Chapter 728 Deepening Cooperation (Subscription Requested)
At the end of February in the second year of the Han Tribe's Jianyuan reign, when the Han Tribe was fighting all over the grassland, Tang Yao finally returned to the Tang Tribe by boat.
Tang Ji personally went to the shore to greet her, and when she saw the smile on Tang Yao's face, she also smiled. Needless to say, her niece must have negotiated a cooperation, otherwise she wouldn't be smiling so happily.
The two came all the way to Tang Yao's small garden, and then heard Tang Yao happily say, "Empress Ji, the Han Tribe agreed to provide us with those seeds, livestock and technology."
"Oh? Then how did you talk to the Han leader? Tell me about it?" Tang Ji asked with a smile.
Speaking of this topic, Tang Yao pouted her lips in grievance and said pitifully, "I originally wanted to use my medical skills and medicinal materials as conditions to exchange for those things, but I didn't expect that the medical skills of the Han tribe were also very advanced. No, it should be better than mine, so this method doesn't work.
However, the Han tribe is also in short supply of medicinal materials. They are now developing a set of medical inheritance and want me to participate. The two tribes study and research together and share research results.
For this reason, the leader of the Han tribe promised to provide us with seeds, livestock and technology, but not for free. They will sell them in Takumi County in the form of transactions. If we want them, we must exchange them for something of equivalent value. This is also considered an agreement."
After saying this, Tang Yao stuck out her tongue and looked at Tang Ji carefully, fearing that her aunt would be dissatisfied with the result.
Tang Ji didn't show whether she was satisfied or not, but the two words of surprise were hung on her face.
"The medical skills of the Han tribe are better than yours?! They invited you to study medicine together, and you just agreed?!"
"Yes, their medical skills are indeed very magical. If I learn them, I can also treat the people of our tribe better. And it's not just medical skills. This time I also learned a lot of tribal management systems from the Han leader. He is really amazing. I didn't expect that he can use management systems to treat diseases."
When talking about the conversation with Luo Chong, Tang Yao couldn't help but have little stars in her eyes, and she was full of fangirl attitude.
"The way to manage the tribe can also treat diseases?!" Tang Ji had an expression of disbelief. She suddenly felt that she, a silly niece who had never left the tribe, was fooled by the Han tribe.
"Yes, it's true."
Seeing that her aunt didn't believe it, Tang Yao roughly recounted her conversation with Luo Chong, especially the various data collected by the Han tribe through the household registration, and how Luo Chong reduced the problems of infant mortality and women's dystocia from the perspective of the system.
She also talked about how Luo Chong called on all the tribe members to actively contribute medicinal materials through welfare policies, as well as the medical school and medical skills inheritance formulated by Luo Chong himself. Finally, she talked about the general direction of the seven medical skills proposed by Luo Chong.
After listening to Tang Yao's personal description, Tang Ji was also surprised. These things are definitely unique to the Han tribe. This silly niece did not lie to her, otherwise she would never be able to talk about these things about the tribal management system.
After carefully thinking about the systems Tang Yao talked about, the medical research direction proposed by the Han leader, and the unique advanced medical skills of the Han tribe, Tang Ji finally decided to agree to Tang Yao's participation.
In her opinion, being able to learn medical skills from the Han tribe is not the most important thing. What is more important is that Tang Yao learned the way to manage the tribe in the Han tribe, and it is more perfect and advanced than her own. Tang Yao is also the next generation leader of the Tang tribe that she has designated. Being able to learn these things will be of great benefit to both herself and the future Tang tribe.
In addition, the Han tribe also specifically said that Tang Yao's participation in medical research was a prerequisite for the cooperation between the two tribes. If they did not agree to let Tang Yao go, there would be no discussion about the seed and livestock technology. Even for this purpose, Tang Yao really needed to participate.
After that, the two discussed the trading method of materials and what the Tang tribe would use to pay for the goods. After all, the Han tribe was much more advanced than the Tang tribe, and they really didn't have anything that the Han tribe could look up to.
In response to this problem, Tang Yao also told them the idea that Luo Chong had given them at the beginning. The Han tribe could provide them with some seeds and planting techniques in advance, so that they could grow food, and then use materials to repay the debt. The remaining balance after the debt repayment could be used to buy other things according to their needs.
Tang Ji was also very interested in this method and felt that it was more suitable for the current situation of the two tribes, so the next day she took Tang Yao to Takuhai County to ask for crop seeds and planting techniques.
The first batch of seeds supported by the Han tribe were corn, cotton, sweet sorghum, and several kinds of vegetables. Cotton is a textile raw material, and sweet sorghum can not only be used to make wine, but also to make sugar. It is also a very important raw material for the food industry. These are things that the Han tribe urgently needs. No matter how much they grow, the Han tribe can digest it
. It is a kind of hard currency, and it is perfect to use it as a trading material. The corn was actively requested by Tang Yao. If the Tang tribe used a large area of farmland that originally planted wheat to plant sorghum and cotton, then their Tang tribe would definitely face a food crisis. In order to solve this problem, Tang Yao asked to use corn with a larger yield as a supplement to food crops.
She had talked about this with Luo Chong before, and Luo Chong agreed. It was not that he was blindly generous, but that Takuhai County had already planted corn on a large scale. The two tribes were separated by a river and often had exchanges with each other. If the Tang tribe was willing, they could find a way to get corn seeds from Takuhai County. This kind of thing could not be prevented.
Therefore, instead of letting them find ways to steal and buy, and finally end up with the reputation of being stingy in the Han tribe, it is better to be generous and give them directly, so that at least they can get a favor.
As for the governor of Takumi County, Dashu, he knew Luo Chong's ideas and instructions in advance, so he was very cooperative with this matter. When he saw Tang Ji and Tang Yao coming together, he immediately asked people to take out the seeds, and then selected some experienced old farmers to guide the planting. During the period when the Han tribe sent people to teach, the Tang tribe provided all the necessities of life.
Tang Ji was very concerned about this, and Tang Yao also had some research on plant planting, so she also attached great importance to the several economic crops introduced from the Han tribe this time.
The cloth produced by the Tang tribe was all rough linen, and they had never seen fine cloth made of cotton. However, when Tang Yao came back from the Han tribe this time, Xiaodie, as a representative of the Han tribe, gave her a few rolls of printed cotton cloth. At this time, seeing that the raw material crops of cotton cloth had taken root in their own tribe, the two of them were very happy.
Sweet sorghum, a tall plant, was unfamiliar to the Tang tribe. Before Takumi County started planting corn, they had never seen such a tall crop and thought that all the food in the world should grow similarly to wheat. As a result, when the corn, sorghum, and giant rice of the Han tribe appeared, their worldview was instantly refreshed.
Seeing several farming experts standing in front of her introducing seeds, Tang Ji immediately asked curiously, what can this sorghum be used for? Does the Han tribe really need this thing?
"Of course, Chief Tang, don't underestimate this thing. This is not ordinary sorghum, but sweet sorghum, which has many uses.
Sorghum rice can be used as food to satisfy hunger, and it can also be used to make wine. Wine can not only be drunk, but also used to treat diseases. Whether it is to reduce fever or disinfect external injuries, wine can be used to solve them. Oh, yes, there are also injuries from falls. Rubbing the wound with wine can also help recovery.
The stalks of sweet sorghum are also very useful. Its juice is very sweet and can be used to make brown sugar. It is also an important seasoning that is often available in the homes of the people of our Han tribe. Of course, it can also be called a side dish.
In the end, the sorghum heads that are really useless can also be used to weave brooms for sweeping the floor. Anyway, it will not be wasted at all."
After listening to this introduction and the several derivatives in front of her, Tang Ji couldn't help but widen her eyes. She could never have thought that a sweet sorghum in the Han tribe could be used in so many ways.
This is probably the most utilized cash crop.
After learning about the many uses of sorghum, Tang Ji ordered people to learn the planting techniques and strive to do deep processing of sorghum in the future.
As for cotton, the cotton of the Han tribe is a vine plant, which does not need to occupy the fields. It can be planted in any field, in the field, or in the yard at home. However, it is necessary to build a rack first. Fortunately, there are bamboo forests around the Tang tribe, and there is no shortage of materials for building racks. In addition, it is as concentrated as possible, so that it is more convenient to pick.
For a while afterwards, Tang Ji and Tang Yao were looking forward to the growth of these crops, so that they could exchange some good things from the Han tribe as soon as possible.
However, before the sorghum grew above the knees, the opposite Takuhai County made a big move. It turned out that Xue Tu had finally reorganized the army of the Huben Guards, and brought thousands of herdsmen to Takuhai County.
The warriors of the Huben Guards and the herdsmen all came by boat. There were tens of thousands of people, and dozens of three-masted sailing ships alone were used, almost draining all the transportation capacity of the Han tribe at one time.
Between Takuhai County and Tang Tribe, the sails of dozens of large ships covered the river surface. Countless herdsmen leaned on the side of the ships and looked at both sides. After sailing for half a month, they finally arrived at the place where they would live in the future.
On both sides of the river, people from Tang Tribe and Takuhai County were discussing excitedly. Although they had seen ships before, they were all small two-masted boats, and at most they could see four or five at a time. This time, the Han Tribe dispatched dozens of larger three-masted sailing ships at one time. The scene was rare. Many people who didn't know much about the Han Tribe realized how powerful the Han Tribe was at this time.
The big ship was bustling with people and horses neighing. After more than 10,000 people disembarked from the dock one after another, the horse boat converted from a sunken sand ship slowly approached the dock pier. This time, it was not only herdsmen who were transported, but more livestock. In particular, the 10,000 herdsmen were originally prepared for war, so there would naturally be no shortage of war horses. This time, there were no less than 20,000 horses transported with them, and after a while, a batch of war horses would be transported from land to scout the wild land where the capital was to be built.
If there were only a lot of people on the Takuhai County side, it would be fine. The Tang tribe itself had a lot of people, so there was nothing to see. However, with so many big ships and 20,000 war horses, it firmly attracted the attention of both sides. Whether it was the Tang tribe or the newly recruited people in Takuhai County, they had never seen such a large herd of horses, and even Tang Yao, who had been to the Han tribe once, was no exception.
However, Tang Ji saw something from it. Among the people sent by the Han tribe, almost everyone had weapons, either swords or spears, or shields and bows and arrows. This was obviously a large army, and there were so many horses. If they ran on the plain, what could stop them? What
did the Han tribe want to do? Didn't they agree to cooperate? And the two sides have already started cooperation. What was their intention to suddenly mobilize so many warriors?
Tang Ji began to get nervous, but until the fleet left Kaituohai County two days later, the warriors did not make any moves, but there would be a large group of horses running by the river from time to time. I heard that it was called training.
Tang Ji didn't know what training was. She only knew that the Han tribe would not get so many warriors in this remote place for no reason. So, she and Tang Yao asked many directions in Kaituohai County in the name of buying horses, asking what the Han tribe's purpose was.
However, Luo Chong had no intention of attacking the Tang tribe. He placed the people here only as a springboard for sending troops to Zhudao. As for threatening the Tang tribe, that was only a side effect.
Because Luo Chong's attitude was very clear, Dashu and Xuetu did not hide anything from the Tang tribe. They directly told the story of the war that happened on the grassland not long ago. The Han tribe defeated the enemy's 60,000 cavalry coalition with 20,000 armored soldiers. There were about 60,000 prisoners alone, and countless cattle, horses, sheep and livestock.
The 10,000 herdsmen transported here were the captives who surrendered to the Han tribe in this war, and then were sent by Luo Chong to help Takumi County with construction, and to train soldiers here in preparation for launching an attack on Zhudao.
At the same time, Tang Ji also heard from them that the Han tribe had established two new large counties on the grassland, both of which were rich in water and grass, and it would be more convenient to raise livestock in the future. Tang Ji also expressed great envy, but these were all won by the Han tribe in the war. If she were asked to lead the Tang tribe to face 60,000 horse-riding warriors, she would definitely be scared and run away, not to mention fighting with the other side.
After hearing the explanation of the Han tribe, Tang Ji was also relieved a little. Although the Han tribe said that it was not used to deal with them, the strength of the Han tribe was there after all. They even defeated 60,000 enemy troops. What could her Tang tribe count for in the eyes of these warriors? So she still did not dare to take it lightly and kept an eye on the movements on the other side every day.
But soon after, the ship sent by the Han tribe to pick up Tang Yao arrived, and also came with the Fubo warship that Tang Yao had seen before, the largest ship of the Han tribe. Tang Yao was also quite surprised. The last time she saw this ship at the dock of Liuyang County, there were many craftsmen decorating it. When she saw it again, the ship had already sailed to Takumi County.
(End of this chapter)
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