The next morning, Jiang Chen woke up early and sent out several teams to scout the surrounding terrain as usual.
They had found the sea, but it was still impossible to settle down by the sea. Not to mention that the sand around the beach was not suitable for building, the humid environment alone was not suitable for humans to settle down.
Jiang Chen, who had been a leader for ten years, understood one thing. He couldn't just focus on the present, but also on the future, which would be decades, centuries, or even a thousand years later. To put it in an exaggerated way, every decision he made now would affect the future of the entire human race. It wouldn't hurt to be cautious.
After half a month of exploration, Jiang Chen finally chose a place 30 kilometers away from the sea as the settlement of the tribe.
So Jiang Chen went into high-frequency work mode again. During the day, he set fire to the forest and cleared out a large area of wasteland. He ordered his clansmen to dig up the ashes and collect their urine and feces to increase the fertility of the land.
Then, he began to look for suitable soil around him and experimented to see if he could burn bricks for construction or porcelain for cooking.
After all, it would be a little too much to live in a tent after settling down. Moreover, when cooking food with stone tools, the heat was often uneven, causing the food to be half-cooked at times. This group of devilish children had good physical fitness. If it were people from Earth, they would have vomited and had diarrhea long ago.
The most important thing was to dig ditches to divert seawater, collect the crude salt produced under the sun, and continuously filter it with crushed charcoal to obtain refined salt containing uranium and other trace substances.
By the time Jiang Chen had finished his work, snow had started to fall from the sky.
Fortunately, they did not have to live in the wilderness today. Although the clay houses were not very strong, they were more than enough to withstand the cold wind.
One had to know that the degree of greenery in the Endless Mainland was frighteningly high, and the corresponding carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere was also relatively low. There was no greenhouse effect at all. The winter on Earth and the winter here were completely different.
In the first year of the great migration, Jiang Chen hadn't made enough plans to protect himself from the cold due to his misconception. He had left the four brats and 12 babies forever on that winter night.
It was that lesson that made Jiang Chen realize that what he was experiencing wasn't a game with fixed routines, but a bloody and dark existence. If they didn't improve, they would be devoured by the cruel climate, merciless diseases, and hungry beasts sooner or later.
Fortunately, they had survived all of this, and now they had found a safe place to settle down. Jiang Chen believed that one day, they would be able to overcome the weather, famine, and disease. In the end, they would leave a glorious history on this continent. This was his responsibility as the ruler, and also the common wish of all his clansmen.
Perhaps he was used to the busy work, but Jiang Chen didn't stay idle even in winter. People came and went in his residence every day.
Jiang Chen discussed with them the law, land distribution, education, currency, and other issues that had been deliberately ignored during the great migration. If they didn't prepare for these issues early, they might bring a destructive blow to the tribe in a few years.
There were only about a hundred people in their tribe now. Of course, they didn't have to think too much about it. It wouldn't be of much use even if they had a law. But if the population grew several times in a few years and didn't have any legal awareness, Jiang Chen couldn't imagine how much trouble it would cause.
Jiang Chen, who had grown up in a highly developed modern civilization, knew very well how the arrival of the farming age would affect human beings.
Let's talk about the bad effects first. After humans had a stable residence, their food would inevitably change from meat to grains. However, human teeth were more suitable for eating meat. If they kept eating grains, the speed of wear and tear would be greatly accelerated. The human body structure was not suitable for bending over for long periods of time to cultivate. All kinds of joint diseases that did not exist in the hunting era were inevitable.
Moreover, after humans had their own cultivated land, they were bound to guard their own land and could not travel far. The harvest also depended on the weather.
Although grain was also a kind of resource, and with Jiang Chen's inherent skill, Infinite Resources, he could harvest it as long as it was ripe. He could produce it indefinitely, but these disadvantages couldn't be completely avoided. If no one took care of the land at all times, they would have to start all over again if a plague of locusts or rats came.
In the farming era, rather than saying that humans tamed wheat, it was better to say that wheat tamed humans.
However, no matter how many shortcomings there were, they could not cover up the countless huge advantages of the agricultural era.
With the help of Jiang Chen's inherent skill, Supreme Will, his tribe wouldn't go down the same path that humans had fought against themselves for thousands of years. This also meant that after they had a stable source of shelter and food, their population would definitely increase exponentially.
After filling their stomachs and breaking free from the quagmire of survival, they had the leisure to think about other things, such as how to make more powerful weapons to resist wild beasts, how to build stronger houses, how to make more durable and convenient farming tools...
With the population and the freedom of thought, their civilization could continue to progress.
After all, Jiang Chen was just a programmer in the modern society. He wasn't a god, so he couldn't be omniscient. He only had some common knowledge in the modern society. He didn't know anything about architecture or materials science. He only had the infinite life bound to his tribe and the foresight.
What Jiang Chen was doing now seemed impressive, but he was only guiding the tribe on the right path. As for how far they could go on this path, it was up to the kids themselves.
Fortunately, the first generation of human beings had grown up, and Jiang Chen had Jiang Xue as his wife, so he didn't have to take on the responsibility alone like he had at the beginning. He only needed to come up with ideas and concepts, and the rest would be perfected by them.
Err…Oh, I forgot to tell you. In the second year of the great migration, Jiang Chen and Jiang Xue were already…You know what I mean.
Jiang Chen had been under a lot of pressure, and he had nowhere to vent. Jiang Xue didn't even try to hide her desire to give herself to him at any time. It would be strange if something didn't happen in the middle of the night.
All in all, everything was going according to Jiang Chen's plan. Now, they just had to wait for the snow to melt a few months later. They would bury the seeds they had painstakingly collected in the past ten years into the black soil, and then they would complete the most crucial transformation from the hunting era to the farming era.
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