"boom"

In the southeast direction, thunder rolled in.

There were dark clouds in the sky that were spreading towards the valley.

Although the rain in June is gradually decreasing, it is still very scary once heavy rain comes.

Shortly after the thunder began, people working in the valley were running home.

In the direction of the valley entrance, more than ten fast horses were running wildly.

On the horse's back, the wind led a group of hands to swing the whip desperately along the whistling wind. Behind him were dark clouds that were rolling over. The wind was mixed with raindrops as big as beans, which had already fallen down.

But no matter how fast the horse is, it is not as fast as the heavy rain and strong wind.

Before a group of people could run to the gate of the courtyard, thunder and lightning were howling, and the sky above the clear valley was as dark as ink, and the heavy rain fell like a pouring bucket.

"小"

Furious lightning teared the rain and darkness, and several horses were frightened and neighed in the thunder.

"Driving"

In the heavy rain, a group of people finally rushed to the gate of the courtyard and rushed straight into the awning and kept cursing loudly.

"A few dogs, it's raining heavily!"

"I said it back a long time ago, you don't want it, you deserve it!"

"Ga, if we hadn't seen Lang Er, we wouldn't have been in the rain!"

"You are blind, that's not Lang Er!"

"Absolutely, I've seen it clearly!"

"Baoga, Lang Er is not that fat!"

A group of people swearing and fighting each other, then watched Xu Chen and Gu Ju run wildly from the hillside with a few wide leaves.

Faced with such heavy rain, no matter how big the leaves were, they could not be blocked. Therefore, when Xu Chen and the other two rushed into the awning, they were still soaked like chickens.

Xu Chen shook his face while cursing God while giving birth to a son without an asshole.

This weather is broken, and the heavy rain comes at any time, and it does not give people a chance to breathe.

Although he was used to this violent climate, he still couldn't help but curse and relieve his hatred.

It was only a little bit too far away. They would be safely home one or two minutes later, but they could not escape.

A group of carpenters and stonemasons were in the awning well and were no longer busy at the moment. Instead, they all came to help Feng and others tie the horses up so as not to be frightened and run away.

Xu Chen took off his short sleeves from his body and hung them on the wooden rack. He looked at the small and small beasts tied to the horse's back, just a few rabbits and a yellow sheep. The harvest didn't look big. He also heard a group of people shaking water and wiping their faces and complaining to each other constantly, and couldn't help but say curiously:

"You guys go out for a day and you have only gained something like this?"

A group of people blushed in an instant, and their heads were lowered with their eyes and did not dare to answer. Another young and strong person who had just joined the tribe this year said:

"Originally, a wild wolf ran out to grab food and scared the flock away. The wind said that the wolf was what kind of wolf was, and the sheep was no longer fighting, so chase the wolf."

"Wolf Er?" Xu Chen turned to look at Feng in a daze, "Are you sure it's Wolf Er?"

Feng Adam's apple shook slightly, nodded in shame and said, "Like Ga!"

An old Ba clan soldier shook his head: "Don't listen to him nonsense. He is not Lang Er at all, but his fur is a bit similar, and his belly is particularly big!"

Xu Chen was surprised and asked a few more questions, but Feng was not sure if it was Lang Er. Some of the others said yes, and some said no, but no one dared to be sure anyway.

After talking nonsense, Xu Chen felt that this matter was unreliable, so he stopped asking about it. Instead, he asked about the recent changes near the Dahe River.

After summer every year, the water from large and small rivers will surge, flooding large areas of river beaches on both sides, and even the forests at the foot of the mountain will be flooded a lot.

In previous years, tribes basically did not leave the valley after the rainy season came.

However, as the Ba tribe becomes larger and the contacts with foreign tribes become more and more frequent and close, such a situation where they do not interact for several months will inevitably affect the development of the tribe.

Therefore, Xu Chen planned to follow the mountains and forests near the river bank, investigate the flooding situation and then build a road leading to the Wu people.

The two tribes gathered for more than 30 miles, and the population was nearly 700. With the improvement of the accommodation environment, simple technical division of labor such as farming, textiles, construction, and smelting began to appear. As wealth continued to accumulate, there was a more active communication demand between tribes.

In particular, the emergence of horses and carriages will greatly shorten the time and space distance between the two tribes, from the original ones to only two or three hours.

Two or three hours are just the time when the two tribes went back and forth to hunt at the cave and the valley entrance.

The most important thing is that Xu Chen currently needs more copper to promote the faster development of all tribes.

A pair of axes with five or six or seven or eight kilograms, a pair of kitchen knives with three or four kilograms of hoes, pickaxes, plows, swords, etc., are all consumed by several kilograms of copper and tin.

Last year, the Wu tribe sent nearly 3,000 kilograms of copper to Kaichun, which seemed to be quite a lot, but there were not many items that were actually smelted and cast, and only a few hundred of them were large and small.

Therefore, there were nearly two hundred bronze swords and daggers distributed to officers and a group of elite men on Mother's Day.

In addition, each tribe also gave away one or two axes and hatches, and the number was dozens.

In addition, in order to solve the marriage between the five ghost tribes, he sent out thirty handfuls one after another.

The most consumption is undoubtedly the Ba people. He has created a lot of messy things such as axle rings, plowheads, rakes, hoes, picks, etc. At present, almost everyone in the Ba people has one or two bronze tools.

Although these are the huge wealth of the Ba people, the three thousand kilograms of copper have basically been consumed.

Therefore, he needed the Uk tribe to increase the smelting of copper, and of course, he also needed to get more tin from the distant poor tribes.

In addition, logging and charcoal burning consumes manpower and time. Given that other tribes do not have more ways to make money, he decided to outsource the charcoal burning and let other tribes complete this arduous work. Of course, they can exchange charcoal for bronze.

In this way, he could not only obtain charcoal, but also naturally promote bronze ware.

Of course, if that tribe could dig coal, he would be more willing to exchange it.

If you want to transport these metal charcoal back continuously and then transport pottery, bronze and other items, you need better transportation conditions. It is definitely not possible to run on the wild land without roads on your legs.

Especially now, almost all tribes have horses, and carriages can maximize the role of horses.

Therefore, road construction has become a top priority.

Xu Chen's idea was that in this winter, he would join forces with several alliances to carry out a road construction campaign to strive to open up the traffic routes on land between tribes.

Xu Chen has roughly planned these routes on the map.

If you are centered on the Wu tribe, you will reach the Ba tribe for more than 30 miles, the Hu tribe for more than 20 miles, the Muya tribe for more than 30 miles, the Ji tribe for fifty miles, and the Ji tribe for twenty miles to the Cang tribe.

There are also other daily paths between these tribes, such as from the Wu tribe to the Hu tribe to the Muya tribe and then to the Ji tribe. This road was the road that Xu Chen took when he first toured the Six tribes. Although the mountain roads are difficult to walk in, it is still relatively smooth and there are no particularly difficult places such as cliffs and deep ravines.

Therefore, according to Xu Chen's plan, within the next two to three years, we will strive to open up simple roads between the Ba tribes to the point where we can walk on a carriage.

Of course, it also depends on the enthusiasm and determination of all tribes to participate.

But there is one main road he must build, that is, the main transportation line from the Ba tribe to the Wu tribe, then to the Ji tribe, and Cang tribe.

Once this road is opened, a transportation artery through land can form a traffic artery that travels through the entire Ba tribe alliance, connecting the four tribes along the way. When the Cang tribe is fifty miles downstream, it is the Cha tribe, even if it officially enters the territory of the Gonghuo tribe.

Xu Chen knew very well about the situation of Ji Canghe. He had good water volume all year round and could sail all year round. Therefore, after arriving at the Cang people, he could use boats and arches to form a waterway transportation.

The Cha tribe is the node for the exchange of the three major tribes, Gonghuo Alliance, Ba tribe alliance and Youguo Alliance, and can play a transit or even central role.

If necessary, we can continue to build a road to the Cha tribe and the Youqiu tribe from the Cang tribe down the Ji Cang River. In this way, the three alliances will be more convenient and the connection will be closer.

As for the Yugong Alliance, which was lonely on the south bank of the Wulong River, Xu Chen couldn't take much care of it for the time being.

First, their development is already behind the Gonghuo Clan, and it takes some time to digest a lot of advanced technology and experience. Whether it is building houses or burning wasteland, it will take until this autumn and winter to officially start. In a short period of time, there will be no more manpower and energy to build roads.

In addition, it is not convenient to travel across the river, and it depends entirely on rafts. However, Xu Chen still planned a road from the Yu Gong tribe to the Mongolian tribe, connecting four tribes in the middle, and then built a larger pier at the mouth of the Yu Gong tribe, so that the transportation of salt can be solved and the exchanges and exchanges between the tribes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait can be strengthened.

However, this time may not start until three years later.

The carriage is still a new thing, and all other tribes except the Ba tribe, including the Wu tribe who is close to Chichi.

Because since the arrival of the summer rainy season, heavy rains and rivers surged and flooded the rivers, the exchanges between the two tribes have completely cut off.

Xu Chen planned to join forces with the Wu tribe to build this road between the two tribes before the Wu Master Conference, and then let the tribes who came to attend the Wu Master Conference see the benefits of roads and carriages.

With this road, the Bawu tribes will never cut off contact because of the rising water in summer.

Therefore, in recent times, Feng and others have followed Xu Chen's arrangements to search for the fastest path to the Wu tribe along the gentle slopes and forests at the foot of the Dahe River Beach, and prepared for the construction of this road.
Chapter completed!