In addition to farming and reclaiming wasteland, the production of bronze agricultural tools could not be left behind, especially the production of plows.

The weaving and beating of hemp, the smashing of ores and the boiling of salt, and the feeding of many animals all need to be carried out, and none of them can be left behind.

At the same time, it is necessary to keep the trade team carrying salt and pottery to trade with the surrounding tribes.

Copper and tin mines have been found in the tribe, but the trade cannot be put down.

On the one hand, it is to make more contact with these tribes around it, and on the other hand, in the process of trading with these tribes, if you don't get it right, unexpected surprises will appear.

In addition to these things, there are a lot of miscellaneous bits and pieces to keep busy in the tribe.

Everything needs to be done by people, and if people don't do it, it won't be done automatically.

So after doing the math in this way, there is not much manpower.

Moreover, Han Cheng also has the plan to let people go to Tongshan to open up the Tongshan residential area, judging from the current situation, it is impossible to say that this matter will be postponed.

After all, there are trade teams in the tribe that are now separated from food production, plus craftsmen such as Heiwa, Lame, and Second Senior Brother, plus Wu and Shishi, two civilian personnel who are not very involved in production, and textile personnel represented by Bai Xuemei.

All of them add up, and there are almost forty people.

Add to this the large number of minors in the tribe, and there are even more people who are not very involved in food production.

Without lowering the standard of living, the number of people who can now be supported by the tribe is almost reaching the upper limit.

Under such circumstances, it is obviously not suitable to establish a Copper Hill settlement.

After all, if you want to form a Tongshan residential area, you must have at least one or twenty talents.

In this way, the people living in the copper mountain area can mine and refine bronze, and at the same time farm there to obtain enough food for themselves.

Of course, to achieve such self-sufficiency, it is necessary to wait at least a year for the land to be cleared and the newly planted grain to be harvested.

In this year's time, there is basically no need to expect too much output in the Tongshan residential area, and the daily use of these people needs to be provided by the base camp of the Qingque tribe.

And that's not even counting the manpower that went there and the food spent on the road......

After such a circle, Han Cheng found uncomfortably that the lack of manpower had become a problem in front of him.

With bronze farming tools, farming can indeed improve efficiency, but with Han Cheng's grand goal of saving three years of edible food, don't expect these farmers to be idle.

Because with increased efficiency, they will cultivate more land.

In this way, after conquering the Tengsnake tribe before, the labor force in the tribe has indeed increased a lot, but with the increase of various things in the tribe, as well as the increase in the demand for food, the problem of population or adult shortage is once again in front of the Qingque tribe.

Han Cheng felt a little pain in his skull.

The most direct and rapid 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 passive integration.

Active fusion such as the pig tribe, donkey tribe, and green tribe at the beginning.

Because of the attack, or for some other reason, he took the initiative to move closer to the Blue Sparrow Tribe.

Passive fusion, such as the Bone Tribe and the Teng Snake Tribe, after being defeated and captured by the Blue Sparrow Tribe, joined the Green Sparrow Tribe.

At the moment, it seems that the quickest way to increase the population is to send people out and attack the surrounding tribes and capture all their people.

Rescue them from poverty and backwardness and join the bright and great Blue Sparrow tribe.

With bows and arrows, vine shields, and now bronze ge, plus several well-trained teams of the Qingque tribe, it is really not very difficult to attack the surrounding tribes.

And because of the existence of the trade team, Han Cheng had already figured out the location of the small tribes around the tribe.

In this way, it seems that sending troops to plunder is really a very suitable way.

After thinking about it like this for a while, Han Cheng finally suppressed this tempting thought.

He wanted the tribe to grow, but he didn't want to use such a method.

It doesn't matter about anything else, it's just about 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 lead people to attack those tribes that had no grudges and no enmity with the Qingque tribe, he always couldn't get over that hurdle in his heart.

Whether it's hypocrisy, or anything else, he really doesn't want to do such a thing.

His character is destined not to be a material to do big things and dominate.

Fortunately, it came to the primitive era, and if it was in troubled times, maybe it would have been caught and killed and eaten as soon as it passed......

Take the initiative to attack, carry out population plunder, and let the surrounding small tribes join the Qingque tribe can't be implemented, so there is only one way to let the surrounding tribes take the initiative to integrate into the Qingque tribe.

Compared to the population plundering with knives, this thing is a bit too technically tested.

After all, in the case that their 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, this kind of thing is slow to do, and compared to population plunder, the people who are absorbed in this way are the most stable.

If I knew this, I wouldn't have uprooted the Teng Snake tribe at once.

With such a powerful external threat, it is much easier to absorb the small tribes around it.

Han Cheng, who was rubbing his head, thought a little helplessly.

Moreover, at this time, when I think about it carefully, I was a little too panicked when I faced the Teng Snake Tribe.

At that time, I only thought about eradicating the Teng Snake tribe at the lowest possible cost, and then absorbing prisoners of war from the Teng Snake tribe.

But he forgot to use this opportunity to absorb and integrate the small tribes around him.

If you get the news that the Teng Snake tribe has attacked the donkey tribe and is preparing to come to attack your own tribe, send someone to spread the news that there is an evil and powerful tribe watching around.

There is a powerful threat from the Teng Snake tribe outside, and internally, Han Cheng takes advantage of this opportunity to lure and woo him, and after such a means, he can absorb one or two tribes.

If your heart is a little darker, you can deliberately indulge the Teng Snake Tribe, let them wreak havoc on the surrounding tribes again, and deepen the fear of the surrounding tribes......

It's a pity that he remembered such a thing too late, and the powerful and evil Teng Snake tribe was pushed away by him in a wave.

As a result, he missed an opportunity for the rapid increase in the population of the Qingque tribe, and now he wants to grab his hair for the sake of the population.

This is the case a lot of the time, I thought I had caught the best, but after that, I realized that there were bigger and better things that I had missed.

But fortunately, I grabbed something in my hand, and if I hesitated in front of many fruits, and finally ended up empty-handed, it would make people regret it for three lives.

It seems that this matter still falls on the trade led by the two people.

Han Cheng, who had been pondering for a long time, finally made a decision and got up to explain the matter to the two of them.