Crossing the famine: The hunter's wife has good farmland

Zhu Lian ran out with a smile, and the lady suppressed her excitement and asked another maid to go in and get out a small rosewood box.

After the small box was opened, it was found to be filled with a box of gold ingots!

"Miss, the bear gall you brought me really exceeded my expectations. I think I can't buy such good bear gall even if I go everywhere. Doctor Song said that bear gall is the medicine for my son. The better the bear gall, the better the effect. So I will give you one hundred taels of gold for these two bear galls, which is equivalent to five hundred taels of silver for each bear gall. I wonder if you are satisfied?"

Mo Xiaonian was extremely satisfied, but the expression on her face was still indifferent.

"Madam, you are a sincere person. This price is acceptable. Madam, please rest assured that your son will be cured with these two bear gallbladders!"

"Thank you for your good wishes. By the way, I still don't know the girl's name. This is too rude!"

"Oh, my name is Mo Xiaonian, and this is my...husband Fu Cang."

"Great, great, what a great name. Where do you two live? After my son's illness is cured, I will bring my husband to your house to express my gratitude!"

"My home is in the Yueluo tribe, which is ten miles away from here. The place is not easy to find, so there is no need to come to thank us. We have already settled the payment in silver. Do we need to wait for the doctor to come and check the goods before we leave?"

"Uh...if it's convenient, could you two please stay a little longer? Doctor Song is not far from here and will be here soon!"

"Okay, no problem."

Sure enough, Doctor Song arrived a moment later. When he saw the two bear gall bladders, he was amazed. He kept saying that the lady was very lucky to have bought such good bear gall bladders. He also said that these were priceless treasures!

With Doctor Song's affirmation, the lady finally felt relieved and handed one hundred taels of gold to Mo Xiaonian.

The moment he got the gold, Mo Xiaonian felt as if there were loud drums and gongs and firecrackers in his heart. After saying goodbye to his wife, he couldn't wait to leave with Fu Cang.

"Go home, go home, hurry home, we are rich now, Fu Cang, your military funds are settled!"

"Are you in such a hurry to make money just to help me raise military funds?"

"Of course. I know that military expenses are very expensive, but this money can only be regarded as a loan from me to the tribe. I will have to pay it back to me when the tribe has money. It is not right for our whole family to pay for the military expenses!

Now, we have a hundred taels of gold in our hands. You can raise an army with honor! Let's go back home quickly!"

Yue Lu really didn't expect that Mo Xiaonian could earn back one hundred taels of gold in just one day.

She held a gold ingot and touched it for a long time, then sighed leisurely.

“It is absolutely true that you are the goddess of our tribe. No matter what problems our tribe encounters, as long as you are here, they can be easily solved.

Xiao Nian, you are right. This money can only be regarded as a loan from your family by the tribe. When our tribe has money, not only will we return the money in full to you, but we will also pay you some interest. I will now let Feng Ming write you an IOU in the name of the tribe."

Mo Xiaonian couldn't be polite with Yue Lu about this matter, so she nodded heavily: "Yes, then I should write an IOU as a proof, right!"

Yuelu borrowed fifty taels of gold from Mo Xiaonian to be used for the initial construction of the tribe and the raising of troops.

When people heard that the tribe was going to recruit soldiers, they found it a little sudden.

Their minds have not yet come to their senses from hunting in the mountains. They don't understand why they need to set up an army and recruit soldiers, and even provide these soldiers with food and wages, when it is already good enough to have warriors like Fu Cang and Sickle Stone in the tribe.

Hu Mu, Xiong Fei and others accepted this matter well. They were all warriors of the tribe before. Being a warrior here could provide them with food, drink and money, which was much better than going into the mountains to hunt every day. So they were the first to respond.

There was no need to rush the conscription, so Fu Cang took the recruited soldiers to build a military camp, while Mo Xiaonian and Yue Lu arranged for the people to farm.

Regarding the fact that taxes will be collected starting in three years, Yuelu has asked Fengming to write it on paper and post it.

Fengming has some opinions about this matter.

"Before, the people in our tribe provided for us voluntarily. Whoever brought back more prey would give it to us, and everyone was happy. But now it is mandatory. Will the people have objections? After all, we work so hard and can only earn five or six taels of silver a year, but now we have to give out so much all at once!"

Yue Lu and Mo Xiaonian had talked about this before.

She was a little confused at that time, but after Mo Xiaonian's explanation, she now completely agrees with Mo Xiaonian's ideas.

“Beeming, you have to accept that our tribe has changed a lot since we came here.

Before, our tribe only had about 200 people. It was a tribe that couldn’t be any smaller. Living in the mountains, there was no development to speak of. Everyone just lived a simple life.

But that great flood destroyed our home, and we had no choice but to leave our hometown and come here.

Along the way, our tribe has begun to grow, from the original 200 people to more than 300 people now.

This is a vast plain. Based on our previous life experience, we may not be able to support ourselves and our families. We must change our way of survival, and slowly transform from hunting to farming.

I believe that with this transformation, our tribe will only become bigger and develop better, and there will be more and more leaders who can control the direction of the tribe's development and ensure that everyone is well fed and clothed, and there will be more and more things to do.

In order to maintain better development of the tribe in the future, we must build roads, build waste incinerators, dig canals, and most importantly, we must form an army to protect the safety of our tribe.

Fengming: Look, each of these things requires a huge amount of silver to support. How can it be enough just with what the people give voluntarily?

So collecting taxes is inevitable. We are building everyone's tribe and everyone's home, so we need everyone to work together, not just a few of us working hard here every day to solve these problems. Beehive, we simply can't bear such a heavy burden!"