Expand the territory, cut down trees and burn mountains.

In the midst of this vast wilderness, the dense woods are the tribe's worst enemies, countless poisonous insects and beasts hide inside, waiting for the opportunity to move, and the exuberant flames and magnificent thunder and lightning have been the only weapons to disperse wild animals since ancient times.

Food must be accumulated as soon as possible! Whatever it is, as long as it is not poisonous, it can be eaten!

From the Warring States Period to the Qin and Han dynasties, one liter is equivalent to 201 milliliters, a bucket is 2010 milliliters, and three liters is a catty, and a person has two meals a day, does nothing, and has to eat about three liters, so there is a saying that "the family has ten thousand hectares of land, and the eclipse is three liters of millet".

And that's just food, not counting the consumption of meat and vegetables.

Qin Yishi is equal to 120 catties.

That is to say, even if a person does nothing and eats three liters of millet a day, he will consume nine stones a year, while in the Qin Dynasty, for example, an adult man consumes a total of 18 stone of grain a year!

"Hanshu Food and Goods Chronicle", from the record of Li Kui, the ancestor of the Legalists, during the Warring States Period, the annual ration of a family of five was 90 stones, and the average person was 18 stones.

And the Chifang clan now only has more than 200 stone grains, and if they only rely on eating these surplus grains, they won't be able to last even a third of the month.

Even if calculated according to the lowest consumption, in terms of nine stones, the tribe of a thousand people is not evenly distributed, and it needs 500 to 900 stone of grain a month to maintain the normal survival of a thousand people!

Although the fur whip is tightened again, and the grain of the old and young is halved and halved, which is only to eat for less than half a month, but the key is that if it is maintained to this point, what is the difference between it and waiting for death?

People don't have the strength, how can they get food?

Hunting and fishing, plowing land and cutting down trees, which one has the strength to do without eating?

In the next generation, a normal person's meal will cost 250 grams of staple food alone, not counting the consumption of other meats, vegetables, and fruits! In this situation, if the rations of young and middle-aged people are cut, it will undoubtedly lead the tribe to a dead end!

In this group of peaks and thousands of miles, the fierce beasts and poisonous dragons haunt the Nanshan Wilderness, the tribe has a total of such a small number of people, and there is not much food!

One month, a month to the sky, even if it is now planted, it will take two or three months to mature and harvest at the earliest, and more than half a year for a long time, and the people of the tribe will have already starved to death by then!

........

The stone axe pounds, rubbing against the sturdy bark!

The teenagers are sweating like rain, they are cleaning up the site here, burning the mountain does not conflict with logging, before burning the mountain, cutting down the necessary trees, and enclosing the area to be burned in a circle, to prevent the uncontrolled spread of the wildfire, this is also one of the wisdom of the ancient people.

The young people are very energetic, they have a vision for a better future, one after another big trees have been smashed by stone axes, and even if they do not open the totem of cultivation, their strength is much greater than that of the people of later generations.

Yu Zai also holds a stone axe in his hand, and unlike others, he also has a brass axe pinned to his waist, which is a symbol of power.

"Hey!"

Yu Zai smashed the last axe, and the tree that was not too tall began to shake, and Yu Zai stepped back, and a more professional, slightly older warrior came over and smashed the axe again in the opposite direction.

Then the tree began to tilt and collapsed with a crash of dust!

"Whew!"

Yu Zai wiped his forehead, his head was full of sweat, compared to others, Yu Zai's physical body was much weaker, as for the reason, it has already been said.

"Wu, if you're tired, go and rest, we'll do this kind of work!"

The warrior in his early twenties came over, looking very concerned, and Yu Zai shook his head, and he looked at the sky, where the sun had risen to noon.

"Almost, Feiyi, look at how much wood there is, and you can't take it with you if you have more. ”

Yu Yi responded, he went around and shook around, counted, and came back to Yu Zai and said: "There are thirty roots, one of ten zhang, two people hugging, five zhang of seven, one person hugging, the rest are all in three or two zhang, the small bowl mouth, the clay pot, the big one has half an arm and one hug." ”

Yu Zai nodded, and estimated in his heart, if you want to build a simple temporary gathering point, this bit of wood may not be enough, that ten-zhang tall tree is indeed very good, but here, the wood can't be divided too thin, otherwise it will be broken by a foreign beast, so isn't it the same as not?

Besides, there are a lot of things to be made for a thousand people, and it is enough for these woods to be made in a simple house that can shelter from the wind and rain, but it is not enough to build simple defenses.

But no matter how much, it is estimated that the soldiers will not be able to drag it back, after all, the teenagers have not opened the totem, and now the Chifang clan has nothing on hand, the tools and pottery are only the most rudimentary, and there is no way to make the rolling wood Xuanyuan car in ancient times, to put it bluntly, if you want to get rich, you must first pick up the tree.

"If you want to get rich, you have to pick up trees first?"

Yu Yi listened to Wu's self-talk, and also remembered this sentence in her heart.

What does it mean to say masturbation?

The ancients in the Shanhai era did not have sleeves, so there is no saying about rolling up sleeves, but Fei Yi is not stupid, and can basically judge that this word is used here, probably with "hit", "cutting" is the same meaning.

However, learning a new vocabulary still made him seem a little happy, and when he met people, he asked, "Are you picking trees today?"

The young warriors began to drag the wood, and the rest of the people came out partially, because not everyone came to cut down the trees, and some were taken by Shui Zheng Yushu to find the snails to eat.

"Come on, come on, burn the mountain, burn the mountain! ”

Yu Yu took the burning torch and burned it in the mountains and forests, and the boiling heat made the young man's eyes red and he sneezed.

But what's interesting is that the tears on the other side are smoked out, but Yu Yu's eyes are not tearing except for the redness, which is very strange.

Fortunately, the surrounding warriors had already cut a clearing with their rough stone axes, otherwise the fire would not have been reversed.

In addition, it is not a complete burning of the mountain, an area is cut with an axe, and then it is burned inside the area, and in most cases it is necessary to distinguish the mountain wind and let the smoke drift to the opposite side, while the place that is too dense requires large-scale weeding and felling before setting fire.

In this way, the first is to avoid causing large-scale wildfires that can lead to animal tides, the second is to smoke the animals faster than to burn them directly with fire, the third is to clean up the habitat, and the fourth is to obtain plant ash to obtain sufficient fertility land.

The ancient ancestors were not stupid, in the era of slash-and-burn farming, the basic isolation measures for setting fire to the mountains were understood, because the fools who did not understand had already been burned to death by their own fire.

It is said that the operation of setting fire to the mountain seems to have originated from the Lieshan clan at the earliest.....

At this moment, the lamb, which had slipped away, suddenly returned.

"Lamb?"

Yu Zai walked over from the other side, and when he saw the lamb slipping here again, he suddenly felt a little strange.

Speaking of which, the lamb was lost, it was still summoned by the old witch who drove the beasts, and then the Chifang clan threw himself on the street, and the beasts ran away, but the lamb couldn't find a way home, so he had to live in the Chifang clan to cheat and eat and drink, and it just so happened that the totem of the Chifang clan was a sheep and inherited the Jinyun clan, so ......

Well, the lamb is actually living very well in the Chifang clan, and he doesn't have to worry about eating and drinking, and he has to keep a copy of it when people run out of food.

As for the dog, he originally grew up in the Jinyun clan, and when he crossed the river, the dog also brought a child over, which is credited.

Yu Zai also saw the lamb, this guy is still pacing small steps, with that kind of disdainful eyes here here, the key is that this guy saw the fire burning not far away, he didn't have any intuition as a wild animal, and even began to arch mud in the ashes of the grass and trees!

"Didn't the lamb run before?"

Yu Yu touched her head: "I don't know.... The Lamb hates fire. ”

Because of the lack of manpower, Huo Zheng also raises sheep part-time, although the Chifang clan is only this one sheep.

Yu Zai asked coldly, "Huozheng, do you want to eat roast whole sheep?"

Yu Yu nodded subconsciously, then reacted, and shook her head violently: "I want to ..... No, no, no, no, no!"

Yu Zai raised his eyebrows, he turned his head, and really saw that the lamb seemed to be turning something, so he walked over, kicked away the ashes of the grass and trees, and opened the mouth of the lamb, and immediately a rhizome was bitten off, and the round thing turned out.

Yu Zai lowered his head, looked at it, and was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly squatted down and held the round thing in his hand.

"It's ....."

Taro!