After several pattering spring rains, the mountains, rivers and fields once again ushered in the breath of new spring.
The spring plowing and sowing near the Royal City has gradually come to an end. Whether it is the riverbank wilderness or the farmland roadside, sporadic wild flowers and delicate grass blades are beginning to bloom with new colors.
The trees and flowers planted on both sides of the Royal City Avenue also began to sprout branches and sprouts.
On the towering embankments on both sides of the river, a faint color of grass can already be seen from a distance.
The straight and tall river embankment has become the most spectacular scenery in the royal city, and it has also become the favorite place for leisure and play for all tribesmen, women and children near the royal city. People gather on it to sing and dance all day long.
The wooden bridge across the river has become a place for everyone to enjoy the scenery, especially some children and teenagers, who run back and forth on the bridge like a group of little lunatics every day, and laughter resounds throughout both sides of the Jicang River.
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After the spring sowing is over, various stopped projects are started one after another. What should be finished should be continued.
But these jobs basically have nothing to do with Xu Chen.
At the end of January, Xu Chen took the little witch, Ye and his daughter, escorted by a group of Ba hunters and forbidden troops, and drove back to the Ba tribe along the Ba Gong Avenue.
As the royal city developed better and better, Xu Chen spent less and less time returning to the Ba clan.
This is the first time Xu Chen has gone back since Muba passed away on Mother's Day last year.
However, he stayed in Ba for more than a month last year and carried out a series of industrial upgrades for Ba.
Nowadays, the painted pottery and bamboo hats made by the Ba people have become two new sources of wealth growth for the Ba people. Every month, Mo ships a lot of them from the Ba people on large ships to the royal city and sells them in the trading market.
The income also caused the overall income of several families belonging to the Ba ethnic group to increase a lot last year.
When there was no shortage of food, copper coins gradually became a symbol of a tribe's wealth.
The same is true for the Ba people. Several families within them have now accumulated a large amount of copper coins.
It's a pity that this kind of wealth cannot be exchanged for enough wealth at the moment.
The scarcity of supplies means that the money is of little use at the moment.
Although Xu Chen has been trying to find ways to change this situation, he has had little success.
The limitations of the times, the limitations of the population, scarce resources, the self-sufficient collective farm model, the slow development of industry and commerce...
Everything cannot be achieved overnight.
But wealth is wealth. As each tribe gradually gets enough food and clothing to reach a state where they have no worries about food and clothing, industry and commerce will eventually develop slowly.
Just like the painted pottery and bamboo hats of the Ba people are gradually being sought after by all tribes, although sales are not very popular, they have been growing continuously.
As for the fruit wine we made in cooperation with the Muya tribe last year, the Ba tribe also sold a lot of it last autumn, filling the gap in high-end consumer goods such as alcohol.
After all, the quantity of vine fruit wine is very small. The output is only two to three hundred kilograms a year. According to Xu Chen's interest and drinking capacity, this little wine is not enough for him to eat and drink alone.
Therefore, most of the time, Xu Chen could only eat some sweet and sour mixed fruit wine to satisfy his craving.
As for other tribes, this is even more true.
Xu Chen's return made the entire Ba tribe as excited and lively as if they were celebrating a festival.
The silver-haired grandma was as happy as a child. She held the hands of Xu Chen, Ye, and the little witch and kept talking loudly, laughing all the way.
Although he still has the same loud voice.
But Xu Chen could tell that the voice was far less clear and loud than it was a few years ago.
And it can be seen from her stooped and staggering figure that this old man has reached the end of his life and is no longer as strong as before.
Compared with the serious and patriarchal patriarch like Mu Ba, Amu is obviously much simpler.
She is a qualified elder, but not a meticulous and comprehensive leader.
Xu Chen still remembered the first time he arranged for his mother to go on a mission to the Uzbek people.
That thing was almost the most serious and proud thing that my mother had ever done in her life. Although everyone in the entire tribe sounded calloused, she would always repeat it every time she came back.
several times.
But this time when I came back, my mother never mentioned it again.
From her old face and eyes, Xu Chen could read the sadness she experienced after her mother's death.
As a peer of Mu Ba, now she can no longer find anyone she can rely on and talk to to express her joys and sorrows.
It is said that whenever she feels sad, she will go to her mother's grave and sit alone for a long time.
Although Xu Chen didn't come back for a long time, the exchanges between Wangcheng and the Ba people have never been interrupted. There are personnel exchanges and exchanges almost every month. Xu Chen has always been concerned about the situation of all the people and will pay close attention to them every time.
Ask about the situation of the Ba people.
Xu Chen was very aware of the changes in his mother.
But when Xu Chen came back, my mother suddenly became happy, and she seemed to have found the happiness in the past when mother Ba was still alive and Xu Chen and everyone else were still living together in the tribe.
Xu Chen is the backbone of the Ba people.
No matter how well she does, she still needs Xu Chen's praise and recognition.
Only in this way will she feel that she has done the right thing and lived up to Xu Chen's expectations and trust.
Xu Chen naturally knew what the old man was thinking. While praising his mother, he also told her in detail what he had done outside and the changes in the royal city.
The entire Ba tribe, men, women, old and young, gathered around and listened with gusto. They would exclaim in surprise when they heard something dangerous. If they heard something funny, they would also burst into bursts of joyful laughter, and then some people would talk in all directions.
He also talked about some things that happened in the tribe, so in this kind of casual chatting and joking, the slightly unfamiliar feelings soon became happy and harmonious again.
Only every time Xu Chen is in the tribe, the entire tribe will be so united and harmonious, and everyone can get together to chat and laugh happily.
Outside, Xu Chen is His Majesty the Witch King. In the Ba tribe, he is the favorite person for all tribesmen to communicate and talk to.
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Xu Chen also knew what the tribesmen were thinking and what they needed.
This is a big tribal family, where everyone has equal status, loves each other, and helps each other.
Only after returning to the tribe, Xu Chen could feel this harmonious and peaceful atmosphere, warm and fulfilling.
Although the time to come back is getting less and less, Xu Chen seems to be more and more in love with everything in the Ba Valley. He is so familiar with every mountain, water, plant and tree here.
In the next few days, Xu Chen took the little witch and Ye, held their daughter in their arms, and, surrounded by a large group of people, went to worship at the mother's grave on the hillside, and went to the mother's temple on the mountainside to clear weeds and clean, and to observe
Planted vine fruits, went to Yelang Valley for a picnic, played on the river beach with Wolf Er and Leopard Tou, watched a group of monkeys and children chasing each other, and watched two big eagles soaring and circling over the valley.
Although it seems that nothing has changed, except that the houses have become taller, more spacious and brighter, everything in the valley remains the same.
But actually everything is changing.
There are more monkeys, the two wolves are getting older, and the leopard's head is no longer as fierce and domineering as in previous years. Instead, it has the sequelae of long-term loneliness, and it is depressed and listless. The two big eagles have gradually lost their wings.
They were scattered and chaotic, and the looks in everyone's eyes were no longer so ferocious, but a bit more peaceful. It was just that they were getting further and further away from home, and the time to return home was getting less and less.
One year spent similar, each year is different.
Between coming and going, everything slowly changes inadvertently and inadvertently.
The aging tribesmen, the new-born babies, the grown-up children, the passing time.
Life just slips away unconsciously, and you can never go back to the past.
But for everyone, all changes should be like this.
Because only change can have a future.
At the end of January, Xu Chen set off again and returned to the royal city.
This time he also brought his mother, several older aunts, and more than a dozen children.
He didn't want the regret left by Mu Ba to happen again. He wanted these elders and children of the tribe to follow him to the royal city to enjoy and experience the prosperity and excitement of the royal city.
After returning to the Royal City, Xu Chen did not relax, but quickly issued an order to expand the shipyard. At the same time, he notified each tribe to select a group of smart and flexible young people to study shipbuilding in the Royal City.
Throughout February, people were coming and going all day long on the north bank of the Ji Cang River near the bridgehead embankment. A large number of wood and stones were continuously transported to the river beach. A group of carpenter apprentices were also busy building a shipyard all day long, wielding knives, saws and axes.
At the end of February, the finishing work on the river embankment was officially completed. The planned schools, markets, workshops and other buildings outside the royal city were also completed one after another, and all roads and ditches were repaired. Xu Chen once again announced a new round of afforestation activities, with a violent meal.
After the greening operation, the overall appearance of the royal city took on a completely new look.
In March, the rain gradually increased, and farmland crops, flowers, trees, and trees began to flourish. The entire Gonghuo Basin was lush with greenery and flowers. The crisscrossing farmland and straight intersecting roads and ditches made the entire royal city area look like a chessboard.
, full of a civilized atmosphere that is completely different from other wilderness.
After more than a month of expansion at the shipyard, ten dry docks of various sizes were built in a row on the river beach.
It is said to be a dry dock. In fact, it is to level out ten open spaces of different sizes on the river beach, use wood to build large and small workbench, and start building wooden boats directly on it.
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There is currently a huge demand for wooden ships, so these ten shipyards are divided into four different specifications: three small, three medium, three large, and one extra large, corresponding to the construction of ships of four different sizes.
Small boats correspond to those that can carry less than ten people, including small fishing boats carrying two or three people and small cargo boats that commute on both sides of the Jicang River. Of course, they can also be used for daily short-distance transportation by tribes in places such as the Cicha tribe and Youtong Forest Lake.
For travel, it is mainly used to replace simple wooden rafts and bamboo rafts.
The medium-sized ship is suitable for carrying ten to twenty people, and is mainly used for medium and long-distance commuting and transportation of people and goods. For example, the Ji clan, Cang clan, and Qia clan travel to and from the royal city, and the Ba clan, Wu clan, Yu Gong clan, etc. travel to and from the royal city on weekdays.
Large ships can accommodate 20 to 30 people, which are the only remaining wooden ships currently. They are mainly used for bulk cargo and personnel transportation between tribes on both sides of the Wulong River and the royal city. They will be the most important in the future.
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As for the extra-large shipyard, it is intended to be used to build large ships with more than fifty people.
This kind of large ship is large, complex in structure, and has a long construction period. It may take one or two years to build one. Therefore, Xu Chen does not plan to start construction immediately. He just reserves the construction space first and waits for the craftsmen to accumulate a certain level of skill before starting construction.
, even whether it can be completed, Xu Chen feels that there is still a big question mark.
After all, it has only been four years since the first successful ship was built. Although the skills of craftsmen have improved rapidly in recent years, the shipbuilding industry has actually stagnated for three years, and there has been no progress in these three years.
Therefore, after the current expansion of the shipyard, the first batch of ships that Xu Chen arranged to build were all small and medium-sized. The purpose was still to allow craftsmen and apprentices to practice and learn, and also to alleviate the current urgent demand for wooden ships in the royal city and other tribes.
In fact, small and medium-sized wooden boats are no longer difficult for a group of Ba craftsmen, but their skills are somewhat rusty after several years of neglect. However, the construction of the royal city and the construction of wooden bridges have greatly improved their wood processing capabilities. Therefore, after a short period of time
After getting familiar with it, they quickly found the feeling. A large group of people started the crazy shipbuilding mode in the shipyard.