Chapter 163: Busyness and Celebration

It takes several months for the wheat to grow, but it is a matter of moments when it matures, and if it is not harvested in the shortest possible time, the wheat will fall into the soil, completing a cycle of his life.

Yun Lang believed that without the garrison and the 7,000 border people, he would not be able to complete the harvesting task.

Now, he also figured out one thing, why didn't those Qiang lords in the surrendered city plant so much wheat, not because they didn't want to grow more food, but because they couldn't take care of it at all.

Under such circumstances, there is no reason for the 7,000 border people who have been rescued to return to their hometowns......

"The border people have been stationed on the spot for a long time, and there is still no news from Chang'an, if it is allowed, we will start to allocate land for the border people, make a livelihood plan for the next year, if not, we will also start to prepare for 7,000 people to go on the road together.

Neither of these things can be prepared in a short period of time, what are those bigwigs in the capital doing? ”

Since the showdown with He Chou, Yun Lang has rarely been polite when he talks to him, and he is trying to create a reciprocal way of getting along.

He Chou cut off a bunch of wheat, divided it into two and twisted it into a rope, tied a bundle of wheat around his waist, threw it on the ox cart and said, "Hurry home?" ”

Yun Lang nodded and said: "I can wait, the season does not wait for anyone, the snow in the city is falling in September, and the river is frozen at the end of November, if you can't deal with the matter at hand as soon as possible, taking the waterway is an empty word." ”

"Even so, we can't be urged, we are hands and feet, the ministers of the court are the hearts, and Your Majesty is our heads.

Historically, there has only been a head, and the heart manages the hands and feet, and there are no hands and feet to manage the head and the heart, this order can not be messed up, sometimes it seems to be cumbersome, but it is the most fundamental rule, compared with these rules, the seven thousand people go and stay, and the goods are not worth mentioning. “

Yun Lang smiled bitterly, it was a wrong choice to bargain with He Chouyou, he helped He Chou You throw all the cut wheat into the ox cart, and prepared to leave.

He Chou grabbed Yun Lang and said: "You couldn't cut the wheat two days ago because you were unwell, today is a cloudy day, it will not cause you to feel unwell, we are worried about the rain one by one as if in the oil pot, why don't you have a heartbeat?" ”

Yun Lang said angrily: "Today is the day when the first wooden row is formed, I have to keep an eye on those craftsmen, this is a big deal, it is much more important than me cutting a little more wheat alone." ”

He Chou said with grief and indignation: "At the time of the autumn harvest, this is a big thing, even His Majesty will put down the government affairs at hand, what are you......?"

Yun Lang didn't stay to listen to He Chou's chatter, and took Liu Er straight to the waterway wharf.

A long cobblestone embankment plunges deep into the river, creating a distinct backwater bay here, and parallel to the cobblestone embankment is a long wooden boardwalk.

There are far fewer people here than in the fields, but there are more animals to haul wood.

The three-foot-diameter giant trees were sawed off by the craftsmen, dragged up the embankment by the cattle, and finally pushed up the river by the people along the slipway made of wood, and when the wood entered the river, the craftsmen would grab it with iron hooks, line it up, and then nail the wood together in pairs with iron clips, and finally form a raft composed of eight giant trees.

The giant tree could not fully float on the surface of the water when it reached the water, and Yun Lang jumped on the raft, and his shoes were immediately wet with water.

The craftsmen continued to tie the beams on the raft, up and down, and then tied the beams together one by one with wool ropes from the surrendered city, and finally built a high platform on the raft that was two feet above the water as a platform for carrying goods.

All these things need to be checked, and the cargo is loaded onto the platform to see the draft of the raft.

In Yun Lang's memory, this big river has never been suitable for large-scale shipping, and the reason why Yun Lang dares to do this is entirely because the current big river is much more abundant than the big river in his memory.

The weighted stones were sent by craftsmen to the newly built platform with a zipline.

After the stones were paved with the high platform, it was less than a foot above the water.

The carrying capacity of the raft is not high...... This made Yun Lang a little disappointed.

If you want to load all the goods that are not easy to carry by land onto a raft, you need a lot of rafts.

In fact, with this experimental drifting, Yun Lang did not dare to load more things on the raft.

Everything is unknown.

The loading capacity of the ship is naturally much higher than that of the raft, however, the raft is able to withstand numerous collisions, and what about the ship? A single collision can shatter bones.

In this rafting, the wooden raft has to pass through the mountains and valleys, where does Yunlang dare to use a boat?

If you want the raft to have more loading capacity, you have to find a way to increase the buoyancy of the raft, and Yun Lang thought that it would be a good idea to equip the raft with a pupping sheepskin bag, or a cowhide bag.

The hollow giant tree that you want needs a sheepskin bag or a cowhide bag to help float even more, because a log filled with copper ingots was thrown into the water, and it didn't even mean to float and sink directly to the bottom of the water.

After passing the experiment, Yun Lang sadly found that a giant wood could hold a maximum of two hundred catties of copper ingots, and there could be no more.

He pounded his head hard, this incident was deceived by historical records, there are countless stories of giant trees transporting gold in history, it seems that this is recorded with damn Spring and Autumn penmanship.

By three days, hundreds of rafts had been assembled in the bay, and it looked like a giant fleet.

The wind in the river was always southerly or easterly until winter came, and Yun Lang was going to load the sails on the raft, not to speed up the voyage, but so that if there was a problem ahead, the raft could quickly reduce its speed, or simply go upstream.

This in turn requires a lot of calculations, as well as experiments, and in Dahan, of course, calculations do not exist, so the craftsmen began to experiment with tedious experiments again.

The big river in summer and autumn is turbulent, not a good rafting season, only when it enters the winter, taking advantage of the time when the big river is not frozen, the water volume of the big river is reduced, and the river surface is relatively stable, which is the time that Yunlang needs.

The city was dusty, and countless cattle dragged around the makeshift wheat fields and crushed the wheat.

As long as there was wind, the women cheered and stood upwind with a dustpan full of wheat, so that the wheat in the dustpan fell slowly with the husk, and the light husks were carried away by the wind, and the heavy yellow grains of wheat fell under their feet, and soon their calves were buried by the wheat.

The straw that had no wheat grains was beaten into bundles and piled up outside the city, and the shepherds were left to take it for themselves, and Huo Quai's illness did not allow him to have so many fire-starters in his city.

For these herders, wheat straw is not only a good fodder, but also the best firewood.

The busy wheat harvesting activity is finally over, even if he is as strong as Huo Quai, Li Dare feels exhausted, why worry about this old man, although he is strong, he strives to maintain his dignity in front of people, and after returning to his room and leaving his job, he will moan all night.

When the wheat was harvested into the granary, the great city of surrender immediately fell into a period of slumber for two consecutive days.

Outside the city, after a three-foot high wheat straw pile was ignited, the crowd also boiled in an instant.

At this moment, the most popular thing in the Surrendered City is the liquor.

This time, Yun Lang took out all the liquor in stock, and the newly brewed wine was not yet fully ripe, so at this time, it was time to process all the old wine.

The country tunes sung by the Qiang people are actually very beautiful, especially the content is spicy and bold.

Looking at a little Qiang girl singing violently - A-Niang is not here tonight, why don't you come to my window This tune caused a wolf howl, and her fierce mother rushed out and patted her daughter's ass to show off to everyone, this is a good birth, if you want to enter her daughter's room, you have to ask her first.

Yun Lang didn't understand what it meant, so he saw a shy young man holding a sheep in front of the woman, but the woman kicked him away with the sheep, and he looked very dissatisfied.

The young man with a cow is qualified to stay with the girl and wait for her mother to make a final choice among four or five cows.

A large black and white cow was taken by the woman, and she was satisfied with a cowbell tied to the cow's neck.

Immediately, a man with an indescribable appearance slapped the young men who surrounded the girl, put the girl on his shoulder, laughed and left the crowd.

Yun Lang worked hard to restrain the bastards with the most money in the surrendered city, and told them over and over again that this is the custom of the Qiang people, we must respect it, and we can't come nonsense!

Cao Xiang's nostrils touched the heat and said angrily: "What a good way, who is going to destroy it, the little girl just now had a red face and a sweet smile, if you didn't pull it, do you think Ye Ye can't afford two cows?" ”