I'm involved in poverty alleviation in a primitive tribe.

“I don’t want this to happen again. Immediately after the craftsman competition, a chef competition will be held to select talent for the canteen. Chefs are those who make food well, and anyone can apply. Like craftsmen, chefs also need to be rated.”

"The first-level chefs are responsible for cleaning and processing the ingredients, the second-level chefs prepare food for the tribes, and the third-level chefs are qualified to use various precious ingredients to prepare food for guests from the tribal shamans and the Jiang tribe. Only the second-level and third-level chefs can accept orders from the tribes. You must arrange for people to take turns, and don't let me see anyone go hungry again."

"Yes!"

That's all I wanted to say. Is there anything else?

Jiang Ning had arranged everything she needed to, and since the rest would have to wait until after the competition, she decided to adjourn the meeting.

The Iron-Eating Beast Witch stood up hesitantly. Jiang Ning could tell from his expression that nothing good was going on, so she couldn't help but sigh. She had only meant to be polite, but it turned out he really did have something to say.

"Go ahead."

The Iron-Eating Beast Shaman said, "A few days ago, there was a female slave, the female slave from the stone house! Not a female slave from our Iron-Eating Beast tribe. She said... she said she was pregnant with the child of a warrior from our tribe named Dashan, and was afraid she wouldn't survive the winter outside, so she wanted Dashan to take her in."

The treatment of slaves was naturally different from that of their own people. The Jiang tribe only guaranteed that they would have enough to eat and the strength to work, but what they would eat was another matter.

For heating in winter, they only provide a little firewood, just enough to ensure no one freezes to death.

Jiang Ning raised an eyebrow: "You can make your own decision about this; you don't need to ask me."

The Iron-Eating Beast Shaman said urgently, "The problem is that Da Shan. He said he had been intimate with that female slave, but after winter came, he became too lazy to move and didn't even want to leave the stone house, so he hasn't seen the female slave since. Now that female slave insists that the child in her belly is Da Shan's!"

The habits of tribespeople are often influenced by their war pets. The people of the Sirius tribe are influenced by the Sirius and only have one mate.

Iron-eating beasts need to hibernate, and iron-eating beastmen are also lazy in winter.

Jiang Ning was speechless: "How many months pregnant is that child?"

The Iron-Eating Beast Shaman shrank back somewhat guiltily: "The belly looks like it's almost two months along, but Da Shan absolutely refuses to admit that the child is his. I don't think he's lying either, and the gestation period doesn't match up."

Jiang Ning was also a bit troubled. Tribal people could use the totem to confirm whether someone was a member of their tribe, but what could a two-month-old belly confirm?

She waved her hand: "Since it's uncertain, then you should take the person back and raise them first. It doesn't matter if you can't find Father, since they are all from the Jiang tribe anyway."

In fact, there are children in every tribe who cannot find their fathers, especially in those tribes that practice walking marriage and polygamy, where they do not care who their father is.

However, this also has a drawback: the possibility that the two parties are close relatives increases.

These children who cannot find their fathers are cared for by their mothers or directly by the tribe.

The Iron-Eating Beast Shaman replied, "Yes!"

It wasn't that he didn't know how to handle this kind of thing, but this female slave was, after all, a public slave of the Jiang tribe, not one of their Iron-Eating Beast tribes. He still needed to ask Jiang Ning for his opinion on how to deal with her.

After they left, Jiang Ning returned to her study to think about the school.

There's no sign of anyone being taken yet, so there's no need to rush.

There are already several hundred young children in the Jiang tribe, so this school definitely needs to be expanded.

She originally thought that since she was teaching her own people anyway, she should first teach them the regulations of the Jiang Department, and then expand on that basis little by little.

But now that there are plans to recruit people from outside the tribe, we need to reconsider.

Regardless of whether the Blackscale Tribe is willing to send people over, Jiang Ning believes that her school will eventually receive international students.

Since they are outsiders, the purpose is different. Why not extend their study period and let them stay in Jiang's territory for three to five years?

Their tribe couldn't very well send people over empty-handed, could they?

You've all been living in our Jiang tribe for so long. If the Jiang tribe encounters a crisis in the future, you can't just stand by and watch it die, can you?

Expand the selection of goods in the trading area and the cafeteria, and have someone bring them around after class. Children need to bring more pocket money when they travel far.

We can also renovate the trading area, add a few rows of shops, and set up some mobile vendors; we can collect stall fees from them.

If there are people who are good at business, we can let them do this full-time and collect some taxes from them.

The Tao and Ma tribes can make a fortune with their crafts, so there's no reason why the Jiang tribe can't.

Speaking of which, the bamboo weaving skills of the bamboo tribe are quite good!

Find some good animal hides for the Sirius tribe and set up a high-end custom clothing store.

With so many ducks in the Spotted Duck Tribe, surely they can provide down comforters and down jackets? A roast duck restaurant would also be a good option.

The Stone Tribe could develop its skills in carving. They could carve a totem and place it in their settlement. It would be so impressive for outsiders to see it! Wouldn't you want to order something so prestigious?

The tribes here have no shortage of beast cores, so you can always find a few willing to pay.

Okay, let's set it for three years first!

Jiang Ning asked the system to retrieve her elementary school textbooks from her previous life. In addition to the text, she also had to learn math.

The text is exactly as it appears in the textbook, which represents the excellent results achieved by Chinese people through numerous attempts, and is far more comprehensive than what she taught.

There are so many characters; it wouldn't be a problem to learn them for three or five years. Back when she was in college, she even had to study classical Chinese for medicine.

But how do we teach math? Primitive people basically only need to know how to count to be fully functional. We're only at the literacy stage now, so we can't scare them away all at once. Let them learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and then statistics, which will always be useful for managing the tribe.

By the time they graduate, the vocational college next door should also be opening, offering courses in cooking, carpentry, and agriculture. She doesn't believe they won't be able to retain people.

Jiang Ning became more and more excited as she thought about it. She had already begun to imagine the scene of various tribes waving spirit crystals and beast cores, vying to enroll.

"Witch? Are you asleep? I am Huoyun!"

Hearing the commotion, Jiang Ning logged out of the system, walked to the door, opened it, and sure enough, saw Huo Yun and Chief Tianlang standing there.

It's getting dark now. Everyone goes to bed early in winter, so there shouldn't be anything going on at this time.

Jiang Ning asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Before the chief could speak, Huoyun blurted out excitedly, "Witch! The chief said the alliance is going to hold a cooking competition?"

Jiang Ning nodded: "Yes, what's wrong?"

Huo Yun said matter-of-factly, "I also want to participate, but I don't want to go into the kitchen. I'm doing just fine in the planting team right now."

Jiang Ning chuckled: "Are you so sure you'll win? Our Jiang Department has over two thousand people!"