Chapter 227 (2/2)

Even these almost primitive Indian tribes in the new world knew the importance of food.

Before the stone bear came to the gaoshu tribe, the food of the gaoshu tribe was always not enough, especially when it was green in March and April every year.

Although the tribe's people can get food through hunting, picking and other activities, they will still make the people hungry. Food is still a top priority for the gaoshu tribe.

When Shi Xiong came to gaoshu tribe, he made great efforts to develop agriculture. He made Quyuan plow and columbine cart, which are the artifact of reclaiming wasteland and sowing. He also taught the people how to tame bison and use animal power instead of human power, which greatly improved the efficiency of reclaiming wasteland and sowing.

In addition, he has been getting a lot of food seeds from European colonists, which leads to a large area of crops with thousands of acres of vitality.

Among these crops, the winter wheat sown last year and the potatoes sown in the early spring are the main ones, supplemented by some other crops sown in the spring, so that all the wasteland that can be opened up is fully planted.

Under the guidance of the stone bear, the canals leading out from the littleriver River provided sufficient water for these farmland. In addition, the first half of the year was favorable, and the crops in the fields grew well.

In particular, those winter wheat that have already been heading are even more gratifying.

In another month, these wonderful winter wheat will be harvested, and the wheat will fill all the granaries of gaoshu tribe.

With sufficient food, the gaoshu tribe can take back all the small tribes separated from the gaoshu tribe, just like the Daqingshan tribe.

As long as there is enough population, there will be enough soldiers. These soldiers are equipped with Ferguson rifles and all kinds of metal weapons. Naturally, the improvement of their combat effectiveness is not at all high.

With enough military support, it is feasible to conquer the surrounding tribes and even the whole new world.

And to achieve all this, the foundation is on the crops growing in the vast farmland in front of us.

There are thousands of mu of farmland on both sides of the litterliver River, and there are at least tens of thousands of mu of land waiting to be sown outside the cultivated farmland. If it wasn't for the lack of seeds left by the tribe last year, the stone bear really wanted to open up all the land to grow crops.

Just like last year, the seeds of Winter Wheat in the tribe were only 2000 Jin. Because the cold dew had passed when winter wheat was sown last year, the seeds planted per mu were close to 20 jin, which was nearly twice as much as the seeds sown in October.

There's no way. Who let the stone bear come to this world a little late.

But even so, these two thousand jin seeds are enough to sow more than 100 mu.

Even if only 300 Jin of wheat can be produced per mu during the summer harvest, the more than 100 mu of wheat is enough to harvest more than 30000 Jin of wheat. Apart from the reserved seeds, the remaining wheat is ground into flour, which is enough for the people to eat for a long time.

More potatoes. Even if the yield of this product is not as high as that of later generations, as long as one mu of land can produce 1000 Jin, 700 mu of land can produce enough potatoes for 3000 people to eat for more than half a year.

Not to mention that after wheat harvest, corn, rice, soybeans and other crops can continue to be sown, potatoes can continue to be sown, and sweet potatoes can be harvested in a few months.

Anyway, when it comes to the Green Valley Festival, the food of gaoshu tribe will be too much to eat!

These grains are the real strength of the stone bear!