Chapter 264 How to Eat Wheat (Please vote and subscribe)

The Han tribe celebrated wildly. Although many tribesmen could not read the Chinese characters on the animal skin letters, they soon learned the news through word of mouth.

During dinner, Luo Chong personally explained the next task. It was not realistic for the construction team to build all the breeding farms before winter, but they had to receive a large number of livestock immediately, so Luo Chong directly decided to fence off the entire breeding area first, and then continue to build houses.

In addition, more people were also assigned to join the collection team. In fact, the Han tribe still needed to collect a lot of things. The thousands of acres of hemp fields in the tribe’s residence should be fully mature at this time, and all these ramie grasses must be collected.

In addition, the tung tree forests and chestnut forests in the Li tribe before, chestnuts and tung seeds are also things that the Han tribe needs. One is paint, and the other is food. In addition, the chestnut shells of chestnuts actually have another use, that is, as a black plant dye, which can be used to dye black linen, which is also a very important resource.

Finally, there is the problem of more feed. This is actually easy to solve. The Han tribe has already stored all the straw in autumn as feed, but the straw of other rice-growing tribes is completely useless and can only be used as firewood.

This is very wasteful. Luo Chong directly proposed to buy it from them, using pottery or white salt to buy it. The price is very low, but the Han tribe needs to send carts to transport it back by themselves. However, this is acceptable. The Han tribe currently has about 300 cattle and horses left at home. All of them can be used to transport straw in one trip, which is much more convenient than asking the tribe members to harvest grass everywhere.

It doesn’t matter if there are not enough carts. You can rush to make them. Just use two pairs of wheels and install a simple frame on it. There is no board. In this way, dozens of carts can be assembled. In the end, there are not enough spare wheels. Then just use thin branches to make a sled and drag all the straw back.

Although the workload was heavy and the tribesmen were very tired, they were very happy because they knew that these were all prepared for the livestock. In the past, they worked hard because they had no food to eat. Now that they have enough food, no matter how hard they work, it is not hard at all.

Luo Chong arranged the food and grass reserves in an orderly manner at the Han tribe base camp. The transaction on Youfu's side was also smooth. With Ling, a native of the grassland, as an introduction and communication, the two sides cooperated happily. Youfu traded 1,000 livestock from Altai again.

However, the proportion of sheep that Youfu wanted in this transaction was not large. Compared with sheep that can only be used for meat and wool, the Han tribe already has saiga antelopes with more abnormal fertility. On the contrary, cattle and horses, which are power output units, are in short supply. Therefore, in this transaction, only 200 cattle, 400 horses, and only 400 sheep were required.

In addition, considering that such a large herd of animals is difficult to take care of, You Fu also bought ten young girls who had just reached adulthood from the Altai tribe at a high price. These girls can also ride horses and herd, and they are not inferior to men. Anyway, they are not going to fight on the battlefield, just for herding.

After sorting out everything, the caravan's goods were almost sold, leaving only a barrel of white salt and a hundred or so pottery. These were kept on the way back to trade with the small tribes in the mountains. The transaction on the grassland was over, and the group also set out on the journey home.

Two days later, the caravan that had just arrived at the mountain pass where the grassland and the mountains met received a reply from Luo Chong's flying eagle letter. The content was also very simple. They couldn't understand it if it was too much. The general content was: The letter has been received. Knowing that you have traded so many livestock, the whole tribe is very happy. Don't be greedy, pay attention to safety, and return quickly after selling.

You Fu was very happy to see it. He had been traveling for many years and knew the importance of rapid information transmission. He was very interested in the magical use of Chinese characters and flying eagles to transmit messages. He thought that when he returned this time, he must learn more Chinese characters with the leader when he had nothing to do in winter.

Thinking of the letter, You Fu had an idea and wrote another letter to Luo Chongfei, but this time he did not write a single word. He only wrapped a bunch of wheat with animal skin, wrapped it tightly, tied it to the eagle's legs and let it go.

The team continued to move forward. The caravan, which originally had only 40 people, had become 56 when they returned, plus 2,000 cattle, horses and sheep. The beasts marched on the mountain road, and the sound of galloping was like rolling thunderclouds. Wherever they passed, all the grass and trees were eaten by the beasts.

It was impossible for the caravan to prepare food and grass for 2,000 livestock, so on the way back, the wild grass, shrubs, and even tree bark were like naked girls, being eaten by the cattle, horses and sheep. It was a mess, but a lot of feces was left. I believe these places will grow more vigorously next year.

Two days later, Luo Chong received another letter from the flying eagle. He wondered if it was You Fu's request for help, and he needed to go there to reinforce or something. After all, it was not easy for them to rush back with so many cattle and horses. But when Luo Chong opened it and took a look, he was shocked.

The hide actually contained a bunch of dry wheat. This was simply a big pie falling from the sky. Yes, wheat is equivalent to flour, and flour can naturally make pie. Hahahaha, so it can really be regarded as pie.

Several tribal leaders gathered in a circle around the bunch of wheat, looking at the ears of rice, but there are great differences. The needle-like wheat awns on the ears are not found on rice.

"Chief, what kind of plant is this? Is it also edible? Why does it look so much like rice?" Rat Da, who was the first to lose his temper, asked.

"Well, this is indeed another kind of grain crop, called wheat. It can be cooked into porridge like rice, but it cannot be made into rice because it is not as hard as rice.

Rice can be husked to become white rice. Wheat also needs to be processed. The wheat kernels are husked and then dried and ground to become white flour.

There are more ways to eat flour. Compared with rice, flour can be used in many ways. Dry flour is added with water to make dough, which can be used to make noodles, dumplings, pies, pancakes, and sesame cakes.

After the dough is fermented, other foods can be made. Put the fermented dough in a pot and steam it to make it. Steamed buns, put them in the oven to bake and they become bread, stuffed with meat and steamed and they become meat dumplings, mixed with batter and baked and they become biscuits. Oh, there are so many ways to eat it, I am already greedy.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that wheat does not need to be planted in paddy fields. If we plant wheat, we do not need to dig artificial rivers. Just a few canals are enough for irrigation.

However, the yield of wheat is not as good as rice now. If we plant it on a large scale, it is not cost-effective. We should plant less next year and then promote it slowly. "Luo Chong pointed at the wheat and introduced it to several senior executives.

(End of this chapter)