Chapter 269: Slash and Burn (Add Reward for Ni Lan Xuan)
The official opening of the Gray Rabbit tribe began early the next morning when Song Yong arrived in the primitive era.
With the exception of those who were still in need of recuperation and had not yet recovered from their injuries, all the captives participated in the operation.
When Song Yong stood at the high lookout post on the city wall, he carefully looked at the rivers and mountains he had conquered.
The area selected for the first reclamation was naturally the open space at the foot of the mountain.
That is, the temporary camp where the coalition forces of the Glossary tribe were stationed at the beginning, and the overall area of this vacant land was about 200 acres.
In the beginning, it was originally a sparsely wooded mountain forest that had existed for an unknown number of thousands of years.
As a result, since Song Yong appeared on this plane, all the trees in the mountains and forests have been cut down and used as materials for the construction of Gray Rabbit New Village.
Now this open land by the mountains and rivers has become an excellent field for planting in Song Yong's eyes.
As long as this area can be reclaimed, there will be not only a mountain stream several meters wide, which can provide water for watering this field.
When various crops grow in the future, it will also be an excellent scenery to stand on the city wall and watch the rice waves or wheat waves rise and fall here......
All the tools of the tribe, such as watermelon knives, machetes, axes, and even stone knives, were distributed.
It was sent to a group of captives to take these tools and clean up all the weeds and bushes in the area.
As for the Gray Rabbit Tribe, there are also dozens of adult men and women who have joined this reclamation.
However, in the hands of these people, they are not holding all kinds of labor tools, but weapons such as steel spears and bows and arrows.
The main task of these people is also to guard against the captives, who will take advantage of this opportunity to flee in large numbers.
After all, even Song Yong is not sure that these people still have any illusions about the previous tribe in their hearts, and whether they will do something stupid.
Anyway, these guards were all ordered by Song Yong, no matter who tried to escape.
Then you don't need to ask him for any instructions, you can shoot him with a bow and arrow, or stab him to death on the spot with a spear.
And this kind of practice of guarding the captives with his subordinates can be gradually improved at least after the families of these captives are sent over one by one by the Gauntone tribe as promised.
Because at that time, the fire of these thirteen tribes will all be fused and devoured, and they will become wandering savages without roots.
In addition, forty captives of the Qingshang tribe also joined in this work.
These people didn't even participate in yesterday's conference, mainly because Song Yong understood that it was impossible for these people from the big tribe of Qingshang to join the Gray Rabbit tribe.
Song Yong's arrangement for them was also to wait for the Qingshang tribe to get the news and see at what price to redeem these people.
But before these people can be redeemed, they need to redeem a part of the sin they have committed in the first place, and use their labor to redeem a part of it.
At the same time, the guards for these people are also the strictest.
In groups of five, they were bound together by vines around their waists, making it much more difficult to escape, and if they found any attempt to escape or untie the vines, they would be shot directly......
There is great strength in numbers, and this is not wrong at all.
More than 300 laborers were busy until about half past five in the afternoon, and not only did they cut down all the weeds and shrubs in the entire open field.
And from farther away, a large number of dead branches and leaves were picked up.
Together with the weeds and shrubs that had been cleared first, they were laid in a thick layer of knee-deep and fifty centimeters deep in the clearing.
The reason for adopting such an approach is that Song Yong has full consideration.
In the recent period of late spring and early summer, the spring drizzle has disappeared, and the hot and dry weather has made everything in the mountains and forests dry.
All it takes is a fire to burn all the weeds and dead branches and leaves that have been cut off into ashes.
During the flame burning, the soil on the ground becomes softer under high temperatures, which is of great benefit for the subsequent deep ploughing steps.
Also, in primitive times, don't expect all kinds of fertilizers.
It is estimated that the farm manure that these people hoard every day is a drop in the bucket for the vast fields.
Therefore, in order to add a little bit of fertility to the land in the field as much as possible, the only thing Song Yong can count on at present is these plant ashes.
Of course, as a modern person, Song Yong did not forget to command his subordinates.
Supervising and directing the captives, while placing weeds and shrubs, a sufficiently spacious fire barrier flowed out of the edge of the clearing, especially from the forest on the left.
It will not turn this burning into a fire.
After the captives had been brought back to the village after a busy day's work, Song Yong took a lighter and lit a bunch of dry weeds.
His action can be regarded as a hands-on order.
The hunters, who had been waiting for a long time, had already branched out their lighters and lit numerous fireheads.
Soon, the fire spread out in the clearing.
Plumes of smoke also rose and blew towards the village with the mountain wind.
It was also at this time that Song Yong discovered that he was still a little inexperienced, and completely forgot about the smoke produced during the burning of the wasteland.
At this moment, in the face of the overwhelming smoke drifting towards the village, the poor young man was a little sand sculptured.
Because as a parallel trader, he really can't think of any way, and he doesn't have the ability to make the wind move around.
Just when his face was embarrassed with a capital letter, he planned to let the people in the village cover their mouths with wet animal skins first.
When he temporarily evacuated from the village, an extremely magical scene happened: he felt the fire of the tribe from a distance, and after a burst of strong activity, the wind direction in the mountains actually changed.
Let the billowing smoke drift in a new and different direction before drifting to the city walls.
Then, Song Yong could clearly feel that the degree of activity of the tribe's fire began to decline rapidly, as if he was a man who had been busy with a day's labor, and his hands and feet were weak.
But at this moment, Song Yong's heart was still surging, as if he had won five million.
Because of the power of the tribe's fire at this moment, the amazing power displayed made him know that the fire of the Gray Rabbit tribe was still quite different from the one of the Chibai tribe in terms of power.
But anyway, it's finally a bit of a look......
The fire in the open space started at night and burned until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night before Song Yong went to bed, and it was still not completely extinguished.
The next morning, when the barefoot crowd stepped into the ashes, they still felt a little hot.
However, for the sake of the wasteland development period, Song Yong can't take care of it so much now.
Together with the sapper shovels brought over this time, there are now only about one hundred and fifty in the entire tribe, which is a sharp weapon for civil engineering operations.
At the same time, it is also the only tool for ploughing the ground.
Now the tribe has ten pack oxen, and with their terrifying bodies like elephants, it is estimated that they will not have any problem cultivating the land.
But there must also be a premise, the gray rabbit tribe can have a tool like a plow.
Even Song Yong strongly doubted that there was no concept of plough in the primitive plane.
Therefore, he could only use manpower to wield a sapper shovel, and directly went down with a shovel and another shovel on the ground, turning up the soil more than 30 centimeters deep on the ground.
Only a hundred and fifty sapper shovels were naturally not enough for all the captives.
Nearly half of the captives were not idle, although they did not have the tools to turn the ground.
They took sticks of wood or stone, and smashed the dried soil that had been turned out one by one and mixed it with the ashes.
In this way, after two and a half days of busyness, Song Yong actually used manpower to open up about 170 acres of wasteland.
It can be regarded as a new method for the reverse tillage and burn planting model in the primitive era.