Zhang Qingyun straightened his back, and in front of him was the endless blue lake. It was like... "Pa!" Li Xiang slapped Zhang Qingyun on the head, interrupting Zhang Qingyun's praise of the beautiful scenery in front of him.
"What a beautiful chicken!" There was flying snow in the sky, and the lake below was crystal blue. It seemed like the lake was frozen!
How can they fish when the lake is frozen?
Without fish, what would he do to recruit farmers, transfer to militia, upgrade the era, recruit troops, and invade the south...
"Walk!"
Li Xiang put on the mask, revealing only a pair of eyes, and walked towards the big lake, leaving Zhang Qingyun with a confused look on his face. He just wanted to sigh...
Looking at the mountain to death, Li Xiang became a person looking at the lake to death. He saw the lake from a distance, and it took a long time to walk to the lake. Li Xiang's fear came true, and a thick layer of ice formed on the lake.
piece!
Li Xiang pulled away the snow, picked up a large stone and threw it into the lake. The stone left several cracks on the ice and slid further.
Find a place and build a camp first!”
Don't worry at the dock. This place is colder than the other side of the forest. The cold wind is blowing, and even Li Xiang, wearing thick clothes, can't stop it.
Farmers and militiamen took out tools from their wheelbarrows and went to the nearby forest to cut down trees. They did not bring any materials with them. As long as they had tools, they could build various buildings. If they did not have tools, they would first create tools and then build.
Forty people got busy. Li Xiang took an iron pick and took Zhang Qingyun to the lake. In Zhang Qingyun's hand, he held a thick net wrapped in animal skin and woven with hemp rope.
The coldness got even worse when they walked to the lake. Zhang Qingyun retracted his hands into his clothes, leaving only an animal skin bag outside.
The ice on the lake is very thick. If you want to catch fish, you have to break the ice first.
boom!
The pickaxe hit the ice, causing broken ice to scatter and cracks to spread out in all directions.
Bang bang bang!
After tapping more than a dozen times in a row, a hole appeared on the ice. Continue tapping to make the hole bigger.
As soon as people move, the coldness on their bodies is driven away. Militiamen and farmers are building camps. Li Xiang and Zhang Qingyun are smashing ice at the lake, making the lake more popular.
The camp was built and it was dark. Fortunately, Li Xiang specially asked the construction workers to build a warehouse during the day to dry the wood. Otherwise, the cold air by the lake would not be blocked by residential buildings.
Zhang Qingyun was very curious about the surrounding rooms. He didn't know where the thatch in the surrounding area came from, and the thatch could actually block the cold air outside. After lighting the fire, the temperature inside the house was very warm.
There was also that warehouse that made him very curious, but it was just curiosity. He didn't dare to ask more questions. He knew what he should ask and what he shouldn't ask.
After dinner, the group of people slowly fell asleep in the warmth of the fire. Due to limited time, the residential room that could only accommodate five people was squeezed into ten. Prime Minister Li and Zhang Qingyun lived in one room.
There is a sentry post around the camp. Whenever any wild beast appears nearby, the sentry post will immediately sound an alarm, eliminating the need for night watchmen.
On such a cold night, it is a kind of punishment to have people keeping watch outside. There is such a thing as a sentry post, why do you have to let the soldiers who follow you to suffer?
Nothing happened all night.
Early the next morning, heavy snow fell again in the gloomy sky. After lighting the fire and having some breakfast, Li Xiang and his soldiers got busy.
Construction workers continue to build various buildings, including at least eight residential buildings, as well as wooden fences, sentry posts and other buildings around the camp.
It will take about two days to complete these constructions. After that, we have to go to the forest behind to build sentry posts. There are many ferocious beasts in the northwest land, so we must be vigilant.
Li Xiang led twenty militiamen to the lake. They brought ten iron pickaxes from Xiliang. They were originally used to dig salt mines, but they did not expect to use them on this huge lake first.
They only have four nets, which are the most primitive ones. They are made of various plants in the forest. They can catch big fish but not small fish.
The place Li Xiang dug yesterday has re-frozen. The ice on the lake is very thick, and there is no problem if you step on it and jump hard.
Use a pickaxe to mark four squares on the ice, and then dig out the ice along the marked lines.
The sound of a pickaxe hitting the ice could be heard on the lake. The person holding the pickaxe felt so lucky that his body felt warm when he moved it, but his hands were stiff.
Zhang Qingyun watched from the side as the people from Zhongxiliang made four huge openings on the lake and pulled huge ice blocks on all sides to the lake. These ice blocks were used by Prime Minister Li to store fish.
"Get ready to put the cage on the ground!" Li Xiang shouted to the militiamen, and then said to Zhang Qingyun: "Go and get those beasts' entrails!"
According to the records of the gnolls, the gnolls used the entrails of the prey to attract the fish into the lake, and then beat them with wooden sticks.
Li Xiang's method of netting fish was different from that of Daqian. According to the opinions of the construction workers, they built a frame with twelve long frames and put the nets on these frames.
Leave an opening around the frame. The entrance is very large and gets smaller as you go inward. It is similar to a ground cage. This is the fishing tool they can currently make. If they want to have a real fishing net, they will have to spend a day breaking the ice on the lakeside.
, leaving enough space for the dock.
"Battlemaster, here come the offal!" Zhang Qingyun carried a bag of animal offal in an animal skin. Some beasts bumped into their team on the road. The good meat had entered their stomachs, and the offal was used to lure the fish in the river.
Put the animal offal in each fishing trap, put some on each frame, and then slowly put down the fishing tools. The animal offal enters the lake water, and the originally solidified fresh food slowly disperses around.
Under the lake water, some stationary fish started to move. There was a delicious smell and air. A large number of fish woke up from dormancy and rushed towards the hole!
All four fishing traps were put down, and Li Xiang waited nervously on the ice. There must be such a big fish in this lake, but it was a cold winter, and he was uneasy.
The militiamen and Zhang Qingyun were looking at the lake nervously. If no fish could be caught in the lake, they would have no choice but to return to the camp and attack the cottage in the south.
Prime Minister Li's backup plan is to attack the major cottages in the south. There must be food in those cottages, and if there is no other source of food, he can only rob them.
Snowflakes as big as goose feathers fell on the lake, and the militiamen guarding the edge broke the ice with wooden sticks.
Gulu gulu!
Suddenly there was a splash of water on the calm lake surface, as if something was moving below, and then the wood on the lake surface also started to move.
Under the water of the lake, a large number of long white fish rushed into the wooden frame and bit into the entrails of the beast.
Soon a large number of fish were accumulated in several wooden frames, and a large number of fish were blocked outside the wooden frames. They just came to breathe...
