Chapter Forty-Six: The Troubled Thor
As the midday sun shone through the white clouds into the small village perched on the cliff by the sea, Thor sat on the doorframe, looking at the sky, frowning and thinking. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Diana, Morey, and the others had already left, and several of them had just had a long conversation, and the core members of the Sos were all involved, except for Kaziba.
Diana reported on the experimental plot and the Hope 1 seeds, and the stems and leaves of the cassava had begun to swell and looked like they would soon be harvested, which was really good news for Saul.
The verdant greenery of the experimental field has also attracted many people to visit every day, and everyone has never heard of the initiative to grow food in the field.
Now the green seedlings are pulled out of thin air from the fields, which really stunned many barbarians, and the people of the tribe often gather together to whisper
"See?"
"See, ancestors bless - it can really grow and eat!"
"Can Noam's words be false? I saw with my own eyes what that was called—"
"Oily beans—"
"Yes, I watched those oil beans grow little by little!"
"Noem was really guided by the spirit of the ancestors. ”
"Is that false? Miss Diana was sent by the ancestors to help Lord Nome!"
"If this continues, there will never be a time to go hungry again. ”
"Bless Noam, the great ancestors. ”
Conversations like this have been circulated among the tribe more than once, and have become the biggest conversation point in the leisure time of the Soth people.
Scratching his head, Thor's expression did not become relaxed, and when the experimental field was harvested, he could get a large amount of food, he had planned it, cassava was ground into flour or eaten directly, and the oil beans could be used to squeeze oil, and at the same time, it could be edible, and he could get out of the dinner mode of barbecue or stew.
The next problem was what bothered Saul, the first thing he wanted to do was to expand the planting area, but the tools were too backward, which made Saul very difficult.
Charcoal had been burned in abundance, but the most important iron ore used to make ironware had become a problem, and Thor certainly remembered the caves they had passed when they migrated, where there was a lot of iron ore.
It's just that the iron mine is not open-pit, in the cave, Thor does not know how to mine the mineral deposits in the cave, if it is just based on the idea of digging the mine, the risk is too much, the tribal population is still very small, and one or two mining disasters may have a huge blow to the iron refining.
Without iron mines, it would be difficult to expand cultivation and carry out an agricultural revolution without an agricultural revolution, and society has remained in such a primitive stage of hunter-gathering.
Recently, listening to Morey tell the customs and stories on the Wotan continent every day, Thor has been a little fascinated, and he really wants to go to the civilized continent to see and learn.
It's just that according to the current conditions of the Soth people, he has no chance to expand trade as a merchant, and he is afraid that the daily operation of his tribe will be problematic.
Therefore, Thor urgently needs to establish a system that can keep the tribe running, and the basis for this system must break the current communal society and promote the formation of private ownership.
This caused Thor to have a paradoxical feeling, and in order to further promote the development of the tribe, he had to break the harmonious ecology of the tribe to stimulate the desire of the tribesmen and let them divide the classes themselves.
People will only work hard when cultivating their own land, will they work hard only for a better life for their families, and only after the concept of self will they form an orderly collective.
Thor had no experience in this area, and he could only discuss with Diana and Morey, the wisest of the tribe, and Sarr was too embarrassed to disturb Kaziba who was obsessed with the study of strange herbs and plants every day, after all, scientific research was equally important to the tribe as a whole.
While there is no guarantee that every step will be taken correctly, Saul believes that he must make such a change, and it is always better to be proactive than to be reactive.
This world is not peaceful, not to mention the Savelo people on the island, even the Wotan continent, in Morey's narration, there are often wars, the tribe must continue to be strong if it wants to survive, otherwise the current peaceful life will be broken sooner or later, born in sorrow, died in peace, this famous sentence in the previous life, is very in line with Thor's current state.
Scratching his head in pain, the distressed Noam felt that it was all a mess, and he conceived that monogamy and land tenure should be enacted at the same time.
On the one hand, bad habits were forbidden, and the tribesmen were allowed to form stable families, and on the other hand, land was given so that the newly formed families could have a source of food for their survival.
It can be said that the use of land as a bait for the establishment of strong relations between the tribesmen has also become a reward for adhering to the new system, and Saul believes that no one will not be eager to learn this new mode of production after seeing the success of the experimental fields.
Thor was confident that by relying on land ownership, he would not only be able to promote private ownership and make society more orderly, but also build the army he had long wanted to build.
Unlike the current model of hunting teams being armies, Thor wants to establish a professional army, loyal to his team of professional warriors who are only responsible for combat.
By granting more land to the soldiers, Thor was able to rally around the most brave warriors of the tribe, and with the support of the army, coupled with Kratos's bravery, Thor believed that he would be able to establish himself as a unique member of the tribe, and he would be more confident in whatever new policies were to be implemented.
Today, the people of Soth are also firmly united around him, obeying his orders, whether it is cutting wood or cutting wood, hunting and catching fish.
But he knew that this was partly due to the fact that the people had only been here for a short time, and at the same time, they had to stick together due to the lack of food and hardship at the beginning, and on the other hand, they had always relied on their kindness and kindness, and the prestige they had formed by standing up in difficult times.
Saul understands that neither of these reasons will last forever, and he has to push for a more standardized social system.
And the land is the sharpest sword in his hand, which is why Thor has always regarded farming as an important task.
But now everything is in a predicament, and if the most critical land barrier cannot be resolved, the entire reform cannot be carried out.
The experimental field was cultivated by Diana using nearly half of the tribe's manpower, and a lot of manpower was used from sowing to daily care, mainly because of the backwardness of farming tools and the low efficiency of stone farming tools.
Without iron tools, the land would have been much less attractive to the people, because Saul envisioned a single family that would not have the labor to plow and hoe with stones, and would not be able to harvest a few seeds in a year.
So the problem returned to Saul's initial distress, he was unable to dig the iron ore in the cave, which made Diana and Morey discuss with him all morning without any results.
Morey even offered to send someone back to the place ruled by the Cerveros to see if he could find a few nameless people who knew how to make iron and mine.
It is said to be looking for, but in fact it is tied. Thor clenched his fists, there was really no way to do it, if he sent Kratos, there was still a lot of hope, but Thor was worried that snatching slaves would lead the Cerveros here, and there was too much uncertainty.
"Noam—" Just then there was a call behind him, and Thor turned his head to see that Black Tooth was baring his teeth, and ran towards him with his mouth open and smiling.
"What's wrong?" Thor wondered why this guy was so happy.
"Haha-Nom, go and see, it's interesting that Tula and Lightning have caught a little man. ”