The pace of autumn is slowly fading, the cold winter is coming, and the business of the leather shop in Zhennanbao is also booming.

It's a pity that the inventory of all kinds of leather shops is not very much, and after the looting of various territories in Nanhua, many leather shops are about to run out of stock.

As soon as Zhao Hao saw this situation, he didn't wait for the four fortresses on the first line from Zhennan Fort to Haotian Fort to be completely completed, so he recruited all the ten marquis under him.

In the hall of the Elders' House, the ten princes gathered together again, and everyone had a look of excitement on their faces that could not be concealed, because they knew that Zhao Hao came to them this time to discuss the issue of exchanging food.

This food is too important, although they do not have Zhao Hao's thousands of years of historical knowledge to build a foundation, but they also know that with the continuous growth of the population under their command, whether it is nomadic or nomadic, they will face a food crisis, and only by exchanging food with other territories in Nanhua can this problem be completely solved.

It can be said that before the advent of agricultural civilization, ancient tribes would face the problem of lack of food.

The development of ancient tribes has always been closely related to food.

In the beginning, the ancient tribes either hunted in the jungle or settled in a certain jungle to hunt around, and this stage was the stage when food was most scarce.

Because these tribes all rely on wild beasts to reproduce themselves for food, that is, their population ceiling depends entirely on the self-reproduction rate of wild beasts, and once their demand for food exceeds the self-reproduction rate of wild beasts, there will be a food crisis, and with it, population attrition.

Just like the original Qinghe Department, when the population reached thousands, almost all the beasts around them were hunted by them, and they could no longer reproduce themselves, so the Qinghe Department had a crazy attrition.

Of course, this problem is common to other tribes in the Savage Jungle, and when the population reaches a certain upper limit, it will be attrition due to lack of food.

As this attrition took place again and again, the nomadic tribes learned their lesson and developed into nomadic tribes, raising large numbers of cattle and sheep and other livestock 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 will not be able to escape the food crisis and reach another population limit.

Because, even if it is a raised livestock, the ability to reproduce is limited? Once the fertility of the livestock cannot keep up with the population growth? Food will slowly become scarce.

It's like the current Haotian Department or Haotian Ling.

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

But? These are not enough to ensure the food supply of all the clansmen in Haotian Ling.

To know? Even if it is an ordinary clansman in Haotianling, he has to consume at least two or three catties of meat a day? If you are young and strong, four or five catties a day is considered less, and there are thousands of masters with more than 1,000 catties? A person consumes at least ten catties of meat a day? In this way, they will consume about 500,000 catties of meat a day!

If about 500,000 catties of meat are converted into cattle and sheep, it is almost more than 5,000 sheep or more than 500 cattle, and nearly 2 million sheep or nearly 200,000 cattle in a year. Even the cattle and sheep on the prairie cannot keep up with the reproduction rate no matter how fast.

Other words? The livestock in their hands will only eat less and less, and in the end, they will be gone, while the population is still there, if there is no other source of food? When the time comes, it will be another horrific attrition.

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

Because their population multiplies to a certain extent, there will be a food crisis? If other food sources are not found, the population will decline dramatically.

Ah Hua: Do they still remember the hungry life before? Beishan Auntie understands the horror of not having other food sources, so? They are very concerned about the exchange of rice.

Of course Zhao Hao also understands this? If it weren't for the fact that the Taihua Department learned to grow food in advance under the guidance of the "gods", I don't know how many years in advance? He really didn't have the confidence to feed these nearly 100,000 people.

He looked at everyone's eager eyes, and then smiled and said: "I believe you have also seen that my grain here has been piled up into a mountain, which we have exchanged for meat and leather goods, pottery and ironware, horses and carriages, and knives and coins, and other things in Nanhua, and other territories in Nanhua are quite interested in these things, and they have begun to reclaim wasteland and increase grain production under the call of the Great Elder of Nanhua, I believe that by next year, the business of Zhennanbao will be more prosperous, and we have no problem if we want to exchange for the rations of 100,000 people." ”

When everyone heard this, they were extremely excited, the food problem is the top priority, this problem is solved, and the other problems are not a problem.

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

After all, during this time, Zhao Hao organized his guards and their families to do business with people from other territories in Nanhua, and they didn't participate.

Of course, Zhao Hao understood what they wanted to know most, and then he smiled again: "I came to you this time to discuss with you how to exchange the meat and leather goods in your hands, or pottery, ironware, or something into grain." Do you want to exchange with people from other territories yourself, or do you want the people in Zhennanbao to exchange with people from other territories instead of you? ”

This one.

When everyone heard this, they all showed a contemplative look.

In the end, it was Ah Shan who asked on behalf of everyone: "Elder, if we exchange it with others, can we just open some kind of shop in Zhennan Fort?" ”

Zhao Hao shook his head slightly and said: "A shop is not good, think about it, how many kinds of meat and leather goods and pottery and ironware, and how many of each, if you stuff all of them into a shop, then how big is this shop, I'm afraid, it has to be like a cargo shed next to the wharf, one is how many miles long, right?" ”

This is true, not to mention anything else, just meat, if they come to trade, it is estimated that at least 100,000 catties will be transported at a time, that guy, I don't know how many carriages are needed, if they are piled together, ordinary houses can't be piled up at all.

Zhao Hao then explained: "Also, you don't just sit in Nanpu and wait for others to pull the grain over and exchange it with you, because there are not many carriages in other territories in Nanhua, and some goods, we have to send a carriage to follow them to pull the grain, for example, a horse can be exchanged for more than 20,000 catties of grain, if people want a few horses at a time, it is 100,000 catties of grain, you think about it, how many carriages do you get, they don't have so many carriages at all, so, We had to send a wagon to follow them to haul the grain. ”

Is it so troublesome?

Everyone couldn't help but discuss in a low voice for a while, and finally Ah Shan said on behalf of everyone: "Then we still send the goods over and hand them over to the clansmen in Zhennan Fort, and let them exchange food for us, but I don't know how to calculate this reward." ”

If you work, you need to be paid, which Zhao Hao has said a long time ago.

As for this reward, Zhao Hao has already set it.

He stretched out a finger and said lightly: "I think it's most appropriate to draw one percent, everyone will not suffer, for example, if you have a pound of meat, they can exchange ten catties of food with others, one of which is their reward, and the other nine catties are given to you, what do you think?" ”

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