Chapter 363: The Han Tribe's Mission (Please vote and subscribe)

Raising ducks is actually very simple. First of all, they have land to settle on, and there are large areas of shallow lakes, which are also called wetlands.

Although there are no natural ponds, it is not difficult to enclose a piece of land near the shore. They have a lot of bamboo, right? Just use bamboo to make a fence to enclose an area on the shore, and then the next step is to catch wild ducks.

Adult wild ducks are good at flying and are definitely not easy to catch, but it is easy to catch those ducklings that have just hatched and have not learned to fly. Shoot the big ones with bows and arrows, and cast nets to catch the small ones alive, and then catch them and feed them.

It is easy to prevent these ducklings from running away. If you want to do it in a more troublesome way, you can make a big cage out of bamboo, or set up a frame with bamboo poles, and then pull a big net on it to prevent them from flying out. The simplest way is to cut off their flight feathers to prevent them from flying. However, Luo Chong does not support this method. After all, the feathers of a duck that can be used to make arrows are just a few flight feathers.

It would be a waste to cut them off like this. In addition, if the Ling tribe has the ability to feed them with feed, it would be even better. I believe many people have heard of a word, "cramming", such as cramming teaching, which means forcibly instilling a lot of knowledge, and this is actually just its derived meaning. Its original meaning is actually the literal meaning.

There is a method of force-feeding when raising ducks. Take a funnel and put it in the duck's mouth, and pour feed directly into it. After the duck is fattened, its own weight can also limit its flight.

Although it is inhumane to do so, ducks are not human beings. What's the point of talking about humanity with them? Aren't these things raised for food? Well, this feeding method is also suitable for raising snakes.

After going through this process, it seems that the Han tribe is at a disadvantage, but it is not. Raising ducks is just Luo Chong's own plan. At most, he sent a few people to explain it. The bamboo is not his, and the ducks are not his. What can he lose?

On the contrary, once the Ling tribe has output, the Han tribe will monopolize white salt, cloth and animal skins. If the Ling tribe wants these things, they can only exchange them with their ducks. The Han tribe does not have the conditions to raise ducks, so it is fair to exchange resources with them for meat and eggs.

To put it another way, even if the Ling tribe joined the Han tribe, Luo Chong would still let them stay in the wetland bamboo forest. After all, the bamboo there could not be abandoned. A small village would be needed to stay there. The Han tribe would still provide them with white salt, cloth and other things, but the title became their own tribe. So what did it matter whether they joined the Han tribe or not? Anyway, they were all working for Luo Chong and contributing to the Han tribe.

Besides, teaching them to grow rice, hadn't Luo Chong done this before? Before, he vigorously promoted rice planting in the market in Hanyang City, and even taught planting techniques and provided grain seeds for free. Now it's just a change of tribe.

And teaching them to weave various bamboo products, will the Han tribe suffer? It seems that they have suffered a loss, which is considered a technology leak, but what kind of technology is bamboo weaving? Take basket weaving for example, that thing basically can be learned at a glance, and you still need to hide the technology, it's better to teach it openly.

If Luo Chong doesn't do this, in the foreseeable future, the Han tribe will directly purchase bamboo raw materials from the Ling tribe, and then process them into what they need. But doesn't processing by themselves require manpower? The Han tribe has a lot of work to do just for infrastructure construction, so how can they spare time to do this?

Now there are people from the Ling tribe who are willing to work for me, so I will treat it as paying them. Anyway, I have already hired so many workers, so it doesn't matter who I hire.

As a person who wants to be an emperor, you naturally need to be more open-minded and have a longer-term vision. You can't be so fussy about such gains and losses. You can't be an emperor like this. A real emperor should have a broad mind and look at long-term and strategic goals. If you can really get duck farming going, it can drive the national economy and improve the living standards of the people. This is what an emperor should do.

After a week, Lingcao and others also learned the bamboo weaving techniques taught by the Han tribe. Although the Han tribe had never woven bamboo before, they had more rattan products. Compared with bamboo weaving, there was not much difference between the two. Just learn from one example and apply it to other situations.

During these seven days, Lingcao and others also learned more about the Han tribe. They learned what goods the Han tribe usually sold, the living habits of the Han tribe, how to make rice, or add some other things to cook porridge. Lingcao learned all these, which also made them understand more about how to eat rice.

In the morning of this day, taking advantage of the cool weather in the morning, Luo Chong came to the river to see Lingcao off.

Because the bamboo raft they took when they came had been destroyed, the Han tribe would send the newly built boat to send them back, and they were accompanied by a delegation of 15 envoys sent by Luo Chong.

The delegation was led by the former leader of the fork, who is now the patriarch of the Chai clan, plus a tribe member who is good at farming rice and a tribe member who is good at weaving rattan baskets, and a giant eagle for sending messages. The remaining 12 people happened to be soldiers of a small flag. Many of them had participated in the previous task of rowing and transporting ore, and they were familiar with driving the boat. Their main task this time was to protect the safety of the delegation.

Luo Chong had considered the selection of people. The Cha tribe used to be a tribe near the river bank, living on fishing. After Luo Chong promoted rice planting, the Cha tribe was the first tribe to rely on its own advantageous terrain to reclaim paddy fields. Before joining the Han tribe, it was also the tribe with the largest planting area among those who learned to grow rice.

It can be said that the Ling tribe is very similar to the former Cha tribe in terms of living environment and lifestyle. Therefore, there is no better person than Chief Chai to help them find a suitable location for reclamation of fields and teach them how to grow rice. After all, he has done this before.

After they go there this time, they will stay for more than a month. It is now June, and it takes three and a half months for rice to mature. They can plant at least one season before late autumn. During this period, Chief Chai will help them choose the land and guide them to cultivate. He will not come back until the rice planting is completed in a month.

Moreover, during the 20 days when the seedlings grow, they can also plan a duck farm and complete the initial enclosure activities. In addition to fishing, the tribesmen of Ling tribe can also catch some ducks with nets. After that, they will have to slowly improve and accumulate by themselves. However, in the current environment, I believe that this accumulation will be very fast.

(End of this chapter)