It looks like the road needs to be repaired again.

This was the decision made by Han Cheng after he came down from the wall, put his hands over the brazier, and thought about things while roasting them.

After building the roads between the fields, the tribe can extend further and cultivate more land.

In addition to this, more manpower needs to be sent to the Tongshan residential area.

There is enough idle land there for people to cultivate and grow food, which also belongs to the tribe.

Moreover, there is more food over there. After there is a surplus, not only will the Qingque tribe no longer need to transport food there, but the surplus food can also be transported back to the tribe for storage.

This will not only subsidize the Qingque tribe, but also facilitate the tribe's control over the sub-tribes.

Money and grain have always been the most direct and effective means for the central government to control local governments.

Under the current circumstances, it is of course nonsense that Junior Brother Sha stationed in the Tongshan residential area will lead the artificial tribe to rebel, but some necessary measures must be taken. Now is the time to make plans for the tribe to go further in the future.

After all, the Qingque tribe is still in its infancy, and it is the time to formulate and improve some rules. Once many rules are established, they will have a lasting impact on the tribe in the future, and as the tribe continues to grow and develop, the effects they can produce will become more obvious.

In addition to these, a residential area can also be built on the salt mountain.

The importance of salt is self-evident. With the continuous development of the Qingque tribe and the promotion of salt, the salt mountain ten miles away from the Qingque tribe has become more and more strategically significant.

Adding the salt exchanged for foreign trade, the daily salt consumption in the tribe is now very large. It takes almost two people to produce salt every other day to keep up with the salt consumption rate.

That is to say, two people are needed to make salt specifically for half a year out of a year.

Under such circumstances, it is necessary to build a small residential area on the salt mountain.

In this way, the salt mountain can be guarded, salt production can be facilitated, a safer environment can be created for people who make salt, and fourthly, the land a little further away from the salt mountain is relatively flat and the grass and trees grow lushly, so it is a good place to reclaim it as arable land.

In this way, by carrying out land reclamation from point to surface, the problem of insufficient land available for reclamation around the tribe was solved at once.

Moreover, compared with the single tribe in the past, the current behavior of spreading out is more suitable for the survival of the tribe.

To put it bluntly, if any of the tribes encounters an accident, the Qingque tribe will not be wiped out because of the presence of other branch tribes, and at least the heritage can be preserved.

After Han Cheng figured out the land issue, he suddenly felt relieved.

In addition to land, the construction of the Qingque tribe cannot be left behind.

After two years of construction, the tribe is basically complete, and all that remains are some delicate small jobs.

But it takes a lot of effort to clean up all these miscellaneous things.

Moreover, with the sudden influx of so many people from the semi-agricultural tribe, more basic infrastructure such as housing, toilets, and bathhouses had to be built, otherwise it would be too tight.

In addition to these, a place needs to be set aside outside the tribe, which is specifically used for trading with other tribes.

In this way, the security of the tribe can be enhanced, and at the same time, some of the tribe’s secrets can be effectively prevented from being leaked...

All these trivial things need to be done.

Fortunately, the tribe is not short of manpower nowadays and is capable of doing these things.

In addition to these two major events, encouraging the tribe to have more children is also a very necessary thing...

Han Cheng, who was sitting here and writing continuously, suddenly showed a look of joy.

He put down the brush in his hand, rubbed his hands and walked back and forth in the room, pondering the flash of inspiration that had just occurred to him. The more he thought about it, the happier he felt.

The opportunity has arrived!

In the quarry outside the Qingque tribe, piles of flames were burning and the stones were being burned to a pulp.

“Splash water!”

After someone carefully felt the temperature and estimated the time, he shouted loudly, and the people standing nearby who were well prepared immediately poured the ice water with ice chips in the jar beside them towards the flames and the hot stones.

Amid the rising white mist, there were continuous "hissing" sounds, mixed with some crackling sounds.

When the sound disappeared and the white mist gradually dissipated, the scene here appeared in front of everyone.

There were several cuts on the big stone, the widest of which was big enough for two fingers to fit in!

Although it was not the first time he had seen such a scene, Daya still couldn't help but feel surprised and shocked.

This is a rock that is so hard that it cannot be shaken! It was cracked just like that. How can this not be shocking!

"quick!"

The one who spoke was Cao Gen. As soon as he finished speaking, he inserted the flat wooden stick in his hand into the crevice of the stone and pried it open with force. A large piece of stone immediately fell off the stone and fell to the ground.

After living in the tribe for several years, Cao Gen has changed a lot compared to before. He is no longer as timid as before, but has become a capable Qingque slave.

He had done this task of mining stones in winter more than once, so he was already used to it.

Just because he was used to it didn't mean that other people were used to it, like Da Ya, who was carrying heavy stones onto a donkey-drawn sleigh and had been a slave of the Qingque tribe for not too long.

The mining of stones is shocking, but it is not a very pleasant thing to carry stones back and forth in such weather.

In the previous tribe, when winter came, they didn’t have to do anything. They were a little hungry, but it was easy. But now...

With some dissatisfaction in his heart, after loading the sled with others, Daya led the donkey pulling the sled and went away.

The donkey, which had never done this before, was not used to pulling the sled and always wanted to get rid of it.

Daya pulled the rope on the donkey's head hard to prevent it from tipping over, because once the sled tipped over, he would need to move the heavy stones back onto the sled one by one.

While leading the donkey, Daya's eyes fell on some people who were wandering around here and not doing much work. He felt a little awe and also a little dissatisfied.

These people are citizens of the Green Bird Tribe. At this time of year, they wear warm clothes and are said to be able to eat three meals a day.

But in such a cold season, they didn't work much. Instead, they looked like people who only had two meals a day and were not wearing warm clothes, doing such heavy work!

In the past, they would sleep in the house during such times...

Similar feelings emerged not only in Daya's heart, but also in the hearts of many newly joined slaves in the semi-agricultural tribe.

However, the grassroots and other slaves who worked with them had no complaints. They just followed the orders conveyed by the Son of God and worked hard with due diligence.

At the corner of the gate, Han Cheng, wrapped in a cloak, stood here, watching the working scene in the snow, without saying a word.

Han Cheng knew something about the thoughts of the slaves in the semi-agricultural tribes.

After all, this is not the first time that the tribe has had new slaves.

Han Cheng came up with the idea of ​​mining stones in the heavy snow and transporting them to the tribe and some places in the fields as an opportunity to free a large number of slaves.

Generally speaking, most people who have newly joined the Qingque tribe lack the spirit of hard work and have a resistance to the many kinds of labor in the tribe.

This is because, in the past, the things they did in their original tribes were relatively simple and single.

If you want them to have the quality of hard work and adapt to the pace of life of the Qingque tribe as soon as possible, the most direct and effective way is to let them participate in heavy and hard work.

This is similar to training an eagle.

If you want these people to do a better job, training is essential.

At this time, these semi-agricultural tribal slaves who had newly joined the Qingque tribe were in the training and learning period, just like the donkeys pulling a sled for the first time.

Nothing is more strenuous than mining and moving stones in such cold weather.

As long as they can get through this time, these people basically won’t feel it’s hard to do the rest of the work in the future, after all, they have experienced worse things.

As for the resentment and other emotions that these people may have, Han Cheng is not too worried, because this is what he wanted this time, and it is an important part of the opportunity created by others.

When these people are exhausted physically and mentally by the hard and arduous work, and their dissatisfaction gradually increases and they can no longer bear the heavy work, Han Cheng will begin to release the slaves of the Tengshe tribe who have performed very well in this and previous work in front of all the slaves.

In this way, not only will the problem that Han Cheng is most concerned about, the gap between the number of slaves and citizens, be solved, but the various negative emotions that these new slaves have experienced during this training in the snow can also be eliminated.

Moreover, they can vividly explain to them with the most direct facts that being a slave in the Qingque tribe is not a hopeless thing.

As long as you work hard and contribute more to the tribe, sooner or later, you will be freed from slavery like these people and become citizens of the Green Bird Tribe...

This is the opportunity that Han Cheng has been thinking about.

If we don't find an opportunity and just directly free a group of slaves from their slavery, it won't produce so many effects.

From this we can see that we cannot just do things recklessly; timing and strategy are very important...

Of course, when doing these things, the degree must be grasped well, otherwise, if you are not careful, you may capsize in the ditch.

For this purpose, Han Cheng also made two preparations. While they were being carefully tempered, he quietly asked his eldest brother and his men to strengthen the defense inside the inner wall. They were prepared to wipe out the new slaves with lightning speed if they could not endure the tempering and wanted to cause trouble.

Of course, this preparation was carried out quietly. On the surface, the tribe's defenses remained the same as before...

Well, this is loose on the outside and tight on the inside.

Time passed minute by minute, and the stones piled up between the old and new walls, waiting for the vacant land where houses would be built next year, increased day by day. Later, a lot of stones were piled up outside the tribe as well.

And the dissatisfaction in Daya's heart was growing day by day, just like these piled up stones.

There are more and more people who have similar ideas as him.

At this time, Daya would occasionally look at the slaves who had long since joined the Qingque tribe. He felt sincere admiration for their hard work and perseverance.

“Boom!”

Da Ya, whose hands were covered with thick calluses, picked up a stone and smashed it hard on the pile of stones to vent his dissatisfaction. He felt that he was fed up with this heavy and endless labor and that he could not hold on any longer.

At this moment, the young Son of God came out and asked them to stop what they were doing and come to the square between the inner and outer walls.

After hearing the news, Daya immediately dropped the stone in his hand, and then followed everyone back to the tribe with a light heart.

After arriving at the tribe, Daya was surprised to find that in this place called the square, under the green bird flag that was frozen and a little hard, a platform had been set up at some point, and the platform was covered with a layer of red dyed linen.

There were three chairs with backrests behind the stage, and the three giants of the Qingque tribe sat on the chairs.

The young Son of God sits in the middle, with the old witch on the left and the strong leader on the right.

In front of them, there was a steaming, exquisite pottery cup. Da Ya didn't recognize the words printed on the cup and didn't understand what they meant.

Just when Da Ya was secretly wondering what Shen Zi and the others were going to do, Shen Zi, who was sitting in the middle, stood up and spoke Chinese words that made Da Ya so uncomfortable that his hair fell off.

Daya listened for a while and barely understood some of it. He knew that it was probably about the incident of playing with stones in the snow.

Just when he was secretly wondering, the man who was very good at translation stood up, shouting loudly, jumping and dancing, conveying what the Son of God had just said.

After gradually figuring out what was going on, Daya was completely stunned.

Freed from slavery and became citizens?

Daya had heard before that slaves in the tribe could become citizens.

But since I have never seen it, I don’t really believe it.

You know, in his original tribe, the priestess never said anything about turning slaves into people like them.

Not only him, many slaves from the semi-agricultural tribes were stunned...