Chapter 220 Will You Agree? (Please vote and subscribe)
The meeting was over, and everyone started to get busy. Luo Chong first went to see the harvested rice. It was very dry. He peeled out a rice grain and bit it in his mouth. It made a "bang" sound. This dryness met the storage conditions.
He poured out about 350 kilograms of rice and soaked it in a bucket. He was going to start sowing at this time tomorrow. Because there was no scale, he could only use the estimated weight, so the actual weight might be a little higher. Anyway, he had to consider the germination rate. Not all seeds would germinate after being planted. The extra ones would be used as supplementary seedlings.
After looking at the millets, Luo Chong went to the animal pen to see the group of spotted pigs. Dashu had someone build a simple open-air pig pen yesterday, divided into three grids, and the big pigs and small pigs were placed separately. Today, the food they eat has become the vines collected by the women.
The huge morning glories that You Fu brought back are still planted in pots, and there is no place to plant the cabbage seeds.
Seeing these black and white piglets, Luo Chong was very happy. This was something he could not catch. He had to domesticate them for many generations before he could breed such a variety. This time, the Han tribe was lucky.
"Chief, there are not many things that can be used to feed pigs in our tribe. What will we feed these pigs in the future?" asked Da Shu, who was accompanying him.
"Well, I have thought about this. The husks of our rice can also be used for breeding, but it is a trouble in winter. We need to dig some cellars to store enough silage. We will dig this after we build the house." Luo Chong thought for a while and said.
"Well, the chief will arrange it when the time comes." Da Shu nodded.
After inspecting these, Luo Chong took Eagle Chief Rui to visit the Han tribe again, but some things could not be shown to him. He was only shown the finished products of some things.
The richness of the materials in the Han tribe greatly exceeded Rui's imagination. Apart from other things, the rich containers that everyone had made him envious. The bronze tools and bronze weapons used by the Han tribe to work could also be reached by everyone.
Not to mention the technology. Now almost all the tribesmen are in the tribe. Several huge ox carts used to pull mines are neatly parked around the wall. Even the one from the You tribe is temporarily parked there, which looks very eye-catching.
This is still a relatively large one. There are more two-wheeled carts used to pull bricks, more than 20 of them, and dozens of small human-powered carts. What
shocked Rui even more was the animal breeding of the Han tribe, black chickens, snow rabbits, bison, horned deer, alpacas, and woolen cloth woven from alpaca wool. This shocked Rui the most.
When he saw the women of the Han tribe weaving woolen cloth with those strange wooden machines, Rui was speechless for a long time. He didn't understand why Luo Chong could make such a magical thing and the idea of weaving cloth with animal wool.
Would ordinary people think of weaving? Of course, as long as they learned to weave baskets and twist ropes, humans would sooner or later awaken the skill of weaving, because this is the beginning of weaving technology, and weaving is the sublimation of weaving technology. Sooner or later, they will reach this step, it's just a matter of speed.
But the Eagle Tribe really didn't know how to do that. They were still at the stage of using animal skins to make clothes and bags. They didn't lack prey, so they had a lot of animal skins. They didn't have an urgent need for cloth, so they didn't evolve this skill.
Another thing was the Han Tribe's planting business. It was the first time Rui knew that he could get food this way, and that planting food had huge promotion potential. It was different from hunting, and it was safe and stable. As long as there was land and water, humans could survive. It was much more stable than hunting, and it could feed more people.
Rui was not a fool. As the leader of a tribe, he could naturally see the advantages of planting, and wanted to bring the planting technology back, so he immediately asked Luo Chong about it.
"Chief Han, can our Eagle Tribe also grow this kind of rice?"
"Of course you can, but you must come down from that island. Planting rice requires a lot of fresh water, which you don't have there, and you can't plant it around the lake. It's all saline-alkali land, and it won't grow even if you plant it.
If you want to grow rice, you must be close to a water source, and you must have a large area of open land. You can't plant it in the woods, but such a place is not easy to find." Luo Chong introduced the various conditions for growing rice.
"Then your place is very suitable, but it is true as you said, there are not many such places." Rui said helplessly.
"No, no, no, in fact, our place is not very suitable either. The two small rivers you see for irrigation were dug by us, otherwise we can't grow rice here.
It is indeed difficult to find a suitable place, but we can go to reclaim land. If there is no water, we can find a way to divert water. We can always find a way." Luo Chong pointed to the two artificial rivers and said.
"So you dug it out. I was wondering why the bend was so straight. My God, how long would it take to dig two rivers that long? How much labor would it take?" Rui said in amazement.
"Haha, we have a lot of people. This is the advantage of having a lot of people." Luo Chong said with a smile.
Time passed in the blink of an eye and it was evening. You Fu, who went hunting on the east bank of the river, also came back with his men. They also shot a fawn. When he saw Luo Chong coming back, he immediately took the deer to have dinner with Luo Chong.
Luo Chong was not polite. He asked people to take out a few pounds of rice, put it in a pottery jar, smash it to remove the shell and make brown rice, and then cook two pots of dry rice. This is the best thing to entertain guests, more precious than meat.
At dinner, all the senior leaders gathered together, each holding a bowl of new rice produced this year. The main dishes were stewed venison and grilled fish. The Han tribe used chopsticks that they cut themselves. Only You Fu and Rui were not used to it. It was difficult to pick up the dishes, but they were very good at putting rice into their mouths.
"Chief Han, your rice is really a good thing. It is delicious and filling. If you plant it in the ground, you will have endless rice. This thing is really amazing. How did you find this kind of grass?" You Fu asked Luo Chong curiously while sighing at the deliciousness of the rice.
"Haha, I found it by chance. Just look at what those animals eat and you will know. Most of the things that animals can eat, we humans can also eat.
By the way, I heard from Dashu today that you want to use our house here to spend the winter. Is that right?" Luo Chong laughed perfunctorily and then asked about the business again.
"Well, I have this plan. Our You tribe has no fixed place to live, and it is a problem to spend the winter every year.
And we are friends. Your tribe is big enough and the house is very good, so I think so. Will Chief Han agree? We can continue to cooperate in the future." You Fu explained his original intention.
(End of this chapter)
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