Chapter 943 Don’t act too hastily

Facing You Zhi’s questioning, the elders of the Qiao family and Qiao Yan remained silent. If the life here in the Han tribe is very good, then they naturally don’t mind persuading other tribesmen to come and live with them, but haven’t they seen the actual situation yet?

So the elder thought for a while before saying, “Envoy, we naturally don’t want to see our former tribesmen continue to suffer, but please give us a little more time, okay? If we have learned a new way of life, and farming the land and raising livestock can really make us worry-free about food and clothing, then I will definitely take you to our territory of the Qiao family.

“But I hope that the envoy will not force us, and don’t use your army to force my people to join, that will not have a good result. If life in the Han tribe is really okay, I will definitely persuade them to join the Han tribe in person, please rest assured! "

The elders and Qiao Yan are still very vigilant. Now that they have just been brought here, they want to ask about the Qiao family's territory and population? That is impossible. If they are not allowed to see the actual benefits, who knows whether the seeds of the artifacts and the breeding technology of your Han tribe are real?

Besides, even if the grain farming technology and livestock breeding technology of the Han tribe are real, you have to be willing to teach them and let them use them.

Otherwise, I will bring you the rest of the tribesmen here, and the next second you will turn against us and turn us into slaves. Who can they go to for justice?

After Ye Ying's retelling and translation, You Zhi also understood what the other party meant. He secretly thought that he was too impatient. This group of people had just arrived and had not even been to the place where they lived. They had not even seen the farming and breeding. They just kept hearing the people of the Han tribe say how good it was. However, if these things are not seen in person, it is inevitable that there will be a suspicion of self-promotion and bragging, so it is normal for the other party to be worried.

"Well, well, of course I won't force you, and I won't use warriors against you Qiao clan. The warriors of the Han tribe will only point their swords at our enemies and the tribes that dare to invade the Han tribe. It is obvious that you Qiao clan are not our enemies, and have not invaded the Han tribe. I hope they join, just to make their lives better and make the Han tribe stronger." You Zhi also spoke the truth, his tone was sincere and there was no hypocrisy at all.

For example, in order to make the other party live a better life, this sentence would be a bit hypocritical if it was said alone. You think you are a bodhisattva, and what does it have to do with you whether others live well?

But You Zhi also said later that in order to make the Han tribe stronger, this is to say the real idea.

How can a tribe become stronger? In this era, you can still use the population to calculate. After all, in this era, population represents productivity. The more people you have, the more labor force you have. If a tribe wants to be strong, of course the more people the better.

But there is also a prerequisite, that is, you have to be able to feed so many people.

Is the population of the Qiao clan small? They are not small at all. Every A part of the population will have to be driven away in one or two years, because their current means can no longer feed so many people. But if they also know how to farm and raise livestock, they will probably become a tribe like the Tang tribe or the Xin tribe.

The elders and Qiao Yan nodded after hearing what You Zhi said, indicating that they agreed with the other party's statement. They also heard You Zhi's guarantee that he would not send troops to them, but they did not want to continue talking. Their attitude has been expressed very clearly. They will never bring their people here without seeing actual benefits.

You Zhi also noticed the awkward atmosphere. Perhaps the other party was a little afraid of his identity? He patted Ye Ying on the shoulder and instructed, "Entertain them well. Take them to their residence after dinner. Make sure they are satisfied and let down their guard."

"Yes, I will complete the task! "Ye Ying quickly stood up and answered.

You Zhi nodded, and after greeting everyone from the Qiao family again, he left with his personal soldiers.

Sure enough, as soon as You Zhi left, there was a sigh of relief in the camp. Did this group of people really feel a lot of pressure because of You Zhi's identity?

Emmmm

Actually, that's right. When Ye Ying introduced his identity to both parties just now, he said that You Zhi was the most powerful person here. The Jinwu Guards and thousands of slaves in the entire capital were under his control. Such a large group of people and such a high force were all concentrated on You Zhi alone.

It was said that You Zhi could decide their life and death with a single word, and these people believed it. In this case, how could they not be nervous?!

Afraid of being deceived! Afraid that the other party would not be willing to accept them. If that happened, they would have to embark on the journey of migration again. Who knows what kind of results they will face in the future?!

But for now, it seems that the result is still good.

"Don't worry, both of you. Although our Han tribe has been actively absorbing foreign populations, we have never easily launched a war against foreign countries. Only when others provoke us will the Han tribe be forced to fight back.

"After you join the Han tribe, you will slowly understand. Let's eat first. After eating, clean up. I'll have people prepare some tools for building houses and craftsmen, and then we will set off to your place of residence immediately." After You Zhi left, Ye Ying immediately comforted the elders of You Qiao and Qiao Yan and said.

"Okay, then I'll trouble you, Ye Ying." The elders and others have been with Ye Ying for several days, eating and sleeping together, and sleeping together. They still trust Ye Ying, so they don't doubt what Ye Ying said.

Jinwu Guard has special logistics soldiers, so it is not a problem to prepare meals for these hundreds of people. The food was delivered quickly, but it was still the same old routine, with enough grain, a small amount of meat, and basically no vegetables.

There is no way around it. The capital is uninhabited. There is no civilian family except Jinwu Guard and slaves. They can't buy vegetables even if they want to, so even if it is to eat vegetables, it is only a matter of time for them to immigrate here. However, with these people from You Qiao, there is no need to be so anxious.

The elders did not dislike this kind of food. For them, as long as they could fill their stomachs, it was enough. Moreover, they lived on hunting and gathering, and rarely ate any green plants, so they had no feeling for vegetables and could not understand why the people of the Han tribe wanted to eat "grass" so much!

After the meal, everyone began to pack up. This time, You Zhi mobilized more carriages for them, distributed some tools to them, and a large number of wooden boards, nails, hammers and other things, which were mainly used to build rammed earth molds. The first batch of houses for the Qiao immigrants were adobe houses. They solved the problem of settling down first, and it would not be too late to build better houses when they came back.

Thirty carriages formed a long convoy, carrying some people, a large number of tools and wooden boards, and the most important food. Of course, this food was definitely not enough for them to eat for half a year, because there were no such people in the original plan. So if they wanted more food, You Zhi could only ask for it from the nearest Takumi County. As long as he explained the situation to Dashu, this food was not a problem.

The resettlement site for the Youqiao immigrants is not very far away. After all, they usually have to communicate with the construction site of the imperial palace. It is not convenient to be too far away.

As for how far away it is? For example, taking the construction site of the imperial palace as the center, and expanding the scope to the capital, then the residence of the Youqiao family is the farm outside the capital. After all, it is impossible to put the arable land in the city, right?

They came to a river that was 40 to 50 meters wide. There was a large plain on the shore. In other words, from the east of the grassland Honghu Lake to the west of the Liuyang River, the large area of ​​land in the middle was basically plains.

Next to the river is a flat land, and there is a forest not far away. That is where they chop firewood for daily life. Of course, when there is crop straw in the future, it is also possible to burn straw for cooking.

When the convoy stopped, Ye Ying took the initiative to introduce the situation to them.

"This river is called the Chishui River. Although it is very wide, it is not very deep. This river is a tributary of the Honghu Lake system in the west. Your residence will be built here, and the water needed for farming will all depend on this river.

"The flow of the Chishui River is not very large. It is always in a sparkling state. Even in the rainy season, the water never rises because it is connected with the Honghu Lake in the west. Unless the Honghu Lake breaks its dam, there will be no flooding here. You can just stay here with peace of mind. "

After listening to Ye Ying's introduction, the elders of the Qiao family and Qiao Yan were quite satisfied, because if they were asked to choose a place to live, they would definitely choose the mountains where prey is more abundant, but they have no idea about what kind of terrain environment is needed for an agricultural lifestyle.

However, they are clear about one thing, that is, whether it is farming or hunting, water sources are very important. People cannot survive without water, but relying on this river, they will at least not starve to death easily. If it really doesn't work, they can go down to the river to fish, or hunt some prey that come to drink water.

Thinking of this, Qiao Yan asked Ye Ying again.

"Can we fish in this river?"

Ye Ying thought for a while and said, "In theory, there is no problem, but I am not very clear about this aspect. But after you plant the land, you may not have time to fish in a short period of time. You still have a lot to do next. "

The elder and Qiao Yan both nodded and chose a new place to live. Everything had to be rebuilt. Of course, there would be a lot of things to do next, and they had already been mentally prepared for this.

There were really a lot of things that the Qiao family had to do. First of all, the Jinwu Guards preliminarily registered their household registration information for them, and based on the household registration, divided their fields and houses. It took an entire afternoon just to measure the land and allocate homesteads and fields.

At night, everyone had to continue to sleep in the open air. Fortunately, this early summer season was not very cold.

The next day, they began to take soil to build houses.

In the plains, it is still quite difficult to get some earth, because no matter where you dig the soil, you will dig a big pit. A useful pit is okay, but an useless pit is a real pit, and it will get in the way wherever it is placed.

According to the practice of the Han tribe in building a new base, first find a downwind location to dig a collective manure pit. This is the case when there is no chemical fertilizer at this stage . It is an indispensable source of farmyard manure and the best way to deal with domestic waste.

The soil dug out from this huge manure pit became the source of soil for You Qiao to build houses.

If the soil dug out from the septic tank is not enough, then dig some ditches for water diversion in the farmland. If the soil in the ditches is not enough, then dig some wells. Anyway, they have plenty of ways to get soil from the flat ground, and the pits dug out can be guaranteed to be used, so there will be no random mining.

Each family has an adobe house, which is quite quick to build. Wooden boards are clamped on both sides, and the soil is poured in and compacted. The beams used on it are pulled from the construction site of the capital. There is no place suitable for cutting wood nearby. There is only a large forest to the west and northwest of the imperial palace. That is where Luo Chong plans to use it as the royal forbidden garden. There is no problem in cutting some trees from there for construction. After

the beams are erected, a layer of The mats and reeds harvested from the nearby river were tied up and arranged on the roof, and finally a layer of wet mud was applied to smooth the surface. Although such a house is made entirely of mud and has no tiles on it, it can still be waterproof. However, its waterproof ability is slightly poor, and it needs to be repaired frequently after being washed by rain, but it is still no problem to use it for temporary residence in a short period of time.

The walls of the adobe house are also waterproofed in the same way. With some thin mud, it is evenly applied on the surface of the outer wall to achieve simple waterproofing.

After they built all the houses in the village, the daily necessities and ten immigrants sent by Takumi County also arrived. These ten immigrants were specifically responsible for teaching the Qiao family to learn various life and production skills of the Han tribe.

With them came some livestock sent by Takumi County, such as pigs, cattle, sheep, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry and livestock. Livestock is not only It is used to provide meat, for example, rabbits. Some people always hate rabbits, saying that rabbits are manure-making machines.

But are manure-making machines bad? Without these livestock acting as manure-making machines, where will the fertilizer for farming come from? Can they use the feces and urine of the population of a village for farming?

In addition, there are a large number of daily necessities, bamboo mats, farm tools, wooden barrels, basins, iron pots, kitchen knives and other cooking utensils, which are all indispensable things for life. In addition, Takumi County also specially got a batch of cloth, which are the most common indigo, crimson, pure black, and pure white. These are the four most commonly worn colors by the people. The cloth is not a good cloth, but the cheapest linen. The purpose of getting these cloths is mainly to change clothes for these people with the Qiao family. Changing clothes is definitely necessary.

Since you have joined the Han tribe, you must look like a Han tribe member. You can't run around naked with animal skins every day.

(End of this chapter)