Chapter 11 (1/2)

There is a famous saying in later generations that if you want to be rich, you need to build roads first, have fewer children, and grow more trees.

Well, this sentence was once regarded as the first couplet of a couplet by Shi Xiong, so Shi Xiong, who had nothing to do, made a second couplet - eating pork chops, drinking mutton soup, blowing the bull to run for a better life

The first couplet is very reasonable. As for the second couplet, ha ha

For the gaoshu tribe, trees are absolutely not planted. In fact, they can't even cut down trees. Let alone this age, even in the future 250 years later, the forest coverage near Dawu Mountain is extremely amazing.

As for this era, within a few hundred miles around the gaoshu tribe, except that there were no big trees in the river, almost all other places were full of towering trees. The existence of these trees even affected the farming of the tribes.

Therefore, for today's North American Indians, especially the Cherokee Indians near Dawu Mountain, planting trees is definitely an idle and painful thing.

As for having fewer children, that's even more nonsense.

In today's era, there are only about 50000 or 60000 Cherokee people, but the territory occupied by Cherokee people is as high as 100000 square kilometers. According to the statistics of later generations, the population density of Cherokee Indians at this time is only one square kilometer and a half people.

The population is far from enough for the Cherokee people and even the whole North American Indians.

Therefore, anyone who dares to propose ”fewer children” at this time must be torn to pieces by the North American Indians.

As for road construction, it's very necessary in the eyes of stone bear. However, road construction is a labor-intensive project, not to mention the gaoshu tribe. Even if the whole Cherokee people are gathered together, it's impossible to build several main roads in the mountainous area of 100000 square kilometers.

The road is still a distant thing for the Indians today.

In the words of Indians, there is no road in the world, but where the sole of our feet treads is the road

It's obvious that that famous saying, which is widely spread in later generations, is not suitable for this era.

In this era, the most important thing is food.

Whether it's the hunting Indians in the north and the west, or the Cherokee people near Dawu Mountain, what they can live for is the most precious. The climate in Dawu Mountain is good, and there is a lot of precipitation, which is suitable for farming. So the Cherokee started farming after they came here.

However, the cultivation level of the Cherokee people is too low, even lower than that of the Dead Sea in the Middle East. In this era, in terms of farming level, it is estimated that the black brothers and sisters in Africa are worse than the Cherokees.

The East Cherokee people, who have just entered the period of semi hunting and semi farming, have not even summed up an effective method for farming. They just sow seeds after the weather gets warmer, and then basically ignore them. When autumn comes, they harvest in the farmland.

Maybe it's not appropriate to use farmland to describe the planting land of Cherokee people, because even Cherokee people don't know how to weed and water crops. As for fertilization, it was more like extraterrestrial knowledge to the Cherokees.

Today's Cherokee people, for farming, are at least leveling out a piece of land, then throwing grain seeds into the land, and then allowing the grain to grow naturally. This way of sowing is not as good as even the roughest sowing.

That's right. That's what the women of the high tree tribe, who are busy in the farmland, do.

They just throw the corn seeds into the field, just like the seedlings in South China. There is no ploughing, no digging and planting, and there is no follow-up. What we have is to let these grains grow freely.