Chapter 434: The New City on the Other Side of the River (Please vote and subscribe)
Luo Chong brought a few people to a classroom next door, found a seat and sat down, and then they had a chance to take a good look at the whole picture of the classroom.
There were neat rows of wooden tables and chairs, two blackboards in front and behind that took up half of the wall, and a teacher's desk on the podium, which was neat and clean.
Sangqiu sat on the stool a little uncomfortably. She was still a little uncomfortable with such a luxurious place in the Han tribe, and she didn't know what this place was for. She was also a little nervous facing Luo Chong, the powerful leader. After all, compared with their Sang tribe, the Han tribe was too rich.
"Have all the members of your clan been settled?" Luo Chong asked in a peaceful tone.
"Oh, chief, I have temporarily placed them in the military camp. This time I came here to ask you how you plan to arrange it." Shu Da continued.
"Well, what do you think of Hanyang City, Chief Sang?"
Luo Chong had no intention of moving the Sang clan to Hanyang City, but had other plans. He asked this question now because he wanted to hear Sangqiu's attitude and thoughts first. After all, they came to the Han tribe, and it would not be appropriate to drive them out and rebuild a base before they even got comfortable.
"Chief, I think Hanyang City is great. If we can live here in the future, the tribesmen will be very happy. I guarantee that they will work very hard and will definitely complete the tasks assigned by the chief." Sangqiu replied quickly.
But the meaning of his words was also very clear. He just wanted to stay in Hanyang City, Luo Chong thought.
"Well, I'll tell you the truth. You should have seen Hanyang City when you came here. It is indeed much better than the new city, but it is not as big as the new city.
And now there is no extra vacant land in Hanyang City for building houses. So if you want to live in Hanyang City, I can only let some of the residents in the city move out so that you can have a house to live in." Luo Chong spread his hands and said.
The translator was stunned when she heard Luo Chong say this. She didn't expect Luo Chong to be such a person. It was clearly agreed that as long as they joined the Han tribe, they could move to Hanyang City. Now they have demolished their homes and don't want anything. They have come so far and finally came to Hanyang City. What do you mean, leader? There is no place for us to live?
Sancho knew only a little Chinese and didn't understand it very well, but seeing that his translator didn't tell him, he didn't know what happened, so he secretly pulled his translator.
"What did the chief say? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Chief, the chief of the Han tribe..."
"Shut up, do you want to kill us? Now we have joined the Han tribe, he is our current chief, our chief, don't call me chief anymore, remember?" Sancho scolded in a low and stern voice.
"Yes, chief, the chief said that there is no house for us to live in Hanyang City. If we want to stay here, we can only move some of the people living in the city out," the translator said in a frustrated voice.
"This-"
Sancho didn't know how to respond for a while. He didn't know what Luo Chong meant. When he was watching insects in the new city before, didn't he show interest in their tribe? No, he should be interested in their silkworms, so why is he so unfriendly to them now?
Since Hanyang City couldn't accommodate them, wouldn't it be better to just leave them in the new city? Although the new city is not as well built as here, it is not much worse by comparison. The key is that the place is still large, even if there are ten more Sang tribes, there must be a place to live.
"The leader means that we have to move to another place to live?" Sancho didn't understand what Luo Chong was thinking, so he had to carefully test it out.
Luo Chong didn't answer directly, but came to the podium in front and drew a rough map of the terrain around Hanyang City on the blackboard with chalk, and then turned to ask Sancho.
"You raise silkworms, do you know that there are other insects similar to mulberry silkworms that also eat leaves and make cocoons?"
"Other insects? Make cocoons?" Sancho didn't get Luo Chong's answer, but heard his question instead. He couldn't help but be stunned. He really didn't know this.
"Yes, there are other insects. By the way, can you understand the map? If you can't, I can teach you. Come and take a look." Luo Chong called a few people to the front and pointed to the blackboard.
"This is Hanyang City, where we are now. This is the river east of the city. This is the farmland on both sides of the river. Can you understand it?"
Sancho followed Luo Chong's instructions and looked at the map. Then he looked at the city wall, farmland, and river outside the window. He seemed to understand a little, and then nodded hesitantly. He still didn't understand why Luo Chong was talking about this.
"Forget it, I'll just point you out the window." Luo Chong looked at Sancho nodding, but his face was blank and confused. He couldn't believe that she could understand.
"Look at the river outside the city. You came over from that wooden bridge, right?" Luo Chong stood at the window and pointed to the east. This time Sancho finally understood and nodded quickly.
"After crossing the wooden bridge, walk south for a day, there is a chestnut forest. Chestnut is a kind of fruit with a hard skin. It is delicious and easy to store. There should be a kind of silkworm that eats chestnut leaves, called chestnut silkworm.
Chestnut silkworm is about the same size as mulberry silkworm, but it is green, with fleshy protrusions on its body, and can spin silk and make cocoons like mulberry silkworm.
It is not impossible for you to raise mulberry silkworms here, but there are no mulberry trees in Hanyang City. Even if you plant them now, it will take at least one or two years for the mulberry trees to grow to the point where you can collect leaves to raise silkworms, right?" Luo Chong asked again.
Hearing what Luo Chong said, Sangqiu and the translator also understood what Luo Chong meant. Yes, the Han tribe does not have the production project of raising silkworms now, so there are no mulberry trees, and there are not even wild ones around. How can they raise them here? Even if they plant trees now, it will take two years as the leader said, but what are they going to do in these two years?
With this question, and based on what Luo Chong said about a kind of green silkworm not far away, Sangqiu and the translator almost understood what Luo Chong meant. Was he asking them to plant the mulberry trees first, and then raise other silkworms for the next two years?
"The leader wants us to go to the other side of the river to raise the green silkworms?" Sangqiu asked tentatively.
"No, not to raise them. I think there must be chestnut silkworms there, and the forest is very large. If there are chestnut silkworms, there must be a lot of them. I want you to collect some wild chestnut silkworm cocoons and bring them back to Hanyang City to experiment with reeling and spinning silk and weaving silk fabrics. If it succeeds, we can artificially raise them in the future and expand the scale.
In addition, I plan to build another city near the chestnut forest on the other side of the river. It should be larger than Hanyang City, close to the river bank, and reclaim paddy fields and grow food. The control range should also cover the surrounding tung and chestnut forests, mainly producing food, chestnuts, silk, and tung oil.
I want you to move there and live there. At this stage, you will be mainly responsible for the construction of the new city, as well as the collection and breeding experiments of chestnut silkworms. I wonder if you are willing?" Luo Chong looked at Sang Qiu and her translator and asked.
(End of this chapter)
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