Prehistoric Chef

Chapter 176 Ten Years (Part 2)

In the past ten years, the Changhe Tribe has not only made great progress in planting, but also in animal husbandry.

The yield of white sweet potatoes is very high. The surplus white sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines are enough for a family to raise six or seven pigs or two or three bulls. The favorite of small vegetarian pterosaurs. After long-term domestication and sufficient food, the egg production rate of these three kinds of 'poultry' has increased a lot compared to before, especially the vegetarian dragon beast, which has entered the egg production period. After that, one egg can be laid every day, and the laying period is twice a year, and each time can last for two to three months.

This kind of pterosaur is relatively docile. After years of domestication, they, like water birds, have lost the ability to fly. Their egg-laying ability is the strongest among the three common poultry. Although the eggs are more fishy than those of meat birds and water birds, after getting used to the taste, they will not feel unpalatable. The most important thing is that this pterosaur egg has high nutritional value and energy content, and eats as much as an orc. If you eat three fist-sized pterosaur eggs in the morning, you will not feel hungry until noon.

However, the fly in the ointment is that this kind of pterosaur, known as the egg dragon, probably left all its nutrition to the egg. The female egg dragon has a skinny appearance all year round, and there is almost no flesh on the whole body. Male egg dragons are slightly better, but the meat on their bodies is not as much as half that of meat birds, and the taste of the meat is not very good. Because of this, meat birds and water birds with weak egg production ability can keep themselves' most popular Poultry' status has remained unchanged for many years.

Livestock need a lot of food every day, and some livestock are not suitable for captivity and are more suitable for grazing. Although the residents of Changhe own more than 15 mu of land per capita, they need to feed the whole family, feed the slaves, pay the slaves' wages regularly, and pay taxes to the tribe. A family can support 20 or 30 head of land. Pigs and beasts and a large group of poultry are considered to be doing very well.

As a result, some people who were originally good at grazing rather than planting moved to the fringes of the tribe to graze on the uncultivated wasteland. They drove groups of horned sheep, bulls, vegetable dragons and other animals that were not used to captive life. Livestock live in the wilderness for water and grass, and then return to the tribe before the cold winter, and sell the livestock to tribal residents and butchers at a suitable price. Then, they will also buy some surplus grain and hay from the tribal residents to feed the livestock over the winter.

In the beginning, these nomadic residents did not have to pay taxes, but as more and more orc residents chose to go nomadic, Wu Nuo formulated relevant taxes for their transactions.

In addition to trading a large number of livestock every year, these nomadic residents will also trade witchcraft, bring back fruits, vegetables, food seeds that the tribe does not have, and everything they find interesting. In order to encourage the spirit of exploration of the nomadic residents, Wu Nuo If you return something of real value, you can receive a lot of rewards in the tribe.

For example, an orc who discovered the Copper Mine Mountains received a reward of 10,000 yuan. Even if the coins have not been as valuable as they were in the past ten years, 10,000 yuan is still enough for the orc's family to live comfortably. Lives for a long, long time.

Of course, guys as lucky as this orc are really rare, but there are many guys in the tribe who receive hundreds of thousands of bonuses every year. These bonuses alone are enough for an orc family to live comfortably for a year or even longer. Moreover, there is no need to pay taxes on bonuses, and the names and deeds of those who receive bonuses will be engraved on special stone tablets for other residents and future generations to learn from.