Chapter 1042 We are good friends
. To be honest, the chiefs of the Baiwu tribe really wanted to take their people with them, but they also had to consider practical issues, because they could not abandon everything they had and follow Youfu to work. They had fields and children, houses and territories, and many things had to be considered.
This matter could not be discussed in a short time, but Youfu was not in a hurry. It would take several days for both sides to learn planting techniques from each other. So, the people brought by Youfu taught the Baiwu tribe how to plant corn, how to sew clothes and shoes, and how to raise sheep every day.
At the same time, the chiefs of the Baiwu tribe often called their own tribesmen to discuss with everyone about working for the Han tribe and building houses for money. As long as they had the money from the Han tribe, they could buy more good things. Of course, the people of the Baiwu tribe were tempted. Since the basic principle of going to work was determined, it was easy to solve how to go and how many people to go.
Several tribe leaders asked Youfu various questions, such as where would the people who went live, if both men and women from the Baiwu tribe went, could the children at home be taken with them, if the children went, how to take care of them, etc. Youfu also answered them one by one, and finally the two sides agreed on the following results.
First, send 150 people to follow Youfu and his team to explore the way, 100 young and strong men, 50 young and strong women. Now there is still a large open space there, with nothing. No matter how many people go, it is useless, there is no place to live, so 150 is enough.
When these people are sure that working is feasible in the future, they can increase the input of labor as appropriate. The specific matters will be determined later according to the actual situation.
Youfu has no objection to this. He knows very well that it is impossible to fool the entire Baiwu tribe at once. As long as he can let the 150 people who went there first see the benefits, the people who come later will not refuse to come.
After the two sides agreed on the details, Youfu led the team to live in the Baiwu tribe until the corn was planted and sprouted. When the potatoes of the Baiwu tribe were all planted, he led the team to set off to the newly established "Qian'an County".
Chengkang County is the new county further west, next to the bank of Liuyang River, and Qi'an County is the one next to the coal mine. Its specific location is between the coal mine discovery site and the Baiwu tribe's territory, and it is slightly closer to the Baiwu tribe. The reason for choosing this place is also mainly to facilitate the absorption of the Baiwu tribe.
When it was time to set off, the teams on both sides were also selected. When Youfu came, there was a team of 100 people. When he left, he deliberately left a team of 10 people. This was the 16th exploration team that discovered the Baiwu tribe. They were mainly responsible for contacting Youfu and continuing to teach the Baiwu tribe techniques such as planting corn, making clothes and shoes, and raising livestock.
The Baiwu tribe also selected thirty people from each of the five clans, for a total of 150 people, led by two younger clan leaders in their twenties, namely Gu Ji, the 26-year-old clan leader of the Gu clan, and Tian Hong, the 28-year-old clan leader of the Tian clan.
When the team set out, You Fu immediately sent back a message, using a flying eagle to tell Luo Chong about the progress here, informing the leader that he had persuaded the Baiwu tribe to come and work, and on the other hand, he sent a fast horse to the temporary camp in Chengkang County to tell them to send some craftsmen, as well as food and various tools needed for construction.
When You Fu led the team to Qi'an County two days later, Gu Ji, the clan leader of the Baiwu tribe, said.
"I have been to this place before. When I was young, I followed my tribe to hunt here. This place is really good for living. There is a forest in the direction of the sunrise. Not only can we collect food there, but we can also get firewood.
"There is a river in the direction of the rising sun, which can provide drinking water. The land on both sides of the river is flat and fertile, suitable for growing food. It is a day's walk with the sun behind us. There are also stone mountains there, where we can collect stones to make tools. It is very suitable to build a tribe here.
"I have thought about it before. When the people of the Baiwu tribe multiply too much and the original tribe can no longer accommodate them, we will migrate here. I didn't expect you to find it!" Gu Ji said with some emotion.
"Oh? Then why don't we, the Han tribe, move to another place?"
You Fu didn't understand what he meant. Did he think that the Han tribe had taken their territory? After all, this place was indeed closer to the Baiwu tribe, and it was only two days' walk away, so he tried to test it as if jokingly.
Gu Ji waved his hands quickly, "No need to change, this place is good, many of our tribesmen have been here, and they are very familiar with it. Working here is not too far away from the tribe, and the tribesmen can feel more at ease.
"Although I want to wait for the tribe's population to grow and migrate here in the future, it's just talk. If you want to multiply to a level that the current tribe can't accommodate, it may take more than a dozen generations, which is too long. I won't live to that time, and I won't see that day. Since the Han tribe needs it more now, what's wrong with living here."
You Fu was relieved after hearing his explanation, and patted his shoulder and said intimately, "It's nothing. Our two tribes are friends. Living closer in the future will facilitate exchanges and transactions, and even intermarriage between our two tribes. Even if there are too many people in your place to accommodate you, you can move in and live with us. We welcome you. "
Gu Ji and Tian Hong both smiled and agreed with You Fu's words. There was no such thing as grabbing territory. The relationship between the two tribes was in the honeymoon period. Moreover, they did not think that their tribe had anything that the Han tribe could care about. They were so poor that there was nothing to grab. The only thing left was population. However, they believed that the Han tribe had so many people and was so large that it would not lack population. Therefore, the Baiwu tribe never regarded the Han tribe as an enemy.
After the team arrived here, they simply set up some tents, and then began to survey the terrain, insert markers and mark lines, find out the location of the city, mark the location of the road, and distribute the fields along the river. There was no problem, mainly for the convenience of getting water. As for cutting wood and burning wood, there should be no play. This will definitely be the main coal producing area in the south in the future. With so much coal, it is unlikely to burn wood.
In the few days when You Fu was surveying in Qi'an County, the craftsman team from Chengkang County also came over. Among them, there were 400 craftsmen of various types and 600 railway workers. A team of 1,000 people was assembled, escorting a large number of production tools and food and grass, and hurried over.
This was the first time that the Baiwu people had seen such a large construction team. You have to know that this was a thousand strong men, and they were special talents with various skills, not just farmers who could only dig for food in the fields. This number of people was half of the total population of the Baiwu tribe.
But according to You Fu, they were not ready to send many people over. The team that came now was just the vanguard team, which was to build houses for those who would dig coal here in the future. So how many people would come here to dig coal in the future? When they thought of this, they couldn't help but gasp. How many people were there in the Han tribe?
Seeing such a large team, Tian Hong, the chief of the Baiwu tribe, couldn't help but swallow and asked.
"Fu, you have so many people, do you still need people from our tribe to work? You can build a lot of houses by yourself, right?"
"Ah?" You Fu was stunned by the question, and then realized that there were too many people coming, and they were scared? This was not okay, he had to continue to fool them, so he said.
"No, don't be fooled by their large number. In fact, more than half of these one thousand people are responsible for road construction. The coal we dig out has to be transported to other places in the Han tribe, so we must build a road for vehicles to travel. Most of them are here to build roads, and only a small part of them are here to build houses.
"Also, if our tribe sends a craftsman here, it will cost a lot of resources to support one person to stay here permanently. The food and salary they need, as well as various daily necessities, have to be transported from far away. Therefore, the help of your Baiwu tribe is very important. For every additional worker you add to help, we can send one less person here. So even if all the people in your tribe come to help, we are willing to do so."
"Oh, so that's the case. Then we will definitely help the Han tribe, Fu, please rest assured, our two tribes are good friends. "
With the arrival of the craftsmen, the project started quickly. Another group of tents were set up. The four hundred craftsmen of various types settled down first, but the six hundred railway workers did not stay long. They came here to escort supplies and food, and to determine the specific location of the Qian'an County Railway Station with You Fu. They had to determine the location and specific design of the station first, and then measure and plan the route in the middle. So these people discussed with You Fu for three days, put up poles for the railway station, and left directly after pulling the construction line.
It was not until this time that Gu Ji and Tian Hong believed that those people were really here to build roads.
The four hundred craftsmen who settled in also started their respective work. To build a new city, the first thing to do is to build factories and workshops, brick and tile factories, wood processing plants, quarries, etc., but the first thing to build is, Or it should be workers' dormitories, otherwise there would be no place to live, and the cloth tents could not withstand the wind and rain.
For temporary camps and dormitories, which can be dismantled after use, the Han tribe, in accordance with convention, uniformly adopts rammed earth structures. The advantage is that it is fast to build and easy to obtain materials, so short-term residence for one or two years is not a problem at all.
After the scope of the construction site was drawn, the construction work began, and the 150 young and strong laborers of the Baiwu tribe were also quickly utilized. These were all hired with money, and it would be a waste if they were not used.
Some people were assigned to cut wood, led by craftsmen from the Han tribe, to cut suitable wood, and the other part was responsible for digging and transporting soil by the river. While digging irrigation ditches for farmland, they transported the soil to the camp to build houses.
It was in this working environment that the people of the Baiwu tribe learned more about the Han tribe. They first learned about saws. In addition to this sharp tool for cutting wood, I also saw many strange woodworking tools that I couldn't name. There were also other convenient carts for transporting soil and stones, such as wheelbarrows, and a construction method called rammed earth, which is to take a wooden shell and fill it with soil.
It was also the first time I learned that soil can be burned into stone (bricks and tiles), and that feces and urine must be excreted in the same place, and these feces can actually be used for farming.
In addition, as more and more tools were delivered, various farm tools were also transported, as well as a large number of rabbits, sheep, piglets, chickens and ducks, draft animals, and many vegetable seeds.
These are all very necessary. With so many people coming here, food can be transported from all over, but fresh vegetables and fresh meat cannot be transported over long distances. So food can be transported, but the vegetables needed by the engineering team can only be transported on the spot. They planted it themselves.
However, You Fu said that they had too much work to do and had no time to plant vegetables. He suggested that the Baiwu tribe send people to learn, and they could go back and plant it themselves. The vegetables and fruits grown by the engineering team would be purchased by the engineering team,
and they would take as many as they could. Gu Ji and Tian Hong saw that the Han tribe had brought so many good things, especially so many kinds of livestock and poultry, as well as seeds of vegetables and fruits. These were of great benefit to agriculture and breeding. If their own tribe could popularize these, it would be great.
They also knew that this opportunity was rare, so they consulted You Fu and asked You Fu to send a car to send Tian Hong back, and he would pick up the other three tribe leaders, and then everyone would discuss helping the Han tribe raise livestock and poultry and grow vegetables. You Fu, of course, fully supported this and asked people to prepare a carriage on the spot.
(End of this chapter)
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