Volume 1 ● The Recalcitrant People Chapter 25 is a good farmer
The Grand Canyon of Wuling Mountain is carrying out vigorous spring plowing and spring sowing.
Farm tools cost money, Guo Yang has no money, but he has the craft.
Almost every businessman has such and such crafts, and Guo Yang has to mobilize everyone.
He drew the design drawings of those new agricultural tools on the animal skins with carbon rods, and divided three or four hundred old disabled women and children into different types of work, and it only took more than a month to design and produce a batch of simplified agricultural tools.
Everyone's food rations are guaranteed, and with sea salt that is almost enough to eat for decades or hundreds of years, the whole Grand Canyon is filled with a festive atmosphere. Everyone's face began to have a bloody color, becoming ruddy and plump.
The old people finally no longer have to lie down all day waiting to die, and the children's swollen bellies are slowly normalizing.
And the biggest change is that the women who used to have yellow and thin skins are slowly becoming fuller, wearing warm and soft animal skin dresses, and are busy briskly.
The newly reclaimed land exudes a sweet and silky taste, one after another, and it is scattered.
After a spring rain, the wheat sprouts are green, and it is gratifying.
Millet seedlings are also sprouting. Originally, these millet suitable for the yellow earth should be sown around May, but Guo Yang couldn't wait, and hundreds of people waited for the rice to be put in the pot, which was not a joke.
Guo Yang stood on a hill near the canyon, looking at the crops with great joy on his face.
"Young master, we have to repair the canal in advance, according to the climate last winter, there may be a drought this year." Anu said suddenly.
"Oh?" Guo Yang looked at Anu in some surprise, he couldn't imagine that this Di man still had the ability to observe the sky, so he couldn't help but look at it differently.
"In our Diren tribe, it is the high priest who predicts the celestial phenomena so that the great chief can arrange the hunting tasks of the entire tribe. So, I know a little bit about it. Anu scratched his head a little embarrassed and said.
"Even if you don't have to observe the sky, you have to take precautions. If you're good at this, organize people to do it. Guo Yang said gently.
If it weren't for the situation, Guo Yang would not want to kill.
He wanted to be a sheep, a sheep that was meek, auspicious, and rich.
"Young master, there is one more thing." Anu said hesitantly.
"What's the matter?" Guo Yang asked.
"I ...... Nine wild boar cubs were caught. Anu said.
"Little piglet?" Guo Yang was slightly stunned and asked casually. For hunting, he has always been able to eat as long as he looks at it, and he can easily hunt it and carry it back, and he really doesn't care about young beasts.
"I want to ...... Carry out feeding. Anu said.
"Wild boars can also be raised?" Guo Yang asked strangely.
"I'll try. We people can domesticate many animals, bison, wild asses, and antelopes, all of which have been domesticated. Wild boars seem to have been domesticated as well, but I haven't seen them myself. Speaking of the life of the Di people, Anu was a little excited.
That's a great idea! Guo Yang pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Don't just domesticate wild boars, wild asses, and bison, if you can find any traces of them, I will catch them all for you, it just so happens that we also need livestock to reclaim wasteland." ”
Anu was overjoyed, saluted Guo Yang, and walked quickly towards the Grand Canyon.
"Anu, do you want me to get a few more tigers and leopards, and you will also domesticate them for us?" Guo Yang shouted.
Anu stopped, some couldn't react, just scratched the back of his head, and said loudly: "That's not good, I'm afraid of tigers!" ”
Guo Yang laughed, turned around and went to a mountain forest in the distance, and quietly cultivated.
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Anu is really a good farmer, not only good at crops, but also good at raising pigs. In less than a year, there were dozens of chirping piglets in his pigsty. He excitedly told Guo Yang that in another year, everyone would have pork to eat.
In addition, Guo Yang fulfilled his promise and caught some wild donkeys, hares and antelopes for him. Originally, Guo Yang also got a bison back, but helplessly, that guy was really wild and untamable, not only with a violent temperament, but also with infinite strength, Anu really had no way to take it, so he had to slaughter it.
The wild asses were easy to domesticate, and it took Anu more than two months to put on farm tools and plough.
The rabbit and the antelope are in the hands of Anu, as well-behaved as little sheep, and when they listen to Anu's whistle from afar, they will excitedly circle in the enclosure, and Guo Yang will shake his head.
"Anu, you were born a leader." One day, Guo Yang watched Anu instruct everyone to pick up the pig dung, rabbit dung and antelope dung into the field, spread it evenly in the wheat ridges, and then put water to irrigate, and couldn't help but sigh.
When Anu heard this, his expression was gloomy, and he stood on the ridge of the field for a long time, as if he was remembering something. Or, he's trying to forget something.
Guo Yang looked at Anu and was a little puzzled, but he never said anything.
For several days, Anu was depressed. This continued until his first domesticated wild boars were slaughtered.
"From today onwards, I'm going to let everyone eat pork every few days!" Anu opened his mouth again to borrow a knife from Guo Yang.
"Anu, my knife is for killing, not for killing pigs." Guo Yang protested with some dissatisfaction.
"Young master, people are not as good as pigs." Anu said without changing his face.
Guo Yang looked at Anu's stubborn face, handed him the knife a little reluctantly, and promised that he must find a way to make a batch of knives recently.
"And farm tools and wine vessels, and ...... We need a few bites of the big ding, and if we have a lot of meat, we have to use the larger ding to cook the meat. Anu smiled innocently and added.
Guo Yang shook his head with a wry smile and said, "It seems that we have to go out again, we don't have enough copper and lead." ”
"Young master......" Anu stopped talking.
"Anu, why are you getting more and more unhappy? If there is anything, just open your mouth, and don't stumble. Guo Yang frowned slightly and said.
"Young master, not far from here, there is a mountain, let's go see it another day." Anu said.
"Did you find anything good?" Guo Yang suddenly became interested and said with a smile.
"The stones there, I feel that the color is different, you are a big expert in smelting, you may find something." Anu said with a deep groan.
"You mean...... Where the color of the stones is unusual? Let's talk about what color of stone and what kind of rock it is. Guo Yang followed his father Guo Lu to build bronze ware, and he really had some talent for the study of ores.
"Yes...... It's a little red in the black, young master, I have two pieces here, you can see for yourself. Anu took out two stones from his bosom and handed them to Guo Yang.
"This kind of stone, in our Diren tribe, as long as someone picks it up, it must be sent to the high priest, and I don't know what it is for." Anu added.
"Oh? That's kind of interesting. However, the color is dark red...... The texture is not very hard, and it is indeed a metal ore that can be smelted. Dark Red ...... What kind of mine should it be? Guo Yang took the two stones, studied them carefully, and muttered to himself with a frown.
He had seen this ore before, but he had never cared about it. Throughout the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, the most valued were copper, lead and tin mines, and these ores were also the most familiar.
"By the way, young master, in addition to this red stone in that mountain, there is also a cyan stone that will make people dizzy, I didn't dare to take it." Anu said again, as if he was more afraid of the cyan stone.