Chapter 344 The Qingque Tribe Beyond the Prosperous Age
The Qingque Tribe built twelve new houses this year, but they were not all occupied at once.
There are six rooms left.
Han Cheng did not make use of the kang in these six houses, and now four of them are used as granaries, with many large vats and small cans inside, all of which are filled with grain.
It seems that we need to take the time to make the seeds, otherwise when the production scale expands next year, the storage of grain will become a headache.
Han Cheng thought as he looked at the millet in the vat and spread out to dry on the ground.
The so-called 茓子 is a long strip made of the hard skin outside the sorghum stalk.
It's about thirty centimeters wide, and the length doesn't have much requirements.
This kind of thing is specially used to trap grain.
When not in use, roll it into a ball and tie it up with a rope. It will not take up space when placed in the corner. (The outer skin of sorghum stalks is relatively flexible and can be formed into a circle.)
When using it, first lay the ground well to avoid moisture as much as possible, then find the straw and untie the rope, spiral it up in circles, and make a circle, which is used to store food.
As long as there are enough seeds, it is not a problem to circle a cylinder with a diameter of two to three meters and a height of two to three meters.
This is actually a relatively primitive grain circle.
However, with the advancement of the times and the development of science and technology, as products such as glue and alloy become more and more common, this kind of hand-woven grain rings made from local materials have gradually been eliminated.
It was replaced by glue or alloy grain rings that are better to use and more convenient.
This kind of food trap can hold several tanks, which undoubtedly saves more space.
Han Cheng didn't expect too much from the glue and alloy grain rings, but the sorghum-skinned grain rings were just fine.
It seems that this is also a luxury wish...
Han Cheng sniffed helplessly. After all, he had not found Sorghum until now.
However, you can find substitutes. Millet stalks and some relatively slender and tough grasses can also be used, but they are not as useful as those made from the outer skin of sorghum stalks.
Han Cheng now deeply feels the importance of carpenters and weavers.
After waiting, we need to select a few more talented people in the tribe and learn some skills from the lame.
The inheritance of these things, which were made with great difficulty on the basis of Han Cheng's memory, cannot be cut off.
In this way, the lameness can be relieved, and a lot of work will not be burdened on him.
In the future, he can become like a master and do more "cutting-edge" things.
What Lame is doing now is already very cutting-edge.
There are six vacant rooms, one of the remaining two is used to store sundries, and the other is a 'carpenter's room'.
Now Lame is staying in this room, sitting on a small tree stump, holding an ax in one hand and a chisel in the other, carefully opening a piece of wood.
Not far from him, there was something with a relatively complex structure.
This thing is a columbine that Han Cheng drew the rough structure with a charcoal pencil and continued to explain to Lai, and then Lai acted as the main force, and it took more than a month of hard work to build the columbine.
A tall bucket used to hold seeds, three slightly tilted forward hollow wooden legs with curves, two sticks like cart shafts extending forward, and a wide leather strip tied to the end.
Connect the two shafts together.
At the end is a handle that is higher than the wooden bucket, which is used to support the columbist and control the columbine cart.
This is the general structure of a columbine.
The wooden plank I am making now is installed under the wooden bucket.
The hole punched in the piece currently installed on the wooden bucket is not suitable, which is not conducive to controlling the amount of seeds flowing.
After many attempts and modifications failed, I decided to make a new one.
The lame ax worked well, chopping the surface of the board to a shiny finish.
But it's not as flat as a plane.
When the time comes to get iron, I will make another plane, so that I can have a relatively complete set of tools.
This is not because Han Cheng is biased. The iron that he managed to get out is tilted towards the lame point. It is because carpentry is too important to the Qingque tribe.
After listening to Han Cheng's talk about the plane, I was so happy that I didn't even have a limp anymore.
He originally thought that it would be fine to chop with an ax and saw with an iron saw, but he didn't expect that the Son of God actually knew such a more labor-saving tool.
Now I am working more vigorously.
Three days later, the sky finally cleared up, and after the ground dried a little, the Qingque tribe couldn't wait to get out the millet that they had put into the house.
These millets are not dried in the sun, so they are a little hot. If they are kept in the shade for several days, they will become moldy.
The millet stalks that had been stomped were also removed and spread out on the ground, ready to be beaten a second time.
Looking at the millet drying in the yard, Wu and other members of the Qingque tribe laughed from ear to ear. From time to time they would grab a handful with their hands and put it in front of their eyes to watch carefully.
This was the first time they had seen so much millet!
Han Cheng was not as happy as they were. It wasn't that he didn't like the joy of harvest, but the yield of millet was a bit low.
When he started harvesting, he deliberately chose a place with strong growth, measured an acre with a ruler, and asked people to store it separately and punch it out separately.
The income from one acre of land is less than one hundred catties. This kind of output is really too little for Han Cheng, who has seen that the yield per mu can easily exceed five hundred catties.
Assuming that one acre of land is one hundred catties, the Qingque tribe can only harvest three thousand catties of millet from thirty acres of land.
In later generations, a small household with only a few acres of land could easily surpass it.
Based on one pound of millet per person per day, the Qingque tribe would consume more than an acre of harvest in one day.
Even if there are too many babies in the tribe and one person cannot eat a pound of millet, which is equivalent to a consumption of one hundred pounds per day, the thirty acres of millet will only be enough for everyone to eat for thirty days.
And that’s not even counting the seeds.
After working hard for half a year, I could only get less than a month's worth of food, and the harvest was not big.
Han Cheng thought this, and then shook his head and chuckled. This is just the beginning. When millet is planted on a large scale next year, the total output of millet will increase.
If the yield per mu is low, then use more varieties. Anyway, the most indispensable thing now is land.
Even if you plant extensively and harvest little, you can still increase the total output.
Moreover, the people of the Qingque tribe do not only eat millet, but also have other foods to eat, so they don’t have to worry about food and clothing when the time comes.
To be honest, the current living standard of the Qingque tribe is not comparable to that of later generations, but it seems to have surpassed the prosperous days of the feudal dynasty.
The so-called prosperous age means that the people at the bottom drink water when they are free, eat dry food when they are busy, have salt and vegetables to eat, have a little surplus food at home after a year, and wear a mix of clothes so that they are not naked... This is the prosperous age.
