Two days after sending off these farming guidance experts, the internal and external cleanup of the second phase of the compound was completed.
Under the auspices of the little witch, the tribe held a grand beam-laying ceremony, and the house officially began to cover its roof.
On the day after the beams were raised, spring plowing and sowing also started simultaneously.
In previous years, manpower was stretched thin, so everything had to be calculated and arranged by manpower, and every step should be assigned to a certain person, otherwise the work would not be completed.
But now there is no need to do this. With hundreds of young and strong men and women suddenly added, the manpower is very sufficient. Xu Chen only needs to inform two parents and a group of team leaders for everything, and they will naturally arrange the manpower.
To complete it, Xu Chen also felt much more relaxed.
It is an irrefutable truth that things can be done easily when there are many people.
Especially in this primitive and barbaric period.
The genes of China’s infrastructure madness are actually built artificially.
From the Ba tribe to the five nearby alliance tribes, it takes roughly half a day to two days. The farthest Cang tribe takes two days. If the Ji tribe runs fast, it can be reached in one day. The Hu tribe, Wu tribe, Muya tribe
It only takes half a day or a full day.
Therefore, according to Xu Chen's judgment, the six tribes started planting at the same time, so the harvest after autumn was roughly at the same time.
The light rain on the street is as moist as crisp, and the color of grass looks far away but is not visible up close. The best thing about spring is that it is better than the smoke and willows all over the imperial capital.
This is a beautiful spring poem describing the glory of the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan period.
The peak of Chinese civilization, the Tang Dynasty, was the highest point that stood at its peak.
Every descendant of the Yan and Huang Dynasties is proud and obsessed with it.
Although this was still in the primitive and barbaric era, there were still a group of savages who drank raw materials and drank blood.
But this does not prevent Xu Chen from planning a grand goal in advance for his kingly hegemony.
In early spring, it turns from warm to cold.
Although the howling cold wind no longer has the momentum of being as sharp as a knife, it is still extremely cold when blowing on my body.
However, this coldness brings with it a hint of refreshing comfort.
Because on the river beach, one or two young wild flowers have begun to bloom sporadically.
And in the sandy soil of burned charcoal ashes, a faint trace of tender green grass buds can already be seen.
When you sow seeds, there is hope of harvest.
In this cold and windy early spring, the Ba people once again plant their hopes for the new year.
A total of 400 acres of farmland used nearly half of the food harvested by the Ba people last year.
As a grain test field, after plowing and raking twenty acres of land, Xu Chen personally led a group of hard-working men and women to dig trenches, drill ridges, and cover the soil with drills, striving to make these specially selected grains harvested.
Plump seeds can receive the best care.
With the collective work of hundreds of people, the entire sowing process lasted five days.
After sowing the seeds, Xu Chen began to arrange for the straw men to be bundled up around the farmland and inside and outside. When dozens of straw men wearing furs and holding wooden sticks and bows and arrows were all in place, this large area could be seen from a distance.
The empty land immediately became popular and lively.
The newly joined women and a group of captives from the Gonghuo tribe had no idea about farming. They just passively followed the arrangements and leadership of the Ba tribe.
Even at first, they didn't understand why the Ba people would throw so much of their subsistence food into the soil. It was so wasteful that they even felt distressed. However, they later learned that in the autumn, the cultivated and sown land would harvest enough for everyone to eat right now.
When half a year's worth of food was available, these people were all shocked.
In the eyes of these foreigners, harvest means men hunting and women gathering.
They had never thought of such a saucy operation.
Specialized land reclamation and sowing are used to increase the harvest quantity.
Although it seems like a lot of work, the hope of harvest can drive people crazy.
The place where the Gonghuo people live is more suitable for farming and sowing than the Ba people. As soon as you leave the mountain col, you will see endless gentle riverbanks on both sides of the river outside. The land is extremely fertile. Just the naturally growing oats, wild beans and other grass seeds grow every year.
It can be picked and piled up in the cave.
It is precisely because of the rich harvest that the Gonghuo tribe developed rapidly after they migrated to their current location.
Plants flourish on the river beach, and there are naturally many wild animals.
Various conditions are much stronger than those of the Ba and even the Uzbek people.
Unfortunately, they did not learn to farm, let alone raise animals in captivity, and the conditions of the caves they lived in were poor and could not store large amounts of food for a long time. As a result, the tribe could only meet food and clothing. Winter and spring were equally difficult, and spring was equally hungry.
Especially after almost all of their strong men and women were captured by the Ba tribe, the two tribes became even more miserable in winter and spring.
It's snowed several times this winter, and I don't know if it will freeze to death.
But they spent an unforgettable cold winter in the Ba tribe.
Although the Ba people are also frugal in order to save food, in addition to oats, wild beans and other miscellaneous grains, the Ba people also dig back a large amount of yams, plus they store a large amount of hazelnuts, chestnuts, vine fruits and other wild fruits, which is a huge
Supplements food and nutritional deficiencies.
In addition, the Ba people also have a team of skilled hunters who hunt and fish.
Whether it is bows and arrows or fishing nets, they are magical weapons and tools that the Gonghuo Tribe has never seen before.
With these two hunting tools, the Ba people have constant harvests, and there is almost no shortage of meat every day. Coupled with the endless pottery to cook hot meals, this kind of life is actually a rich life that they can never imagine.
At least throughout the cold winter, they did not see any starvation among the Ba people.
After the spring sowing, the granary has bottomed out, but as a variety of fresh and tender wild vegetables begin to appear, and there is no shortage of meat every day, they will not have a difficult time this spring.
On the contrary, the Gonghuo and Qia tribes, which have lost almost all their able-bodied men, will surely suffer a lot this spring.
But who can blame it?
If it hadn't been for coveting the Cang clan's pottery, and if the great witch and the clan leader hadn't started this wrong war, everyone would be in peace now, and everything would be fine.
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world.
They can only accept this reality bitterly, accept labor reform honestly in the Ba tribe, and compensate for the mistake of their tribe in starting the war.
Of course, their work was not in vain.
The Ba people without reservation taught them new skills such as building houses, burning wasteland to cultivate land, weaving nets for fishing, digging wells, using bows and arrows, etc. Nearly half of them are now part of the training team and have to participate every day.
Routine military skills training, those who do not meet the standards will be punished, and those who achieve excellent results will be given separate food rewards, and even occasionally a sip of fruit wine that is so delicious that it will tremble in the soul.
In fact, if it weren't for that wrong war and the two tribes could live in peace, they would even be happy to join the Ba tribe and become a part of this magical tribe.
But unfortunately, there is a high probability that they will not be able to stay. They are just prisoners, and the tribesmen will definitely pay as much animal skins as possible to exchange them for them.
Hate it, maybe.
But in fact, the longer I stayed in the Ba tribe, the less I could feel hatred. I only had incomparable awe for the Ba tribe and that magical young man named Chen.
After sowing the farmland, Xu Chen's main focus returned to finishing the newly built second phase of the compound.
The second phase of the project was completed about ten days later than the first phase last year, but we hurriedly covered the roof before the rainy season.
Although there were two light rains during the period, the dry mud bricks were not greatly affected.
After the roof is built, it is simple internal and external decoration, installing the gate, processing the doors, windows and floors, building brick beds, tables and chairs, hanging curtains and curtains, cleaning the courtyard and the drainage ditches in front and behind the house, etc.
Most of these houses will be allocated to the second family for accommodation, so the group of young women who were snatched away were very excited, just like the Ba women when the new house was completed. After the rooms were allocated, they were all happy and busy.
I started decorating the room and cleaning the yard, and couldn't wait to move into my new home.
From the moment they were selected by Xu Chen, they already knew their fate. They no longer belonged to the Gonghuo and Qia tribes. The living conditions given to them by the Jia tribe were now a hundred times better than those of the Gonghuo and Qia tribes.
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Apart from being desperate, they would never miss the crowded, cold, and nothing-loving mountain tribe again.
They are now happy Ba people, with new identities and names.
The women were very happy to move to their new homes, leaving only a group of male captives to stay in the kiln, looking even more depressed and lonely.
They all know that, under the temptation of the unprecedented wealth of the Israelites, these youngest and strongest women of their tribe will no longer belong to them at all.
These snobbish women completely abandoned their mother clan for the luxury of mansions, spacious and bright houses.
However, we also want to abandon our mother clan and join the Ba clan.
We also want to live in a big house and sleep on a big bed.
It's a pity that the Ba people don't want them, they just keep asking them to work and forgive their sins.
I guess not long after, when the weather gets warmer, the clan leader will arrange for someone to bring animal skins to exchange them back, right?
What will happen to military training in the future?
What should I do if I can’t have delicious fruit wine?
Can we not go back...
In the lonely and cold kiln factory, many prisoners who felt that they were half Ba people began to discuss this matter secretly.
After moving, Muba and Amu led all the women to start a new round of sowing tasks in the front and back of the compound, planting hemp, thorn melon and other vegetables and cash crops.
Xu Chen also took the time to go to the mountain, cut a few branches from a tall vine fruit tree, and found a few suitable places near the courtyard to dig holes and cut them.
I don't know if he can get involved, but he has to give it a try.
After all, this wild fruit tastes so good and is an excellent material for making wine. He hopes to succeed.
In addition, Xu Chen did not neglect the greening and decoration of the new courtyard. He arranged for Gu Heju to lead a group of prisoners up the mountain to dig out many trees and plant them inside and outside the old and new courtyards.