Chapter 316 Arrangements for the New Season (Please vote and subscribe)

After the sumptuous dinner, all the tribal leaders and their warriors stayed in the city to rest that night. Fortunately, many large warehouses were newly built in the past few months, so they could make do with one night after cleaning up.

The next morning, Luo Chong sent Shu Da to lead a small flag of cavalry, a small flag of archers, and a small flag of spearmen, totaling the strength of a general flag, to follow the warriors of the Sharp Horn Tribe back to help them move and bring back the thousands of saiga antelopes.

This matter is too important for the Han tribe. Take the 100 that were traded before. In just a few months, they have multiplied to more than 300. The fertility is too terrifying. It is also an important source of food after the rapid population growth of the Han tribe. It must not be sloppy.

The other tribes also drove back to their residences. They will wait until next month to harvest this season's grain before moving to the Han tribe.

Luo Chong asked Xue Tu to lead the remaining three general flags to the temporary camp under Tuogu Ridge to escort the hundreds of women and more than 400 captives back, and then transfer these slaves to the new city area to be responsible for the construction of the new city.

After a day, Luo Chong sent a letter to the new city by flying eagle, asking You Ye about the progress of the construction of the city wall of the new city market, as well as the area near the river, how much clean land has been cleared, and whether paddy fields can be reclaimed next month. In addition, he ordered You Ye to prepare a large animal pen in the new city, which should be large enough to accommodate thousands of sheep. It doesn't matter if there is no house, just a few sheds for the time being.

If the new city wants to move people there, the first thing to do is to solve the food problem of a large population. It can't always rely on Hanyang City to provide food, otherwise Hanyang City will not be able to bear it. Now the new city can still hold on when there are not many people, but it will not work when there are more people, so there must be food output there this year.

Youye also replied quickly, saying that the city wall of Fangshi would be completed in two days, but there was no city gate at present. They just made a few simple barricades as the gate and sent people to guard it.

There are more than 300 workers in the new city area, and the number is still increasing. It is actually very fast to build a city wall like this. After all, it is just the street wall of the inner city Fangshi. Whether it is height or thickness, it is not as high as the specifications of Hanyang City. Moreover, it is a pure rammed earth structure, which is not comparable to the difficulty of building the city wall of Hanyang City.

Three days later, just when Hanyang City was sharpening its knives to prepare for the first harvest of rice this year, a letter from the eagle finally brought news of Youfu's expeditionary caravan.

You Fu reported to Luo Chong in the letter that they had achieved seven goals in this transaction, and purchased a total of 280 cattle and 450 horses. Because Luo Chong specifically instructed not to purchase sheep this time, they did not trade any sheep, but they purchased a lot of wool. In addition to a cart of animal skins, the rest of the cart was filled with wool. It was packed full, and each bag was pressed tightly, not much lighter than a cart of grain.

You Fu said in the letter that the nomadic tribes liked the woolen cloth samples he brought very much. In addition, they had the iron scissors traded to them by the Han tribe. Taking advantage of the warm weather, they simply cut all the wool. If it weren't for cutting the wool, they wouldn't have been delayed for so long.

The trading price of the wool was very cheap, and it was all exchanged for white salt. About one pound of white salt could be exchanged for the wool of five sheep, and they cut it themselves.

Luo Chong had expected this before. The two biggest uses of wool for nomadic peoples were to make felt and wool ropes, but neither of these two things was needed in large quantities. Felt was used to build tents, and it was too thick to be worn.

They basically didn't wear any clothes in the summer, and wore animal skins in the winter. The number of tents was determined by the population, and it was impossible to build tents all the time, so their demand for wool was not large. Now that they saw that the Han tribe could turn wool into practical woolen cloth, how could they not give it?

The letter finally explained that they were on their way back and asked Luo Chong if there was anything else to arrange.

Luo Chong thought about it carefully. The livestock in Hanyang City were almost enough, but the new city needed a lot of livestock to pull carts to transport building materials, and a large number of livestock had to be reserved for reclaiming fields. Besides, the space in Hanyang City was limited, and it couldn't support so many livestock, so it was better to send them directly to the new city.

So Luo Chong immediately wrote back a letter, telling You Fu to camp directly at the original residence of the Li tribe when he came back, and then to inform Luo Chong by flying eagle one day in advance. At that time, Luo Chong would send people to receive the livestock and send them directly to the new city. As for the wool and animal skins, they would be taken directly back to Hanyang City. Now only Hanyang City could process these raw materials.

After doing all this, time flew to mid-April in early summer. The first season of rice in Hanyang City also had a good harvest. The green rice fields were covered with a layer of golden rice ears, which looked very pleasing.

The tribesmen also worked hard. The harvest time is always joyful. The output of new grain means that the huge structure of the Han tribe can continue to be maintained and will not stop the pace of development because of hunger.

In addition to the more than 2,000 acres of rice in Hanyang City, there are also rice planted by various tribes. In another month, they will also come with a large amount of food, so that the expenses of the new city for the past six months will be settled. To feed tens of thousands of people, the food needed is not a joke. Several tons of rice can be eaten a day.

Fortunately, Youfu got a lot of livestock and was able to continue to reclaim more land for the Han tribe. Luo Chong planned to complete the migration of all tribesmen within one and a half months, and reclaim 3,000 mu of rice fields in the new urban area within three months to ensure that the food for the winter in the new urban area this year can be self-sufficient, and at the same time, a large amount of livestock winter feed can be stored.

The rice harvest in the Han tribe was in full swing. In just one or two days, several streets and squares in the city were covered with grain. After all the rice was dried, it could be stored in the warehouse.

The harvest took a total of 8 days, and then it was time to fertilize the land and sow the seeds for the second season. Just when the Han tribe started to cultivate the land, Shu Da had already brought back the tribesmen of the Sharp Horn Tribe, a total of more than 580 people and more than 3,100 high-nosed antelopes. This finally made Luo Chong feel relieved. As long as there were these 3,000 antelopes, it was no exaggeration to say that the total number this winter would exceed 10,000, and by then the Han tribe would really not lack meat.

(End of this chapter)