When a group of witches could only exclaim in surprise when faced with this plan and explanation, Xu Chen had to focus on the planning and future development of each tribe.
It is late autumn now, and winter will begin in half a month. Although the weather is cold, it happens to be the best time of the year for construction.
He is not in a hurry with the construction of the royal city. Just like he planned the population gathering and development near the Gonghuo Tribe in advance, it is best to arrange the migration and settlement of the tribes first and complete a new round of reclamation movement. Only in this way, the tribes can settle in the Gonghuo Basin.
Only then can we settle down and officially regard this place as our home, forming a real sense of belonging.
Therefore, Xu Chen spent most of his time and energy on this witch meeting with a group of witches to discuss dividing their respective areas. Apart from the little witch who is the big witch, the group of witches was mainly excited about this aspect.
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This witches' meeting lasted for a full two hours, which was the longest in history, and it did not end until it was completely dark and invisible.
After the meeting, a group of witches did not have time to wash and rest. Instead, they happily returned to their respective tribes and camps. They summoned the clan leaders and chief officers of their respective tribes to convey His Majesty the Witch King's planning plan and discuss how to start selecting tribesmen for relocation and resettlement.
As the planning of the royal city and the tribal migration plan gradually become clearer, this night will be another sleepless night.
Dozens of bonfires were burning on the river beach, and the voices of various tribes discussing and quarreling over this issue rang through the night.
The third day should have been the most leisurely and lively trading time.
But after dawn, the trading area was deserted. Except for each tribe placing their goods in their own planned stall areas, most people were waiting near the river dock, waiting for Xu Chen's arrival.
Because today, His Majesty the Witch King is taking people to the other side of the river to inspect the location of the royal city and the resettlement plans of each tribe.
According to the news conveyed by several great witches last night, once the general planning of the location is completed, the migration of various tribes will begin immediately.
Before mid-October, all tribal construction teams must be arranged. The initial goal is to complete the construction of the first batch of settlements. It is necessary to ensure that the houses are built before the beginning of spring so that there will be enough stable residences to reclaim wasteland, cultivate and develop production.
Xu Chen had breakfast at the Gonghuo tribe. When he rode a horse and led a group of shamans by car to the river beach under the protection of dozens of Ba tribe hunters, there were already crowds of people waiting near the pier. Seeing Xu Chen and
A group of witches arrived, and a warm cheer broke out.
Groups of people kept pushing forward, asking when the construction of the royal city would begin.
Xu Chen was not in a hurry. After getting off his horse, he asked people to hang up the plan he drew yesterday for people to see. At the same time, he called the leaders of the Gonghuo Clan, the Thunder Clan, the Five Ghost Clan and other clan leaders, and told them to arrange for people to go quickly.
Prepare a lot of wood.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, do you want wood Gaha now?" Lei was a little confused.
"Build the bridge!" Xu Chen pointed to the Ji Cang River on the planning map and said: "Building the royal city and settlements will cause frequent cross-strait traffic. It is too troublesome to rely on rafts alone. We first need to build a wooden bridge on the river."
"The river is too wide, how can we make a wooden bridge?" an officer asked curiously.
Xu Chen thought for a moment and pointed to the large number of rafts near the dock on the river bank and said: "The wooden bridge is very simple. It just connects these rafts together from one side of the river to the other side of the river. In this way, it will be like a road.
You can just walk there with your car, no need to paddle across!”
"Wow!"
Many onlookers understood and immediately exclaimed.
A year ago, no one knew what a bridge was.
But when the Bawu Avenue was being built, wooden bridges were built with stones and wood in several small valleys. The bridges were quickly understood by all the tribes. Then during the construction of the Bagong Avenue, more bridges were built. Although
They are all small bridges of a few meters or even only one or two meters, but each tribe is becoming more and more aware of the application of bridges.
Therefore, when Xu Chen said that he wanted to build a bridge, no one was surprised. The most confused person was that the Ji Cang River was too wide and they didn't know how to build it.
Because in the minds of all savages, bridges should be the kind of small overhead wooden bridges built for road construction everywhere now.
What Xu Chen explained was the floating bridge.
Although no one has seen it, it does not prevent those who are already familiar with rafts from thinking about the shape of this floating bridge.
However, just thinking about it, in fact, the pontoon bridge is not that simple to build. Instead, it requires floating piers, otherwise it will quickly deform or even be washed away under the impact of the river water.
Floating bridges are still very common in some mountainous areas of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi. Generally, small wooden boats are used as floating pier carriers, and then the wooden boards are built and connected together. Although there are currently three wooden boats, they can also be used as bridge piers, but these three boats are not the same.
It still needs to be used, and it certainly cannot be wasted like this, so we can only think of another way.
Amidst the lively explanations and noisy discussions, hunters soon brought over many large and small pieces of wood.
In recent years, the area around the Gonghuo Tribe has developed rapidly, and they have a lot of wood reserves for building houses. Moreover, when spring came in Xu Chen, in order to prepare for the construction of the royal city, several tribes such as the Gonghuo Tribe, the Lei Tribe, and the Five Ghost Tribes had already started to build a large number of houses.
The wood was cut and prepared. Hundreds of logs and several large piles have been piled up near the trading area. In addition, the kilns are also firing a large amount of ceramic bricks and lime. A lot of them have also been prepared, and several large sheds have been piled up.
These woods are all ready-made and have already dried, so there will definitely be no problem in building a pontoon.
However, the floating bridge seems simple, but in fact there is one thing that must be dealt with, and that is the floating pier.
Because running water cannot directly impact the bridge deck, the role of floating piers, in addition to bearing the bridge deck, also plays an important role in reducing the direct impact of running water on the bridge deck.
In the current autumn and winter, the water in this section of the Jicang River near the lower reaches is very gentle, and the water is not too deep. The deepest point in the center of the river is no more than two meters, and an adult of 1.8 meters can walk across it on tiptoes.
, so it is not difficult to build it. What is difficult is what to use to make the floating pier.
Xu Chen thought about it and decided to temporarily use some thick wood instead.
Therefore, he saw that the wood he carried was not too big, so he went to the place where the wood was stacked and selected the thickest ones, which were about half a meter in diameter, and asked the carpenter to cut them into three meters in length.
And cut two notches on the sides of both ends.
In addition, you don’t need to use too thick wood to build the bridge deck. You only need to use calf-thick wood. These are also the materials used to build wooden houses. They are everywhere near the Gonghuo tribe, and even several tribes have prepared a lot of them.
So Xu Chen had people transport a bunch of them in a horse-drawn carriage and cut them into two meters long.
The other thing is to prepare a large amount of tree vines and hemp ropes to tie up the pontoon.
The dozens of meters long pontoon bridge required a lot of materials. After Xu Chen made the arrangements, he asked two officers to take charge of the preparations. He led a group of shamans and clan leaders to cross the river by boat, while Feng Helei and others led a large group of hunters on horseback.
water, follow across the river to the other side to inspect the royal city and settlements.
Seeing Xu Chen and others crossing the river, many men couldn't hold themselves back. They rowed rafts and followed them across the river to watch the fun. There were even some who didn't grab the raft and simply took off their clothes and came in groups.
After wading through the water, people near the Gonghuo Pier were shouting, the river water was splashing, and the noise was loud and loud.
Although Xu Chen had a well-thought-out plan for the royal city, the actual survey was different. The place was too big, and there were no rulers or measuring instruments. Everything could only be observed and estimated with eyesight.
But fortunately, this was the primitive era, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and no one asked him for land money, so he could build the palace however he wanted and as big as he wanted.
Under this kind of brainless planning, Xu Chen first found the center of the royal city, and then, using the horn and command flag as his command, arranged for Feng and other hunters to set out in all directions with flags in hand, enclosing a square area of about two miles in length and width.
, plant flags at the four corners of the southeast, northwest, and arrange for people to use stones to mark the four corners.
After having these four corner markers, a roughly square area with a side length of two miles was drawn out vertically and horizontally, and then the hunters were asked to pile up a pile of stones every 100 meters or so on the four sides, so that the scope of the royal city could be quickly delineated.
After the scope of the royal city is determined, what remains is the settlement scope of the five major ethnic groups.
This is even simpler. It radiates outward for about three miles from the four directions of southeast, northwest, and the center of the four sides of the royal city is the royal city avenue. After leaving an area of about a hundred meters wide in the middle, the two sides are the settlement areas of each ethnic group.
There are a lot of horses at the moment. Today there are sixty or seventy hunters riding horses. In addition, there are also many people who come to watch the excitement. Therefore, the entire south bank of the Jicang River faces the vast river beach of the Gonghuo Clan.
You can see people running away on horseback everywhere.
Some of these people were riding horses, holding flags and galloping insomnia, constantly looking for new coordinate points according to the horn prompts, while others helped pile stones as boundary markers on the determined routes.
Hundreds of people were busy going back and forth, and their shouts echoed throughout the area of more than ten miles.
Xu Chen and a group of witches watched the groups of hunters running back and forth, feeling deeply in their hearts.
Fortunately, there are a lot of horses now, and it only takes more than ten minutes to go back and forth for several miles. Otherwise, running back and forth with legs will not only consume a lot of time, but may also be exhausting.
In addition, each tribe has a group of hunters. After several years of training and several coordinated military operations, the discipline is quite strict, and they are also very familiar with commands such as horns and flags. Otherwise, such a large-scale plan would be chaotic and helpless.
The conductor can't do it even if he doesn't have ten days and a half month.
With the cooperation and command of a group of hunter officers such as Feng, Lei, Long, and Heng, and with hundreds of hunters running back and forth, the planned area of more than five miles each in Zongheng was roughly completed in almost two hours.