Chapter 249: Developing the Hedong Market (Seeking votes and subscriptions)
Every invention of science and technology can produce qualitative changes. From the original one person holding a log to ramming, it has become a semi-automatic mobile ramming car. Not only is the speed faster, but the effect is also several times the original. The tribesmen like this special tool very much. At least it saves effort.
Since the first ramming car was well received, Luo Chong immediately issued an order for mass production. This ramming car is very simple to make. It only has a few frames, four solid wheels, a thick log, a lever, and some ropes. It is also very fast to make.
Although the Han tribe is currently building only one warehouse, it does not need so many ramming cars, but the rammed earth wall can be used. If the rammed earth wall with a circumference of 1,200 meters is fully rammed by manpower, how long will it take to build it? Although slaves are used, it is not good to be slow, so all the extra ramming cars are put on the construction of the wall.
With the tamping car, it took only one week to dig the trench and lay the foundation for the entire warehouse. The next step was endless bricklaying. However, in the last week of summer, when the widened wall under the foundation had just emerged from the ground, the team sent by the Sharp Horn Tribe to deliver antelopes finally arrived.
Just at noon that day, the tribesmen who were patrolling the periphery and hunting part-time met them. 40 people drove 100 saiga antelopes to the periphery of the Han tribe and were brought over by the patrol team. Luo Chong also received the news as soon as possible and led people to greet them.
Of course, he did not go to greet those people, but wanted to see what saiga antelopes looked like with his own eyes. Luo Chong had never seen a live saiga antelope before.
The group met at the grassland west of the city, where the market was held every time. Seeing the 100 adult antelopes brought by the other party, Luo Chong immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Well, they were the same as the saiga antelopes in his memory. His inference was correct, so he was relieved.
"Leader of the Han tribe, these are the 100 sheep you requested, 20 males and 80 females. We have sent them all, but because they are live sheep, our leader said the price should be raised. One sheep should be exchanged for five pottery pots or five large bowls of white salt. Do you think it's okay?" said the team leader of the Sharp Horn Tribe.
"No problem. I'm glad that your leader can think clearly and send the sheep himself. Otherwise, haha, but it's good that you can send them. I can still agree to this condition. You are also welcome to continue to send sheep in the future. I can trade with you at this price."
Five pottery pots are the price of a bear skin or tiger skin, but because these are all live sheep, Luo Chong also agreed. Since they only have 40 people, it is not realistic to exchange all of them for pottery pots. They can't use up 500 pottery pots, so most of them were exchanged for bowls this time, and there was also a large amount of white salt. Only a small part of the pottery pots were exchanged.
The goods of the Han tribe were all picked up for free. At least the raw materials were free and only needed to be made by manpower. Everyone felt that it was a good deal to be able to exchange them for these suitable livestock for breeding. The same was true for the Sharp Horned Tribe. The sheep gave birth to lambs, and they ate grass that was free. They were also cost-free commodities, so they felt that they were not at a disadvantage. Both parties got what they needed, and the transaction was successfully completed.
The 40-person trading team of the Sharp Horned Tribe also returned with a full load of goods. The construction of the Han tribe was also continuing. The 100 antelopes were handed over to the tribe members for management. They were grazed on the grassland every day. They were temporarily locked in the previous wall with the zebras. All the tribe members of the Han tribe had moved into the urban area. The previous wall had long been uninhabited and was now completely turned into a livestock pen.
Another week passed, and the three-month autumn season began. The third market of the Han tribe began, but the trading volume dropped again this time. In addition to the tribes that continued to come to learn planting, some small tribes came even less.
Three months of autumn is not long or short, but for some tribes with a small population, they still started to store food for the winter early.
However, Luo Chong began to teach the tribes how to make pickled meat at the market, telling them that this way they could store meat for a longer time, so the tribes began to increase the purchase of white salt.
The trading of pottery has become less and less. After all, that thing is not a consumable. If it is well preserved, it will not be a problem to use it for hundreds of years. Therefore, the ceramic industry of the Han tribe has also changed from large-scale production to small-batch, high-quality roads. They began to burn some pickled vegetable jars, soup bowls, plates, teacups, teapots and other utensils, and the patterns are more exquisite. After all, the two painters bought by Luo Chong are not eating white rice. As
autumn approaches, the daytime is getting shorter and shorter. The Han tribe works from sunrise to sunset, and the tribesmen can easily feel this.
As the construction of the residential area is completed, Luo Chong quickly called back the Bian tribe that was stranded outside, so that they can return to the embrace of the Han tribe as soon as possible. According to Luo Chong's method, the more than 2,000 acres of hemp fields of the Bian tribe have been harvested four times this year, and it is expected that at least two more harvests will be harvested before winter comes.
However, Luo Chong had already stopped them from harvesting. Now they were allowed to grow. They would produce hemp seeds before winter, and they could be collected together with the seeds.
The Han tribe sent a large number of cattle, horses and vehicles to help the Bian tribe move. In fact, there were not many people, only two or three hundred, but they harvested a lot of hemp fiber this year. In addition, the textile machinery sent by the Han tribe before had to be pulled back by carts and horses.
After the Bian tribe moved back, You Fu began to get restless again. As mentioned before, the pottery market around was close to saturation, and not much could be sold in the Han tribe's market.
So You Fu proposed that he would lead a caravan to pull these unsold pottery and white salt and go through the Hedong area again to open up the Hedong market for the Han tribe. It would be best to hold an East Market in Hedong in the future, at the beginning and end of a month, so that the culture of the Han tribe could spread to more distant places.
In addition, it is autumn now, and some edible fruits and vegetables are ripe. Maybe we can bring back some vegetables or seeds from Hedong this time.
Luo Chong thought about it and agreed. He equipped Youfu with 40 male tribesmen, two ox carts, a cart of salt, a cart of pottery, ten horned deer, and 24 zebras. All members can ride them. They can travel faster on the road and try to explore farther, as long as they can come back before winter.
In addition, this team is equipped with several special talents, two teenagers who used to be from the Xieding tribe. They were the first group of people to enter the Han tribe. They were exchanged from Xieding for pottery not long after Luo Chong arrived here. These two people have learned Chinese and Chinese characters for nearly a year. They are the best among the adult tribesmen.
In addition to these two people, there are two young men from the Eagle Tribe, plus the Azuka giant eagle they raised themselves. With these four people in the team, even if they go far away, they can use the flying eagle to pass messages, and they can also ask for help when they encounter difficulties outside. You Fu is also very happy with Luo Chong's arrangement.
(End of this chapter)
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