The next day, Yun Mo was awakened in a noise, Zhang Ying and Uncle Chen were already assigning people, and a lot of tools for farming and quarrying salt had been prepared, and even the two war horses that Yun Mo gave to Zhang Ying were now also in handy, one pulling the plowshare, and the other pulling a flat carriage.

Everything was according to the arrangement that Yun Mo and Uncle Chen said, but Zhang Ying thought more comprehensively, she selected ten women who knew how to carpenter from the fifty-person farming team, and they would help Yun Mo imitate the crossbow.

Zhang Ying led the team to collect stone salt and left, Uncle Chen took more than 30 people to repair the steelmaking workshop, more than 40 people who farmed also left, and more than 30 children were listlessly enjoying the shade under the trees.

The women in the carpentry group looked at Yun Mo in a daze, waiting for him to arrange the task, Yun Mo was a little uncomfortable with their gaze at him, and hurriedly began to arrange the work:

"The eight of you take turns to break the wooden strips with a long saw, and there are two kinds of wooden strips, one three centimeters wide, three centimeters high, and one hundred and twenty centimeters long......"

"Chief, how long is a centimeter!"

The ten women looked at Yun Mo blankly, they didn't understand what the unit of centimeter was at all. This was Yun Mo's negligence, and he didn't bring measuring tools like a tape measure.

In fact, these female carpenters also have rulers, but the units are battles, rulers, inches, and minutes. Yun Mo took the female carpenter's ruler and looked at it, and one point was about 0.3 centimeters.

"I corrected it, it was one inch wider and one inch high...... There are two kinds of wooden strips, one is made for bow arms, and the other is used for crossbow handles. ”

"You two will make bowstrings! I've got a spare pair of bowstrings here, so you can sample them, and remember to make them with good animal tendons. ”

"Please rest assured, Chief, our ten sisters will do a good job."

"Sisters, get busy first, I'll go hunt some prey and treat you."

Yun Mo really couldn't stand the hot gaze of the ten women, and he didn't know how long it had been since they had seen a man, of course, there must be barbarian men, but this was the daughter of the Han family who was unwilling to defile her bloodline.

Yesterday, Yun Mo found that there were actually a lot of small prey scurrying in the grass in this ditch, and today it was just a wooden bar made of a crossbow, and he didn't need to help, he had to find a way to catch some prey and improve everyone's food, and people who only ate wild vegetables could not participate in heavy physical labor.

Yunmo hunting has another important thing, that is, to learn to ride a horse, the essentials of horse riding are searched with a mobile phone Baidu search, and after seeing it, it is practiced immediately, it doesn't matter if you are thrown off the horse, and then you will come again.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded in the grape ditch, and the hares, wild cats, and foxes were frightened and fled in all directions, and Yun Moke, who had plenty of crossbow arrows, was not polite, and the "buzzing" sound of the bowstring kept sounding, and one by one the prey was not nailed to the ground.

In one hour, Yun Mo hunted a total of seven or eight hares and a fox, Yun Mo was very satisfied with this harvest, but when he returned to the village with the prey, the leader of the carpentry group, Qing Sister-in-law, told Yun Mo:

"The prey in this grape ditch can't be hunted now, you must wait until winter, when the tribe's food is exhausted, and the prey in this grape ditch is everyone's last life-saving ration."

Yun Mo thought about it, Zhang Ying and the little grain planted by their tribe had already been robbed by robbers, and they usually ate wild vegetables to survive, but in winter, there were no wild vegetables to eat, and the prey in this grape ditch was really their last ration.

In the future, all the wild animals in the grape ditch will be turned into fertile fields, and these wild animals will either be hunted or driven out, and Yun Mo can't leave these wild animals in the ditch to harm the crops.

Yun Mo understands Sister-in-law Qing's kindness, it's not that Sister-in-law Qing is wrong, it's that Sister-in-law Qing is still looking at all this with a weak eye.

"Sister-in-law, I understand what you mean, I won't kill those beasts until they all become fertile fields here."

To be honest, Yun Mo was very unhappy in his heart, this Han group of people still didn't regard him as a real leader, because Yun Mo really hadn't brought substantial benefits to their group so far.

Sister-in-law Qing noticed Yun Mo's unhappiness, she quickly closed her mouth, and a middle-aged woman next to her hurriedly came up to play a round:

"Chief, I'll teach people to deal with these wild meats, and let's make a tooth sacrifice at noon today."

Yun Mo naturally wouldn't be as knowledgeable as Sister-in-law Qing, he smiled and nodded, and handed over all the prey to the middle-aged woman, and then put on his backpack, took a hoe and left.

There are about a dozen acres of wheat fields outside the village, and the green wheat is already more than a foot high, and on the edge of the wheat field, dozens of women are clearing the land, and now two or three acres of land have been cultivated.

Yun Mo's green camouflage uniform was very special, and dozens of women who were clearing the wasteland saw Yun Mo coming, and hurriedly greeted him with a smile:

"See Chieftain"

Dozens of women performed a blessing ceremony for Yun Mo in the field, which can best reflect the delicacy and cultivation of Han women, which is much better than kneeling.

"Who of you is responsible here?"

"It's me, Chen Shufen."

Chen Shufen is about 30 years old and looks a little similar to Uncle Chen:

"Please Sister Chen fence this piece of land that has been reclaimed, I have some seeds that need to be planted here."

"Yes, Chief."

"Who are you, Uncle Chen?"

"That's my father."

"Your father and daughter are very similar......"

Yun Mo opened his backpack and took out the hybrid seeds inside, rice, wheat, millet, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, these grains and vegetables such as peppers can be sown.

The hot weather in the Western Regions can last until November, and even if it is now the end of April, the seeds can be sown without affecting the harvest.

The planting of wheat and millet, these women will, Yun Mo gave them two fine grain seeds to sow seeds, and corn, sweet potato, potato seeds, these women don't know it yet, so these three kinds of coarse grains are planted by Yun Mo himself, Chen Shufen took a few women to start and watched and learned on the side.

About half an acre of corn was planted, about 50 potatoes were planted, and 6 sweet potatoes were planted. These plants are Yun Mo's biggest reliance in the future.

Don't look at Yun Mo's only six sweet potatoes, this year he can plant hundreds of acres of sweet potatoes, and after the sweet potatoes grow vines, he can use scissors to cut into twenty-centimeter-long cuttings, and the vines grown from six sweet potatoes can easily be cut into hundreds of acres.

Corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes these three kinds of grain, sweet potato yield is the highest, if not interplanted with corn, the yield per mu can reach seven or eight thousand catties, the water content of sweet potatoes is 40%, seven or eight thousand catties of sweet potatoes after peeling, you can get about more than three thousand catties of dry sweet potato flour.

After the sweet potato flour is fermented, it can be made into a very delicious steamed bun, and if it is accompanied by millet porridge, it is a rare delicacy in the world.

You can also wet the sweet potato flour and use gauze to make vermicelli, and the remaining oka is the best livestock feed.

The yield of potatoes per mu is generally five or six thousand catties, which is a kind of food that benefits vegetables and grains, in order to facilitate preservation, it can also be made into potato flour, and the way to eat is similar to that of sweet potatoes.

The yield of corn is about two or three thousand catties per mu, and corn is also a good food, such as corn film and corn porridge.

The yield of wheat and millet is much lower, even if the hybrid seeds brought by Yunmo, such as Yemai No. 44 brought by Yunmo, the yield per mu is only about 1,000 catties, and the yield per mu of millet is only 7 or 800 catties, which can only be achieved by intensive cultivation.

Of course, the yield of Yunmo's hybrid wheat and millet must be much higher than the yield of the original wheat and millet used by Zhang Ying, and the yield of wheat and millet planted by Zhang Ying and them is generally only more than 200 catties per mu, which is still the yield that can only be achieved when the grape ditch has sufficient water sources.

As long as Yun Mo can gain a firm foothold in the Western Regions, and then promote these hybrid grains, there will be endless food in the Western Regions, and if it is promoted to the Han Dynasty, then the whole of China will no longer have the risk of food shortage, but will Huaxia's strength become strong because of its wealth, this is not good, such as the Great Song Dynasty.

Farming in Grape Valley is only the first step in the long march of thousands of miles, in the Western Regions, a world where the strong are respected, if there is no corresponding force, the richer the tribe, the more robbers will be attracted to robber and kill.