Chapter 40: The Pig Shepherd
In Dingnuo's view, it was not impossible to use slaves in ancient times, but the means of driving slaves in China in the past were too low, and they were much backward compared to the methods of European and American slave owners thousands of years later. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Before the American Civil War, slave owners in the South were the culmination of slave management skills, and their unique slave economy even surpassed that of the freedmen of the North at the same time.
Southern slave owners relied not on whips but on incentives, and black slaves were able to retain more than 90% of their market value of labor, and their standard of living and average life expectancy were higher than those of Irish migrant workers in the North during the same period.
Although the slave management method in China has the limitations of the times, it is also the most suitable advanced system for China at present.
In addition, what is even more surprising is that Ji Tong's policy of abolishing martyrdom, far ahead of the times, saved a large number of valuable labor for China.
Ding Nuo is full of confidence in the future of Huaxia and Ji Tong, and under his leadership, Huaxia will be stronger.
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Outside the camp of the Huaxia tribe is a huge construction site, where the warriors of the tribe are supervising the construction of the Shennong Sacrifice Roof, one of the great miracles of mankind.
The predecessor of the construction site was a hill more than 60 meters high, with sparse vegetation and a cone-shaped mountain, and the builders of the Huaxia tribe decided to build an altar according to the shape of the mountain.
The altar is a nine-storey circular platform paved with bluestone as a whole, gradually shrinking from bottom to top, and the top is a circular flat land.
Leading to the top is a staircase reinforced with strips of stone, and in the center of the top is a square stone table, where offerings are offered.
A large number of slaves were sent to the area, using rudimentary tools to dig up the mountain soil and level the ground, and countless slaves were the first sacrifices to the altar, and they built the altar with flesh and blood.
With the spread of Ji Tong's slave policy, the Ishiyama Workshop became a penal colony for slaves and lazy people who disobeyed discipline.
Every slave would feel a sense of fear at the sight of the hill, and then the work would be much more diligent. There is a contrast that will make the slaves cherish the hard-won stability, who doesn't want to be a dry bone at the foot of the stone mountain.
The gradually formed Shennong Sacrifice Rooftop, so that Ding Nuo indifferently ignored these oppressed slaves, Shennong Sacrifice Rooftop will greatly increase China's agricultural output, and the sacrifice of slaves is worth it.
It has been five years since the research and development of animal husbandry technology, and the animal husbandry industry in China has entered a period of rapid development in the past five years, and a large number of wild animals have been domesticated into poultry and livestock, providing a stable source of meat for the Chinese people.
The fastest growing industry is pig farming, where families in the tribe who have enough labor will raise one or two pigs.
Pigs come from hunting, and wild boars are social animals that often catch a large number of cubs in a single hunt. After a few years of domestication, the newborn cubs shed their wild nature, and their temperament is more gentle, becoming tame domestic pigs.
There were even full-time pig breeders in the tribe, known as dolphin herders, and the mud puddles were the best of them.
The cow is tall and big, but he has a problem, that is, he is afraid of life, and he will be nervous and speechless when he sees outsiders.
He was badly wounded in his right leg during the war, walked with a limp, could no longer fight, and could not even do farm work.
Worried about his livelihood after retirement, the tiger hunting wolf sent him a pair of wild boar cubs and told him to feed them well.
In the past five years, Nipuer has not dared to slack off for a day, and the scale of pig breeding has gradually increased, rapidly expanding from two to more than 50, and the first pig farm in the history of the Otherworldly Earth has been built.
At the moment he was scrubbing the body of an extraordinarily fat black-haired pig, talking to him as he scrubbed.
"Dandan, it's not good for you to be so fat, I'm going to send you to sacrifice to the sky in a few days."
The big black pig in front of him didn't know his fate, and he still ate duckweed and aquatic plants heartlessly, and responded comfortably to his owner from time to time.
"Hmph, you know hum, I'm really reluctant to give you up, you're as unlucky as me, otherwise you can be a breeding pig comfortably according to your size."
Two years ago, the big black pig was still a small piglet, and he accidentally angered the newly arrived boar, and the eggs were bitten off and he was infertile.
Seeing the bloody lower body of the big black pig at that time, I thought that it couldn't survive, even if it survived, what could it do, the basic ability as a boar was gone, and it became a waste like himself.
I didn't expect the big black pig to get better a few days later, and the bigger and stronger it gets, it motivates the mud puddle, isn't it just a lame leg to use so self-defeating?
He finally came out of the shadow of his lameness, and the big black pig became his pet, and he named the black pig Dandan, and talked to it when he had nothing to do, relieving the loneliness in his heart.
Inspired by the encounter with the balls, he was surprised to find that the boars with the two eggs were fat and round, and had a more docile temperament.
So he did an experiment a year ago to find two baby boars to remove the eggs from one of them and feed the same amount of pigweed every day.
Through comparative experiments, the castrated pigs were fattened out, and he dedicated this discovery to the leadership of the tribe.
When Yuluo learned the news, he was very happy to reward him with a large amount of grain, and appointed him as the pig herder of the tribe. From then on, he was in charge of all things pig-related, and went from being a lame retired warrior to one of the envied tribal commanders.
"Dandan, you eat a few more bites, and when the summer harvest is over, you won't have to eat, I told the leader that I want your bones, and I will bury them with me in the future, and you will wait for me below."
After more than two years of getting along, Dandan is like his good friend, and he is very reluctant, but he can only give him a ride for the sake of the tribe's sacrifice.
After scrubbing the black pig, pat it on the back: "You can rest in the pigsty, and I'll take the other pigs out to find food." ”
The tribe's pig raising method is mainly grazing, and the marshland near the tribe is a good pig farm, and the fast-growing purslane greatly reduces the food needed for pig raising.
In this era, the cold winter is the worst enemy of every pig farmer, and once it is winter, it is impossible to continue grazing.
In winter, pigs need to be fed with precious grain, and ordinary tribal families simply cannot afford to spend the winter, which restricts the further development of the wild boar industry.
What's more troublesome is that once the pigs are produced in winter, the cold environment will freeze the cubs to death, and there is no one in ten.
That is to put the cubs in the steamer, steam them overnight with a slight fire, and maintain the body temperature of the cubs until the cubs are born.
This method solves the problem that pigs are difficult to survive in winter, and greatly improves the reproductive ability of the pig herd.
Raising pigs is not only for meat, but also for fattening, and pig manure is a good raw material for fertilizing the field, which is a powerful tool for increasing agricultural production.
In order to collect fertilizer, the tribe designed and built various forms of pigsties: free-standing pigsties, various latched pens connected to toilets, and pigpens connected to houses or workshops.
With the rapid development of the pig industry of the Chinese tribe, pigskin has become an important raw material for warrior leather armor, which is cheap and has a huge output.
The pigskin armor seems to be low, but the defense is quite good, and the straight bow can't directly penetrate the tough pigskin.
The strong cost performance made the tiger hunting wolf interested, and the pigskin was included in the military resources and dealt with in a unified manner.
The pig industry has accelerated the domestication of other animals, and the domestication of bison and wild horses is highly valued by the jade snail, and as long as these two large animals are available, the productivity of the tribe will be a leap.
The more important significance of large animal power is that it has greatly expanded the range of human activities, and the distance of China's foreign conquest is almost at the end, and no matter how far away it is, it is impossible to ensure logistics, and even if it is defeated, it cannot be effectively controlled.
The expedition to the distant land reported that the road to the west and south was blocked, and the road to the west encountered a huge swamp and it was impossible to find a way out for a short time, and the south would face an endless forest, and it would be a disaster to enter it recklessly.
Upon receiving this news, Yuluo ordered the recall of the Tiger Hunter Wolf to rest his troops, gather all the tribes in the territory around the Huaxia camp, send slaves to build roads, and build walls according to the terrain.
The prototype of the city is gradually taking shape, and it is not surprising that Huaxia Camp will be the first city in the history of the ancient planet.
In the process of migration, the tribes that tried to resist were brutally wiped out one by one, and although the territory of Huaxia was reduced, its control was greatly improved.
At this time, Huaxia is like a folded fist to accumulate strength, Yuluo's next target is the land that is still unknown for the time being in the east, a large number of spies enter the unknown world, and the day the news is returned is the day when Huaxia enters and punches in the east.