Chapter 1105: Travel to Qiongzhou Island
Gu Ji and Tian Hong stayed in Shanghe Village for a whole day, eating with the villagers, visiting everywhere, and even looked at the brick houses built by the immigrants in the village.
At first, there were only ten courtyards in the immigrant area, but now it has expanded to more than thirty courtyards. Most of the young people in the village moved to such brick houses after getting married.
Because it is convenient.
Although they are used to living in bamboo houses, the changes in life brought by the Han tribe forced them to move to the ground.
Because there is no way to carry out production work in bamboo houses, they want to raise livestock such as cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, rabbits, etc., but not all animals are suitable for raising under bamboo houses.
There are also looms, which cannot be moved to bamboo houses, so they cannot produce in bamboo houses.
In addition, it is very inconvenient for some elderly people to go up and down bamboo houses every day.
There are also things like stone mills, which they cannot move into bamboo houses.
They need houses on flat ground, very spacious and easy-to-enter doors, and large yards. All kinds of needs force them to move to the ground.
If this continues, it is estimated that within a generation, all the people of Zhudao will have to move down from their bamboo buildings and live in the brick and tile houses of the Han tribe, with their own courtyards.
After looking at the houses of the people, Gu Ji and Tian Hong went to see their fields. Now, after the careful teaching of the immigrants, and the fact that the indigenous people of Zhudao already had profound farming experience, they have mastered the planting techniques of crops such as rice and wheat in just one or two years.
However, recently, a new thing called potatoes has been introduced from the mainland. It is said that it can be used as both food and vegetables, and can also be used to make vermicelli for long-term preservation. Now the six counties of Qiongzhou Island are actively promoting the planting of this new crop.
Although there are not many seeds distributed, there is no requirement to plant them according to the scale of staple food. Besides, when the tribe collects grain taxes, potatoes will definitely not be collected.
At present, each family only grows some in their own vegetable fields, and usually eats them as vegetables. Whether it is shredded and stir-fried with vegetables or stewed with meat, it tastes very delicious.
When Gu Ji and Tian Hong saw that the people on Qiongzhou Island had planted potatoes in their vegetable fields, they almost cried on the spot.
They actually saw the crops that were passed down from their hometowns so far away from home. What kind of feeling was that?
After the two calmed down, they had to admire the execution of the Han tribe. It was really terrifying.
I remember that the Han tribe got potatoes at the beginning of last year. You Fu exchanged more than 200 kilograms from their tribe, and then at the beginning of this year, he exchanged nearly two tons, about 4,000 kilograms.
As a result, it has only been a short time, and the Han tribe has actually promoted potatoes and potato planting technology to Qiongzhou Island, which is so far away.
What kind of ruling power is Luo Chong?
What kind of execution power do the grassroots officials of the Han tribe have?
This is simply too terrifying, okay! ! !
After looking at the fields of each family, Gu Ji and Tian Hong went to visit their yards.
Most of the people's yards were cleaned very tidy, because they also saw the brooms of the Han tribe here.
The two could not help but sigh again, perhaps in this world, only the Han tribe would invent a tool specifically for cleaning? !
Another thing that impressed the two the most was that every household raised a lot of livestock, not only chickens and ducks, but also medium-sized livestock such as pigs and sheep. However, the most common ones were rabbits.
Every household raised many rabbits, so many that they couldn't eat them all, because rabbits were born too fast.
What to do if they couldn't eat them all? Then kill the rabbits, salt them and smoke them into bacon, and store them to eat slowly.
This situation is very common in almost every household. Some hang them under the eaves of the bungalows, and some hang them in the bamboo buildings. There is so much meat that they can't finish it.
In addition, because there are many rabbits, there are also a lot of rabbit skins, which has led to the proliferation of rabbit leather. Now most of the children in the village wear shoes made of rabbit skin. Once upon a time, even the people of Hanyang County, which was established the earliest, could only use old clothes and waste cloth to make shoes. Now even the people of Qiongzhou Island can afford to use leather to make shoes.
In addition, the habit of raising cats and dogs in the Han tribe was brought from the mainland to Qiongzhou Island.
Cats are good at catching mice. Since there were cats on Qiongzhou Island, the people here have rarely been troubled by mice.
In the past, the indigenous people of Qiongzhou Island built their houses so high and made them look like bamboo houses, in fact, partly to prevent mice.
Now they also raise civet cats, even if they live in a courtyard on flat ground, they don’t have to worry about the intrusion of mice.
In addition, dogs are also good at guarding the house and are the most loyal companions of humans. In addition, the Han tribe also has the habit of eating dog meat, which has now spread to Qiongzhou Island.
Although the earliest purpose of domesticating wolves into dogs was to let them help with grazing or hunting, as these hunting behaviors gradually disappeared, the role of dogs slowly became just guarding the house, so they gradually became a kind of food on the menu of the people.
However, the people of the Han tribe now can't even finish eating rabbits, so there is no need to kill dogs for meat, so only a few people will kill dogs.
After seeing the livestock, they went to see the school where the children go to school.
The mainland of the Han tribe is called a school, but the Qiongzhou Island is really a school.
Because the population here is very scattered and there is no city with a concentrated population, it is naturally impossible to gather a large number of children in the school for unified education.
Even if a school is built in the city, the children nearby will not be able to go because their place of residence is too far from the school. At that time, if they still want to go to school, they can only live in the dormitory, which is even more uneconomical and adds a burden to the people, especially when there are many children.
If the people are not allowed to pay for the accommodation, food and living expenses themselves, then the court of the Han tribe will have to pay for it, but how much will it cost?
After comprehensive consideration, Luo Chong suggested a model, which is to set up a primary school in each village and teach all the children in the village together. Only one or two teachers would be enough.
The teachers of Shanghe Village are a young couple who immigrated from the eight counties of Hanyang. Together, they are responsible for teaching all the children in Shanghe Village to learn the cultural knowledge of the Han tribe.
Although this kind of teaching may not produce any talents, it is not important.
Luo Chong did not intend to teach them any talents. He just wanted to assimilate Qiongzhou Island as soon as possible, so that the local indigenous people could learn Chinese and Chinese characters as soon as possible and have the ability to read and write Chinese characters. That would be enough.
As for officials, they can be selected from the local area as appropriate, and some unimportant or grassroots officials can be given. Important officials can also be transferred from the north, so there will be no problem.
After sitting in the classroom and listening to a teacher's class, Gu Ji and Tian Hong also felt that it was very good.
The two of them didn't understand the Han tribe's writing very well. They just thought that the teachers who gave the lectures before were very good. They could actually write so many words.
In addition, they felt that the teaching environment here was a little worse than the school in Takumi County.
The village-run primary school in Shanghe Village does not have a playground for children. It is called a school, but it is actually a large courtyard with six large houses, a toilet, and a courtyard. There is a flagpole in the middle of the courtyard with the flag of the Han tribe.
There is no place to play at all. If you want to do activities, you can only go to the small square in the village to play.
Moreover, because the teaching staff in the village is too small, there are only two teachers in total, and these two teachers are a young couple. If the woman is pregnant, there will be only one teacher left.
In this case, they can only ask other immigrants from the same village to help substitute for classes, such as Ren Zuo's father, the Jinwu Guard spy hidden in the village. Although he is only a field spy, he has also undergone some military training.
Since he immigrated to Shanghe Village, in addition to doing ironwork and helping villagers repair ironware and farm tools, he also teaches physical education classes for children in the village.
He teaches children to learn queue training, running, skipping rope and other ways to keep fit. He also often makes toys such as sandbags for children and plays games with them, so the children in the village like this physical education teacher very much.
Seeing such a life, Gu Ji and Tian Hong are also very pleased.
Although they know that this Qiongzhou Island was forcibly occupied by the Han tribe, and the population here was forcibly taken over by the Han tribe, seeing the lives of the people today, they still have to sigh that the lives of the people in Qiongzhou are really good now.
Although they don't know what their lives were like before, if the Baiwu tribe can live this level of life after joining the Han tribe, they will definitely be willing.
The two spent a day visiting Shanghe Village, and at Tiezhen's suggestion, they visited two other villages. The situation they saw was similar, so they said goodbye to Tiezhen with Ye An and went to the garrison camp of Xinhua County and the Xiaoqiwei.
This was also planned by Ye An and his team before, because Gu Ji and Tian Hong had never seen what the cold weapon troops of the Han tribe looked like, and this time they went to see it purely to satisfy their curiosity.
When the group arrived at the Xiaoqiwei camp, they saw a scene like a battlefield.
The soldiers of the Xiaoqiwei usually also have to conduct various equestrian training. This is such a wonderful scene that Gu Ji and Tian Hong saw.
Rows of scarecrows were arranged neatly in array, and the cavalry soldiers were lined up in neat teams to conduct classic cutting corner charge training.
The so-called cutting corner charge means that when the enemy army is arranged in a neat spear formation, the cavalry front center will definitely suffer heavy losses. At this time, the cavalry should be arranged in a straight column, and then charge at a 45-degree angle, rubbing the two front corners of the enemy's square formation.
When the cavalry columns rushed through the corners of the square formation one after another, it was equivalent to using a column of cavalry to chop the person on the corner of the opponent's formation. With such a corner-cutting charge tactic, no matter how powerful the opponent's square formation was, the cavalry could break the enemy's formation in one round.
Once the opponent's formation collapsed, it was the cavalry's world. Even if they rode their horses randomly, they could still trample the opponent to death.
It was the first time for Gu Ji and Tian Hong to see such a large-scale cavalry collective charge.
In that scene, every soldier was wearing armor, and the cold iron armor gleamed in the sunlight. The weapons in their hands were even more cold. Whether it was the long sword used by the cavalry or the big spear, each one was so scary.
Such a group of brave warriors, gathering thousands of people, what kind of tribe in the world would be the opponent of the Han tribe? !
However, they didn't know that when attacking the Xin tribe and Zhudao, the Xiaoqiwei almost didn't participate in the battle. The terrain here on Qiongzhou Island didn't have many places suitable for cavalry to carry out large-scale battles.
At that time, Luo Chong specially organized a cavalry to come here, and what he wanted was their ability to rush quickly. This cavalry could be used as cavalry to quickly raid the opponent's strategic nodes, and it could also quickly maneuver to provide support when the war was unfavorable.
Luo Chong had a good idea, but it was a pity that the enemy was too useless and did not give the Xiaoqiwei any chance to take action. How uncomfortable is that?
Because the Xiaoqiwei was a military unit after all, Gu Ji and Tian Hong were only allowed to visit it briefly, but for the sake of Ye An Jinwuwei, Gu Ji and Tian Hong were also able to put on the heavy armor of the Xiaoqiwei and experience the feeling of a knight on horseback.
The two also took a long sword and a large spear to make a few gestures, which was considered to satisfy the curiosity of a cold weapon army.
After saying goodbye to the Xiaoqiwei, they took a boat directly to leave Xinhua County, and the group headed straight for Xianfeng County.
The conditions in Xianfeng County are actually a little worse. There are few fresh water resources and not much land that can be reclaimed for planting. Fortunately, several salt fields have been developed here. It is the largest salt production base of the Han tribe, and most of the people nearby work here.
Their own output plus the salary from working in the salt field can be regarded as a good life for them.
After all, the output of the family is enough for food, clothing and clothing, so the money earned from working can be saved or used to buy other things.
After arriving in Xianfeng County, Gu Ji and Tian Hong went straight to the salt field.
To be honest, although these two guys have been eating white salt provided by the Han tribe for more than a year, whether it is well salt, rock salt, or sea salt, they actually don’t know how these salts are made.
This time when they came to the salt field, when the two saw the mountains of snow-white salt on the ground, they couldn’t help but widen their eyes. How much is the value of such a small hill of salt? If it can be used to exchange for population, I’m afraid they can directly buy all the people of their Baiwu tribe.
And there are so many of them here. The salt fields are so big that you can hardly see the end of them. There are piles of similar "salt mountains" one after another. No wonder the Han tribe can meet the salt supply for the entire Han tribe's hundreds of thousands of people.
(End of this chapter)
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