Chapter 251 Farewell Fish Migration (Please vote and subscribe)
The first month of autumn ended, and the high temperature brought by summer gradually faded. Although it was still very hot at noon, it was cool in the morning and evening. Luo Chong also began to wear clothes made of woolen cloth. Boxer
briefs made of fine linen and underwear made of linen, natural original color, woolen trousers on the outside, and a knee-length robe made of woolen cloth with a cross-collar. On the feet were a pair of short boots with cowhide soles and sheepskin uppers.
The hem of the trousers was tucked into the boot shaft, and the upper sleeves were also held up with two cowhide arm guards to hold the fat cuffs. There was a palm-wide cowhide belt around the waist. The whole thing looked like an ancient training suit, very slim and upright.
Such attire is not for everyone. The Bian tribe has been producing sacks since its return. The limited looms have only produced one roll of fine linen. In addition to the underwear made by Luo Chong and Xiao Die, the rest were distributed to the senior leaders, and the rest were distributed to the babies who were about to be born.
There was even less alpaca wool cloth. Because of the limited materials, less than 200 meters of it were woven in total. Luo Chong and Xiao Die made a few sets of clothes, and the other senior leaders divided it up, so there was not much left.
And because of the cloth, Luo Chong also set aside a piece of linen to change the flag of the Han tribe. The original animal skin flag was replaced with the current linen printed flag. The whole flag was bright red, with a light yellow square blank in the middle, and then the word "Han" written in black dye. The way the flag was hung was also changed from the original vertical vassal to a horizontal flag.
The big flags fluttered in the bleak autumn wind. Another market of the Han tribe began. The tribes that had taken the rice seeds came to learn again. The smaller tribes also came to the Han tribe to send the vegetable seeds that Luo Chong had ordered in exchange for pottery and white salt.
Since the city wall had not yet been built, the scene inside the Han tribe city was now exposed in front of them. They had seen the neat brick houses in the Han tribe residential area from a distance before, and they only had envy in their eyes. If they had the materials, they felt that they could also build it. However, the tall warehouse that suddenly appeared this time looked very conspicuous, which made them feel even more shocked.
"Wow, that house is so big, is it where their leader lives?" A foreigner who came to trade said in surprise.
"Maybe, but I want to know more, how did they build such a big house? It's too fast. It didn't exist when we came to the market last time." The person next to him exclaimed.
"What's so strange about this? Didn't you see how many people they have? I'm afraid there are more than our ten tribes combined."
"Yeah, that's right. They have a lot of people, so they can build houses very quickly. Our tribe doesn't have that many people, and even if we had that many people, we wouldn't be able to build such big houses."
"Okay, okay, what are you looking at? Look, they're from the Han tribe, and we have nothing to do with them. Let's go and see their rice. Their rice seems to be ripe. It's time to start harvesting. I haven't seen what ripe rice looks like yet. Let's go and learn from them."
A team leader interrupted his tribe's chat and urged them to learn how to harvest rice.
There were still two months before winter, and the second season of rice in the Han tribe was ripe. The water in the rice fields had long been drained. It had been left to dry for seven or eight days, and the soft mud in the fields had hardened a bit, so it was ready to be harvested.
The stalks are still yellow-green, but the rice ears hanging from them are already golden. When all the rice ears reach 95% maturity, that is, when 95% turn yellow, you can start harvesting rice. You must pay attention to this time. If you harvest too early, the rice will not be ripe enough. If it is too ripe, it will fall off when harvested, causing unnecessary losses.
The trading teams that came to learn were also led by special people. They were allowed to go to the fields and watch the harvesting process of the Han tribe up close. Luo Chong even allowed them to harvest part of it with sickles.
This was certainly not to take advantage of them or treat them as free labor. It was mainly to let them learn how to use sickles, harvesting techniques, and some things to pay attention to. Those who are willing to help the Han tribe work will also be provided with food during the market days.
During the seven-day market, they learned how to harvest, then thresh, and then how to dry, how to shell after drying, how to bag, and how to store. On the last day of the market, these people also ate the freshest rice, and since then they have a complete understanding of the entire harvesting process.
At this market, the most popular items were sacks, followed by white salt, and then bronze sickles. Metal sickles were very expensive, and one required two large animal skins. Those tribes without special resources had to bear the pain to buy a few sickles.
They had already tried to use the sickle, which was indeed easy to use. It was impossible to imitate it with stone, so they could only make a copycat version with bone tools. However, the copycat version was definitely not as good as the metal one, so for the sake of the tribe's rice harvest, they had to bear the pain and buy it.
After a week of market, the rice of the Han tribe was all dried and put into the warehouse. The grain harvest from the more than 900 acres of rice fields was enough for all the tribesmen to eat for a whole winter, not to mention that the Han tribe had other meat reserves.
The livestock of the Han tribe is still in the initial stage. There are only 56 pigs. Eh? No, it should be nearly 100 now. Among the first batch of spotted pigs, there were four pregnant adult sows. They just gave birth a few days ago. Each pig gave birth to twelve or thirteen piglets, and they are still in the pen for confinement.
The total number of pigs is less than 100, so Luo Chong will not slaughter them now. Now is the time to expand the population, so all the pigs must be kept.
In addition, there are only 100 saiga antelopes that have just arrived at the Han tribe. They are also kept to expand the population. The cattle and horses are all laborers, so they are naturally impossible to slaughter. The farmed red-tailed black-feathered chickens cannot be slaughtered in large numbers. There are less than 2,000 of them at present, and they have been caught for more than half a year. There are also some that they gave birth to themselves. These chickens are now kept for laying eggs, which is much better than slaughtering them for chicken.
After all the calculations, the only ones that can be killed are rabbits. However, since the area of the rabbit house has not been expanded, the rabbits have been slaughtered in batches. The total size of the rabbit group is now maintained at more than 3,000, and it is impossible to slaughter too many at one time.
After a lot of calculations, the Han tribe can only rely on fish for meat during the winter. However, there is good news: the school of sea fish that swam upstream last year has reappeared in the river, and they have returned to the fresh water to lay eggs.
(End of this chapter)
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