Chapter 228: One Year
In the anxious waiting of everyone, Wang Lang said: "The expedition plan will not be canceled, you can rest assured." ”
With Wang Lang's assurance, the members of the expedition team breathed a sigh of relief, this expedition thought about the foundation of their future life, if it was canceled, they could only wait for the fifty copper coins sent every month to live, which was unacceptable to them.
"Did you get anything out of going to the jungle this time?" Wang Lang asked.
At the mention of this, everyone came to the spirit, Zhao Dashu untied his animal skin pocket, handed it to Wang Lang, and said with a smile: "Chief, we do have a harvest this time, what do you think this is?" ”
Wang Lang looked at the pocket suspiciously, and when he opened it, he saw that it was a seed of a certain plant, and couldn't help asking, "What is this?" ”
"Chief, this is a plant seed, and this thing is very sweet, sweeter than the Red Flame Fruit." Zhao Dashu said with a smile.
Hearing this, Wang Lang grabbed a handful of seeds and looked at them carefully, but with his knowledge level, he didn't see anything.
"Describe that plant."
Zhao Dashu thought for a while and said: "That kind of plant is very tall, one head taller than me, section by section, about the thickness of a thumb." ”
Speaking of this, his eyes lit up with embarrassment there, and he said secretly: "Is it sugar cane?" ”
But then Zhao Dashu's narrative negated Wang Lang's speculation, according to Zhao Dashu, the top of the thing grew ears of seeds, which did not conform to the appearance of sugarcane in his impression, according to his description, it was similar to the sweet rod in his impression, the sweet rod is in another world, the name of the place is different, if you say the scientific name, it is sweet sorghum, it is a kind of sorghum.
If it's true, it's a treasure indeed, much better than just sugar cane.
The seeds of this sweet sorghum can not only be used to make sorghum rice, but most importantly, it can be used to make wine, and the sorghum stalks can also be used as sugar cane, which can be boiled out of sugar, which can be described as a treasure.
But after all, Zhao Dashu's description was too vague, and he wasn't sure if this thing was that kind of sweet sorghum, and he was a little bit of a loser for a while.
"Did you bring back anything else from this thing?"
"Brought back!"
As he spoke, he said to a member of the expedition, "Li Yun, show the leader the piece of things that you cut off." ”
This man named Li Yun hurriedly took out a small piece of physical objects from his pocket.
Wang Lang took this thing, carefully identified it for a while, his face showed joy, and hurriedly said: "How far is this thing from here, and how much is there over there." ”
Seeing that Wang Lang cared so much about this thing, Zhao Dashu knew that his good luck was coming this time, and hurriedly said: "This thing is in the north of the Red Flame Fruit Tree, almost two days away from there, but the number of this thing there is not very many, it is estimated that there are more than a thousand trees, and when we come back, we have almost finished picking all the seeds, and there is only so much in total." ”
Wang Lang shook his head with some disappointment, if there were a lot of this kind of sweet sorghum over there, he could extend the road to that side, so that he could immediately use this west, and now it seems that he can only use these seeds to cultivate.
"Chief, does this thing work?" Zhao Dashu asked.
Wang Lang nodded and said, "It's useful, we will plant a lot of this thing in the future, and this time you are lucky to find something useful." ”
When everyone heard this, they immediately raised their eyebrows and looked at Wang Lang with anticipation.
Looking at their appearance, Wang Lang knew what these people were waiting for, and said with a smile: "You are very lucky this time, so in order to reward you, I will give you eight hundred copper coins this time." ”
"Eight hundred copper coins!"
Everyone was so surprised that they almost couldn't close their mouths, they thought that this time the harvest would be similar to the last time, but they didn't expect that this time the income would be twice as much as the last time, and the money would come so quickly, which made them even more sure of their wise decision to join the expedition.
"You'll go to the Outpost and get it later!" Wang Lang said with a smile.
The excited crowd nodded their heads again and again.
Seeing that they were not willing to stay here longer, the king waved his hand and let them disperse.
After they left, soon the first expedition team received a reward of eight hundred copper coins this time, and everyone knew about it, looking at the twelve expedition members, most of them had envious and jealous expressions on their faces.
The nine surviving members of the second expedition, whose hearts had been silent, also began to be restless under the temptation of this huge benefit.
"Sweet sorghum, it's actually sweet sorghum, tsk, it seems that God really favors me, this place is simply a treasure land, and if you don't use it well, you will definitely be damned." Wang Lang muttered to himself.
The plan of the expedition, after the first expedition succeeded twice in a row, the opposition in the tribe gradually disappeared, although most people were not willing to go out on adventures, but those who were brave and not afraid of death, began to gather people everywhere, ready to take this opportunity to go out and do a vote, maybe immediately rich.
In the quiet and busy life of the tribesmen, time passes in a hurry, and the rainy season and dry season come and go.
In a year, the tribe changed dramatically, and the granaries were covered with a lot, and more than a dozen large granaries were filled with all kinds of grain.
The dozen or so ceratosaurs had grown to the size of calves at this time, and children could even ride on these ceratosaurs to graze in the wild.
Since the first expedition brought back sweet sorghum, after a year of cultivation, the sorghum received now is almost half of the corn, with these sorghum, using these sorghum to make sorghum wine, so that wine is not a luxury.
It's just that this high-level liquor is too spicy, and the tribesmen still like the fruit wine made from the red flame fruit, but the sorghum wine is still the most cost-effective for the tribesmen who don't have much money left in their pockets, and this kind of strong wine is very popular with expeditions and soldiers.
Due to the repeated success of the first expedition, the expedition plan greatly stimulated people's enthusiasm, and under the training of the first expedition team in a year, there are now two expeditions of ten people, under the continuous exploration of these expeditions, now the tribe is almost all in the hands of Wang Lang within a radius of more than 300 miles, and under the propaganda of the expedition members, those wild people who wander on the grassland have flocked to it, so that the population size of the tribe has skyrocketed to nearly 2,000 people.
Yan Village could not accommodate such a large population, so after repeated consideration, a new village was built on the side of the copper mine, named Tongshan Village, distributed to more than 500 people there, and appointed Lin Huo as the leader of Tongshan Village.