Chapter 61

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Chapter 61: Personnel Adjustments

Luo Ji always believed in the good practice of asking questions when he didn’t know something.

After all, having an old veteran in his friends list who could answer his questions was an advantage.

Wouldn’t it be foolish to not use an advantage he possessed?

He decisively sent a message to Gao Su, asking about the methods for processing leather armor and the encyclopedia for planting cabbage and garlic.

This time, the reply didn’t come immediately.

Luo Ji wasn’t too anxious.

Just as he was about to draw designs for leather armor while waiting for the reply, he heard some commotion outside his tent.

Luo Ji poked his head out and saw that the tribal warriors, who had stayed overnight at the Black Rock Tribe, had returned with the newly gathered population.

Prioritizing urgent matters, he temporarily put aside the leather armor designs.

The newcomers, overwhelmed by the Mirror Tribe’s size and environment, were quite noisy, constantly exclaiming in surprise.

Compared to the Mirror Tribe, which was backed by a natural wonder, rich in resources, and had a livability of +1, their original tribal environment was simply inferior.

Seeing the reactions of these newcomers, Luo Ji, as the tribal chief and leader, naturally felt a strong sense of accomplishment.

After all, he had built this tribe from the ground up.

After indulging in a moment of self-satisfaction, he instructed someone to lead the newcomers to an empty area nearby to set up tent camps.

He, himself, began to seriously consider the issue of personnel adjustments after the new additions.

For these newly joined individuals, there were actually very few suitable jobs.

Generally, there were only two, and that’s either helping transport timber for the lumberjacks or mining in the mountains.

In short, they would be laborers, and wouldn’t be assigned to any important tasks.

However, the Black Rock Tribe’s mine currently didn’t lack manpower.

The weather was starting to warm up, and spring was just around the corner.

During this period, daily coal consumption was decreasing.

Based on the Black Rock Tribe’s current productivity, after spring, the daily coal output minus consumption would likely allow them to stockpile a considerable amount.

As for Luo Ji, apart from heating and cooking fires, he currently had no other need for coal.

Increasing manpower and accelerating coal mining to stockpile a large amount of coal seemed to have little significance in the short term.

Thus, Luo Ji decided to temporarily send all these newcomers to the lumberjack team to transport timber.

Of course, this would make the lumberjack team too large.

Therefore, Luo Ji planned to reassign the original members whose loyalty had reached 80+ points to other positions that were currently short on manpower.

The Armament Department clearly needed more hands.

They were responsible for polishing weapons and researching bows and arrows.

In a while, the task of making leather armor would also fall to them.

Five people was clearly not enough.

So, after pondering for a while, Luo Ji found five more individuals whose attributes met the standards and added them to the Armament Department.

At the same time, the farming department was severely short of people.

With two more crops, tasks would definitely become heavy after spring, and several more acres of land would need to be cultivated.

As an important future supplier of vegetables and grain, Luo Ji, with a wave of his hand, directly transferred ten people there.

In response, the production of farming tools and some daily necessities also had to keep up.

Previously, the production of daily necessities was handled by the women in the tribe, while farming tools were made by the farmers themselves, as manpower was limited.

Now that manpower was slightly more abundant, Luo Ji simply assigned three people to create a small sub-department within the farming department, specifically responsible for the production and repair of farming tools.

As for the remaining people, they were all assigned to the construction team to help with the construction of the tribe’s defensive fortifications.

After quickly assigning these personnel and sending people to notify them one by one, Luo Ji let out a long breath and was about to sit down by the fire to rest for a bit when a message from Gao Su arrived.

He quickly opened the message window, and what first caught his eye was a vast expanse of dense text.

This was clearly the farming encyclopedia for garlic and cabbage, and it was quite a lot to read.

Luo Ji planned to read it slowly later.

What he was more interested in now was the method for making or processing leather.

After quickly scrolling through the message window, he soon found it.

Compared to the extensive farming encyclopedia, Gao Su’s explanation of leather production and processing was concise and to the point.

He quickly skimmed over the common steps like hair removal and de-fleshing. How to harden leather to increase its defensive capabilities was the key point Luo Ji wanted to know.

“So that’s it, apply resin?”

Luo Ji rubbed his chin, quickly found the main content, and had a sudden realization.

Incidentally, Gao Su had also comprehensively included the methods for obtaining resin.

Regarding this, Luo Ji just wanted to say.

“I actually know that.”

The lumberjack team had been cutting trees for so long, how could he not have seen resin?

Hardening leather required resin, which conveniently saved him trouble.

He quickly went to the lumberjack team to give them a reminder and then temporarily reassigned five people from those responsible for transporting timber to specifically collect resin.

The matters here were temporarily concluded.

It would likely take some time to collect enough resin.

Afterward, the leather would still need to be processed and hardened before finally reaching the step of being made into leather armor.

After thinking for a while, Luo Ji suddenly felt that there was no need to rush the leather armor designs.

He simply set them aside and began to seriously read the rather complicated farming encyclopedia.

To be honest, if he could, Luo Ji truly wished he could just copy the content, bind it into a book, and hand it over to the farmers in the agricultural department, letting them figure it out themselves.

After all, for him, who had no knowledge of farming, reading this content was truly difficult.

However, as this thought flashed through his mind, Luo Ji sadly realized that there was no such thing as “written language” in this era.

Everyone was still relying on oral communication and drawings.

And drawings would eventually evolve into written forms like cuneiform script.

However, Luo Ji had no intention of going through another lengthy process of linguistic evolution.

“Speaking of which, shouldn’t written language be considered cultural development?”

He rubbed his temples, a bit of a headache

He had clearly realized the importance of written language.

If this problem couldn’t be overcome, he felt that over time, it would definitely become a major obstacle hindering the development of their entire civilization.

An entire civilization full of illiterates?

Just thinking about it was terrifying.

He suddenly realized that cultural education needed to start early, but the problem was that he had no experience teaching people to read and write, nor did he know where to start.

Coupled with the sheer number of characters, just thinking about this made Luo Ji’s head ache.