The palace had just been repaired last summer, and neither the little witch nor Ye were in the royal city. Xu Chen arranged for Pi Wu and his son to live in his dormitory. While the family of three was enjoying family happiness, the two could be intimate at any time, and the son was still young at the time.
, it has no impact.
But it didn't work this year. A large group of people including the little witch and Ye had moved in. Xu Chen couldn't do this blatantly. He could only arrange for Pi Wu and his son to live in the little witch's dormitory, so the family of three got together like this.
Even if we can't get together, even if we meet and talk, we still have to keep some distance, and we can't be too close to make others suspicious.
Pi Wu, who was chasing his son in the garden downstairs, raised his head and saw Xu Chen, and stopped quickly. The two young women who were following him did not dare to stop. With a gust of wind, they chased Zilong towards the central pool hidden by vegetation.
Xu Chen hooked his hands at Pi Wu, and Pi Wu understood instantly. He carefully looked around and found that there was no one else, so he carried the scepter and followed the path to Xu Chen's dormitory.
Soon, the sound of the stairs was heard, and a few minutes later, Piwu walked up to the attic, panting slightly, with a touch of caution and excitement on his face.
"His Majesty the Witch King is alone?!" Pi Wu came in and asked softly.
"Well, Ye took the child to the Ba tribe. Come over in the evening!" Xu Chen nodded with a smile.
Pi Wu instantly breathed a sigh of relief, threw away his scepter and threw himself into Xu Chen's arms: "I miss His Majesty the Witch King!"
Holding this plump and gentle body, Xu Chen couldn't suppress his inner fire in an instant.
The sun is shining brightly outside, but there is a warm and cool wind blowing in from the large windows, and the sound of cicadas is heard one after another. In the midsummer afternoon, the room begins to sound with a slow and sometimes rapid rhythm of creaking.
There is no need to elaborate on a long-lost joy.
Xu Chen felt that after all the emotions that had been accumulated during this period were released, his whole body and soul instantly became clear and relaxed.
Seeing the neatly dressed Pi Wu disappear from under the garden, Xu Chen couldn't help but sigh.
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After returning to the royal city, life soon began to return to its former rhythm.
The next day, Xu Chen patrolled on horseback the production, life and farmland management of all the settled tribes near the royal city, mainly focusing on field weeding and strengthening management of drainage and irrigation ditches.
Especially the situation of rice planting that is of greatest concern. In response to the Cicha people's talk about the rising water in the ponds and submerging the rice fields, Xu Chen decided to make some improvements to the drainage and irrigation ditches after careful on-site inspections. While strengthening drainage, he also built dykes in some low-lying areas.
, try to reduce the affected area.
Of course, we can also accumulate some experience based on this year's situation to prepare for larger-scale reclamation and construction of paddy fields next year.
In order to reconstruct the ditches and strengthen the paddy fields and dams, Xu Chen issued a decree through the political hall and summoned 200 people from the vicinity of the royal city for labor.
Labor service, like taxes, is a responsibility and obligation that every tribe must bear.
According to the agreed rules, each tribe must contribute 30% of the population for one month of labor service every year, which is mainly used for various public construction projects in Pakistan, such as road construction, canal construction, bridge construction, logging, and the construction of the royal city, etc.
Laborers had to bring their own rations and tools, and carriages and horses were generally recruited separately as needed.
If it is a long-distance large-scale labor service, it will be more troublesome to organize, but in order to reduce the trouble, Xu Chen usually uses nearby service.
For example, when the road was first built, each tribe was responsible for building the road connecting adjacent tribes. In the end, only the Cangqia section was left because the distance was too long and it involved two different large ethnic groups. Therefore, the tribes from the two ethnic groups were summoned to work together at the end.
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The advantage of serving nearby is that it is easier for each tribe to solve the problem of food and accommodation.
Just like when Xu Chen wanted to build a royal city, he first started planning and building settlements for various tribes. It was not until the completion of settlement construction, farmland reclamation and sowing, and the first year's grain harvest that he actually recruited laborers to start large-scale construction.
And it was these tribes that settled near the royal city that solved a lot of troubles for the second batch of large-scale labor recruitment in the future. That is, after the laborers recruited from other places arrived near the royal city, they could eat and live in the settlements of their respective tribes.
Tools can also be obtained nearby, and Xu Chen rarely needs to arrange solutions.
This greatly reduced the trouble in the royal city.
Currently, the two hundred laborers who are assisting the construction of the rice fields of the Cicha people are basically recruited from the settled tribes near the west gate of the royal city. The distance between them is only three miles. The work is almost the same as going out for a walk. Therefore, this kind of labor is very important to the tribes.
It's not a big deal at all.
Even after the project started, not only the men, women and children of the Cicha tribe came together to fight, but also a large number of men and women from several nearby tribes who were recruiting laborers came to help. Starting from the official work the next day, the large rice fields that were built were surrounded by
At least five to six hundred people were involved in the work in the area of lakes and ditches that needed to be renovated. People and cars were coming and going within a few miles, making it very lively and noisy.
Although the weather is hot and there will be heavy rains from time to time, it is the slack season for farming and all tribes are actually very idle.
And everyone has heard that rice is fragrant and delicious, far more delicious than wheat beans. What is even more exciting is that the yield of rice is also much higher than that of wheat beans. One acre of field can add nearly twenty kilograms.
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At present, the average yield of wheat and beans per mu is less than 40 kilograms. If it can increase by 20 kilograms, each tribe can earn nearly half more food every year, which is definitely a huge wealth.
It tastes delicious and the harvest is good, so naturally all tribes want to start growing rice.
However, rice has relatively high requirements on the fields. It not only needs water, but also cannot be subject to waterlogging. It needs to build a good drainage and irrigation system.
The Cicha people's 400-acre experimental field is not only building and verifying paddy field construction methods, but also accumulating a large amount of rice seeds.
The more income this year, the more rice seeds each tribe will be able to obtain next year, and more rice fields can be transformed and planted in a larger area.
Therefore, each tribe is very proactive in helping the Cicha people transform their rice fields.
It doesn't matter whether you work or not, the main thing is to help. At the same time, the nearby tribes will also learn to transform the paddy fields, and they will have more experience in planting rice next year.
In the next two days, Xu Chen inspected the kilns, brick and tile factories, wood processing, wood processing and stone processing workshops near the Gonghuo tribe, and then inspected the dyeing workshops, garment factories, weapons manufacturing, warehouses and other royal cities.
For the project, I went to the military camp for half a day to check the training situation, randomly check word calculations, and took another cultural class.
Two days later, Xu Chen was summoning several tribesmen who were proficient in rattan weaving from the Gonghuo tribe to learn bamboo weaving techniques. Mo, who had set out to inquire about the salt mines from the Yugong tribe, returned with his people, so Xu Chen lost half of the knitted items.
With the basket on his back, he rushed to the riverside dock.
"Chen Ga, I heard the news. A new salt mine has indeed been discovered!"
When he saw Xu Chen, Mo Mo, who had just gotten off the boat and waded ashore, shouted excitedly.
"What exactly is going on?" Xu Chen wanted to know more details.
Mo quickly took out a linen map from his bag. Xu Chen took it and opened it and looked at it for a few times. Then, looking at the sweaty faces of a group of people, he pointed to the pergola built next to the bridge and said, "Go to the pergola first.
Take a break and speak slowly!"
"good!"
Mo led a group of hunters into the pavilion. Some took off their bamboo hats, some took off their clothes, and some picked up gourds to drink water.
Xu Chen spread the map on a simple woodworking chopping board.
This is a simple map of the southeastern bank of the Wulong River. In addition to roughly marking several scattered tribes of the Yu Gong clan, it also marks the directions of several rivers and mountains. To the southeast of the Yu Gong clan is a village called Xiu.
There is a triangular position marked near the clan's tribe.
"Chen Ga, this is the salt mine!"
Mo wiped the beads of sweat rolling down his dark face and pointed at the triangle with excitement.
Xu Chen moved his hand back and forth a few times. According to the map drawing rules he taught, he found that the location of the salt mine was indeed very far away. It was at least eighty miles away from the Mongolian salt mine to the southeast. The nearest one was called the Xiu tribe.
The tribes are estimated to be hundreds of miles apart.
On the south bank of the Wulong River, there are criss-crossing low mountains and river valleys. The virgin forest blocks the sky and the sun, and poisonous snakes and beasts are rampant. No hunter dares to go deep into it, not to mention hundreds of miles, even more than ten miles.
At the beginning, the Mongols were only about twenty miles away from the salt mines, but they were unable to occupy the salt mines for hundreds of years.
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The harsh environment is not suitable for them to survive. Secondly, the local southern barbarian tribes are very barbaric and ferocious. If they cannot completely defeat each other, they will have to endure endless harassment.
This salt mine is hundreds of miles away from the nearest tribe of Yu Gong. If we didn't deliberately search for it, it would probably not be discovered for hundreds or even thousands of years.
In other words, the Yugong clan has indeed been searching for salt mines according to his instructions in the past few years. However, the vast land and sparsely populated environment are too harsh. This kind of exploration is very difficult. The distance is only more than a hundred miles, but it is enough.
Two or three years.
It is conceivable that the hunters arranged by the Yu Gong family to go out in recent years must have suffered a lot.
This kind of external exploration is not much different from groping in a dark night full of dangers. Moreover, it is still groping aimlessly and consumes more manpower and time.
If salt wasn't really attractive enough, the Yugong family would never have taken such a big risk to do this.
But fortunately, all their efforts were worth it, and the salt mine came very timely.
Not to mention a hundred miles away, even if it was three hundred or five hundred miles away, Xu Chen would still grab it.
As for the local barbarian tribe, just like the southern barbarian tribes near the Mongols, they must either surrender or perish. It is absolutely impossible for them to continue to occupy the salt mines.
The world's treasures are treasured by the virtuous.
The law of the jungle is the true way of heaven.
This salt mine must be owned by Pakistan, and no dangerous mountains or rivers can stop it.
Even if there are evil dragons and tigers ahead, he will crush them to death one by one.
If a mere cave-dwelling barbarian dares to resist, he must convince others with virtue.