Chapter 46 Zhou Xu’s Thoughts
Names are a problem. There are only more than sixty people in their tribe now, but the situation of duplicate names in this tribe is already very serious.
The fundamental reason is that there are too few names that primitive people can think of.
To put it bluntly, they are uneducated.
He has already asked the people in the tribe that although there was an old civilization ruled by the old gods in this world, they were not literate at all.
But think about it, it’s already very difficult for them just to live every day, so how can they have the spare time to learn how to read?
In fact, even now that the tribe has begun to take shape, Zhou Xu does not have the time to do this.
But the name issue needs to be dealt with a little bit.
From now on, he can't just call him "Big Mountain", and a group of big mountains will come over and ask him what his orders are, right?
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu immediately gave instructions to Ye Jinghong.
He himself doesn't have time to name the rest of the tribe members one by one, otherwise he will have to name each one in the future. When will he do it?
In this way, Zhou Xu read out a list of hundreds of surnames to Ye Jinghong, asking him to write them down first, and then let the tribe members choose a surname at will and add it in front of their own names. .
The same is Dashan, Zhao Dashan, Li Dashan, and Sun Dashan. As long as they are called by their first and last names, people can be effectively distinguished. This problem can be solved by hand.
Ye Jinghong's upper limit of intelligence is three stars. When his potential is fully exploited, his mind is enough to make him stand out from ordinary people and become a very small minority in the world.
After following Zhou Xu and memorizing them several times, he quickly memorized the last names.
Considering that it was already getting late, they rested for the night at the Salt Lake Camp.
That night, Ye Jinghong called all the tribe members in the camp over and arranged the naming matter.
Early the next morning, Shi Lei, as the person in charge of Salt Lake Camp, stayed here directly, while Ye Jinghong followed Zhou Xu to Black Moon Camp.
Of course, before setting off, Ye Jinghong took Shi Lei with him to familiarize himself with daily matters.
After that, they set off quickly. They moved quickly enough and successfully arrived at the Black Moon Camp before noon. There were no unexpected incidents along the way.
Of course, everyone from the original Salt Lake Tribe knew him. As for the original Black Moon Tribe, after seeing Zhuang Mengdie's abilities, they naturally did not dare to underestimate Ye Jinghong, who also landed in the air.
After the brief introduction, Ye Jinghong was not ambiguous at all, and once again carried out the naming task assigned to him before, without any intention of taking a break.
The matter itself is not difficult, and there is basically no need for him to worry about it. At this time, Zhou Xu's attention is completely focused on the noose trap in front of him.
There were so many things going on during this period that he had no time to study this.
However, I have already studied this thing for a while. Now I calmed down and thought about it, and I quickly figured out the key to it.
"It's done!"
Holding the finished lasso trap in his hand, Zhou Xu grinned.
Immediately, he signaled to his subordinates to grab a hare from the rabbit cage for testing.
In order to prevent the hare from accidentally escaping, they tied a bark rope long enough to one of the hare's hind legs in advance, and then guided it close to the deployed noose trap.
The next second, the moment the hare touched, the trap immediately jumped up and trapped one of the hare's hind legs.
The frightened hare struggled desperately, but the more it struggled, the tighter the noose became, making it unrealistic to break free.
Needless to say, this noose trap was a success.
"Mengdie, come here and help me make this up." Now that the noose trap has been successfully developed, the previous basket cover trap can undoubtedly be officially retired.
It’s not that it’s not easy to use. In fact, the basket trap is easy to use, but it’s expensive.
In comparison, noose traps do not require so much manpower.
After the deployment, you don’t need to keep an eye on him all the time. Basically, you just need to check it every once in a while.
Only one person is responsible for a large area, which can be said to greatly save the manpower of their tribe.
As for those eliminated basket cover traps, this thing is essentially just a bark basket. If you take it back to the tribe, it can be used as a basket, and there will be no waste.
After understanding the steps, making a lasso trap is simple. You can basically make one in a few clicks, which is far less cumbersome and time-consuming than basket weaving.
Under this premise, Zhuang Mengdie and the others do not need to continue weaving bark baskets for the time being. What should they do with the extra energy in the manual department?
Then of course it is to start weaving a new fishing net!
The breeding of hares takes time. During this process, although they can eat some appropriately, they certainly cannot be regarded as their main food source at the moment. The focus is still on fishing.
In this way, upgrading fishing nets and improving fishing efficiency have become the main tasks of the current manual department.
However, the polishing and production of stone tools such as stone axes and stone picks cannot be stopped.
Because stone tools like this are typical consumables, especially stone picks, which are currently mainly provided to the mines at the Salt Lake Camp for miners to use for mining.
This also resulted in a huge loss of stone pickaxes, and they had to be made continuously every day.
Under this premise, stone axes were originally stone tools with less loss. After all, for Zhou Xu and the others before, they would only use stone axes in battle.
But the situation is different now. They now need to use stone axes to cut down trees and accumulate wood.
Not to mention that the future development and construction of the tribe will require wood, but that the current situation is good. He plans to increase the number of rafts at the Black Moon Camp to four.
At the moment, there are only two fishing rafts in Black Moon Camp.
What does this mean?
This means that they can send up to two rafts and two fishing nets to fish on the lake at the same time.
But if the number is increased to four, this efficiency can be doubled directly!
During this period, as a modern person, Zhou Xu of course also thought that if they were so crazy about fishing for fish in this lake, they might accidentally overfish, which would affect the freshwater fish production of this lake in the future.
After all, people like them who are engaged in development are all about a steady stream of water, killing the goose that lays the goose to lay the eggs, and he is not going to do it.
Starting from this point, Zhou Xu came to the conclusion that there would be no big problems in a short time.
These primitive people did not know how to fish before. In other words, the fish in this lake have not been caught before. This also makes the number of freshwater fish in this lake huge, and each of them is very tall. Fat and strong.
Under this premise, considering the size of the lake and the current population of their tribe, it is difficult to pose a threat to the freshwater fish in this lake at the species level.
But even so, Zhou Xu has already thought of a follow-up plan.
The core of this lies in the breeding of hare.
This rabbit can give birth to six to eight litters a year, and there are almost six to eight rabbits in a litter. And the rabbits can start breeding after five to six months, and they will be pregnant for one month. can be born.
With this reproductive ability, after one or two litters of rabbits are born, their tribe will soon be able to have a stable supply of rabbit meat.
When new food is available, their demand for fish will decrease, and overfishing will naturally not occur.
(End of this chapter)