Chapter 223: Too many captives are troubled
For those captives who were captured by their own hands, the Teng Snake people naturally did not have the slightest mercy.
These days, they have also arranged a lot of work, from morning to night when they can rarely rest, the newly opened up rice fields are at least 400 acres, although they may not be able to plant, but it is definitely better than not enough.
However, after this reclamation, it will be a little troublesome to expand the area in the future, whether it is opposite the tribe or the downstream section, it has been basically utilized, and then you can only go farther away if you want new rice fields, and there are still ups and downs around Teng Snake, and many places are not suitable for rice fields.
However, the ups and downs are not big, there is a slope where it can be used as a kind of hemp and forage for the livestock to eat, especially the livestock, the number of animals in the future must be more and more, and there is no need to be too anxious to plan out in advance.
And the surrounding land has basically been burned, and it is not so easy to find wild ones in the future, and it is not easy for Shi Yan to run too far, although there are more people now, but Song Xuan still wants to leave this aspect to him to manage, after all, he is more familiar with the habits of these lives.
Later, it can slowly take a back seat, whether it is handed over to the children or other people to graze.
Although the house has been built, there is no grass and mud outside, mainly because the wood is not all dry, most of it is still cut and used, but the roof has been completely completed, and the straw left over from the previous is used.
Even if dozens of houses are built, only a small part of the straw is used, although the straw is not as good as thatch, but in general, it is still more convenient, after all, it is easy to obtain, and there will be a large number of new straw production every year, and as long as it is spread thickly, no matter how much rain can not enter, it can only be said that the rain leakage is still too little.
Anyway, whether it is used or not, rice has to be harvested, and it is better to make full use of it than to waste it.
As for the arrangements of the rest of the wolf tribe, except for the children, there will not be much change at present, although when they integrate into the Teng Snake in the future, they will be more inclined to them, but for the time being, they are still treated as normal captives.
Others have no objection to this, it is already the greatest gift if they are not killed, in fact, for these captives, except for the evil leader, Song Xuan has not moved too much murderous intent, although he has also heard that the people of the black feather are acting in embarrassment, but it is also in line with the reality.
However, although he didn't kill the two of them directly, Song Xuan still asked Shi Meng to arrange the two of them into the house where everyone in the wolf tribe lived, as for whether they could survive, it depended on the ability of the two to resist attacks.
Although the wolf tribe and the black feather formed an alliance before, now that they have become captives, it is still necessary to divide them.
Compared with the black feather, the people of the wolf tribe are obviously easier to subdue, and the Teng Snake is not short of manpower now, but it is still very short of its own people.
After this battle, the combined number of tribes barely exceeded 200 people, but after the captives and the women and children of the wolf tribe, they were on a par with Teng Snake, and even more than a dozen people, and most of them were adults, and there were only about 20 children.
It's quite difficult to manage, although they are all defeated by Teng Snake's subordinates, but if they have other ideas now, the threat to Teng Snake is even better than before.
So the arrangement of the captives is also very famous, close to the Teng Snake are those of the wolf tribe, they are equivalent to a buffer zone, I believe that most of them do not want to continue to conflict with the Teng Snake, if there is really an abnormality, it will also be found in time, giving the tribe more time to react.
However, this is not very likely, since the captives' dwellings are already fenced off.
It's the same as the situation at the beginning of the ebony tree, in addition to the tall fence, the surrounding area is also fenced with traps, and the traps that were dismantled by the black feather before, Shi Meng let them all move back, although the pit must be dug again, but things like spikes can still be used again.
In the past, in order to collect enough spikes, Teng Snake was not less busy, although there are many in the woods, but it is quite troublesome to find a sufficient number, and now it is not wasted here.
And it was also to resist them before, and now it is still to block them, and the goal has not changed, but it was to prevent them from rushing in before, and now it is to prevent them from running out, but the offensive and defensive momentum is easy.
Now this circle can no longer be regarded as a trap, it is more appropriate to call the trap ditch, it is three meters wide, although it is only twenty or thirty centimeters deep, but it is basically impossible to jump directly, the spikes inside are dense, almost next to each other, and only a shallow layer of straw is paved on it.
In addition to the ditch, there are several rooms around it, which will be manned, unless the movement is very small, and can be found almost immediately.
In addition to these things, in each of the captives' houses, one or two captives who had joined the Teng Snake were arranged, for the purpose of self-evident, to spy on them.
Although the captives of the Wuyu tribe were relatively large, more than one hundred and twenty people, they did not live in many houses, only ten in total, even less than the people of the wolf tribe.
Mainly because there are really few people who can arrange to supervise them, there are only more than 30 captives in the past, and a few have been sacrificed this time, like Gong Yi, they must not be able to arrange the past, and most of them have already formed families, and they can't be separated for this reason, they still have to go together.
Addition, subtraction, and in the end, I can only see twelve rooms, so I simply crowd a little, and leaving two groups of people can be regarded as a slight rotation, otherwise it is still a little uncomfortable to be crammed into one room with more than a dozen big men every day.
In addition to supervising them not to run around at night, these dozen people are also responsible for taking care of them during the day, of course, there will be new people joining in during the day Teng Snake here, and jointly supervising them, in addition to doing ideological work, they have personal experience here, and at this time their status in Teng Snake is not low, but it will be more convincing.
Song Xuan didn't expect them to be like Ebony and others, if the enemy came, they could help the tribe defend, as long as they didn't make trouble, the things that followed could be seen in the hearts of the people for a long time.
At least the life of Teng Snake is still quite good, and the only drawback now is that the captives of Black Feather are all adult males, and it is not like the last time the people who attacked Teng Snake, there are men and women, if they are all men, there will still be a demand for some aspects.
This is also a little annoying thing for the Teng Snake people, there is not much shortage of women inside the Teng Snake, and it is still relatively balanced when the sheep tribe joins, except for the ebony and the two of them have not been divided, and only the iris They are now in a state of more men and fewer women.
However, with the addition of this group of women from the wolf tribe, there is no need to worry about the problem of men and women at all, and the last surviving men of the wolf tribe are only about 20 people, and now the wolf is dead again, and the surviving women are almost twice as many as men.
In this era, there is no such thing as widowhood, no matter what, the main purpose is to reproduce the tribe, so although there is a relatively fixed mate, if one party dies, the other party will also select the right person from the tribe, re-form a pair, and continue to contribute to the tribe.
Since there are not enough adult males in the wolf tribe, the remaining women naturally have to be arranged here in Teng Snake first, Song Xuan is also ready to wait for this time to be busy, and then the men in the tribe who are still single will choose by themselves, those women as captives, naturally there is no right to object, it is completely up to whether the people on Teng Snake's side are satisfied, in addition to being busy during this time, it is naturally to give them a time to observe, if they are impatient at this time, they can also say it directly, anyway, it is all for the tribe, There's no need to be embarrassed.
Then it's winter, or you need to work hard, and strive to have more children, although you can expand quickly by grabbing captives, but no matter what, it's not your own tribe's people, after all, it's different, as the population of Teng snake increases, your own people have to occupy a larger proportion.
Although it takes a lot of time from a doll to adulthood, your own people are your own people after all, but in the future, the children born from the captives will definitely have to be raised by Teng Snake.
But now this number will not be too much, after all, there are so many women in the wolf tribe, no matter how they divide, they can't satisfy these more than 100 big men, Song Xuan naturally won't let such a ridiculous scene like the wolf tribe be staged on Teng Snake's side, although he respects the customs at this time, but even in this era, that scene is not respected by everyone.
As for the rest of the women, they can only look at their eyes, whether it is a capable person on Teng Snake's side or someone on Wuyu's side, they must be together, as for the situation of multiple spouses, Song Xuan will not stop them, before the tribe was conquered, Yangyang Kite Rain They all had several mates.
Even until this time, it was quite common for the tribe to have multiple spouses, Shui Yunshi Meng and others were like this, as long as they could be busy enough to have more children, but Song Xuan still felt that after experiencing the devastation of the group of people in Wuyu, these women should not have any eyes for them.
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Although there are many people in the tribe, but fortunately, there is not too much shortage of tools, and the people of the Wuyu tribe have left a large number of weapons before, among which the proportion of stone axes is also quite high, although Song Xuan burned a batch when chasing Wucang, but the rest is still basically enough, a little worse, and there is still a stock on Teng Snake's side, which can be replenished directly.
And a large number of weapons were also transported from the wolf tribe later, each tribe is actually similar, and there will be some extra weapons on top of the weapons, after all, most of them are made of stone, and they may crumble at some point.
If you don't have a backup, it will take a lot of time to build a new one.
Spears are of little use to the snakes, and even if there are enough of them, they will definitely not be used by those captives, and the stone axes that are in short supply in the tribe are now.
Cutting down trees and burning forests require stone axes to participate in it, although the number can barely meet the needs of one person, but there is basically no way to replenish it if it is used badly, fortunately, it has been basically used at present, and the next thing is to cut some wood needed to make a fence, and the existing ones are barely enough.
The large-scale project has basically been completed, and the remaining demand is not so great, and it will be too late to make it after winter, and now let them bring back some stones for the polishing master, and there will be something to do in winter.
Except for stone axes and axes, no other weapons appeared in the hands of the captives, and even stone axes were only distributed to them when they were used every day.
And there will be someone to supervise when using it, and there can't be too many people with stone axes, although stone axes are all weapons in melee combat, but they can't be completely unwary of them.
Although each person's feet and hands are symbolically restrained with animal skins, but it is just a matter of a few axes, which basically does not play a role, after all, it is not made of metal, and the Teng snake does not have this ability now, and it is not only troublesome to make it of wood, but it is also impossible to work in ordinary times.
That's all Teng Snake can do now, but fortunately, at present, everyone's performance is still quite good, and they work harder, and no one has the idea of escaping.
In addition to effective supervision, the main reason is naturally that Teng Snake firmly controls the food in his own hands, although the captives also have three meals a day, but they are all sent out by Shi Yan after leading people to do it.
And the amount of each person is quite fixed, to ensure that you don't die of hunger, but you can't eat, you can't eat for half a day, and you have basically consumed it, and even at night you will deliberately divide less. No other food is given, and unlike the snake people, everyone will hide some small snacks in their hands in case of emergency.
In this case, even if they really let them slip away, with no weapons in their hands and no food on their bodies, it is completely impossible to survive in this season.
Now that some animals have entered a state of hibernation, there are not many activities outside, and it is still a little difficult to hunt.
And in addition to food, even animal skins are not given much, and they need to work hard during the day, although the temperature is not low, but they do not need to be wrapped too tightly, and at night they are in the house, and a bonfire is lit, and a room is crowded with a dozen people, and it is not particularly cold.
The ground is not like the snake people are generally paved with animal skins, they are all laid straw, although the effect is worse, but as long as it is thick enough, at least there is no need to touch the cold ground, and there is a bonfire, how can it not be cold.
In addition to deliberately guarding against them, the main reason is that there are not many skins of Teng Snake, and they are already a little nervous.
If you can't eat enough, you can find some wild grass and wild fruits to overcome for a few days, but with these few animal skins on the captives, it is quite difficult to survive outside.
Even a campfire alone may not be able to withstand it, unless you find a great place to live, such as a cave, but if you are in the wild, unless you lie in the fire, there will always be one side that is cold.
So the most important thing now is to control the weapons of the captives, and the others don't have to worry too much, anyway, if they run out, there is a high probability that they will not survive, after all, Teng Snake is nearly half a month away from the Black Feather Tribe, and this is still under the condition that they are very familiar with the route.
It was possible to pretend to be people from other tribes before, and there were several tribes in the environment, but now there is no hope at all, I believe that the Niu tribe will definitely attach great importance to strangers, and it is not impossible to even do it directly.
For these people of the wolf tribe, although the supervision is more relaxed, it will not be too bad, they are in the same courtyard as the captives of the black feather tribe, this kind of people who do not have additional snakes in the house.
Different from the captives of the Wuyu tribe, for the wolf tribe, everyone's feelings are still somewhat complicated, except for the sheep tribe and the Teng snake, the other three tribes have women among them.
And the resistance of this group of people in the tribe has not been as strong as that group of people, which Song Xuan has already seen when he was fighting, although Wolf Chi took the lead in mixing in the Teng Snake, but when he really fought, they all ran behind, and after the defeat of Wu Yu, he ran even faster.
On the Teng Snake's side, most of the black feathers died, but the wolf tribe didn't even reach a third, and there were a few people who were inconvenient to stay because their legs were broken by the Teng Snake.
In addition to the wolf blazing, the other people fell when they were caught up, first, they vented a little in the kite, and secondly, the people who broke their legs were basically impossible to recover normally, and there was not enough food on the Teng Snake side to feed them.
And even if this kind of thing happened in their own tribe, if the food was not very abundant, it was common for them to commit suicide or be forced to commit suicide, not to mention that they were now captives.
Teng Snake's current food is barely enough, although the excess food can be eaten for half a year, but that is calculated according to the population before Teng Snake, before only one hundred and fifty or sixty people naturally enough to eat, and there are many children among them, there is not much to eat.
Now there were suddenly two hundred more captives, and apart from some food from the wolf tribe, the food that Eyuha brought back from the bear tribe was only enough for them to eat for a month.
The rest of this naturally has to be provided by Teng Snake's side, and the pressure on more than 100 adult men is not small, this more than 100 people really want to let go of eating, but the consumption is much larger than that of the original Teng Snake.
Moreover, it was already winter at this time, and it was completely unrealistic to get a large amount of food from the wild, and they still had to work in the tribe, and it was impossible to send them out to find something to eat, so from now on they could only eat the stock of snakes.
At least until the beginning of spring next year, the food of the Teng Snake will not increase, and the last batch is Song Xuan from several downstream tribes "scavenging" these these, although it seems to be a lot, but if you really want to eat it, it will be a few days' amount.
So after entering the winter, the daily food of the captives will be further reduced, anyway, they are not expected to be fat and strong, and the training has nothing to do with them, but it is possible to arrange a drill in actual combat, so that they can fight, but it is still okay to be a handle or a sparring partner.
Although Teng Snake also trained often last year, it was basically against grass targets or air, and there was very little confrontation against Zheng'er Bajing, and everyone was afraid of accidentally injuring these people, and they were all a little timid, and now the prisoners were enough, and they had nothing to do with themselves, so they could be put on a few more layers of animal skins, as long as they couldn't die.
Now the food consumed by each captive a day is about six or seven taels of jerky, which is about half of the appearance of Teng Snake's side, but if it is put in a pot with water, there is no problem in eating it temporarily, but it is quickly digested.
If it really comes to winter, this amount should have to be reduced even more, and Song Xuan is also ready to promote rice among the captives.
Although the people of Teng Snake have no resistance to rice now, if they really want to eat it, they are still in a state of five or five, and they will not completely regard it as a staple food, after all, they have not eaten it before, and now although it is barely promoted, one is for the sake of Song Xuan's face, and the other is that the taste is okay, but after all, the long-standing habit cannot be changed in a day or two, so Song Xuan did not think about forcing everyone, and immediately changed it.
And even if it is changed now, there is not enough rice in the tribe for everyone to eat.
It is better to put this time a little longer, and after the harvest is completed next year or the following year, not only will you get used to eating, but also the amount will not be too short, and now you can distribute this rice to the captives to eat, and if it is used to cook porridge, the daily consumption will be quite small, and if it is used to fill the stomach in winter, it will not be a big problem.
Now after all, they need to do physical work every day, and they still can't be too hungry, otherwise they won't be able to do it, and it's not good for Teng Snake.
And if they are too deductive, they will cause a backlash, and now this weight Song Xuan has also inquired, at least it is better than the normal tribal conditions.
As for the previous group of captives, their lives were even more unrelated to the captives, not only six or seven people could be divided into a room, but also the food could barely fill their stomachs, although they were all leftovers of the snakes, but there was food prepared for them.
If it weren't for such good conditions, I believe it would still take a while for Ebony and them to completely return to the Teng Snake, at least not as quickly as it is now.
However, this is mainly due to the constraints of conditions, although Teng Snake's side has been quite well prepared, but who would have thought that in just half a month, the population would suddenly increase by one or two hundred.
There is more than half a year's food reserve in the tribe, which is also quite rare in the history of Teng Snake, at least it has never happened before, if it is not for Song Xuan's vigorous promotion, plus Teng Snake has developed well, and the two years are good, this is also an unlikely thing, it is very difficult to accumulate so much food just by hunting, no matter where it is, of course, except for the way of the Black Feather tribe by robbing others, robbing is always the easiest and most direct.