Early the next morning, Xu Chen led a group of witches, protected by dozens of hunters, to the south to inspect the salt mines.
It was the first time for a group of witches to see how salt was mined, and they had never seen the savages of the Southern Barbarian tribe. Therefore, after arriving, their emotions quickly became active. After learning about the mining process of salt mines, Xu Chen
He led a group of witches and personally taught them to look for rock salt crystals in the salt bittern area with small wooden clips.
After having fun for most of the day, we rested in the salt field for one night and then set off home.
One day later, everyone separated at the pier on the Yugong River. Xu Chen took Ye and the twin little witches, escorted by a group of Ba and Wu hunters, to row three wooden boats upstream of the Wulong River.
The three witches of the Pi tribe, the Gonghuo tribe and the Five Ghost tribe, escorted by a group of hunters, took a raft across the river and went downstream to the Gonghuo Basin.
At this point, this trip to the witchcraft conference has come to an end.
This is definitely an unforgettable party for everyone.
The unprecedented grand funeral held when the great shaman of the Gonghuo Tribe passed away was deeply memorable.
The succession of the new wizard of the Gonghuo tribe to the throne is also a major event for all the alliance tribes and will affect the development pattern of the entire Ba tribe alliance.
The planning of the royal city and the planning and construction of the relocation sites for various alliance tribes will become the focus in the next one or two years, and will definitely become the development center of the entire major alliance in the future.
The erection of floating bridges is also an eye-opening and exciting topic.
After the witches experience the Mongolian hot springs, it will definitely be an unforgettable experience.
As for witnessing and participating in the mining of salt mines, it can only be regarded as an unexpected entertainment during this hot spring trip.
The most profound and exciting thing in everyone's memory is undoubtedly the various speculations and discussions caused by the Pi tribe witch who met a chameleon in the forest under the guidance of the gods and ate a dragon egg.
As the real main body of the event, the witchcraft ceremony has become a lively foil.
From the beginning to the end, no one could recall the memorable activities of this witchcraft conference.
Hunting competition? Many people can’t remember which three tribes won.
New warrior? Many people don’t even remember the warrior’s name.
As for the winners of other entertainment competitions, most of them don’t know anything about them at all.
The trading conference that was supposed to be the most lively was completely covered up because of the planning of the royal city and the erection of pontoons. The large amount of goods brought by many tribes in excitement ended up being very small. Moreover, because almost all tribes required trading in copper coins, the trade volume was very small.
Without enough copper coins, many deals that could have been completed ended in vain.
The best seller was still the salt stall opened by the Lei Clan in the trading area. It sold more than 500 kilograms in one day, and the inventory specially prepared for the Witch Lord Conference was sold out.
For other alliance tribes, transactions are still very sluggish, leaving a group of witches and many clan leaders helpless.
But for the Ba people, every gathering has great gains.
The Five Ghosts specially sent hundreds of kilograms of lead, the Jia tribe sent more than two hundred kilograms of tung seeds, and the Muya tribe sent several bags of pepper. In addition, many tribes benefited from the spring.
The gourds brought by the tribe were highly praised by Xu Chen. This time it was the end of autumn, when all kinds of fruits were completely ripe, so all kinds of strange fruits were brought.
Regardless of whether these things are useful or edible, Xu Chen asked the Ba people to take them all and give some copper coins. This not only stimulated the transaction but also enlivened the atmosphere of the venue. The most important thing was that it could collect more melons.
After cultivating and selecting different fruit types, we may gradually be able to produce many useful edible and economic crops.
Just like the Pi tribe that brought gourd shells last time, this time they brought dozens of gourds, large and small. Xu Chen bought them all for two pennies for the big ones and one pennie for the small ones, which only made other tribes look at them.
There are many people who salivate, envy, envy and hate.
Even the great wizard of the Pi tribe felt sour inside.
Because the Pi tribe she is in charge of has not yet found a way to make money, but it turns out that a small tribe with only a hundred people can actually make hundreds of coins at a time. This is a huge sum for any tribe.
Great wealth.
Because there were too many messy things at this witchcraft convention, the main body was eventually ignored and became the foil. But overall, this gathering was still very successful.
The only thing that made Xu Chen slightly regretful was that some poor people did not come this time.
Because he didn’t know the reason, and there were poor people who controlled very important tin resources, Xu Chen would not turn a blind eye. Before he took a group of witches to go to the Mongolian hot springs, he had already told the Heng of the Cang people to do something.
Take people to the poor people as soon as possible to inquire about the situation and ensure the normal supply of tin, because without tin, there will be no way to smelt bronze.
Although the Ba people still have some reserves, they cannot hold on for long.
In addition, in view of the fact that the Pi tribe and the Taket tribe have exchanges with each other, Xu Chen also told the Pi tribe witches to arrange for people to inquire about the Taket tribe and try to collect some useful information after they return.
In addition to these major events related to the development of the alliance, there is actually another thing that makes Xu Chen very excited, that is, milk fruit has been successfully planted in the Mongolian people. In the spring, a batch of milk fruit was sent to be planted on the hillside near the hot spring.
Less germination.
And this situation further confirmed Xu Chen's original inference.
Milk fruit should be a tropical climate crop. Germination has great requirements on soil moisture and temperature. Although it grows in the Ba ethnic group, the climate of the Ba ethnic group is not suitable for seed germination. Only the unique climate environment formed by the Mongolian geothermal resources can achieve this.
The success of the milk fruit also gave him hope of successful transplanting of the vine fruit.
This time when he went to the Mongolian people, he also brought dozens of vine fruit seeds with him and told them to find a suitable location to plant them. If they can cultivate them successfully, all tribes will be able to eat delicious vine fruits and vine fruit wine in the future, and they will also
Don't worry about this strange fruit becoming extinct.
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Returning to the Ba tribe, Xu Chen did not have any leisure time. Instead, the entire tribe began to get busy.
For the construction of the tribe's three settlements, the foundations have long been leveled, the footings have been laid, and the masonry and wood have been prepared. They need to be built as soon as possible.
In addition, the planning of the royal city and settlements in Gonghuo Basin has been completed, and the resettlement and land reclamation must also be carried out at the same time. People need to be arranged as soon as possible with a large number of tools to complete the project.
As for other projects, they have been suspended for the time being.
Because Xu Chen had already planned these things before the witchcraft conference, so he also made some arrangements in advance. Many Ba people who went to attend the witchcraft conference had actually stayed there and did not come back. It was just a group of hunters who had brought them to the witchcraft conference in advance.
The mother and some trading goods were sent back, but now there are only about a hundred people left in the tribe.
Five days later, Xu Chen led the team and set off again to Gonghuo Basin.
This time, almost the entire tribe, except for the old and the weak, including pregnant women who have not yet reached their due date, must participate in labor.
Half stayed with the Ba people to build three settlements, and the other half followed to go to Gonghuo Basin to build.
On this departure, the troops were divided into two groups. One part went down the river by boat and raft, mainly carrying food and daily necessities, and the other part set off by vehicle and horseback, mainly carrying personnel and tools.
Before and after the Ba people set off, all the tribes in the alliance started taking action almost at the same time. Groups of men and women carrying burdens and carts, riding horses and carriages, continued to gather towards the Gonghuo Basin.
For a time, there were endless pedestrians on Bagong Avenue, and rafts and boats could be seen from time to time in Jicang River and Wulong River.
And in this lively atmosphere, the gossip about the Pi tribe witches eating dragon eggs under the guidance of the gods is spreading more and more widely, and the more popular it is, even those who have no plans to move and have left Wuzhu early
The small and remote tribes who returned from the conference began to talk about this topic with great interest.
At the end of September, with the arrival of construction teams to relocate and build resettlement sites for immigrants from various tribes, the Gonghuo tribe became lively again.
Men and women from various tribes came from all directions with tools and food. They set up simple tents in the planned resettlement area and began to carry stones and cut down trees in full swing.
So in this late autumn and early winter, on the river beach that was burned by a fire, within an area of more than ten miles, there were clusters of people gathering points everywhere. Thousands of people were pushing carts and carrying burdens, making it bustling and bustling.
extraordinary.
The floating bridge connecting both sides of the Jicang River has become the most lively and busy passage.
People, horses and vehicles are constantly crossing the river from morning to night.
Although the construction of the royal city will be postponed to next year, and Xu Chen will not participate in the specific construction work, as the chief designer and planner, he is the busiest. He rides a horse with Gu and Ju back and forth on both sides of the Jicang River every day.
Direct, arrange and coordinate.
In order for this large-scale resettlement project to be successfully completed in winter and to comply with the long-term plan of the future Royal City, Xu Chen personally led people to guide and plan the construction of the resettlement sites of these alliance tribes to ensure the space and space for the future expansion of the Royal City.
The rationality of public facilities such as transportation, ditches, and ponds.
In addition, whether it is the construction of resettlement sites or the future construction of the royal city, a large number of vehicles, tools, lime, bricks, etc. are required.
Therefore, Xu Chen also plans to build a number of processing workshops.
The most important tools such as knives, axes, and bronzes require smelting and casting workshops.
In conjunction with the smelting workshop, it is also necessary to build a charcoal kiln for burning charcoal.
A large number of houses require the use of lime and ceramic bricks, so the construction of lime kilns and brick kilns needs to be expanded.
In addition, Xu Chen also plans to start using terracotta tiles instead of thatch to cover houses, so he also needs to build tile kilns and study the production methods of terracotta tiles.
Building and repairing vehicles required the establishment of a carpentry workshop. Xu Chen gathered together the carpenters who had stayed in the Gonghuo tribe to teach their skills and a group of apprentices from various tribes, and established two different workshops, one specializing in the manufacture and repair of carriages and carts.
, a one-wheel vehicle factory, a wood processing plant specializing in sawing and processing various logs.
The two stonemasons and a group of apprentices who were originally taught how to make stone tools were also called together to set up two different workshops. One was specialized in digging out rocks from hillsides, and the other was specialized in making stone tools. Stone tools were mainly made with stone mills and various stone bricks and slabs.
Mainly stone piers, these stone tools have fixed specifications and sizes, and can no longer be made randomly as before.
Stone mills are mainly provided for various tribes, while stone bricks, stone slabs, and stone piers are all prepared for the construction of the royal city in the future.