Three days later, Han Cheng and his men also set out from Tongshan residential area and started their return journey.
During these few days, Han Cheng and the people who followed him got a good rest.
During the break, Han Cheng also organized the topographic drawings he had drawn in the future.
He also followed Junior Brother Sha to inspect the mines on the Copper Mountain, the mining of ore, the smelting of copper and tin, the reclamation of land, and the cultivation of grain.
While fully affirming the achievements of the Tongshan residential area, some guiding suggestions were also put forward.
Among them, the most important thing is to cut down more trees to support the excavated mine.
The mine in Tongshan is not deep and is quite solid. So far, there has been no collapse and no one has died as a result. But the more this is the case, the more careful you need to be.
As the mine continues to deepen, the risk factor will become greater. Necessary protective measures must be used to the best of one's ability. Otherwise, if something like a mine collapse occurs, it would be very distressing.
In later generations, when mining accidents occurred, many people were able to be rescued thanks to advanced equipment, professional rescue teams, and strenuous efforts to save people at all costs.
In this day and age, once something like this happens, it basically means the death of the person buried, so protective measures must be taken seriously.
While inspecting the copper mine, Han Cheng met Meng.
He was the one who wanted to take some people with him to escape because he felt unfair, but was caught and punished to become a slave to dig copper in the Copper Mountain.
At this time, Meng no longer looked like a human being. His beard and hair were matted together and were dirty and long.
There was a thick layer of dust mixture on his body and face, like armor.
There was a foul odor all over his body and his expression seemed very dull.
At that time, Han Cheng was about to go down the mountain accompanied by Junior Brother Sha and others. Meng was carrying a load of dug ore on a shoulder pole and a hoe, and walked forward tremblingly. When he saw Junior Brother Sha and others, he was stunned and involuntarily quickened his pace.
After realizing that this was Meng, Han Cheng suddenly felt uncomfortable.
After all, Han Cheng is a person who has received nine years of compulsory education. Apart from not having a girlfriend and being a bit of a homebody, there is nothing wrong with his other values.
It was normal to feel a little uncomfortable seeing Meng become so miserable under his orders.
When Meng was about to escape, everyone in the tribe was very angry, and Han Cheng was equally angry.
However, unlike others, Han Cheng's anger was mostly pretended for the people in the tribe to see, so that everyone could clearly know his attitude towards this kind of thing, and at the same time create momentum for the introduction of corresponding laws later.
In fact, Han Cheng actually had some hidden appreciation for Meng's desire to sneak away and not want to be a slave.
If someone dared to make him a slave, Han Cheng would fight back desperately. It would be too easy for him to sneak away like Meng did. He might even put some juice from poisonous grass into the food and let everyone in the tribe eat it...
However, although he admired Meng's behavior in his heart, he could not be lenient when dealing with it. After all, his positions were different. Now he was the slave owner, not the slave, and he could not be crooked.
However, after seeing Meng's appearance at this time, Han Cheng finally felt compassion.
If you think about it carefully, Meng's act can only be considered as an attempted escape.
Besides wanting to escape, he did not show any intention to hurt anyone or damage property.
The inhumane mining treatment in Tongshan for several years has basically offset the mistakes it made, and it also served as a warning to everyone and deterred villains.
So after some thought, Han Cheng gathered all the people in the Tongshan residential area that afternoon, and then had someone bring Meng down from the Tongshan mine.
In front of everyone, Han Cheng reiterated that Meng had made mistakes and the laws of the tribe.
Just when everyone thought that Han Cheng was going to kill Meng, Han Cheng said that Meng had not been lazy during his several years of mining career, and then announced an appropriate sentence for Meng.
The sentencing included being able to sleep in the slave yard in the Tongshan residential area at night, and eating food that was slightly worse than that of other slaves, but still better than what they had eaten in the Tongshan cave.
Appropriate reductions were also made to Meng's daily workload.
After understanding what Han Cheng meant, Meng was stunned for a moment, then knelt down in front of Han Cheng and burst into tears on the ground.
Such a scene not only made the people of the Qingque tribe in the Tongshan residential area further feel the kindness from the Son of God, but the slaves who looked at Meng, who was in a miserable state and lying on the ground crying, also had the idea that they must never make the same mistake as Meng.
As long as they think about what Meng has experienced in the past few years, they can't help but shudder...
On the way back, Han Cheng and his team did not take the road they usually took when traveling to the Qingque tribe. Instead, they still walked in the area they explored when they came here.
On this return trip, in addition to figuring out the situation in the area where we went astray, we also need to completely determine the route of the Bronze Expressway, and then try to build a road of more than ten or twenty miles before the autumn harvest.
“Dangdangdang…”
The sound of the collision echoed in the summer forest, starting several pairs of birds that wanted to make love.
On the way back, Han Cheng held some sharpened wooden sticks in his arms, and after observing them carefully, he stuck them into the ground.
Someone behind him came with a bronze hammer and pulled out the wooden stick he had inserted there, then nailed a large tree stick chopped with a bronze axe to its original location as a more eye-catching mark.
The rest of the people, holding sickles, axes and other tools in their hands, worked on the not-so-thick bushes on both sides of the nailed sticks, and initially cleared out a passage more than one meter wide to facilitate walking and make the signs more eye-catching.
The team walked, nailed, and cleared the way as they slowly approached the Qingque tribe.
This is truly a journey of hard work and overcoming all difficulties...
Nearly twenty days later, a group of people who looked even more primitive than the average primitive people returned from the west of the tribe.
If it weren't for the Green Bird flag fluttering in the wind with a hole on it, and the deer and dogs that followed, as well as the people of the Green Bird tribe who were equal in number and were looking forward to the return of the Son of God and his companions, they would hardly believe that the people dressed like this could be the Son of God and his companions.
"Son, call daddy!"
Han Cheng, with an unshaven beard, looked at Little Pea who came out to greet Bai Xuemei and shouted with laughter.
"No, Daddy, that's ugly..."
The little fellow hid next to Snow White as he spoke.
It was not until Han Cheng took out two red fruits and three chirping, furry little birds from the cloth bag that Little Pea, who could not recognize his father, was coaxed by Han Cheng into following.
He briefly greeted the witch, the eldest brother, and Sister Bai Xue, and asked them about what happened in the tribe after he left. After learning that nothing major had happened, Han Cheng hurriedly threw away the things he had brought back, then took the clean clothes that Sister Bai Xue had found, carried the bath basket, and hurriedly walked downstream of the stream.
There is an area specially designated for bathing.
The surrounding area was covered with soft sand, and my feet felt itchy when I stepped on it barefoot.
They also dug some pits less than half a meter deep, and it was very comfortable to lie in them with your head exposed and take an open-air bath.
Where this area connects to the stream, there is a bamboo fence woven from broken bamboo, with trees used to block the flow.
This is mainly to keep the fish in the stream out and prevent them from coming in.
After all, at this time, some of the fish living in the river are still quite ferocious. It's okay if the smaller fish swim over, and it's not too much of a problem if they are bitten by two of them. The only thing is that you're afraid of encountering those big fish. If you are bitten by them, there will be no happiness anymore.
“Comfortable!”
I quickly threw off the extremely uncomfortable clothes on my body, then came to the water and lay down in the dug hole. The water warmed by the sun came up and wrapped my whole body. I couldn't describe how comfortable it was.
After lying down for a while, Han Cheng held his breath and went under the water, directly touching his body to the sand below. It took him a while to come out from under the water.
While letting out a breath, he wiped the water droplets off his face with his hand and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
The only drawback was that there were no watermelons at that time and no peanut fields around the bathing area.
Otherwise, you can take a watermelon and throw it into the water, pick up some peanuts and throw them into the water, take a bath for a while and pound the watermelon, eat the watermelon for a while and then eat the peanuts. It will feel so comfortable.
You can't even think about this. It makes you want to drool.
Although I once pulled peanuts from someone else's field with a few friends, and the woman took my clothes away when I was taking a shower, and I stayed in the water for half a day, leaving my lips black, but when I think about it now, I still miss her so much.
It's a pity that Han Cheng and his friends are not the seven fairies who came down to the mortal world to play in the water. The woman who took their clothes and gave them back when it was almost dark doesn't have a talking old cow at home. Otherwise, they might be able to create another legend...
The people who had walked with Han Cheng to the Tongshan residential area also came over one after another at this time. They jumped into the water like dumplings, and immediately there were shouts of pleasure.
At this time, happy voices could be heard from some places downstream of the river. They were the female primitive people who had followed Han Cheng to the Tongshan residential area and went into the water.
Under Han Cheng's subtle influence, people in the tribe have already learned about the differences between men and women and have gradually begun to put them into action.
For example, in the Qingque tribe today, generally speaking, no adult women go shirtless during the hot summer.
There are even no female primitives who would unbutton their clothes in public to keep cool.
When building the summer open-air baths, no one was at all puzzled by the fact that Han Cheng simply built two.
After all, the toilets in the tribe and the bathing pools used for bathing in winter are divided into men's and women's.
There is a dense patch of hemp between the two open-air baths, which can effectively block the sight between them.
However, when the sound of women playing in the water came from the downstream bathing pool, no one said anything, and the originally noisy men's bathing pool soon became quiet...
In this respect, both men of this era and men of later generations are surprisingly similar...
A short absence is better than a new marriage. It took Han Cheng more than a month from the time he left the tribe to his return. During this time, there was naturally some tenderness between him and his child bride, Bai Xue. There is no need to elaborate on this.
The next day, after shaving his beard and cutting his overly long hair with a pair of bronze scissors with a serrated notch on one side, Han Cheng looked much more energetic and no longer as sloppy as when he came back yesterday.
After getting up, he took Little Pea to the ridges of the fields around the tribe and caught some grasshoppers. He brought them back to feed the birds Han Cheng had picked up by the stream on his way back.
These three little guys are a little afraid of people. When they see people coming, they hide at the edge of the circle.
However, no matter how scared you are, you can't resist the temptation of delicious food.
After Han Cheng and Little Pea separated the grasshoppers of all sizes that they had caught and strung together behind their heads with a bunch of dogtail grass and threw them one by one into the plate in the cage, the frightened and squeaking little ones slowly and tentatively came to the edge of the plate.
It stretched its neck, picked up a dead grasshopper with its beak, which had the unique tender yellow color of a young bird, then turned around and ran back.
After arriving at the corner where he had been before, he tilted his head back and swallowed the grasshopper in his mouth whole.
After eating, he tilted his head to look at two hairless monkeys, one big and one small, squatting on the ground watching them, and then continued to tentatively eat the grasshopper.
After repeating this action two or three times, these guys became noticeably bolder. They no longer ran away after grabbing a grasshopper like before, but stood by the plate and swallowed them continuously with their flat mouths.
Although they are small in size, they eat very quickly and can quickly eat most of the bunches of grasshoppers.
After eating the grasshoppers, the little guys became bolder and one of them even stretched out his mouth to eat the grasshopper in Little Pea's open palm.
The flat and tender mouth touched the soft and tender palm of Little Pea, which made the little guy feel itchy and laughed happily.
The young bird was frightened by Little Pea's laughter, and ran away quickly, holding the grasshopper in its mouth and flapping its little wings...
These three little guys with gray fur, flat beaks and gray webbed feet are wild duck chicks.
When passing by that narrow stream, many flying birds such as wild ducks were frightened and flew away in panic. These three little guys were discovered and caught by the people of the Green Bird tribe when they nailed wooden stakes and cut down the surrounding grass and trees.
When they were first discovered, there were more than ten birds in that nest.
It’s just that these little guys are so fast. Even though they are far from fully grown, they are very fast when they move through the grass.
After a flurry of activity, everyone finally caught these three.
With experience in raising deer, donkeys, geese, and chickens, the people traveling with them naturally knew why the Son of God asked them to catch these birds that could swim in the water.
There is a great possibility that they are raised like chickens and geese, and used to lay eggs when the time comes, or directly raised and slaughtered for meat.
However, although they understood Han Cheng's intention, Mao and others who were traveling with him were not very enthusiastic about such things.
Because the tribe already had chickens and geese, two types of egg-laying poultry.
These two species, one lays eggs frequently, and the other lays very large eggs. The two complement each other, and it doesn't matter whether there are other birds in the tribe to supplement them.
Han Cheng did not agree with this idea at all. Coming from the future, he had a deep obsession with collecting the three leading poultry species: chickens, ducks and geese.
Moreover, if ducks are raised and bred well, they also have a strong advantage in laying eggs.
Not only are they much larger than chicken eggs, but if they are fed well and have enough food, these guys can sometimes lay two eggs a day.
One when it gets dark, and another when it gets light.
Moreover, the salted duck eggs that are pickled and oozing with red oil are also a very good thing to eat with rice, especially the duck egg yolk, which is very delicious to eat.
Of course, things like eggs can be pickled with salt and eaten, but compared to salted duck eggs, the taste is always a lot worse.
In addition to salted duck eggs, roast duck is also a delicious thing that people can't help but mention.
Han Cheng had never eaten the Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck, which became extremely famous in later generations, but he had eaten ordinary roast duck sold on the street for 18 yuan each, and roast duck for more than 30 yuan each, which was said to be roasted over fruit tree charcoal.
The outer layer of the skin, which is coated with cumin and chili powder and roasted until golden, tastes the best...
The ducklings that were full from eating grasshoppers and lying there, stretching their legs and wings from time to time, had no idea that the hairless monkey in front of them was already drooling over them and their offspring. If they knew, I wonder if they would still be as calm as they are now...
The Bronze Expressway is a matter that concerns everyone and needs to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
When Han Cheng left, he instructed the stonemason Mu Tou, the part-time coppersmith Second Brother and others who stayed in the tribe to come and make some tools needed for road construction during this period of time.
Now that the tools are ready and the route has been determined by Han Cheng, road construction can begin.
On the second day after returning from the Tongshan residential area, Han Cheng took Little Pea to catch some grasshoppers to feed the ducklings in the morning. After breakfast, he began to discuss some matters about road construction with Wu, the eldest brother, the second brother, Shang and others. Then, while ensuring that other matters of the tribe could proceed normally, he began to arrange and transfer manpower to prepare for road construction.
More than half of the people selected to work on the road construction were slaves of the Qingque tribe.
Of course, they are indispensable in such a tough job as road construction...
"Dangdangdang..."
At the quarry of the Qingque tribe, some people were hammering and banging away pieces of shale, then loading the rock pieces onto a two-wheeled donkey cart parked nearby.
"ha!"
Following a shout from the driver, the donkey pulling the cart and the deer standing as assistants began to pull the stone slabs on the cart along the previously paved stone road. After turning two corners, they rumbled all the way to the western end of the Qingque tribe's fields.
Stone roads had been built in the farmlands around the Qingque tribe long before, and there was also a main road leading to the west.
When building the Bronze Expressway this time, Han Cheng directly used this previously built main road, which became the easternmost starting point of the Bronze Expressway.
However, when this road was first built, there were no two-wheeled vehicles in the tribe, only unicycles.
Therefore, although it is a main road, its width is only about two meters.
It will need to be widened in due time.
However, because the crops in the farmland on both sides are not yet mature, if we start widening the road now, a lot of crops will be destroyed.
Therefore, the Bronze Expressway being built this time will directly connect to this main road in the west and continue westward.
As for widening this section of the old road, it can only be done after the crops in the fields are harvested.
At this time, there were many people scattered at the end of this old road.
These people were holding various tools in their hands and were busy with the tasks assigned to them previously.
Some people were carrying sickles, axes, saws and other things, and continued to clear the grass and trees along the wooden stakes that Han Cheng and his team had nailed when they returned, as well as the simple passage that had been opened up, widening and enlarging the passage to create enough space for subsequent construction.
A group of relatively high-end talents such as Bo, Shitou, Yuan, etc., under Han Cheng's teaching, used rope grass brand measuring tapes, long ropes, and poles to straighten the road along the area cleared by the people in front of them and the wooden stakes roughly nailed by Han Cheng before, and circled the exact position of the road and the width of the road with lime powder.
Behind them came another group of people, carrying metal tools such as shovels and hoes, and leveling the land along the road they had marked with lime powder.
Later, someone used tools to tamp the loose soil firmly and make it smooth.
On these initially leveled lands, some people paved the ground with stone slabs pulled from the quarry.
Stone slab roads are more durable than ordinary dirt roads, and there is no need to tamp the soil too tightly when paving stone slabs. Han Cheng finally decided to pave a section of stone slab road.
Of course, this decision was made on the premise that the road is not too far from the quarry. Once the road extends five or six miles forward and the paved road is too far away from the quarry, we can only start building a pure dirt road.
Of course, if large traces of shale are found along the road, then the situation is a different matter.
In fact, even stone roads are not as good as cement roads.
However, the tribe can only burn lime now, and the known limestone production area is far away from the Qingque tribe. Even if cement can be burned, it is unrealistic to build such a long cement road with the manpower and resources of the Qingque tribe at this time...
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