Chapter 450: Mountain Tribe (Please vote and subscribe)

The construction of the new city will inevitably attract the attention of Luo Chong, the great leader, but he has no way to go. The distance is still a bit far. Although the county town of Ruyang County is not as far as Liuyang County, it takes several days to go back and forth. Luo Chong is teaching, teaching four classes by himself, and time is tight, so he can't go.

But just because he can't go doesn't mean that others can't bring him news.

There was once a guy named Bell who said that the river is the highway in the jungle. Luo Chong deeply agrees with this. Although it takes several days to go to Ruyang County by land, it takes several hours to ride a fast horse through the woods, but it takes less than an hour to go directly by boat. Why? Because Ruyang County is also close to the river.

Hanyang and Ruyang are separated by a river. This river also happens to undertake the rapid transportation between the two counties. If Luo Chong doesn't know how to use this natural passage, he is not Luo Xiaochong.

Due to the width of the river, large ships could not be used, so Luo Chong had to order the woodworking workshop to build an inland river barge with square ends and a flat bottom like the original one. Mu Tong and others already had experience, so it was not difficult to make. After all, an inland river boat of eight meters long and three meters wide was just a small thing even in the wooden boat world, only slightly larger than a sampan or canoe.

The new ship was built very quickly. The biggest labor time in building a wooden boat was the planks. However, Hanyang City had an automatic saw driven by a windmill, which was a magical tool that existed like a cheat. As long as the whole log was sent in, the other end could continuously saw out the planks.

First, a double-row keel was made, then the ready-made wooden boards were soaked, bent and shaped with fire, and finally assembled. Originally, Luo Chong and dozens of people took a month to make a wooden boat, but now the woodworking workshop can produce one a week. In just half a month, the two new boats took on the transportation task between the two counties. Even if the wooden boats could not carry much at a time, they could run fast. They could run back and forth in an hour and a half, which really scared the Yu tribe.

A large number of daily necessities, city-building tools, and various craftsmen frequently landed in Ruyang County at a frequency of four to eight times a day, which directly stunned the Yu tribe.

After all, Yu Tu had been to Hanyang City, but he took the land route, and a round trip would take at least five days. In his mind, even if the Han tribe wanted to build a new city like Hanyang City, it would certainly not be fast. If they had a falling out with the Han tribe, he could still find a way to escape with his people, but now looking at the wooden boats coming and going eight times a day on the river, he wanted to die...

Even if he wanted to run away, they wouldn't give him a chance. It wouldn't take them long to get reinforcements of a hundred or eighty people, all of them young and strong men. Even due to the convenient water transportation between the two places, the residents of Hanyang City could take a boat to work in the morning and take a boat back home to be with their wives and children in the evening. This would be like adding wings to a tiger for the construction of the new city.

Moreover, in order to facilitate communication between the two places in the future, the Han tribe is still constantly building wooden boats. Wood is free anyway, and the logging team in Hanyang City is cutting trees every day, never stopping. Moreover, the wood cannot be used immediately after being cut down, and it must be dried in the shade for at least a year. They can be stored first. There is no need to worry about too much of this stuff. With the development of the Han tribe, these woods will be used sooner or later.

Ruyang County is under construction, and the first step is naturally to dig the river to get soil, build kilns and burn bricks. With the experience of building Hanyang City, this time it is a piece of cake. For this set of processes, the tribesmen have long been skilled workers.

The only difference from Hanyang City is that Ruyang County is larger, with a side length of one thousand meters. The level of the city wall and moat is naturally higher. The city wall of Hanyang City is seven and a half meters high and the top of the wall is three meters wide. Ruyang County City is directly 12 meters high and the top of the wall is 6 meters wide. Even if a large bed crossbow is set up on it, it will not affect the movement of people. The structure is also a brick-covered earth structure.

In order to obtain a large amount of earth for tamping the city wall, the moat used to take the earth is also dug wide and deep. The eight-meter-wide moat is used for the earth needed to build the city. It is not only used to tamp the city wall, but also to build houses and burn bricks in the city. The soil here is also used. After

all, the surrounding land needs to be reclaimed for farmland, and it cannot be dug everywhere, so it can only be used to pluck wool from a sheep. Although the amount of work is large, Luo Chong is not in a hurry. Now this is an advance construction to prepare for the continued expansion of the population in the future.

From the beginning of August to the beginning of September, within a month, even the decoration task of the four teaching buildings in Hanyang City has been completed, and the four teaching buildings can be officially put into use; in addition, the government office building project is also under rapid construction. Since it is a purely wooden structure, the construction speed is even faster than the teaching building.

After the most difficult earth and stone foundation is laid, the wooden structure above is fast. One by one, wooden pillars are erected, and then beams, stairs, and wooden boards are installed. Luo Chong, the designer, personally directs the work, and it changes almost every day. At this speed, Luo Chong estimates that the office building will be completed before the graduation of this batch of students.

But on a day in early September, You Ye, who was sent by Luo Chong to conduct reconnaissance, came back, and he did not come back with his own people. He brought back more than 500 people, big and small, for Luo Chong, and a small number of domesticated plateau wild donkeys and a large number of alpacas, totaling more than 200 heads. This directly shocked Luo Chong.

But this was not the most surprising thing for Luo Chong. The north was mountainous and belonged to the plateau area. Wild donkeys and alpacas were abundant. However, it was not easy for these people to digest meat alone. It was obviously not enough for people to supplement vitamins comprehensively with those internal organs. For example, in Hanyang City, they grew vegetables and picked some wild fruits, but fruits were not common in the north, and there were even fewer vegetables. So what did they eat? Leaves, leaves

, or leaves that had been processed. Raw leaves were not delicious. They would dry up after being picked for a long time. But they had already learned how to process them. Although it was just a simple kneading and rubbing to make it ferment naturally, it could be regarded as the original prototype of tea, right? Uh, what should this be called? Alpine tea? As for whether it was alpine black tea or alpine green tea, you had to taste it to know.

In view of their specialty, Luo Chong also decided to give them a name, the Gaoshan tribe, which is now the Gao clan of the Han tribe, and all members took Gao as their surname.

As usual, the meeting place was still on the third floor of the teaching building. Since the building was built, Luo Chong liked to receive foreign guests here more and more. Why? Because it was high. If you were not allowed to climb the stairs first, how could you experience the power of the Han tribe? How could Luo Xiaochong pretend to be cool?

(End of this chapter)