After hearing the young tribesman's words, the sub-beast stood up, patted the black bear chief who was holding dried meat and laughing, and said, "They want people to work."
"Yeah." The Black Bear Chief looked at the sub-beast, then touched his head and asked, "Why are you patting me?"
Yashou said with a look of disappointment, "Look at these things. Didn't we exchange them at the market in Qingshan City before? These are all edible things that can be preserved. Send people to work and exchange them for these things, and we won't have to worry about food in the winter."
The Black Bear Chief looked at the things in his hand, then looked at the sub-beasts, and suddenly realized, "That's right! Let's go and help them work. They won't lack food while we work, and we can even save food."
As he said this, he transformed into a beast and tried to lead his people to Qingshan City, but was stopped by a sub-beast who said, "Are you planning to take everyone with you? Our tribe won't care."
"Then what do you think we should do?" the Black Bear Chief asked, lying down.
The other tribesmen also turned their attention to the sub-beasts.
The sub-beast thought for a moment and said, "Send ten orcs first, then take a few older cubs with you, and then take two sub-beasts with you. I'll be one of them. See if they want the sub-beasts and cubs to work. If they're still short of people later, we'll try to send as many as possible while ensuring the normal life of the tribe."
The Black Bear Chief's eyes were dull as if he was thinking. After a while, he said, "Okay, I'll do as you say."
Although the conversations that took place in each tribe were different, the final decisions were the same.
They all sent about ten adult orcs to Qingshan City. Some tribes also brought some cubs around fourteen years old. There were not many tribes that brought sub-beasts, but there were still two or three.
There were at least twenty or thirty tribes that moved to the expanded hunting area of Qingshan City, not to mention hundreds.
Adding up all the scattered figures, Qingshan City now has more than 300 strong laborers.
Standing on the city wall, watching those people busying around following the people of Qingshan City, going out early and returning late.
Meng Yuqing and Xuan both smiled.
"If everything goes well, we can build a market at the seaside next year." Xuan said, looking at the people below.
Meng Yuqing touched his chin and thought for a moment before saying, "Let's build a sea city. It doesn't need to be as big as Qingshan City, but we'll also surround it with stone and cement. Then, we'll build a road between Qingshan City and Sea City."
"Oh, I thought of something else that can be done." Meng Yuqing pulled Xuan to a small corner.
The two of them squatted down, and Meng Yuqing took out a pen and paper and drew. "This is a water pestle. You can think of it as a small waterwheel. The water sources in our tribe can also be used to build waterwheels. The power of the water-driven waterwheel can be used to drive the mortar. Then we can save a lot of trouble."
Xuan looked at what Meng Yuqing had drawn, imagined the scene in his mind, and then said, "Let's make one first. I can't imagine it."
Meng Yuqing looked at his painting, touched his nose, and said, "Okay, let's get to work."
They got to work right away. They ran back to the small stream near their yard. After Xuan went into the water to measure the depth, they started working.
When the small waterwheel was reduced to a diameter of only three meters, the rotating shaft was lengthened and a lever was added, it was completed.
"Put a mortar and pestle here, and also something like a seesaw. When this lever is pressed down, the other side will rise up. After it is turned open, the other side will fall down again due to gravity, and then you can beat the grain inside." Meng Yuqing took out a long stick and demonstrated.
Now Xuan understood and said, "This is good. This way we don't have to hammer it manually all the time. If we need to stop, we can just prop up the side with the hammer."
"Yes." Meng Yuqing said with a smile, "I only thought of this after I got the waterwheel out. We can also move the stone mill next to the waterwheel and let the waterwheel do the grinding."
Xuan jumped into the water, circled the waterwheel twice, and said, "Can we connect an aqueduct to bring water to our yard?"
"Of course we can, but once the water is brought in and filled up, it will be difficult for us to block it," said Meng Yuqing.
"Anyway, there are two large vats, and you also have a medicinal garden and a vegetable field. If the water is really full, we can move the aqueduct at the source." Xuan said.
"That's good, but let's make the aqueduct smaller. Even though the water will come in smaller quantities and more slowly, it'll always be there. And then, combined with the water we consume every day, we won't have to shut off the water all the time." Meng Yuqing suddenly became interested. He said, "Then I'll calculate how much water we can bring in every day and how much we consume. That way, we can figure out how often we need to shut off the water."
"Okay, it's settled. Let's start tomorrow!" Xuan jumped out of the water, walked to the side and started shaking his hair.
Seeing this, Meng Yuqing quickly hid away. Seeing him like this, Xuan actually chased after him. It seemed that he didn't want to let him go and was ready to throw all the water on him.
Meng Yuqing dodged while laughing and shouting, "You're so annoying! Come on! If you come again, I'll fight back."
As he spoke, he took out a bucket from the space warehouse, filled it with water, and poured it directly at Xuan, hitting him right in the face.
Xuan shook his head nonchalantly and chased after him again.
The successful production of the water mill resulted in an additional work task for Qingshan City.
After Xuan and Meng Yuqing finished setting up the equipment to bring water into the yard, they went to find Xia to ask people to make more water mills.
There is a lot of rice in Qingshan City now, but relatively little wheat, mainly winter wheat. Wheat is cold-resistant and will grow better next year after being covered with snow.
But whether it is rice or wheat, it needs to be threshed, husked and peeled after harvest, which is a big project.
Through water power, it is indeed possible to make some mechanical tools that cannot be operated by human power.
Especially this year, with the large-scale land reclamation, the cultivated area has increased several times. Meng Yuqing's scalp tingles at the thought of having to do all the manual work during the harvest.
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