Chapter 16: The Sorrowful Heap

After the leader and Wu were fettered by the egg, Yan Zheng found that the power of the tribe temporarily fell into his hands.

And the tribe did not become chaotic because of this, but became more organized. He felt that it was because of his instructions that he had passed on to his people better.

Through this incident, Yan Zheng found that the power boundaries of the primitive tribes were very blurred. This gave him a lot of room to maneuver, and he felt that over time, he might well become the helmsman of the tribe substance.

However, he didn't have the heart to fight for power now, after all, this tribe was too backward, and he still had a lot to do.

As in the case of farming, after planting the rice himself, he asked the tribal woman to sort out the rest of the land in the reed field.

Let them build ridges of land on this fertile soil, and at the same time make ditches one after another.

Finally, under his guidance, the beans were planted using a small wooden stick to determine the intervals.

This is completely different from the previous planting of the tribe, which used to be planted, which was to scatter a handful of seeds on the ground and harvest as much as it could.

And the scale of cultivation is far from so large, and it consumes a large amount of the tribe's bean reserves at one time.

So these women threw the beans into the ground with a look of reluctance.

This is also a matter of no choice, the tribe does not have much food, and Yan Zheng can't let them plant the entire reed field this time.

And the hunting team didn't catch much these days, and the most prey they caught were rabbits and mice, and the only big game was deer.

This kind of hunting efficiency made Yan Zheng eager to lead them to launch a hunt, but unfortunately they didn't have something like a drum that could make a big move.

Fortunately, the output of nitrate far exceeded Yan Zheng's expectations, and the nitrate soil that was brought back finally boiled out of the nitrate of the two clay jars.

Yan Zheng decided to leave one clay jar of nitrate to pile up the nitrate, and the other clay jar of nitrate to process animal skins.

As long as the leather can handle it well, something like a drum is a minor problem.

At his behest, all ten of the women who were the most skilled in handling leather were summoned to learn how to handle leather.

He used a piece of rabbit skin for this demonstration.

This piece of rabbit skin has been preliminarily processed, and the fat on the skin has been scraped off.

He first soaked it in hot water, waited for the skin to heat and extended, then took it out, and rubbed it repeatedly with nitrate as it cooled.

After kneading, holes are drilled around the perimeter and tied to a quadrilateral shape made of wooden sticks with fine hemp rope.

To maintain a certain tension in the rabbit skin, and then add water with nitrate and plant ash to make a paste, which is evenly coated on the skin.

Next, as long as the paste begins to fall off, and nitrate seeps out of the surface of the hide, you only need to soak it in the nitrate solution again.

Finally, the skin is dried in the shade, which can ensure that it is comfortable, soft and very tough.

The whole process took five days, and when the final product was presented to the skilled workers who worked with the hides, their expressions were a little stunned.

Is this still the animal skin they are familiar with?

In addition to being surprised, they expressed great respect for the substance of nitrate.

Yan Zheng took advantage of the situation and asked them to start helping all the skins to be disposed of, so that they also realized the "division of labor".

He believed that as long as it was a little while, almost all the women of the tribe would be able to do this craft.

However, he just wants to let these women divide the labor, and only by specializing in it will they strive for excellence, accumulate more experience, and achieve more results.

The ten women had no objection to this arrangement, and they quickly threw themselves into the handling of the hides.

Under the slight guidance of Yan Zheng, they quickly got started.

Yan Zheng asked the tribe to reprocess the previous skins, which increased the workload a lot.

Looking at the work efficiency of these ten people, he thought about it for a while and made a decision that went against Ma Zhe.

He further divided the work among these ten people!

He divided the fur processing into five steps, and each of the ten men was responsible for one of the steps.

Once you have done it in one step, you can leave it to the next step.

When this arrangement was proposed, the ten women were amazed for a moment, but they continued to work according to the steps.

Yan Zheng watched from the sidelines and found that when the ten people were familiar with each other and had a certain tacit understanding, the work efficiency really improved!

So, simple standardization, is also feasible among savages?

So what is the vertical division of labor, social division of labor, and division of labor, should you try to cultivate it?

Yan Zheng thought about it while coming to the place where the pottery was made.

After observing for a while, he also made a new arrangement for the ten people who made pottery.

Again, the pottery work is divided into steps, and according to the situation of each person he observes, he assigns them the most suitable steps.

Under this arrangement, the savages only ran in for about half an hour before gradually adapting to it.

And the efficiency is on par with just now, presumably in a few days, there will be a greater improvement.

Yan Zheng touched his chin and pondered, these savages are really the best targets for squeezing!

The modern factory system can be so detailed in the division of labor, and can be standardized and streamlined production, in fact, it is established in a complete production management system.

That is to say, if there is no incentive, supervision, management, regulation and other means, this set of things will not be able to play.

But here with the savages, it seems that as long as they can do it, they can do it seriously without touching the fish.

Yan Zheng felt that this might be in the concept of savages, and there was no concept of touching fish.

The cruel living environment makes these people accustomed to cooperation and hard work every day, otherwise there will be more people who touch the fish, and the tribe will be gone.

It's like the people who went to sweatshops in the 90s, they didn't get overtime pay, they didn't understand anything, and they didn't have extra time off every day. But they still feel that if they can make more money in the factory, their labor will be worth it.

Yan Zheng was excited, but it was only for a moment.

Damn, there is such a good exploitation target, but there are no conditions for him to live like a rich man.

And there is no market for him to do this, the teenager he put back has been more than 20 days, and there is still no shadow.

The market he wanted to open for trading seemed to be stillborn.

Thinking of this, Yan Zheng let out a long sigh.

He left the pottery place, found a few tribesmen, and asked them to take the big clay jar to the toilet to get some feces out.

They also asked them to erect a new shed at a slightly higher ground.

He's going to pile up nitrate!

As long as he succeeds, he will completely solve the problem of this tribe's use of nitrate.

And the few clansmen who were called by him to get feces seemed to be used to it, from boiling urine to boiling nitrate, Yan Zheng used the facts again and again to win the simple trust of the clansmen.

So even if it's something like, these people go out of their way to get it for him, and under his guidance, they mix a vat of nitrate and clay evenly.

Then with his disgusting expression, he mixed the feces with his hands.

Finally, the mixture is spread on the flat ground under the shed and covered with thatch.

Yan Zheng asked them to build a ridge next to the shed and dig a ditch.

When this was done, he ran away, taking a big breath of fresh air.

Playing with and pee, he really doesn't want to do it again.

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