Chapter 283 Spring Ploughing (Please vote and subscribe)
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After the scroll was put down, the thunderous drum sounded again, and soon another team came out of the city gate, which was the six domestic animals of the Han tribe. There were three male and female bison, six horses, three black and white sheep, six spotted pigs, six saiga antelopes, and six alpacas. They were led by a team of people to the front of the square formation.
As for the others, such as horned deer, zebras, rabbits, black-feathered chickens, mammoths, and thunder beasts, none of them appeared, because they were not the main domestic animals raised by the Han tribe. They were all species that were about to be eliminated, or special pets, and were not within the scope of the six domestic animals.
The appearance of the six domestic animals soon aroused the movement of the crowd of spectators. Many people ran to the sides of the square formation and tried to get to the front row to watch the six domestic animals of the Han tribe.
"Wow! Not only does the Han tribe have a large population, they can also grow crops and raise so many animals. This is all meat. The Han tribe may not even need to hunt anymore. They must have a lot of these animals." Exclamations rang out again in the crowd.
"It's not just for eating meat. See those two tallest cows and horses? Those animals are used to pull carts. Before last winter, the Han tribe's ox carts and horse carts went to our tribe to pull straw. I heard that the straw was used to feed these livestock."
"I've seen that too, I've seen that too. The Han tribe's ox carts have also gone to our tribe to pull straw."
"So straw is used to feed these livestock. The Han tribe is so amazing. The rice they grow produces food for people, and the remaining straw can be used to feed the livestock. Doesn't that mean they have both food and meat? There's no waste at all."
"Not only that, I've been to the market before, and I heard from the people of the Han tribe that the feces and urine of the livestock are poured into pits and then buried in the fields after they are composted, which can make more food grow." "
No way, even the feces and urine are not wasted. It turns out that feces and urine have such uses." The people on the side were stunned.
The crowd under the city wall was noisy, and the drums on the city wall were beating more and more urgently. With the acceleration of the drum beats, another team soon appeared on the city wall. Four senior officials wearing tin crowns, Shu Da, Ying Rui, Da Shu, and Xue Tu, held a bright red flag together and came to the flagpole on the city wall to the beat of the drums. Behind them were the team leaders of various departments, holding bronze spears and following them. Luo Chong was leading the way with a sword on his waist.
When the group escorted the clan flag to the flagpole, Luo Chong suddenly drew his sword and made a sound of sword. The eight drums instantly quieted down, and the four people holding the flag began to tie the flag to the flagpole.
After the flag was tied, Luo Chong held the long sword and faced the people under the city. He suddenly raised the long sword to the sky and shouted to the people under the city, "Raise the clan flag and salute."
Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!
The drums sounded again. Dashu heard the drums and threw the flag he was holding to the sky. The bright red flag instantly spread out in the morning breeze. The bright red flag, two meters wide and nearly four meters long, had a bright yellow center in the middle. A large "Han" character was printed on it with black dye. It slowly rose into the sky with the rhythm of the drums.
The crowd watching the ceremony under the city wall also watched the large flag with Chinese characters slowly rise. Although they were still chattering, they couldn't help but lower their voices when they saw such a solemn moment.
"I know that character. It's the "Han" of the Han tribe. There is a particularly large one on the sacks of grain."
"I've seen it too. There's also one on the buckets our tribe bought."
"Shh! Stop talking. Didn't you see that everyone in their tribe is looking at that word? This should be the god of their tribe. They are offering sacrifices now. Don't talk nonsense, or their gods will punish you."
The people around him shut up instantly after hearing this, and watched the flag-raising ceremony silently.
After the flag-raising ceremony, the drums fell silent again. According to last year's practice, Luo Chong once again said a prayer to the ancestors and encouraged the tribe members to work hard. Then all the tribe members worshiped the tribe flag and the scroll three times in a row, and the process of offering sacrifices was over.
After the sacrifice is completed, the scroll will be hung temporarily. Today it will be hung for a day and will be put away until the evening. The tribe members will line up to enter the city again, send their children home, and then do what they should do.
The crowd dispersed, and several ox carts drove out from the west gate soon, pulling various goods and appearing outside the city again, and then put out a lot of new goods for sale.
There were very few pottery this time, but there were new items such as iron pots and iron spoons, as well as exquisite items such as steel needles, wool, and scissors. In addition, there were some wooden square tables and wooden stools, both large and small, and there were several sets of them. In addition, iron farm tools were not uncommon, such as hoes, sickles, and human plows, all of which appeared in the market.
These things were extremely expensive. The Han tribe required people to exchange for anything related to metal. However, this time, those tribes did not bring anything else but a lot of people, so they also traded with the Han tribe and exchanged several urgently needed goods, such as iron pots, hoes, and other things. Because of these transactions, the Han tribe also absorbed about 300 people again.
Later, the east gate of Hanyang City was opened, and many cattle and horses came out, pulling plows to start spring plowing. The previously prepared decomposed fertilizer was also added to the soil, and then turned into the ground by the iron plow and buried directly under the soil.
Seeing the Han tribe plowing in the spring, the tribes that came to learn from them also hurried to follow, constantly praising the Han tribe for how convenient it was to have cattle and horses, while they still had to work hard with slash-and-
burn farming. The human-powered plows in the tribe were made of wood and stone, and the quality was far from that of the Han tribe. The Han tribe had a large area of spring plowing this year. In addition to the nearly 1,000 acres of paddy fields last year, the fields on the east bank of the stream were also cleared in one winter. The shrubs were cut for firewood, and the trees were sawed off for timber reserves. Even the tree roots that were deeply rooted in the soil were cleared away.
The fields opened up on the other side of the river were square with a side length of one kilometer, and the total area was 1,500 acres. Luo Chong planned the newly added wheat this year to the planting area on the east bank, and planted half of the seeds in advance to see how the effect of artificial planting was.
The wheat test field was also divided into several areas, and planted at different intervals to see which method had the highest yield.
There was nothing he could do about it. After all, Luo Chong had never farmed in his previous life, and had never done research on planting, so now he could only rely on himself to explore.
(End of this chapter)
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