Chapter 39 Towards Farming
Agriculture, animal husbandry, pottery, mining, bows and arrows are the five most basic technologies of a civilization, without which there is little difference between humans and other animals. And once these five technologies are unlocked, human beings truly become the spirit of all things, above millions of lives.
Of course, Chen Feng wouldn't expect them to learn all these five technologies at once, he planned to start with farming first.
Agriculture is the starting point for almost all agrarian civilizations, or more extremely, for all civilizations that can achieve scientific and technological progress.
Nomadic civilization cannot establish a modern civilization system by herding, and the social form of indefinite residence makes it difficult to form technological accumulation, and they will never be able to achieve technological progress without relying on plunder, trade or conquest.
Therefore, the character of nomadic civilization is mostly fierce and brutal, lacking the flexibility of commercial civilization and the simplicity of agricultural civilization, which is not a good material for research.
Mochizuki is a Homo sapiens tribe in the jungle, because the geographical conditions are too poor, the technology tree is easy to be crooked, and it is best to rely on its own development, and it is best to be the Aztec water.
The Aztecs were also a strange civilization, and they were a dark and terrifying theocracy of human sacrifice, and they lacked resilience against outsiders, and the Spaniards were inferior to the Indian nomads in the north in terms of resistance to invasion.
He didn't want the Homo sapiens tribe to be like that.
Chen Feng was the first to teach the farming techniques of the Homo sapiens tribe, in order to give them the personality of civilization first, so that they could form a hard-working and simple culture in their labor, so that they would enter the classical period faster and easier to control in the future.
In general, slash-and-burn agriculture forms in jungle-filled areas such as islands.
The so-called slash-and-burn farming is to cut down the trees in the jungle first, and then burn them with fire, and plant food in the open field, and the grass and wood ash formed by burning can provide fertilizer.
However, because this planting method is very extensive, coupled with the rainforest climate and rain vigorously washed, the fertility of the field is lost quickly, often a piece of land is planted for a year, the soil fertility is exhausted, and you have to find another piece of land to start again, which can be called "nomadism" in agriculture and fight agricultural guerrilla warfare.
If it was slash-and-burn farming, then it would be pointless to let the Homo sapiens tribe farm the land, and Chen Feng would definitely not allow them to use slash-and-burn farming.
The territory he chose for the Homo sapiens tribe was close to the river, and as long as it was properly planned, carefully cared for, and rotated crops, the fertility of the soil could be well maintained, and a piece of land could be planted for at least a few years or even ten years.
When the Homo sapiens tribe develops, bananas, coffee beans, and, if you find a plot with good water and heat conditions, you can also grow sugar cane.
What's more, there is a wild rice next to the territory of the Homo sapiens tribe, which shows that it is completely feasible to grow rice, and maybe it can also develop a good variety of Champa rice.
If the fertility of the soil is too much to maintain, Chen Feng doesn't mind setting aside a plot of land to build a spore farm, and let the Homo sapiens tribe harvest plants to feed the farm, and he opens up the spores to them.
Soon, a five-year plan for farming was initially formed in Chen Feng's mind.
He first passed on the knowledge of transforming farmland and growing crops to Mochizuki. Mochizuki is now obedient to the master, no matter what the master says, he just has to write it down.
For the next five days, Mochizuki followed the Lord to learn about agriculture, and during these five days, the Homo sapiens tribe was also out of the brink of extinction.
Under Mochizuki's guidance, they harvested wild rice and discovered a new food, rice. After using the sling, the surrounding birds and small beasts suffered, and the hunting party reaped a lot of money.
In the name of "the gods trust dreams", Mochizuki led some people to reclaim the land near the rivers in the territory, sprinkled the selected rice seeds into the ground to raise seedlings, and covered the ground with the ashes of the burned plants and trees.
After that, it is a continuous carrying and watering, and the labor is quite heavy.
These actions were unfamiliar to Homo sapiens who had never farmed, and they did not understand what Mochizuki wanted to do, and some even resisted his commands.
But once Mochizuki moved out of the banner of "divine instructions", the Homo sapiens had nothing to say, they were still in the stage of ignorance, and no one dared to disobey the instructions of the gods.
What's more, the "instructions from the gods" that Mochizuki received before were all proven to be correct.
In fact, Mochizuki himself was a little apprehensive, after all, he had never planted rice, he had never even heard of such a thing, and he was very worried that this farming experiment would fail, resulting in the destruction of the image he had built up with great difficulty.
His worries didn't last long, though.
One day later, the rice seeds planted by Homo sapiens in the ground sprouted and seedlings emerged.
Three days later, the rice seedlings were successfully raised, and the green rice seedlings fluttered in the wind in the field.
"The End of Civilization" is a game after all, and in order to take care of the player, it is impossible to restore reality 100%.
In the game, mobs grow much faster than normal. Normal rice seedlings tend to take a month, but it can take only three days in the game. Normal spring planting and autumn harvest, in the game planted last month can be harvested next month. Normal pregnancy in October, as long as one or two months in the game, birth, old age, sickness and death are fast, four or five years is a stubble.
If a player makes a decision and waits a year or two for it to pay off, then everyone can drive them crazy and the game won't be fun.
Then, according to the instructions of the master, you only need to transplant the rice seedlings into the paddy field, and you are done. The juggernaut calls this act "rice planting."
In the evening, Grandma Wu found Mochizuki and told him about his recent work.
"The hunting team has more prey recently, but the distribution to the clan has decreased, today during the day, the territory and the hunters had a fight, using slings, and several heads were broken."
Mochizuki had just returned from the field, and when he heard about this situation for the first time, he immediately frowned: "There is still such a thing?" ”
After the Homo sapiens tribe settled in their new territory, the tribe was divided into two groups: the hunters and the territorials.
The hunters were composed of sturdy male warriors and some sturdy women, who were responsible for hunting and gathering and providing food for their clansmen, while the territorial people were responsible for building houses, weaving clothes and making tools, and some were too old and sick to work.
After Mochizuki received the farming methods taught by the master, he formed a new group: the cultivators, who were responsible for farming.
Among the three groups, the most powerful is undoubtedly the hunters, who have faintly overwhelmed the other groups at this time.
Granny Wu said, "Now, many people in the territory have a lot of complaints against you. ”
Mochizuki frowned and said, "Why is this happening?" ”