The cattle and sheep living in the Qingque tribe do have a hard life.
Especially cattle.
It's not just about pulling the plow and cart, but also doing all kinds of heavy work and farm work.
After they die, they will need to contribute their flesh and skin. What's even more sad is that in order to make great progress in the weapons of the Green Bird Tribe, they will even need to become bald!
Just thinking about this makes people feel particularly sad...
The ox horn bow of the Qingque tribe was made a long time after Han Cheng and some people returned with oxen across the mountains.
The main reason for this is that cow horns are not easy to obtain.
Junior Brother Sha spent a lot of effort to get the two horns off the cow, which was regarded as a treasure and protected like the apple of the eye by the people in the tribe.
This is bound to be another story that is not only tortuous but also somewhat sad.
Due to time and word count reasons, I will not go into details here.
With the foundation of the sheep horn bow, making an ox horn bow was not difficult for Junior Brother Sha.
All you need to do is make some improvements on the sheep horn bow.
It was not that difficult for Junior Brother Sha, who had profound attainments in archery, to copy a gourd...
The weather was getting colder and colder, and yellow leaves covered the ground.
The people in the Red Tiger Tribe are working hard to make bows and arrows, and are delighted with them.
While the people of the Red Tiger tribe were constantly charging towards the bows and arrows, rejoicing at the achievements of their tribe and dreaming of surpassing the Green Bird tribe, the bows and arrows of the Green Bird tribe had already been transformed.
Not only are there seven or eight hundred sheep-horn bows, but there are also nine more powerful ox-horn bows!
At this time, the best archer of the Qingque tribe was holding an ox horn bow in his hand. He was looking at several children who were running towards him with joy while holding a dead rabbit shot by an arrow. His face was full of smiles.
Under the sunshine of late autumn and early winter, the ox horn bow made of ox horn, bamboo, tendon, fish bladder glue, mulberry wood and other things, with the python skin wrapped around it, exudes a dazzling and charming luster...
At the same time, in Jinguan City, which is separated from the Qinling residential area by mountains, everyone was also busy.
Except for a few people in the tribe who were busy building houses, most of the others went down to the paddy fields.
Some people were cultivating the fields that had been reclaimed before and had already been harvested with rice, while more people were carrying hoes, spades and other tools to reclaim the land.
"ha!"
Amid the shouts of the "ox handler", the ox wearing the harness and pulling the plow plowed with all its might and moved forward.
As the ox pulled hard, a stream of wet soil turned over and buckled to one side...
"nest!"
The man driving the ox suddenly shouted for the ox to stop, and pulled the "rope" tied to the handle of the plow behind it.
The 'skip rope' is connected to the cow's nose ring.
Under the dual effects of the command and the pulling of the rope, the ox pulling the plow stopped.
The ox-handler holding the plow from behind, after the ox stopped, began to hold the plow handle with both hands, preparing to pull the plow out of the soil.
I tried this twice in a row, but still couldn't pull it out.
This is because the ox pulled the harness too tightly, and the plow was buried tightly in the soil due to the pulling effect, leaving no room for it to move backwards.
After trying twice without success, the bullfighter stopped wasting time.
"Shao!"
"Shao!"
The man shouted this command and pulled the rope in his hand back.
Under the dual effects of the command and the pulling rope, the ox pulling the plow began to retreat.
As it moves backwards, the harness is no longer tight.
The man held the handle of the plow with both hands again and pulled it back hard. The plow that was buried in the ground suddenly came out.
It saves a lot of effort than before.
The plow came out, but the situation was not very optimistic.
Because the bottom of this plow has been deformed!
Not only did the plowshare become bent, but the plowshare itself also became somewhat deformed.
Such a plow obviously cannot be used again.
The man had no choice but to temporarily remove the yoke from the cow, lead the cow to a grassy area and tie it up, letting it rest there and eat some grass.
He carried the broken plow back to the tribe and looked for people in the tribe who specialized in repairing these tools and asked them to repair the plow.
As he walked back, the man was in a bad mood and seemed to be sighing.
The plow is broken and the work is delayed.
This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that this is the third plow he has broken!
Having learned from the previous two lessons, he is now very careful when plowing the land, but he still cannot avoid damaging the plow.
In the tribe on the way back, you can often see some half-grown children carrying tools such as hoes and shovels back to the tribe.
None of the farm tools these children were carrying were intact.
Many were severely distorted.
What’s even more tragic is that it’s completely broken into two pieces!
These farm tools were certainly not damaged by these minors.
They are still young and not very strong, so they do not have such great destructive power.
These are the masterpieces of the adults who are working in the fields.
These children were specifically responsible for transporting broken bronze tools back to the tribe for repair.
There were also some children carrying repaired tools from the tribe to the fields.
This is to send some repaired tools to adults in the fields for use.
Carrying the plow, I returned to the tribe and came to a place that specialized in repairing equipment, where I saw many more things.
Looking around, all you can see are broken bronze farm tools.
Some twisted and deformed or seriously damaged farm tools can be put into the stove and burned for a while. After they are heated, they can be quickly repaired by hammering and can be used again. It is not difficult to repair them.
The most troublesome thing is those farm tools that broke directly.
When such farm tools broke, the craftsmen in the tribe had no means to connect them together and make them extremely strong.
So the only thing we can do is clean it and put it back into the furnace.
After it melts into juice and reaches perfection, it is put into a mold to make new farm tools.
The man was carrying a plow, which was the most efficient and fastest tool for turning the soil in the tribe. If it broke, it would be the greatest loss to the tribe, so he had priority.
After seeing this man coming, someone who was repairing the plow immediately stopped what he was doing and started to repair the plow.
First, take down the plowshare and other things, and then start repairing them without stopping...
This man was waiting here, looking at the many broken farm tools, and thinking about the work that had been delayed because of them. He couldn't help but feel anxious and felt it was a pity.
If the tools are sturdy and not broken, then the people in his tribe will be able to open up much more land during this period of time.
If these extra lands are used to grow crops, the tribe will be able to harvest a lot more food!
The more he calculated the accounts, the more regretful he felt.
In the past, he thought that the bronze farm tools in the tribe were very useful.
But now, I feel that bronze farm tools are not very convenient to use.
Because bronze farm tools are not strong enough or hard enough.
Compared with tools made of bone, stone, wood and other materials, bronze farm tools are indeed very easy to use, and I don’t know how much better they are!
However, bronze farm tools were also imperfect.
When the people of the Qingque tribe first came into contact with and used bronze farm tools, they did not feel this way.
But as the bronze agricultural tools were used for a longer period of time, people in the tribe gradually became dissatisfied with them.
From time to time, people would think, how great it would be if the tribe could make tools that are better than bronze farm tools!
Thinking about these things in his mind, the man who was sitting here, waiting for the repairman from the tribe to repair the plow, had some things pop up in his mind.
These things are the black stones called meteorite iron that the Son of God obtained from the Black Rock Tribe when the tribe defeated the Black Rock Tribe, as well as the tools made of this meteorite iron.
Tools made of meteorite are not only strong but also very sharp. They are the best material he has ever seen and can satisfy all his fantasies about making farm tools!
It would be great if we could use meteorite iron to make farm tools!
This way, when you use the tools to plow the soil and grow crops, you don’t have to worry about the tools breaking down.
The speed of turning the soil and planting will also become very fast, and a lot of food can be grown!
However, such things can only be thought about and cannot be realized.
Because the amount of meteorite iron is too scarce!
Such a long time has passed, and apart from obtaining meteorite iron from the Blackrock Tribe, his tribe has not obtained meteorite iron from any other place.
These meteorite irons are not enough to make important tools such as axes and planes. It is simply impossible to use them on farm tools.
"Alas~"
Thinking about these things in his mind, the man couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
It was useless to think about such a thing. I should just wait patiently for the repairman in the tribe to repair the plow, and then go back to plowing the land...
In the fields outside Jinguan City, Han Cheng, the son of God in the tribe, was standing here at this time.
The weather was getting colder, and the clothes he wore became thicker.
Han Cheng has been standing here for quite a while.
His eyes not only saw the turned over and cultivated land, but also the minors carrying farm tools and moving between the fields and the tribes.
This is a common landscape in the tribe.
Especially after arriving here in Jinguan City.
Compared with the soil in the Qingque main tribe, the soil in Jinguan City is much thicker.
Such land is not only difficult to cultivate, but also requires a lot of tools.
After coming here, the tribe’s bronze farm tools began to break down much faster!
Han Cheng has seen this kind of thing many times, but it doesn’t mean that he can get used to it.
Many people in the tribe feel that such equipment is not easy to use and delays their work.
As a person who came from later times and had seen many advanced things, he could not get used to it.
It’s just that before, because the population in Jinguan City had increased dramatically, the corresponding grain cultivation did not develop.
There is not enough food in the tribe.
In order to solve the most important stomach problem, Han Cheng had to put this matter aside for the time being and concentrate on obtaining sufficient food for the tribe.
Now, as he had slaughtered two fat sheep in the Red Tiger Tribe, he brought a lot of food from there, plus what his tribe harvested from the fields, collected from the trees, hunted, and earned from other tribes in the form of pottery and salt by the trading teams of the Green Bird Tribe, plus what the older female primitive people from the old tribe and other second-hand dealers sent to his tribe, the food in Jinguan City was enough to eat.
As long as they don't waste money, the people of Jinguan City will not go hungry.
Under such circumstances, their tribe can indeed shift its center of gravity slightly. They don't have to focus so much on food and can do other things.
It’s like finding iron ore, mining and smelting it, and then making iron tools with better performance and better usability!
Steel is a good thing!
Before coming to this era, Han Cheng, who was used to using steel and saw steel products everywhere in his life, did not think how important steel was.
But after arriving in primitive society, he truly realized how important things were that he had already taken for granted and did not think were important!
Steel products can not only improve the efficiency of various things, but also can be made into weapons, greatly enhancing the armed forces of the tribe and making the tribe stronger and more prosperous.
After standing here and thinking carefully for a while and making an estimate of the food stored in his tribe, Han Cheng decided to look for iron ore and develop steel products.
After standing here and watching for a while, Han Cheng turned and walked towards the tribe and began to arrange this matter.
In the tribe, some members of the trading team including Mao and Xiong You'er were packing up their things, preparing for a new round of outbound trade to bring back food for the tribe.
"Mao, when you go out this time, tell those who want to exchange with our tribe that in addition to food, stones, seeds, cubs, etc. can also be exchanged for things from our tribe. The rules are still the same as when you were in the main tribe..."