There is a stream here. If you walk down the stream for about ten miles, you will see a large lake with a water surface of about four or five miles.
It is formed by the confluence of many waters.
It is not easy to build roads in such an area because bridges need to be built in some places due to the streams.
In fact, if the road is stretched into a straight line, the Bronze Highway will basically pass through this wild lake.
Such a project is certainly not something that the current Qingque tribe can accomplish.
Even if it could be accomplished, Han Cheng would not lead the people in the tribe to do this thankless task.
In order to bypass this lake and the two larger rivers that flow into the lake, after surveying, Han Cheng finally decided to move the road nearly ten miles to the south of the lake.
Even this did not completely avoid the stream.
However, compared with the lake and two wider rivers, the workload has been reduced a lot by moving the road here.
Han Cheng is not thinking about building a bridge now.
Compared with normal road construction, building a bridge is much more troublesome.
However, according to the current manpower and material resources of the Qingque tribe, it is not a problem to build some stone bridges with short spans.
What Han Cheng is considering now is accommodation, or rather, setting up an inn here.
The nature of the Bronze Expressway connecting the Qingque main tribe and the Tongshan residential area determines its important role in the future.
Han Cheng made a rough measurement of this finalized route when he went to the Tongshan residential area. After straightening the route, it was nearly 170 miles.
Before the advent of horses, it would have been impossible to cover such a long distance in one day.
As a result, it became very necessary to build a post station on this road.
In the past and now, people in the tribe, including trading teams that travel frequently, always carry tents, ropes and other things with them when they go out.
When camping at night, we set up the tent and use ropes to circle a relatively safe area around the tent.
This way of camping is much safer than the way most tribes of that era camped directly in the wild without any shelter.
But from the perspective of Han Cheng, a later comer, this way of camping is not very safe.
In addition to the factor of insecurity, there are many other inconvenient factors.
Not to mention other things, just carrying tents, ropes and other things with you takes up a lot of space and is quite tiring.
In addition, after arriving at the camping site every day, we would set up the tent, lay ropes around it, and then dismantle the tent and other things early the next morning...
These things are troublesome just thinking about them.
When the trading team goes out to trade, they need to travel to many places, and it is not realistic to build fixed resting places along the way.
It is precisely because of this that although Han Cheng felt that building a temporary camp with tents and ropes was not only unsafe but also troublesome, he never suggested building something like a post station.
But now, the same thing happening on the Bronze Highway becomes a little different.
In the future, the transportation volume in the Tongshan residential area will definitely be larger, and unlike the road that Mao and others take when they go out to trade, this road is fixed. In this case, we can also consider building a post station on this road.
This place, which Han Cheng had just named Wild Duck Bridge, is about sixty miles away from the Tongshan residential area.
It is almost at the one-third node of the Bronze Highway.
By building a post station here and at another one-third of the nodes, the entire Bronze Highway can be artificially divided into three sections.
We were walking on a flat road, instead of climbing over mountains and hills as before. It was not a problem to travel sixty miles from morning to night.
As for emergencies, a person riding a donkey or leading two donkeys can easily walk 120 miles a day.
In this way, whether it is the person pulling the donkey cart or the person riding a donkey to report an emergency, they can have a place to stay on the road.
It is very reasonable to divide the entire Bronze Highway into three sections roughly evenly using two post stations.
Of course, the post station envisioned by Han Cheng is very different from the traditional one where there are special people guarding the post station, feeding the horses, and providing food and lodging.
The biggest difference is that after they were built, no one was assigned to guard these two stations.
Its most important function is to provide a safe and comfortable place for the people of the Qingque tribe who travel between the Qingque main tribe and the Tongshan residential area to stay without having to deal with the troubles they have now.
When the time comes, some stoves can be built here for people passing by to make fire and cook.
You can even store a small amount of food in some dark rooms and use it as relief food for people passing by.
Some people consumed the food, and when they came next time, they brought some food to replenish it.
As for the issue of whether this place will be sabotaged by someone because there is no one guarding it, there is no need to consider it too much in this era.
If a tribe really discovered these two post stations and settled in them, this...
This is not a bad thing for the Qingque tribe, on the contrary, it is a very good thing.
These are just Han Cheng's preliminary plans for the two stations.
Later, when the number of people in the tribe gradually increased and the surrounding land was not enough for cultivation, they could consider "immigrating" to these two stations.
Then, with these two stations as the center, they developed in the surrounding areas, reclaimed land and planted crops.
Here, about ten miles to the north, there is a large lake with some rivers around it. While developing agriculture, we can also develop fisheries.
It can be foreseen that these two post stations, one close to the Tongshan residential area and the other close to the Qingque main tribe, are both located on the Bronze Highway. As long as there are enough people, they will definitely be able to develop in the future.
Maybe in the future, by taking the lead, it is not impossible to develop an economic zone along the entire Bronze Expressway on both sides of the road!
It turns out that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads!
Looking at the green-headed ducks swimming in the water, diving underwater from time to time and then popping up in another place, Han Cheng, in a good mood, thought of a widely circulated saying in later generations and agreed with it deeply.
After thinking about these things, Han Cheng took out the leather bag he was carrying from his back and took out the large map inside which showed the roughly known terrain from the Qingque main tribe to the Tongshan residential area. He found the location of this place on the Bronze Highway marked with red lines and put a dot on it.
A simple small house was painted around it, with the words "Wild Duck Inn" written on it.
At this time, Mao had already led his men to set up the camp for accommodation.
For people in trading teams who travel frequently, they are already very familiar with building such camps using tents, ropes and other things.
When the camp was set up and the fire for cooking was lit, Shang, who had gone out with some other people, also came back.
Shang was holding two mallards shot with a bow and arrow in his hands, and several other people took out a dozen green-skinned wild duck eggs from their pockets.
Han Cheng happily plucked the feathers of the two wild ducks, then put them on sticks and roasted them over the charcoal fire.
As for the ten wild duck eggs that were much larger than the chicken eggs in the tribe, Han Cheng did not let anyone eat them.
Instead, he pulled a lot of grass and put it into an empty ceramic jar, made it soft, and then put the wild duck eggs in it.
If we want to quickly have a group of wild ducks in the tribe and breed them, we can't just rely on the three little guys caught last time. It's too slow.
Han Cheng plans to take these wild duck eggs back to hatch them and get a batch of ducklings.
Han Cheng was not worried at all about how to hatch duck eggs into ducklings since there were no adult ducks in the tribe.
It is true that there are no adult ducks in the tribe, but there are many adult chickens.
When we get back, we can let the chickens hatch the ducklings.
Letting chickens hatch duck eggs may sound a bit far-fetched, but it is actually not far-fetched at all.
When Han Cheng was a child, he had seen more than once an old hen leading a group of children that were obviously not her own, looking for food everywhere.
In fact, it is not only duck eggs that can be hatched by chickens. Even goose eggs that need to be incubated for a longer time can also be hatched by chickens.
This is because chickens are rather stubborn. Once they want to start hatching chicks, they will not end the incubation period until the eggs beneath them are hatched.
In other words, the length of its incubation period depends entirely on whether anything is hatched.
In later times, some families thought that it took too long to incubate eggs, so after the chickens entered the incubation period, they would go directly to the town to buy the hatched chicks from other people's homes.
At night, the chicks are secretly placed under the body of the old hen that is preparing to hatch eggs. Early the next morning, the old hen will end the hatching period and then happily take the chicks that suddenly appeared around to look for food, treating them no differently than her own children.
After the two roast ducks were cooked, Han Cheng tore off a duck leg and let everyone share the rest.
It was not marinated in advance and lacked various sauces, so it certainly didn’t taste as good as the roast duck sold in later generations, but we still got to eat roast duck after all.
On the next day, Han Cheng did not immediately lead his men to set off from here. Instead, he divided them into several groups and asked them to search for wild duck eggs in the grass.
Autumn is almost here, and most of the wild ducks have finished laying and hatching eggs and have successfully become mother ducks.
However, the thing that is most abundant in the world is accidents. With so many wild ducks, there are always some that will encounter egg thieves when incubating eggs, resulting in no eggs to hatch and the incubation period ending prematurely.
After a period of adjustment, eggs are laid again for incubation.
The ugly duckling in the famous story of the ugly duckling encountered an accident when its parents were incubating the previous round of eggs.
Otherwise, the swans born in spring would have basically grown up by autumn and could migrate south with the main group. There would definitely not be an ugly duckling that had not yet shed its feathers.
Although the peak period for wild ducks to hatch eggs had passed, the number of wild ducks was large. Under Han Cheng's command, the people of the Qingque tribe found nearly twenty duck eggs here after a careful search.
Then they continued to walk back under the leadership of Han Cheng.
These nearly thirty wild duck eggs will hatch into ducklings in time.
The reason why Han Cheng had such a low expectation for the hatching rate of these duck eggs was that there must be a lot of duck eggs among them that had been incubated by wild ducks for some time.
If the eggs are stopped from hatching, the ducklings inside will stop developing and die...
This time when we go back we don’t have to do things like surveying the terrain, so we can focus on our journey and naturally our speed will be faster.
Two days later at noon, Han Cheng and his team stopped at a place.
There are large tracts of pine trees growing here, some of which are so large that several people cannot hug them.
However, the terrain is generally flat, which makes it suitable for reclaiming wasteland.
This is another three-point node on the Qingque Expressway.
The team stopped at Han Cheng's order. Han Cheng wandered around here for a while, then found a more suitable place and made a mark with stones. He would build an inn here when the time came.
After building the sign, they found the location on the map, marked it, and drew a simple little house next to it, with the words "Songlin Inn" written on it.
After finishing these things, the sun had already reached the middle of the western sky. Seeing this, Han Cheng simply gave the order to set up camp and rest here tonight.
He and some other people were turning over the thick pine needles here, looking for pine nuts, which they could also consider as some gifts to bring back...
Fourteen or fifteen miles away from the end of the old road of Qingque Tribe, a group of people were holding tools and busy repairing the road.
Now, as the road continues to extend forward and gets farther and farther away from the quarry, it becomes increasingly difficult to transport slabs of stone. The paving of the slab road has been stopped since six days ago.
The roads being built now are all pure dirt roads.
Because there are a lot of manpower here, there are more than eighty adults working on the road construction. In addition, the people of the Qingque tribe are already familiar with tools such as hoes and spades, so the road construction is progressing very quickly. In the past two days, the distance has reached 700 meters a day!
"One, two, three! Hey~"
Han Cheng, who was walking back with his men along the route they had opened up before, heard faint horn sounds from afar and a smile appeared on his face.
After waiting here for a while, Han Cheng and his men quickened their pace back...
"Son of God! Son of God and the others are back!"
Someone saw Han Cheng coming back from the other side of the road with his men, and couldn't help but shout. The next moment, the entire busy construction site became boiling...
After the joy of returning, Han Cheng saw that it was still early and was not in a hurry to go back. After learning about the road construction situation, he retreated a few miles and cleaned up the site with Shang, Mao and other members of the trade team. They began to build temporary sheds and planned to let these people live outside later...
Evening in the Qingque tribe.
The tribe, which had become lively because of the return of Han Cheng and his companions, had now become completely quiet.
The night sky was full of twinkling stars. In the bushes surrounding the tribe, the sound of insects chirping at high and low pitches could be heard continuously. Green fireflies were flying slowly under the night sky, echoing with the stars in the sky.
The entire tribe was shrouded in the tranquility of the night.
Inside the room, Little Pea had fallen asleep. Children always sleep very well.
The orange light flickered gently. Han Cheng leaned sideways and put his ear against Bai Xue's gradually bulging belly, listening quietly to the noise coming from inside.
By now, Bai Xuemei is more than five months pregnant, and sometimes she can feel some fetal movements.
Looking at his son falling asleep over there, holding his wife in his arms, and feeling the noises made by the little one still in his belly, Han Cheng felt that his life had been worth it!
The next day, Han Cheng, who was still asleep, was woken up by Little Pea, who had already gotten up and dressed by herself, pinching his nose.
"Dad, look at the ducklings!"
Seeing Han Cheng wake up, Little Pea excitedly pulled Han Cheng out.
Children will never understand the hard work adults put in day and night. Han Cheng wanted to lie down and take a nap, but when he saw the expectant look on the little guy's face, he had to give up the idea. He forced himself to get up while yawning, and after a simple wash, he was pulled by the little guy to the small duck house to see the ducklings.
Little Pea loved the three little ducks that Han Cheng brought back very much. During the time that Han Cheng was away, he often took Panda Tuan Tuan to catch grasshoppers to feed them.
After not seeing them for a while, these little ducks have grown a lot bigger than when Han Cheng left, and their growth is very gratifying.
"Good job, boy!"
Han Cheng reached out and rubbed the head of Little Pea, who was wearing open-crotch pants and squatting beside him watching the little duck, and praised him very seriously.
Little Pea immediately smiled.
After receiving the praise, Little Pea became more excited and pulled Han Cheng to go out to catch grasshoppers to feed the ducklings.
Han Cheng turned around and called Bai Xuemei, asking her to go out with him.
Sister Bai Xue is already showing signs of being pregnant, so she needs to move around more.
Han Cheng held Bai Xuemei in one hand, and with the other hand he held Little Pea, who always wanted to run faster. Fu Jiang followed behind him, wagging his tail. The family of three, plus a dog, walked towards the gate of the courtyard together.
Before they walked out of the yard, the chubby panda Tuantuan rolled over like a ball and joined the group going out.
“Yo yo…”
Of course, such occasions cannot be complete without Uncle Deer, the leader of the animal world of the Green Bird Tribe.
This guy used his antlers to pry open the door of the deer pen, and after coming out, he did not forget to use his hind legs to gently close the door.
Then, she took graceful steps, making full use of her long legs, and quickly caught up with Han Cheng and his group. She rested her chin on Han Cheng's shoulder from behind and walked forward in a very lazy manner.
Han Cheng hadn't seen this unscrupulous guy Uncle Lu for a while, and he missed him very much, so he tilted his head and rubbed it on Uncle Lu's long face.
However, his longing did not last long, and it developed into extreme disgust.
Because Uncle Lu took advantage of Han Cheng's inattention and stretched out his rough tongue and slapped Han Cheng's face.
Seeing the two-legged beast wiping its saliva with its hands in disgust and glaring at it, Uncle Deer, whose face was pinched by Han Cheng, did not feel uncomfortable at all. Instead, he stretched his neck and raised his upper lip, revealing his yellow teeth, looking like he deserved a beating...
After throwing several bunches of grasshoppers and peas into the duck house and looking at a duckling that was choked by a big grasshopper and stretched its neck, Han Cheng suddenly remembered the nearly thirty wild duck eggs he had brought back.
These things need to find eggs to start hatching quickly!
Han Cheng miscalculated.
Originally, he thought that with so many chickens in the tribe, there would always be one or two in the incubation period, and these duck eggs would not have to worry about hatching.
However, the result was that there wasn't even a single brooding chicken!
This made Han Cheng very melancholy.
Without brooding chickens, ducklings cannot hatch. Without ducklings, the tribe’s duck flock will grow slowly. If it grows slowly, you will have to wait longer if you want to eat roast duck and salted duck eggs in the future...
It was at this time that the old rooster, who always liked to hang out with the hens and stood head to head with the hens and looked like sisters, came into Han Cheng's sight.
This is the castrated rooster.
There is no doubt that this great and arduous task can only be entrusted to this guy.
A moment later, the panicked rooster was caught by Han Cheng under the gaze of the other panicked chickens.
After drinking half a bowl of fruit wine, the rooster that was frightened just now suddenly became quiet, but its comb turned very red.
Han Cheng put the drunken rooster into a chicken coop made of bricks and golden millet stalks. After covering it with a bamboo sieve, he began to take duck eggs out of the pottery jar.
Twenty-eight duck eggs placed there made quite a pile.
Generally speaking, it is difficult for a hen to hatch twenty or thirty eggs at once, let alone duck eggs which are much larger than chicken eggs!
It is obvious that the rooster cannot hatch all the 28 duck eggs in front of it at once.
Do I have to castrate another rooster so that the two of them can hatch together?
After thinking about it, Han Cheng decided not to do this cruel thing. Instead, he got half a basin of warm water and put the duck eggs into the basin.
After some duck eggs were put into the basin, they slowly sank to the bottom of the water, while others floated on the surface of the water.
Han Cheng fished out the eleven floating duck eggs and put them aside. There was no need to incubate them anymore, as no ducklings would hatch if they were incubated again.
Take out the remaining 17 duck eggs, wipe them dry with sackcloth, and place them one by one under the body of the drunken rooster.
When the rooster wakes up from his drunken streak, he will go further and further on the road to become a glorious mother duck...
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