Chapter 275: Bloodstained Ears of Wheat
Accidentally subduing the giant is really the luckiest thing Wang Hao did after coming to the Great Wilderness. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Things that can't be solved by too many manpower, or that are very troublesome to solve, have become very simple things in front of the giants.
It's not that the strength of the people of the Great Wilderness is insufficient, on the contrary, the strength of the people of the Great Wilderness is very amazing. Even the weakest female savage can push a wheelbarrow containing two or three hundred pounds of stone as fast as flying.
What restricts the people of the Great Wilderness is nothing more than their size.
Regularly eating the meat of second- and third-level creatures has made many people in Wang Village's physical fitness evolve to an inhuman existence.
But even if their strength reached the level of giants, would they be able to pick up the shovel that belonged to the giants and dig the foundation in the place of the giants? The answer is no.
Therefore, the giant is the only one, and at the same time, it cannot be replaced by Wang Village. At least until the system evolves to level three, giants are irreplaceable.
Of course, in addition to the giants, the clansmen also contributed a lot to the construction of the foundation.
The transportation of stones, the filling of foundations, these things are all done by them.
Thanks to the concerted efforts of everyone, in just two days, the village excavated and filled in more than 100 meters of foundation sections.
"In the past two days, apart from the completion of the academy, is there anything else?" Standing aside, watching the clansmen unload the boatload of asphalt into the river, Wang Hao asked Gu Mu.
"The various experimental fields in Yancun have been sown, and only a small number of people are needed for daily maintenance and care. The manpower is already empty, and if the new land is continued to be cultivated, the seeds will not be enough, and they will have to be collected again. Wang Ba asked me to ask you what to do. Gu Mu took a piece of congealed asphalt and said after breaking it.
He had seen this kind of thing, the last time it was broken off from the wild boar king, Wang Hao heated it with a clay pot and turned it into something like mud.
When it solidifies a little, Wang Hao rolls it out with a peeled and grease-stained trunk, and then draped it on the thatched hut, so that he doesn't have to worry about the rain, and the waterproofness is better than the thatched poncho.
However, Wang Hao said that the asphalt transported back this time, in addition to being used to cover the roof as a poncho, the main role is to build roads.
There is no road in the world, but when there are more people walking, it becomes a road. This sentence is nonsense when placed on the great wilderness.
You clean the turf today, then tamp it, step on it into a road, and by tomorrow, the seeds buried in the soil will sprout, the day after tomorrow the soil will break, and the day after tomorrow the yellow earth will become turf again.
If it is not managed every week or two, the weeds on the road will even be one person taller.
Even if you pull out the grass and burn all the seeds in the soil with a fire, you can only manage it for a week.
It's not that Wang Village hasn't built roads, but when the roads built outside the court were repeatedly destroyed by these annoying plants, Wang Hao finally gave up the plan to build the road.
When there is no road, no matter what you are transporting, you can only use a wheelbarrow that can go over mountains and mountains. If the road is repaired, a two-wheeled, three-wheeled, or even four-wheeled cart can be built.
Wang Hao had experimented in the village with a four-wheeled cart loaded with almost five tons of stones, and a strong clansman could pull it on the flat ground in the center of the village all morning.
In the case of shoulder picks or wheelbarrows, this amount of goods requires at least ten people to transport.
In other words, if there are roads, a person in the Great Wilderness can carry at least five tons of things a day to walk eighty miles, which is more than ten times higher than when there are no roads. And in terms of speed, it has increased by at least three percent.
In the short term, the benefits of building roads are a one-time investment that permanently reduces transportation costs.
In the long run, it was centered on Hwaseong and expanded the direct influence of Wangcun to a radius of 240 li.
Because in the case of a road, a road of two hundred and forty miles, the giant clawed dragon can run back and forth in a morning.
If you are empty, you can run to your destination in one day.
If you need to send troops, you can march normally and reach your destination in three days.
This distance even includes the ruins of Heishui Lake Zhao Village and the ancient city where the exchange day is located.
As long as there is a road and Wang Hao subdues the surrounding villages, then the most troublesome population problem in the Great Wilderness can be solved.
At that time, Wang Hao was able to integrate the forces of all the villages within a radius of more than two hundred miles with Huacheng as the center, and work together to build a giant city that could withstand the attack of monsters.
Thinking of the benefits after the successful construction of the road, Wang Hao couldn't help laughing, and in the face of Gu Mu's question, he said: "Wang Ba's side, you tell him, don't reclaim the new land for the time being, and he should be busy in two days, but it's a pity that his manpower is really a little small, if he can have a few more wars, it would be good to capture some people!" ”
War doesn't just come out of nowhere, and the closer ones are small tribes, with different surnames from village to village.
Even a village with a population that has almost reached the upper limit, in the face of the current Wang Village, is as weak as a child, and does not dare to wave its fists at all.
And the farther ones, such as Jiulong Shanwang Village and Li Village, which have a grudge against Wang Village. Although they have a deep background and have the strength to start a war with Wang Village, the defeat last time has already broken their bones.
No matter how much you hate Wang Village, it is impossible to start a war for the time being, because once the war starts now, there is one less summer time to store food. Regardless of whether they win or lose, at least half of them will not survive this winter.
During this time, the two villages had sent emissaries more than once to ransom the defeated captives.
It's just that for their request, how could Wang Hao agree, now is the time for a shortage of people, if you don't consider the food problem, no matter how many people you give Wang Hao, he will feel that it is not enough, how can the population who reaches the mouth say that it will be returned.
Besides, there will be a battle between Wang Village and Jiulong Mountain sooner or later, and if you let these people go back, it will be difficult to wait for them to cultivate and then attack you.
Therefore, although these envoys came in several waves, except for the first batch, the rest did not even see Wang Hao's face.
The shortage of manpower can be solved slowly, and in the great wilderness where the living environment is harsh, the benefits of rights are not obvious. For the vast majority of villages, the position of the chief is a responsibility.
So, apart from the surname and hatred, not many people actually care about who is the leader.
And the surname, in front of the interests that can be seen and touched, can also be put aside for the time being.
As long as Wang Village can provide food, people can live a good life. If you don't starve, don't freeze, and don't have to fight against ferocious beasts, then there will be countless villages willing to go to Wang Village and become Wang Hao's vassal villages.
And during this time, those tribes who applied to become vassal villages of Wang Village for a little welfare are some clear proof.
Wang Hao believes that after the first batch of sweet potato planting results come out, the number of tribes who choose to join Wang Village will definitely increase like a blowout for these planting techniques.
Sweet potatoes that have just been planted will take some time before they are ripe.
Although Wang Hao told everyone that when these sweet potatoes grow up, they can be turned into food, just like the fruit of the sweet fruit tree can be eaten by humans. But not many people in the village have actually eaten sweet potatoes.
It is precisely because of this that the people's expectations for sweet potatoes are not very big. In their opinion, if the number of people the village needs to bear does not increase, the fish in the fish pond will be enough to eat until next summer's flood.
And by the time of next year's summer flood, the prepared clansmen will definitely catch more fish.
Although the clansmen did not look forward to the time when the sweet potatoes were ripe, there was something that Wang Hao was looking forward to very much, and after waiting for so long, the news finally came.
When the asphalt was unloaded, a clansman found Wang Hao. and handed Wang Hao an ear of wheat.
The shriveled ears of wheat at the beginning, after transplantation and careful care, actually glowed with a second spring and became full of grains.
Wang Hao peeled off a grain of wheat and filled it into his mouth, and the long-lost wheat fragrance suddenly filled his mouth.
Looking at Wang Hao's intoxicated appearance, the hairball should have something delicious, and he grabbed the ear of wheat and wanted to send it to his mouth.
It's just that when the hairball picked up the ear of wheat, he found that the back of the ear of wheat was stained with red blood, and the hairball, who was so frightened that he was afraid of blood, hurriedly threw it down again. (To be continued.) )