Zhou Xu's Train of Thought

Names are a problem. The tribe currently has just over sixty people, but among them, the problem of people having the same name is already quite severe.

The fundamental reason is that the names the primitive people could come up with were too few.

To put it bluntly, they lacked culture.

He had already asked the people in the tribe. Although there was an ancient civilization ruled by the Old Gods in this world, they simply couldn't read or write.

But it made sense. Their lives were already difficult enough every day, so where would they have the free time to learn to read and write?

In fact, even now that the tribe was starting to take shape, Zhou Xu didn't have the free time for that.

But this naming issue did need to be addressed.

He couldn't keep calling out "Dashan" and have a bunch of Dashans run over asking what he needed, could he?

Thinking of this, Zhou Xu immediately gave instructions to Ye Jinghong.

He himself didn't have the time to name all the other tribe members one by one. If he had to name everyone from now on, how long would that take?

Thus, Zhou Xu directly recited a list of surnames to Ye Jinghong, telling him to memorize it first. Afterward, the tribe members could simply choose a surname and add it before their given name.

The same Dashan could be Zhao Dashan, Li Dashan, or Sun Dashan. As long as they were called by their full name, people could effectively distinguish between them. This problem was thus solved, albeit imperfectly.

Ye Jinghong's Intelligence had a maximum of three stars. With his potential fully tapped, his mind was enough to make him stand out from ordinary people and become one of the very few in this world.

After memorizing the surnames a few times with Zhou Xu, he quickly remembered them.

Considering that it was getting late, they rested for a night at the Salt Lake Camp.

That evening, Ye Jinghong gathered all the tribe members at this camp and arranged the naming matter.

The next morning, Shi Lei, as the person in charge of the Salt Lake Camp, stayed behind. Ye Jinghong, however, traveled with Zhou Xu to the Black Moon Camp.

Of course, before departing, Ye Jinghong took Shi Lei around again to familiarize him with the daily tasks.

Then they hurried off. They were quick and managed to arrive at the Black Moon Camp before noon. Along the way, there were no unexpected incidents.

Naturally, the people from the Salt Lake Tribe all recognized him. As for those from the original Black Moon Tribe, after witnessing Zhuang Mengdie's capabilities, they naturally wouldn't dare to underestimate Ye Jinghong, who had also been assigned there.

After a brief introduction, Ye Jinghong was also very straightforward and resumed the naming task that had been assigned to him, showing no intention of resting.

The task itself wasn't difficult and basically required no further attention from him. At this moment, Zhou Xu's focus was entirely on the snare trap before him.

There had been too many things happening lately, leaving him no time to study this.

However, he had already researched this item quite thoroughly. Now, with a calm mind and a little thought, he quickly grasped the key to it.

"Done!"

Holding the finished snare trap in his hand, Zhou Xu grinned.

He immediately signaled for his subordinate to grab a wild rabbit from the rabbit cage for testing.

To prevent the wild rabbit from escaping, they had previously tied a sufficiently long bark rope to one of its hind legs and then guided it towards the deployed snare trap.

The next second, the moment the rabbit touched it, the trap immediately sprang up, ensnaring one of its hind legs.

The startled rabbit struggled desperately. However, the more it struggled, the tighter the snare became. Escaping was impossible.

Needless to say, the snare trap was a success.

"Mengdie, come help me weave this."

With the successful development of the snare trap, the previous basket trap could undoubtedly be officially retired.

It wasn't that the basket trap was bad. In fact, it was effective, but it was labor-intensive.

In comparison, the snare trap did not require as much manual labor.

Once deployed, you didn't need to constantly watch it. You basically just needed to check on it periodically.

One person could be responsible for a large area, which greatly saved their tribe's manpower.

As for the retired basket traps, they were essentially just bark baskets. They could be taken back to the tribe and used as baskets, so there was no waste.

Once the steps were understood, making a snare trap was simple. It basically took just a few moments to complete one, far less tedious and time-consuming than weaving a basket.

Under these circumstances, Zhuang Mengdie and the others no longer needed to weave bark baskets. What could the surplus capacity of the handicraft department be used for?

Naturally, it was to start weaving new fishing nets!

Raising wild rabbits would take time. During this process, although they could eat some, it definitely couldn't be considered their main food source for now. The focus remained on fishing.

Thus, upgrading fishing nets and improving fishing efficiency became the main task of the handicraft department.

However, the grinding and production of stone tools like stone axes and stone pickaxes could not stop.

This was because stone tools of this kind were typical consumables. Especially stone pickaxes, which were currently mainly supplied to the mines at the Salt Lake Camp for the miners to use.

This led to a high rate of consumption for stone pickaxes, requiring constant production every day.

Under these circumstances, stone axes originally had a lower rate of consumption. After all, for Zhou Xu and the others before, they only used stone axes in combat.

But the situation was different now. They now needed to use stone axes to chop down trees and accumulate timber.

Not to mention the need for timber for the future development and construction of the tribe, let's consider the current situation. He planned to increase the number of rafts at the Black Moon Camp to four.

Currently, there were only two rafts used for fishing at the Black Moon Camp.

What did this represent?

It meant they could send out at most two rafts at a time, with two fishing nets to catch fish on the lake.

But if they increased it to four, the efficiency would directly double!

During this time, as a modern person, Zhou Xu naturally also considered whether their frantic fishing in this lake might lead to overfishing, thus affecting the future freshwater fish output of the lake.

After all, for those developing things, the key was sustainability; he had no intention of killing the goose that laid the golden egg.

From this perspective, Zhou Xu concluded that there wouldn't be any major problems in the short term.

These primitive people had not understood fishing before, meaning the fish in this lake had hardly been caught at all. This resulted in a large number of freshwater fish in the lake, and each one was plump and strong.

Under these circumstances, considering the lake's area and their tribe's current population, it was difficult to pose a threat to the freshwater fish in the lake at the species level.

However, even so, Zhou Xu had already planned for the future.

The core of this plan lay in rabbit farming.

These rabbits could give birth six to eight times a year, with each litter having about six to eight kits. Furthermore, the kits could start breeding after five to six months, and after a month of gestation, they could give birth.

With this reproductive capacity, after a litter or two of kits were born, their tribe would soon have a stable supply of rabbit meat.

Once they had a new food source, their demand for fish would decrease, and naturally, overfishing would not occur.