Chapter 283: Sailing and Beast Hunting
The sail section has also undergone a lot of changes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info With the growth of the tribal population, the population here has also been further enriched and now it has a population of six hundred people. Except for some children under the age of 10, they are basically young and strong. Children over the age of 10 go to school in the River Tribe.
The stockade of the Sail Department was originally built around a hill on the high ground where the original boat people were located. Now the hill inside the stockade has been flattened. A lot of land has been vacated for planting and captivity, making the village very idyllic.
The dirt from the hill was piled up by the river and turned into a flood control. Originally, the depression by the river was reclaimed into farmland, and now there are thousands of acres of fertile land here.
Wang Chuan made a tour under Abi's leadership, gave some advice such as planting some bamboo on the flood control site, and finally told Abi that he was going to participate in the animal hunt. This made Abiy nervous all at once.
Protecting the safety of the elders is a matter of great importance in all eras. Abi was ready to send 400 men to follow Wang Chuan. The first is to protect Wang Chuan's safety, and the other is to prepare to hunt more beasts and come back.
Wang Chuan said: "You all went with me, what about these fields?" Spring ploughing will not be carried out? ”
Abi said: "Elder, don't you know, now the beast tide is more prosperous than in previous years, those carnivorous animals are more than in previous years, and there are more people who don't know where they come from to participate in the beast hunting, and the risk is much higher than before." These newcomers have no rules and are scrambling for everything, and the carnivorous beasts like to sneak up on people and eat us. In the past two years, it has become more and more dangerous every year. In the past two years, we have fortunately been restrained by the courts, so that these tribes along the Taijiang River can unite and help each other to take care of each other, so that we can get enough meat, otherwise I am afraid that the number of people who will die will not be less than in previous years. Even if you don't come, we have to go so many people, and spring ploughing can only be postponed. ”
"Oh, and what's going on? It seems that the court has some effect. It was the first time that Wang Chuan had paid attention to these news.
The River tribe participated in the hunting of beasts before, and almost all of them avoided everyone, and they set a few traps to trap the bison and bring them back to the tribe. I didn't have much to do with the other tribes, so no news came back.
The tribes of the forest began to hunt beasts, and he knew about it. This may explain the increase in the number of people involved in the hunt. But the number of beasts has also increased, could it be that the warm weather in the winter of the past few years has increased the survival rate of these beast cubs?
Change is everywhere, and it seems that these things should also be taken into account in the future decision-making of the tribe. The increase in wild beasts is basically a good thing for everyone, so that it is convenient for everyone to hunt meat. However, it is necessary to prevent whether the increased number of wild animals will go deep into the forest to forage for food, thus affecting the construction of the tribe.
As for the expansion of the effectiveness of the court, Wang Chuan is happy to see it come to fruition.
Wang Chuan thought for a while and said, "Do you have any people who have agreed with others to participate in the Beast Hunting News?" ”
Abi said, "No. We're just talking about hunting together, guarding the prey together, and not hurting each other. ”
Wang Chuan said: "Then you listen to me, this year, the Beast Hunting News will send a hundred people to go out with them." The other fifty men and all the sailing ships were sent with me, and the rest remained in the tribe for spring ploughing. Food sources should still be multi-channel, and you can't put all your eggs in one basket. ”
The tribe still has basically no poultry, except for the eaglet, this guy is still male. Fortunately, everyone has touched the egg and knows what the egg is.
Abi Fei tried his best to understand the second half of Wang Chuan's sentence, but he didn't understand his first half very much. At this time, the ice is melting, it is not suitable for winter fishing, the water is cold, and the fish are basically underwater, what do you want to do on the sailboat at this time?
Wang Chuan spread out the map and said: "Here the Taijiang River goes up, to the place where you kidnapped slaves, where is the shallow water of Daze, right?" The Yi people said that the beast tide came from the south, and basically came from these places. Why can't we hunt these beasts in the water? These places are about three hundred kilometers from here, farther than the place where the beast hunts are coming, but at this time the wind is turning south, and we go with the wind when we pass and the water when we return. The speed of the round trip is three or four days, and the slow is five or six days, both faster than you can do on land. You can run back and forth, and we can basically run three or four times. And in this way, we can basically avoid conflicts with others. Carnivores or something, when crossing the river, it's also a dish. ”
People in this era have limits to what they can see. In the cognition of these people along the Taijiang River, the beast tide came from an unknown place, coming from the north in spring and southward in autumn, bringing them countless foods. As for why the herd is like this, some people have asked, but they have not looked into it.
Naturally, they would not have thought that these beasts had crossed the Taijiang River. Of course, I can't imagine that I can hunt them in the water.
Of course, even if they thought about it, there was no suitable ship before, it was just a pipe dream.
Wang Chuan hadn't paid attention to this before, so he hadn't thought of this. Abi spent three years fishing in a sailboat, but because they had not gone against the current and crossed the river by the tide of the beast, and they did not think of it.
Wang Chuan explained like this, which made Abi and the others stunned. Can the Beast Hunter still do this? What else is there to do with sailboats? If this is the case, wouldn't that one hunting beast be able to get several times or even dozens of times more meat than usual?
Abi shuddered and said, "Chuan, Elder Chuan, then, why only fifty people are going?" We're all going to go by boat and get all the beasts back. Spring ploughing is no longer planted. ”
Wang Chuan said: "This is confused, isn't it?" All of them went by boat, where did the prey go? No matter how much meat there is, we don't have salt to marinate, how many days can we keep it? Do you have enough salt here? And we've got all this prey back, how can we eat it all? What's the use of keeping it if you can't finish it? I just said that eggs can't be put in one basket, so don't spring ploughing, your brain is really ...... What's more, I'm talking about an assumption that hasn't been verified yet, so you still have to send someone to hunt the beast normally, in case I think it's wrong, then everyone will be hungry this year? ”
Abi was reprimanded by Wang Chuan, and only smirked. Wang Chuan saw that his IQ might not have returned, so he simply stood up and gave orders, asking people to inspect and repair the boats, prepare hunting and fishing tools, prepare salt and dry food, and at the same time send people to the River tribe to tell them about the situation here, and ask them to send more salt.
The Liuling of the Taijiang River is a phenomenon unique to prehistory, and the weather in later generations is warm, and it is almost impossible to see. But the Liuling of the Taijiang River is not the same as that of the Taihe River. Because the Taijiang River does not flow from low to high latitudes, the ice will melt into the river in just a few days. At that time, there was basically no problem in sailing westward.