Volume 3: Fellow villagers, let’s farm together~ Chapter 92: Fellow villagers, let’s farm together~
Xiaohua, a warrior of the Li tribe, has no concept of hometown, but she can understand her birthplace.
When she was born, when she ignorantly opened her eyes, when she learned to walk and run for the first time, her world was the world on the grassland; the blooming flowers in spring, the sweet or bitter fruits in summer and autumn, and the heavy snow in winter were not all beautiful things that made people miss them, but they were an important part of her life memories; even if she did not understand too complicated principles, and did not see beyond the horizon of her living area, she knew that she grew up under this sky, and it was this land that gave her everything that allowed her life to continue.
This is the most simple and instinctive emotion, which even the simple-minded and inexperienced snow werewolves can understand.
Ants are attached to their nests, rabbits know which hole they were born in, and the Snow Wolf Clan, as an intelligent race, how could they not understand?
When someone uses their common hometown as a link to connect her life memories with many other people, and puts forward the concept that people from the same hometown should help each other, and the person who conveys this idea actually acts in this way, how could she not be infected?
When Hongye saw Xiaohua's approaching eyes, she knew that she was moved by what she said. This was not unexpected for Hongye, because she herself liked this kind of saying very much, and this kind of thought also gave her strength. She couldn't help but tell Xiaohua what Ayun had said to her and to everyone in the tribe based on her own understanding.
At the beginning, only Xiaohua and people who were close to them surrounded Hongye. Later, more and more people surrounded Hongye, and almost all the adult members of the Li tribe gathered around them.
Words are powerful because they can convey thoughts to others, and thoughts are the source of power.
Sarcastic sarcasm can hurt people, while well-intentioned words of praise can make people full of confidence. This is an irrefutable truth. Hongye conveys her thoughts to others, and unknowingly completes the transmission of thoughts and power.
Ideas that can gain public recognition can connect people together and form a powerful force to achieve their common goals; such groups are called political parties, organizations, and groups on the modern timeline of the earth, and such ideas are called organizational programs.
To convince others to unite with us, the ideological program we come up with must have a mass base, be recognized by the public, and be simple enough to be understood by cows - we were all born in the grasslands, and the grasslands are our common hometown. We want to build and develop our common hometown, and we want the grassland people to unite and become prosperous together, so we must help each other and do our best to make life better for those living on the same land.
Such theoretical guidance and ideological program that even an ox horn can understand and agree with was spoken by Hongye, the person who put it into practice, and was also corroborated by two working warriors from the Li tribe - the Fire Tribe not only accepted the grassroots tribe, but also accepted humans, cats, goblins and gray dwarves. The former is fine, but the existence of the latter is the ironclad proof that the Fire Tribe is broad-minded and can not only say moving words but also put them into practice - even the snow wolves of the Li tribe, who have a pragmatic style of believing what they see with their own eyes, would no longer have any doubts about what Hongye said.
After listening to Hongye's introduction of how their tribe spent a lot of effort , the people of the Li tribe showed their longing. Xiaohua couldn't help but say, "I thought only the Tauren could grow wheat and rice. It turns out that our Snow Wolf tribe can do it too?"
Hongye smiled and nodded vigorously: "Of course, although it was very hard at the beginning, we were all so tired that we didn't even have the energy to talk, but the earth is fair, the grassland is fair, and there will be rewards for your sweat." She smiled and looked at A Yan who squeezed in to join in the fun, "Yes, A Yan, you also helped to plow the land this spring. Together we changed the land into a form suitable for farming, planted seeds, and food grew."
"Yeah!" Ah Yan felt really good being stared at by so many tribesmen, her face glowing, "We had a hard time at that time, dragging that heavy iron triangle on the ground, and by the evening we were so tired that our whole body ached. After two months, a lot of grass grew on those lands, and we harvested a lot, more than what our tribe had accumulated in the whole autumn in previous years!"
The people of the Li tribe gasped in unison... This is too shocking!
Hongye smiled and added, "That's only the yield of the first crop. We can harvest four crops before the snow falls. This is because we are short of manpower. Even with the help of Ayan and others, we can't open up more fields because we can't take care of them all."
The people of the Li tribe gasped again and began to rack their brains to imagine how much grass they could have, four times the amount they had accumulated in the entire autumn... But they had never studied math, so they really couldn't imagine it.
"If you had more people, wouldn't that mean your tribe would never run out of food and fodder?" Xiaohua said enviously.
"In fact, we are not short of food and fodder now, but we can't grow more, and we don't have the manpower to transport them to help the tribes that lack food to survive the winter." Hongye smiled and patted his thigh. "There is nothing we can do about this. We can only do it step by step."
Xiaohua's heart moved, and she looked at the tribesmen around her without saying anything.
That night, Hongye and the others stayed in the Li tribe for the night. Xiaohua waited until Hongye and the others fell asleep, then she called the three warriors who stayed behind in the tribe, as well as Ayan and her partner, and ran to the cliff outside the tribe to discuss matters secretly.
"Ayan, Ahan, you said that the Fire Tribe accepted the Grassroots Tribe and other tribes, so what about us? Will they accept us?"
Ah Yan looked bewildered. Ah Han, Xiao Hua's partner, was not surprised that she had such an idea. He nodded and said, "I have had this idea before and mentioned it to Ah Li. Ah Li was somewhat tempted, but he did not agree."
When Xiaohua heard that the clan leader disagreed, she was stunned: "Why doesn't A Li agree?"
"Yes, why?" A Yan also asked.
Ahan hesitated, "The Fire Tribe... is very hard-working. They never have to worry about not having enough food, but they do work from morning till night. We also heard from Taiga that even on snowy days, they don't have time to rest... Ari is worried that everyone won't be able to adapt."
"What nonsense! You can tolerate being hungry, but you can't accept being a little tired?" Xiaohua glared at him, "Ali, what are you doing? We don't accept such excuses."
The other three soldiers who stayed behind all nodded and said in disagreement: "What are you thinking, Ali? In the second half of every winter, everyone can only eat half full. If working can earn you a full stomach, only a fool would refuse."
"That's right. Didn't you say they have a better house and don't have to worry about their cubs freezing? If they won't be cold or hungry, what's the big deal about doing some work?"
"Why would A-li say something so stupid?"
Ahan didn't know what to say and could only laugh dryly as if asking Xiaohua for help.
The partners of the Snow Werewolves can indeed communicate with each other. When Xiaohua saw Ah Han's performance, she knew why Chief Li disagreed... Naturally, the strongest warrior of the Li tribe was upset: "There are eight warriors in our tribe, including Ah Yan. Now six are sitting here. Everyone has voted. Those who agree to go to the Fire Tribe nod their heads."
The simple management method of minority obeying majority is also adopted by the Snow Wolf people when there are internal disputes... Among the six warriors present, Xiaohua is considered to be a more reliable and far-sighted person, Ahan is of the same mind as his partner, Ayan has long liked the lifestyle of the Fire Tribe, and the other three warriors have no reason to refuse, so all of them passed.
"Let's do this. After daybreak, we will gather the tribesmen and tell everyone about this. Then we will pack up our things, take our cattle and sheep and the wool we cut in the summer, and go find the Fire Tribe and merge with them." Xiaohua made the decision.
The chief of the Snow Wolf tribe is traditionally the oldest person, and the chief of the Li tribe is the oldest person in their tribe, nearly 60 years old. But age does not represent ability and sense of responsibility. When Ali finds that integrating into another tribe is also a good choice, he is worried that his personal status will be affected and hesitates, but the warriors have no such scruples... Xiao Yun, who has never been interested in gambling or testing human nature, secretly arranges Chief Li to another team, which leads to the situation that the Li tribe is the first to surrender.
The other tribes were not so smooth. When Yu's team waved goodbye to another tribe, they had walked a long way, and the people of this tribe were still discussing whether the whole tribe should defect. It's not that the tribe leader was so selfish that he was unwilling to be a king in a chicken coop, but when it comes to abandoning the existing stability and choosing an unknown lifestyle, even the generally stupid and cute snow wolf people can't make up their minds so easily.
The two teams set out on different routes and passed through different numbers of tribes in the autumn. Whether it was red leaves or feathers, they conveyed the ideological program of the Fire Tribe in a similar way. Some tribes were hesitant, some chose to wait and see, and some tribes made up their minds to leave home in the days when the forests were dyed red and the geese flew south. Since the grassland is the hometown, what is the difference between living on this side of the hometown and the other side of the hometown? If it can make the tribe members live a better and more stable life, then moving away from the original home is not something difficult to accept.
Among the tribes that chose to surrender, the most conspicuous was a cat tribe.
The total population of this cat tribe is about 200 people. Their original address was located more than 90 kilometers southeast of the Huoyan Tribe, on the other side of the canyon chosen by the Huoyan Tribe as a flood discharge outlet.
When Yu's team came to the tribe for the first time, the vigilant cat tribe observed Yu's team for two days to confirm that they were not dangerous before allowing them to enter the tribe; when Yu's team came for the second time, they brought Qingyan and snow leopard Rosemary. Because of the appearance of these two fellow cats, the cat tribe only hesitated for a long time before welcoming them into their home.
The cat tribes were not as close as the snow wolf tribes. In fact, the most disputes on the grasslands occurred within the cat tribes. However, the cat tribe always liked their own tribe better than the snow wolf people...
During the one day they stayed in the tribe to trade, Qingyan and Rosemary told about the treatment they received in the Snow Wolf Tribe. When the people of the Cat Tribe were puzzled as to why the Snow Wolf Tribe took such good care of them, Qingyan then explained the philosophy of the Fire Flame Tribe:
The Fire Tribe does not believe that there are ethnic differences among the people of the grassland. They are all races living under the same sky, with a common hometown and a common will to pursue a better life. With such an identity, the Fire Tribe can even accept goblins and gray dwarves from the underground world and humans from the southern continent, let alone the cat tribe.
The cat was simply stunned by the broad-minded vision of talking about the community of shared destiny of grassland people without the limitations of different tribes and races...
Qingyan was the cat tribe member who had been in contact with Xiao Yun for the longest time. He knew what Xiao Yun was thinking, but there was no need to talk about those things that were too profound and complicated and required a long time to comprehend and understand at the beginning. Qingyan directly settled the accounts of the cat tribe and the snow wolf tribe living together with the patriarch and warriors of this cat tribe: the cat tribe did not simply accept the protection and live behind the snow wolf people. If the cat tribe wanted to win the respect of the snow wolf people, they also had to pay. The small cat tribe had to process wool wool day after day in the wool spinning mill, and the large cat tribe had to bear all the complicated affairs of the tribe together with the snow wolf cubs. When the busy farming season of sowing and harvesting came, both large and small cats had to go to the fields——
In short, whether it is the goblins, the gray dwarves, or the cats, they all have to work hard to prove their own worth, because the Snow Wolf Clan cannot realize the dream of developing the grassland by themselves. There are some things they cannot do. The goblins dig mountains and stones, the gray dwarves smelt metals, and the cats process wool, but the Snow Wolf Clan cannot do these things.
The warriors of the cat tribe looked at each other in bewilderment, and that night, the cats held a collective meeting... Compared to the community of shared destiny of the grassland people, which sounded good and appealing, the cats were more convinced of the idea that they could win status by doing things that the snow wolves could not do. After arguing for a whole night, the chief of the cat tribe led the warriors to find Yu the next day, hoping to get a more direct and clear statement from Yu.
The only thing Yu was not good at was making important decisions. He could always do things beautifully if he knew what to do. So Yu talked to the cat tribe's chief warriors about the deal between the Snow Wolf Tribe and the human merchant ship: the wool processed by the cat tribe could be sold for five copper coins per pound. The wool spinning factory, which consisted of more than 20 caracals, cheetahs, and gray dwarves, processed wool in a year and a half, which was worth 1,100 gold coins, which was equivalent to the gold the tribe got from trading with the elves...
Yu also pointed to the wool bundles that they had agreed with the cat tribe to collect: "The tribe still has half a warehouse of raw wool that has not been processed. Add to that the wool we exchanged with the various tribes, and the caracals will be busy next year."
The chief of the cat tribe took a deep breath and immediately asked the warriors to gather the tribesmen to pack up their things - for all cat tribes, the small cats in the tribe are considered a burden. Since the small cats are so important to the Snow Wolf Tribe, what reason do they have not to choose a better life?
The cats spent two days packing their belongings, cattle and sheep, and trekked around the Grand Canyon for nearly five days to arrive at the Fire Tribe. At this time, the people of the Li Tribe had already completed the welcoming procedures of shaving their heads, disinfecting and removing insects, and were trying to integrate into their new work and life in a new and clumsy way. When Huabao Yugu, who was temporarily leading the second-level labor force, called out, many of them ran out in a daze to help settle the new cats...
It had only been more than half a month since the beginning of autumn, and there were more than a hundred snow wolves from two tribes and more than two hundred cats from one tribe in the tribe. Xiao Yun's mouth almost broke from laughing, and he immediately and unceremoniously... drove all the newcomers to be harvested.
Because the planting period was not arranged well, the harvest of alfalfa, soybeans, wheat, vegetables, potatoes and sweet potatoes coincided with each other half a month apart. Xiao Yun was anxious whether he should trick Balke into doing farm work as well. This way he could both "train the troops" and fill the labor gap. Wouldn't it be great?
There is strength in numbers, and high-intensity labor is the best way to train people. After the autumn harvest, the more than 300 new recruits have almost adapted to the tense and stimulating new life. Depending on their initial performance during the work, Xiao Yun quickly arranged everyone's whereabouts as soon as the harvested crops were stored in the warehouse:
The first thing is to sweep some large cats into the most labor-intensive construction team, and let these cats with nimble claws work as bricklayers and contribute to the tribe's autumn infrastructure construction operations.
The scale of the two work teams needs to be expanded. The production progress of the brick factory and cement factory cannot keep up with the consumption of the engineering team, so they also need to add more people. The caracals need to quickly vacate the warehouse to store food, and the small cats need to be urgently trained and rushed to work. The warrior team led by Yue is so short of manpower that they can't force the acorns in the forest to be transported back from the mouths of rodents, so they need to quickly add some fresh troops to them...
The model of old people training new people is much faster and more convenient than training a qualified workforce from scratch, so the newcomers were divided up among the various departments without leaving any - the grassroots chief was relatively favored by Xiao Yun, and he only got five new snow wolves; Dahe also wanted to expand the team of chefs, but Xiao Yun counted the dishes that had already been distributed to each plate, and reluctantly... picked a few cubs from the second-level workforce to deal with her.
Of course, the sudden expansion of the labor force inevitably has the disadvantages of being bloated and inconvenient to move. After Hongye, Ashan and Ayue were transferred away, there were only 17 people left in the engineering team led by Lan Guo. Although he was very happy to add more than 40 snow wolves and more than 30 large cats, it was not practical to convert them all into qualified engineers at once because there were more newcomers than old ones. Faced with such a situation, Lan Guo thought about it for a night and came up with a solution: first suspend the house-building work with higher technical content, take all the snow wolves to dig earth foundations and open up river channels, and all the cats to learn to pave the expanded square area and apply lime putty. This simple work will allow the newcomers to adapt to the labor intensity of the engineering team and cultivate a certain collectivism and obedience before starting construction.
When Xiao Yun saw that Lan Guo handled the situation well, he did not interrupt and turned his focus to the brick factory and cement factory... Ten people were added to each of the two projects led by Ashan and Huoyan, but Ashan had not figured it out yet, and Mumu, who was originally assisting Huoyan, was transferred to help Yu. If he didn't keep an eye on it, something was bound to go wrong.
The work teams in the Dashui and Qingcao belts did not have such happy worries. Farm work is easy to get started if you are willing to endure hardships...
There was even less to worry about Qiu, as he had arranged all the extra fifty or so small cats in less than ten days - although he looked cute, he was indeed a reliable man.
There is no need to worry about the secondary labor force, which is already a "large population group". Leopard Fishbone is more reliable than the jumpy snow leopard Rosemary. Taking care of cattle and sheep is the biggest part of their work, and the cats assigned to them are already good at this job.
In just over half a month, the 300-plus new laborers were completely absorbed without any splashes... Xiao Yun looked towards the southeast and northeast with regret. Why didn't anyone come? Was it because Hongye and Yu's eloquence was not well-trained or what?
I don't know if Xiao Yun's strong voice moved someone, but after another half a month, when the two grassland logistics teams came back one after another, each brought a Snow Wolf tribe, which was equivalent to six working tribes. Four families worked and the entire tribe came to their doorstep - the wages of the working soldiers were saved directly, the scale of cattle and sheep exceeded 20,000 heads, and there were more than a hundred more Snow wolves waiting to be fed and trained for jobs. Xiao Yun was so happy that he couldn't help but say it, in one word, it was beautiful!
All the names were registered, duplicate names were changed, and the salaries of the nine migrant workers from the two tribes who were hesitant and did not join the tribe were settled. Then Xiao Yun was ready to get started... He gave short-term training courses to the 109 snow wolves who came later: they were taken to the wheat and soybean fields after the harvest to plow the land in advance, to turn out the insect eggs and freeze them to death, to harvest rice with the work team, to clean up the freshwater fish raised in the canals that were dug in all directions, etc. The newcomers adapted to the work rhythm of the tribe, and then they were given some work to the work team that was really short of manpower. That's it!
In one autumn, the tribe of 160 people suddenly grew to nearly 600. If it were any other tribe, there would have been a lot of friction and trouble, but Xiao Yun didn't cause any trouble at all. No matter how energetic you are, you will become a dead fish after a day's work. Want to make trouble? If you have the energy to quarrel, we have to give you a thumbs up~
As a believer who both preached and practiced, Xiao Yun did not hide the fact that the tribe was facing a food shortage due to the large population increase (after all, they had to feed the people until next year's summer harvest). He let the newcomers know that the landlord had no surplus food, and then drove them to work for the purpose of having enough food every day. This was more effective than any beautiful and moving mobilization words.
As for the claim that there is not enough work to do with more people? That doesn't exist. Large tracts of land are left uncultivated. Although we cannot plant crops in winter, we still have to plow the land in advance to let the heavy snow in winter freeze the insect eggs and grass seeds in the soil to death. With so many more mouths to feed, how can we not open up one, no, two, three, four or five times as much land?
They needed to reclaim land along both sides of the river, build greenhouses for wintering, build cattle and sheep pens to separate the cattle and sheep to prevent over-concentration and the possibility of disease, organize soldiers to hunt fat prey in autumn to store meat, and expand the scale of composting... Xiao Yun could easily count on his fingers and figure out the huge amount of work waiting to be done. There was no such thing as more labor force and more free time!
Balk has almost become bald because of his efforts to discharge electrolyze disinfectant water. Who thinks that he is qualified to command others to work with his hands on his hips? Come on, Ayun will teach you a lesson~
At a work meeting with three times the number of attendees, Xiao Yun talked endlessly about the work arrangements before the snow. The newcomers were dumbfounded, while the old ones looked calm... You'll get used to it, really.
