Now that he has the idea of conquest, Bladefang has to figure out what the situation of the tribe is now.

He found the records handed in by the 'Statistical Committee' and looked through them carefully, and finally had a clearer and more intuitive understanding of the current situation of the tribe.

Compared with when he was a child, the total number of people in the tribe has increased by nearly half over the years, and with the addition of 125 full-time soldiers, 43 witch doctors, and 9 witch doctors, it has reached a total of 2,270 men and women.

Most of them are trolls who have survived after years of abundant supplies.

Among them, there are 350 sub-adult (16-19 years old) trolls, who have basically begun to participate in hunting activities, and can barely be regarded as a complete labor force;

There are 600 trolls (4-15) in the youth and teenagers, and their main task is to study, and they usually only undertake some auxiliary work such as gathering and handling prey;

There are also 200 juvenile (0-3 years old) trolls.

The Prime-Age Troll, on the other hand, has a maximum of 820 Hunters and Warriors because it occupies a life cycle of about 240 years, and is the main member of the team such as Hunters and Warriors.

In addition, the tribe has a total of 140 elderly trolls;

Among them, 250 also have a partial labor capacity (about 30-50 years of life remaining), and can be competent for some production activities that are not too heavy, and take on tasks such as gathering together with young trolls;

The remaining 10 are in the near-death period (2-3 years of life remaining), and their physical functions are not sufficient to support them to participate in any form of productive activity.

It is undoubtedly a heavy burden for so many trolls to eat, drink, and Lazar, especially 'eating'.

The troll in the prime of life is 2.8-3.1 meters tall and weighs about 800-900 kilograms, and eats nearly 10 kilograms of various foods each time (48 hours) a day;

Due to the gradual deterioration of the digestive system, elderly trolls can only eat 1 kilogram at a meal, but they must eat at least 4 times a day;

Sub-adult trolls with a preliminarily developed digestive system also eat a total of 6 kilograms in two times a day;

In addition, teenage trolls also need to eat a total of 3-5 kg 3-5 times a day;

The baby troll only drinks milk every day, but the lactating female troll who is responsible for feeding has to consume an extra 2 kilograms of food a day to produce milk;

Dying trolls eat much less, digesting less than 1 kilogram a day.

Meat accounts for almost three-quarters of the troll's recipe, and the other one-quarter is filled with various fruit roots and leaves.

This means that the tribe needs to consume about 10 tons of meat and 3 tons of plant food every day, and about 4,800 tons of meat and 1,400 tons of plant food are consumed in 480 days of a year.

This is undoubtedly a terrifying number, if it had been placed 20 years ago, the tribe would not have been able to bear such a large consumption.

Nowadays, there are three main sources of food: hunting, gathering, and animal husbandry.

Among them, gathering is a fairly old tradition, which has always been the only source of plant food for the tribe.

In the past, elderly trolls who were still able to move had to run long distances to barely get enough fruit each time, which was very inefficient.

But the situation has changed dramatically, and the tribe has spent several years sorting out a 300-meter by 300-meter open space (about 90,000 square meters, 135 acres) near the left, and has successively planted 4,000 fruit trees improved by witch doctors (in modern times, the average of 1,000 apple trees covers an area of less than 20 acres, and the production capacity of witch doctors here cannot keep up, otherwise they can plant more).

The production capacity of these improved fruit trees is nearly 20 times higher than that of their wild counterparts, and the annual yield of these improved fruit trees has been changed from one to three times a year, with an average annual yield of 200 kilograms (in modern times, an apple tree seems to produce about 50 kilograms per year).

4,000 plants, the annual output is about 800 tons, which meets half of the needs of the tribe.

And these fruit trees are planted next to the tribe, making the collection quick and efficient.

The source of meat is still mainly based on hunting, and the scale of livestock can only be supplemented for the time being.

It takes about 1 year on average for the large animals raised by the tribe to grow to 500 kilograms, and about 200 kilograms of meat can be obtained after slaughtering;

This supply means that at least 50 animals must be killed every day to meet the entire consumption of the tribe, but the total number of large animals is only about 1,000, and the number is far from enough.

Therefore, the various hunting teams of the tribe will hunt in batches to meet most of the meat needs.

However, large animals can produce milk, so they can replace some of the meat consumption.

In addition, there is one of the most critical elements, the refrigerator tree, which is an important pillar for the tribe to be able to support such a large number of people.

The tribe has a total of 100 refrigerator trees, each of which can provide an effective volume of about 300 cubic meters (the functional area is 12 meters high, 5 meters long and 5 meters wide), all of which add up to enough to store about 7,000 tons of frozen meat, which is more than the tribe consumes in a year.

Of course, not all of these refrigerator trees are used to store frozen meat.

The fruit produced by the fruit tree three times a year is also sliced, dried and ground into granules and frozen for later use.

Milk from livestock is also frozen after being boiled to a near-solid state.

In addition, due to the fact that the Witch Doctor's production capacity is taken up by fruit trees and refrigerator trees, the tribe now only has 40 weapons trees.

Among them, there are 10 steel shield trees, with a monthly output of 30 steel shields;

10 recast spear trees, with a monthly output of 60 recast spears;

10 dual-purpose short spear trees, 150 spears for hunters per month;

There are 10 epee trees, with a monthly output of 80 epeeves.

Although the manufacture of the weapon tree is simpler than that of the refrigerator tree, it is not easy, and the energy spent is far from being comparable to the improvement of the fruit tree.

A martial arts tree requires three witch doctors to cooperate for 2 days to complete; If performed by a witch doctor on his own, it will take at least 10 days.

After receiving these detailed data, Bladefang lamented the speed of the tribe's development over the years, and at the same time regretted the scarcity of witch doctors.

If there are more witch doctors, I believe that the changes brought to the tribe will be far greater than they are now.

As a result, he became more and more eager for the growth of the troll population.

So, as soon as he digested the data, Blade Tooth convened a meeting of all the members and formally put forward the proposal for foreign conquest.

At the meeting, although conservatives such as the Great Witch Doctor expressed unease about starting a war; But with the abundance of data, the vast majority of attendees expressed support for the conquest.

In the end, after voting, 'Conquest' officially became the next key project, and the only thing that needs to be considered is the method and goal.

"Your Excellency the Chief Consul, you are the one of the tribes who has the most contact with the outside world, can you give us an overview of the situation of the tribes of the Black Forest? What are the tribes that are suitable for us to digest? ”

Bladefang, who had barely left the tribe in all these years, asked.

"Your Excellency, if you are asking which tribe is closest to us geographically, it is undoubtedly the Finai tribe. It is located to the north of us, at the corner of the Black River (which runs from north to south) and the White River (which flows from northeast to southwest and joins the Black River not far north of the Ya tribe), and is just across the White River from us (in fact, we can't see it). ”

"What about strength? How many fighters can be dispatched? ”

"Hmm.... It used to be only a little weaker than us, but now it should be thrown off a lot... If we use our strength 20 years ago, we should have nearly 1,000 people and six or seven hundred hunters who can fight. ”

"What about distance?"

"Well, it's going to take two or three days?"

"Probably.... In this way, I propose to send a team of hunters to reconnoiter along the way, and try to find out the road conditions as much as possible, which is time-consuming..... Well, in addition to the two witch medicine disciples.... The hunting squad is in charge of protection, and the witch medicine disciples are in charge of documenting the conditions along the way.... What do you think? ”

"Yes."

"It's for the best."