The rice planted in the newly opened paddy fields in Jinguan City is growing well.

The paddy fields that seemed sparse when Han Cheng and his men left here have become much more dense.

The seedlings planted at that time not only grew a lot taller, but also had a lot more leaves, and some even began to reproduce.

It looks very much like that.

There are some places with fertile soil, and the rice leaves there look dark green. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be a good harvest at harvest time.

In the rice fields, there are some fish swimming happily, wagging their tails.

Sometimes they will float to the surface of the water to eat grass leaves, dust and other things floating on the water.

People living in Jinguan City, following Han Cheng's instructions, often took some grass with its roots cut off and threw it into the paddy fields to feed the fish.

After the fish eat the grass, the fish feces formed can be used to fertilize the fields and promote the growth of rice.

As for the grass that is not eaten by fish, it can also be used as fertilizer for the fields after it rots.

Of course, even so, you can't throw too much grass into the rice field at one time.

Because rotten grass will consume oxygen in the water and pollute the water source.

It doesn’t matter if the number is small, but if the number is large, many of the fish will have no chance to survive.

Han Cheng knew this very clearly because it was a very painful experience.

When Han Cheng was a child, there was a craze for growing shiitake mushrooms in his hometown.

At that time, the shiitake mushrooms there had already become quite famous, and it was said that some had even been exported.

In that era, being able to export and earn foreign exchange was a great thing.

Growing mushrooms is much more profitable than growing crops.

In this trend, Han Chengjia also started growing mushrooms together with several other families in the village.

After getting up early and working late for a year, not only did I not make any money, I actually lost a lot of money.

It wasn’t because I wasn’t careful, didn’t put in enough effort, or didn’t have a good harvest. It was because the price of mushrooms plummeted that year.

The reason for this is that some smart people at that time put steel balls or iron bars into the legs of the mushrooms before picking them and drying them on the mushroom stove.

In this way, after the mushrooms are dried, these things will remain inside and no flaws can be seen.

Things like this can only bring temporary benefits, but not lifelong benefits.

Once the reputation was ruined, more than half of the previous buyers stopped coming, and then the business was closed down...

Han Chengjia only planted it that year.

Although shiitake mushrooms are no longer grown, some of the infrastructure built when they were grown is still there.

For example, a pool used to soak bags of mushrooms.

The pool is built with bricks and is carefully coated with cement inside and outside, so the waterproof effect is quite good.

So, they carried a few loads of silt into it, added some water, buried a few lotus roots in it, and planted lotus flowers in it.

Later, when there was more water in it, they put some fish and shrimp in it and let them grow in it.

Of course, these fish and shrimps were all caught by Han Cheng from the creek.

Instead of using advanced equipment like fish cages, they simply blocked both ends of an area and used basins to pour out the water one basin at a time.

The big ones were eaten when they got home, and the small ones were put into the mushroom pond to be raised.

Children's thinking is always different from that of adults.

Han Cheng's parents were upset because they lost money growing mushrooms at home, but the children in the village envied Han Cheng's family because they had a large pond where they could grow lotus flowers and fish.

Han Cheng himself is also proud of this.

The tragedy happened when Han Cheng was in the first grade of junior high school.

Thinking that he would not be able to feed the fish every day as before after entering junior high school, and worried that the fish would be hungry, Han Cheng gathered a lot of grass and threw it into the pond to feed the fish.

The result of this was that after I came back from five days in junior high school, the water in the mushroom pond had become smelly and all the fish had died...

No further farmland was developed below the paddy fields.

On the one hand, it was because Han Cheng wanted to hit the target with great force, so he built the outer wall of Jinguan City to a similar level first.

On the other hand, it is summer and there is a lot of rain. It is not easy to open paddy fields in this season. The temporary canals built to collect river water and divert rivers are easily washed away by water, wasting manpower and resources in vain...

Farther away from the bustling Jinguan City, some people in the tribe who were good at digging traps and hunting were digging and setting traps to catch prey.

Somewhere further away, there were people carrying weapons and holding bows and arrows, walking carefully, looking for prey and preparing to hunt.

These were all people from the Qingque tribe arranged by Han Cheng. They were hunting there to obtain food for the people of the Qingque tribe.

For Jinguan City now, food is the most fatal problem. They cannot sustain for too long relying solely on the food they brought with them when they left the Qingque main tribe.

After all, more than half of the goods they carried had been consumed on the way here alone.

The remaining food will not last for too long.

Therefore, under the guidance of Han Cheng, Jinguan City began a journey of obtaining food by all means while taking into account many tasks such as building walls.

Traps, fish cages, fishing nets, rabbit traps, bows and arrows were all used.

Even some places where birds easily fly over are set up with nets to catch the birds flying by and make them into food.

Many birds are not very big and do not have much meat on their bodies.

However, this cannot be a reason for the Qingque tribe to let them go.

No matter how small it is, there is always some flesh on its body.

After processing it, cooking it together with wild vegetables will taste much better than cooking it with just wild vegetables.

The Qingque tribe basically does not keep idle people. Unless someone is really unable to do any work, he will definitely be assigned some work to do.

The same was true for those who came to Jinguan City with Han Cheng.

Under the manipulation of Han Cheng, the black-hearted son of God, these people who came to Jinguan City basically had no rest and had already engaged in various labors.

It would be impossible not to do so, after all, there are many things to do here.

What people fear the most is actually being idle. As soon as they are idle, trouble is likely to arise.

It is for this reason that such a busy scene appeared in Jinguan City of Qingque Tribe at this time.

This kind of busyness seems to be very effective.

As everyone was busy, many dome-shaped huts appeared in the inner courtyard of Jinguan City. Together with the slave huts outside, they were able to temporarily accommodate everyone.

The wall outside Jinguan City has also shown some improvement. More than half of the foundation has been burned into pottery by the people of the tribe using firewood and other things.

All kinds of food were collected from all directions and brought to Jinguan City, entering everyone's stomach...

Because food is in short supply nowadays, Han Cheng has made some arrangements to deal with the current situation.

The food principles are still similar to the way from Jinguan City.

Try to eat food obtained from the surrounding areas as much as possible, and try not to use millet and other things brought from Jinguan City.

These are regarded by Han Cheng as food reserves.

When it comes to food, people are no longer allowed to eat as much as they wanted as before. Instead, a general standard has been established.

There is one standard for adults and another standard for minors, and quantification is carried out.

When I was in high school, my ideology and politics teacher liked to repeat a sentence when talking about economic life.

Han Cheng remembered this sentence very clearly - spending money is an art, and saving money means increasing income.

Han Cheng felt that this sentence was very correct, especially after he grew up, he felt that this sentence was more and more correct.

Because he remembered it clearly and agreed with it very much, Han Cheng put it into practice and skillfully applied it to the food in the tribe.

When food is insufficient, this wartime-like policy is very useful.

Of course, simply cutting costs is not enough, it also requires the cooperation of open source.

After all, if we don't increase the supply of grain, the total amount of grain will remain there, and no matter how much we save, we won't be able to save much.

In addition to hunting, collecting wild vegetables, catching fish and shrimp, there is also an important way to open up sources of income.

The method is to turn the food of other tribes into that of one's own tribe.

Han Cheng did not want the people of the Qingque tribe to go to the surrounding tribes and steal their food. As long as there were other solutions, he would never touch this line.

After all, as a human being, there must always be some bottom line.

Of course, this is based on the assumption that there are other solutions.

If things cannot be done and there is really no other solution, then that is another matter.

What Han Cheng meant was that through trade, he could exchange pottery, salt and other things produced by his own tribe for food from other tribes.

At the beginning, Han Cheng was thinking about announcing after he came here that other tribes could use different stones to exchange for pottery, salt and other things from his own tribe, so that he could find sulfur, coal and other things as quickly as possible through this method.

Now that he has come here and faced with such a situation, Han Cheng can only keep these things in his heart for the time being and ignore them.

Sulfur, saltpeter, coal and other things are certainly important, but when food is scarce, they are still far inferior to food.

Only after concentrating all their efforts and getting through the current difficult time, Han Cheng would announce to the older female primitive people that they could use stones and other things for exchange.

Trade has actually always been going on in Jinguan City.

For example, the older female primitives who were deceived by him into becoming middlemen, and the hunchbacked primitives from the Youchao tribe, were all using their own ways to earn food for the Qingque tribe.

In the past, this method was quite good and could provide a lot of food.

But now, as food in the tribe has become more scarce, it seems not enough.

So Han Cheng wanted to do something else.

The thing is to re-establish the trading team of the Qingque tribe, and let Mao, the former trading champion, lead the team again, and lead the people in the tribe to exchange salt, pottery and other things for food for their own tribe from the surrounding tribes.

Compared with other ways of obtaining food in this era, such as hunting and gathering, food exchange can obtain more food and faster.

The last time Han Cheng came, it was because there were not enough people, and they wanted to build the inner courtyard as soon as possible. In addition, the pressure of food was not so great, so Han Cheng trained the older female primitives and other second-hand dealers.

The situation has changed now. With the arrival of these thousand people, Jinguan City is no longer short of manpower as before.

On the contrary, due to the increase in population, there was considerable pressure on food, so the countermeasures also changed.

He formed a trading team composed of people from his own tribe, headed towards the surrounding areas of his tribe, and traded with the tribes around his tribe.

Compared to being a 'wholesaler', you can earn more because there is no middleman making a profit from the price difference.

And there is another advantage to doing this, which is that in the process of trade, the surrounding tribes can be continuously assimilated.

Just like the Green Bird Alliance before.

After a long period of operation, it is not impossible for a replica of the Qingque Alliance to appear around Jinguan City.

Then it’s time…

Han Cheng thought about this and looked at the bustling Jinguan City, and a smile appeared on his face.

In time, the tribe will surely become more prosperous than it is now!

With previous successful cases in mind, Han Cheng became more confident when doing these things again.

However, just because their tribe has started direct transactions does not mean that they will no longer need the older female primitive people as middlemen in the future.

After all, the world is vast enough. While their own tribe begins to take the initiative to trade with other surrounding tribes, it can also accommodate the older female primitive people to trade with other tribes.

This sounds very noble, but in fact, the real reason is that the food and other things brought by the older female primitive people were very considerable.

This shameless son of God is just coveting the food that was delivered to him...

After settling these matters and thinking about them repeatedly, and making sure that there were no major problems, Han Cheng went to find Mao.

Mao, this gifted fellow, has become even darker. When Han Cheng found him, he was working with the people in the tribe, using tools to tamp the soil.

This man, who is about the same age as the second senior brother, doesn't look as young as before and looks a little older.