wuyu tribes in a head-to-head confrontation. It is still very difficult to win, and it is basically impossible, so it is better to be more stable and develop slowly, at least to popularize bronze a little first, and to be able to crush the weapons.
Anyway, Karasuba is not that big a threat to Soaring Snake now. Although there are still more than a thousand people, less than half of them are children. According to Karasura, the remaining adult men plus women are only six in total. There were about seven hundred people, and there were also a large number of slaves and captives among them.
Although the Black Feather tribe failed to invade Teng She twice, Song Xuan could also detect the difference in the combat power of the two comings. The first time they came, they were defeated after a slight setback, but this time even if they were deeply trapped Surrounded by Soaring Snake, the people outside were dispersed by the wild boars, but there was still resistance in the end, but it didn't put too much pressure on Soaring Snake.
Although many people surrendered in the end, they were physically and psychologically squeezed to the extreme, and Shi Ying also hijacked the leader. Faced with an invincible situation, surrendering was the most appropriate thing to do.
Therefore, as long as Soaring Snake is well guarded and does not get attacked by people from the Black Feather Tribe, there is basically no great danger. It is even unclear whether the Black Feather Tribe can guarantee its own safety.
As long as the Black Feather Tribe survives, there will definitely be another war between the two tribes, but it may be a little later, at least until Teng Snake has popularized bronze weapons.
Before the autumn harvest next year, Song Xuan will definitely take people there, at least to solve the need for sawing sickles. Now he can only hope that everything goes well. If he meets people from the Black Feather Tribe, a fight will definitely be inevitable. Fortunately, the location of the ore is not near Karasuba, so it is unlikely to encounter a large group of people.
Anyway, Song Xuan didn't plan to live there permanently. The worst he could do was steal the ore and run away. As for whether he could extract it or not, it all depended on luck. The best case scenario was that he could still find serious associated tin ore.
Since we are going to use the saw sickle made of bronze next year, there is no need to polish it with stone this year. It is better to burn the boat without using bronze and swear not to return it.
At present, Song Xuan has not asked too many questions. He only has a general understanding of the situation. Next, he will definitely have to get more information from the prisoners. Wu Mu and others have already begun to do this kind of work. After all, they left Wu Yu The tribe has been around for a long time, and the Black Feather Tribe has also undergone considerable changes.
In fact, in terms of development, the Black Feather Tribe has not been much slower than Teng She in the past two years, or even faster. When Song Xuan first came, it was said that the tribe of about a thousand people had grown to nearly 2,000 before the war. People.
The reason why Teng She appears to be so fast is entirely due to the relatively small base. However, the Black Feather Tribe has a large population, and there are frequent wars. One or two hundred people were even lost on Teng She's side.
Not only has the population increased significantly, but even the tools have moved from stone to bronze. However, they have not cheated and can only rely on luck. At least until this year, they should not have thought of using fire to refine them.
But as long as they are given enough time, Song Xuan believes that the Wuyu tribe will be able to figure it out. This is not a difficult task in the first place, and it only requires an opportunity. It may be done intentionally, or even unintentionally. This effect, for example, if the ore is accidentally lost in the fire, if the temperature reaches the standard, it is likely to melt. Once discovered, it is relatively easy to figure out.
According to Wu Mu and others, the pottery of the Wu Fei tribe was like this. They were discovered quietly, and the production method quickly became popular. It seems that of course this popularity is limited to the Wu Fei tribe.
But it's the same thing. They haven't thought that it's the soil until now, so there's no way to completely guarantee the quality, and it's not that smooth when fired.
Regarding the Wuyu Tribe, Song Xuan is actually most concerned about the origin of their salt. Together with the tribes in the south, the Wuyu Tribe can satisfy the consumption of thousands of people at once, and it seems that the Wuyu Tribe also communicates with other tribes. , this number may be even larger.
If it is extracted from ore like Teng She, it is still quite difficult, and even if Song Xuan made the experience so detailed, the quality is still not as good as Karasuba's salt.
Song Xuan doesn't think Wuyu's refining method can be better than what he figured out. This possibility is not high, but among Wumu and others, there are not many people who belong to the Wuyu tribe. The core people Not one of them had been replaced long ago, and Gong Yi and others had no idea.
But among the newly captured prisoners, they are basically members of the Black Feather tribe, not to mention many high-level officials. They will definitely know this information. Such a big deal cannot be as big as Teng She's. Twenty or thirty people can solve it.
Song Xuan was quite busy before, so he never found time to come. Now that winter is coming, it is necessary to ask him carefully.
Although Teng Snake relies on the salt ore in the valley, it is not a big problem to slowly refine it to meet the needs of the tribe. As long as there are enough people and the stay is a little longer, it may even only need to make one trip a year. That’s all.
But after all, the quality of Wuyu's is better, and it is probably easier to obtain than Tengshe's. Although other people are not so sensitive to salt, Song Xuan still cares a little, and Tengshe's salt has only just been able to It was barely edible, and it was very different from the pure white fine salt Song Xuan had eaten before.
The less pure the color of the salt, the more impurities there are in it. It contains a lot of heavy metals and the like. It is not a good thing to eat it in the stomach. If conditions permit, the purer the better, and Song Xuan estimates It is very likely that Wu Yubu's salt has been simply refined. If it is cooked according to Teng She's, the quality may be even better.
However, although there is some salt from the Black Feather Tribe in the tribe, the quantity is not large, and it has to meet the consumption of this winter. There is no condition to deal with it for the time being, and we can only find a way later.
There are many places in the Black Feather Tribe worthy of Song Xuan's exploration. In addition to these things, the vast world in the north is also very meaningful to explore. In the past, Teng She did not have that ability, and the Black Feather Tribe stretched across the north, so for other areas outside this area He was not particularly interested in this place, and Song Xuan also knew that there must be more than just these tribes around.
But according to the previous situation, it is already quite good to be able to resist the invasion in a short period of time, let alone visit other places, and the area downstream is enough for Teng Snake to toss slowly. According to Song Xuan It is estimated that if cultivation can be popularized, this area alone can support an astonishing population. It is not even a problem to exceed the current population by a hundred times.
But now we do have this opportunity. As long as the Black Feather tribe is solved, we can develop externally. At this time, Teng She should be in a basin, which can be advanced, attacked, retreated and defended, even if the situation outside is relatively bad. , at worst, you will know when you come back. It is surrounded by rolling mountains, and it is not so easy to get in.
Of course, this is just a future assumption. In any case, although the Wuyu tribe no longer poses a big threat, it is of little significance to discuss these matters unless they can defeat him, so Song Xuan never mentioned it to others. Pass.
No matter what, your own strength is the last word. When Teng She is strong enough, these are natural things. Although this basin is safe enough, it does not seem to have many resources. There may be reasons that have not been fully explored, but at least from this point on Judging from the stones collected over the past two years, there are not many ores and other things exposed on the surface.
No matter what, it is definitely impossible for Tengshe to cross the border and reach the industrial age. What can be used more is the exposed resources. The underground resources are definitely more abundant, but it is nonsense to not be able to use them.
However, as long as the bronze ore found by the Black Feather tribe is obtained, if the quantity is large enough and the quality is high, it should not be a problem to satisfy the development of Teng She. After all, Teng She will definitely gradually move towards planting and breeding in the future.
Where bronze is needed, in addition to weapons, the bulk is still on farm tools. After all, the sacrificial supplies mentioned before are only a few, and they can be fooled by plating a layer on the surface. Although weapons are equally important, if they are only for defense, The demand is not particularly large, and the Black Feather Tribe, Soaring Snake's only enemy, has not yet used bronze, so it is not particularly important whether it has it or not.
However, there is currently a relatively large vacancy in the demand for agricultural tools, just like next year's saws and sickles, which are urgently needed, not to mention that Song Xuan also knows hoes, nails and rakes. He wants to develop the planting industry well, and good agricultural tools It is absolutely impossible to learn, and those polished with stone can only be improvised at best, not to mention that Soaring Snake has already come into contact with bronze.
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