Chapter 603: Demographic problems reappearing

In addition to farming and reclaiming wasteland, the production of bronze agricultural tools cannot be left behind, especially the production of plows.
The weaving and beating of hemp, the smashing of ore and boiling salt, and the feeding of many animals all need to be carried out, and none of them can fall.
At the same time, the trade team needs to continue to carry salt and pottery to trade with the surrounding tribes.
Copper mines and tin mines were found in the tribe, but the transaction cannot be let go.
On the one hand, it is to make more contact with the surrounding tribes, and on the other hand, in the process of trading with these tribes, an unexpected surprise will appear if one fails.
In addition to these things, there are many miscellaneous things to be busy in the tribe.
Everything needs to be done by people, and if people don't do it, it will not be done automatically.
So after counting down in this way, the manpower is not enough.
In addition, Han Cheng has plans to let people go to Tongshan to open up Tongshan residential area. According to the current situation, it can't be said that this matter will go further.
After all, the tribe is now separated from food production by the trade team, in addition to the craftsmen such as Heiwa, Lame, and the second brother, plus the two civilians who are not very involved in the production of witches and stones, and textiles represented by Bai Xuemei. personnel.
There are almost forty people in total.
If you add the large number of minors in the tribe, there will be more people who are not very involved in food production.
Without lowering the standard of living, the number of full-time workers in the tribe that can now be supported is almost reaching the upper limit.
Under such circumstances, it is obviously not suitable to build Tongshan residential area.
After all, if you want to form a Tongshan residential area, you must have at least one to twenty talents.
In this way, the people in the Tongshan residential area can mine and refine bronze while farming there to get enough food for themselves.
Of course, if you want to achieve such self-sufficiency, you have to wait at least one year before the land is cultivated and the newly planted grain can be harvested.
In this year's time, there is basically no need to expect too much output in the Tongshan residential area. The daily expenses of these people need to be provided by the Qingque tribe base camp.
Moreover, this still does not include the manpower to transport the food there, and the food consumed on the road...
After calculating such a lap, Han Cheng found uncomfortably that the shortage of manpower became a problem before him.
With bronze farming tools, the efficiency of farming can indeed be improved, but Han Cheng has the ambitious goal of saving edible food for three years. Don't expect these farmers to be spared.
Because after improving efficiency, they will cultivate more land.
Calculated in this way, after the previous capture of the Tengshe tribe, the labor force in the tribe has indeed increased a lot, but with the increase of various things in the tribe and the increase in the demand for food, the population or adult The question of insufficiency was once again in front of the Qingque tribe.
Han Cheng felt a little pain in his brain.
The most direct and quick way to increase the labor force in the tribe is to integrate other tribes into the Qingque tribe.
One is the active integration of other tribes, and the other is the passive integration.
Actively integrate like the pig tribe, donkey tribe, and green tribe at the beginning.
Because of being attacked, or because of some other reasons, he took the initiative to move closer to the Qingque tribe.
Passively fused, like the Bone Tribe and the Teng Snake Tribe, after being defeated and captured by the Blue Sparrow Tribe, they join the Blue Sparrow Tribe.
It seems that the fastest way to increase the population is to send people out to attack the surrounding tribes and bring their people back.
Save them from poverty and backwardness and join the bright, great blue bird tribe.
With bows and arrows, vine shields, and now bronze weapons, plus the well-trained teams of the Blue Sparrow tribe, it is really not that difficult to attack the surrounding tribes.
And because of the existence of the trade team, Han Cheng has already figured out the location of the small tribes around the tribe.
It seems that sending troops to plunder is really a very suitable method.
After thinking about this for a while, Han Cheng finally suppressed this alluring thought.
He wants tribal development to be true, but he doesn't want to use such methods.
It has nothing to do with the others, it is only about the character. For those enemies who invaded the Qingque tribe first, Han Cheng sent people to attack without the slightest ideological pressure, and it was not impossible for him to personally cut off the enemy's head when necessary.
But when he took the initiative to attack those tribes that had no grudges against the Qingque tribe, he always couldn't get past that hurdle in his heart.
Whether it's hypocritical or something else, he really doesn't want to do such a thing.
His character like this is destined to not be a material to do big things and dominate the king.
Fortunately, we have come to the primitive age. If we are in troubled times, maybe someone will be arrested and eaten meat just after the past...
Taking the initiative to attack and plunder the population, and let the surrounding small tribes join the Qingque tribe can not be implemented, so there is only the way for the surrounding tribes to actively integrate into the Qingque tribe.
Compared to the population plundering with a knife and hacking, this thing is a bit too technical.
After all, if one's own tribe can survive, there is no certain reason, and ordinary tribes will not easily give up their own tribe and join another tribe.
However, things like this are slow or slow to do. Compared with population plunder, people who use this method are the most stable.
If I had known this, I wouldn't have uprooted the Tengshe tribe.
With such a powerful external threat, it is much easier to absorb and accommodate the small tribes around.
Han Cheng rubbed his head, thinking helplessly.
Moreover, when I recalled carefully at this time, when I faced the Teng Snake Tribe, I was a bit too panic.
At that time, I only wanted to eliminate the Tengshe Tribe with the lowest possible price, and then absorb the prisoners of war from the Tengshe Tribe.
But forgot to use this opportunity to absorb and merge the surrounding small tribes.
If you get the news that the Teng Snake Tribe has attacked the Donkey Tribe and are ready to come to attack your own tribe, you will send people to have an evil and powerful tribe to pass on the news that spying around.
Outside there is a powerful threat of the Teng Snake Tribe. Internally, Han Cheng used this opportunity ~EbookFREE.me~ to lure him in. After such a means, he could absorb one or two tribes no matter what.
If the heart is darker, you can deliberately indulge the Teng Snake Tribe, let them wreak havoc on the surrounding tribes, and deepen the fear of the surrounding tribes...
It's a pity that he remembered such things too late, and the powerful and evil Teng Snake Tribe was thrown away by him.
As a result, he missed the opportunity of a rapid increase in the population of the Qingque tribe. Now he has to grab his hair for the population.
This is the case many times. I thought I had caught the best, but only later did I discover that there was something bigger and better, and I missed it.
But fortunately, I grabbed something in my hand. If he hesitated in front of a lot of fruits, and eventually left his hands empty, it would be regrettable.
This matter seems to fall on the business led by Shang and Mao.
Han Cheng, who had been pondering for a long time, finally made a decision and got up to talk to Shang and Mao.