Chapter 187 Lu Tribe (Please vote and subscribe)
It was the first time for Shang and Elder Bian to come into contact with rice. After listening to Luo Chong's introduction, they silently calculated in their minds.
There are 14 months a year here, 4 of which are cold winters, and the remaining ten months can be used to grow rice.
If one rice plant is equivalent to one meal, a person needs more than 800 plants a year. This is calculated based on the method of two meals a day. Three meals require about 1,300 plants. Planting in three seasons, four or five hundred plants each time is enough. This food source seems to be considerable. No wonder it is used as a staple food.
But in fact, only Luo Chong himself knows that it is very difficult to grow three seasons of rice. Although it seems that ten months is enough, it is almost impossible to actually operate.
Unless you bury the seeds as soon as you finish harvesting every time the season changes, it is very difficult.
It takes time to harvest, and it also takes time to re-cultivate and fertilize the land. Just one season change may take about ten days, which is still fast. Two season changes may waste nearly a month. The rice in the third season can be planted, but it will definitely not be ripe before winter, which is quite frustrating.
However, everything depends on human efforts. If we study it carefully, we can improve the efficiency of farming and reduce the time of season change. It may be possible to do it.
At this point, the visit of the two senior officials of the Bian tribe was over, and they had a clearer understanding of the situation of the Han tribe. The two sides also decided that the
Bian tribe would join the Han tribe as a whole. The Bian tribe will not move to the Han tribe for the time being, but from now on, the Bian tribe is already a member of the Han tribe. Luo Chong will equip them with the same production and living utensils as the Han tribe, and the Bian tribe will also provide the Han tribe with all the hemp fiber produced.
The initial supply plan is for Luo Chong to send 5 ox carts to the Bian tribe. They are simple flatbed carts pulled by one ox, which are currently used by the Han tribe to pull bricks.
These five ox carts will carry some pottery, white salt, buckets, copper axes, copper shovels, copper spears and other production and living utensils, as well as ten spinning machines, two combing machines that are the only ones in the Han tribe, and a loom. The wool balls have all been combed now, and there is no work to do in the short term, so they are all transported to the Bian tribe to comb the hemp fibers.
There will be new models of looms available later, which are special models specially used to weave sacks. The rice is about to mature, and the Han tribe needs a lot of sacks to store rice. This is also the first production task that Luo Chong has assigned to them.
After returning this time, the Bian tribe will all change to weaving sacks. The specific size parameters, production process, and machines will be sent to them by Luo Chong later. Now they just need to spin hemp thread as hard as they can, which is why Luo Chong allocated 10 spinning machines to the Bian tribe at one time.
The yarn for weaving sacks cannot be too thin. The yarn spun out by the spinning machine must be combined into one strand of three strands. This can also be operated by the existing spinning machine. The diameter of the flax thread produced is about 1.5 mm, which is not very thick, but not thin either. The sacks made in this way are strong enough and wear-resistant, and can also improve the efficiency of weaving. After all, the thicker the thread, the faster it can be woven.
After reading all this, it was almost evening. The two of them, accompanied by Xiaodie, visited the carpentry group and the kiln group together, which really opened their eyes.
The Han tribe is too developed compared to them, but they are also members of the Han tribe now, and they will be able to enjoy these in the future. When they think of this, they inexplicably feel a sense of pride in their hearts, which is a sense of belonging and pride in the Han tribe.
At night, Shang and Elder Bian enjoyed a heavy-tasting meal, with plenty of salt and pepper. When they were in the Bian tribe, they were very frugal with white salt. They dared not eat
the precious things that were exchanged for population. Everyone could only put a little in their mouths and sprinkle it on the food? Sorry, that's too extravagant.
There was no conversation that night. On the second day, Luo Chong began to arrange for the tribesmen to prepare supplies for the Bian tribe. Shang and Elder Bian were also learning how to use the combing machine and spinning machine, as well as the method of making three-strand thread that Luo Chong mentioned. This was the first task assigned by Luo Chong, and they had to complete it well.
The supplies were prepared for a day, and Shang and Elder Bian also learned how to use various things for a day. On the morning of the third day, the two set off on their way home.
There were 8 ox carts and 10 tribesmen following on the road, eight of whom were cart drivers, and the other two were two women sent by Luo Chong. They were the earliest original tribesmen of the Han tribe. They were responsible for teaching the Bian tribe how to use various supplies and also for teaching Chinese.
At the same time, it was also placed there as a reminder to the Bian tribe, not to forget what they promised the Han tribe, and not to run away with Luo Chong's supplies, because that would be impossible.
The hunting team riding horned deer also went with them. They were responsible for sending the caravan to the Bian tribe safely, and when they came back, they had to bring back three ox carts and visit the hunting grounds to see if there was any harvest. If there was prey, they could just use the ox carts to pull it back, so as to avoid sending reinforcements.
After the caravan set off, Luo Chong began to look for wooden pigs to study a new type of miniaturized loom. The structure of the new type of small coarse linen loom should be as simple as possible, easy to assemble and disassemble, and the parts should be easy to manufacture on a large scale. The simpler the better. For parts such as rollers, it is best to use gun barrels to replace them directly, so as to avoid the trouble of grinding a round wood, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
The new flax loom is designed to have a weaving width of only 45 cm. The raw material is 1.5 mm diameter flax yarn, and only 300 warp threads are needed. Compared with the previous one-meter width, which had 2,000 warp threads, the structure is much simpler. The two most delicate parts, the lifting and weft cutting, are much simpler.
Since the yarn used is relatively thick, the volume of the wooden shuttle used to place the weft thread has also increased accordingly, and the length has been extended to 40 cm, which is almost the same as the width of the cloth.
In addition, as the wooden shuttle has become longer and thicker, the stretching distance of the lifting and weft cutting device has also been adjusted, so that the opening of the two sets of warp threads can be larger when they are layered, which is convenient for throwing the shuttle left and right.
The entire machine structure has also been changed from the original vertical to the horizontal loom. The widest part of the new machine is not as large as the thickness of the original machine, so there is no need to consider saving floor space.
Luo Chong was working on the research and development of new machines. In the afternoon, the Li tribe on the east bank of the river sent six tung tree seedlings and more than a dozen baskets of tung seeds, and exchanged a batch of pottery and white salt with the Han tribe. These matters were arranged by the elders. Unless they proposed a new deal and the elders could not make the decision, they would ask Luo Chong to come forward.
The Li tribe on the east bank of the river was very busy, but the You tribe on the east bank was also busy. After a journey of nearly a month, You Fu finally met the first tribe on the east bank that raised animals - the Lu tribe.
(End of this chapter)
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