Ma Yue accompanied Yang Hu on a tour of some copper ingot processing workshops. The output was truly pitifully low. He then inspected the copper mines again, finding very few people working there. Mining was becoming increasingly difficult, and at the current level, deep mining was simply not feasible.
Ma Yue also explored with his spiritual sense and found that several copper veins were indeed getting deeper and deeper.
It happened that a few tribesmen came to Qiu Haicheng with coal to exchange for food, and were caught red-handed by Ma Yue's guards.
"You go back. I'll take some people to explore the coal mine." Ma Yue sent Yang Hu away and rode away with the guards and the coal miners.
Ma Yue originally thought that the coal miners were carrying bamboo baskets to deliver coal, so the distance should not be far. But after riding his horse for a whole day, he still hadn't arrived.
"What do you mean?" Ma Yue was unhappy.
The coal miners were so scared that they didn't dare to lie: "We really were carrying bamboo baskets to deliver coal."
"Nonsense! We haven't even come this far yet, and you're just trying to exchange for a few potatoes?"
"Spirit, it's true. It takes us more than ten days to deliver the coal."
"What did you eat on the way?" Damn it! There's also a cost for delivering coal, right?
"We can eat this. Even though it tastes bad, we can cook it and fill our stomachs." Several coal miners followed Ma Yue and others that day, and of course they ate the food of Ma Yue's guards. At this time, they took out...
Ma Yue took it and looked at it. Isn’t this wheat?
“Even if cooked, it’s still hard and inedible.”
Isn't that nonsense? Eat it with the shell?
In ancient my country, the earliest wheat was called Su Mai. People didn’t even know how to grind it into powder with a stone mill. It tasted... so it was considered food for wild farmers and even prisoners despised it.
Wheat is available at this time of year, basically winter wheat. I asked around and it turns out to be wild wheat. Primitive people generally don't farm, so they eat wild fruits and other foods, which is very common.
The Hai Tribe already has a stone mill. Is corn flour made from a stone mill? What about wheat? It's a fine grain. Ma Yue couldn't help but drool. It doesn't matter if the yield is high or not, just having it is enough.
Ma Yue came to this world, and he was fed with sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn. Damn! They were all coarse grains. I'm the boss of the Sea Tribe, so I should eat fine grains. What's wrong with that?
It is said that this winter wheat is both cold-resistant and drought-resistant...
"Take us to find this thing first." Let's talk about the coal later. At least we can get some fine grains. Ma Yue touched the space bag and threw some bacon jerky to a few coal miners. "If you find this food, I'll give you 500 kilograms of potatoes later."
The coal miners opened their mouths wide in surprise and took a bite of the bacon. "Delicious!" This is nonsense. It would be strange if the bacon was not delicious.
The people in this area are used to speaking the language of the Sea Tribe, so communication is quite convenient.
A few coal miners, along with Ma Yue and the others, galloped for another half day before finally finding a patch of wild wheat. The grains weren't big, and since they were wild, they didn't expect much yield per acre.
"There's more over there!" There's a reward, and the coal miners are very enthusiastic.
Not bad, not bad. I followed the coal miners around for a while and saw several wheat fields. Winter wheat is planted in the fall and harvested in the summer of the following year. This season is almost ripe.
Ma Yue had Xia Wu send a few cavalry guards back to Qiuhai City. The Hai Tribe was going to take over these wheat fields. As for whether they could be transplanted to Haifan City, that wasn't a big deal. Winter wheat production conditions were quite rough, but regardless of the yield per mu, Ma Yue was going to transplant it to Haifan City.
It can grow wild, and cultivating it isn't likely to be complicated (Ma Yue doesn't have much hope for intensive farming). We'll just hand it over to the Ministry of Agriculture.
In ancient my country, the yield of wheat per mu was only about 200 kilograms. Can you expect the wheat here to yield much more per mu? Isn't it unrealistic?
As for popularizing wheaten foods, that's more realistic. Low yields per acre are a fatal flaw. Therefore, the future of the Hai Tribe depends on potatoes and sweet potatoes. As for wheat, it's considered good enough for leaders of sufficient rank to eat.
"Leave some people behind to continue exploring the coal mine." The troops had to set off again, and this time they came to Mudi for coal.
"Our Tian tribe is not far away." Almost all the people who delivered coal to Qiu Haicheng were from the Tian tribe.
When we arrived at the Tian tribe, the coal mine was not far away.
The Tian tribe has about 300 people, which is not a small number.
"So much coal?" Ma Yue was surprised. It was definitely a large open-pit coal mine.
"Spirit, our Sweet Tribe can't afford it, it's too far." Of course, the leader of the Sweet Tribe, Heitian, had to accompany the great Spirit of the Sea Tribe to inspect the coal mine.
Indeed, the Tian tribe had no large livestock, and relying on people to carry them on their backs for ten days would be exhausting. If it weren't for the exchange of salt and potatoes, the Tian tribe wouldn't be so stupid.
"Originally, there wasn't so much coal. Two years ago, there was an earthquake, and this place became like this." Heitian, the leader of the Tian tribe, continued. In that earthquake, several tribes around the coal mine were destroyed. The Tian tribe suffered the least loss, and at least about 300 people survived.
Oh, the earthquake caused major geological changes.
Two years later, the leader of Qiu Haicheng didn't even come over here to take a look? Ma Yue was a little disappointed.
Perhaps, the former leader Qiu Haicheng came to take a look, and probably gave up because there was not so much open-pit coal at that time.
No matter what, it's a good thing that there is coal here.
Ma Yue continued to explore the coalfield. Great! The coal reserves were enormous and the buried layers were shallow.
Qiu Haicheng rode here on horseback, which took about two days. If it were winter, the snowmobile would have a greater load capacity.
"In the future, our Hai tribe will provide large livestock and snow vehicles, and your Tian tribe will provide people. We will give you food or salt based on the amount of coal we deliver..." Is this a cooperative business? The Hai tribe has already been very familiar with each other for a long time.
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