Chapter 816 The Food Problem
Marriage is a transaction in this era, there are rich tribes, and naturally there are poor tribes, but it is the instinct of biology to reproduce, and you have to go on with or without money, so even if you are poor, you have to find an opportunity to get married and complete the great event of inheritance.
But poor, what to do?
Just one word - grab.
This is the most primitive marriage robbery, which is exactly the same as other animals, males need to protect their territory, protect their women, and ensure that they are not snatched away by other outsiders.
"Up."
When it comes to the big issue of genetic continuity, there is nothing to say about it - do it.
As soon as the two sides met, they were like male animals during the mating period, without a word of nonsense, and rushed up directly, unlike ordinary animals competing for the right to mate, ordinary animals generally do not have to worry about their lives when they compete for the right to mate, but people will, the spear in the hand does not hesitate, straight to each other, this hand is in the fight with the prey to practice the skills, fast and ruthless.
Although there are few people in the Xuanniao tribe, they are not afraid, probably because of Chen Kan, but more because of the instinct of the creatures.
Of course, the other party is also very fierce, and it is completely a deadly style of fighting, but the final result is that the fifty people of the Xuanniao tribe are actually pressing the other party's eighty people to fight, which is completely unexpected by the other party, and even those women did not expect it.
The only one who is not surprised by this is Chen Kan, who has been training them for more than half a month, although he can't practice with all his strength because of the lack of food, but it is still possible to teach some fighting skills and military skills.
These fifty people formed a rather rough military phalanx, although the formation was full of flaws, but it was no problem to deal with these eighty rangers.
And there is Chen Kan secretly helping, now the Xuanniao tribe is only more than 400 people, every labor force is a valuable asset, especially these young people, Chen Kan doesn't want to have any losses, if there is danger, Chen Kan will secretly take action.
The other party died about thirty people, and more than a dozen people were seriously injured, and the price paid by the Xuanniao tribe was only a few people slightly injured, although it was a major matter related to the inheritance, but the other party was not a fool, this time it was obvious that he had gnawed on the stone, so he raised the mind of retreating.
"Don't let them run away, close in." Chen Kan saw their thoughts clearly on the side, and said loudly, after receiving Chen Kan's order, fifty young people immediately formed an encirclement according to the formation of the drill, and wanted to leave everyone here.
As I said before, every labor force is important, and these opponents are also important labor forces, Chen Kan wanted to capture them, but even so, in the end, he was finally rushed out of the encirclement by thirteen people, and seeing that he was about to flee into the mountains and forests, Chen Kan made a move.
Chen Kan waved his hand, and a fierce sword aura directly cut down a big tree on the road in front of them.
"Boom!" The fallen tree lay in front of them.
"What...... What the! Looking at the big tree that almost hit them, all thirteen people were stupid, and sat on the ground with a frightened face.
On this trip, not only did he get fifty women, which solved the lifelong events of the school-age young men of the Xuanniao tribe, but also got forty-three slaves.
All these slaves were centrally managed by Chen Kan, a priest, and for the convenience of management, Chen Kan directly hypnotized all of them to reduce management costs.
They are from a tribe called "Red Bird" not far away, although it is also a tribe of bird totem beliefs, it does not mean that the tribe of the same totem is a group of harmony, this is like the real world, the whole world agrees with gold, but not all countries that agree with gold are a family.
If it weren't for the fact that the reserve food of the Xuanniao tribe is only enough for the people of this tribe to barely survive the winter, Chen Kandu wants to take people to directly annex this redbird tribe, the redbird tribe is a tribe smaller than the Xuanniao tribe, there are about three hundred people, and now that they have lost eighty young adults, the combat effectiveness of this tribe will inevitably be sharply reduced, and it should not be a big problem to take it, but there is a shortage of food.
The Red Bird tribe is also a poor force, otherwise it would not have sent so many people to rob the marriage, although the marriage robbery does not seem to cost a cost, it is a profitable business, but in fact it is not the case, marriage is a kind of alliance, just like marriage in the modern world, red envelopes are there and dealings, after all, the robbery can not be put on the bright side, and it is easy to offend people, so it is not wise to rob relatives under normal circumstances, unless it is a last resort.
Then all the work of the entire Xuanniao tribe focused on food, not that Chen Kan wanted to expand, but that the food was really not enough, and now the food standard of the Xuanniao tribe is one meal a day, which is already progress, and it was not up to this standard before.
The standard of food for all small tribes of this era was that men were young and married women first, followed by children and unmarried women, and the elderly came last.
It is an instinctive act of maximizing profits, and young men and married women are the main labor force of the tribe, so it is necessary to eat as much as possible.
Unmarried women will marry out in the future, they are not from their own tribe, there is no need to raise them for other tribes, so they can't eat too much when they are short of food, although children are the future of the tribe, but because they are small, they don't need much, as for what malnutrition, it is never something they consider.
And the old man eats the least, no way, because the old man has the worst labor ability, so he eats the least, why there are few old people in the Xuanniao tribe, this is the reason, even in times of famine, the old people will leave the tribe en masse and go outside to fend for themselves.
The "old man" here does not mean an old man who is fifty or sixty years old, but a "miracle" who is fifty or sixty years old in this era is not called an old man, but a "miracle", and the "old man" here refers to a person who is older than thirty-five or even thirty years old.
Chen Kan has a lot of plans that need enough nutrition to support the body of the clansmen, and now his own tribe is not enough to eat, where is there spare food to expand, no matter what he does, he must have good physical fitness.
To teach martial arts, you need to have sufficient nutrition as support, and you need to carry out some large-scale labor, such as ironmaking, which also requires a lot of physical strength, so the biggest problem in front of Chen Kan now is the problem of food.
The idea of solving this problem is also obvious, starting from two aspects, one is to take the initiative, men form hunting teams, set traps everywhere, take the initiative to attack, to capture prey, women to collect plants, and harvest those millet, the other is to trade.
However, the resources in this area are relatively scarce, and few people will exchange food for things, if there is surplus food, then try to expand the population, whether it is to grab or buy, because population is the most direct embodiment of strength.
According to the elder, the cattle totem tribe would only sell food far away, but it was too far away from them, so don't think about it.
On the other hand, it is breeding, directly catching adult rabbits, relying on rabbits to provide fixed food for strong fertility, as for poultry, although Chen Kan also caught some pheasants, but domesticating pheasants is not an overnight thing, and it is not possible to provide a fixed food source for the time being.
Chen Kan didn't expect that he would have to run for food one day, and the world is impermanent.