After planting late rice rice, Ye Qing and the clan leader discussed the issue of tribute.

In theory, the comprehensive strength of the Fangfeng tribe is now stronger than that of Wang Mangguo.

In terms of population, the Fangfeng family has more than 2,300 people, and the actual population is larger than that of Wang Mangguo.

In terms of rule, the Binfeng tribe adopted a management structure of neighborhood groups, and the management was very meticulous.

Wang Mangguo is still a tribal alliance and has very loose management.

It seems a bit unreasonable to pay tribute to Wang Mangguo.

However, Wang Mangguo controlled the source channel of Fangfeng's salt, so there was nothing he could do about it.

This situation will continue until the Fangfeng clan and Dayu join forces, formally establish the country, obtain the right to trade salt, or find a new source of salt, so that they can get rid of this embarrassing situation.

The source of salt is nothing more than mineral salt and sea salt.

In Ye Qing's impression, there seems to be no mineral salt around Taihu Lake.

If you want to find a new source of salt, you can only go to the beach to dry salt.

This costs a lot.

At present, before the relationship with Wang Mangguo became stale, maintaining a normal transaction, even if the price was a little higher, it would be more cost-effective than going to the beach to dry salt by yourself.

Therefore, the tribute must continue.

There is no restriction on the types of tributes that are paid, and valuable items can be used as tributes.

For most tribes, the main tribute paid is food.

Cloths, tools, etc. are also valuable items and can also be used as tributes.

However, for all tribes, there are too few cloths and tools, and they are not enough to use them themselves, and few tribes will use them to pay tribute.

Now is the Stone Age, the material of tools is the mainstream of stone.

However, stone tools are time-consuming and labor-intensive, and are very easy to damage, resulting in the scarcity of tools from various tribes.

The same is true for cloth. Because the weaving technology is very primitive and the production of cloth is very low, the tribes of all tribes are all uncovered.

Fortunately, the climate is warm in this era, and if you wear less clothes in winter, you won’t freeze to death.

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Ye Qing had an idea on the tribute.

He doesn't want to take out the food.

Although the early rice harvest is good, the harvest of this season alone will be enough for everyone in the tribe to eat for two years.

However, he still couldn't bear to take it out.

Keep the food, and he can do a lot of operations in the future.

And, most importantly, there are too many cloths accumulated in the tribe now.

Other tribes do not have enough cloth, so the Fengfeng family has it.

Cloth, under Ye Qing's golden finger, is much more labor-saving than getting food.

Last year, Ye Qing didn’t understand the market, so the patriarch took the dried fish to pay tribute. This year, Ye Qing quit.

The patriarch also knew that it was so easy to obtain these with Ye Qing, cloth, pottery, and these.

Pottery can also be made by other tribes, but it is just a bit inferior in quality.

But it's barely enough to use it.

So, pottery is not that necessary.

Despite this, the cost of making pottery in Fengfeng is too low, and the price can be completely reduced. It is still cost-effective to exchange large quantities with other tribes, and other tribes are still willing to exchange.

Bu, it's exaggerated.

Bu, in this era, is hard currency, and no tribe lacks it very much and will not refuse.

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The hemp grown by the tribe has been harvested once and a large amount of hemp fiber has been obtained.

This harvest has opened the horizons to the tribe.

I admire again that anything is not a matter of being there.

When picking hemp, the tribe members were stunned. The tribe members with a little brain knew that they could not finish picking.

1,000 acres of madi, each neighbor is divided into 25 acres.

Each neighboring household is 2.5 acres.

The hemp of this 2.5 acres of land is made of hemp fiber. How long does it take for the couple to work?

Two people, one peeled the hemp and the other beat the hemp. They made ten kilograms of dry hemp a day.

If the yield per mu is 100 jin, 2.5 mu and 250 jin of hemp will take 25 days to make it all.

All the laborers go to make hemp?

Nothing else to do?

what to do?

Easy to deal with!

Ye Qing built a textile factory, from making hemp to finished cloth, in one stop.

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Ye Qing has counted it.

Although the yield per mu of 1,000 acres of madi is not as high as modern times, the tribe's acres are 1,200 square meters, and the yield per mu is about 100 kilograms.

Hemp can be harvested for three seasons, and in a year, the total yield per mu is 300 kilograms.

After spreading it out, each tribe has an annual amount of hemp fibers of more than 130 kilograms!

Ye Qing was roughly weighed. Because the yarn is thicker and the weight is relatively large, a piece of linen cloth weighs about two kilograms.

If the annual hemp fiber production is all woven into cloth, the door width of 1.5 meters and the length is...22,500 meters,

A piece of linen cloth that is 1.5 meters x 1.5 meters and makes an adult's clothes, which is 15,000 pieces.

If you make a full set of tops, pants, shorts, even if you have half a set, there are 7,500 sets.

The production of linen seems to be very large, but it is not enough for a loom to operate for one year.

A loom machine runs with all its strength, and the production capacity of a day can reach 100 meters. 22,500 meters of cloth can be used for less than two-thirds of the time a year, and one-third of the time is still free.

However, hemp and spinning can't keep up.

Ye Qing built a textile factory on the side of the brick and tile yard.

This textile factory is a comprehensive production factory.

The first step is to make hemp.

The tribe relies on artificial skin peeling and removing shells, but it is still too inefficient and wasteful of manpower.

With handicrafts, the tribe members spend countless hours making hemp fibers throughout the year.

Not worth it.

Ye Qing designed ten hemp machines.

The principles of the hemp maker and the rice threshing machine are similar.

The improvement is to change the toothed rollers into blade rollers.

When the machine is running, the hemp rod is stuffed in, and the hemp fibers come out from the other end.

The hemp machine drive is hydraulic.

The tribe members cut down the serpent link, removed the leaves, and sent it here.

The tribesmen who control the hemp machine stuffed the bare hemp rod into the hemp machine. After a breath, the hemp bones and hemp shells will be scraped off, and what comes out is clean hemp fibers.

After one day, the hemp fiber can reach 300 kilograms after drying.

60 times that of manpower.

Ten hemp machines, ten people operated, 3,000 kilograms a day.

These ten people only need to work for more than a month when they pick hemp, and then they can make all the hemp produced in the tribe's 1,000 acres of hemp fields into hemp fiber.

praise!

This efficiency shocked the tribe.

Next, the hemp fiber will enter the process of degumming and bleaching.

That is to boil it in lime water.

If you cook in batches of hemp, you will be too busy to cook it in a pot.

Ye Qing made a long copper sink.

The entire copper sink is heated at the same time. In the sink, the hot lime water flows from one end to the other, and the hemp fibers in the water are taken away.

Adjust the appropriate water flow speed and the length of the sink, walk through the hemp fibers, and when the other end comes out, degumming and bleaching, it is done.

The water flow in the sink is also driven by hydraulic power.

In this way, there is not much manpower required.

Add marijuana and lime, and having one tribe is enough.

Only one tribe is needed to make a fire.

It only takes one person to collect finished hemp fiber.

At most, add another mobile person to do odd jobs and deal with emergencies, the whole line, and four people.
Chapter completed!