Chapter 649 It's okay, we can continue to grow food here
Now that the walls of the Qingque tribe have expanded and the population has increased, it is not good to simply use drainage ditches as before. So Han Chenggong thought of clay pipes, which were much more convenient and faster than building walls.
For Heiwa, who can make very large vats, it is not too difficult to make clay pots that can be connected together.
After Han Cheng made his request and wrote and drew on the ground for a while, Hei Wa, who understood what was going on, started doing it happily...
The weather is getting warmer day by day as the deer man lays down on the little doe more and more frequently.
Another spring rain fell, knocking down withered flowers everywhere.
The rapeseed has just been lifted up, and it has not yet had time to reveal its golden color.
In the fields that had been plowed and harrowed, people were already leading deer and holding a columbine to sow early millet.
Numerous tiny grains of millet slid down the barn eyes, and fell into the moist soil with the simplest hope of everyone in the Qingque tribe.
Farther away, there were still people using hoe and copper tools, working hard to reclaim the wasteland.
There is no way, as the tribe expands, the cultivated land around the tribe will inevitably be taken up.
In order not to reduce the area of cultivated land in the tribe, people can only continue to cultivate wasteland farther away.
On the outside of the courtyard, Han Cheng, lame, Shitou and other relatively "idle" people started to confirm the location of the new fence with twine and sticks.
Only after the location of the new fence is determined can the rest be carried out.
Wu also participated in it. At the beginning, he was circling the ground while imagining everything on the renderings. The more he worked on it, the more delighted he became.
But when everyone enclosed everything in this area, Wu couldn't be happy anymore, because a lot of farmland was enclosed.
If the good land is enclosed and houses are built, how much less food will be harvested in a year!
Han Cheng didn't want to see such a large area of cultivated land being enclosed. After all, the total cultivated land of the Qingque tribe was not too much.
Nowadays, so much land is enclosed at once, and it makes people feel sad to think about it being enclosed.
"You can also grow food here..."
After thinking for a while, Han Cheng smiled and said to Wu, Shitou, Lai and others.
As soon as these words came out, Wu and others' eyes suddenly lit up, but then they became confused again.
Isn't it clearly stated on the picture that this place will be built into houses by some time, with various circles surrounding these things? How can we still grow food?
Han Cheng couldn't help but smile when he heard the questions from the witches. It was true that construction was going on here, but these constructions could not be completed overnight.
Not to mention the rest, this wall alone has been a bit of a hangover this year if we want to build it.
In this way, food can continue to be grown in the wide space between the new fence and the old fence.
There is absolutely no problem in harvesting a crop of millet and beans.
And even after the fence is completed, the construction of pig pens and granaries will still need to be carried out slowly. Calculating this, most of the enclosed land can be cultivated for about two years.
With these two years as a buffer, the newly developed land of the Qingque tribe can completely eliminate the losses caused by the loss of these cultivated lands and prevent the tribe's food production from being affected.
As soon as Han Cheng said these words, the eyes of Wu and others, who were feeling uncomfortable about losing a large area of fertile farmland, suddenly lit up.
Yes, these things can't be built quickly. As long as there are ways left during this period, most places can continue to be cultivated.
Why didn't I and others think of such a simple thing...
As the days passed, the millet seeds buried in the soil sprouted and rippled in the spring breeze.
The excavated clay turned into clay pipes and piled up more and more.
The rapeseed grew taller and blossomed into brilliant flowers, which attracted the bees from the Qingque tribe to buzz and chant slogans and come over to kiss the flowers.
The pollen turned into sweet honey, and the fallen flowers produced long rapeseed pods...
Following Han Cheng's order, Tietou and the others, who had long wanted to experience the feeling of harvesting crops with a bronze sickle, couldn't wait to go to the fields.
The shining golden bronze sickle was swung rapidly, harvesting rows of yellowing rapeseed...
Even after ten days of hard work, the rapeseed of the Qingque tribe went through the entire process from harvesting to beating down and cleaning up. Even the harvested rapeseed field was turned over and planted with late millet and beans.
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Having experienced the autumn harvest, they can hardly take it easy when dealing with such a small scene as harvesting rapeseed.
Dou, Huangguo and other people from the original Huangguo tribe looked at the land where sprouts were sprouting. They were shocked and at the same time some enlightenment came to their hearts.
No wonder the tribes used precious salt and pottery in exchange for seeds and stones.
It turns out that these things that were not noticed by them can be of such great use after such operations!
No need to go out to hunt, just rely on these to feed the entire tribe!
They have all eaten millet and it tastes very good, but why do they grow so many beans that make their stomachs feel bloated after eating them?
Recalling the wonderful experience of eating too many soybeans, Huang Guo and others couldn't help but put their hands on their stomachs...
There will definitely be a lot of differences between the renderings and the real thing.
However, the effects of these renderings drawn by Han Cheng are very obvious.
Everyone in the Qingque tribe who had seen it wanted to turn the things in the painting into reality as soon as possible.
Therefore, everyone worked very hard in spring plowing this year. Compared with previous years, although a lot more land was cultivated, it took less time.
Of course, bronze agricultural tools also generally deserve credit for this.
"start!"
As several chopped bamboo poles were placed in the fire and made a few crackling sounds, Han Cheng picked up the copper pick and dug out a square piece of soil, and then shouted, announcing that the Qingque tribe
The big project of expanding the tribe has officially begun.
The people who had been assigned work before took the tools and after Han Cheng announced the start of construction, they all enthusiastically devoted themselves to the construction of the new fence.
There are many more people in the Qingque tribe than at the beginning. Even if a lot of manpower has to be allocated to do other things, there are still many people who can invest in building the wall after the spring plowing.
There are almost a hundred people, and the most can exceed one hundred and fifty people!
There are many people, and the tools have been replaced with cannons. Therefore, even though the new wall of Qingque tribe is much larger than the previous one, the progress is not slow.
When the people of the Qingque tribe were in full swing to expand the tribe, the bark of the north also set off with people...
