Chapter 816 Food Issues
Marriage is a transaction in this era. If there are rich tribes, there will naturally be poor tribes. However, reproduction is the instinct of biological descendants. We have to go to both money and whether we have money or not. Therefore, even if we are poor, we must find an opportunity to get married and complete the major event of inheriting the family line.
But what should I do if I am poor?
Just one word - grab.
This is the most primitive marriage robbery. Humans are exactly the same as other animals. Males need to protect their territory, protect their women, and ensure that they are not snatched away by other outsiders. At this moment, the number of eighty people standing in front of Chen Kan and others are here to rob their bride and cause trouble.
"superior."
It is a big problem related to gene continuation, and there is nothing to say - do it.
When the two sides meet, they are like male animals during mating. Without a single nonsense, they rush up directly. Unlike ordinary animals for mating rights, ordinary animals generally don’t have any worries about their lives when competing for mating rights, but people do, and the spear in their hands is thrust straight towards each other without any hesitation. This is a skill developed in fighting with prey, so fast, accurate and ruthless.
Although there are few people in the Xuanniao Tribe, Yiran is not afraid. It may be because of Chen Kan, but more because of biological instincts.
Of course, the other party was also very fierce, and it was a completely desperate fight. However, the final result was that fifty people from the Xuanniao Tribe were actually hitting eighty people, which was completely beyond the other party's expectations, and even those women did not expect it.
The only thing that is not surprised by this is Chen Kan. Chen Kan has been practicing them for more than half a month. Although he cannot practice with all his strength due to lack of food, it is still possible to teach some fighting skills and military skills.
These fifty people formed a very rough military formation. Although the formation was full of flaws, it was completely fine to deal with these eighty scattered soldiers.
And Chen Kan secretly helped him. Now there are only more than 400 people in the Xuanniao tribe, and every labor force is a precious wealth. Especially these young people, Chen Kan doesn't want to suffer any losses. If there is danger, Chen Kan will take action secretly.
About thirty people died, and more than a dozen people were seriously injured. The price paid by the Xuanniao Tribe was only a few people were slightly injured. Although it was a major matter related to inheritance, the other party was not a fool. This time he obviously chewed the stone, so he became interested in retreating.
"Don't let them run away, join the encirclement." Chen Kan saw their thoughts clearly and said loudly. After receiving Chen Kan's order, fifty young men immediately formed an encirclement according to the drill formation, leaving everyone here.
As mentioned before, every labor force is very important, and these opponents are also important labor force. Chen Kan wanted to capture them, but even so, he was eventually rushed out of the encirclement by thirteen people. Seeing that he was about to escape into the mountains, Chen Kan took action.
Chen Kan waved his hand and a sharp sword energy cut down a big tree on the road ahead of them.
"Boom!" The fallen tree lay in front of them.
"What...what!" Looking at the big tree that almost hit them, all the thirteen people were frightened and sat on the ground with a look of horror.
This trip not only obtained fifty women, but also solved the lifelong affairs of young men of the Xuanniao Tribe, but also obtained forty-three slaves.
All these slaves were centrally managed by the priest Chen Kan. For the sake of management convenience, Chen Kan directly hypnotized them all to reduce management costs.
They came from a tribe called "Red Bird" not far away. Although they are also tribes that believe in bird totem, they do not mean that tribes with the same totem are a harmonious mass. This is just like the real world. The whole world recognizes gold, but not all countries that recognize gold are harmonious.
If it weren't for the fact that the Xuanniao Tribe's reserved food was only enough for the people of this tribe to barely survive the winter, Chen Kan wanted to bring people to annex the Red Bird tribe directly. The Red Bird tribe is a tribe smaller than the Xuanniao Tribe, with about 300 people. Now that he has lost 80 young and middle-aged people, the combat effectiveness of this tribe will inevitably be sharply reduced. It should be a big problem to win it, but the food is insufficient.
The Red Bird Tribe is also a poor man, otherwise so many people would not have sent out to rob a marriage. Although robbing a marriage seems to be a profitable business, it is not the case. Marriage is an alliance. Just like in the modern world, red envelopes are coming and going. After all, they cannot be placed on the surface and are easy to offend people. Therefore, robbing a marriage is not a wise move in general, unless it is forced.
Then all the work focus of the entire Xuanniao Tribe was on food. It was not that Chen Kan wanted to expand, but that the food was really not enough. Now the food standard for the Xuanniao Tribe is one meal a day, which has been improved, and it has not yet reached this standard before.
In this era, the standard for eating in all small tribes was given priority for male young and middle-aged women, followed by children and unmarried women, with the elderly at the end.
This is an instinctive behavior that maximizes interests. Men, young and married women are the main labor force of the tribe, so you should eat as much as possible.
Unmarried women have to marry out in the future. They are not from their own tribes, so there is no need to raise them for other tribes, so they should not eat too much when there is insufficient food. Although children are the future of the tribe, they do not need much because they are young. As for malnutrition, they are never considered.
The elderly eat the least, and there is no way to do so, because the elderly have the worst ability to work, so they eat the least. Why are there fewer elderly people in the Xuanniao Tribe? This is why even during famine, the elderly will leave the tribe collectively and go out to fend for themselves.
The "old man" here does not mean an old man in his fifties and sixties. In this era, those who are in his fifties and sixties are not called an old man, but a "miracle". The "old man" here refers to people who are older than thirty-five or even thirty years old.
Chen Kan has many plans to have enough nutrition to support the people's health. Now his tribe is not enough to eat, so where can there be free food to expand? No matter what he does, he must have good physical fitness.
Teaching martial arts requires sufficient nutrition as support. Some large-scale labor, such as smelting iron, requires a lot of physical energy. So the biggest problem facing Chen Kan is the food problem now.
The idea of solving this problem is also very obvious. Starting from two aspects, one is to take the initiative, the men form hunting teams, set traps everywhere, take the initiative to catch prey, the women collect plants, and the other is to harvest millet, and the other is to trade.
However, the resources in this area are already scarce, and few people will exchange food for things. If there is surplus food, try every means to expand the population, whether it is to grab or buy it, because the population is the most direct manifestation of strength.
According to the elder, food was sold only in the Cattle Totem tribe that was far away, but it was too far away from them, so don't think about it.
On the other hand, it is breeding, directly catching adult rabbits and relying on rabbits to provide fixed food with strong fertility. As for poultry, although Chen Kan also caught some pheasants, it is not a matter of overnight development to domesticate pheasants, and a fixed source of food cannot be provided for the time being.
Chapter completed!