Chapter 239 The Belated Trading Team (Please vote and subscribe)
At present, pottery, water containers, and sacks are the most in-demand commodities, with the largest sales volume, and they are also the commodities they must buy.
The price of metal farm tools is definitely not low, and they can't buy much even if they buy them, but Luo Chong still stamped them with the "made in the Han Dynasty". Things that go out of the Han tribe must carry these four words.
After a while, the variety of goods in the Han tribe will be more abundant. Iron pots, iron farm tools, and linen printed with Chinese characters will all appear in the market. Luo Chong's cultural communication plan will go further, and in the future, You Fu will be able to take these goods to more distant places to sell.
As for furniture such as tables and chairs, it is not certain that they can be sold. If you want to use furniture, you must at least have a house, and the ground must be flat; another reason for the difficulty is that it is not convenient to transport such large items. Can they carry a solid wooden table for more than ten days? That would be too tiring.
Moreover, furniture making is troublesome in itself. Luo Chong will definitely ask for a high price. It is expensive and difficult to transport. They may not buy it. At most, they will buy a lot of furniture and bring it back for the leader.
Just when Luo Chong was doing a great job, the large army led by Dali, Youfu and Yingrui also came back. So far, except for Dashu who continued to mine in Babaoshan, almost all the power of the Han tribe was concentrated in the settlement, and the construction project of the Han tribe will continue.
After several months of construction, two residential areas have been built in the construction site of the city site, with a total of 198 houses. The initial decoration has also been completed. In fact, the floor tiles have been laid in the house, and the doors and windows have not been installed yet, and the interior walls have not been painted white.
But it can be used for living. Anyway, it is still summer and the weather is hot. It doesn’t matter if there are no doors and windows. The walls are not painted white, which means that the house is a little darker.
Luo Chong immediately ordered the Han tribe to move in the first batch of residents. The two urban areas were expected to have a population of 2,000 people, but that was the situation of two or three adults and seven or eight children. Now the main members of the Han tribe were young people who had just reached adulthood and were bought at the Spring Fair. They had no children yet.
So Luo Chong moved the pregnant women and children brought back from the Fire Tribe first, and added some young people in groups of two, so the first batch of residents was 1,800.
A family had three houses and two bedrooms. One side was occupied by a young couple, and the other side was occupied by pregnant women with several children. In this way, the temporary families could take care of each other. After these pregnant women gave birth, the Han tribe had new houses, and then they would redistribute the residences. Anyway, they would have houses to live in in the end.
After the first batch of residents moved in, the straw houses they originally lived in were all demolished, and the thatch was made into straw bundles to build the roofs of new houses. The removed branches were used as firewood, and there was nothing left. All waste was reused.
After the power of the Han tribe shrank, the more than 200 slaves were all sent to build the city wall. The houses in the urban area were built by their own tribesmen, and the walls were built by slaves outside.
Since the city wall is a brick-covered earth structure, with bricks, it is even easier to build than a pure rammed earth wall. If it is pure rammed earth, a large number of wooden boards are needed to make the mold of the wall, but brick-covered earth is not so troublesome.
When building, just build a circle of bricks on the periphery of the wall, then pour carts of earth into the brick frame, and then use a rammer made of logs to tamp the earth, which saves a lot of wooden boards. After all, sawing wooden boards is not an easy job now. Making a large number of wooden boards as wall molds is more labor-intensive and time-consuming, and it is not as fast as using mud to burn bricks.
Since the Han tribe did not deduct food from the slaves, they were quite obedient when working. Anyway, it was impossible for them to run away. Since they were not killed and had food to eat, they just needed to work non-stop. But being a little tired was better than dying, and the slaves gradually accepted this fact.
By the end of the second month of summer, the Han tribe had completed the second quarter's rice planting, peanut planting, lacquer grass planting, pepper planting, and cabbage planting, and the big morning glories were also transplanted into the ground.
The fields on the east bank of the stream were still being felled. At the current rate, it was estimated that nothing could be planted this year. They could only reclaim the land and dig the ditches for water diversion this year to prepare for the expansion of planting next year.
In addition, since all the people in the iron ore area had returned, the only small boat of the Han tribe was now responsible for the transportation of minerals from Babaoshan, which was faster than the previous transportation by land by oxcart. Dashu had also brought back a lot of refractory kaolin and anthill soil from Babaoshan, and Luo Chong's plan to make refractory bricks had also begun.
Because refractory bricks did not require a lot, they were only used to build a few furnaces. Luo Chong just found ten savages with disabled legs and feet to do this job. The production of refractory bricks was no different from that of ordinary red bricks, except for the different materials. There was no difference in the other processes, so it was not difficult to give it to them.
Time soon arrived at the end of the second month of summer, the full moon. The Han tribe had prepared the first batch of goods for sale, printed pottery, branded buckets, and printed sacks. Luo Chong waited for the first batch of customers to come to the market.
This wait lasted a whole day. On the first day of March in summer, no tribe came. On the second day, no tribe came. Luo Chong began to feel disappointed, but he still looked calm and confident.
"Chief, it's been two days. Those tribes won't not come. We have prepared so many good things in vain. It's a pity. Our tribe hasn't used such beautiful pottery yet." Rat Da and Lame complained to Luo Chong.
"No, they definitely need these things, but they just got the seeds, so they will definitely take time to cultivate the fields first. Maybe they don't have time to come.
Besides, even if no one comes to buy, our Han tribe can use these things ourselves. What's a pity? Didn't you say that we haven't used such beautiful pottery yet? Then you can take one and use it yourself first." Luo Chong speculated to the two.
"Hehe, if it's to be used, it should be used by the leader first. But the pottery made this time is really beautiful, especially with the pottery pulling machine made by the leader, it is faster and better than before. The leader is really amazing. He can come up with such a useful tool." The lame man was also sighing at the changes in the pottery of the Han tribe.
"That's right, I think the big waterwheel that the leader recently asked people to make is also very amazing. Although it has not been built yet, I saw it when I was experimenting that day. It can turn in circles by itself when placed in the water, without people stepping on it, or cattle and horses pulling it. That thing is even more amazing." Shu Da also expressed his admiration for Luo Chong.
Luo Chong ignored the flattery of the two guys and continued to wait for his customers. On the third day of March in summer, the customers that Luo Chong was looking forward to finally arrived, and there were more people than last time, nearly 300 people, more than double the number of people who came last time.
"This should not be just the tribes from last time. I saw their costumes, and some of them I didn't see last time." Shu Da looked at the tribal caravans coming to the market and guessed to Luo Chong.
"Well, I've noticed that there are many unfamiliar costumes. It should be that our planting methods have been spread by them. It seems that these people are all coming for our rice. You go tell our soldiers to strengthen the tribe's vigilance in the next few days." Luo Chong said to Shu Da.
"Yes, chief, I will arrange it right away."
(End of this chapter)
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