The Qingque tribe built twelve new houses this year, but not all of them were occupied at once.

There are six remaining.

Han Cheng did not have kangs in these six rooms. Now four of them are used as granaries, with many large and small jars filled with grain.

It seems that we have to find time to make the grain, otherwise when the production scale is expanded next year, grain storage will become a headache.

Han Cheng thought so as he looked at the millet in the jar and spread out on the ground.

The so-called sorghum stalks are long strips woven from the hard outer skin of sorghum stalks.

It is about thirty centimeters wide and there are no specific requirements on the length.

This kind of thing is specially used to enclose food.

When not in use, roll it up and tie it up with a rope, and put it in a corner so it won't take up space. (Things made from the outer skin of sorghum stalks are more flexible and can be rolled into a circle)

When using it, first pave the ground to avoid moisture as much as possible, then find the bamboo basket, untie the rope, and spiral up in circles to form a circle, which is used to store food.

As long as there are enough bamboo shoots, it is not a problem to circle out a cylinder with a diameter of two or three meters and a height of two or three meters.

This is actually a relatively primitive grain circle.

However, with the progress of the times and the development of science and technology, as products such as rubber and alloys become more and more common, this kind of hand-woven grain ring made of local materials has gradually been eliminated.

Replaced by better and more convenient rubber or alloy food rings.

This kind of food storage device can hold several jars, which undoubtedly saves more space.

Han Cheng doesn't want to get grain circles made of glue or alloy, but the grain circles made of sorghum husk are good enough.

It seems that this is also a luxury...

Han Cheng sniffed helplessly. After all, he still hadn't seen Gao Liang.

However, you can find substitutes. Millet stalks and some relatively slender and tough grasses can also be used, but they are not as effective as those made from the husk of sorghum stalks.

Han Cheng now deeply feels the importance of carpenters and weavers.

Later on, I will select a few more talented people from the tribe to learn some skills from Bo.

These things were created with great difficulty based on Han Cheng’s memory, and their inheritance cannot be interrupted.

In this way, Lame can have some relief and won't have to bear so much work.

In the future, he can become a master chef and make more "cutting-edge" things.

What Lame is doing now is already very cutting-edge.

There are six vacant houses, one of the remaining two is used to store sundries, and the other is considered a "carpenter's room".

Now Lame stays in this room, sitting on a small tree stump, holding an axe in one hand and a chisel in the other, carefully making a hole in a wooden board.

Not far from him, there was something with a more complicated structure.

This thing was a plow cart that Han Cheng made after he used charcoal to draw the general structure and then explained it to Bo continuously. Then Bo took the lead and worked hard for more than a month to make it.

A tall bucket used to hold seeds, with three hollow wooden legs that are slightly tilted forward and curved, and two shaft-like sticks extending forward, with a wide leather strip tied at the end to connect the two shafts together.

At the back is a handle that is higher than the wooden bucket, which is used to hold the plow and control the plow cart.

This is the general structure of a plow cart.

The wooden board that Bo is working on now is to be installed under the wooden bucket.

The holes on the wooden bucket now are not very suitable, which is not conducive to controlling the amount of seeds flowing.

After many unsuccessful experiments and modifications, Bo decided to make a new one.

The lame axe was used well, and the surface of the wooden board was chopped smooth.

But it's not as flat as one planed with a planer.

When I have time to get some iron, I will make a plane, so that I will have a more complete set of tools.

It’s not that Han Cheng is biased. The iron that he worked so hard to make is only given to Bo. It’s really because carpentry is too important to the Qingque tribe.

After listening to Han Cheng's talk about the planer, Lame happily walked without much limp anymore.

He originally thought that it would be enough to use an axe to chop or an iron saw to saw, but he didn't expect that the Son of God actually knew such a tool that saved more labor.

Now I work more vigorously.

Three days later, the sky finally cleared up. After the ground dried up a little, the Qingque tribe couldn't wait to take out the millet that had been stored in the house.

The grains have not been dried in the sun and have become a little hot. If it rains for a few days in a row, they may become moldy.

The stomped millet stalks were also pulled apart and spread out on the ground, ready for the second beating.

Looking at the grains drying in the yard, Wu and other people from the Qingque tribe couldn't stop laughing. From time to time, they would grab a handful of grains and look at them carefully in front of their eyes.

This was the first time they had seen so much millet!

Han Cheng was not as happy as Wu and the others. It was not that he did not like the joy of harvest, but the yield of millet was a little low.

When he started harvesting, he deliberately chose an area with stronger growth, measured out an acre with a ruler, and had people store and harvest the crops separately.

The yield from one acre of land is only less than 100 kilograms. For Han Cheng, who has seen the yield per acre easily exceed 500 kilograms, this yield is too little.

If we calculate based on the yield of 100 kilograms of millet per acre, the Qingque tribe can only harvest 3,000 kilograms of millet from 30 acres of land.

In later generations, a small family without a few acres of land could easily surpass it.

Assuming that each person harvests one pound of millet per day, the Qingque tribe will consume more than one acre of harvest in a day.

Even though there are too many babies in the tribe, each person cannot eat one pound of millet, which is equivalent to one hundred pounds of millet consumed a day. The millet from these thirty acres of land can only feed everyone for thirty days.

And this does not even take into account saving seeds.

After working hard for half a year, the harvest was only less than one month's worth of food.

Han Cheng thought so, then shook his head and chuckled. This was just a beginning. After millet was planted on a large scale next year, the total output of millet would increase.

If the yield per mu is low, then plant more. Anyway, the thing we have the most now is land.

Even if you plant widely but harvest little, you can still increase the total output.

Moreover, the people of the Qingque tribe do not only eat millet, they also have other foods to eat, so they don’t have to worry about food and clothing when the time comes.

To be honest, the current living standard of the Qingque tribe is not comparable to that of later generations, but it seems to have surpassed the heyday of the feudal dynasty.

The so-called prosperous times means that the lower classes drink thin drinks when they are free and eat dry food when they are busy. They have some salted vegetables to go with their meals, and at the end of the year they have some surplus food at home. They have some clothes on their bodies so they are not naked...this is the prosperous times.