Chapter 273: The Importance of Ships 1/2
With the sudden influx of 1,500 people, the housing situation in Gencheng became tense, and the people could only be scattered into each house, and everyone would be squeezed, and this situation would last for two days, and half of the people would be transferred to Akagi after two days.
The 1,000 people of the original Blood Tiger Tribe, plus the more than 400 people of the three tribes conquered before, the total population of the Dragon Tribe has reached 11,500 people, and sure enough, foreign conquest is the fastest way to speed up the population development of the Dragon Tribe, provided that the new people can be integrated into the Dragon Tribe, rather than bringing various hidden dangers to the Dragon Tribe, which is what Su Yan attaches the most importance to.
After a hearty dinner, the new tribe people don't care about all kinds of amazing things found in the new tribe, and the long-distance fatigue allows them to quickly enter the dream, sleep well, and devote themselves to a new life tomorrow.
Su Yan didn't feel too tired, after dinner, the family of five sat together, and Su Yan told Xiaohua Xiaoyue about what happened on this trip, as well as some things on the south bank of the river.
This trip to the Blood Tiger Tribe, the Dragon Tribe gained a lot, but Su Yan was a little helpless in two places, one is the population composition of the new tribe, there are too few adult clansmen, and too many juvenile clansmen; The other is the size of the new people, which has a lot of gaps compared to the northerners, which means that their strength is smaller than that of the northerners.
From the Wu of the Blood Tiger Tribe, Su Yan learned that the Blood Tiger Tribe used to be a tribe on the north bank of the Great River, and there was not much difference between the figure of the people of the Blood Tiger Tribe and the figure of the people of the Dragon Tribe.
Fortunately, the figure of the new clan is quite different from the old clan, and if the people of the south bank are directly integrated into the dragon tribe, I am afraid that the clansmen will not be able to accept these "dwarfs" for a while.
Xiaohua Xiaoyue listened to Su Yan's story with great interest, and Xiaoyue had some longing for the warmer climate on the south bank of the river.
Holding An Xiaoyue leaning on Su Yan's left side, she said longingly: "Husband, it would be great if there was a place where the four seasons are like spring, move our tribe there, and no longer have to endure the cold winter and the sultry and rainy summer." ”
"There will be places like this, but such places are far, far away from us, and it will take us a few years to walk and even cross the sea." Su Yan replied to Xiaoyue with a smile.
"The sea?" Xiao Yue imagined the appearance of the sea in her mind, and Su Yan once described the appearance of the sea to the sisters: the sea is a very large lake, with no edge in sight, and the sea is sometimes calm, sometimes turbulent, and very dangerous.
Xiaohua leaned on Su Yan's right side, quietly listening to the conversation between her husband and sister, Xiaohua enjoyed this kind of life very much, only her husband, sister, children and mother were there, for Xiaohua this is the happiest and most beautiful life, I don't care if they live in the cold north in winter, or in the south with a warm climate.
The next day arrived.
Today, Su Yan needs to be busy with the resettlement of the new tribesmen, the more than 400 new tribesmen who joined the Dragon Tribe before have been divided into two halves in the family unit, settling in Source City and Chicheng respectively, and now what needs to be resettled are the 1,000 new people of the original Blood Tiger Tribe.
They were separated into family units, a total of more than 110 families, and then nearly 400 children were left without families, their parents were killed in battles with the cattle tribe, or their mothers were plundered to the cattle tribe.
Thinking about it, Su Yan divided more than 110 families into two halves by drawing lots, and the children without families also drew lots to divide them into two halves, and tomorrow half of them will be about 500 people to move to Chicheng, and the remaining 500 people will temporarily live in Yuancheng, and after Zhucheng is built, the families living in Yuancheng and Chicheng will draw lots to decide to move to Zhucheng.
For a long time, the clansmen would not live in one city for too long, and would change places almost every few years, and it is expected that only a few families in the source city would be lucky enough to live there forever.
Fortunately, the clansmen's personal belongings are not too many, and it is not a hassle to move back and forth, and the clansmen will not have any complaints about moving.
As for the parents of the new tribe, Su Yan arranged for some of the older clansmen in the Dragon tribe to take care of them, and Snake Ci would also be among them.
For the new people, the most important thing at present is the housing problem, even if half of the people are assigned to Chicheng, the two cities will still have the problem of housing shortage, no way, Su Yan did not expect that the population of the Blood Tiger Tribe would exceed one thousand, if only about five hundred people can still be accommodated, and there are five hundred, it will be a little more troublesome.
Every year, Yuancheng and Akagi build houses on a large scale, and the new houses will have ondols, and only one family will live in each house, but in order to accommodate new clansmen, it is necessary to quickly build a number of houses without ondols, and one house needs to live in two families.
On the morning of the third day, Biao set out from Yuancheng with a team of more than 700 people and returned to Chicheng, and by the way, Su Yan asked Biao to bring a letter to Zhi, which contained arrangements for the new clansmen and a little change in Chicheng's plans for the future.
During the few days that Su Yan led his team out to fight, the people of the Dragon Tribe were not idle, and their main task was to burn bricks, on the one hand, they could provide bricks and stones for the construction of houses in their respective cities, and on the other hand, they could also transport bricks and stones to Bamboo City by boat.
At present, the largest wooden ship of the Dragon Tribe can carry more than ten tons of goods at a time, and the weight of a fired brick is about five catties, and the wooden ship can turn its head for four thousand to five thousand yuan at a time.
If the dragon tribe has more wooden boats, and there is no need to build a brick kiln on the side of Bamboo Castle, the turn of building Bamboo City can be transported directly from the source city and Akagi side by boat, and it is time-consuming and laborious to transport the turn by wheelbarrow on land, but it is much easier to replace it with a wooden boat with sails.
Originally, Su Yan wanted to build wooden boats on a large scale, drive ships on the river, and before there were no horse-drawn carriages, the speed of using ships to travel to and from various cities could be shortened a lot, and he could also use ships to transport goods in large quantities, and at the same time prepare for the future march to the south bank of the river.
Unexpectedly, when he went out to the Blood Tiger Tribe this time, he also got the news of cattle, the population is the most important "resource" for the Dragon Tribe, followed by cattle and horses, Su Yan will march into the south bank of the Great River a few years in advance, and at the same time, the construction speed of wooden boats will also be accelerated, and the number of carpenter apprentices in the Dragon Tribe will increase again.
On the fourth day after Su Yan returned from the expedition to the Blood Tiger Tribe, Yuan went to Zhucheng with a city-building team of 500 people, and Chicheng will also send a city-building team of 500 people, which will arrive in Yuancheng this evening and leave for Zhucheng tomorrow.