There were so many captives in the tribe, and the black wolf alliance didn't wear too many animal skins when they came, and they took out a lot of animal skin shields later, which were all taken off from them.

Although they are captives, they can't be allowed to freeze to death, the basic animal skins still have to be given, and there is not much firewood for the captives, and if there are too few animal skins, they will really freeze to death.

However, it doesn't need to be too good for the captives, most of them are still small pieces of animal skins, and then throw them some animal skin ropes and let them put them together by themselves.

However, even this is still a little insufficient, plus Teng Snake's own needs, to improve the utilization rate of animal skins, it is very necessary, at least in the winter of this era, animal skins can be worn warmer than all other things, and relatively easy to obtain, in the vast mountains, there are animal skins for warmth.

Although the animal skins issued to the captives are not very good, there is no problem in ensuring that they will not freeze to death, and the captives are all a dozen people in a room, and it is acceptable to close the door.

Before, the beds in the tribe were directly covered with animal skins on the ground to sleep, but everyone found that the prisoners slept on straw seemed to be quite good, a thick layer of bed, soft and warm, and then a layer of animal skins on top, it would be much more comfortable to sleep, and now Teng Snake has also popularized this kind of bunk.

The captives don't have so many animal skins now, they basically sleep on straw, and Teng Snake still lays the original animal skins on it, and it may be necessary to lay two layers of animal skins in winter to completely block the cold air from the ground, but now only one layer of animal skins is needed.

There are a lot of straw in the tribe, and it can be spread thickly, even if it collapses after a long time, you can take some more pads in time.

Although the surroundings will be exposed, Song Xuan asked everyone to block the surroundings with wood, but they will not run around, and the stove is a certain distance from the bed, so there is no need to worry about fire.

Although the snow outside was not very thick, it was still falling, and if everyone did not go home to rest, they would hang out in the main house or find some work to do.

Now Teng Snake has three slightly larger rooms, in addition to the two in the inner courtyard, there is also one arranged on the captive's side, but it is slightly smaller than the one before Teng Snake, this room is reserved by Song Xuan for them to teach, it is just winter, it is time to learn Teng Snake's Chinese language.

Although the difficulty is a bit high, it must be much more convenient to communicate after learning, which has also been unanimously recognized by the Teng Snake people.

And it's not so difficult to just learn how to speak, at least it's okay for these big and rough people to work and listen to lectures.

The difficulty is still to recognize words and learn to calculate, but Song Xuan is not embarrassed by the children of the snake, the words taught are usually used, and now they are only taught a few hundred, and arithmetic is only at the level of the first and second grades of primary school in later generations, just simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and multiplication is only limited to two digits.

With Song Xuan's level, a higher level, even functions and the like can be taught to Teng Snake everyone, but that is really not too necessary, judging from the current development of Teng Snake, it is estimated that Song Xuan will not be exposed to equations and functions until he dies, and these taught can already deal with daily things, even if they are used in this way, there are not many places, most of them are mainly addition and subtraction.

It's pretty good to be able to teach this, but there aren't too many things stuffed into everyone's huge heads, they just look relatively big from the outside, and not all children can grasp these alone, let alone adults.

So every year it will be consolidated for everyone, this year's task is even more arduous, in addition to the dozens of new children, the people of the kite and bear tribes and the captives also have to let them learn to speak, Song Xuan's requirements are not high, that is, next year can be a relatively smooth exchange, just don't have to compare like now.

Dozens of children learn relatively early, and Shi Yan will take them with him every day, so the progress is not bad, and now they can use simple words.

This set of processes, Teng Snake also has a lot of experience, although it will be very headache to teach, but as long as you follow the previous slow teaching, it is not difficult to achieve the goal.

The larger houses on the captives were for them to study, and in addition to working in winter, they had to go here to get them, saving firewood and grass, killing two birds with one stone.

However, these two days are the relaxation time that Song Xuan promised, and after a while, these captives will really enter the devil's teaching, but the people who teach them are still ebony them.

But if there are ebonys, they are not particularly good at learning, after all, they are all audited, and there are many daily uses, and Song Xuan also sent a few people to them to help the teacher, of course, they can also play a role in supervision.

And Teng Snake's side is naturally Song Xuan's horse, although there are not as many people as captives, but they are more miscellaneous, the people of the bear tribe are Song Xuan's followers, and they are not even closer than Teng Snake in terms of relationship, and it stands to reason that they only need to obey Song Xuan's orders, and Iris is the leader of a tribe, although he is already learning, and there is no problem with the simplest communication, but except for Song Xuan, it is not good to be too strict with them.

Once Song Xuan started teaching, he would be a completely different person, but no matter who you are, you will not be punished if you say that you are wrong, and your identity is here, and no one dares to object.

and then make a black and white face with the water witch, and whoever comes has to learn obediently.

Although these children of the wolf tribe are all big learners, they have also been taught by people from their own tribe, so their attitude is quite serious, at least they are learning seriously, but it is much easier than teaching them Shipi at that time.

Although the people of the wolf tribe did not get the better conditions they imagined after that, at least Teng Snake cared about the children, and they all knew that even if they knew what Teng Snake's intentions were, the conditions were really good, and the children were much better than them in terms of food and clothing.

This was enough for them, although it was a big mistake, but Teng Snake did not take his anger out on the others, and even their conditions were better than those of the people of Wu Yu, at least not so crowded.

Teng Snake doesn't have too many extra tasks this winter, but it is not much different from the previous two winters, they are all about sharpening weapons, making tools better, and preparing for hunting and planting in the coming year, but next year, the goal of the tribe has changed.

Although hunting is certainly still very important, the cultivation of rice is obviously more important, and it is still very difficult to feed so many people in the tribe without relying on rice.

After the beginning of spring and the autumn harvest, it still needs to invest a lot of time and manpower, of course, it usually requires a lot of people, this is not the hundred acres of rice fields this year, Song Xuan can handle it by picking a few people in the tribe, even if it is to dredge the ditch, hundreds of acres of rice fields are not something that a few people can solve.

In addition to the work of cleaning up weeds, the tribe will have to keep a certain amount of manpower in the future.

While life may not be as good before the harvest, once the harvest is harvested, you should no longer have to worry about food, provided that the population does not grow in large numbers.

In the coming year, Song Xuan still wants to take people to the Wuyu tribe, even if he doesn't fight directly, he has to go over there to get some copper ore back, although there is still a little bit now, but there is also a place to go, which can be used as a tool, and then he will build a few bronze plows, so that it will be much easier to turn over the ground next year.

The number of plows is naturally as much as possible, but I don't know if the remaining point can reach more than ten pairs, and the copper refined for the third time is relatively softer, and Song Xuan doesn't know if it can come in handy if it can be made into a plow, although it is not very sure, but it is definitely more wear-resistant than stone.

I will definitely do some of it, and as for whether it can be used, it depends on the results.

But in addition to the plow, the saw sickle at the time of the autumn harvest is the real headache for the snake, you must know that everyone polished at least three or four last year, but even so, when the real harvest is made, it is still not enough.

Even if there is someone in charge of polishing, it has to be dry and stop, and cutting a few handfuls of rice is no longer too sharp, it is very torturous to use, and now that Qing has experienced the benefits of the copper knife, everyone is a little sneering at the saw sickle that was polished with stone before, and they don't want to suffer such torture at all.

But the ore collected from the Black Feather tribe has basically been used, even if there is still a little left, it will definitely not be able to meet the needs of the Teng Snake, you must know that if you want to ensure that the rice is harvested in a short enough time, the saw sickle must definitely have at least one hand, even if you don't count the children of the tribe, it will need nearly three hundred.

In this way, even if all the snakes that were refined before were melted, it would be completely impossible to reach this number, and it would definitely not be realistic to toss like this, and it would be more troublesome to melt and pour back and forth.

The best way is naturally to go to the mines of the Wuyu tribe and find a way to get a batch back.

Song Xuan had also inquired, at least the Wuyu tribe did not pay special attention to it for the time being, after all, copper ore is not as easy to forge as ordinary stones, and it can only be used as a weapon if you find a suitable one by luck, and it is not easy to smash it into a suitable shape, and it is also quite laborious to polish.

The copper mine of the Wuyu tribe is also about two days away from where their tribe is located, and according to Wucang, the Wuyu tribe will send people to find some stones every once in a while.

When I first found out, the Wuyu tribe even sent some people to stay there alone, but seeing that the efficiency didn't seem to be very high, I finally chose to dig it back and get it slowly, dig more, and give it to others, and there are always a dozen people who stay there, and the efficiency is naturally not half a star.

So if you're lucky, you might not even attract the attention of the Black Feather tribe, and you'll be able to get some ore and bring it back.

When he first defeated the Black Feather, Song Xuan was also ambitious for a while, wanting to strike while the iron was hot, and lead people to try whether he could destroy the Black Feather tribe in one fell swoop, but thinking about it carefully, Teng Snake's situation at this time was still a little unsuitable for such a long-distance and difficult battle.

Although there are more people, most of them are still captives of the Black Feather Tribe, except for them, there are not even three hundred people, and minus the children or something, but there are only more than a hundred people, including the people of the Wolf Tribe, and when they go out to fight, they must be optimistic about the captives in the tribe, so that the number of people who can be sent is very small

Even if it is as Song Xuan thought at the time, and then call the people of several other tribes, it will be two or three hundred people at most, although it sounds like a lot, but in the face of the thousands of black feather tribes, it is still very difficult to win in a head-to-head confrontation, and there is basically no possibility, so it is better to seek stability, develop slowly, at least popularize bronze a little first, and there must be a crushing trend in weapons.

Anyway, Wu Yu is not so big a threat to Teng Snake now, although there are still more than a thousand people, but a small half of them are children, according to Wu Cang, the remaining adult men plus women, a total of only six or seven hundred people, and there are a large number of slaves and captives among them.

Although the Wuyu tribe failed to succeed in invading the Teng Snake twice, Song Xuan could also detect the difference in the combat strength of the two arrivals, and the first time he came over, he was already defeated by a slight setback, but this time, even if he was surrounded by the Teng Snake, the people outside were scattered by the wild boar herd, but in the end, there was still resistance, but it didn't bring too much pressure to the Teng Snake.

In the end, although many people surrendered, it was also physically and psychologically squeezed to the extreme, and the stone shadow also hijacked the leader to face the invincible situation of Ming, and surrendering was also the most appropriate way.

Therefore, as long as Teng Snake does a good job of guarding and is not attacked by the people of the Black Feather Tribe, there is basically not much danger, and even whether the Black Feather Tribe can ensure its own safety is still a matter of two words.

As long as the Black Feather Tribe is not destroyed for a day, there will definitely be another war between the two tribes, but the time may be a little later, at least it will have to wait for the Teng Snake to popularize bronze weapons.

Before the autumn harvest next year, Song Xuan will definitely take people to take a trip, at least to solve the need for a saw sickle, and now he can only hope that everything will go well, if he meets the people of the Wuyu tribe, a battle will definitely be inevitable, fortunately, the location of the ore is not next to the Wuyu, and it is unlikely that he will encounter a large group of people.

Anyway, Song Xuan didn't plan to live there permanently, it was a big deal to steal the ore and run, as for whether it could be refined, it depended on luck, the best case was to be able to find the associated tin ore.

Since you are going to use a saw sickle made of bronze next year, there is no need to polish it with stone this year.

At present, Song Xuan didn't ask too many things, but he had a general understanding of the situation, and then he definitely had to get some more information out of the captives, and the Ebony people had already begun to do this kind of work, after all, they had been away from the Wuyu tribe for a long time, and the Wuyu tribe had also undergone a lot of changes.

In fact, in terms of development, the Wuyu tribe has not been much slower than Teng Snake in the past two years, and even faster, from when Song Xuan first came, it is said that the tribe of about 1,000 people has developed to nearly 2,000 people before the battle.

Teng Snake appears to be so fast, it is completely due to the relatively small base, but the Wuyu tribe has a large population, and there are frequent wars, and even one or two hundred people were lost on Teng Snake's side.

Not only has the population increased greatly, but even the tools have moved from stone tools to bronze, but they have not been opened, and can only rely on luck to come out, at least until this year, there should be no way to refine them with fire.

But as long as they are given enough time, Song Xuan believes that the Wuyu tribe will definitely be able to figure it out, this is not a difficult thing in the first place, and it only needs an opportunity, it may be intentional, and even unintentionally it may achieve this effect, such as accidentally losing the ore in the fire, if the temperature reaches the standard, it is very likely to melt it, and once it is discovered, it is relatively easy to figure it out.

According to the Ebony Tribe, this is the case with the pottery of the Black Feather Tribe, which was quietly discovered, and the method of making it quickly became popular, and it seems that of course this popularity was limited to the Black Feather Tribe.

But again, they didn't think it was because of the soil, so there was no way to completely guarantee the quality, and it was not so smooth when fired.

For the Wuyu tribe, in fact, Song Xuan is most concerned about the origin of the salt on their side, plus the southern tribes, the Wuyu tribe can be said to have satisfied the consumption of thousands of people at once, and it seems that the Wuyu tribe has also communicated with other tribes, and this number may be even greater.

If it is extracted from ore like Teng Snake, the difficulty is still not small, and even if Song Xuan achieves such a fine way of experience, it is still inferior to Wuyu's salt in terms of quality

Song Xuan didn't think that the refining method of the black feather could be better than what he had figured out, this possibility was not great, but there were not many people belonging to the black feather tribe among the ebony people, and none of the core people had been replaced long ago, and the bow and a few people were not clear.

But among the newly captured captives, they are basically people from the Black Feather tribe, not to mention many high-level people, they will definitely know this information, such a big deal, it is impossible to solve it with twenty or thirty people like Teng Snake.

Before, Song Xuan was busy, and Song Xuan didn't pick out the time, but now that winter is coming, it is necessary to ask carefully.

Although Teng Snake relies on the salt ore in the valley, it is not too much of a problem to slowly refine it to meet the needs of the tribe, as long as there are enough people and stay a little longer, even only need to run once a year.

But after all, the quality of the black feather side is better, and it is very likely that it is easier to obtain than Teng Snake's, although others are not so sensitive to salt, but Song Xuan is still a little concerned, Teng Snake's salt has just reached the standard of barely being edible, and it is very different from the white fine salt that Song Xuan used to eat.

The more impure the color of the salt, the more impurities it contains, which contains a lot of heavy metals and the like, it is not a good thing to eat it in the stomach, if there are conditions, the purer the better, and Song Xuan estimates that Wu Yubu's salt is likely to have only been simply refined, if it is done again according to Teng Snake's side, the quality may be better.

However, although there are some salt from the Wuyu tribe in the tribe now, the amount is not much, and it has to meet the consumption of this winter, and there is no condition to toss it for the time being, so I can only find a way later.

There are many places in the Wuyu tribe that are worthy of Song Xuan to explore, in addition to these things, the vast world in the north is also very meaningful to explore, in the past, Teng Snake did not have that ability, and there was a Wuyu tribe in the north, so he was not particularly interested in places outside this area, and Song Xuan also knew that there must be more than these tribes around.

But according to the previous situation, the invasion that can be resisted in a short period of time is already a pretty good thing, let alone looking at other places, and this piece downstream is also enough to toss the snake slowly, according to Song Xuan's estimation, if it can be popularized, this piece alone can feed a rather amazing population, more than 100 times the current is not even a problem

But now there is indeed this kind of opportunity, as long as the black feather tribe is solved, it can develop externally, at this time, the Teng snake should be in a basin, belonging to the attack and retreat can be defended, even if the outside situation is relatively bad, it is a big deal to come back again, surrounded by continuous mountains, it is not so easy to enter.

Of course, this is only an assumption for the future, no matter what, although the Wuyu tribe does not have much of a threat, it is not much point to solve him and discuss these things, so Song Xuan has never mentioned it to others.

No matter what, its own strength is the last word, and when the strength of the Teng Snake is big enough, these are also natural things, although this basin is safe enough, it seems that the resources are not much, and there may be reasons why it has not been fully explored, but at least from the stones collected around in the past two years, there are not many ores and other things exposed on the surface.

In any case, it is definitely impossible for the Teng Snake to cross the border to the industrial age, and it can use more exposed resources, and the underground resources are definitely richer, but it is nonsense that it cannot be used.

However, as long as the bronze mine found by the Wuyu tribe is obtained, if the quantity is large enough and the quality is good, it should not be a problem to meet the development of Teng Snake, after all, Teng Snake will definitely gradually move towards planting and breeding in the future.

Where bronze is needed, in addition to weapons, the big head is still on the farm tools, and the sacrificial supplies mentioned before are still a few after all, and they can be plated on the surface to flicker the past, although the weapon is equally important, but if it is just defense, the demand is not particularly large, and now the only enemy of the Teng Snake - the Black Feather Tribe, has not yet used bronze, whether it is or not is not particularly important.

But there is a relatively large vacancy in the demand for farm tools, just like next year's saw sickle, which is something urgently needed, not to mention that Song Xuan also knows hoes and nails and rakes, if you want to develop the planting industry well, good farm tools must not be learned, and those polished with stone can only be used temporarily, not to mention that Teng Snake has come into contact with bronze at present.

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