Chapter 696 Different Ways of Building and Farming
The tribe that moved to a new place quickly began to get busy after a short rest.
Strong men in the tribe, carrying stone axes in their hands, were cutting down trees that were not very tall near the stream.
The stone axes in their hands are different from those of most tribes.
Their stone axes are not tied to wooden sticks with ropes. They are also different from the stone axes of the Qingque tribe after Han Chengda who punched holes in the stone axes and then pierced the wooden handles.
For their stone axes, they first cut out an oval hole at one end of the wooden handle, and then smashed the polished stone ax inside, with the small head at the top and the wider ax blade at the bottom, so that the stone can be firmly attached to the wooden handle.
firmly combined
Moreover, the stone ax will only become stronger with each blow and will not loosen...
The trees were cut down and dragged to a relatively gentle slope about four to five hundred meters away from the creek.
These are great things to use as building materials.
While these strong men were cutting down the trees, the women and children were not idle either.
Some of them were looking around for taller hay that had not gone bad after a winter, and some of them were breaking off the branches of the trees that had been chopped down and dragged back by the strong men one by one, and putting them together.
Not all the strong people were cutting down trees, but some were digging in the soil on this gentle slope using the tools in their hands along the circle drawn by the female priest on the ground.
They often do this kind of thing, so it seems very effective when they do it.
When the excavation reached a certain depth and it became difficult to dig, someone used clay pots made by the female priests to bring water from the stream and poured it into the pits.
The person digging the pit went to one side and dug the remaining round pits, waiting until the water in the previous pits had seeped down enough, and then came back and continued digging.
After the circular pit in the center was dug, someone began to use the previously broken branches to insert them along the edge of the pit, leaving only a place facing the south without branches, which is where the door is.
After planting the branches, the workers continued to use clay pots to fetch water and mix up the soil excavated when digging the pit.
Then use your hands to make large pieces and pile them on both sides of the inserted branches. Gradually, a circle of mud walls was built.
And because there are branches inside that act like steel bars, the wall piled up with mud is still very strong.
After the mud wall accumulated to the level of the person's chest, it stopped.
Then some people placed five or six wooden sticks tied together on the top of the circular mud wall.
These sticks were not tied side by side into a bundle, but only one end was tied.
When placed on a circular mud wall, it looks like an open umbrella.
After doing this, women began to take the hay collected earlier and tie it up in circles. When these 'umbrella ribs' were covered with a dense layer of grass, half of them were underground and half on the ground.
The house was also built.
Compared with the houses built by the Qingque tribe who excavate the foundation, lay the foundation with stones, ram the earth into walls, then erect wooden beams, put up rafters, lay fences and put mud on them, and finally add thatch, the houses built by this tribe are simpler.
And much faster.
Of course, their houses are far inferior to the houses of the Qingque tribe in terms of spaciousness and brightness.
After building four such houses in a row, the tribe's people shifted their focus to cultivating fields.
This is because although it is autumn at this time, the weather is still very cold, especially at night, so it is necessary to build some houses for living.
These four round houses are certainly not enough for the people of the tribe, but they can barely accommodate minors and some people who are not in good health.
It's just that it's a bit crowded when sleeping at night.
The people of this tribe are also very experienced in how to cultivate fields.
They chose a relatively sunny day, cleared a gap among the surrounding dead and yellow vegetation, and then lit a fire while the new grass buds were just growing...
The warm sunshine spreads down and shines on the earth. This place that seemed deserted before has gradually become different with such a group of people.
The elderly priestess, holding a digging tool made of tree branches in one hand, walked barefoot on the ashes-filled land.
She played with her waist and used the simple tool in her hand to dig a hole in the ash-filled earth. Then with her other hand, she picked up three gray-brown fruits from the clay pot beside her and placed them on the small
into the pit, and then step on it with bare feet.
There are many people around her who are doing these things. This method of farming without too much plowing of the land can save them a lot of time.
While they were doing these things, a large part of the men who had cleared the land went hunting in the surrounding areas under the leadership of their leaders.
Since coming here, they haven't had much access to food. They have relied entirely on the stored gray-brown fruits to satisfy their hunger, and have consumed a lot of these fruits.
Now that we plant another batch, there will be fewer of these fruits, and it’s time to look for food.
The remaining young and strong people began to continue building houses there. After all, it was not a good thing to live in a place without shelter from wind and rain for a long time.
Of course, before continuing to build houses, they first used wooden sticks to build livestock pens. After all, these things are rare for their tribe!
The emergence of copper plow and deer farming has greatly liberated the productivity of the Qingque tribe. Especially when this farming method is used on cultivated land, the speed is even faster.
It was precisely because of this that Han Cheng dared to let the members of the trade team go out when the spring plowing was halfway through.
It was not for trading and plundering the surrounding tribes, but for the people of the trade team to transport some stones back.
These stones are actually limestone.
Limestone has been discovered in the tribe for a long time, but Han Cheng never asked the tribesmen to transport it back on a large scale, nor did he burn the lime.
This is because it is not easy to transport stones over long distances. Another reason is that there are not many places where lime is used in the tribe. When it is needed, soil cement made of plant ash can be used as make-do.
But that is not possible now. With the successful construction of the wall and the end of spring plowing, there will soon be many houses that need to be built, and a lot of lime will be used in this.
