The research and development of mortars is the current focus of the Gaoshu tribe, but this kind of thing is also impatient, Shi Xiong knows.

Thanks to the successful firing of cement, although the amount of cement burned every day is not too much, the construction speed of the Gaoshu tribe has been greatly improved.

Throughout the thunderstorm month (July), Shi Xiong led the expedition team to move on the sites of the Great Smoky Mountains and Yuchi people. When he returned to the Gaoshu tribe, the time had come to the Sturgeon Moon (August).

The so-called Sturgeon Moon refers to the season of fishing for sturgeons that are common in the Great Lakes. The Cherokee people used to live in the Great Lakes area to the north, so in their era, the month of sturgeon is August.

Compared to the Great Lake in the north, the latitude of the Gaoshu tribe is more southerly. Although it is located in the deep mountains, this season is still very hot and unbearable. But no one feels so uncomfortable for this sultry heat, because everyone knows that only heat can grow the crops in the ground well.

The crops in the field are growing very well now, and next month will be an autumn harvest that is bigger than the summer harvest.

During the time that Stone Bear left the Gaoshu tribe, the Gaoshu tribe successively took over two small tribes that had previously separated. However, these two small tribes do not possess mineral deposits like the Daqingshan tribe, so these two small tribes moved to the area where the Gaoshu tribe is located.

The population suddenly increased by nearly 200 people, plus more than 240 women and children from the Xiaohe tribe, which made the population of the Gaoshu tribe more than 900 people suddenly, making the tribe even more lively. Up.

The good summer harvest allows the Gaoshu tribe to have enough food to feed so many people. In addition, it is summer, whether it is hunting or picking, the fertile Great Smoky Mountains can fill the stomach.

The increase in population made Li Lei realize how stupid he was before.

Hongyun and Bigfoot admire the Guardian even more.

Many women in the tribe are now busy working. They have now taken over the work of salt making, wine making, oil pressing, steel making, coking and even mining. Later, they were burnt cement and glass. Now they are also studying, and when they learn, they will also take over these tasks completely. As for making Ferguson rifles, there are now more than 30 women who are following them.

Even Stone Bear had to admire the Indian women of this era. They can really hold up half the sky!

This is not just nonsense, it is done by these hard-working women with their hands.

These women can do farming, picking and even hunting. As for other tasks, these women even do better than men. After all, women are naturally careful and do their work more carefully than men of the top five and three.

And it's not just women, those women also lead their children to work together. These little guys can't do heavy physical work, but it's okay for them to help. Moreover, the children are energetic and strong in learning, and some of them are even better than adults.

In this era, no one talks about protecting children. In this land, except for the very young children who can enjoy the care of their parents, other children, as long as they are over seven years old, have to work with their own adults.

If you want to live on this land, the pressure is not normal.

Children of North American Indians generally enter adulthood at the age of twelve, especially boys, as long as they reach the age of twelve, they will participate in formal hunting operations. This is a unique coming-of-age ceremony for North American Indians.

If in later generations, such a big child is still in the sixth grade of elementary school, and he still hasn't broken away from the category of children...

Just like the body of Shi Xiong in this life, this year is actually only a seventeen-year-old boy. In later generations, a teenager of this age is just a high school student. Stone Xiong has led the expedition team to slaughter thousands of Yu Chiren...

If you don't work hard, you won't be able to live on this land.

This continent in this era is where the law of the jungle is most vividly embodied.

In any case, the fact that there were so many people in the tribe not only allowed the Gaoshu tribe to directly enter the ranks of large tribes, but the most important dividend brought by the increase in population was immediately reflected.

Many things that Shixiong wanted to do in the past were unable to unfold due to lack of manpower. Now that there are so many more people in the tribe, many things previously envisaged can now be unfolded.

For example, building roads and bridges.

There is a saying in later generations called "build roads if you want to get rich", which pointedly pointed out the importance of communication.

Although the importance of transportation is not only reflected in the aspect of "getting rich", there is no doubt that the importance of transportation is still equally important for the current Gaoshu tribe.

The road from the tribe to Xiaoyanshan needs to be repaired, the road from the tribe to the kaolin mining area needs to be repaired, the road from the tribe to the anthracite coal mine needs to be repaired, and the road from the tribe to the hematite mining area needs to be repaired. Similarly, the road from the tribe to the former Daqingshan tribe also needs to be repaired.

If it weren't for the high cost, Shixiong even wanted to connect the Xiaohe tribe and Gaoshu tribe with a simple concrete road.

Because the summer harvest is a big harvest, even if there are so many people in the tribe, there is still more than enough food~lightnovelpub.net~ So now many hunting activities have stopped, and most of the strong labor in the tribe is used to build roads.

Building roads is an out-and-out hard work, and it is also a heavy manual work, so it requires most of the male labor. Of course, some physically fit women will also participate in road construction.

At first, the people of the tribe didn't know why they used cement to build roads. Cement is a good thing. This point is recognized by the people after witnessing the magic of cement. But why use such good things to build roads?

What else can the road look like? As long as people and cars can walk, is it worthwhile to build roads with such precious cement?

As a result, when the cement road from the tribe to Xiaoyanshan was built, the people of the tribe realized that building roads with cement is simply great. Originally, the distance from the tribe to Xiaoyan Mountain was only a little over one kilometer, and there was no need to pave the road foundation or the width of the cement road was limited, so the road was quickly repaired.

The repaired cement road is not only flat, but the most important thing is that even if it rains heavily, the road can still pass.

In the past, once those roads in the tribe encountered heavy rain, it was really muddy and difficult to walk, but now with this cement road, the muddy and so on are completely gone. It is a joy to walk!

Xiaoyanshan is now the most important place to "generate income" for the tribe. In order to obtain the refined salt produced by Xiaoyanshan, the Wasichus did not hesitate to exchange grain, war horses, cotton cloth, and seeds. This is the tribe of the previous tribe. Things that I can't even think of.

It is precisely because of the importance of Xiaoyanshan that this first concrete road leads there.

Now that the advantages of cement roads have been reflected, the next step is to harden some roads inside the tribe.