Chapter 176
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"Uncle Lihu, when the rainy days are over, take someone to the nearby tribes to investigate and see if there are any tribes that are willing to ask us to marry." Mu Feng said with a smile, "Big Brother Qingya and Big Brother Chiya, their ages are also the same. They're all here, it's time to get a wife for them!"
Lihu looked excited: "Begging for a marriage?"
Mu Feng nodded: "Yes, otherwise?"
Lihu was so excited that he was speechless.
Seventeen men and sixteen women of the tribe were considered adults and could marry and have children.
Qingya and Baiya have already grown up. According to the previous clan's situation, if these two brothers want to survive, they can only "walk marriage" to other clans and go to work as coolies for others.
You know, a door-to-door son-in-law has always been a bad one.
As for whether the young man should stay in the clan or go out to get married, Lihu, as a parent, has no right to decide—the one who can decide is the Great Chief, that is, Mu Feng.
Because the life of the Jiang clan had been tight before, the old chief was busy trying to figure out how to feed the clan, and there was a shortage of young and strong labor in the clan, so this matter was delayed.
Unexpectedly, Mu Feng, as the Great Chief, took the initiative to mention this matter, and made sure that the two brothers would not go to get married, but begged for marriage, how could he not be excited.
Next, Mu Feng's words made Lihu even more excited: "In the future, the men of the Jiang clan will not go out for marriage, but they will all beg for marriage. As for the women..."
He thought for a while and said, "Women do not marry outside, but stay in the tribe. Men who are willing to come to my Jiang family for marriage and not leave will be given two sheep from the tribe where the man originally belonged!"
"What?" Lihu exclaimed, "Great chief, even if he wants to marry a woman, four sheep are almost enough. Men come to our tribe and give them sheep too?"
"Yeah!" Mu Feng nodded, "In this way, we can have a good relationship with the man's original tribe. Men and women from other tribes live well in our tribe, and we also treat their tribe's children well. If things go on like this, we will have a different opinion on the tribe. It's getting less and less!"
This is a relatively "Huairou" merger measure. Although it is a bit slow, it is safe and secure, and there will be no major chaos.
Taking a step back, even if the other clan is stronger, with this "good relationship between Qin and Jin", it is not easy to tear up the face and become an enemy of the Jiang clan.
"But..." Lihu hesitated and asked, "What if other tribes find out that we can afford a 'betrothal gift', ask us for more, or even rob us?"
Mu Feng frowned and thought for a while, nodded and said, "This is indeed a problem. If you don't want too much, you will give it as you give it. After all, it is a happy event for marrying a woman and adding a child to the tribe. But it is a lot to keep your mouth shut, Don't get used to it, even if you want to loot, our Jiang's son-in-law is not a mess!"
He didn't say a word of cruelty, but Bihu was encouraged after hearing it.
He felt as if Jiang shi had been kneeling for this kind of thing, and now he finally straightened up and stood up!
Lihu no longer objected, Chong Mufeng nodded solemnly: "Yes, Great Chief, I will definitely pass on your words to every clan!"
"Okay, let's go!" Mu Feng yawned again, "I want to rest for a while!"
"Yes!"
I have to say that Lihu, who has something in his heart, is still very efficient.
Not long after Mu Feng woke up, Li Hu came back again.
He told Mu Feng that there are now twenty-two children in the tribe, and five of them should give birth within a month or two.
There are eighteen children under the age of ten.
There are thirty-one young men of the right age and twenty-three women of the right age.
Mu Feng leaned on the bed and rubbed his head, and he probably knew something in his heart.
The twenty-two children to be born are a definite population, and if they can all survive, these twenty-two children will be the net increase in the tribal population.
It's just that the current medical and hygienic conditions cannot be met, and Mu Feng can't be sure that the twenty-two children will be safe and sound.
The biggest problems affecting the survival rate of children are actually the environment and food.
In his previous life, Mu Feng had learned that the mortality rate of newly born children in primitive society was as high as 30%, mainly due to the lack of knowledge about midwifery.
During the next ten years of growth, there will be diseases, plagues, food shortages, infectious diseases, epidemics, natural disasters and other reasons, and some of them will die.
What Mu Feng can do now is to control the child's survival rate from the point of birth.
As for the latter, except for natural disasters, he can't do anything, and he can think of ways to prevent them.
The low survival rate of childbirth is due to sanitary conditions and knowledge of midwifery. These are not a problem for him, he doesn't know it himself, the big deal is to exchange this knowledge and increase proficiency in the system.
When it was time to deliver the baby, for the sake of the tribe, he didn't care about the distinction between men and women, and the distinction between superiors and inferiors.
As for the disease, he has the Wood Dao Derivative Technique by his side, and he has his own confidence.
All along, he has also been actively looking for herbal medicines that can treat common diseases, always prepared for emergencies.
Next is the number of marriages.
The number of men and women of the right age is fifty-four. If nothing else, the tribe can attract at least fifty-four people through walk-through marriage and marriage begging.
But there is a problem here, that is, if fifty-four people get married and have children at the same time, it will be a huge burden for the tribe, and the Jiang clan cannot afford it now.
According to what Lihu said earlier, a man needs at least four sheep to marry a woman, and a man alone needs one hundred and twenty sheep.
Four sheep, almost all the sheep in Jiang's sheepfold will be sent out.
Counting what Mu Feng said, and sending two sheep to each tribe who came to marry the man, that's forty-six sheep.
Jiang's "savings" will soon bottom out.
Of course, these are all "markets" since the last time the tribe wanted to marry a woman - Mu Feng asked Lihu when was the last time, and Lihu said it was two years ago.
Mu Feng was a little speechless, and he sighed in his heart that it was no wonder that marrying a daughter-in-law in his previous life had such a great impact, and it was almost a matter of relying on an ordinary family.
In the previous life, if a man wanted to get a daughter-in-law, he would have to pay tens of millions of car, house, and betrothal gifts at every turn, putting an ordinary or even a well-off family into trouble every minute.
Getting married is a good thing for young men and women, but it is tantamount to "exploitation" for the parents of the man.
"Two years ago to marry a woman, you needed food equivalent to four sheep. Now it's two years later, and the market should have gone up!" Mu Feng thought about it, "Damn, this thing is very tricky! "
"It seems that we still have to make the family foundation a little thicker, otherwise I will let out my mad words, and if there is an old bachelor in the tribe, I will lose my face!"
Thinking of this, Mu Feng Chong Lihu nodded and said: "Okay, I understand! Now the tribe has so many men and women who can marry and have children, and we won't let them leave the tribe, so we need all kinds of livestock. So now we have to work harder to catch enough prey!"
"Yes, Great Chief!" Li Hu suddenly understood why there was enough food, and Mu Feng had to go hunting. "It turns out that the Great Chief has been thinking about marrying the young men of the tribe!"
Li Hu was moved, and he immediately felt that he had to do something, otherwise he would be sorry for the great chief's painstaking efforts for the sake of Cyan Ya and Chi Ya.
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