Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 44 New Food Sources
Farming agriculture, animal husbandry, and metallurgical industry, these are the three major plans that Austin will start in the new year.

Needless to say, the first two plans, no matter which one is completed, will provide a steady stream of food for the Dragon Nest tribe, and the Dragon Nest tribe will soon be free from hunger.

The final metallurgical industry can greatly enhance the military strength of the Dragon Nest Tribe and accelerate the development of productivity.

If the Dragon Nest is the center and within a radius of more than ten miles is a Dragon Nest territory, with the current population of the Dragon Nest tribe of more than one hundred people, if they only rely on hunting and gathering to obtain food from the forest, this piece of land is not enough at all. To support such a large orc population, not to mention that as the smoke column continues to rise on the mountain, a steady stream of wandering orcs are attracted to join the Dragon Nest tribe.

It is precisely because of this that it is inevitable to start planting agriculture, and Austin also made a lot of preparations for this during the cold winter of last year, not only cutting down trees on a plain near the river to open up wasteland during the cold winter, At the same time, a large number of simple farm tools were also manufactured, ready to do a big job after the cold winter.

Of course, there is still a long period of time before the rice is planted and yielded.

But this is not a problem for Austin.

In Austin's view, it is not unreasonable that the orc tribes living in the Kava Forest have been in a state of primitive civilization for thousands of years.

I can't get enough to eat, so I don't have time to think about other things.

However, in the forest, there are many things that can be eaten.

One of the biggest reasons why the orc tribes starve to death so many people every year is that they don't know how to eat.

What is the diet of the orcs living in the Great Kava Forest? It mainly consists of collected fruits, wild grass seed rice, starch-rich rhizomes, roots dug when there is no food, and luckily hunted meat.

Other than that, there is nothing else.

In fact, the orcs' diet accounted for less than one-tenth of the food that could be eaten in the forest.

In Austin's previous life, no matter what he said, he grew up in a place where everything that flies in the sky, runs on the ground, and swims in the water can be made into delicacies from mountains and seas and served on the table.

If a chef came here in the previous life, he might be able to find more than a thousand edible things in the Dragon Nest territory alone.

Of course, Austin was not a chef in his previous life, but he also inherited a trace or two of the genes of the foodie empire, and he can still say a few words about certain food.

For example, bamboo shoots, fern sprouts, mushrooms, etc., and these things are not eaten by orcs.

Bamboo shoots, if eaten raw, will have a very astringent and unpalatable feeling, as well as fern shoots, if eaten raw, they will have a slippery slug-like feeling, so the orcs ignore these food.

But in fact, if you cook these things with water before eating them to get rid of the bitter taste, then whether it is bamboo shoots or fern sprouts, they will become very delicious.

In his previous life, Austin also lived in the countryside, and he couldn't be more clear about the dishes that can be cooked in the countryside at any time.

It is precisely because of the lack of the pre-treatment link of boiling that the orcs ignore the food hidden around them.

And mushrooms, that's even easier.

Those orcs who tried to eat mushrooms just ate whichever one they saw was the most beautiful and brightest. How could there be no accidents like this?

Over time, there have been rumors that mushrooms are poisonous and cannot be eaten, but Austin knows that the brighter the color of the mushroom, the more poisonous it is. Although some unremarkable mushrooms are not necessarily non-toxic, you just need to try a little. Tried it out.

Bamboo shoots and fern shoots are very nutritious, and these foods are plants that can be broken and regenerated, which can continuously produce enough food sources, not to mention that there is a large area near the Dragon Nest territory. There are not small bamboo forests, and ferns are everywhere in the mountains and plains, and there is no shortage at all.

As for the mushrooms, if you find a suitable damp place and get enough mushroom spores, there is basically no problem in the hot and humid climate of the Kava Forest.

Just these three things can greatly solve the food problem of the orcs in the Dragon Nest territory.

Although these three foods can only be regarded as "vegetables", they can also greatly reduce the food pressure of the Dragon Nest tribe. In addition, enough prey obtained from the recent big hunting is enough to support the orcs in the Dragon Nest territory for a long time. rations.

Food is always the basis for the survival of a faction, and the Dragon Nest Tribe, which has no worries about the future, will naturally not be idle and have nothing to do, but started a major construction under the guidance of Austin.

The Dragon Nest Tribe at this time is no longer the original village built on trees with only one simple thatched cottage.

Under the Dragon Nest cliff, a group of orcs opened up an area around the cliff, and built several different wooden houses with wood, a total of nine, the middle one is an altar, dedicated to the blue dragon Austin, And assist in the management of tribal affairs, representing the power center of the Dragon Nest tribe.

From both sides of the altar, two rows of houses spread out, and the opposite center is a huge square corridor, where they usually get up and run in line in the morning.

At the same time, in a remote corner of the village, there is also a strange house located far away. It is built in the corner of the village, and it seems a bit out of place. It is the toilet that Austin ordered to build.

In the open space next to the toilet, rows of pits were dug out. It is said that the blue dragon lord specially instructed them to plant the fruit stones brought back from the blood wolf's lair.

On the outside, a huge log stands upright, the top is sharpened, tied tightly with rattan, and the bottom is buried in the ground, forming a series of simple walls to protect the village behind.

These logs were all obtained from the plain that opened up wasteland. Originally, Austin planned to cut down the trees there and wait until the cold winter passed to burn them clean.

But later, I saw that the expansion of the village required a lot of wood, and the plain that opened up wasteland happened to have felled trees, so I used them directly.

The high walls and well-located houses, although they look a bit crude and have a primitive and rough style, at least they have the appearance of the prototype of the village in Austin's memory.

Of course, it must be expanded in the future. As far as these houses are concerned, Austin is most inclined to use brick and tile structures to create a real village.

It's a pity that these orcs' construction schedules are full recently, and their three major plans are only in the beginning stage, so the firing of bricks and pottery can only be postponed.

In just one year, Austin has developed Dragon's Nest Village from a thatched hut with seven kobolds to the current prototype of a real village with hundreds of orcs.

The whole village can be described as a small sparrow with complete internal organs.

(End of this chapter)