Chapter 278 Rapid Development Plan (Please vote and subscribe)
Luo Chong sat at home, listening to the report of the cavalry team that sent people back. This team was led by Yu Mao, and the area responsible for searching was the east of the river, which was an area that the Han tribe had never set foot in.
Before, Luo Chong personally went to the northeast to explore Babaoshan, and You Fu led people to the southeast once, and then went directly south to the grassland again. On the contrary, the east had never been set foot, so it was normal to have an unexpected discovery this time.
"Chief, there is no one from here to the former Black Rat Tribe, but from the Black Rat Tribe, we continue to walk east for five days, and we found a big river there, which is as wide as seven or eight houses.
And there is also a large piece of flat land on the west bank of the river, which feels larger than our current Hanyang City. I can't calculate how big it is, anyway, it is very big, and there is no tribe living on that flat land, but there are several tribes within two days' journey around, all in the mountains and forests." Yu Mao explained to Luo Chong holding a scribbled topographic map.
"Oh? Such a wide river?" Luo Chong looked at the topographic map with interest.
Although the map was drawn in a sloppy way, it was still understandable based on the places Luo Chong had explored personally and combined with his imagination.
As for the river with seven or eight houses mentioned by Yu Mao, one house in the Han tribe was ten meters long and wide, and seven or eight houses would be seventy or eighty meters. Such a wide river can indeed be considered a large river. According to the geographical information Luo Chong had, the upper reaches of this river were probably formed by the convergence of the swamp water system on the east side of Babao Mountain. After all, the location there was very close.
People can survive where there is water, and that place is close to Babao Mountain. If it can be occupied to build a city for defense, whether it is nearby copper smelting, shipping, or the rich freshwater fish resources in the river, it is very attractive.
The first city of the Han tribe will soon reach its population limit, so the site selection for the next city must be carried out in advance, and it cannot be considered when there is no room to live in it before thinking about the second city. That place has a large area of flat land and abundant water resources, which is also very beneficial for the development of farming in the Han tribe.
From Hanyang City, it takes a day to walk to the place where the Black Rat Tribe used to live. But it takes another five days to ride to the big river mentioned by Yu Mao. However, since the ground is covered with snow and they have to search along the way, and riding horses is not very fast, it will take about seven or eight days to walk this distance. According to the walking speed of 20 kilometers a day, it should be about 150 kilometers.
If a straight road can be built for this distance, and a post station can be built in the middle to change horses, it can be reached in five or six hours at full speed. With the current strength of the Han tribe, it can completely control the place. As the next city of the Han tribe, the post station in the middle can also build a small village.
As for why there is no tribe living there, it is actually easy to understand. After all, it is only based on water sources, there must be a lot of wild beasts, and there are large areas of flat land around it, and there is no danger to defend. The tribe that can't build walls dare not settle there at all. This is also understandable.
Since it is an unowned land and it meets the needs of the Han tribe, of course the Han tribe will occupy it first. However, there is no rush now. This is not something that can be completed immediately. It needs to be done step by step.
First of all, the biggest problem in building a new city is that the Han tribe does not have so many people at present, and building a city also requires manpower, which the Han tribe does not have. If you send troops directly to capture them, they can only be used as slaves, which is too much for the Han tribe. It is better to find a way to absorb some talents without bloodshed.
This is not a solution. Luo Chong quickly came up with an idea, which is to set up a fixed market there and send a few hundred people to garrison there, as long as it is enough to defend the surrounding tribes.
Then through the fixed market, recruit laborers from the surrounding tribes to build the city and work for the Han tribe. The Han tribe provides them with food and exchanges some daily necessities through labor. There is definitely no problem.
For example, if you want white salt, no problem, help the Han tribe build a house, give a few kilograms of white salt, or a few pottery, or cloth. Anyway, as long as the Han tribe has goods, they can be used for trading, and the Han tribe does not exchange things, only laborers.
These laborers are from tribes within two or three days' journey. They come to work for the Han tribe, and it is impossible to go back every day. Then they can only live in the new city, contact with the people of the Han tribe every day, eat, sleep, and work together.
When the new city is built, if Luo Chong allows them to move in at the cost of joining the Han tribe, then when they look at the city they built with their own hands, I don’t believe they will be unwilling to live there.
In this way, Luo Chong only spent some goods and sold them to these laborers. After the city was built, these laborers would all join the Han tribe with their families. At that time, the things Luo Chong sold to them would be equivalent to returning to the Han tribe, and the consumed materials would be used on his own people anyway, so there was no loss at all.
This was equivalent to building a city for nothing without spending a penny, and also kidnapping a large group of people. He was simply a genius, Luo Chong thought.
With a plan in mind, Luo Chong was relieved immediately. This method was very feasible, and it would not require many people from his own tribe. The laborers were all recruited from outside, and the new city was built by the laborers. They would definitely love the fruits of their labor more.
The advantage of this plan is that in the process of building the city, these laborers can be subtly assimilated and made part of the Han tribe. Moreover, this method is very suitable for rapid development. Whether it is building a city or absorbing population, it can make the Han tribe grow rapidly in a very short time.
When the population base of the Han tribe increases a little, we can use this method to divide several teams and build new cities in various places at the same time, and the population growth rate will be very rapid.
After deciding on the development strategy for next year, we must start preparing during the remaining winter. We are not short of people, but what we lack most now are various materials.
Ox carts and horse carriages for transporting goods, more pottery and white salt, wooden buckets, and a large number of tools, such as axes and iron saws for logging, shovels for digging, wheelbarrows, molds and machines for making bricks, tamping carts, and more farm tools for reclaiming fields. All of these must be prepared in advance.
(End of this chapter)
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