Chapter 186 Using Salt as a Conspiracy

Han Cheng knew that Wu and the elder brother must be very puzzled about what he did. After seeing the two of them surrounding him, he led them to the inner cave.

Before entering the hole, tell the rest of the people to continue to do things, let the lame spouse who is cleaning the overturned sheep intestines add salt to the basin and scrub...

The matter of giving away these tribal salts for free was actually a decision made by Han Chengcai not long ago. Even so, there was a lot of deliberation in it, or it was something he had been thinking about, and suddenly he found a solution.

The lack of labor force in the Qingque Tribe has been alleviated to a great extent with the addition of ten adults from the Yuanzhu Tribe headed by Shang, and the recovery of the injuries of Ru Hua and Zuo Lai Right.

However, with the expansion of rapeseed and millet acreage, labor will become scarce again.

And now, the deer herd has added nine new members, and there are seven does with big bellies. It won't be long before a few more fawns will come to the world, and the size of the deer herd will break through thirty-five in one fell swoop. mark.

Rabbits are still productive as always, especially after adding eight new hares to it, it is even more tossing. By now, the size of the rabbit group has exceeded 300.

For this reason, a few days ago, Han Cheng had to draw out his staff to nearly double the size of the rabbit circle.

Two broods of pheasants raised in captivity also hatched, and there were twenty-nine broods, including the big one and the young ones.

Oh, by the way, now we have to add three more lambs.

With so many mouths, they all need to eat. It takes a lot of manpower just to get grass for these guys.

Not to mention the rest, the daily consumption of these more than 300 rabbits alone is astonishing enough. These guys with rectal intestines pull as soon as they eat, and eat as soon as they pull. They are simply more than 300 grass grinders that work non-stop.

Only two people who harvest grass for them full-time can keep up with this terrifying consumption rate.

It's not winter now, and Uncle Deer takes his tribe out to hunt every day, so he doesn't need to feed more. Once Uncle Deer refuses to go out in winter, the consumption of fodder will become even more alarming.

As early as two months ago, the number of people harvesting the grass became four, and not long after, it became six again.

After all, the Qingque Tribe didn't have much food. These guys' winter rations depended entirely on the harvested and dried grass, so it was impossible to have a lot of reserves.

As the saying goes, when you have a full meal, you think about your life.

The people of the Qingque tribe now have no shortage of food and drink. In the past, there was usually a large-scale restlessness only in spring. Now that the food is good, it is basically not very time-sharing.

If the seeds are sown frequently, and the land is fertile soil instead of barren land, the survival rate of the seeds will naturally be greater.

For example, a spouse of the eldest brother gave birth to the next child in spring before the flowers bloomed. Now, her belly has grown again, and it is estimated that she will give birth again after the heavy snow falls in winter.

The existence of a large number of pregnant women also greatly reduced the available manpower of the Qingque tribe.

Although the present pregnant women, parturients and children are far from being as expensive as later generations, the impact on labor is certain.

After all of this was put together, a problem was once again placed in front of the Qingque tribe, that is, the shortage of manpower.

Han Cheng has always considered the issue of the tribe's labor shortage. With the experience of the pig tribe merging in, he will naturally give his thoughts to the surrounding tribes.

However, the opportunity for the integration of the pig tribe is rare, and it is not easy to replicate.

Last year, the Tengshe Tribe suffered a big loss here, losing a lot of manpower, and it is estimated that they will not come to find trouble nearby in a short time.

Without the coercion of such a powerful external enemy, it is really difficult for these tribes to integrate into their own tribe like the pig tribe.

Han Cheng also thought about launching a war to attack the surrounding tribes, killing a group of their adult men and children who were taller than the wheels, and then taking the rest of them to the Qingque tribe.

After thinking about it, I gave up.

After leaving the wall, the people of the Qingque tribe cannot form an absolute advantage over the surrounding tribes. In this case, the casualties of their own people are certain, and the number is not small.

People are emotional animals, and he is not a hero. Naturally, he does not want to see the death of the person he has been with for so long, so he can only temporarily put aside the idea of ​​launching a battle to annex other tribes, and consider adopting gentle methods.

As early as the happy meeting, Han Chengcheng began to prepare. Through a series of means, he tried hard to leave the rich and powerful seeds of the Qingque tribe in these people's hearts, so that they would yearn for the Qingque tribe.

Then through transactions, the connection between several tribes and the Qingque tribe was strengthened, and their cognition was continuously strengthened. By means of boiling frogs in warm water, they won their hearts and slowly realized peaceful integration.

It's just that such methods are not mature enough, or not powerful enough to make the leaders of these tribes abandon their own tribes and lead people to join the Qingque tribe.

Regarding this problem, Han Cheng has always been thinking about it, but there has been no practical solution. It was not until today that the leader of the Green Tribe met the sheep tribe on the road and brought the exchanged pottery back to make a theory. This problem was suddenly solved. , let Han Cheng have a sense of enlightenment.

Salt!

It is salt!

The delicacy of salt is hard to refuse once you have tasted it.

In the recorded history of thousands of years, salt has left a strong mark on the dynasties of all dynasties. In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods or earlier in the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, there have always been feudal states that relied on boiling salt to make profits. super rich.

Later, after the monopoly of salt and iron, the salt tax became an extremely stable source of national tax revenue.

Until later, under the bombardment of strong ships and sharp guns, the people who flaunted civilization did extremely barbaric things, and the intoxicated people gradually woke up from the dream of the heaven and the kingdom. The decadent dynasty was destroyed, and salt was produced in large quantities. The salt tax was gradually abolished...

Now the Qingque tribe is guarding the salt mountain, but in the era Han Cheng lived before, salt had long been an extremely common and very cheap thing. Affected by this concept, he has never realized that salt is very important in other areas. huge impact.

Now that he was awakened by a word from the leader of the Green Tribe, he suddenly felt enlightened.

Primitive tribes did not eat salt at the beginning, such as the Qingque tribe, such as the surrounding tribes, they lived the same without salt.

These few tribes who had eaten salted food during the happy meeting were still able to resist the temptation of delicious food after they returned, as they just came to exchange a few months later, which can be seen.

However, habits are formed slowly. Han Cheng is now providing them with free salt, in order to let all these tribes develop the habit of eating salt.

It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal. Primitives are also human beings, and they cannot escape this theorem.

After their tongues and stomachs get used to the taste of salt, they will feel extremely uncomfortable if they eat food without salt.

At that time, the bold Qingque tribe, led by their kind and somewhat silly son of God, will start to show their fangs...

Thinking of this, Han Cheng couldn't help showing an extremely treacherous smile on his face.

Under Han Cheng's narration, it took a long time to figure out the joints. Wu and the elder brother looked at their god son with an expression of looking up at the mountain.

The Son of God is worthy of being the Son of God, such twists and turns can be imagined.

They only thought that giving away salt for free was a matter of harming themselves and benefiting others, but they didn't expect that the son of God would actually set such a big trap by using it.

In this way, their Qingque tribe will surely grow and become the largest tribe nearby!

Thinking of the grand scene after several tribes all joined the Qingque tribe, Wu couldn't help trembling, his old face turned a little flushed because of excessive excitement.

The big brother is also very excited.

He carefully recalled the scene of drinking unsalted broth every day, and his whole body refused.

The plan of the Son of God will definitely come true!

This is the most sincere expectation of the two, and it is also their confidence in the Son of God.

When Han Cheng first arrived, there were only ten adult men in the Qingque tribe, including those who were lame and had inconvenient legs.

Later, as Tietou and Heiwa grew up, and six adult men from the Pig Tribe joined in, the number of adult men increased explosively, reaching as many as eighteen.

At the beginning, there were twenty-eight adult women. With the strong adulthood and the addition of three female prisoners of war, Ruhua and Lame, and the integration of four primitive females from the pig tribe, there are now thirty-six women. .

The number of older primitive people has not increased, and there are still only Wu, Huoyi, and Huoer.

This is easy to understand. After all, it is the primitive age. For various reasons, it is really not easy for people to live to a great age.

At the beginning, there were thirty-five children. Last year, eight children were born and one died, and seven remained. This year, fourteen were born. Two died, and there are still twelve left. In the womb, waiting to be born.

Except for the three adults, Heiwa, Tietou, and Zhuang, there are fifty-one minors in the Qingque tribe.

Among them, children aged from zero to four without any ability to work have the largest number, accounting for almost half of all minors.

There are a total of fifty-four adults with strong working ability in the Qingque tribe.

There are fifty-four old people and children together, which is equivalent to one adult supporting one. Compared with later generations, this ratio is not low.

Fortunately, at this time, we only need to provide food, clothing and housing. The cost of raising children is far less than that of later generations. Otherwise, there would be Qingque tribe and Han Cheng.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but as of now, there are a total of 108 adults and children in the Qingque Tribe, which coincides with the number of Tiangangdisha in the Water Margin.

Of course, this can't be counted as Han who is the son of God.

The soul of an adult has the body of a minor, and he doesn't know what kind of person he should attribute himself to. After thinking about it, he can only list it separately.

Except for a few children who died shortly after birth, no one from the Qingque tribe died during this period.

This may seem a little unreasonable, but as long as you think carefully about the huge changes in their basic necessities of life, life, and production methods after Han Cheng's arrival, you will not feel unreasonable.

Such a force is considered top-notch among several nearby tribes, and only the Bone tribe can compare with it.

Of course, if you only count the number of adults, the Bone Tribe will faintly overwhelm the Qingque Tribe.

But ever since Han Cheng, the traverser, came in, the measure of strength has changed.

The standard to measure strength is no longer the number of people, but more than houses, weapons, food reserves, and cultural soft power...

In terms of overall strength, even the Tengshe tribe with a large population is no match for the Qingque tribe.

Of course, in terms of combat power alone, after leaving the wall, the Qingque tribe can't beat the Tengshe tribe.

This is the sequelae of rapid development, because there are too many aspects that need to be improved, and there are too few manpower available, so we can only do one thing first.

The current foundation of the Qingque tribe has been almost laid. In the future, while taking into account other aspects of development, Han Cheng will also consider gradually tilting his strength towards combat power.

Otherwise, it would be really aggrieved to let the Qingque tribe go the way of the Song Dynasty.

He didn't want to be a complete scam like Zhao Laoer.

This guy played a good hand of cards left by the Song Zu Zhao boss, not to mention, and directly brought Da Song into the ditch. It continued for hundreds of years until it was wiped out by the Yuan Dynasty, but he didn't slow down.

In the final analysis, the problem lies with Zhao Lao Er, a cheater.

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