Usma thought about it for a long time, then looked up and said, "Okay, it seems to be the truth." ”

The thief asked Usma, "Now, are you worried about whether we can build a house?"

Usma smiled innocently: "No, don't worry, don't worry." ”

As he spoke, Usma hissed again: "Patriarch, I still have something to say. ”

The thief looked at him: "Say." ”

Usma said, "How can we let the Lin tribe buy our spear thrower?"

Listening to Usma's words, Ji Thief only felt that this seemed to be an insult to his intelligence.

"Usma, I ask, what kind of weapons are you using now in the vast mountains?"

"Wooden spear. ”

Ji Thief clapped his hands: "This is not over, everyone still uses the most primitive wooden spear, and we are now buying spear throwers outside, or to ensure that every tribe and every clan can use weapons." For example, a pair of spear throwers with five spears only needs two antelopes, can you buy them? Let's not talk about going to war with other tribes, even if you don't start a war with other tribes, you can use spear throwers to catch prey, is this okay?"

Seeing Usma's dumbfounded and half-understood look, the thief concluded: "This is the prototype of trade, and now the prey is in our hands, and in this era, the prey is currency." We control the currency, one in and one out, and the prey is still in our hands in the end, but we get everything we need. ”

Usma weakly asked the thief, "But isn't the trade you talking about, Chief, exchanging things for what they need?" According to you, it's not trade either. ”

Ji Thief rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that he couldn't explain clearly, right?

"Don't worry about this, just remember that the prey is still our prey, we just used a few hundred spear throwers in exchange for a house that everyone can live in, understand?" Ji Thief said: "A pair of spear throwers and five spears can be used, how much wood can be used? These hundreds of pairs together don't use fifty trees." But for 75 houses, we need 7,500 trees, and this back-and-forth gap is almost for nothing, which means that we have to pay a little manual fee. As for the flying stone rope, it is easier to do, so let's not talk about it for now. But why do you know why only we can make these things, and only we can sell them?"

Usma said, "Other tribes won't do it." ”

Ji Thief slapped his face: "That's right, this is the benefit of monopoly." Let's help other tribes improve their combat effectiveness, and the price is to collect some prey. Wait for the copper ore to be refined into currency, then we can gradually replace the prey with currency, understand?"

Usma thought for a long time: "Yes, yes, yes, but there is still a little bit of patriarch." ”

Say. ”

"The combat effectiveness of other tribes has increased, will it pose a threat to us?" Patriarch, you also know that our Lihuo tribe has strong combat effectiveness, in addition to the large number of clansmen, the most important thing is the weapon of the spear thrower. Usma said.

The thief looked at Usma happily: "Without a spear thrower, I can't make a bow and arrows? Without a bow and arrow, I can't make a trebuchet? Without a trebuchet, I can still make a cross crossbow and a bed crossbow." Learn to order Usma, we have ideas in it. The thief pointed to his head.

Usma was silent.

"Okay, if there are no problems, let's sort the wood, and tomorrow we will start building the house. ”

Usma nodded.

That night, the thief gathered everyone together to discuss the construction of the house.

Today is just the beginning, the number of trees may not be too much, but as time goes by, the number of trees sent by other tribes will gradually increase, and when the time comes, just relying on an engineering department, it will be far from enough.

Therefore, Ji Thief's idea is that except for the two departments of the Hunting Department and the Ministry of Resources, all other departments in the tribe should be invested in the construction of the tribe.

The army fights the army, and in the near future, let's make a cameo role as a worker.

All the people in charge happily agreed, but on the field, only the two of them were a little emotionally uplifted.

One is a witch and the other is Mulian.

At the beginning, Ji Thief didn't say that he invited the two of them to come over for a meeting, but when they were looking for someone to shout for snow, they happened to be there, so they came along.

Although it was said, at the meeting, when everyone expressed their opinions, correspondingly, it seemed that the two of them were a little redundant.

Looking at the people in charge who used to work together, the witch's mood was more or less complicated.

Mu Lian has been staring at Ah Wei in the process, you must know that Ah Wei was an ordinary clansman under her before, but now she has become a celebrity in front of Ji Thief, and this gap in mood can be imagined.

"Since everyone has no opinions, then, starting tomorrow, our construction site will officially start. ”

Ji Thief didn't notice the emotions of the two, and clapped his hands and said.

Everyone cheered in unison.

There was nothing to say that night, and the next morning, the people from the Ministry of Agriculture were busy weeding and sorting out the places where the houses needed to be built.

The two departments of the army and the army are both carrying trees back and forth.

For example, the four departments of public security, logistics, medical care, and trade are all engaged in removing the skin and polishing every tree to make it look like it is needed to build a house.

At the end of the day, it is handed over to the engineering department to carve and shape the trees that need to be used for mortise and tenon joints, and make the final step of preparation.

When all this was done, the two departments of the army and the army began to dig the foundation and lay the oak trees to make wooden stakes.

The thief didn't plan to build a high-rise house at first, although it would be more economical to save trees, but in comparison, if you do this, the foundation will be shallow, so the house is not strong and can easily collapse.

Therefore, the thief's practice is to cut the 156-meter-long oak tree in two, not cut 7 or 8 meters, and go half into the ground, leaving half on the ground, excluding the 50 centimeters in the air, and the height of the house is 3.5 meters.

In this way, the people who are used to living in the cave will not feel a little depressed by the house. And such a deep foundation can also make the house more solid.

After a busy day, the whole tribe worked together, and it was only the foundation of a three-room zigzag house, and as for the bottom of the house, the roof and the wall or something, they didn't even do it.

In the evening, everyone sat around and beat their legs and waists: "Alas, I'm tired today, I have peeled so much bark." ”

"It's okay, we're just peeling the bark, we're moving wood and digging a pit, what's next, what did the patriarch say?"

Several clansmen glanced at him disdainfully: "That's called the foundation." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, it's to go down the foundation, isn't it more tiring than you?"

"Pull it down, our combat department has more to eat, why don't you say it. ”

“···”

Listening to the conversation of the clansmen, the thief couldn't help but laugh, turned his head and asked Usma, "How many trees did Patriarch Lin send today?"

Usma groaned: "Each tribe sent more than forty today, adding up to more than two hundred. ”

Ji Thief was slightly surprised: "That's good, the speed is getting faster and faster, keep it up." ”

Everyone nodded.

After eating, everyone rested again.

The next day, the same work again.

In the past few days, it can be said that the Lihuo tribe has not been idle from top to bottom.

With so many clansmen, more than 20 days of hard work, the foundations of the 75 field-shaped houses were finally laid.

In addition, there is a pile of tree materials that can build 20 zigzag houses.

As for the rest, it is all wood that has not been transported or treated.

"Everyone's been a little busy lately, Usma, report the number of houses, how many houses we can make now. ”

Ji Thief asked as he swallowed a mouthful of water.

Usma nodded and hummed, "At present, the tribe has the timber needed for fifty houses, and twenty of them have already been prepared. ”

Ji Thief nodded when he heard this, and thought about it carefully: "Put down the materials that have not been processed first, and do it tightly with these twenty rooms first, the weather has been a little cooler recently, if the house is not done well, the clansmen will get sick, after these twenty rooms are done, let the women live in it first, and then deal with it by lying on the ground or something." ”