Ye Qing certainly actively supports the tribe-people's actions of yearning for civilization.

He then gave Lulu and other carpenters a lot of tasks to make eight immortal tables and benches.

Several pottery wheels were also given to the tribe members to use.

He felt that making pottery on the pottery wheel was still too slow, and it was only suitable for making unique works of art, but not for large-scale daily necessities.

He is preparing to make a set of manual stamping devices to make common daily pottery in large quantities, such as bowls and plates.

Although the tribe does not need so much pottery.

However, there are other tribes outside, and the pottery made can be traded with other tribes.

At present, the manufacturing cost of pottery is the lowest, and it is more suitable for large-scale transactions than linen and grain.

Yesterday, after listening to the content discussed by the patriarch and several old people, the tribe needs to pay "tribute" to Wang Mangguo.

The original "Qing" memory did not contain this information. After traveling through time, Ye Qing has been busy fighting the crisis and has never cared about the situation outside.

Ye Qing was shocked when he heard that there was another "Wang Mangguo" outside and he needed to pay "tribute" to him.

After asking carefully, Ye Qing opened his eyes and realized that he had far underestimated the ancients.

It turns out that the Fangfeng clan and the surrounding tribes all came from Wang Mangguo and were all branched out from Wang Mangguo.

The ancients attached great importance to inheritance, and Wang Mangguo was the ancestral land and sect leader of various tribes.

The ancestors were to worship!

However, each tribe has divided its clans and is far away from the ancestral land. It is impossible to return to the ancestral land to worship ancestors often, so Wang Mang Kingdom was the one who worshipped the ancestors on his behalf.

To worship ancestors, tribute is required, so Wang Mangguo cannot bear all this, so he received "tribute".

After harvesting the rice planted by various tribes, they sent part of the harvest to Wangmang Kingdom and sacrificed to their ancestors.

In principle, tribute is paid according to the population of the tribe, but there is no mandatory requirement, and no one will count the population of your tribe.

It was completely voluntarily paid by the tribe.

It is natural for descendants to worship ancestors. If one descendant has a "contribution" to make.

If the tribute is paid less, the tribe itself will be uneasy.

That means that some tribe members will not be recognized by their ancestors and will not be included in the world where their ancestors are located after death, which is equivalent to being expelled from their tribes.

This is a very scary thing for the tribe members.

The time for tribute is also the time for tribes to trade and marry.

Each tribe will bring items prepared for trading and marriageable men and women, and trade and marry at this time.

This is a collection - meeting.

And in this transaction set, there is a commodity that is necessary for each tribe, and only owned by Wang Mangguo.

That's...salt!

Tribes without tribute will be excluded from the salt transaction.

If you cannot obtain salt and salt through transactions, the tribe will have to find a way.

In this era, a single small tribe cannot think about it, and technology or manpower cannot do it.

Salt is sea salt, and the distance between the surrounding tribes and the seaside is more than 100 kilometers.

This distance is nothing in modern times, but for this era, when you go to the beach to make salt, let alone mastering the technology of salt making, it is unrealistic to mobilize manpower and material resources just by crossing such a long distance.

In the wild, rivers are densely filled with water, and it is difficult to move forward without the creation of water-passing tools.

Canoes and bamboo rafts are OK to carry people, but they cannot carry a large amount of supplies.

This has not yet calculated the danger of attacks from beasts, crocodiles, etc.

Hearing this, Ye Qing suddenly realized and a word immediately popped up in his heart, "Monopoly!"

Just say it, it’s not realistic to pay tribute entirely by consciously.

When a tribe was separated, even if the first generations were still thinking about the ancestral land, after several generations, later generations had no impression of the ancestral land at all.

The ancestral land is just a legend.

People’s hearts are complicated. If you give your own labor to others for nothing, you will not be willing to do so in your heart.

As for sacrificing ancestors, wouldn’t it be better to establish a ancestral land by yourself?

All the tribe members were born and raised here, and they lived in it as the place of sacrifice to ancestors. There was nothing wrong with it.

Wang Mangguo is also a tribe, a tribe that is much larger than other tribes.

It is larger than other tribes and can continue to migrate to tribes because of its geographical location.

The ancestors of Wang Mang clan chose a good place!

The food in this area is mainly derived from rice cultivation. This way of obtaining food is much safer and more stable than fishing and hunting.

This has prompted a large population to reproduce and is also the reason why the Wang Mang family can prosper.

When irrigation technology is not invented, the planting location is extremely important. You can only open paddy fields on the riverside tidal flats and plant them.

The limited tidal flats suitable for opening up into paddy fields determine the upper limit of a place's population capacity.

The Fender tribe originally opened up the riverside tidal flats and paddy fields with less than 100 acres, and the population of about 200 is the upper limit of the tribe.

No matter how many, it cannot be maintained.

The Wang Mang family is extremely superior, and the tidal flats and paddy fields that can be opened are ten times that of the Fangfeng tribe.

The extreme population of tribal people is only maintained at around 2,000.

If this population is increased, the population must be divided. This is how the Fangfeng family and the surrounding tribes come from.

Humans have strong reproductive ability. If there is enough food, Ye Qing estimated that the tribal population will double in ten years.

He remembered that there were many fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters of one mother, and there were many eight or nine, and there were also many eleven or two.

Without restrictions, it is normal for a woman to have about ten children.

With sufficient food, the nutrition of mother and baby is guaranteed, and the premature death rate will also drop significantly.

Ideally, it is not impossible to double the population in ten years.

The Wang Mang family is called a "country" rather than a tribe because the Wang Mang family built a "city".

Although it is just a terrain, it is also a city!

city?!

Ye Qing was shocked.

I immediately wanted to follow the tribute team to see with my own eyes and see what the city of this era looked like.

But thinking of his health as he was only six years old, he gave up his plan to die.

He did not forget the terrifying death rate in this era.

In the wild, maybe a casual sip of river water or a wound drawn by a blade of grass may kill you.

Without antibiotics, any inflammation may cause infection.

Not to mention beasts, poisonous insects, etc.

After this understanding, Ye Qing opened his eyes.

This time, since the rice grains were not harvested in this season, the tribute could only be replaced by other items.

Trading requires items.

The tribe's fishing team has never stopped. The tribe's catch is very sufficient, but no one wants to trade the catch.

It is not easy to obtain food, it is too precious.

Although the tribe is full of food now, who knows what will happen next?

If God goes crazy and his tribe cannot enter Leize, then there will be no source of food?

Being prepared for danger in times of peace is human instinct.

Ye Qing is no exception. Food is put first, and taking out a little fishing catch as tribute can still be accepted. It is impossible to trade a lot of it.

So what to trade?

Metal tools are not good, and it is not enough for tribes to use them for themselves at present.

After thinking about it, there are two things in the tribe that can be traded in large quantities.

Linen and pottery.

With spinning machines and looms, tribal weaving cloth is much more efficient than other tribes.

The raw material of linen is hemp fiber. The tribe's hemp fiber is limited. It can be exchanged and replaced with hemp fiber, then woven into cloth, and then traded to form a virtuous cycle.

In this way, the tribe can exchange a large amount of other needed materials.

The cost of pottery is even lower, and the raw material is soil, which is everywhere.
Chapter completed!