Chapter 60: Back to the construction site
He slept until late in the evening, when a waiter came to wake him up and said that the young witch had invited him and his people to a banquet.
With the help of the waiter, after the old sickle took care of himself, he took the clan to participate in the feast of the Banpo dolphin.
The feast of the Banpo dolphin, as usual, is a case of one person, the ground is covered with animal skins, the food table is placed on the top, the main seat is in the center, the following is opposite to sit, the host and guest sit according to the case, in this dinner party is a group of people around the food utensils to reach out and fish in the era, it is particularly solemn and regular, very distinctive.
Erhugou and a group of clansmen are wearing Hanfu, their speech and demeanor are all down-and-out, and under the leadership of polite waiters, they sit down one by one, and there are Banpo dolphin tribesmen interspersed in the meantime to be escorts. Since they want to entertain guests, the people of Banpo Dolphin naturally have to wear the most beautiful clothes and bring the most gorgeous ornaments, but they have dressed up well, and they look like five or six people, and they sit in a regular manner, and their voices are very low, which makes the atmosphere mysterious and mysterious, and it is very bluffing.
Seeing that the banquet of Banpo dolphin was so solemn, everyone in Erhugou couldn't help but get nervous, for fear that they didn't understand the rules and made a joke.
Seeing this, Tang Ge only felt funny. Pretending to be mysterious at the banquet and using a solemn atmosphere to make the guests nervous is one of the many bad tastes of Banpo dolphins. Tang Ge didn't debunk it, anyway, they just wanted to highlight the particularity of the Banpo dolphin, and they wouldn't go too far with the pure nouveau riche mentality.
After thanking Lao Yao for his help to the Banpo dolphin, the feast officially began. Banpo dolphin tableware is gorgeous, the food is exquisite, and there are constantly slaves coming forward to perform songs and dances, and the atmosphere is quickly lively. And because Erhugou is very helpful to the Banpo dolphin, even the fat witch who rarely goes out appeared at the banquet and toasted Lao Yao with a glass of wine, which made Lao Yao feel quite useful.
The bulk of the Banpo dolphin and Erhugou trade is furniture, glass and gold, because the furniture is heavy, the long-distance traffic profit is not too big, so now it has become glass, gold and wine, but anything, as long as the quantity is large, it is not valuable. Therefore, Banpo dolphin has always controlled the amount of glass and gold objects, and maintained the strategic policy of valuing things as precious. If it weren't for the fact that a large number of slaves and manpower were needed to build the city this time, Tang Ge would not have taken out so many gold tools and glass.
But that's just for once. After this transaction, Banpo Dolphin will no longer sell gold and glass for a long time. The newly brewed various fruit wines and honey will become the only trading objects of Erhugou and Banpo porpoises.
After Tang Ge expressed his "difficulty" at the banquet, Lao Yao expressed his understanding. Anyway, wine is still a unique business in Zhongzhou and Dongyi, as long as the quantity is sufficient, it is still very profitable.
The Erhugou feast was an eye-opener, and the delicious food and wine and wonderful singing and dancing that they had never imagined before, so that the people of Erhugou and the people of Erhugou had enough capital to brag about for several years. Who would have thought that those ordinary salted fish and dried shrimp would have so many cooking methods in the hands of Banpo dolphins, not to mention those precious stones, even ordinary dried meat and fish trays, and the chefs of Banpo porks could use them to make unimaginable tricks.
The feast lasted until late at night, and this feast was enjoyed by the guests and the hosts, and after the wine and food were full, most of the drunken Erhugou tribesmen were even carried back.
The next day, the drunken old sickle got up early in the morning and found Tang Ge to say goodbye to him. Since he still had a lot of work to do, Tang Ge didn't keep too much, but just told Lao Yao to send the goods directly to Banpo Dolphin next time, and it was best to take a few days to have a good time in Banpo Dolphin, so he supplemented them with living supplies and politely sent Erhugou and his party away.
After returning to the tribe, saying hello to Honggu, and hugging Xiaoshui Mountain for a good intimacy, Tang Ge immediately rushed to the Shuangshan Land non-stop. This was where his heart was, and after a quarter of an hour away, he was worried about whether something would go wrong, let alone after being away for so long.
Fortunately, everything was fine on the construction site and there were no accidents. Now that all the fields needed have been cleared, the next step is civil engineering. Ditches to be dug, the foundation of the house to be dug, the foundation of the city wall to be dug, as well as the brick kiln pottery kiln needed for construction, etc., fortunately, after the Banpo dolphin completed the armament, it vigorously developed agricultural tools, and now there are hoes, axes, saws, chisels, and all kinds of construction materials for gold. If there were no gold tools, I am afraid that it would take two years for the half-slope dolphin to dig a ditch.
In addition to the need to break ground everywhere, it is necessary to cut down a lot of trees, wait for the shade to dry, make building materials and pillars of the house, and more importantly, Tang Ge has to lay a wooden rail, from the rocky mountain to the construction site, and then go back to the rocky mountain, when the time comes, you only need to load the wooden rail on the carriage, and the work of transporting the stone can save a lot of effort.
"There are still too few people......" After inspecting the circle, Tang Ge sighed.
The construction site was busy, but the progress of the project was slow. There were more than 200 slaves brought by Lao Yao this time, but these slaves were too weak to adapt to the high-intensity labor on the construction site, so they could only arrange for them to do some light work first, and then they could be sent to the construction site for a while.
It's time for lunch. Three meals a day has become a common practice for Banpo dolphins, even for slaves, and now that the work on the construction site is very heavy, there is a need for adequate food supplements.
There are as many as two or three hundred laborers in the Shuangshan area, most of them are slaves, and a small number of clansmen are distributed among them to supervise and arrange work.
There are three cooks on the construction site, who are in charge of everyone's food. In addition to supervising the work, Tang Ge also has high requirements for food. He stipulated that everyone should have enough to eat every day, and that meat and salt should be sufficient, so that they could have the strength to work.
In fact, Tang Ge's regulations are nonsense in the eyes of the chef. Now it is the height of summer, and it is not easy to preserve any fresh ingredients on a hot day, and the Banpo dolphin now comes from all over the world, with a variety of animal jerky. The chefs only need to put all kinds of dried meat into the pot and stew in a pot, add some salted fish, add some yam and yellow essence or something, and get some wild vegetables in it, and the meal is ready. This kind of food, the taste is not good but not bad, for the people who have already lived in fine clothes and jade food, it can be barely swallowed, but for the slaves, it is a rare delicacy.
Whose slave was able to eat meat three times a day? That is, the half-slope dolphin.
Just like the canteen in later generations, when it was time to eat, the clansmen and slaves each had a plate, lined up in the canteen to eat, a simple dish and a soup, not enough to eat, can be beaten again, unlimited supply, until they are full, but there must be no leftovers.
Although they are all the same big pot of rice, the treatment of the clansmen and the slaves is still different. Tang Ge took the special tableware prepared for him by the chef and took two bites, quite emotional.
In order to build the city, he pulled most of the labor force of Banpo Dolphin to the construction site, and these laborers were only responsible for construction, and the logistics support was all pressed on Qingshan. He can now concentrate on the construction of the city without distractions, Qingshan's logistics support work is absolutely indispensable, and with the skyrocketing population of Banpo dolphins, Tang Ge knows how much pressure Qingshan is under today just by thinking about it.
After eating, I have to take a lunch break. Nowadays, the weather is hot, and although the kitchen can ensure the supply of salt water, it is still easy to suffer from heat stroke during the midday work. So, just let everyone take a nice nap and focus their work as much as possible in the morning and evening.
Tang Ge's intimate actions moved the slaves greatly. In the past, before they came to Banpo Dolphin, they lived a life that was not as good as pigs and dogs, not to mention that they were full of food and clothing, regardless of winter and summer, as long as they still had a breath, they had to work hard with their hungry stomachs, and they were exposed to the wind and snow and the sun, which were all common things. Even so, they have to be careful not to accidentally anger their owners and lose their lives. It can be said that after today, I don't know tomorrow, and life is better than death.
These slaves were first sold to Banpo Dolphins, and they thought that the wasteland was full of barbarians, and it was estimated that they would not escape the fate of labor to death. They were given plenty of food, clean clothes, and sturdy and beautiful housing, all of which these slaves enjoyed today, not even by their former masters, and, more importantly, treated them as human beings and gave them the respect they had as they had. The new-time slaves even thought they were living in a dream. It is also because of this that they worship Tang Ge Shaowu from the bottom of their hearts, and even compare Tang Ge to a god-like existence. Now Tang Ge not only works with them, but also eats and lives with them, which makes Tang Ge's image in their hearts even more glorious and magnificent.
Tang Ge was a saint sent by the gods of heaven to save them, and his heavenly gift Shen Cong not only saved his people, but also saved them from these humble slaves. These were the words that were circulated privately by the slaves.
Tang Ge was accustomed to the slaves' gratitude, but he was still curious about their previous lives. From the gossip of the slaves, Tang Ge learned that the outside world was not good. Even those slave owners were often accompanied by hunger and cold, and wars broke out from time to time, so the life of Banpo Dolphin was almost a paradise for all people in this world.
But what is the outside world really like? The more the slaves praised the life of the Banpo dolphin, the more curious Tang Ge became about the outside world.