Chapter 245 Vegetables at the Market (Please vote and subscribe)
Luo Chong is very lucky. He does not need to keep exploring like his predecessors, because what he is learning is the knowledge accumulated after thousands of years, which saves thousands of years for his development.
Pig iron is urgently needed by the Han tribe, and it is also the basis of steelmaking. The Han tribe also needs wrought iron, which can be obtained by frying steel. Steel is naturally needed, so it doesn’t matter which one you want or not, because the production of steel is a set of processes, and these things will be made.
In the following time, the Han tribe continued to carry out various constructions in an orderly manner. Half a month later, the waterwheel mill of the Han tribe was finally built. After debugging, it was finally put into use.
Luo Chong assigned ten people to be responsible for the work of the mill and began to process iron ore powder to prepare for the subsequent ironmaking.
It is necessary to mention that the blast furnace designed by Luo Chong is very large. Every time it is fired, a large amount of raw materials are needed. Charcoal, ore bricks composed of lime, ore powder, and carbon powder are all needed. It takes one or two months to prepare the materials for smelting. Therefore, the blast furnace of the Han tribe will not smelt iron too frequently. If it can be opened once every two months, it is considered efficient.
The construction of the blast furnace is still in progress. The structure of this thing is too complicated. Due to its high height, the strength of the refractory bricks may not be able to withstand it, so the structure is divided into two layers, the outer layer is built with more solid blue bricks to support the structural strength of the blast furnace, and a layer of refractory bricks is built inside to make the furnace to withstand high temperatures.
Since it is the first time that the Han tribe has built such a tall and complex functional building, the progress of the tribe is very slow, but Luo Chong is not in a hurry. The meal must be eaten bite by bite. If the quality of this thing is not up to standard, it will cost lives.
It was the beginning of the fourth month of summer. A month had passed since the first market. The second market held by the Han tribe began again, but this time, the people who came were much different.
It was two months ago that the tribes obtained the planting technology and rice seeds from the Han tribe. The first batch of tribes that started to plant rice have completed the reclamation of farmland and sowing. Some tribes that have made fast progress have completed the transplanting of rice seedlings, and those that have not transplanted rice seedlings will soon transplant rice seedlings.
This time, each tribe sent people, but the transaction volume was much lower than the first time. Most of them came to learn the field management of the later stage of rice planting. The second season of rice in the Han tribe was transplanted a month ago, one or two months earlier than them. It was just right to use the rice fields of the Han tribe to explain to them. The
tribe that attaches the most importance to rice planting and is most capable of completing it is the Cha tribe. They live by the water and make a living by fishing. The population has reached more than 400. In addition, with a suitable geographical location, the scale of planting is also the largest. The planting area has reached 55 mu, and the transplanting of rice seedlings has been completed at this time.
Since fishing is easier than hunting, the leader of the Cha only assigned a small number of people to fish to provide food for the entire tribe. Most of the rest went to reclaim land and do farm work, so their progress was so fast.
The largest planting area of other tribes is only about 20 mu, and most of them are more than 10 mu. The rice seedlings have just grown and they will soon be transplanted.
The tribesmen of the Han tribe took them to visit the rice fields of the Han tribe and taught them the later management, weeding, and the control of water volume in the rice fields. These two things need to be paid attention to during the field period, especially the control of water volume.
The best way is to keep the water volume at a height that can cover the palm of your hand, and then wait for it to evaporate and penetrate naturally. When all the water is gone, add more water to it, and repeat it like this. When it comes to the final filling period, it is necessary to maintain a higher water volume, and the water cannot be cut off. But there is no need to rush now, because they will come to the Han tribe every month to learn.
After these larger tribes learned, they left immediately. They had to send the precautions back to the tribe quickly, but the number of people coming to the market did not decrease, but increased.
The extra ones were small tribes that came here after hearing the news. Their population was usually no more than 100. They did not have enough animal skins to trade with the Han tribe, but they had other things that Luo Chong needed.
It was the last month of summer, the end of summer. This season was the season when fruits and vegetables were ripe. Many fruits were ripe, so Luo Chong saw a lot of good things at the market this time.
Some small tribes collected wild honey, which was bought by Luo Chong at a high price. Sweets are loved by humans at all times because they can make people feel happy. But those small tribes did not want happiness now. They just wanted a few pots and some white salt.
Other tribes that did not have animal skins or honey wanted to exchange some daily necessities from the Han tribe. They could only trade the special fruits and vegetables in their own tribal territories. They did not know whether the Han tribe would accept them. What they did not expect was that these worthless fruits and vegetables were very popular in the Han tribe, or rather, the Han leader himself liked them very much.
One of the tribes brought a kind of melon, which was thin and long, with a smooth skin and a long cylindrical shape. Luo Chong took a look and found it was a loofah.
Loofah is not delicious when eaten raw. This small tribe usually roasts it after gathering it. But when it comes to Luo Chong, there are naturally more ways to eat it. In the past, Luo Chong's favorite vegetarian dish was stir-fried loofah with peppers.
And the reason why loofah is called loofah is that when it matures, its flesh will become filamentous, similar to a sponge. When there is no steel wool, this thing is often used to wash pots. In some places, old loofah pulp is used as a bath towel.
There is no reason to refuse such a good thing. Luo Chong immediately bought all their loofahs and ordered a batch from them. When the loofahs are completely mature and dry in the fall, he will send some to the Han tribe. At that time, they can be directly exchanged for white salt, pottery, and even food.
The tribe was very happy and left with many thanks. However, what they didn't know was that they could only take advantage of this once. When the Han tribe had seeds this year, they could plant them themselves next year. Who would want your loofahs then?
In addition to loofahs, some tribes brought radishes and tomatoes, and even a kind of long beans, which made Luo Chong very happy.
Luo Chong had never seen the variety of radishes before. It should be a unique variety here. It was as long as an adult's palm and about four centimeters in diameter. It was already a relatively large one.
Its skin was orange-red like a carrot, but the flesh inside was red. It was out of the orange category. It was very red, and it didn't taste spicy when eaten raw. It looked like fruit. Luo Chong only tasted one and buried the rest directly in the ground, letting them continue to grow until they produced seeds in autumn.
The tomatoes were also very special. They were not big, only the size of nectarines, bright red, but oval in shape, with a slightly long fruit shape, not the common round shape, but more like a large cherry tomato. Luo Chong bought all of them and ordered seeds.
There is nothing much to say about the last long beans. They are no different from the beans Luo Chong had eaten before. According to the rules, all of them were purchased and the seeds were ordered.
(End of this chapter)
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