Han Cheng stopped at the Sanxingdui residential area and looked around. What he saw were fields of rice that had already been planted.
There are a large number of paddy fields here where the Red Tiger tribe originally lived.
After being cultivated by the Qingque tribe people who are more experienced in farming, the farmlands here look more organized.
Looking at the paddy fields in front of him, the planted seedlings and the people who were planting them, Han Cheng couldn't help but smile.
Planting in spring and harvesting in autumn always bring people a good mood.
When the rice in the many paddy fields around the Sanxingdui residential area and the rice in some paddy fields opened up around the Tieshan residential area mature and are harvested in the fall this year, the Tieshan residential area and the Sanxingdui residential area will be able to achieve self-sufficiency in staple food.
The part of the entire tribe south of the Qinling Mountains will no longer be restricted by food.
And there will be surplus food.
Only after all this was truly achieved, the Qingque tribe's deployment in the south was finally completely stabilized.
After all, as long as you have food in your hands, you will not be worried.
This is also the main reason why Han Cheng was so happy after seeing the scene in front of him.
After standing here and looking at the fertile fields for a while, Han Cheng went down and walked along the road towards a certain place.
After a while, they arrived at a main road.
The road is wide and very flat.
After being trampled by so many people and livestock and crushed by wheels, the road here has long become solid.
The only difference from other places is that the road surface here is black.
This is not something the Green Bird tribe living here did intentionally, nor is it because making the road black will make it more solid and durable.
It’s because the people here often transport coal from the coal producing areas to the valley along this road.
It may not be noticeable in one or two days, but after a long time, the road will become dark.
Han Cheng stood on the road and looked around.
The left side of the road leads to the coal mine, and the right side leads to the interior of Sanxingdui.
It just so happened that the place where Han Cheng was standing now was almost the same distance from two places, and he wanted to go to both places.
So he stood here, feeling a little confused for a moment, not knowing which way to go first.
After standing here and thinking carefully for a while, he finally concluded that the distance from here to the valley behind the Sanxingdui residential area was about several dozen meters. Then Han Cheng set off and walked all the way towards here.
Passing through the wall of the Sanxingdui residential area, Han Cheng came to the valley on the south side.
Speaking of the Sanxingdui residential area, it seems a little different compared to other places.
For example, the main gate of the wall here is the north gate.
The reason for this is that there is a mountain to the south of the place where they live.
And the extremely important valley, which contains many mineral resources, is also located in the south of the entire residential area.
If the main entrance of the residence is really left on the south side, the open space in front of the residence would be too small, and it would be too inconvenient to travel between the many fields in the north.
So when building this settlement, Han Cheng made some moves. The houses and other buildings here are still facing north and south, but the main gate of the courtyard or small city is on the north side.
This is an adjustment made according to local conditions.
There have been great changes in the valley at this time compared to before.
The biggest change is regularity.
When the people of the Red Tiger Tribe were here, they made a mess everywhere, and it looked very chaotic.
In addition, there are quite a few people who eat, drink, defecate, urinate and sleep here, so there is no need to describe the environment in detail.
Now, there are various basic facilities here, such as built toilets, constructed drainage ditches, etc.
More than ten houses were built inside to store some things and allow staff to take a temporary rest at noon and other times.
Some people even open up small pieces of land in front of or behind their houses, or in other free, flat and fertile areas, and grow vegetables or grains on them after work.
It can be said that he has grasped the essence of farming from the Qingque tribe.
Farming, an innate skill that was integrated into the blood of the people in the place where Han Cheng lived in later generations, slowly began to be integrated into the blood of the people of the Qingque tribe after his continuous influence over the years, and gradually became their innate skill.
Standing here, looking at the small pieces of land in the valley in front of him, Han Cheng's face showed a smile again.
This forked valley, which is extremely important to the Sanxingdui residential area, has now become well organized.
The areas of salt making, bronze smelting and pottery making were separated from each other and became different functional areas.
Several outposts were built high above the valley.
On the one hand, it was to provide some protection for the valley, and on the other hand, it was to prevent the slaves working in the copper mine from crossing the mountains and escaping.
Of course, this place is very high, and it is commanding, and can see far away. It can provide a good early warning for the entire Sanxingdui settlement and monitor the surrounding movements. This is also one of the reasons for building a sentry post here...
Han Cheng wandered around and looked at these places one by one. After spending about half a day, he left the valley, passed through the Sanxingdui residential area, came out from the north gate, and went along the black road all the way to the northwest.
After walking out of the residential area and about three miles away, Han Cheng arrived at another mineral deposit here - the coal mine.
Before I even got here, I could see a patch of darkness in the distance.
When you get here, the black looks even more eye-catching.
There are also some temporary residential houses built here, which look gray because they are close to the coal mine.
Coal is a good thing, especially after Han Cheng developed the function of smelting minerals, it became even more popular.
After being coked to make its effect better, coke extracted from coal has completely replaced charcoal in smelting bronze, iron ore and other things.
That is why the consumption of coal is quite high.
Before, there was open-pit coal here, but when Han Cheng came here this time, the open-pit coal had been mined almost completely. If they wanted to continue mining, they would need to dig deeper...
After watching for a while, it was already noon when Han Cheng left here and returned to the Sanxingdui residential area.
One of the dishes for lunch was stir-fried in an iron pan.
With the arrival of Han Cheng, this newly manufactured iron pot and iron pot cooking were brought by him to the Sanxingdui residential area, and received unanimous praise and popularity from the residents of the Sanxingdui Qingque tribe.
Only a few days had passed, but everyone present already felt like something was missing and they couldn't enjoy their food without the iron pan.
Han Cheng didn't enjoy his meal very much, not because he was tired of eating stir-fried dishes in an iron pan, but because he had something on his mind.
Today's inspection, combined with what he saw and heard in the main tribe and Tongshan residential area, made Han Cheng finally pay attention to a problem that he had already discovered before.
The problem is the mining of ore in the tribe.
The mining of ore has always been easy in the top, open-air part, but it becomes a bit difficult when you go down and mine deeper.
Nowadays, all the mines of the Qingque tribe are basically at this stage.
Of course, the most serious one is Tongshan, located in the Tongshan residential area.
Due to their limited vision, the people in the tribe did not think there was anything wrong with using tools such as hammers, chisels, and pickaxes to mine ore, nor did they think that using such tools would slow down the mining process.
But as a person of later generations, Han Cheng became somewhat dissatisfied with some things after watching the entire tribe develop day by day under his leadership and experiencing the initial joy.
Just like mining ore.
When you encounter those large, hard stones with large slabs connected together, it is really difficult to deal with them with tools such as hammers, chisels, and so on.
Sometimes, a person could work for three days with a hammer and chisel, but still could not carve open such an existence!
It can be said that it is extremely hard work, but the efficiency cannot be improved and not much work can be done.
This is what Han Cheng was thinking and why he felt a little depressed.
Han Cheng already knew the solution to the problem, which was to make gunpowder and use it to solve this problem.
However, just as the compass was stuck on the magnet, the gunpowder was stuck on the saltpeter.
Even now, Han Chengdu has not encountered natural saltpeter.
As the saying goes, a good cook cannot cook without rice. Even if Han Cheng knew the formula of gunpowder and the proportions required to make it, it would be impossible to go against common sense and make it without something as important as saltpeter...
Saltpeter!
When will I be able to find this thing?
The sooner we find it, the sooner we can make the gunpowder. The sooner we make the gunpowder, the sooner the tribe will have an extra powerful weapon.
It is not only used for blasting mountains and roads, mining and blasting rocks, but can also be used on weapons in the tribe.
Of course, it can also be used for entertainment in the tribe.
Han Cheng was quite eager for fireworks. It would be great to light up a few boxes during the Chinese New Year, let them bloom with brilliant colors, decorate the night sky, and let everyone watch them together to set off the Chinese New Year atmosphere.
Of course, having gunpowder does not mean that fireworks can be made immediately. Something as advanced as fireworks requires certain skills and accumulation of experience.
However, it is still very nice to use gunpowder to make some firecrackers.
However, the saltpeter he had been dreaming about had never been seen, and all that Han Cheng had thought about could only become an empty dream in the end...
After dinner, Han Cheng squatted on a stone, thinking about these things, feeling quite unhappy.
Fu Jiang, the guy who had just run to the toilet to take a shit, came over leisurely. Seeing Han Cheng squatting on a big rock, he walked around the rock for half a circle and came to the lowest part of the rock. He jumped up with all his limbs, jogged a few steps, and climbed onto the big rock.
Fu Jiang came to the stone, walked a few steps to Han Cheng, squatted down, stood side by side with Han Cheng, and then rubbed his head against Han Cheng's body.
Feeling the presence of the lucky general next to him, Han Cheng's uncomfortable mood caused by the saltpeter suddenly felt better.
This was certainly not because Fu Jiang, this lackey, rubbed his head against him, which made him feel particularly happy.
It was because new changes had occurred in Fu Jiang.
This guy Fu Jiang used to lose hair in patches all over his body. He looked like a bald dog and his aging was so painful that it made people feel uncomfortable.
But now, new hair has grown again in those places where the hair had fallen out before. After covering the skin, this guy looks younger.
Han Cheng, who had always been worried about Fu Jiang, how could he not feel happy when he saw this situation?
If the lucky general is coming, then the lucky star of its sister will naturally not be too far away.
Sure enough, after this thought arose in Han Cheng's mind, he saw an orange-red light flying towards him from a distance. After approaching the stone, it jumped several times in a row and landed in Han Cheng's arms very skillfully, turning into a fat, chubby cat.
This thing is the 'Red Tiger' that was obtained from the original Red Tiger Tribe before.
It seems that this thing has already been tamed by Han Cheng and has lost its former wildness.
I don’t know if the food in the Qingque tribe is too good, or if this guy has come to a place where he feels at ease, but his weight is increasing rapidly now.
The originally slim figure and smooth curves are now all gone, leaving only a big fat cat.
When Han Cheng stroked it a few times with his hand and tickled its exposed belly, the guy even meowed, showing that he had no moral integrity at all.
Next to him lay a rejuvenated old dog, and on his body sat a fat, heavy cat. Han Cheng stroked the cat for a while, then rubbed the dog's head for a while, and soon the depression in his heart disappeared completely.
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Han Cheng, who had stayed in Sanxingdui for seven or eight days, left with his cats and dogs, as well as those who could be called guards, and returned to the Tieshan residential area along the wide road...