Chapter 76: Land Planning (Please recommend and collect)

The main purpose of land planning is to determine the location of the canal, because rice cultivation requires the rice fields to be covered with water for a long time, so only flooding can be used, and at the same time, the reasonable use of land area must be taken into account, which brings up another key issue.

How much rice does the Han tribe need to plant? How large a planting area is needed?

The wild rice that Luo Chong brought back from the swamp originally weighed more than 60 kilograms, but those were all fresh rice grains. After being brought back and dried, the weight was almost only 70%, and now it is only more than 40 kilograms.

This wild rice is slightly larger than the rice that Luo Chong had eaten in his previous life, about twice as large. The ordinary rice he had eaten in his previous life had about 26,000 grains per kilogram, while the wild rice in Luo Chong's hand had about 12,000 grains per kilogram.

But Luo Chong was not going to plant all the seeds. In his previous life, Luo Chong had no experience in growing crops. At most, he fed pigs for two days in the army and planted vegetables for a few days. He was punished for making mistakes, so he couldn't sow all the seeds at once. What if they didn't grow? Wouldn't he cry to death?

So he only planned to use 1/2 of the rice seeds, about 22 kilograms, 264,000 seeds. Then the question was, how many rice plants can be planted in one acre of land, and how much arable land does the Han tribe need?

From the wild rice mother plants seen in the swamp, it can be seen that this kind of rice plant is tall, nearly two meters, and a single rice plant can grow at least 15 ears of rice, or even double.

From this, we can see that the area occupied by a single rice plant is quite large, so Luo Chong plans to plant this rice with a row spacing of 40 cm. One mu of land is 667 square meters. If the side length is 25 meters × 27 meters, then one mu of land can plant about 4,156 rice plants. If you want to plant 22 kilograms of seeds, you need about 64 mu of arable land.

This area is not big or small. If 64 mu of land is 400 meters long, then only 107 meters wide is enough, which is nearly the area of ​​6 football fields.

This 400-meter-long arable land is laid out along the south side of the water diversion river. The entire plot is close to the wall and is about 300 meters away from the river. Then 20 canals are dug horizontally in the arable land. Each canal is less than one meter wide and less than half a meter deep, extending 110 meters to the south.

It takes 50 adults to dig a canal like this. After all, the Han tribe only has 50 shovels, and each person only needs to dig a little more than two meters each time. This speed is very fast. It takes about half an hour to dig a canal. It only takes one day to dig all 20 canals.

Everything is ready. Just after the fourteenth full moon, on the first day of the new year, a light rain came unexpectedly. All the primitive tribes living on this land breathed a sigh of relief. It was raining, and it was no longer snowflakes. The damn winter was finally over.

Each tribe was also counting the losses brought to them by this winter, how much food was consumed, how many tribesmen were frozen to death, how many tribesmen starved to death, how many men died in winter hunting, and how many tribesmen could reach adulthood this year.

Looking closely, it was basically horrible. Tribes with less than 100 people basically lost more than 10 people. Most of these dead humans were children and adult men.

This winter, which lasted for four and a half months, was too long. Many tribes did not have enough food to last until spring, so they had to abandon some of their children and watch them starve to death.

Do you think these adults are cruel? Perhaps, but they also had a hard life.

These adults ate the food that should have been used to feed the children, but they were not satisfied with the status quo. They had to go out hunting in the severe cold and blizzard, with guilt and grief for those children in their hearts, because they had to feed the women in the tribe.

As long as there are women in the tribe, children can be reborn, the tribe can continue to reproduce, and humans will not become extinct. The reason why they gave up those children was that they were forced to do so. Who doesn't feel sorry for their own flesh and blood, but they had no choice.

Teams of adult men went out hunting in the wind and snow. Some of them were lucky enough to collect some nuts, while others got nothing and disappeared in the vast wind and snow. Some were annihilated when they encountered a herd of beasts. The luckiest thing was to encounter a lone beast.

The men would fight desperately, and no matter how much it cost, they would bring back food. If they couldn't bring it back, they would most likely be wiped out.

The hunting teams that returned victoriously brought fresh meat back to the tribe, but no one was happy because the price they paid was too high.

Basically, no hunting team of any tribe returned home with all members. Some of the men who came back alive had their ears frozen off, some had their fingers and toes frozen off, and some had various injuries during hunting, which left them more or less disabled.

Compared with them, the Han tribe was fortunate. It was also the year when the entire Han tribe developed the fastest and had the most food, so the elders decided to hold a grand spring sacrifice, hoping that the Han tribe could have a better year in the new year.

Luo Chong did not object to this matter. Sacrifice is the spiritual sustenance of human beings, which is understandable, but the elder’s question stumped Luo Chong.

"Chief, what god blesses our tribe? How do we need to worship him?"

"What god? How the hell do I know what god is."

Of course, it was just a thought, and it was impossible to say it. Luo Chong thought for a long time. Regarding the issue of faith, Luo Chong was not going to do anything supernatural. The spiritual worship he was going to promote was ancestor worship and tribal worship, which was to cultivate the national concept of the tribe.

"We in the Han tribe don't believe in gods." After thinking for a while, Luo Chong said.

"Ah? Then what do we believe in, who will bless us?" The elder opened his mouth wide after hearing this.

"We don't believe in gods, but we can admire our ancestors. Without our ancestors' reproduction, there would be no us. It is the ancestors of the Han tribe who gave us life, taught us knowledge, let us know how to survive, and continue to pass on our Han tribe. So we should not worship gods, but the ancestors of our Han tribe." Luo Chong looked at the elder and said seriously word by word.

The elder was stunned and thought for a long time. Hey? It's interesting.

This idea of ​​worshiping ancestors is really fresh, and the explanation makes sense. Without parents giving birth to us, how could we come into being? Without the elders teaching us hunting skills and teaching us various life skills, how could we survive? Well, we should thank our ancestors.

"But how should we worship our ancestors? We haven't done it before?" The elder thought more and more, but he didn't know how to offer sacrifices. After all, he was just an elder, not a witch.

"Don't worry about this, leave it to me to solve it." Luo Chong waved his hand. He had figured out how to offer sacrifices.

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