Chapter 80: On the Eve of Reclamation
Su Yang immediately summoned the children, saw that he took a branch the thickness of a baby's arm, took out a veterinarian knife that had not been used, and rotated it along the bark in a spiral manner, and it was easy to tear off the spun bark.
"See, it's like this."
His movements are very skillful, he has done it before, and he is quickly wrapped, and there is a small hole left on the top of the horn, which is similar to the skin of camphor wood, if it is pine, it will be too hard, and the skin of eucalyptus and cypress is slightly rough and easy to tear, and the moisture is not so sufficient.
Then he pulled a small branch, a little bigger than a straw, scraped the bark with a hard object, and then loosened it as soon as he twisted it, and pulled it out completely, and took a section of about five centimeters and inserted it into the tip of the bark horn he had just made, and he could blow a buzzing sound similar to that of a cow's horn.
"Woohoo." Very good horn sound, and it was a success, Su Yang was very satisfied, but this was just a small test.
The bark horn was played with by the children, and the children imitated it to make one, and he encouraged this way, the biggest difference between humans and animals is the use of labor tools, but more importantly, creativity.
Then he called a few warriors to look for the trees, scraped several kinds of watery ones that could tear off the inner layers of the bark, and tried to make bowstrings from the bark.
Of course, he was only making a model to try it out, so the bark was torn off and not dried, but directly made into two strands and twisted into a rope in a spiral. He had previously twisted the rope with the outer layer of bamboo, but it was too hard to serve as a bowstring.
This will make a bark rope out, and I feel that it is okay, and it is easy to get materials. I just feel that I can do better with hemp rope, anyway, hemp can be harvested many times a year, and now it is a little troublesome to weave cloth with hemp, so it is a good choice to use it to weave nets and make bowstrings.
He also wanted to take this opportunity to get a batch of throwing javelins instead of bows and arrows, which would also be very powerful, because not all warriors could become archers, and it would be more convenient to carry throwing weapons with them.
Then he cut a branch of a modest size with an axe, took a section, cut grooves at both ends, lassoed one end with a bark rope, and then pulled it violently so that the warriors cooperated to tie the other end, and this became a D-shaped bow, with an arc almost a semicircle.
"Buzz!" He tried to pull the bowstring, there was a tremor, the elasticity was still there, but the expansion force was not good, because the bow was too short, and the force depended on the elasticity of the wooden bow body, and this inertia was not large.
With the bow, it was not early, so I quickly sharpened a few wooden poles and arrows, and the arrows were slightly roasted with fire, and it was easy to polish the arrows after carbonization.
"Let's take a test shot."
This is different from firearm shooting, and it can't be used in a three-point and one-line method, maybe there is a skill, but he doesn't know it yet.
The arrow had not yet made its tail feathers, but it had carved a small groove at the end, and he tried it first, and immediately he had already wound the arrow, and his arm was forced, and he pulled it all round.
Airplanes! With a slight tremble, the arrow has flown out, not in a straight line, with a sense of fluttering into the grass, not to mention the quasi-head, but the feeling of archery is quite cool, maybe for men, shooting is instinct, of course, we must also learn to attack, retreat and defend, so as to be humane!
"What are you doing here?" The merchant girl asked, puzzled, holding the bark horn in her hand and snatching it from the child's hand.
"Bow and arrow! I haven't done it yet, let's go, go over and eat. He changed the subject, and when the time came, the finished product was slowly discussed in detail.
The bonfires are lit, the clansmen sing and dance, the four tribes get together, there is a lot to talk about with each other, the warriors are easy to make friends, plus they have formed an alliance, and they will be their own people in the future, so the atmosphere is even better.
Su Yang leaned sideways on the merchant girl's lap, he also enjoyed such an atmosphere, but unfortunately there was no wine. When there is rice next year, and there is a clay pot, you can brew rice wine, similar to rice wine, mash grains, the degree is not high, the amount of wine is large, the rice that makes wine can be eaten directly, you can also cook soup to drink, as long as the degree is not high, you will not miss something.
At the same time, rice wine can promote lactation and can be eaten by pregnant women; After cooking, children can also drink it, which can fatten the body and increase appetite, which is suitable for all ages.
Three yuan a pound of rice in the modern market can only be regarded as average, and at this price you can buy a pound of mash grains wine, just like soybeans made into tofu bean curd, which will not lose money in value.
Su Yang hopes to find soybeans when he can find them, and there should be already one in this period now.
After eating and drinking enough, he slept until dawn, and then he suddenly knew that there was more than a group of beasts last night, but fortunately, they were all frightened away by the night vigil warriors, and sure enough, the outside of the cave was very dangerous, especially at night, the night vision of beasts was naturally stronger than that of humans.
"Continue to cut down trees, clear the surroundings, and then go back to the Simon tribe after eating." Su Yang suggested, because it was too early to cross the river, and the people of the rest of the tribe would not have time. Simon has such a large area, if there is no witness, I am really afraid that it will not be clear in the future, and outsiders may think that they destroyed Simon.
The cut trees were stored high and covered with large pieces of bark for the time being, and he continued to study the bow and arrow to test the bowstring, and as long as he could have a satisfactory finished product, it would be ready for mass production.
It didn't take long for the people sent by Matsu to come back one after another, that is, those people who had been exchanged for those from other tribes.
He was still not in a hurry, and took everyone to clean up the junction between the hillside and the jungle above, this is to stop the fire, in the afternoon he was going to set a fire, and burned the slope of more than a thousand acres below, if it is not burned now, it will not be able to burn after the snow, and after the beginning of spring, there will be new plants sprouting and growing, which will seriously affect the harvest of rice next year.
"Matsu, elders, after the deal with Simon is over, I want to leave fifty people to continue cleaning up here." Su Yang suddenly proposed, there are still many things to do, and manpower is needed just to open up the wasteland.
The first to agree was Jiang Li, who asked the merchant girl to stay with nine warriors, and then Matsu also asked Prabhu to stay with twenty people. Elder Sky Wolf is even more simply, leaving thirty people directly, anyway, the Sky Wolf Tribe is the closest to here, and you can notify you at any time when you want to use people.
In this way, with the addition of fifty people in the hat, Su Yang can arrange hundreds of people to work and earn it.
When the sun moved to mid-air, it was almost eleven o'clock, and the party began to eat, eat and drink and rest for a while, and then the sun hung high and headed for the Simon tribe.
"Look, it's the people from the rocks, a lot of them."
"Chaos and rocks, and the wolf, they're really allied."
"In the future, all sides of the river will belong to the Rock Tribe."
Su Yang was surprised to find that there were already a lot of people gathered outside the Simon tribe, many of them were still familiar faces, they were the ones who were in charge of driving the ruins from each tribe, and they were not from the nine tribes that had traded with them before. He swept it roughly, afraid that more than a dozen tribes had sent people, but the rocks had not been notified at all, how could these tribes come over on time?
Could it be that this is a good thing, don't go out, and evil things go a thousand miles?
In fact, the reason why so many tribes came was because the Simon tribe deliberately spread the news. Su Yang was worried that others would misunderstand that the rock would destroy Simon, but on the contrary, Simon was really worried that the rock would destroy them.
So the rock needs someone to witness, Simon is even more so, the day before yesterday Su Yang just left, Simon quickly sent someone to spread the news, and waited until yesterday spring to bring people over to say that the people of the rock have arrived at the river, the trade will be carried out on time, and the spring also directly said that more than 100 people came, which made Simon even more scared, and hurriedly went to inform some tribes.
In addition, the rock itself has notified nine tribes, and more than twenty tribes have received the news, so this will actually be the person who has not yet arrived.