Chapter 357 Happiness comes too suddenly (please vote and subscribe)

Although it is expensive and difficult, no matter how hard it is, we cannot let children suffer, and no matter how poor we are, we cannot let education be poor. Solutions are thought up by people. As long as we are willing to use our brains, there are always more solutions than difficulties.

Education must be continued. Luo Chong estimates that a large part of the main fiscal expenditure after the founding of the country will be used for education. Although it costs a lot, it is a long-term investment. As long as a group of talents of the Han tribe can be cultivated, the Han tribe can be passed down forever. No matter whether the country changes in the future, civilization will never disappear. This is what Luo Chong left for this world, and it may also be the purpose of the unknown existence that made him travel here.

This is the plan for now. The Xue clan has already collected materials for making pencils. There is no shortage of materials for making brushes. On the contrary, the Han tribe has a lot.

The pen holder of the brush is generally made of wood or bamboo. Of course, there are also luxurious metal pen holders, but that is a minority after all. Luo Chong thought about it and realized that it is impossible to have bamboo. At present, the most suitable resource for making pen holders in the Han tribe is the thorns of the hanging thorn man-eating tree.

These spikes are very long, each one is more than one meter long. After collecting them, they are used to make arrows. A section is cut off each time. In the past, this section was basically thrown away as firewood. It was a waste. Now we have finally found the right way to use it.

Now that we have the pen holder, the next step is the brush head. Although the earliest brushes seem to be made of rabbit hair, they are basically divided into three categories: wolf hair, goat hair, and mixed hair.

Needless to say, goat hair is actually the hair on a sheep. Wolf hair is more interesting. Nowadays, wolf hair is generally made of weasel hair. Other wolves have become protected animals in zoos. Only weasels can barely be called wolves. As for mixed hair, as the name suggests, it is two kinds of hair put together. Generally, a wool refill that absorbs a lot of water is placed inside, and a wolf hair outer layer is wrapped outside.

The brushes Luo Chong wanted to make were similar, except that he had real wolf hair. In the winter of the year before last, when he had just come to this world for a few months, the Han tribe killed a large number of wolves, and thus obtained a lot of original gray wolf skins. The hair from these wolf skins could not be found better, and this was winter wolf skin, which was the fullest time of the year. The hair content of just one skin was enough for Luo Chong to make a lot of brushes.

He was thinking about going back to Hanyang City to make brushes, and at the same time he had to deal with various affairs of the tribe. He had just eaten lunch that day, and several paper copyists were resting. Luo Chong also lay on the cool mat in the house for a nap. It was a hot summer day, and the temperature at noon was too high, but it still couldn't stop one good news after another from reaching Luo Chong's ears.

At noon in the hot summer, the ground was steaming with heat. All the work outside the new city was suspended. The tribesmen who were doing construction in the city temporarily ran to the straw shed to rest in the cool. Several soldiers guarding the gate did not even wear armor, and took off their robes to one side. They were bare-chested under the city gate to avoid the sun. But at this moment, a sharp-eyed soldier discovered movement from the southern horizon.

"Chai Jian, look, look, there are a lot of people in the south, and there seem to be many women and children. They should be laborers coming to work here, right?!" Inside the city gate, a soldier with a sword hanging on his waist called out to his companion.

"Really? They are still on the road in this hot day. You stay here and watch. I'll go up to the top of the wall to take a look."

The soldier named Chai Jian hurriedly ran into the city wall, climbed up the city wall with a temporary ladder, and looked south with his hands on the shed. Isn't it true? In the distance, there is a dark mass of men and women, old and young, at least 3,000 people, all walking this way.

"There are so many people here. Go call the brothers first and stop them from entering the city. I will report to City Lord Lin."

"Okay, go ahead. The brothers are all gathered. There is work to do."

At first, the soldier also shouted loudly to his comrades and explained the situation to them. Soldiers of a small flag were all here. They knew that those who came were laborers. Although they were not allowed to enter the city, it was not easy to stop them. Someone immediately came up with an idea and moved a few large buckets of clean water so that the laborers could drink a bowl of water to quench their thirst when they arrived here. They must have been very hot on the hot day.

Sure enough, in a short while, a group of people came to the south gate of the new city. Some people who had come several times before were already familiar with these soldiers. They were not polite when they saw that there was water to drink. They quickly scooped up water and drank it. At the end, they did not forget to bring some to the women and children.

Inside the city, Dashu also received a notice from the soldiers guarding the city. When he learned that so many people came here to work, he hurried to the city gate to check the situation. As a result, when he arrived at the city gate, something unexpected happened.

There are several tribes that have migrated here in their entirety, even emptying their homes and bringing all their belongings here in large and small packages. Seeing the appearance of Dashu, the manager, some people who seem to be leaders or elders have come forward and expressed their willingness to lead their entire tribe to join the Han tribe, hoping that Dashu will agree. They will also work as hard as the people of the Han tribe, and keep saying similar words of assurance.

Dashu was overjoyed. When Luo Chong started to create this labor market, wasn't it this idea that he had in mind? Now that several months have passed, he has finally seen the results, which is a good thing.

So the two sides happily reached a consensus. Of the 3,000 people who came this time, more than 1,800 directly joined the Han tribe, and the remaining more than 1,000 people still worked here as laborers. They didn't say whether to join or not, but many of these people were new to the tribe and didn't know much about the situation of the Han tribe. They still needed a gradual transformation process.

Among them were the leaders of the Lu tribe and others who came here for the first time. They also followed the laborers into the city and, under the guidance of the soldiers, came to the designated rest area and built straw huts for rest.

As they walked in, the leader of the tribe, Ju, kept looking around and observing the various novel things in the city, and kept sighing as he walked.

The Han tribe was too rich and too powerful. There were hundreds of ox carts and horse carts used to pull things along the way, and there were thousands of yellow antelopes, which were not the white sheep he had seen before.

Dashu was also standing at the gate of the South City Gate, still looking south to see if there were any more people coming. It would be great if more people came to join the Han tribe. But at this time, no one came to the horizon in the south, but a few strange figures appeared on the river in the east.

They were four or five adult men and women, floating on a large bamboo raft on the river, constantly looking towards the new city of the Han tribe, but they did not dare to approach the shore, as if they were hesitating about something.

This scene was seen by a soldier who had just brought back water, and he quickly reported it to Dashu, which surprised Dashu. There were actually other tribes that could build "boats"! ! ! ?

(End of this chapter)