They are an ancient people who already lived in the northeast in the pre-Qin period, and they were poorer than the Turks due to many reasons such as the area in which they lived.

According to the records of Tang history, there were about 100,000 households in the Zhenguan period, and one household of the fishing and hunting ethnic group was equal to three households of the farming nation, and how many people were there in one household of the farming nation?

In ancient times, household registration was dominated by young and strong men, and there may have been only two or three people registered in a household, but in practice there was more than that, because children and women were not registered.

There are about 4-10 people per Han Chinese family, which is the number of people registered for farming people, while the number of people for fishing and hunting is tripled.

In other words, there are about 12-30 people in a fishing and hunting household.

The number of households of the Tatar tribe is more than 100,000, so the population must be at least 2 million, Li Yun originally thought that this calculation was very accurate, but after arriving at the Dada tribe, he found that history was really inaccurate.

A small tribe had twenty-seven adult men, more than two hundred women, and more than one hundred and seventy children.

This number may not sound like much in later generations, not even as good as a small village, but it was different in ancient times, because these people were not included in the statistics at all.

The so-called 100,000 households in the history books did not count the small tribe of Dada Ta, and Li Yun learned after asking that there were hundreds of such tribes in the mountains and forests.

Even if there are only a few hundred people in each tribe, it adds up to a huge number.

History played a joke on future generations, and it also made Li Yun fall into a misunderstanding.

Later generations always feel that the ancient times were poor, so the population must be particularly thin, once someone disagrees with this point of view, some experts will take out the history books to slap the face, but the experts themselves also ignore a problem, the ancient household registration statistics are not accurate at all.

Maybe it's all light, it's just a joke.

There are at least 10 million people in the entire northeast land, but there are only more than 100,000 households included in the statistics, and there is only one reason for this, there are only seven large tribes in this era.

When the official statistics were made, only the seven major tribes were counted.

As for the thousands of other scattered tribes, they were ignored as if they didn't exist.

These seven tribes are the Sumo Division, the Bolu Division, the Anchegu Division, the Funi Division, the Horn Room Division, the Heishui Division, and the Baishan Division.

Among them, the Heishui Department is the most powerful, and it is also Li Yun's cheap sworn brother's clan.

The Black Water Deer is already the most powerful tribe, but the two people who are still poor wear a pair of pants, not to mention the small tribe like the Dada Descent, Li Yun really didn't expect it to be so poor.

What kind of settlement is this, the poor are simply scared to death.

In Li Yun's imagination, since it was a tribe, it must at least be like a village, but after arriving, he found that all the conjectures were too beautiful, and he really looked too highly at the wealth of the people of the Spirit.

The Turks still have a tent to shelter from the wind and rain, and the Tatars directly build houses with branches, and only know the reason when asked, they often have to move in the mountains and forests, and whenever the wild beasts within a hundred miles of the vicinity are hunted down, they have to move their tribe to a new place to live.

It is also because of the long time that it takes to relocate, so it is ridiculous to cut down wood to build houses, even if the surrounding area is full of primitive ancient trees, the people of the Yan are not willing to waste energy to build a fixed house.

The broken living is only one aspect, and the poor food is sad.

When Li Yun and Yueya'er arrived at the tribe, it was actually not a meal at all, but the five iron pots in the tribe were steaming, and the women were chopping wood to cook things.

Sitting around the pot, holding a bowl with black paint that could not be seen, I found out that the whole tribe was a meal all day, because there were only five iron pots to cook things, which could only satisfy dozens of people at a time, so they had to boil all day long, and take turns to eat and eat.

Li Yun was curious about what the people were eating, so he asked the crescent moon to lead him to the pot to take a look, but before the person arrived, he already wanted to vomit, and the pot was obviously cooking meat, but there was no smell of meat.

Not only was there no smell of meat, but there was a fishy smell, Li Yun tried to restrain it for a long time, and barely managed to restrain the urge to cover his nose, he didn't want to be rude, or he didn't want this group of people to hurt his self-esteem.

However, his worries were in vain, and the group did not feel that they had eaten badly at all.

For example, the crescent moon was dripping, and she suddenly hugged Li Yun's arm with her hand, and said proudly: "I am a huntress in the tribe and a person who has contributed, so I am qualified to entertain guests, and I can share a bowl of meat with you later." ”

After a pause, he said even more proudly: "When I help you give birth, I will work harder to hunt, so that my child can eat enough every day, and he can lick salt in a big gulp." ”

Licking salt in a big gulp?

Li Yun had already heard her say this word for the second time.

Li Yun subconsciously glanced around and slowly discovered what it meant to lick salt.

But seeing that one of the five iron pots had already cooked the food, those children with black bowls served rice one by one, they did not have chopsticks to pick up the food, they simply grabbed it with their hands and ate it, and they were also queuing up when eating, taking turns to lick a black cloth bag.

The bag should be filled with salt, and I don't know if I can lick the salty taste through the bag, but every child who licked it was very satisfied, and it was very energetic to eat with a black bowl.

Yue'er suddenly licked the corners of her mouth, and said softly: "This time I hunted two robes, so I am qualified to lick salt when I eat, but I want to give you the qualifications, because you will soon marry my man, remember, you can only lick two bites, I only hunted two robes......"

The contribution of two robes licking two mouthfuls of salt?

Li Yun was stunned again, and suddenly stretched out his finger to those children, and said curiously: "I saw that each of them licked a bite, could it be that these children also hunted prey?" ”

He didn't believe it, because the children were so young.

Crescent Moon was visibly amused by his question, and grinned, "How old are they?" How can you hunt? Look at that slug, he can't stand on his feet, children don't know how to hunt, they don't contribute......"

"Since there is no hunting contribution, why can you lick salt?"

Li Yun asked again, in fact, he already had a vague guess in his heart.

Sure enough, I saw the crescent moon grinning and said: "This is the rule of the Yan people, children can lick salt before they are eight years old, and everyone has one bite at every meal." ”

After a pause, he explained: "No matter how scarce the salt of the tribe is, children under the age of eight are not allowed to stop licking salt. ”

Then the little face suddenly became serious, and he put his hands on his chest to look pious, and said: "This is the rule of the ancestors, and any person must abide by it!" ”

"Your ancestors' rules?" Li Yun repeated.

"Mmmmmmmm, it's been passed down for thousands of years, and this rule can't be broken!"

Yue'er nodded hurriedly, and said: "Sometimes because of the lack of salt, we hunters will give up our salt licking qualifications, if it is still not enough to support, other tribes will help, even if it is a mortal enemy tribe for life, seeing that the enemy tribe lacks salt for eight-year-old children, we will also help......"

This sounded a little inexplicable, but Li Yun couldn't help but sigh lightly.

He watched in amazement as those children licked salt, as if he saw the civilization inherited by human beings from slash-and-burn farming, and the reason why human beings became human beings was because they had more conscience than beasts.

The rule that an eight-year-old child can lick salt for free is clearly a shining point of human civilization.

Because children are too young to earn food and drink, adults have to give for free, which is indescribable human nature.

……

Yue'er looked at him in a daze, and thought that Li Yun was greedy and wanted to lick it.

The little girl was suddenly very proud, pointed to the cloth bag and said to Li Yun: "Have you seen it, our salt is very sufficient, not only can the children lick the salt, but also help a tribe that has broken salt, that tribe has a mortal enmity with us, we want to kill all of them, but their eight-year-old children's salt is broken, we immediately divide some salt and send it over." ”

After speaking, he clenched his small fists proudly, and snorted: "Our Dada tribe is the most powerful, and you married the wife of a powerful tribe." We are qualified to help other tribes, and I am very proud that you have married......"

It's still not forgetting to sell yourself.

The little girl was still thinking about Li Yun's twenty handfuls of refined salt.

It's a pity that Li Yun's mind at this moment doesn't belong, and his eyes have been looking at those children in a daze.

"Add salt, add salt......" he muttered twice, and for some reason he felt a twitch in his heart.

Suddenly, he turned his head to look at the crescent moon and asked, "Can you lick the salty taste by licking it with your mouth through the bag?" ”

"Yes!"

Crescent Moon replied without hesitation, pointing to the children and saying, "You see how happy they are, before the age of eight is the most comfortable day." ”

"What about after the age of eight?" Li Yun's eyes flashed.

The crescent moon did not doubt it, and replied directly: "After reaching the age of eight, you can't lick salt for nothing, you have to help the tribe to collect herbs, and determine the number of times you lick salt according to your contributions." ”

After a pause, he said again: "Some children are too weak, so they collect herbs and contribute very little, but the crescent moon is different, I was the most powerful child when I was a child, I can pick herbs every day, and sometimes I can dig mountain ginseng, so I can lick salt every time I eat, and eventually grow into a vigorous huntress." ”

This girl's personality is too delicate, and she can't help but praise herself every time she speaks, or every person is like this, they don't know what modesty is.

There are contributions, to show off, this is their right to live, they are entitled to show off their achievements.

It had been some time since they arrived at the tribe, and the men had already taken their prey to deal with it, when suddenly they heard a loud laugh from a branch house, and a strong man led a group of women out of the house.

The man opened his big hand far away, laughed at Li Yun constantly, and said a slick language in his mouth, and occasionally even mixed with one or two words of stiff Chinese.

"Han... Man..., daughter's ...... Husband ......"

The son-in-law couldn't say the word, obviously a second knife that was unsuccessful in learning Chinese, and the strong man's face was full of pride and pride, and all the people in the tribe looked at him with envy.

The daughter can marry the Han people, this is the pride of the whole tribe, in the past two years, the whole Jin Tatar ethnic group has risen a legend, it is said that the Han people are particularly rich, and they can lick salt when eating.

And his daughter is married to the most powerful Han among the Han people.

Yue'er suddenly became a little nervous, and suddenly hugged Li Yun's elbow hard, and pleaded with a pleading: "Twenty handfuls of refined salt, a big cauldron, please, don't regret it, I will hunt very hard and help you have a lot of children." ”

Li Yun took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Don't worry, it's much more than you ask." ”