88 Slash-and-burn
Later, the Spaniards were so tired of killing cattle that they only took the tongue, butter and other materials that could sell the best prices at that time, and as for other beef, they couldn't get tired of eating it anymore, and the cowhide was too much to use up, so after going to the cow's tongue and butter, the beef, cowhide, and beef bones were simply discarded.
What a 'loser' this is? It is simply a profligate local tyrant and a loser, no wonder the Spaniards declined so quickly!
Xiao Feng is not as extravagant as the Spaniards, and he doesn't plan to waste half a cent of the endless bison herd in this field.
Even Niu X and Niu Eggs, he asked the chef in the store to make marinated goods, and then packaged them in vacuum bags, and let Katya take them to the online store to sell them, not to mention, the sales are really good, although the price is a few hundred yuan a set, there are really many people who can consume it, and even once it was in short supply.
Before Bloom led the team to set off, Xiao Feng also gave him two other instructions, one of which was to see if there were any other valuable wild animals on the prairie.
For example, wild horses, wild sheep, or wild boars are fine, as long as they are found, they will catch a batch and bring them back, and he will try to keep some animals in captivity, especially among the Toulon people, there are so many herders who can keep cattle and horses.
The war horses brought by the Toulon cavalry made him covet them for a long time, they were all good horses, although he hadn't ridden them much, but just by looking at their appearance, he could know that they were good horses, and that day on the battlefield, the performance of these war horses, he saw them all.
Load-carrying capacity, sprinting ability, and stamina, this is to get his world, and in any case, he can kill most of the horses in his world.
Therefore, the number of war horses must be expanded, and even if they are not brought back to his world, even if they are only used in this world, they can greatly improve the production efficiency of his tribe.
The reason why Bloom dared to lead the team out of the col this time and return to the field where they had hunted bison to hunt bison was because of the war horses brought by these Toulon people.
With these horses, Bloom can travel several times faster, and the bison they hunt can be loaded directly onto the wagon, reducing the weight of the hunter and speeding up the transport.
This time, Bloom took away all the carriages, including the few carriages that Xiao Feng had people build, a total of twenty, and they took all of them away, along with all the war horses.
While the weather was still cold, the beef would not spoil so quickly, and they could go for seven or eight days this time, and when they came back, they should be able to fill all the wagons and bring back about forty tons of cattle goods.
After all, the carriages in this world are relatively primitive, there are no particularly good tires, and each car can load two tons of beef, Xiao Feng estimates that it is the limit.
Bloom led the team away, and Xiao Feng focused on rice seedlings, after all, those Toulon farmers had never planted rice before, although they knew how to raise seedlings, but to what extent the seedlings were raised, and when to plant the seedlings, these still had to be guided by Xiao Feng.
Before Xiao Feng came, he bought a CD and a lot of books on agriculture to learn how to cultivate and grow rice and other crops.
At this time, it is time for him to pretend to be a seedling expert and teach rice seedling raising techniques like these natives!
Fortunately, the Toulon farmers are quite experienced, and they first took many native apprentices and began to choose the location of the seedling field.
Because the weather outside was still relatively cold, the native farmers found a sheltered place in the cave to keep warm, built several large fire pits, got a large amount of humus soil from under the forest trees outside, made several nursery fields by the fire pond, burned a large amount of plant ash and buried it in the soil to ensure the fertility of the soil, and then watered the soil and threw the seeds into the moist soil.
Although the process is very extensive, under the guidance of Xiao Feng, the overall process is not wrong, maybe it is lucky, maybe the soil here is really fertile enough, and within a few days, those seeds actually broke through the shell and germinated, growing a stubble of green seedlings.
Xiao Feng took advantage of the fact that the seedlings had not grown too tall, and hurriedly instructed the farmers to take the natives to the side of several rivers gathered on the mountains outside, selected a few pieces of flat land, and began to re-level the land, build ridges, turn over the land and burn the wasteland, and then turn out the pond mud from the nearby river, fill it into those lands, and continue to plough and plough every day, so that the pond mud and those soils can be effectively combined, and at the same time mix a large amount of grass and wood ash, and wait until the evening to cover those lands with the plastic film he brought from the modern world, so that the land can be effectively insulated and fermented, and various chemical reactions occur to ensure the fertility of the landใ
Fortunately, he left a few war horses brought by the Tuloun people, and with the help of these war horses and the modern farming tools he brought, the efficiency of ploughing the land was greatly improved.
Maybe it's because the fertility of the land in this world is too strong, in his world, rice seedlings are raised for dozens of days, but after only the seeds break through the shell and emerge here, the seedlings will grow more than a foot tall in a few days, Xiao Feng was dumbfounded, this is too fast, he didn't expect it at all! There are too many things in this world that subvert his common sense, but he has encountered too many of them, and he has become numb to habits.
After a few more days, when the weather was completely warmer and the rice seedlings were growing taller and taller, he had people open ponds and drain water from the creek to the fields that had been put together, and then the rice seedlings that had grown about the same size were inserted into the paddy fields.
Although Xiao Feng learned the technique of planting rice from teaching films and books, after all, he is only a half-ass, and he can't even reach the heel level of an expert, so he can only say that he has done it according to other people's tutorials, so he can't guarantee whether these rice can be planted successfully.
Of course, if it can be planted successfully, it will be the best, if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter, anyway, it is not expensive to purchase food from the modern world, and he can still support the needs of this tribe to eat their stomachs.
On the other hand, Xiao Feng did not let go of the golden sands on the side of the river, he still asked Friday to organize some women and children to go to the river to wash the golden sands, although the water was still cold and biting at this time.
But Xiao Feng has no humane spirit at all, Lao Tzu has raised you for a winter, and it is time to raise you all for nothing.
Friday, this dog-legged, is even more ugly, shouting every day is happier than Xiao Feng, and the supervision is stricter than him.