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The big river east of the new city of the Han tribe is actually connected to the swamp water system in the northeast. To be precise, the water source of this river comes from the swamp wetland in the northeast.
Since the river is connected, the Ling tribe, which has just mastered the technology of making bamboo rafts, naturally has no reason not to explore. In fact, they sent people to this place to see when the ice and snow just melted this year. At that time, they had already found signs of people living here, such as the smoke from the caravans and soldiers stationed by the Han tribe in the early days.
At that time, the population gathered here was less than 200 people. From a distance, it really looked like a medium-sized tribe. The Ling tribe, which had just been annexed by force and grew rapidly, naturally had no reason to let this small tribe go. However, they did not bring so many people at that time, only a raft and a few people.
They were not in a hurry. As the saying goes, the monk can run away, but the temple cannot. Since they already know the location of the residence, are they still afraid of the duck flying away?
But when they gathered their men and came again, there were already thousands of people in the new city. Among them, there were not many people from the Han tribe. At that time, they were mainly laborers from nearby tribes. But the Ling tribe didn't know this situation. When they saw that the number of people on the shore suddenly increased to almost the same as the total population of the Ling tribe, they began to worry. They were not sure about fighting these people.
So they retreated again, and then sent people to paddle a small bamboo raft from time to time to peek. This observation lasted for about three or four months. During this period of observation, they also discovered the difference between the Han tribe and the Han tribe.
The Han tribe not only had a large population, but also a huge number of convoys and various strange tools. Their observers once hid in the reeds on the opposite bank and witnessed with their own eyes that the Han tribe built a tall rammed earth wall in less than half a month.
"This is a very powerful tribe. We should learn from this tribe." When the senior leaders of the Ling tribe heard the report from their subordinates, they decided so, and more frequent reconnaissance began.
Those who came to scout discovered in their day-to-day surveillance that since the city wall was built, more people have come here, almost several times the number before, and it is still increasing. What surprised them even more was that this tribe actually domesticated a large number of wild animals, almost the same number as the population, or even several times more than the population of the Ling tribe.
Let alone other cattle and horses, the more than 3,000 saiga antelopes alone are very conspicuous. Although they are far away, the number is so huge that it is impossible not to see them when entering and leaving the city gate every morning and evening.
These situations were fed back to the Ling tribe one by one, and also made the Ling tribe have a deeper understanding of this tribe living on land. However, their leaders also had doubts. With so many people gathered in one place, what do these people eat? What do they rely on to provide food?
However, before they could think about this question, the Han tribe immediately took new actions. A large number of people who had just moved in began to dig deep trenches by the river and then diverted the river water over. This move really shocked and puzzled the people of the Ling tribe.
Can people actually change the natural landform? !!! ! Change the direction of water flow for their own use? !!! !
Although they did not know the purpose of doing so at the time, it still gave them a lot of inspiration. It turned out that with more people, they could do this. Even moving mountains and filling the sea would not be a problem.
Continuing to observe, the next move of the Han tribe made them even more puzzled. They used a large number of laborers and cattle and horses to turn over the soil by the river. From a distance, the entire turned ground showed dark brown neat veins. Then the next move of the Han tribe made them even more puzzled.
Those people actually flooded all the turned land with the water they had just diverted, and then sprinkled something in some places. From a distance, from the other side, the transformed paddy fields would form large areas of reflection in the sun, which was very obvious.
This news was naturally passed back to the Ling tribe. However, they never understood the purpose of the Han tribe's transformation of paddy fields, but they knew that the Han tribe would not do useless things with so much manpower and material resources, and that piece of land would definitely change.
Sure enough, after just over ten days, a plant actually grew on the small piece of land where people had scattered things before. Looking from far away on the other side of the river, there was an area on the large reflective water surface where a large patch of green plants emerged. It was impossible not to notice it.
In the next few days, thousands of people came out of the city walls in groups. They pulled the green plants out of the ground and then planted them one by one in the large flooded land, very neatly and sparsely.
These plants became inconspicuous after transplanting, but they grew very fast. After a short period of greening, they immediately entered the period of splitting. The seedlings that originally had only a few leaves split quickly, and in just a week, they covered the paddy field and turned into rows of neat green.
This change in the paddy field surprised the Ling tribe. Judging from the changes they have learned so far, it seems that this tribe on the shore spent so much time and energy just to get these plants? ! What kind of plants are so important? !
This information was fed back to the Ling tribe one by one, and then their senior leaders made a comprehensive analysis. As a result, they soon discovered an amazing piece of information. The characteristics of this plant are very similar to the rice they guard every day. They all grow in mud covered with water. Moreover, the tribe that grows these plants seems to have tied their hair.
They can't confirm this because they are too far away. They are separated by a river of 70 or 80 meters and are hidden in the reeds. It is really difficult to see the hairstyle of the people on the other side. However, they can also see that those people don't have long hair.
Combining a series of characteristics, they soon found that the tribe on the shore is very similar to the "god" they met before. They tie their hair and grow rice. Could this be grown from the rice ears that the "god" took away from the swamp? !
This conclusion made them very excited. They seemed to have met the tribe of the "god". It would be great if they could meet the god again. Maybe they can learn more.
The Ling tribe was excited. They were looking forward to seeing Luo Chong again. However, not many people had seen Luo Chong. There were only a few people in the entire Ling tribe. Those who had seen Luo Chong before also jumped into the upper echelons of the Ling tribe because they learned the raft-making technology taught by Luo Chong. So this time, the upper echelons decided to send a few people who had seen Luo Chong to observe in person to see if it was possible to see Luo Chong.
However, it was such a coincidence that when the upper echelons of the Ling tribe came to the other side to observe again, Luo Chong came the next day. It was the time when Luo Chong brought people to experiment with papermaking. As the leader of the tribe, Luo Chong naturally had to inspect the newly reclaimed rice fields of the tribe.
That day, Luo Chong rode on the tall gray mountain and checked the growth of rice along the junction of the river and the rice fields. At that time, he also looked at the other side a few times, but did not find anyone in the reed marsh on the other side. However, Luo Chong did not see them, but it did not mean that they did not see Luo Chong.
The leaders of the Ling tribe were very excited because the man riding the elephant really looked like the "god" they had seen before. He was wearing a cross-collared dress, a hairpin on his head, shoes on his feet, and he was about the same age. They almost cried out in surprise.
However, without confirming Luo Chong's identity, they did not dare to recognize him rashly, because Luo Chong was accompanied by many people at the time, and there were even more people in their earthen city. What if they recognized the wrong person? The tribe on the other side was not something they could provoke. They were too powerful, so they wanted to find an opportunity to try to contact Luo Chong when he appeared by the river alone.
But Luo Chong did not come here to wander around. As soon as the papermaking business was in sight, he stayed in the small workshop and did not appear by the river for several days. But it was not a good idea to wait blindly like this.
Finally, after waiting for several days without any results, they decided to take the risk of going ashore to see if this tribe was related to the "god".
The people who made this decision were very brave. They had already made plans not to go back. Even if they were caught, they would not tell where the tribe lived. Anyway, they came here by water and there was no trace.
So there was the scene that just happened. At noon, the five people from the Ling tribe took advantage of the fact that all the people from the Han tribe were resting and there was no one on the riverside. They began to paddle the bamboo raft to the other side of the river, and then landed on the shore to find out what was going on. As a result, they were discovered by the soldiers at the city gate, and there happened to be a big tree next to them. This was something the five people from the Ling tribe never expected.
(End of this chapter)