Dozens of miles passed by in a flash, and in the afternoon, four wooden rafts appeared at the mouth of a small tributary of the Wulong River.
The river beach here is not very wide, but it presents a huge fan-shaped impact surface, pushing the Wulong River channel to the opposite bank. This shows the powerful impact of this flood discharge channel when the summer rainy season arrives.
The river beach is full of shrubs and thorny grasses, and a large number of wild birds and beasts are scattered among them to feed and live.
A pure primitive wild landscape.
Looking at the river beach and the scenery on both sides of the Wulong River, Xu Chen couldn't help but feel filled with emotion.
This place is very similar to the river beach outside the mouth of the Ba Valley, even on the other side. The only difference is that it is deserted and there is no trace of human activity.
Resting briefly at the mouth of the river, a group of people ate dry food and drank water. Xu Chen also took out a map and completely sketched out the general direction of the river from Tung Forest Lake to Wulong River, and also marked some of the comparisons.
Narrow and dangerous places or places of landmark significance.
Yuantiao Gorge, Funiutan, Sancha River, Baimaoling...
In the place marked Baimaoling, he also specially drew the location of the cave, and also made an annotation: There was a witch in the hometown of the Tai people, and he has disappeared.
According to the general situation of Lei and others' first inquiry, the current location should be not far upstream from the Cicha Lake, and Weishan Lake should be more than ten miles down.
Xu Chen asked the Cicha clan officers and several hunters who came with him to identify the location. Some people probably remembered that this place was indeed not far from the Cicha clan.
After resting for half an hour, Xu Chen and others set off again, this time riding a raft into the water and going down the clear and mighty Wulong River.
Although the water in the Wulong River in winter does not seem to be large, the raft drifts along it very quickly. It is a completely different feeling than sailing in a narrow and rugged river filled with rocks, and it is extremely refreshing.
Not more than ten minutes later, a large sparkling flat river bend appeared in front of them, and a group of Cicha hunters cheered in surprise.
They are already familiar with this area. After learning how to make rafts over the years, they can often follow Weishan Lake into the Wulong River, so they are very familiar with the intersection of the river and lake.
The raft turned into the big lake, then shouted and blew the horn all the way to the Cicha tribe.
This is Xu Chen's second visit to the Cicha Clan, but it is actually the first time he has actually been to the Cicha Clan's own camp.
The last time I came here was five years ago, and I only stayed in a very small area on the northwest coast of the Great Lake for three days, and had a battle with the combined forces of the Ming and Cicha tribes affiliated with the Cicha tribe.
It was that battle that dealt a severe blow to the Cicha tribe and made the witches of the Cicha tribe feel unparalleled fear, laying a good foundation for their future submission.
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Xu Chen has no idea how the Cicha tribe is developing now.
Every time, Mo came with a group of sailors on a big ship, mainly to transport back the raw lacquer harvested by the Cicha tribe and some local specialties such as fish skins, fish maws, lotus seeds, etc., and also to transport the pottery, salt, linen, and copperware from the royal city.
, vehicles are waiting to be delivered.
The two places travel almost once every two months, which is not considered frequent. However, as the two places become more and more closely connected, more than 200 people from the Cicha tribe have now moved to the royal city to settle. There is a strong demand for transportation within the tribe, but it is limited to
The lack of transportation means that this kind of traffic is relatively passive, and can only be reasonably arranged according to the needs of the royal city and the use of ships.
Xu Chen believes that as the royal city and the living environment of each tribe continue to improve, transactions and marriages between tribes will become closer.
What we urgently need to do now is to build ships, large and small, suitable for different environments in rivers, lakes and seas. Only with enough means of transportation can we truly change the traffic situation.
Just as the tribes near the Gonghuo Basin now have more and more convenient and fast communication due to the use of carriages and horses, the only shortcoming hindering the development of waterway shipping is that there are too few and too scarce ships.
There is a big bus empire, but the only one available at the moment is a wooden boat.
What kind of shabby and helpless this must be.
Therefore, this is also the reason why Xu Chen went to great lengths to conquer the Baimao tribe personally.
Only when tung oil is solved can the shipbuilding industry really be put on the agenda on a large scale, otherwise the huge depreciation and damage will be completely unacceptable.
It took five craftsmen half a year to build a large wooden boat that could accommodate thirty people. Without careful treatment with tung oil, it would only have taken three years at most.
Xu Chen absolutely cannot accept this price.
So he has been putting off building new ships.
But this time, Long accidentally attacked the lake barbarians and found a large area of ancient tung trees, which solved his urgent need.
He must make up for the waterway transportation shortcomings in Pakistan's development as soon as possible.
The biggest advantage of waterway shipping is not its high speed, but its large carrying capacity and low consumption. The more goods, the cheaper it is.
If one thousand kilograms of tung oil is transported by land from the lake to the royal city, it will have to detour through the salt mines and the Xiu, Sheng, and Yugong tribes, and then use wooden boats and rafts to cross the river. The distance is more than three hundred miles. In the absence of horses and carts,
It consumes at least thirty people and ten days.
But if it is transported directly from the lake by boat, it only requires a ten-person boat and three or five boatmen and sailors. It can be transported from the lake to the Wulong River in one day, and then upstream to reach the royal city in up to seven days.
The difference in consumption alone is clear at a glance.
The Tung Forest Lakeland not only contains tung oil, but also tung oil and ginkgo nuts. In the future, there will also be a large amount of fish, salted fish, isinglass, animal skins, bacon, and even rice and other food harvested from large-scale farming.
The Cicha people's Weishan Lake aquatic products and rice production will be greater in the future. In order to maintain the development of Ba and the needs of the royal city, a large amount of taxes will be collected in kind. The transfer of tax revenue and food is the most practical problem that must be solved.
Only when the transportation between the two places is smooth and close can the royal city better bring these prosperous and prosperous places under the control of the royal power.
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In the future, the triangular area with Gonghuo Basin and its surrounding tribes, Weishan Lake Wetland, and Tung Forest Lakeland as the main area will be the core economic development area of the entire country of Pakistan.
Major resources such as grain, salt, oil, raw lacquer, and copper are almost all concentrated in this area.
Therefore, as long as we seize this core triangular economic belt, Pakistan will prosper.
Xu Chen's goal is not very ambitious.
In fact, by now, his kingly hegemony has basically taken shape.
Although the number of people is pitifully small, all the foundations a country should have have been laid. The remaining time is to continuously consolidate, accumulate various resources, and then develop steadily.
In the future, it will be based on the Gonghuo Basin, supplemented by the Yugong Clan and the Cicha Clan, and gradually develop into a triangular urban belt.
This area will be able to accommodate the survival and development of at least hundreds of thousands of people.
Then use this strong foundation to start holding back the ultimate move, and continue to expand the territory in circles.
He had always thought that apart from the civilized race of the Yu Gong clan, there were only some scattered southern barbarian tribes left on the south bank of the Wulong River.
But the appearance of the White-haired Tribe broke his narrow idea.
In the vast virgin forests and low hilly areas on the south bank of the Wulong River, there should be more completely different civilized races.
The origins of these races may not be clear. They are not even of the same origin as the Gonghuo Tribe and the Cicha Tribe, and their behaviors and habits are also very different, but at least they are a real intelligent race, a race that can be conquered and assimilated.
Therefore, with continued expansion, Xu Chen believed that more strange ethnic groups would gradually appear in the lower reaches of the Wulong River.
In fact, if you think about it now, you will find that this situation has already occurred before.
Six years ago, he led people from the Cicha tribe all the way down the Wulong River to the Mengma River.
A strange tribe was discovered hunting in the Mengma River Basin.
He didn't think much about it at the time. In fact, now that he recalled it, the Mengma River was at least 800 miles away from here, and there was only one Cicha tribe in the middle. This situation was impossible.
Human beings, like animals, are constantly expanding and dispersing.
In fact, the territories of each ethnic group should not be too far apart.
The Wulong River Basin has abundant water, complex and diverse flora and fauna, and is absolutely plentiful with food. It is a perfect place for human beings to migrate from the mountains to the plains.
Therefore, there should be more tribes in this area.
However, during the last trip, Xu Chen only hurriedly walked along the Wulong River. He briefly inquired about the hydrology and environmental conditions in the middle and lower reaches of the Wulong River, but he had no idea about the distribution of animals, plants, minerals, or the distribution of human groups.
Do any exploration.
This made him almost blind to the situation on both sides of the Wulong River.
It seems that after the first batch of wooden boats are built, more people will have to conduct a large-scale exploration of both sides of the Wulong River.
At the moment, the country of Ba has no more jurisdiction than one city.
And if the Mengma River is used as the boundary and the Wulong River is used as the central axis, the area of nearly a thousand miles up, down, left, and right can be completely explored, and it will be at least a province.
Xu Chen didn't know how many different races and populations there were in such a large area.
But judging from the current population distribution of the country, it should be possible to recruit tens of thousands of people.
Of course, this is just Xu Chen's rough speculation without much basis or any objective data support, but in theory there shouldn't be many problems.
Xu Chen stood on the leaking raft, thinking about the future vigorous development of the Wulong River Delta Economic Zone and the vast territory of Pakistan in the future.