But this kind of cold is completely different from the cold wind and snow when Xu Chen returned. When it blows on your face and body, you can already feel a slight warmth and moisture, instead of the sharp and severe cold.
The Ba people have officially invested in the large-scale spring sowing.
There were nearly two hundred prisoners, men, women, old and young, wielding stone and wooden hoes, talking loudly and laughing, and were busy in the farmland on both sides of the river.
Mother Ba took the men and women from the main compound to take charge of the 400 acres of mature farmland near the compound.
Grandma took the men and women from the side yard and a group of male and female captives from the Yu Gong clan to take charge of the 400 acres of new fields on the other side of the river.
The two sowing armies faced each other across the river, and they were still chatting loudly even though they were nearly half a mile apart.
Especially my mother’s unique loud voice, when she speaks, the whole valley seems to be echoing, and most of the valley can be heard. Therefore, in the process of laughing and chatting, one can almost only hear her voice on the river beach.
It rang out, sometimes causing bursts of laughter.
Xu Chen is still responsible for cultivating the experimental field, but this year the sown area has been expanded to 100 acres, which is the area closest to the compound and the first 100 acres of mature land to be cultivated.
However, Xu Chen no longer needs to do things like sowing seeds himself.
This hundred acres of mature land has been carefully plowed and leveled for a long time. After two years of cultivation, the soil is soft and fertile. There are very few weed roots in it, and there are almost no stones the size of eggs.
As a personal tool, Gu Heju led a group of specially selected ingenious men and women to sow seeds, while Xu Chen was responsible for patrolling and guiding, striving to achieve another bumper harvest in this year's experimental field.
Under such primitive and crude farming conditions, in order to obtain higher yields, grain domestication is very important.
Wild oats have thick leaves and stalks, well-developed root systems, small ears, and few seeds. On a seemingly thick oat, in fact, there are only a few seeds scattered on the scattered ears.
There are as many as seven or eight seeds, as few as two or three, and there are even some that only have ears but no seeds, and they are as male as iron roosters.
If it is not screened and domesticated and improved, even if it is cultivated like this for thousands of years, the yield per acre can still drive people crazy.
Moreover, if seeds are repeatedly left without selection for a long time, the seeds may continue to degenerate, producing fewer and fewer seeds, and the seeds will become smaller and smaller. In the end, they will become iron roosters, only growing leaves but no seeds.
Thinking about hard work for half a year and finally getting a field of male and female wheat beans, it would be such a heartbreaking thing.
Therefore, Xu Chen will never allow this kind of thing to happen. Not only must it be nipped in the bud, he will also continue to experiment and select more high-yield grain seeds to continuously improve the harvest of planting.
The 100 acres of experimental fields planned this year are all high-yielding grain seeds harvested from 20 acres last year.
These seeds were further screened to select those with large and plump grains, and were sterilized and soaked in lime water.
The seeds in other farmlands have also been treated in the same way, but they have been roughly selected. The difference is still very big.
Xu Chen did not expect that the yield per mu could reach last year's highest level of 70 kilograms. If the average yield per mu could reach 50 kilograms, then an area of 800 acres would yield 40,000 kilograms of grain, which could fully meet the needs of the entire Ba people for a year.
Food needs.
Now that there is salt and sufficient food, the demand for meat will be greatly reduced, and it can be met by hunting a small amount and raising livestock in captivity.
In this way, the tribe can allocate more manpower to carry out more industrial innovation and development, such as building carriages, building ships, manufacturing furniture, forging metal, etc.
Xu Chen's attitude towards food production seriously affected the development of the entire tribe.
Although the little witch does not need to participate in labor, as a big witch, she has the responsibility and obligation to guide the survival and development of all tribes. Therefore, even when Xu Chen is not in the tribe, she will follow Muba and others to inspect the farmland every day.
After Xu Chen came back, she followed Xu Chen almost inseparable every day, learning how to guide farming production.
Xu Chen naturally explained to her various aspects of farmland production very seriously and carefully, telling her about the nature of all things, the change of seasons, water and soil climate, grain cultivation, deep plowing to accumulate fertilizer, drainage and irrigation, etc. He even told her what he knew and thought.
It’s about traveling through the past and hearing about various farming knowledge.
There are even a lot of things that he himself considers to be complete nonsense.
However, although he had no idea whether these nonsense contents were right or wrong, at least at some time before time travel, he might have heard a few words and had some impression of them.
What's more, he grew up in the countryside and was more or less exposed to a lot of farming knowledge. Therefore, no matter whether these contents are correct or incorrect, there is no so-called scientific basis, but for this primitive era, for the little witch who is completely
To an ignorant girl who doesn't know what farming is, and whose understanding of the nature of heaven and earth is still at the divine stage, these theories all seem so profound and magical.
The longer she stays with Xu Chen, the more ignorant the little witch feels, and she will have a deeper and deeper awe of Xu Chen, and be deeply impressed by his various bizarre theories and innovations, until she is simply and
There is no room for the shadow of any other human being in the childish mind.
Xu Chen was like a god, looking down at her from the high sky, slowly opening the doors to the magical heaven one after another for her.
Heaven, earth, time and space seem to be slowly starting to become less mysterious.
All things in nature seem to be slowly losing their mysterious aura.
It seems that in Xu Chen's eyes, everything in the world is so simple, and there are not so many mysteries inherited by the great witch. The little witch doesn't understand, but she lacks a pair of eyes to see into nature.
And these eyes, which now carry little stars every day, only have the figure of a young man running around and scolding Fang Qiu.
"Please note to all sowing groups, please note to all sowing groups, today is the last day of spring sowing. After sowing, we will gather on the river beach for a meeting!"
After seven or eight busy days, with the efforts of nearly 200 people, the sowing of all 800 acres of farmland has come to an end.
Before work was about to end in the afternoon, Xu Chen held a bark trumpet and stood in the middle of the dry river with his arms akimbo, shouting loudly at the men and women busy working on both sides.
Although the sound after being amplified by the loudspeaker is a little blurry, it completely covers up the mother's loud voice.
The men and women sowing seeds on both sides of the Taiwan Strait burst into laughter. Some people shouted that Grandma was very angry and that no one was allowed to speak louder than her.
Then I saw my mother holding a hoe and starting to chase the guy who just spoke, making the scene even more noisy with laughter.
Xu Chen's return not only restored the excitement of the past, but also made the entire tribe more harmonious.
As the head of the family, grandma is still very serious on weekdays, but after a season of spring sowing, her loud voice returned to the same tone as before, and her mood seemed much younger. She began to play and play with the clan members, and she seemed to have suddenly become more than ten years younger.
Same age.
Even the mother's face is full of smiles all day long, and her old cheeks seem to be much smoother and younger than before.
With Xu Chen here, the entire tribe has a backbone, and everyone will feel extremely relaxed and fulfilled.
Although Xu Chen seems to be doing nothing every day. He rides a pony around the farmland, shouts a few times with a loudspeaker, and stands with the little witch on the edge of the field talking and laughing about farming, or simply doing nothing while others are doing it.
While working, he took a group of children to practice flying with two big eagles on the river beach.
But as long as he is around, everyone will be lively and full of energy.
Amid the lively chatter and banter, the groups planting farmland on both sides of the Taiwan Strait also finished their work one after another.
Under the setting sun, groups of men, women and children, carrying tools, slowly gathered towards the open space on the river beach in front of the compound.
Every two or three days, Xu Chen would convene a meeting with the whole clan.
The purpose of the meeting is not to satisfy his desire to speak as a leader, but to continuously summarize farming experience and collect, discuss and solve various problems encountered.
This was an era of primitive communism, where everyone within the tribe was equal.
Although Xu Chen alone had the final say on many matters, others were accustomed to obeying his instructions.
However, as a collective commune system, Xu Chen still hopes to give full play to the active initiative of the team members, actively use their brains for the development of the tribe, put forward different suggestions and suggestions, and listen to some different voices to find more suitable candidates for the future development of the tribe.
Development path.
Although private ownership is inevitable, it is still impossible, at least for now.
But Xu Chen is very clear about the shortcomings of the big pot system. If you don't chase after you every day to remind you, it will be a paradise for fishermen.
No one likes to work, laziness is a natural instinct.
In the past, when hunters went out to hunt, they basically spent the whole day going home, eating, driving piles, and sleeping, and rarely did any extra work.
Now that the problem of food and clothing has been basically solved, this mentality of working as a foreigner has become even more serious.
Therefore, from the first day of spring sowing mobilization, Xu Chen divided the two families into eight groups according to the number of people and men and women. Each group was responsible for nearly one hundred acres of sowing, implemented simple military management, and checked the quality of the sowing once a day.
and area, and those who complete the work according to quality and quantity will naturally be rewarded. At the same time, the food ration is also slightly tilted. The men eat wine, and the women can get dried fruits such as milk, vines, and even occasionally half a cooked duck egg or
A piece of salted fish and bacon, although it is only a small difference in form, will make everyone feel a different psychological difference.
In October, Xu Chen asked the wind to bring back dozens of kilograms of rock salt, and taught him how to prepare salted fish and bacon. With this magical material that could preserve meat for a long time, the entire Ba people started a wave of making salted fish and bacon.
enthusiasm.
A group of hunters were out hunting and fishing all day, and meat would be brought back in a steady stream every day. The rock salt crystals were pounded into powder, sprinkled with a layer of salt, and hung to dry and smoke.
After being air-dried and smoked, these salted fish and bacon have a unique taste, which is more unique than fresh meat. Especially the cooked bacon tastes rich and delicious. The roasted and dried salted fish has more flavor, dry, salty and crispy, which makes people want to stop eating.
The taste of new food makes everyone talk about it, but after all, there is too little salt, and there is not much salted fish and bacon produced in the winter. Naturally, the distribution is insufficient. Everyone wants to eat it, but if the distribution is uneven, it will inevitably cause
Many contradictions.
Therefore, Xu Chen decided to temporarily carry out differentiated allocation according to the method of labor groups in the collective life of a big pot. Those who work actively and with high quality and speed can be allocated some. Naturally, those teams who work hard to make money can only watch.
Others eat it.
Although this kind of distribution is not fair, it also makes those guys who are accustomed to fishing, when it affects their group results and is criticized and disliked by the group members, they will eventually feel ashamed.