Chapter 178: How to increase speed by three times (please vote and subscribe)
With the attitude of a good man not to suffer a loss in front of him, You Fu happily took out all the pheasants he had killed yesterday. Of course, he could not return the ones he had already eaten.
You have to know that there are more than 40 adult men in front of him, and You Fu can't afford to offend them. Moreover, they all have bows and arrows. Although they are crudely made, they are still bows and arrows. What's more, the two sides are only about ten meters away. If the other side launches a volley, it's unimaginable.
Seeing that the You tribe handed over the prey so happily, even the leader of the Que tribe did not expect it. He was stunned on the spot, but he soon reacted and asked his warriors to take over the prey, and then began to drive them away, but he failed to drive them away. An accident happened again.
"Dear leader, we can leave, but we really need these foods. We don't want to rob them. We can exchange them with something, okay?" You Fu began to try to make a deal again.
"Exchange, what?" The leader of the Que tribe asked curiously.
"This, white salt, is also edible." You Fu said, and took out a small snakeskin bag from his waist, then opened it to show the chieftain, and pinched a little bit to signal him to eat.
The chieftain did not dare to taste it, but it was the first time he saw such a pure white thing, and he was obviously very interested. In the end, You Fu tasted a little first, indicating that it was non-toxic, and the chieftain frowned and began to try it.
The result was naturally no exception. The white salt produced by the Han tribe was of just the right quality. After tasting it, the chieftain immediately agreed to exchange some with You Fu.
It was a pity that You Fu only exchanged some food, and there was no specialty that Luo Chong needed, nor the kind of tree with sections and hollow in the middle. However, because You Fu was kind and generous, and never easily conflicted with other tribes, he made friends with many tribes, and agreed to exchange such good things in the future.
After bidding farewell to the Que tribe, the You tribe continued to travel southeast. They traveled along the east bank of the stream for about a day, so that they would have a high probability of encountering more tribes and try to find what Luo Chong needed before losing all their money this time, so that they could have an explanation at that time.
On the Han tribe side, after a thunderstorm, there were several days of sunny days. The sun was scorching, the temperature was getting higher and higher, and all kinds of plants were growing like crazy.
The rice in the rice field has passed the entire growth stage of the jointing period and has now grown to a height of two meters, taller than a person. From a distance, it looks like a sorghum field.
Luo Chong carefully observed the rice fields these days and found that the rice was not growing well, and it could even be said to be degraded. The yield was worse than that of wild rice. The specific degradation was that there were fewer stalks during the tillering period. You know, one more stalk means one more rice ear. But in the current rice fields, there are generally about 15 to 20 stalks, which is more than twice less than the wild rice that Luo Chong saw growing the most. This is a very serious problem.
After several days of observation, Luo Chong came to a conclusion that the reason for the reduction in tillering may be due to too dense planting. The specific manifestation is that the outermost circle of rice in the rice field has an average of more than 30 stalks per plant. What does this mean? Because the outermost circle has more growth space.
Therefore, the rice planting density for the next season needs to be adjusted, and the minimum row spacing must be more than half a meter, or even 60 centimeters. In addition, starting from the next season, additional fertilizers will be needed.
If rice disappointed Luo Chong among these crops, then ramie was the best growing one. Ramie had already grown very tall. Most importantly, after continuous reclamation of wasteland and expansion of planting, the planting area of ramie had reached hundreds of acres. Of course, compared with the thousands of acres of hemp gardens that had been operated by the Bian tribe for generations, the hemp fields of the Han tribe were still too small.
In the vegetable fields near the river, the flowers of the peppers have faded, and many small peppers have grown. When they grow to their maximum size, they can grow to the length of a finger, and are about the same thickness, but they are no less spicy than the chili peppers, although this variety of peppers grows hanging.
In addition to these edible things, the ones that can be used also grow very fast, especially the man-eating trees planted artificially along the river.
These are the fresh spikes that Luo Chong asked the tribesmen to collect and insert there at the beginning of spring. Every day, they are watered with fish blood, fish scales, and fish viscera. Due to the stable blood and viscera every day, the spikes of these man-eating trees grow by leaps and bounds. In less than three months, they have grown from more than one meter high to more than three meters, and the diameter is about 2.5 centimeters. It is still a little short of being used as weapons and tools. At least the diameter must grow to more than three centimeters to be convenient to hold in the hand. Let's keep it like this for now, and it is estimated that they can be harvested at about the same time as rice.
On the fourth day after the heavy rain, Shouya brought back news from Dashu from Babao Mountain. They were fine that day. Since the place was close to the Dark Forest, Dashu was quite familiar with it and had been there twice before.
Moreover, they had so many copper tools and weapons, so building a house was not a problem. They had cut down some trees and built a house in the lee of the mountain. As for weapons, they also had bows and arrows. To the east of Babao Mountain was a wetland grassland with beavers, otters, fish, giant geese, ancient cranes, wild ducks, and even horned beasts. There was no shortage of food.
Hearing this, Luo Chong was puzzled. Aren't they going to mine? How could they have time to build a house and go out hunting and fishing?
Then Luo Chong heard another piece of news brought back by Shouya, which was relayed to Luo Chong by Dashu. Specifically, they had more than a dozen people mining and could dig out two or three carts of minerals a day, but it would take at least two days for a bullock cart to transport them. It was not that they didn't work, but that the transportation was not available, so they had the leisure time to improve their living standards.
In addition, Dashu suggested to Luo Chong that if Luo Chong felt that the limestone transported back was too little, he should let the carpentry team build a few more ox carts. There would be no problem with the mining there, and they would definitely be able to supply it.
So, the carpentry team, which had been arranged by Luo Chong to switch to making textile machinery, started to build ox carts again, four-wheeled trucks, just to load more and save labor, widen the wheels, and raise the carriage to make a deep bucket truck.
However, during these sunny days, the results of the carpentry team were also gratifying. More than 20 people made machines, and with the guidance of the already mature wooden pig, the construction speed was still very fast. In just six days, the carpentry team built 12 spinning machines for twisting threads, which was the simplest.
Only two combing roving machines were built, and there were some completed parts, such as rollers; one and a half of the first generation of vertical looms designed by Luo Chong were built, one was a finished product with complete installation and debugging, and another had just built a frame.
Xiaodie was very happy to see more and more textile machines, because she was becoming more and more proficient in using the loom. From one meter of cloth on the first day, to one and a half meters, two meters, three meters, ten feet, and even the possibility of improvement, Xiaodie was so excited that she could weave more than three meters a day, and it was so wide. If it were in the old weaving tribe, it would take about two or three months to weave the current amount in one day, and the quality was incomparable.
But Luo Chong didn't care much, and his attitude was very calm. He was happy but not excited, because he still had the flying shuttle loom in his mind. With the same manual operation, the flying shuttle loom could at least increase the current weaving speed by three times, because it didn't need to use both hands to throw the shuttle back and forth, and springs were installed on both sides of the shuttle. Just pull the rope to complete the action of throwing the shuttle and pulling the weft.
What a pity, where can I get the spring.
(End of this chapter)
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