Chapter 280 Sword Grass (Please vote and subscribe)
The construction of the wood processing plant greatly improved the speed of the Han tribe's production of wooden products, and various furniture was quickly distributed to every household. Seeing this effect, Lin Mutong, the leader of the woodworking team, immediately proposed to Luo Chong to build another windmill processing plant. Considering the future development needs of the new city, Luo Chong nodded and agreed. Anyway, there was still space and time in winter, so it was better to be idle.
In the busyness, another month passed. At the end of the third month of winter, the cavalry team that went out to search for people for trading also brought back many poor people who could not afford to eat. Although not many people were brought back each time, there were still many people in total, more than 480 people, which also made the population of the Han tribe rise to a higher level again.
During this month, the Feather Squad, which was responsible for searching the east direction, also gradually surveyed the terrain in the east, and finally drew a detailed sketch and presented it to Luo Chong, so that Luo Chong had an intuitive understanding of the terrain there. However, this was not enough. The construction of the city was a big deal, and Luo Chong had to personally check it.
At the beginning of the fourth month of winter, Luo Chong told Dashu and Long Shushu Wu to look after the house in Hanyang City, and he led the cavalry team of Shuda, Xuetu, Lingfeng, Shouya, and Feather, a group of 15 people, to personally survey the environment at the site of the prepared city.
All the people in the group rode, and everyone else rode two horses, only Luo Chong rode his "object". Rourou and Huishan, the two little guys, had been stuck in Hanyang City for a long time, and this time it was just right to take them out for a walk.
Looking at the increasingly large size of the two guys, Luo Chong was very worried that in two years, the two guys would not even be able to pass through the gate of Hanyang City. It seemed that when the new city was built, the gate had to be built bigger.
The two riders took turns and ran very fast on the snow. It took only two days for the group to reach the river that Feather mentioned.
The river was frozen, but not completely frozen. The river was about 80 meters wide, and there was still about 10 meters of water in the middle. The east bank of the river was covered with sparse trees and shrubs, and the west bank was covered with a large area of shrubs and weeds. It was indeed as Feather said, a large flat land.
Luo Chong also brought a soft ruler to measure the land this time. It was a hemp rope as thick as a chopstick and a thousand meters long. There was a knot for every meter, and the knots were painted in different colors to facilitate observation of the length.
The group quickly measured here. One person pulled the rope head, and the other rode the horse to let the rope go. They went back and forth several times and it took a whole morning to complete the measurement. This small plain was adjacent to the river in the east. It was flat land for 18 kilometers to the west. There was about 30 kilometers of flat land in the east-west direction. If you explore at both ends, you will find a gradually rising mountain road. According to Feather, the surrounding tribes were in these mountains.
The terrain here is indeed very suitable for building a city, and the flat land can also be used for farming. It is 30 kilometers long from north to south and 18 kilometers wide from east to west, which is 800,000 mu. The plains around Hanyang City only account for a few thousand mu, which is a big difference.
If such a large area is used to grow crops, how many people can it feed? Therefore, the new city here must be huge, enough to be built into a landmark city, as the center of a province, that is, the provincial capital.
If two mu of land can feed one person, the output of this place is enough to feed 400,000 people. With a population of 400,000, it is estimated that Luo Chong may not be able to gather so many people even if he captures everyone within a thousand miles.
Therefore, the construction of this city should be carried out in stages. First, build an inner city, then leave enough space outside, and then build outward in circles. At that time, it will be divided into one ring and two rings to build a huge city.
It takes more than one or two days to plan such a huge city, so Luo Chong plans to go back and plan it carefully. So the group went around the nearby mountains to explore the resources in the nearby mountains.
This is very necessary, such as forest resources, mineral resources, and animal resources. However, Luo Chong did not find any special resources in the mountains in the north for an afternoon. In addition to common trees, there are some messy shrubs. But just when the group was about to leave, Ling Feng's unexpected discovery caught Luo Chong's attention.
It turned out that Ling Feng's horse was eating dry grass, but it was accidentally scratched by the surrounding plants. As a grassland man, Ling Feng attached great importance to horses. He couldn't help but feel sorry. He kept complaining while walking, saying that the grass in the mountains was like a knife and not as good as the grassland grass.
Luo Chong also looked at the wounds of the horses. They were not serious injuries, but only a few bloody cuts. The wounds were not deep, just scratching the skin. However, the location of the wounds was very special. They were all on the horse's shoulders, and there were several cuts. This surprised Luo Chong. What kind of grass could cause such wounds? So he asked Ling Feng to take him over to have a look.
Luo Chong was quickly taken over. What caught his eye were clumps of tall withered grass, which looked like reeds and were very tall. One clump was more than two meters high. The grass leaves were similar to swords, and each one was about two centimeters wide. The withered and yellow grass leaves were very hard and stood upright on the ground, which looked like some orchids.
But when Luo Chong touched these grass leaves, he found out that they were different. The blades of this sword grass were very thick in the middle, about four millimeters, but the edges were extremely thin, like the edge of a sword, like a long sword drilled out of the ground.
The blades of the sword grass are very hard, not easy to break, and are tough. This made Luo Chong quickly think of the use of this plant, that is, it can replace bamboo. Many things that can be made with bamboo can also be made with the characteristics of the sword grass. Moreover, the sword grass is long enough, more than two meters high, and it is a very suitable material for weaving cool mats.
As long as the edges of the grass leaves are cut off and the thick part in the middle is split along the veins, two long strips similar to bamboo strips can be made, and then they are tied together with hemp rope to form a cool mat.
Of course, this is definitely not the only use. Since it can be used to make cool mats, curtains and door curtains can also be made. It is not a problem to weave it into utensils, such as baskets, fish baskets, bamboo hats, or steamers. It can also be used to make lanterns. Most of the things that can be made with bamboo can be made with sword grass. It is a good substitute for bamboo.
Luo Chong immediately recorded this plant as a key observation object in the future. Maybe it will be planted on a large scale in the future. Not only food crops need to be planted, but this material crop is also an indispensable resource for development.
(End of this chapter)
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