Autumn is here, the fruit is ripe, and it's a busy season again.

It seems that primitive people can only have a good rest in the cold winter, even in the rainy summer, primitive people will be busy, especially in spring and winter, primitive people are busy during the day and rarely have time to rest.

At the end of a blind date, most of the adult people in the Dragon Tribe devoted themselves to the intense autumn harvest labor, in addition to the autumn harvest, the Dragon Tribe still has several labors that have not stopped:

Fishing is a daily task that only stops in winter when the river freezes; The hunting party would also go out hunting every once in a while, and the pregnant women could only stay in the tribe to do some work such as weaving linen and weaving straw sandals, and the work of smelting copper ore did not stop.

As the population of the Dragons grew, there was no need for the Dragons to devote all of their people to a single task.

At the time of the Snake Tribe, the Snake Tribe was relatively weak and had a small population, and in order to keep the tribe from starving to death, all the adult laborers had to be busy with food every day, and there was little time to do anything unexpected to obtain food.

The appearance of fishing nets has once again improved the fishing efficiency of the Dragon Tribe, and the fishing team of less than 100 people can harvest two meals of food for all the people of the Dragon Tribe in one morning.

The most important food problem is solved, and the rest of the clan can naturally arrange to do other things, no matter what they do, in the end, it is to make the dragon tribe strong.

Since the Dragon Tribe needs more metal tools, in the busy autumn season, the smelting area is still smelting copper ore, and it doesn't need too many people, only about twenty people are needed to smelt the smelting area to be able to proceed normally.

Although there are no clansmen mining copper ore in the copper mining area, a large amount of copper ore has been accumulated in the smelting area, and with the current smelting capacity of the smelting area, the accumulated copper ore cannot be consumed in an autumn.

When it was time to harvest the crops again, Su Yan separated a hundred people from the clansmen who went out to pick fruits, and some children who were close to adulthood in the tribe also joined them, and the team of more than a hundred people was busy in the farmland outside the Dragon Tribe's residence.

In the busyness, the millet and hemp were all harvested.

Last year, only two acres of millet were planted, and a total output of more than 140 catties was produced, and this year's millet planting area reached 100 mu, with an average yield of about 85 catties per mu, and the total output of 100 mu of millet exceeded 8,500 catties.

This is a gratifying progress, and by next year, the planting area of millet will be from 100 acres to 1,800 acres, as the planting area of millet continues to be too large, the daily food composition of the dragon tribe will slowly change, and one day, millet will replace fish as people's staple food.

To hemp, last year planted 700 acres of hemp, the average yield of hemp seeds per mu is 67 catties, hemp skin 150 catties, this year planting 600 acres of hemp, the average yield of hemp seeds per mu has increased slightly to about 68 catties, the weight of hemp skin per mu has not changed, it is still about 150 catties.

Hemp is like this, it is almost difficult to increase the yield of hemp seeds per mu that can be used as food, and it is relatively easy for the yield per mu to rise to 100 catties after millet is optimally cultivated, so hemp is only used as a crop to provide hemp fiber, and the planting area of hemp will increase with the increase in the demand of the dragon tribe for hemp fiber in the future.

After the millet and hemp have been harvested, choose the open space in the square in front of the temple, first spread a layer of burlap on the land, and then pour the millet and hemp seeds to dry, preferably a part of the millet and hemp seeds as seeds for planting next year, and the rest of the millet and hemp seeds can be eaten as food.

There are 6,800 catties of edible millet and 40,000 catties of edible hemp seeds, which seems to be quite a lot, but in fact it cannot meet the needs of many people, only 20 adult male clansmen are needed to eat all these grains in a year.

When a large number of hemp seeds were harvested before, Su Yan would give them to the tribe to eat, but the tribesmen did not have much feeling about hemp seeds, at most they ate hemp seeds as a novel food and it was over.

The reason why adults are not very interested in hemp seeds Su Yan knows very well in his heart that the gap between vegetarian food and meat is too big, under the same weight, meat can provide more energy to the human body, for an adult male tribe who has a lot of activity every day, even if he uses vegetarian food to support his own food, I am afraid that he will feel hungry after working for half a day.

Of course, Su Yan did not plan to eat only vegetarian food in the future, the combination of meat and vegetables is the right way, and as the population of the Dragon Tribe continues to increase in the future, I am afraid that this big river will not be able to meet the daily food needs of the Dragon Tribe.

In the future, if you want to keep all the people fed, the first option is to move, the second option is to replace some meat with a vegetarian diet, and the third option is to continue to expand the scale of livestock domestication, and the best option is to combine the latter two.

Su Yan did not ignore the four animals domesticated by the Dragon Tribe on a large scale, and in the past two years, he has been expanding the scale of domesticated animals as one of the main tasks of the Dragon Tribe.

At present, the number of golden chickens has exceeded 1,000, and the number of pigs, deer and sheep is more than 200, of which the number of pigs is the largest, and the number of large pigs and small pigs together is more than 100, and the breeding capacity of pigs is much higher than that of deer and sheep.

It has reached its current size, and in late autumn, it is possible to choose some roosters, boars, rams, and bucks to be slaughtered as winter reserve food.

What makes Su Yan most helpless is that sometimes Su Yan has to act as a veterinarian to treat sick animals.

When the salt mining team set off to pick salt, Su Yan asked Shen to take a team to pick all the peppercorns planted in his hometown, and it is expected that this is the last time he will go to his hometown to pick peppercorns, and next year's peppercorns on the new home will also produce peppercorns, and the planting area will be much larger than that of his hometown, which can produce more peppercorns.

Last year's harvest of pepper 330 pounds, this year's harvest of pepper has exceeded 400 pounds, the more pepper output, the people can also share some pepper powder, in the cold winter to drink the broth with pepper powder, it is simply enjoyable.

After the millet is dried and optimized, the remaining millet is taken by Su Yan to the water mill to prepare for husking, the water wheel rotates under the drive of the river water, the water energy is converted into mechanical energy, and finally conveys the mill head, the mill head falls to the ground together for rice, and soon, the shell of the millet in the stone mortar is licked down.