Chapter Twenty-Three: The Mighty and Domineering Luo
It's not perfect to have a bed frame, and it's not cool to have a mattress, but it's a pity that cotton is native to India and Arabia, and it won't be introduced to China on a large scale until the Song Dynasty. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info impossible to find at this time, without cotton, it is impossible to produce cotton wool.
Zheng Jun planned to use fur as a quilt cover and weeds as a quilt heart, barely making a simple mattress. However, the Ba people are a small society with very poor productivity, and fur is quite precious, you must know that there are still many Ba children, and they don't even have fur clothes.
Let's use a sleeping bag now, he tried it, but the bed is hard to death, and the sleeping bag is not as comfortable as putting weeds on it. In the end, we had to pile the weeds on the bed. Damn, isn't that the same as when you didn't have a bed?
Just as he was about to improve his own life, he suffered a big setback, and Zheng Jun now decided to start by improving the social productivity of the entire Ba people.
If you want to develop, you must first have education, and the current Ba people are in a stage of education that teaches by word and deed, and there are no people who specialize in education. Every Ba child learns from his or her parents, and there are few professions that have the opportunity to teach as an apprentice.
Zheng Jun had a big eye this time, he looked at it carefully, and found that the children of the Ba nationality would work with their parents at a very young age. These children are not only studying, but also the labor force of the family, and obviously they will not be easily asked to study with Zheng Jun. And the children of the hunters who were away from home stayed at home one by one, practicing with short spears, and these were relatively easy to become students.
Zheng Jun must not be able to decide by himself if he wants to teach students, so he has to inform Qi Cai.
Kai will always stay in the chief's house in the center of the tribe, and as the leader, she has the obligation to accept the requests of the tribe members at any time.
"Kai, I want to teach some children to become witches. ”
Kai was very happy to hear this.
"Of course, you can choose any child in the tribe, and I'm sure no one will refuse to become a witch. ”
"I'm not very familiar with the children in the tribe, and I thought if I could gather all the children, and I would try to teach them for a while, picking out the right ones to become witches. ”
Kai hesitated.
"It's spring, it's the right time to plant, and a lot of the kids have to help with the fields, and without them, they probably wouldn't have been able to do the spring planting. ”
In fact, Zheng Jun also knew that this request was a bit excessive, but this was actually a small trick he used. It will be easier to get the other person to agree to a difficult request first, and then make a simpler request. In modern times, this technique is simply known to everyone, but in the face of the leader of the Ba tribe, Qi, it can still be used.
"Can you gather the hunters' children?"
Kai nodded in agreement this time. The words were successfully performed.
In addition, Zheng Jun has a problem.
"Kai, I see that the tribe's farmland is cultivated along the big river, but it is not too far from the river, and the farthest of these fields is almost a day away from the tribe, why is this?"
"When planting, you need to water it, and if it's far from the river, you can't easily irrigate it. ”
"Then why don't you dig a ditch?"
"Aqueduct?"
Kai didn't quite understand the word "aqueduct" because it was a word that the Ba people didn't have.
"Well, it's your ditch, your little ditch"
The wall ditch is the name given to the moat outside their low wall.
After hearing this, Qi was so long that Zheng almost thought she had lost her mind.
"When the spring planting is finished, we will start digging this canal."
Damn, I just didn't think of that. Zheng Jun had actually been very strange about this before, obviously digging such a big moat-like deep ditch. But instead of digging canals, they simply opened fields along the river, and the farthest fields were tens of kilometers away. I finally couldn't help but ask, but it was just because they didn't think of it.
Leaving the chief's house, Thirteen, who was waiting outside, told him that Lo had returned and was almost at the gate.
Luo had taken a lot of hunters to hunt a large herd of deer in the territory of a small tribe before, and now that they came back, they must have a lot of gains, Zheng Jun planned to see if there was any extra fur, so he might as well make the mattress.
Rushed to the door and saw Luo almost at first sight. Although the previous Lo was the most experienced hunter in the tribe and the de facto leader of the hunters, he had no ornaments other than a necklace made of animal teeth. But now Lowe looks like he's in a class of his own.
He wears a helmet made of the skull of a saber-toothed tiger, with two large teeth in the skull that wraps his face in the center. The sternum of the saber-toothed tiger is strung together to form a pair of bone cuirass, and the bones of the limbs of the saber-toothed tiger are tied to his limbs as arm armor and leg armor.
Each hunter carried rolls of fur and large bales of cut venison, and it was evident that the harvest was quite abundant.
And what surprised Zheng Jun the most was that each hunter was holding a wooden bow and arrow.
Seeing Zheng, Luo excitedly raised the bow in his hand.
"Zheng, look, I did it according to your bow, and thanks to it this hunt, we have gained several times the harvest!"
Zheng ignored his words and directly took the bow in Luo's hand to observe it carefully.
The bow is made of a very elastic branch, which is tied up by three branches, and the bowstring is a branch of some kind of plant, and the whole bow is in the shape of a long bow, which is about 1 meter long when wound.
He tried it, and felt that the bow power was about 30-40 pounds, and it was indeed beginning to be lethal.
"The bow is well done. ”
Sometimes you can't underestimate primitive people, you only see it once and then follow it. And why didn't you find out that Luo was such a bun-burning guy before?
He is embarrassed to wear such a piece of armor that drags and blows up the sky!
In fact, Zheng Jun himself was so envious that his saliva was about to flow out, this armor was really handsome.
"Zheng, your bow is very helpful in the hunt, I discussed it with the hunters, and you have a share of the harvest this time. ”
Now Zheng Jun also has some understanding of the harvest distribution of the Ba tribe, and 2/3 of the catches of the general hunters need to be handed over to the tribe, and these harvest tribes will be distributed to other members according to their contributions. And the remaining 1/3 will be divided equally by the hunters, and if Zheng Jun is more shared, the hunters' own harvest will be reduced.
But Zheng Jun didn't refuse, hum, this is the patent fee for the bow, it's quite cheap. And it just so happens that fur is needed now, so I can finally make a mattress now, so I won't still sleep on the weeds.
This can be regarded as knowledge changing lives.