The white dew is early, the cold dew is late, and the autumn equinox is just in time to plant wheat.

The autumnal equinox is a solar calendar, a day when the sun shines directly at the equator, and the day is the same time as night.

The people now use a simple lunar calendar, and they have no idea what the actual autumnal equinox is.

However, Chen Jian estimated that it should be in the next few days, and it may be a little later. The land is not ripe, the wheat is not good, and there is no problem a few days earlier.

Worship the ancestors as you did last time, and pray for the protection of the ancestors for a good harvest next year.

Because the people of the foreign tribe are watching, they did not plant the cultivated land on the first day, but chose to set fire to the mountain, and now the time is limited, let these people learn it early, and let them go back to planting early.

The weather is slightly cool, the grass leaves are slightly yellow, and although they are not dry, they can be lit.

Chen Jian led his people to cut some grass with stone sickles before, and now he has a lot of seeds, which can appropriately expand the scope of some slash-and-burn farming.

Setting fire to the mountains is a very technical job, and if the mountains and forests are set on fire, all the acorns and wild fruits will be burned down, and this winter will be sad.

He led his people to clear a passage more than two people wide, formed a large circle to enclose the place where the mountain was ready to be set on fire, and set fire to it from both sides.

The passage through which the grass and trees were cut was not wide, just enough to stop the fire from spreading.

The temperature of the place where the fire is higher and the air pressure is lower, the wind will naturally blow towards the place where the fire is on fire, and the two sides will be ignited at the same time, and the two fires will be like the Cowherd and Weaver Girl who are going to meet, hugging each other in the center and gradually extinguishing.

He taught other tribes how to burn mountains, and took them to the fields that had already been burned out to learn how to sow seeds.

The sowing is dense, the seeds are wasted, and the sun is blocked; The sowing is thin, and the yield is too low to cover the weeds.

Of course, it was not possible to scatter seeds all over the sky, and the ridges were not dug out, so Chen Jian asked the clansmen to find ropes, and several ropes were pulled apart in parallel, each rope one step apart.

The children who had nothing to do pulled the ropes, and the adults dug along the ropes with bone rakes and scattered the wheat. In addition to the wheat, peas were sown between the two ropes.

Wheat has strong tillering ability and shallow root system; Peas need support, just enough to lie on the wheat, have deep roots, and have a nitrogen-fixing effect, and both crops can be mixed.

The only downside is that when the harvest comes next year, the wheat and peas are easily separated. But now you just need to think about eating it, and it's also a good food to crush together.

He gave a demonstration to the crowd in front, estimated the time of labor, motioned for everyone to do it first, and turned around to discuss a matter with the old grandmother and the stone.

After two months of reclamation, the two clans have cultivated a total of about 3,000 acres of land, and on average, each laborer has less than half an acre of land a day.

Since the land was cultivated by the two tribes, it is time to distribute it. Make an example and have a comparison when the rest of the tribes move over later.

According to the number of laborers who opened the land, the land was divided by steps, and Chen Jian's tribe was divided into about 2,000 mu, and the stone tribe was divided into the remaining 1,000 mu.

Nowadays, there is no government, just a simple tribal alliance, and there is no way to divide public and private land.

The two tribes each eat according to their ability, and pay a part of it every year as food for the army, and the soldiers from the other tribes do not need them to provide food for the first year, and then gradually standardize it after settling down and planting.

In addition to these reclaimed lands, the burned land is also under their own jurisdiction, with the reclaimed land as the boundary, the upstream belongs to the Chen Jian tribe, and the downstream belongs to the stone tribe.

Nearly 100 slaves were also divided into two parts, and Chen Jian didn't say much about how to use these slaves.

Shi knew that his clan still owed a lot of things to Chen Jian's clan, and he would have to repay it next year after separating the land.

She decided to learn from Chen Jian, there are many things she doesn't understand, and the clansmen may not understand, but if she wants to learn anything she doesn't understand, she will not be wrong.

In her opinion, no matter how strange the decision is, as long as it is proposed by Jian Chen, she will agree. Because we are close, because we live together, this trust is also stronger.

Unlike those tribes who live in the mountains, the stones and the people can see the changes from day to day with their eyes, and the intuitive feeling is deeper, rather than just staying on the surface of clay pots, houses, etc.

Their tribe was divided into more than thirty slaves, and the stone was not used immediately, but followed behind Chen Jian to see how he used these slaves, even if he didn't understand why, he had to learn from them.

The use of slaves was a troublesome affair, especially for cultivation, which could not be directly checked. Things like weeding and harvesting can be checked, but sowing seeds can't be dug up little by little to see the depth of the seeds they sow.

According to the comparative peasants, work can be roughly divided into sub-workers and piece-rate workers. As the name suggests, the work is resting, working at sunrise, resting at moonset, no matter how much you do, you only need to do it there; Piecework is paid according to how much you work.

Of course, slaves are not paid, but the efficiency of the laborers must be low, and the things they grow are not their own anyway, so why do they work so fast?

Chen Jian estimated the efficiency of labor, brought more than 60 slaves assigned by his tribe to a piece of land, and told them that they could rest after sowing the land today.

And he separated a part of the land with ropes, and told them that they could do so much more, that ten men could have one more fish to eat at supper.

The same job means completely different things to different people.

The people of the clan are for a better life, and there is hope in their eyes, and they have not forgotten Chen Jian's original promise to have enough food without leaving the village too far. Every bending down now is for the future not to chase the beast and run, and every drop of sweat is for the joy and sweetness of the future harvest.

There was no hope for the slaves, they just wanted to live, and the purpose of their work was only to not be beaten and to have a meal. Meals are not enough every day, whether bent over or sweating, just to survive the repetition.

They had to work hard for the sake of the fish's pie, there were people next to them who would patrol and watch, and a certain amount of food would be deducted from the deliberate thinning, and everyone should bear the responsibility for one person to make a mistake.

After planting for a distance, they were pleasantly surprised to find that it seemed to be done when the sun came to the edge of the mountain, and it was completely possible to have two more fish before it set.

However, they didn't know that Chen Jian had already taken into account the decrease in efficiency caused by exhaustion, which was the experience summed up by some managerial talents in the previous life, and it was just right to manage slaves, including the fish that was like a pie: the normal quota of food was not enough, and only "voluntary" overtime could they get enough food, and if Chen Jian did not allow them to work overtime now, it was estimated that they would not be happy.

These slaves were not the same as Spartacus, and those slaves longed to return to their hometowns and be happy village farmers, at least a little hopeful. And the homes of these people have been destroyed, they have nowhere to go, and they cannot survive alone in the wild, as long as there is a little hope of living, their sense of resistance will not be too strong for the time being.

Jian Chen was not prepared to oppress them now, there were still many things to do recently, and it was best to be able to take care of this group of slaves with less thought.

In this month and a half, my own tribe will also be very busy. Counting the slaves and the two rescued tribes, the population of their own tribe has exceeded 400 people, and with the children sent by each tribe, the food will be a little tight in winter.

The two rescued tribes were still nominally separate tribes, but they would be bound together in every way, and the purpose of keeping them as a community was only to gain the support of the majority in the Council of Chiefs, as a transition from tribal democracy to dictatorship.

Fortunately, this year is a big year, there are a lot of acorns on the mountain, and the starch content of acorns is not low, which can be used as food.

But there is also a fatal drawback, there is too much tannic acid in the acorn fruit, and the tannic acid will complex with the protein, and eating too much may clump in the stomach and not digest, resulting in bloating and death.

Apples turn yellow after cutting because of this thing, and persimmons that eat too much will form persimmon stones in the stomach because of this thing, including the astringent taste of wine, and even the better taste of wine in oak barrels is because of this thing.

If you want to make acorns undead, you have to use clear lime blisters to calcify tannins.

This led to another job, to take the clansmen and slaves to dig limestone and come back to burn it into quicklime.

Fortunately, some tribes had brought limestone in the last transaction, otherwise Chen Jian would not have dared to let the clansmen live on acorns in winter.

In addition to acorns and lime, grass and hemp are harvested, hemp seeds are peeled, ewes are matched, struvite stones are smashed, flax is peeled, and geese are flapped to prevent them from learning to fly, spin threads, and weave fishing nets......

This month and a half is destined to be busy, and every day must be carefully calculated, Chen Jian has already given up the plan to improve the wheat seed this year, and there is no time at all, there is really no time for the tribesmen to go to the mountains to pick daylilies and lilies at this time.

Thinking about this large number of things, Jian Chen felt a little headache, and he had to think about everything, and the time was too short and there was no suitable helper by his side.

The "Book of Songs" in the cutting of Tan once said: Kankan cut Tan Xi, the dry of the river of Liao. The river is clear and rippling. If you don't have crops, you won't be able to harvest 300 grains? Don't hunt or hunt, Hu Zhanerting has a county? He is a gentleman, not a vegetarian!

is also a slave owner, and the gap in this life is inevitably too big.

He wondered when he and his people would be able to live a vegetarian life without cropping, hunting, or hunting......

"Labor is the most glorious...... But the work is so tiring! ”

He muttered a sigh of emotion and continued to dig through the grassroots......