Yes! Yes!

Screams rang out one after another, but the people who didn't care about the whipping just now couldn't bear the pain in their backs, screamed miserably, and were whipped and fell to the ground, and some of them rolled on the ground in pain.

Those who only took one bite were glad that they were only fighting quails, but those who gambled three times regretted their gambling behavior, and felt extremely frightened by the remaining two lashes, hoping that it would be lighter and end sooner.

Bang Bang Bang!

The sound of continuous whipping sounded again, and the personnel, including Ding Qi, endured three lashes. Ding Qi's face was just a little pale, but the person who was kneeling on the ground just now had already fallen to the ground at this time, screaming in pain. I kept telling myself in my heart that I couldn't gamble anymore, and the next time it would be my life!

There was a whining and crying sound all around, and the deer bit his lip tightly, and saw the miserable condition of those who fell to the ground, and then saw Ding Qi endure the same whipping, and his heart became more and more distressed. As soon as possible, he hurriedly rushed up, pushed the warehouse aside, and supported Ding Qi's trembling body.

Cang also smiled bitterly, and he felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he really didn't dare to go against the leader's wishes! I know how miserable it is to go against the leader's wishes, and I was almost not eaten by leeches last time!

The onlookers below also prostrated on the ground one after another, expressing their inner respect to Ding Qi, and everyone's loyalty to Ding Qi was rising. And the person who was whipped felt the same way and was loyal to Ding Qi. How can a prince be punished with him who is punished?

Soon, they were helped by the warriors behind them to their quarters to treat their wounds, and Ding Qi was also moved back to the courtyard by the deer with his immature shoulders and arms. Ben and Cang wanted to step forward to help, but they were glared back by her, and the two had to help evacuate the crowd stupidly, not daring to provoke the angry "little female leopard".

Of course, the two of them did not want to disturb the opportunity for the leader and the deer to be alone at this moment, for the old man of the original deer tribe, the leader would be a deer sooner or later; But in the eyes of Cang and Ben, who were saved by Ding Qi, the deer will also be the leader sooner or later, but sooner or later.

In the afternoon of the same day, the whole tribe was warned about the quail fight, and those who had hidden and fed the quails also hurriedly handed them over to the tribe. Elder Bucks took the opportunity to publicize the reporting measures within the tribe, and if the information described by the whistleblower was true, he was rewarded with a copper coin. From this moment on, the tribal monitoring system began to be slowly established. Especially about the trick of giving full play to the power of the tribal masses, he took it to the extreme.

The fact that everyone no longer enjoyed fighting quails did not stop everyone from having fun. Backgammon has become a game item that everyone uses for recreation after dinner.

This game activity was originally a board game that Ding Qi let everyone play, and there were relatively few people who started playing it. But after experiencing the quail gambling turmoil, everyone's interest in backgammon has increased greatly, and if you don't play a game every day, you can't sleep well at night.

On the third day, after two days of recuperation, Ding Qi stood outside the city gate, waving goodbye to the two platoons led by the woman and the rat and the other platoon of soldiers led by White Fang.

After a hundred days of injury, the rat's arm has not yet recovered, and it will take at least more than two months to recover. But the woman and he were anxious to rush back to the salt mine, for fear that the people of the five tribes would go over and rob them again. For the places where they fought together, they always longed to go back. What's more, it is still the place where women grow and live.

Due to the lack of horses in the tribe, Ding Qi only allowed them to take ten horses and five males and five females for a total of ten reindeer to carry goods and convey information, not counting the rats and women's own horses. Ding Qi gave them a lot of supplies, a set of weapons, including a newly made bow, a mountain knife, an axe, a saw, and a bronze spear, as well as household items such as pottery

There will be no less.

These materials were evenly distributed to everyone, packed in the necessary animal skins for each person, and a lot of extra pottery was brought with them, ready to exchange with some small tribes around them, or have friendly exchanges to raise the popularity of the Ding tribe.

This is not the most important thing, Ding Qi has equipped the rats with a complete number of people, equipped with carpenters, pottery and brick masters, and they will build a suitable living area there under the leadership of the rats, and the building defenses and so on must be built according to a certain scale. At the same time, a second exchange yard was built around the salt mines, where pottery was fired directly to facilitate exchange and avoid the hassle of long-distance transportation.

Accompanying them were a platoon of soldiers and some craftsmen from White Fang, who were tasked with developing and building copper mines, also according to local conditions, and at the same time shouldering the work of defending and collecting and transporting supplies.

Three platoons of nearly 100 soldiers, carrying a part of the craftsmen, headed towards the destination. Within the tribe, under the leadership of Tinch, a large-scale production movement was launched.

Ding Qi took the lead, and everyone carried dung buckets and baskets to carry manure and plant ash to the previously cultivated fields. In addition to human manure accumulated over a long period of time, manure also includes animal manure and manure.

All the staff went into battle together, and they piled up a two-finger-thick layer of more than a dozen acres of land from front to back. If it weren't for Ding Qi's concern that excessive fertility would harm the crops planted next, he would have wanted to pile them all up.

After the fertilizer is delivered, the land is left there for the time being, and the manure is dried for a few days before turning it into the ground.

People can't be idle, they can make things happen, since they start to do it, they can't stop, and besides, the tribe arranges a day of rest, so don't worry about everyone being tired.

Tinch divides the tribal labor force into two parts, one with more people and the other with fewer people. Led by Ben, who had few people, he dug a ditch from the stream to the newly excavated field, and after the fields were ploughed and sown, the water could be diverted to the fields for irrigation.

On the crowded side, he himself came to the lake with shovels and other tools, and began to dig and level the soil in the low-lying areas that had been determined before, remove stones, plants, and trees, and then divide the ten acres of land into small fields.

Ben asked Ding Qi why he was digging so many fields. He knew that there were not many rice seeds, and he couldn't grow them at all.

Ding Qi only said one sentence:

"We're going to plant more calamus!"

It's a shame to pat your head and turn your head away! How did you forget about it?

The fields are well turned, there is a distance of more than ten meters from the lake, and there is a distance of more than 60 centimeters between the fields, which is convenient for entering and exiting.

There are two sources of water in this paddy field, one is the stream that flows down from the mountain, and Ding Qi has arranged for someone to dig a ditch to drain the water. When water is needed in a paddy field, the water inlet can be opened for paddy field irrigation. When water is not needed, the inlet is closed, drained from the next ditch, and flows into the lake.

In the other place, a cofferdam was dug on the shore of the lake, and the cofferdam was connected to the paddy field by a half-meter-wide ditch. Usually when the water is not used, it is blocked, and when the water is used, it can be opened and automatically flowed into the paddy field.

As for the cofferdam itself, it is for water storage, which is exactly the opposite of the previous function of the cofferdam for drainage. The cofferdam is usually connected to the lake, and when irrigation begins, the connection with the lake is blocked, and water is injected into it. No water wheels can be built yet, so they have to be filled with water from the lake by hand with tools such as buckets and clay jars.

In fact, the key problem is that Ding Qi does not want to put too much manpower on the work of digging deep paddy fields. He just wanted to conduct a preliminary experiment and plant rice and calamus, anyway, after the paddy fields were dry in the winter

It is also possible to dig according to the previous situation, and there is no rush in this matter.

These excavation paddy fields and cofferdams are carried out at the same time, there are nine paddy fields in a nine-square grid style, and two cofferdams are dug to fill the paddy fields at the same time, combined with the water injection of the water stream above, which can quickly fill the paddy fields.

Boom~

The water flows happily into the freshly dug paddy field, quickly pours into the plots, and slowly seeps into the soil, dissolving the soil and lumpy soil. When the water is full, it gradually rises above the surface of the soil, submerging the loose soil on the surrounding ridges until it can no longer be leveraged.

After the water had submerged more than 20 centimeters of the soil, Ding Qi asked people to stop releasing the water and prepare to soak it three days later before turning the mud. Although Ding Qi is a northerner, he has watched a lot of TV and seen some simple pictures of rice cultivation in the south. Especially for the mud turning block, the ploughshare should be pulled by a buffalo to turn the soil. But now there are no buffaloes, and the horses are not suitable, so they can only be done manually.

In a small paddy field with a length and width of two meters next to it, a fence was planted around it to prevent wild animals from entering. Here, Ding Qi personally ploughed the land, removed all the weeds, roots, stones, etc., and then turned the ground with a shovel, and raked the soil with a firing nail head rake (pa, second sound) before bringing in water.

This paddy field is used for seedlings!

When raising seedlings, there should not be too much water, and there should be no stagnant water, just keep the field moist. Therefore, after the water has overflowed the soil for about five centimeters, no further irrigation is carried out, and the remaining water will slowly seep into the field, but it will not let the seedling field accumulate water.

Taking advantage of the good weather the next day, Ding Qi sprinkled the rice seeds that had been sucked in advance, put criss-crossed sticks on them, and spread animal skins to keep them warm, hoping that the rice seeds would sprout as soon as possible. Now that the weather has begun to get hotter, the temperature of germination can be kept at around 30 degrees Celsius, which is a more suitable temperature. Wait five to seven days for germination. It's just that the germination rate can be how much it can be is not something that Ding Qi can decide.

While waiting for the paddy field to soak, the ditch for irrigation had been dug and Ding Qi led the group to plow the land.

With the cooperation of two groups of people, Jing and Red Deer, the ploughshare was successfully made. I made one in advance, and carried out a ploughing test, which was a little inappropriate at first, and the selection of the traction point of the ploughshare into the soil and the turning curve was not particularly good, and the strength between the controller and the horse was not coordinated enough.

There was no way, Ding Qi could only once again describe the appearance of the ploughshare in the countryside when he was a child, Jing still looked for a suitable wood, and kept the point of force of the ploughshare into the soil and the origin of the horse's traction force as much as possible on a horizontal line.

Chinese ploughshares appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, with a simple structure, but completely in line with the principles of mechanics. The plough used in rural areas before the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century is not much different from the plow in the Western Han Dynasty, which is composed of plough tips, plough mirrors, plough beds, plough supports, plough columns and other parts. The ploughshare is installed at the tip of the ploughshare, equipped with a plough mirror, and the position of the plow support is pulled to turn the ground.

The ploughshare and ploughshare mirror are cast in bronze, and the ploughshare is V-shaped, with holes in the back to fit on the tip of the ploughshare. The plough mirror is a copper plate, slightly curved outward, fixed to the plough post by two bronze nails, which is used to turn the ploughed earth to one side, mainly to the right.

As for the front of the plough support, hang it with a 50-centimeter-long log, pull out a rope four meters long at each end of the wood, and hang it on the neck of the horse in front of you, and you can start plowing.

When ploughing the ground, it attracted a large number of tribesmen to come and watch, but I have never seen it!

Obviously, the plough had to be done by Dingch, and as for the man who led the horse, Ben would not give it to anyone else. As for the horse that pulls the sleeve, it must be Xiao Erhei, this guy ran over when he saw Ding Qi wandering around outside the horse circle, stretched the horse's neck and couldn't help but be coquettish in front of him, so that Ding Qi was embarrassed not to choose it.