Now that the walls of the Qingque tribe have been expanded and the population has increased, it is no longer feasible to simply use drainage ditches as before. So Han Cheng thought of the ceramic pipes, which are much more convenient and faster than masonry.

For Heiwa, who was able to make very large jars, making pottery jars that could be connected together was not too difficult.

After Han Cheng stated his request and wrote and drew on the ground for a while, Hei Wa, who understood what was going on, happily went to do it...

As the old deer was lying on the little doe more and more frequently, the weather was getting warmer day by day.

Another spring rain fell, scattering the withered flowers all over the ground.

The rapeseed has just started to grow taller, and has not yet had time to turn golden.

In the fields that had been plowed and harrowed, some people had already started sowing early millet, leading deer and holding plow carts.

Numerous tiny grains of millet slid down the granary, carrying the most sincere hopes of the people of the Qingque tribe, and fell into the moist soil.

Further away, there are still people working hard to reclaim wasteland using tools such as hoes and shovels.

There is no way. With the expansion of the tribe, the arable land around the tribe will inevitably be occupied.

In order to prevent the arable land area in the tribe from decreasing, people had no choice but to continue to reclaim wasteland in more remote places.

On the outskirts of the courtyard, Han Cheng, Bo, Shitou and other relatively "idle" people pulled hemp ropes and carried sticks to confirm the location of the new wall.

Only after the location of the new wall is determined can the rest of the work be carried out.

Wu also participated in it. At the beginning, he circled the ground and imagined everything on the renderings. He became more and more delighted as he worked on it.

But when everyone circled out everything in this area, Wu was no longer happy, because a lot of arable land was included.

These prime lands are fenced off and used to build houses and other things. How much less grain will be harvested in a year!

Han Cheng didn't want to see such a large piece of arable land being fenced off. After all, the total amount of arable land in the Qingque tribe was not too much.

Now, so much land has been fenced off all at once, and some of it is good land. It makes people sad just thinking about it.

“We can still grow food here…”

After thinking for a while, Han Cheng smiled and said to Wu, Shitou, Bo and others.

As soon as these words were spoken, Wu and the others' eyes lit up, but then they became confused again.

Isn't it clearly drawn on the map that this place will be built into houses and various pens in due time? How can we still grow food?

Han Cheng couldn't help but smile when he heard the questions from Wu and the others. It was true that construction was going to take place here, but these buildings could not be completed overnight.

Not to mention anything else, just building this wall would be a bit uncertain even within this year.

In this way, food can continue to be grown in the wide space between the new and old walls.

There will be absolutely no problem in harvesting the next crop of millet and beans.

Moreover, even after the completion of the wall, the construction of pig pens, granaries and other things needs to be carried out slowly. In this way, most of the enclosed land can still be cultivated for about two more years.

With these two years as a buffer, the newly opened land of the Qingque tribe can completely offset the losses caused by the loss of these arable lands and prevent the tribe’s grain production from being affected.

As soon as Han Cheng said this, Wu and others, who were feeling sad about losing a large tract of fertile land, suddenly brightened up their eyes.

Yes, these things cannot be built quickly. During this period, as long as a path is left, most of the land can continue to be cultivated.

How come I and others didn't think of such a simple thing...

As the days passed, the millet seeds buried in the soil sprouted and swayed in the spring breeze.

The dug-out clay turned into clay pipes and piled up more and more.

The rapeseed grew taller and taller and bloomed brilliant flowers, attracting the bees of the Greenbird Tribe, buzzing and shouting slogans and coming over to enjoy its fragrance.

The pollen turned into sweet honey, and the fallen flowers formed long rapeseed pods...

Following Han Cheng's order, Tietou and others, who had long wanted to experience the feeling of harvesting crops with a bronze sickle, couldn't wait to go to the fields.

The bronze sickle gleaming with golden light was waving rapidly, harvesting the rows of yellow rapeseed...

It took less than ten days for the rapeseed in the Qingque tribe to go through the entire process from harvesting to threshing and cleaning. Even the rapeseed fields after harvesting were turned over and planted with late millet and beans.

Having experienced the autumn harvest, it was very easy for them to deal with a small scene like harvesting rapeseed.

Dou, Huangguo and other original people of the Huangguo tribe were shocked when they saw the new sprouts coming out of the land, and at the same time, some enlightenment came to their hearts.

No wonder the tribes used to exchange precious salt and pottery for seeds and stones.

It turns out that these things that they don’t take seriously can be so useful after such operations!

There is no need to go out hunting, just relying on these, the entire tribe can be well fed!

They have all eaten millet, which tastes very good, but why grow so many beans that always make your stomach bloated after eating them?

Recalling the wonderful experience of eating too much soybeans, Huang Guo and others couldn't help but press their hands on their stomachs...

There will definitely be a lot of differences between the renderings and the real thing.

However, the effects of the renderings drawn by Han Cheng are very obvious.

Everyone in the Qingque tribe who had seen it wanted to turn what was painted into reality as soon as possible.

Therefore, everyone worked very hard in the spring ploughing this year. Compared with previous years, although a lot more land was cultivated, the time spent was shorter.

Of course, the widespread use of bronze farm tools also deserves credit for this.

"start!"

As a few cut down bamboo poles were put into the fire and made a few crackling sounds, Han Cheng picked up a copper shovel and dug out a square piece of soil, then shouted, announcing the official start of the major project of expanding the Qingque tribe.

Everyone who had been assigned work before took their tools and enthusiastically threw themselves into the construction of the new wall after Han Cheng announced the start of construction.

There are many more people in the Qingque tribe than at the beginning. Even though a lot of manpower has to be assigned to do other things, there are still many people who can devote themselves to the construction of the wall after the spring plowing.

There are almost a hundred of them, and at most there are over a hundred and fifty!

There are more people and the tools are more advanced, so even though the new wall of the Qingque tribe is much larger than the previous one, the progress is not slow.

While the people of the Green Bird Tribe were busy expanding the tribe, Treebark from the North also set out with his people...