Chapter 150 Mao Li's Ambition (Please vote and subscribe)
The setting sun gathered its last rays of light, and two yellowish white moons gradually rose into the sky. Their paths were getting closer. In a few days, they would intersect and overlap into a circle. The end of the second month of spring was approaching.
In a clearing in the woods on the east bank of the stream, Mao Li and his party did not rush back at night, but found a place to camp. It was too dark to travel at night, and they did not have torches that could burn for a long time.
A group of people found some dead branches nearby to light a bonfire and roast some dried meat they brought with them. Mao Li couldn't let go of the golden long-handled axe. He held the axe with both hands and draped it hard on a small tree nearby. The trunk, which was not even as thick as his arm, was immediately cut in half. As long as he hit it again, the tree would definitely break.
"Their axes are really good, and that one, what's it called?" Mao Li sighed while touching the axe blade.
"Copper shovel."
"Oh, yes, copper shovel, what do you think they are made of? These materials look the same, is it stone? It doesn't look like it. This axe is not very big, but this copper shovel is big and flat. The most important thing is, look at these two axes and these two copper shovels, they are like twins in a woman's belly, exactly the same, how did they make them?" Mao Li was still studying these two bronze artifacts in the light of the campfire.
"Chief, do we really have to dig that poisonous tree for the Han tribe?" The warrior who was roasting food on the side carefully pinched a little white salt and sprinkled it on the food, then turned his head and asked Mao Li.
"Does white salt taste good?" Mao Li did not answer, but asked a question instead.
"It's delicious."
"That's it, since it's delicious and we need white salt, and we don't have to exchange people with them, why don't we dig it?
Besides, you heard what the child from our tribe said today. The number of people in the Han tribe was about the same as ours last year, but they had these good things and were able to exchange for so many people.
Although we can't make those good things, we can exchange those trees and fruits that are originally useless with them. When we exchange more, we can also use the good things we got to find other tribes to exchange people. In this way, we can become as powerful as the Han tribe."
The golden axe reflected the light of the flames, shining on Mao Li's eyes, making his pupils seem to be burning. That was his gradually expanding ambition.
The soldiers around did not speak, but nodded in unison, indicating that what the leader said made sense, but they did not know that Mao Li had another sentence that he had not said, that is,
to work for the Han tribe first to earn some material accumulation and population accumulation, and when the Li tribe's strength could be comparable to that of the Han tribe, or even surpass that of the Han tribe, he would lead the people to destroy the Han tribe. At that time, the production technology of all kinds of good things in the Han tribe would belong to him, and his Li tribe would become stronger and stronger.
This is an extremely ambitious goal, but it is not without hope of realization, because Luo Chong promised them that they could exchange goods without population, and as long as there were enough poisonous fruits, Luo Chong could exchange them for all kinds of good things.
In Mao Li's view, such conditions were simply fat meat delivered to his mouth, so he would not miss it.
Early the next morning, the team led by Dashu started to move again. They were very close to Babaoshan, and the Han tribe needed lime, so they had to be as fast as possible.
The four people who were sent by Dashu to stay by the river to guard the wooden boat were also in action. As long as the wooden boat was hidden, there was no need to keep an eye on it. Their main task was to stay here and catch wild rabbits, bringing fresh blood to the Han tribe's breeding rabbit herd and injecting new genes, so as to expand the size of the rabbit herd.
On the other side, the large army led by Shu Da was also advancing with difficulty. The team of more than a thousand people walked and stopped, and now they have crossed the scope of Rumeng Water Valley.
They are really in a difficult situation. Those children under the age of five are definitely impossible to walk for several days by themselves, so they can only be carried by adults.
As for the pregnant women in the team, they were oppressed by the Fire Tribe before. Most of them didn't even have a pair of straw sandals, and they were all walking barefoot.
Although they all had thick calluses on their feet, which were not much worse than the soles of shoes, they couldn't stand walking so far. Even if the calluses on their feet were titanium alloy, they would also wear out. Some people even had blood on their feet.
Hundreds of pregnant women like this, after a long journey for several days, are expected to suffer non-combat casualties. Even if a few died, it would not be surprising. Their bodies were not very good before they came, but everyone was still insisting.
They want to have a home,
a place that doesn't need to be too big, so that they can rest in peace
when they feel tired . In the Han tribe, a few days away from them, Luo Chong is leading the engineering team to build a home for them. After a day of bricklaying practice, the 14 bricklayers have become more skilled. Today they are building a 24 wall, which is much simpler than a 50 wall or a 37 wall. At least fewer bricks are used, so the speed is faster. Among the 14 bricklayers, Luo Chong selected 6 people with better skills and talents, and trained them to find right angles and verticality. Then these six people were responsible for laying the corners and the T-shaped joints of the two walls. The other people with slightly worse skills were all arranged to lay straight lines in the middle of the wall. Each person was responsible for a distance of three or four meters on a wall. The speed of laying the wall was still very fast. From dawn to noon, it took almost 6 hours, and the walls of the three houses had risen to one meter high. At this time, they could not continue to work, and they needed scaffolding. The three-room bungalow designed by Luo Chong had to be built three meters high, and the roof was not included. During the lunch break at noon, Luo Chong looked for the scaffolding and bridge timbers that the carpentry team had prepared in advance. Everyone knows about scaffolding, which is a kind of workbench that increases the height, and the bridge timber, which is the wood placed on the windows and doors to provide support. For example, when you build the interior walls of a house, you can't leave no door, so you have to leave a piece of the wall empty as a door, but this door can't be left directly on the roof, so at this time you need a flat support to be placed on top of the door, and then continue to lay bricks upwards until it reaches the roof. This is the so-called bridge timber, and the same goes for the one on the window. The bridge timbers are all made of oak. In addition to fir and pine trees on this mountain, oak is the most abundant, and oak is hard in texture, so it is very suitable for building materials, ships, and furniture, and it is also relatively waterproof. (End of this chapter)
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