The wide river is filled with a layer of white water vapor like a gauze, and water plants such as reeds and calamus suddenly become a lot more mysterious when they are dressed in beautiful white gauze.
The morning breeze was blowing gently, and the waves on the river were sparkling. Small waves were gently lapping towards the shore one after another. The river water poured into the holes made by fish, shrimps and eels on the shore.
It flowed out again, making a strange sound.
The sound of voices came from a distance and got closer and closer. Some birds that were waiting for food on the banks of the river or in shallow water were frightened. They stretched their heads to look at the source of the sound for a while, and finally spread their wings and flew away.
Go somewhere else to be a quiet beautiful bird.
Not long after the birds flew away, a group of people appeared on the edge of the river.
The person walking in front was carrying a large bamboo raft with uneven edges.
After arriving at the river, these people seemed to skillfully lower the bamboo raft and push it into the water.
There is not one such bamboo raft, but as many as five or six.
So after the seven or eight bamboo rafts were pushed into the water, this relatively flat inlet on the riverside was suddenly obscured by a piece of bamboo rafts.
Then someone came here and put it into the water, fixed it on the bamboo raft on the shore, and put several thick wooden sticks vertically on the bamboo raft, with even gaps between the wooden sticks.
After doing this, someone began to load the pieces of cloth they brought on the bamboo raft.
The linen cloth is placed horizontally on a few tree sticks. This can prevent the linen cloth from getting wet by water splashing from the gaps in the bamboo raft.
In the midst of all the busy work, a big, round red sun rose slowly but quickly from the northeast, leaping into the sky.
As the color of the sun in the sky changes from blood red to lighter, the sky gradually becomes brighter, and the morning fog floating on the river becomes lighter and eventually dissipates invisible.
The people busy on the shore also packed their things.
After a simple and quick farewell, the people on the shore removed the rope from the bamboo raft's head to the wooden piles on the shore.
The person standing on the bamboo raft shouted a trumpet and moved the pole in his hand to the shore. The bamboo raft left the river bank and headed towards the center of the river.
After they were still some distance away from the center of the river, they turned around and headed upstream.
The sun falls on the water, creating dazzling waves.
The leader of the Fire Tribe and the people in the tribe stood on the bank and looked at the bamboo raft team that formed a line in the sparkling river and went farther and farther. Apart from the faint worries, they were also full of satisfaction.
Full of expectations.
Looking forward to these departing people, using the linen loaded on the bamboo rafts to exchange for delicious salt, clothes made of soft fur, and yellow, extremely delicious millet that is cooked in an earthen pot with water...
Thinking of these things, the leader of the Fire Tribe couldn't help but think of the exceptionally wealthy, powerful and kind-hearted tribe that lived upstream of the river, and the wonderful changes that had taken place in his tribe since meeting them.
Except for the extra children that the women of the tribe gave birth to in the first year of meeting this tribe, the changes in all other aspects are also particularly gratifying.
Among them, what pleased the Fire Tribe leader and everyone the most was the linen and linen cloth in the tribe.
Because of the emergence of things like hemp and linen, they can still obtain food for the tribe when heavy snow falls, instead of having to hide in caves and rely on previously stored food once winter comes.
Food is hard to survive.
Now, they can spin the retting hemp bark into twine in caves in winter, and then weave the twine into linen cloth.
At this time, some people were sent out on bamboo rafts carrying linen to that wealthy and friendly tribe, and they exchanged the linen for many good things.
My tribe really wants to thank that rich tribe. It is precisely because of their appearance that the life of my tribe has become much better than before...
After standing here and watching the people paddling the bamboo rafts go away and disappear at a bend in the upper reaches of the river, the leader of the Fire Tribe stood here for a while, then led the rest of the people who came to help carry things and saw them off, all the way to
The tribe walked away.
Near the cave, patches of green hemp grow, which are about as high as a person's waist.
Looking at these green patches of hemp, all the people in the Fire Tribe, including the leader of the Fire Tribe, looked happy.
When walking along the edge of these hemp fields, I was even more cautious, for fear of accidentally stepping on the hemp seedlings...
At the same time, the Qingque Tribe was also conducting a small-scale farewell ceremony.
The scale of this farewell was indeed small, because there were only eight people being sent off, and only five or seven people were seeing off.
"What I said to Junior Brother Sha, you must tell him..."
Han Cheng looked at the eight tribesmen who were about to return to the Tongshan residential area and warned them.
After several people nodded, they started to set off towards the Tongshan residential area.
Looking at these eight people who turned back three times and gradually disappeared from sight, Han Cheng didn't feel much reluctance to say goodbye, because this kind of departure was already far beyond what he had experienced.
Not only was there not much reluctance, on the contrary, Han Cheng was also a little happy in his heart.
These joys come from the development of the tribe and the growth of the people in the tribe.
After nearly ten years, Han Cheng already had a very deep affection for the Qingque Tribe. After all, it was built by him and gradually developed.
There is less hustle and bustle here, and there is no intrigues and intrigues. Instead, there are clansmen who are working hard in one place and using their strength in one place, which makes them appear extraordinarily united.
There are witches who are neither ashamed nor ashamed of being old and disrespectful, there are beautiful children who are far too long and have no make-up, beautification and p-pictures to impress even me, and there is the naughty and mischievous bear of my own family.
child……
I have already taken root here...
It is precisely because of this that Han Cheng is so happy when he sees something beneficial to the tribe happening, smiling like a Maitreya Buddha weighing no less than 500 kilograms.
After standing here for a while, since Bai Xuemei was pregnant with her second child, Han Cheng, who seemed to be in good spirits, returned with the same good mood, whether it was due to excitement or some other indescribable reasons.
tribe.
Some women in the tribe were stripping off their cocoons, and of course Bai Xuemei, who was the best at craftsmanship, was among them.
Han Cheng went over, took Bai Xuemei and let her rest for a while. After giving her daily instructions, he came to the hammock made of thick hemp rope and tied between two trees, regardless of the little girl.
Pea protested, picked it up from the hammock, and then lay down on it.
As for the little pea with bare feet, Han Cheng placed it on his belly.
Little Wandou, who was still a little reluctant at first, suddenly became happy, sitting on the soft leather sofa called "Father Brand" and couldn't close his mouth with joy.
The little pea sitting on the leather sand was made of leather, holding a long and thin stick in his hand, lying there clumsily poking at the ant nest under the tree.
After poking enthusiastically for a while, there was gradually no movement, and the stick in his hand fell to the ground.
Han Cheng quietly looked up and saw that the little guy was already asleep.
Last night, Han Cheng told Little Pea the story of a crow drinking water. The little guy didn't fall asleep until midnight. It's normal for him to be so sleepy today.
Bai Xuemei, who had been smoking there for a while, also followed Han Cheng's previous instructions and started to rest.
He glanced left and right before heading towards the hammock where Han Cheng was.
At this time, Han Cheng was lying on the hammock and looking at the clouds in the sky. Xiao Wandou was lying on Han Cheng's belly, sleeping so hard that he wanted to drool.
As Han Cheng breathed, his belly swelled and fell, and the little peas on his belly swayed with it, making it look like he was sleeping on a soft cradle.
Seeing this scene, Han Cheng suddenly understood why the little guy fell asleep so quickly. With such a good external environment, he would definitely fall asleep too!
Bai Xuemei, who was walking along, looked at the father and son in the hammock, stopped, and after a moment, a smile appeared silently on her face.
She looked at it for a while, then reached out and gently touched her slightly bulging belly for a while, and then walked gently to the edge of the hammock.
He and Han Cheng looked at each other, then reached out to pick up Xiao Wandou, preparing to put him on the kang in the house to sleep.
She was worried that Han Cheng would be uncomfortable if she slept like this for a long time.
"It's okay, just sleep like this. Go to the kang and get a thin leather blanket."
Han Cheng waved his hand slightly to stop Bai Xuemei's movements, and spoke softly.
Bai Xuemei then turned around and headed towards the room where they lived. After a moment, she came out holding a piece of leather that had been tempered and looked soft.
This fur is made of several pieces of skin sewn together. It is equivalent to a thin quilt in later generations. It is suitable to cover the body at this time.
Bai Xuemei pulled off the animal skin quilt and gently covered Xiao Wandou and Han Cheng.
Then he didn't say anything, just stood here quietly, looking at Han Cheng and the sleeping Xiao Wandou, the smile on his face could not be wiped off.
After standing here for a while, Bai Xuemei continued to return to the place where the silk was drawn.
But unlike before, she was so focused that now she would raise her head to take a look at the hammock after a while...
Han Cheng was lying on the hammock, feeling very calm. It was really beautiful to be away from mobile phones and computers and not have to worry too much about anything.
Reaching out to gently pull up the thin quilt that had slipped off Xiao Wandou's body, Han Cheng moved his body a few times in a small range to make himself sleep more comfortably.
In this leisurely and reassuring time, Han Cheng's thoughts became very distant while lying on the hammock.
It feels very comfortable to not think about anything deliberately and just let your thoughts wander aimlessly between half-awake and half-asleep.
What I think about most in my wandering thoughts is about the Tongshan residential area, because this is a relatively important thing that happened to the Qingque tribe in recent times.
It's time to start thinking about donkey carts.
Han Cheng, who was lying on the hammock, thought to himself after his thoughts wandered for a while.
The reason why this idea came up at this time was because he thought of the eight people coming back carrying copper and tin ingots, and also remembered that when the copper mine was discovered in Tongshan, he led the people to carry the ore.
What it's like to transport back.
Transporting things over long distances by dry road is really not a good job.
Up to now, when the Qingque tribe transports food, copper ingots, tin ingots and other things on a large scale from the Tongshan residential area, most of them wait until the heavy snow falls in winter and use deer to pull sledges.
Because people are relatively free at this time, and there are things like sledges, not only the transportation volume is large, but people are also relatively relaxed.
However, due to seasonal restrictions, such transportation is not very convenient.
At least once the snow melts, the sledge will no longer be used.
If you want to transport it between the two under such circumstances, there is no other way except manpower to carry it on your shoulders and using livestock for pack transportation.
Of course, this kind of transportation volume is far less than that of a sledge.
The solution to this current dilemma is not that there is no solution, that is, Han Cheng decided to make donkey carts and deer carts.
With the sledge and the technology to make wooden wheels, it was not that difficult for the Qingque tribe to make a two-wheeled donkey cart.
Because two large wooden wheels are installed under the sledge, it is the basic structure of the donkey cart.
The rest, such as how to make the 'sledge' and the wooden wheel more firmly combined, how to make the axle and the wooden wheel stronger and able to carry more weight, can all be explored slowly.
It's not a big problem.
The real problem is not the donkey cart and the donkeys pulling it, but the road.
Master Lu once said that if there are many people walking, there will be a path, and it does not seem too difficult.
It's just that at this time, the footpath is only suitable for people to walk, and is not suitable for wider donkey carts.
If you want donkey carts to pass, you must build a wider, flat, and solid road. Otherwise, the donkey carts will probably get stuck in the wheels after they are built.
Building roads is not an easy task. You only need to look at how much manpower and material resources were used to build Chidao during the Qin Dynasty, how much food was spent, and how many people died.
The Qin Dynasty built a Chidao leading to the whole country, which was far superior to Han Cheng's small-scale construction. It seems that the two cannot be compared together.
But as long as we compare the current manpower and material resources of the Qingque Tribe and the size of the tribe with the Great Qin, we can immediately conclude that this kind of path, which is similar to a small fight, will be a big deal for the current Qingque Tribe.
Huge project.
Even compared with the tall wall built around the perimeter of the Qingque Tribe's expansion two years ago, it's not much easier.
It is precisely because of this that he has always intentionally or unintentionally ignored the construction of deer carts or donkey carts with wheels for transportation between the Qingque tribe and the Tongshan subdivision.
Now I think about it again and think deeply. In addition to the eight people who returned from Tongshan as an inducement, the most fundamental reason is that I conquered the semi-peasant tribe years ago and obtained a large number of manpower.
With these manpower, it is feasible to build a road of nearly two hundred miles between the Qingque Lord tribe and the Tongshan residential area.
Moreover, after such a road is built, it will not only be used to transport copper ingots and grains, but another important role is to greatly shorten the time required to travel between the two.
time.
The distance between the main Qingque tribe and the Tongshan residential area was artificially 'shortened'.
Even compared with transportation between two places, this function is even more important.
Because in this way, the connection between the Qingque Lord tribe and the Tongshan residential area will become closer.
This is not only conducive to the control and governance of the main tribe over the sub-tribes, but also allows the two tribes to support each other by relying on this road to communicate between the two tribes when encountering danger.
It can be said that as long as there is such a road, the relative isolation between the Qingque main tribe and the Tongshan residential area will be broken, and the two tribes can be better connected, making the entire Qingque tribe become
More united and closer.
After Emperor Zulong unified the Six Kingdoms, he paid so much attention to the construction of the Qinchi Road. Most of the purposes were to use such Chidao to firmly control the recovered old lands of the Six Kingdoms and integrate the Six Kingdoms and the original Qin.
The countries are closely linked together and become a complete country.
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty built the Grand Canal, and this purpose also played a large role.
Han Cheng, who was lying on the hammock, slowly thought about these things, and some of the sleepiness that was still there gradually disappeared.
As a person of later generations, whether it is from history or from the era in which he lived at that time, he can deeply understand the importance of roads or transportation.
It looks like this road needs to be built!
After it was built, it was called Bronze High, leading from the Qingque tribe to the Tongshan residential area.
Well, to call such a road, which is destined to be inferior even to the cement roads that connect every village in later generations, to be high is indeed an exaggeration, and it is suspected of being bragging.
But it is undeniable that such a path does have cross-epochal significance in this era, so it is not an exaggeration to call it a bronze high.
Of course, the biggest reason for this is the bad taste of Han Dashenzi, a time traveler from later generations, or it is a way of remembering the life of later generations.
Thinking of these things, Han Cheng did not get up directly and eagerly went to Wu and Senior Brother to discuss it.
Because this is a very big matter for the Qingque Tribe, Han Cheng needs to think carefully and consider all aspects as much as possible. He cannot make a decision on the spur of the moment.
Moreover, Xiao Wandou has not woken up at this time. If he gets up, he will wake up the little guy.
Han Cheng thought this in his mind, lying on the hammock and continuing to think about the bronze height.
Compared with the leisurely contentment not long ago, Han Cheng's mood at this time was no longer so peaceful.
Is this the so-called "the sea accepts hundreds of rivers, tolerance is great, a wall stands thousands of feet high, and no desire is strong"?
It's a pity that Bai Xuemei has recognized this name, and it's not too promising. Otherwise, it would be very good to change her name to Yourongmei...
Han Cheng thought like this and gradually fell asleep. During this period, Bai Xuemei came over. Seeing that both father and son were sleeping soundly, they did not disturb them.
He gently pulled the thin animal skin quilt covering the two of them, sat on the edge and looked at it with a smile on his face for a while, then left here lightly and continued to draw silk.
Already...
Xiao Wandou woke up from her sleep, slowly sat up, rubbed her eyes with her chubby little hands, and then reached out to wipe the saliva from the corner of her mouth. She looked a little confused.
"dad……"
After a while, Xiao Wandou began to call Han Cheng who was sleeping...
Putting the little peas on the ground, Han Cheng got off the hammock and stretched hard, and there was a crackling sound of some bones in his body.
This kind of hammock made of thick hemp ropes is fine for lying on and playing for a while, but it is not suitable for sleeping on it for a long time.
This is a lesson Han Cheng, who suffers from back pain, learned from personal experience.
After standing there with hysteria for a while, Han Cheng shook his dizzy head, scooped out half a pot of water and washed his face, and then he felt a lot more awake.
Without wiping his face, he just walked to the position between the inner and outer walls with water drops on his face, and looked into the rabbit circle. After seeing no figure of the witch, Han Cheng did not ask anyone else, but
He walked straight out of the courtyard and walked towards the surrounding fields.
Sure enough, not long after walking, Han Chengcheng saw the wizard squatting in a field, holding a small bronze shovel with a wooden handle to weed the millet field.
The small grass shoveled down was left in the ground and ignored, while the larger grass was picked up and put together by the witch.
You can take these back later to feed the rabbits.
Seeing Wu's hard work, and recalling his behavior of lying on the hammock and taking a nap not long ago, Han Da Shenzi's face actually felt a little warm.
But the heat quickly dissipated.
Because Han Cheng gave himself some self-comfort in his heart - the nap he took was actually worth it. After all, before going to bed, he thought about things like the donkey cart and the bronze height. This was better than squatting in the ground except for
A burst of grass has made a much greater contribution to the tribe.
When I thought about it this way, I immediately felt at ease and even a little confident.
Where is this son of God sleeping? He is working hard for the development of the tribe!
Sure enough, if people want to live a peaceful and comfortable life, in addition to being able to think, they also need to be shameless...
The millet seedlings in the field had reached their ankles. Han Cheng walked not far from the witch and squatted down, pulling grass with his hands while telling the witch about the donkey cart and the bronze cart.
As Han Cheng spoke, Wu's shoveling movements gradually slowed down and finally stopped.
Han Cheng knew that this matter could not be finished in a short while, so he and Wu found a place under the shade of a tree, sat on the ridge of the field and continued talking to Wu.
There was a joyful look on Wu's face from beginning to end.
This is not because he directly understood the things Han Cheng said, but because in the past, as long as the son of God said things to himself in such a serious manner, then what was going to happen next would definitely be
Something that is very important to the tribe and can bring huge benefits to the tribe.
Wu's experience was correct at all. After spending a lot of time and roughly understanding what Han Cheng said, Wu couldn't help but laugh with his toothless mouth. He was very happy.
"Son of God, this road needs to be repaired quickly..."
When witches do things, it is very characteristic of this era, that is, they do what they say and do it decisively.
After understanding the road Han Cheng mentioned and the huge benefits that donkey and deer carts could bring to the tribe, the grinning witch wanted to start building the road immediately.
However, Han Cheng did not follow Wu's instructions and immediately summoned people to announce the matter, and then started work in a hurry.
Because building such a relatively wide road does not just mean building it, it requires a series of preliminary preparations.
For example, determining the width of the road surface, determining the route, preparing the tools for road construction, and the materials used for road construction all need to be determined first.
Fortunately, the Tongshan residential area has just entered the right track. Food production and other things have not been fully developed. The demand and pressure for transportation between the two places are not too great. The tribe has enough time. It will take a long time to do this.
It takes time and takes a lot of manpower and material resources to accomplish.
Determining the route can wait until later. The most important thing to do now is to build the donkey cart first.
Only after the donkey cart is built can the width of the road be determined according to the width of the donkey cart.
However, according to Han Cheng's vision, the road built this time will be able to accommodate two donkey carts traveling side by side, and then extend further.
This is to prepare for future long-term development.
The main Qingque tribe is close to Salt Mountain, and the Tongshan residential area is close to Tongshan. Both of these are extremely important strategic resources for the tribe.
In other words, as long as the two resources are not exhausted, the two tribes, Qingque Main Tribe and Tongshan Subdivision, will not decline easily. On the contrary, both places will become more prosperous before the two resources are exhausted.
As for the depletion of these two resources, looking back at the level of exploitation and consumption of the two resources at this time, Han Cheng felt that this was something that did not need to be considered for decades or even longer.
As the Qingque Lord tribe and the Tongshan residential area become prosperous, the demand for this road will become greater over time.
By that time, the tribe might have acquired cattle and horses that were larger than donkeys.
A cart pulled by a big animal is of course larger than a donkey cart.
If the road is not built wider at this time, the two vehicles will meet and cannot miss each other, and the road will need to be rebuilt and widened, which will be time-consuming and laborious.
When Han Cheng and Wu arrived at the carpenter's room, the carpenter Climb and several other people who specialized in carpentry and weaving were weaving rattan armor with soft rattan in the shade of the open space outside the carpenter's room.
Rattan armor is complicated to weave, and because it is used to protect one's life, the quality requirements are very high, so it is not fast to weave.
For a master weaver like Ling, the fastest he can knit is two pairs in one day, and usually only one and a half pairs.
As for these apprentices, it is normal to make one piece a day. Sometimes they are a little slow and cannot even knit one piece.
This is only if someone is dedicated to collecting and processing the rattan.
If Lame and the others are allowed to collect rattan, the speed of weaving armor will become even slower.
However, when working, you are not afraid of being slow, but you are afraid of standing. Although only seven sets of rattan armor can be produced in a day, thanks to the tireless efforts of Lai and the other five carpenter apprentices, now, there are almost one rattan armor in the tribe.
A hundred copies!
Based on the population size of the Qingque tribe and what Han Cheng knew about the size of most tribes in this era, these nearly a hundred pairs of rattan armor can already form a rattan armor army!
"Son of God! Witch!"
"Son of God! Witch!"
With the arrival of Han Cheng and Wu, everyone who saw the two people stood up to greet them.
Han Cheng smiled and waved to everyone, indicating that they should continue weaving here. Then he walked to Lame's side. After watching Lame weave rattan armor for a while, he reached out and patted Lame's shoulder to signal him to follow him.
Lame put down the small half of the vine armor he had woven in his hands, got up, and followed Han Cheng and Wu to the tribe's house where sledges and wheelbarrows were stored.
Well, after the donkey cart is manufactured, this place can be called a parking lot...
The reason why Han Cheng didn't tell Lame these things in front of the carpenter's room was because looking at the sledge and wheelbarrow here could better explain the donkey cart and give Lame a more intuitive feeling.
On the other hand, it is to prevent other apprentices from being distracted and delaying weaving rattan armor.
Well, in essence, Han Dashenzi is also a person who loves to watch other people's hard work...
As Han Cheng talked, Lame's eyes, which originally looked a little dazed because Han Cheng and Wu, the two giants of the tribe, came to look for him, became brighter and brighter. Later, they looked like they were flickering with light inside.
With an excited look on his face, he looked at the many sledges stored here and then at the wheelbarrow over there. He couldn't help but rub his hands back and forth in excitement.
So wise!
The Son of God is so wise!
I once felt deeply regretful that the sledge could only be used when heavy snow fell, but this regret was just a regret, and I had not thought of any way to make up for this regret.
But now, with a few light words from the Son of God, this matter has been resolved.
A wheelbarrow can be pushed around with round wheels, so why can’t I remember to put wheels on a sledge?
In this way, even if there is no snow, the tribe's animals can still pull the sledge with wheels.
A sledge can hold more things than four wheelbarrows.
Once such a thing is produced, then...
"Son of God!"
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He came to Han Cheng and bowed deeply to Han Cheng, shouting respectfully to express his deep respect...
