Chapter 237: Changing the Criteria for Adulthood
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"The beginning has arrived! The first time has come! ”
After the gong sounded, a young man's voice sounded, and the first time had arrived!
Hearing the voice from outside, Xiaohua, who was teaching the children, explained the last word, and then assigned today's homework before saying to her students: "Class!" ”
"Stand up!"
The class leader shouted, and dozens of children in the classroom stood up in unison.
"Salute!"
Dozens of children made a bow to Xiaohua together, which was also a student ceremony.
Xiaohua nodded slightly, and walked out of the classroom first, and in several classrooms in a row, a teacher came out, and Xiaohua's sister was also among them.
There are a total of six teachers, except for the Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters, the remaining four are all young men, each teaching about 30 students to learn dragon characters and impart various common sense of life.
The students have to take a morning class, in addition to a class in the classroom, there is also a class outside, at this time the male students and female students have to have separate classes, the male students have to learn archery, spear throwing, fighting, the female students mainly learn weaving, but sometimes there are also some combat skills courses, if necessary, the women of the dragon tribe also participate in the battle.
The Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters came together, their teaching task was not over, and the two of them also taught the textile class of the female students.
"Sister, where is my brother now?" Satsuki glanced north.
"It's more than a day's journey, and it's still on the road." Xiaohua replied softly.
Yes, now Su Yan is on his way, and the goal is a place that is more than a day away, accompanied by the exploration team led by Shen Herong.
After the end of the Dragon Tribe's foreign campaign, Su Yan ordered Shen Herong to lead an exploration team of fifty people to explore the north of the Dragon Tribe, find out the construction area of the second city of the Dragon Tribe in advance, and when the rainy season comes, the construction area of the second city will be cleared, and the road between the first city and the second city will be opened up.
The time spent between the two cities will undoubtedly be reduced by opening up a road, and it will also be possible to transport things back and forth by wheelbarrow.
Su Yan had just determined the weights and measures and time, so he couldn't wait to go to the exploration team to find a good area to explore again, and finally it was up to Su Yan to determine it himself, if he chose a low-lying place, he couldn't say that the whole city would be flooded by heavy rain in the future.
On the contrary, the soil quality of the construction area is not too demanding, after all, the houses built by the Dragon Tribe are not high, and the lookout platform of the source city wall is the tallest building in the Dragon Tribe, and the height is only seven feet.
Walked all the way, about a day and a half, the group came to the exploration team to find a good area, Su Yan walked around this area several times, and finally determined the area of the second city, and left some marks, the next time I came here, I would have to wait for the rainy season to come, and directly burn this jungle with a fire, burning out an area suitable for building a city.
After going out for three and a half days, Su Yan returned, and after dinner that day, Su Yan summoned all the high-level leaders of the Dragon Tribe to discuss a matter that was more important to the Dragon Tribe.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to change the standard of adulthood of the clansmen, the current adult standard for male clansmen is five feet, and the adult standard for female clansmen is four feet seven inches, I am ready to raise this standard to five feet three inches and five feet respectively, so that the clansmen will delay their adulthood for two years, and the clansmen who are not up to the standard are also considered adults as long as they are fifteen years old." Su Yan told the high-ranking members of the Dragon Tribe about his thoughts.
"Wang, why do you want to change the adult standards of your clansmen?" The Snake Witch asked.
Su Yan replied: "If you use the current adult standard, it only takes twelve years for a clan member to become an adult from birth to the present, but in the next few years, their bodies are still in the stage of rapid development, which means that their strength is also increasing rapidly.
Two years of delayed adulthood, they can learn more fighting and hunting skills in these two years, and it will not take long to become a tribal combatant after adulthood.
By today's standards, they can't become combatants immediately after they reach adulthood, and they still need time to learn, often around two years, so it's better to delay their adulthood and let them calm down and learn during these two years. ”
Except for the three clans of the He clan, the Xiong clan, and the Eagle clan, the Wu and patriarchs of the other clans all nodded, the situation of the Dragon Tribe's development for so many years has been very different.
Take the very beginning of the snake tribe as an example, the number of adult males in the snake tribe is only half of the number of adult females, men are the main fighting force of the snake tribe, before Su Yan was eight years old, often the snake tribe's winter food can not meet the needs of the whole winter, the river has been frozen in winter, the leader can only take the hunting team out to hunt, the last period of winter is the time when the probability of death of adult male tribesmen is the highest.
The Serpent Tribe must maintain a certain number of adult males to form a hunting party, so the standard of adulthood of the clan is constantly being advanced.
But the current dragon tribe is different, the dragon tribe has enough adult male clansmen, and there are very few adult male clansmen who die every year, even if the adult time of the clansmen is delayed, it doesn't matter, the newly adult clansmen can't join the hunting team and exploration team at all, and can only do some work of building houses, mining, and smelting.
Delay adulthood for two years, they also need to work before they are minors, the actual situation has not changed much, what should the clansmen have to do, it is just that the adulthood of these clansmen is delayed by two to three years, and some other clansmen whose height development is slower than their peers get the opportunity, as long as they are at least fifteen years old, and their height does not reach the adult standard, they are considered adults.
In fact, Su Yan doesn't need his ideas to be recognized by the high-level leaders of the Dragon Tribe before he can implement them in the Dragon Tribe, but this kind of thing that has a very big change in the Dragon Tribe is better to inform the high-level leaders first, and then announce it to all the clansmen.
Today's time was too late, and in the evening of the next day, Su Yan and the high-ranking members of the Dragon Tribe gathered all the clansmen of the Dragon Tribe in the square in front of the temple and informed them that the Dragon Tribe would change the standards for the adulthood of the clansmen.
Hearing the words of the king in front of them, many teenagers and girls who thought that they would be able to reach the adult standard next year immediately had a bitter face, they wanted to cry very much, but it was a little late, and this time their adulthood would be postponed for two years.
And those who are adults this year all have a smiling face.
"It's good luck that I almost have to delay it for years with them before I can become an adult."
Note: Taking the time as an example, the time represents nine o'clock to eleven o'clock, the first time is nine o'clock, and the first time is ten o'clock.