Chapter 436 Site Selection and Visit (2-in-1 4200-word chapter)

Looking at the map on the blackboard and listening to Luo Chong's description, Shu Da felt so excited that he could hardly control himself.

It has been almost two years since the Black Rat Tribe joined the Han Tribe. Although it has not been a long time, the development of the Han Tribe is huge.

From caves and walls to the first city, the second and third cities appeared this year. It has not been long before the fourth and fifth cities will appear. The radiation range of the entire Han Tribe is getting larger and larger. There are many resources in the territory. At this rate, it is afraid that in less than two years, even the entire iron ore area in the north will become the back garden of the Han Tribe.

Luo Chong in front of him made Shu Da feel more and more how correct the decision he made was. In the future, he must follow Luo Chong's footsteps. Only by following such a leader can he achieve greater success.

If the Han Tribe has dozens of cities and hundreds of thousands of people, will the Han Tribe still be afraid of cannibals? I'm afraid they will flatten their hills. How powerful are the apes? If tens of thousands of soldiers rush up with steel knives, it is estimated that no matter how many apes there

are, they will only be used as fertilizer for the farmland. "Chief, should I do something? Otherwise, you can assign me some tasks. I finally came back. If I go back to Xincheng, ah, no, if I go back to Liuyang County to defend the city, it will be boring. You said before that there are tens of thousands of people in Liuyang County. Who dares to attack us? It's useless for me to stay there." Shu Da immediately begged Luo Chong for work with a bitter face.

"You really want to make trouble? Okay, Hanyang City will harvest rice in the next few days. After this busy farming season is over, I will assign you some people. You go to choose a place to open up wasteland and clean up the land. Whether to go to Fuma Pass or Ruyang County, you decide." Luo Chong asked while tapping two places on the blackboard.

"Let's go to Ruyang County. Our Black Rat Tribe used to be there. The current location of Ruyang County is not far from where the Li Tribe used to live. I am quite familiar with that place. I promise to choose a good place for the leader." Shu Da thought about it and immediately chose the most familiar Ruyang County, and then patted his chest to promise Luo Chong.

"Okay, then I will tell you the site selection requirements of Ruyang County. First of all, it must be close to the river. Ruyang County has to grow crops anyway. It is convenient to irrigate it if it is closer to the water source.

Second, the area of ​​this city will be relatively large, and the length and width must not be less than one thousand meters.

Third,"

"Chief, why is Ruyang County so big?! Is it too big?"

Before Luo Chong finished speaking, Shu Da asked in surprise. The county seat of Hanyang County is only 400 meters long and wide, and Ruyang County is directly one thousand meters. The area is directly four times different. Even if it is a large county, it can't be so different.

But Luo Chong looked serious and had no intention of changing it.

"It has to be that big. I regret making Hanyang City too small. It's a county town, and the head of a county. The population can only accommodate less than 5,000 people at most. Don't you think it's too small?

And the residents in the city have too little land. There's no place to raise two pigs and a few sheep at home. Excluding the house, the entire yard is less than six meters wide. What can it be used for?

Also, I won't talk about how narrow the streets are. A place as important as a school doesn't even have a separate yard. It has to be squeezed together with the county governor's office. Is this a place to study?

The county governor's office building is even more cramped. So many departments have to be squeezed together. That's what we have now . The population is small, there are not so many things to do, and we can make do with it. If we build several county towns, I think it will be difficult to do daily work.

This is the wrong estimate I made when I first built a city. I had no experience, so I must not make the same mistake again. The residential area of ​​Liuyang County has been expanded to 16.6 meters long and wide, which is more than twice as large as Hanyang City. You have lived there for so long. Which one do you think is more convenient? "

Luo Chong listed the wrong decisions made in Hanyang City one by one, and he seemed to regret it. If there were not so many things to do now and all places were busy with construction, he would have wanted to expand Hanyang City again.

"Oh, if that's the case, the houses in Ruyang County must be comfortable to live in. The yard is so spacious. I have seen that those model workers have so much space to raise a few livestock.

I understand what the leader means. In the future, we should build new cities as big as possible, right? But leader, after these few things, I always feel that you want every household to raise pigs and sheep, right?" Shu Da nodded in agreement.

"Why, isn't this good? If all the tribesmen of the Han tribe have land to plant, food to eat, and some leftover food to feed two pigs, wouldn't this be a good life?

I know it's hard to do, but we just need to work towards this goal, eh? By the way, what were you talking about? I was just giving you instructions on the site selection task." Luo Chong suddenly came to his senses and pointed at Shu Da.

"Yes, the leader said the task, hehehe," Shu Da immediately stood up straight and replied with a grin.

"Well, I've already said it. First, it has to be close to the river, preferably no more than two kilometers away, because Ruyang County also needs to dig a moat and use this artificial river to transform paddy fields, which is similar to Hanyang City. If it is too far away, the excavation workload will be too large.

Second, the length and width cannot be less than one thousand meters. There is nothing to say about this. It can only be bigger and not smaller.

Third, the surrounding terrain should be considered. We should choose a slightly higher place to build the city, so that the river water will not flood the city.

Fourth, it must be flat enough, or at least easy to level. It is best to be open land, so that it is more convenient for us to cultivate farmland.

In addition, The surrounding open space should be larger to ensure that the food output of the surrounding land can meet the needs of the entire city. I don't want to transfer food from other places later, which will waste manpower and material resources.

The last point, and the most important one, is to be close to the forest. The surrounding forest must provide building materials and fuel for the entire city. Corn stalks can be used for cooking, but wood for building houses must be available. "

Luo Chong once again listed several important conditions for choosing a site for building a city. This is simply following a map. If there is no place to build a city, it is estimated that Shu Da will have no growth value.

"Yes, Shu Da promises to complete the task assigned by the leader."

Shu Da immediately clasped his hands and took his luggage. This guy was very happy to accept the task without considering the difficulty. It seemed that he was really bored in Liuyang County. Well, let him go out for a walk. Anyway, it was not far from Hanyang City, and he could call for support immediately if something happened.

"Okay, you go and make preparations. I'll go see how the Sang tribe has arranged it."

Luo Chong nodded and shook Shu Da away. He wanted to see the surprised face of the old woman Sancho. Of course, Luo Chong was not so bored. The main thing was to make a silk reeling machine. This thing was quite different from the spinning machine for cotton, linen and wool, and it must have a special machine.

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After driving Shu Da away and arranging the students to study, Luo Chong went to the weaving workshop by himself.

The weaving workshop covers a large area. There are two workshops in total, which are converted from two adjacent warehouses. One is used for roving and spinning, and the other is used for weaving. Two-meter-wide cloth can be produced here every day. More than 500 meters, which can be said to be a huge output.

When I came to the workshop, Luo Chong's mother-in-law, the chief of the Shang clan, was still here to inspect the workshop, and from time to time she gave instructions on the key

points of operation to the female tribesmen in the textile factory. Luo Chong did not see Xiaodie's figure. Maybe she went to study dyeing again. Now Xiaodie is no longer entangled in weaving technology, because Luo Chong's two mechanical iterations have already raised the entire textile industry to the peak of manual handicrafts. There is really nothing to improve. Further optimization can only start from the power aspect, but that is not what can be done now.

Therefore, Xiaodie has changed her research direction now, from the textile industry to the printing and dyeing industry. Although these two industries are closely related, they are basically completely different. No matter which industry you choose, the water is very deep. Even if a person spends his whole life, it is impossible to fully understand these two industries.

The spinning wheel in the spinning workshop kept turning. The latest generation of multi-axis spinning machines continuously turned wool into yarn for the weaving workshop. The workshop could only keep two days of inventory at most. If it stopped for one or two days, even the weaving workshop next to it would have to stop production due to insufficient raw materials.

Entering the workshop, Luo Chong saw a group of women in silk see-through clothes from a distance. They were all gathered around a roving machine in the middle. Most of them covered their mouths with expressions as if they had seen a ghost, but they restrained themselves from shouting. They were afraid of being looked down upon by the old people of the Han tribe, and they didn't want to disturb the women workers from working. They just stood there quietly and watched. It was a kind of scenery, a beauty produced by labor.

A female worker sat in front of the roving machine, her feet continuously stepped on the machine to drive it to rotate, and her hands kept picking up the washed and dried wool from the two large baskets beside her, and then quickly tore it into small pieces and put it into the rollers. The white wool was instantly swallowed by the rollers, torn, combed, spread, and finally evenly spread into a thin layer, and then cut into strips of roving by the export dividing plate, with fast speed and good quality.

The visitors from the Sang tribe were also very shocked. There were too many magical things about the Han tribe. Even in the previous Liuyang County, they had never seen such delicate and magical machinery that could make the complex and cumbersome textile process so fast and efficient.

After staying at the roving machine for a while, a group of people moved to a place where roving strips were connected. There were the fewest machines here, but all the roving strips had to be processed once, that is, a pin wheel covered with steel needles was used to pin short roving strips together to form an extra-long roving strip, and then sent it to the spinning machine to be spun into thread.

The group of people moved to the spinning machine again. The spinning machine here was modified from the Jenny machine. The workers only needed to sit and step on the pedals, pull the rope to operate the tensioning rod, and they could spin 20 spindles of yarn at a time. The speed was extremely fast.

"Were these machines created by the leader of our Han tribe?" Sancho asked the student who led them on the tour.

"Yes, the chief has created many machines, not only these machines for weaving cloth, but also the waterwheel mill outside the city. Even the hard iron ore can be easily ground into powder, and it does not need to be driven by manpower or cattle and horses. As long as there is a constant flow of river water, it can drive the huge stone on the millstone to rotate continuously.

There is also the windmill, which is even more magical. It uses the invisible wind as power to drive many machines to work. The saws for sawing wood boards, the forging hammers for iron, and the stone mills in the oil mill can all be driven by windmills.

Our chief is amazing. He is the Son of Heaven. Do you know what the Son of Heaven is? He is the son of heaven. He is a god who can borrow the power of heaven and earth. As long as the chief is there, the Han tribe will definitely become stronger and stronger." said the student assigned by Luo Chong.

Sancho also nodded with admiration. It can't be seen that she had thought that the leader of the Han tribe was very powerful before, but after visiting these machines, she still felt that she had underestimated the young chief.

"Let's go. These are all the things in the spinning workshop. If we want to turn these fine threads into the cloth we wear, we have to go to the weaving workshop next door to see them."

"Thank you for your guidance." Sancho replied very sensibly. There was no other way. The Han tribe was too awesome. Seeing this guide dressed like a human being, speaking in a set of words, and knowing all the production technologies of the Han tribe, who knows what kind of person he is, anyway, it's right to lick him first, who makes me a newcomer.

A group of people moved to the weaving workshop next door again. Even Luo Chong followed them but no one noticed. It was really that the black technology here was too attractive, making them dazzled and not having time to see who else was around them.

As soon as they arrived at the door of the weaving workshop, they heard a sound that was completely different from the spinning workshop. Just now, it was the sound of the rotating wheel turning, but here it was a clattering sound. The clattering sounds of dozens of machines mixed together, like tens of thousands of groundhogs chewing wood, which were all the sounds made when stepping on the pedals and pulling the shuttle to beat the weft.

Seeing the rows of looms, the first impression is that they are complicated and chaotic. People with trypophobia may even feel dizzy because there are so many threads.

But after careful observation, it seems that the numerous yarns are all arranged in an orderly manner, all running along their own routes, and finally turned into strong and durable cloth in the skillful hands of the weaving women, which brought countless precious livestock to the entire Han tribe.

The roller feeds the yarn, the pedal controls the warp lifting pole, the warp is grouped, one hand pulls the shuttle, the other hand swings the weft knife to tighten the cloth, and then the pedal, shuttle, and weft are repeated over and over again. In this way, little by little, the small yarns are interwoven together to form a strong woolen cloth.

A group of women from the Sang clan were all stunned, and unconsciously indulged in this endless monotonous cycle. They didn't even know that Luo Chong, the chief of the Han tribe, walked to their side.

"Chief Sang, do you think if we turn silk into yarn, can it be used to weave cloth?" Luo Chong suddenly asked from the side.

"Ah, ah?! Chief" Sangqiu heard someone asking him a question and thought it seemed familiar. He turned around and saw that it was the chief, and he was shocked.

(End of this chapter)