Chapter 15 Acquisition of Tools
More than ten days have passed, and it is estimated that there will be half a month before the harvest can start in the city, considering the efficiency problem, He Harmony is ready to purchase a batch of tools.
It turns out that most of the tools in the city are seriously aged, which greatly affects efficiency.
Although the merchants of Yangcheng would not come until the autumn harvest, He Huan was ready to send someone over directly.
He Hui didn't have money, but he had animal skins and other things from the barbarians, and the total value was not low, and he could buy a lot of tools.
The most important thing is that He Huan also learned about a mineral from the barbarians, which is rich in iron ore resources.
He naturally will not lack workers who mine iron ore, and the barbarians are a large labor force, but he lacks craftsmen.
Iron smelting is a technical job, and it does not mean that iron can be smelted by burning iron ore with fire.
The temperature needs to be exquisite, and the kiln is not just a casual one, if it is not done well, the temperature cannot be reached, and the good end of the iron ore will have to be smelted.
And He Hui is now also preparing to build a large number of buildings and re-plan and build a prosperous city.
What he really needs is a technician.
Now the bustling city is in tatters, anyway, there is food, and there will be no shortage of money, so naturally it is time to consider these things.
Moreover, the materials for construction can be obtained locally, and even where there are iron ore barbarians, they can find them, and where there are stones and timber suitable for construction, will they not know?
This is also the reason why He Huan wanted to rein in the barbarians so much in the first place, after all, they were more familiar with everything around them than the people of Fancheng.
Led by Wang Xiu, accompanied by ten guards, they took several small rafts and headed towards Yangcheng on the other side of the Putuo River.
When parting, He Huan also confessed, and when necessary, he used the identity of the prince and asked the Yangcheng County Guard to summon those merchants to come over and trade.
After all, no matter what, He Huan's identity is still the sixth prince of the Great Xia Empire, no matter how much the emperor Lao'er doesn't like it, it is a matter of the royal family.
As long as there is still this identity on the surface, some businessmen, no matter what the county guard says, it is impossible not to sell this face.
Although He Huan doesn't want to use this identity now, if there is really no way, then he can only use it.
Wang Xiu set off to Yangcheng, and He Huan began to order people to build a granary in the city, after all, this year's harvest will be several times higher than in previous years, and the original granary cannot fit so much.
At the same time, a number of small wooden houses began to be built outside the city for the barbarians to live in.
It's not a way to always let them run over during the day and run back at night, since they promised King Mumu, at least there must be a place to live.
And the barbarians are also doing very well now, there is nothing to overstep, basically whatever he arranges, they will do it.
Although in the eyes of this group of barbarians, the prestige is not as good as that of King Mumu, but at least they agree with it a little.
More than a thousand barbarians, many of whom are old and weak, women and children, how long can they survive just by hunting?
In the past, there was still food to grab, but now they can't grab it if they want to, because the prosperous city is gone.
Now He Huan has given them the method of growing grain, and they will no longer have to worry about food in the future, and he said that they will build new houses and no longer have to live in the mountains.
This is a great favor for them.
You must know that even if the king of Mumu has received a certain level of education, the barbarians still live in caves and sleep in thatch.
Not to mention a stone house, even a wooden house they have never lived in.
Now I have food to eat, meat to eat, and a wooden house to live in, and I don't know how much better it is than the original beast-like life.
The most important thing is that He Huan also promised them that he would teach them, teach them to read and write, and teach them various skills.
This news directly made the barbarians boil!
After such a long period of contact, although the people of Fancheng have little education, they can have a variety of life skills.
Take steamed buns as an example, they still don't know how to make them.
After seeing it, they always thought it was amazing, and the taste was good, no worse than rice.
They want to learn how to make steamed buns, and they want to wear clothes.
He promised to teach them so that they could also be self-reliant, weaving their own cloth, wearing their own clothes, using their own ironware, and finally living in the big city.
For everything He Huan promised, King Mumu was very moved, and the barbarians were also very grateful, and his prestige has been steadily rising.
I believe that as long as the food is ripe this time, give them some, and then let them really live in the cabin, they can almost really agree with He Harmony.
I will no longer wonder if He Huan will really fulfill other promises.
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Everything is going according to the plan, and there are still many people in the city who can build a house, after all, they can build a city by themselves, and the house is naturally not a problem.
There were still more than ten days before the harvest, and the people did not have much work to do on weekdays, so they began to build houses outside the city according to He Harmony's wishes.
After such a long time of getting along, the Xia people and the barbarians have gotten along very well, but in order to avoid accidents, He Huan and King Mumu are still supervising.
The construction of the wooden house is relatively simple, and there is no need to live for a long time, just temporarily, so there is no need to lay the foundation.
Several buildings were built in ten days, and Wang Xiu also returned to Fancheng at this time.
This time, instead of taking a small raft, Yangcheng provided a large boat and brought back a group of technicians.
Among them are construction, as well as craftsmen in various fields.
I don't know what method Wang Xiu used, but he even kidnapped back three young scholars.
Such a large number of people entered the bustling city like this.
Set up a banquet in the city, feast the students and their families, and then arrange accommodation.
It's not that there is no spare place to live in Fancheng, but at the beginning, He Huan considered the racial problem of the Xia people and the barbarians, so he said that to King Mumu.
It's not that King Mumu doesn't know, after all, he has been here for so long, he didn't know it at first, and then he also knew.
But she knew better that Xia Ren didn't have a good impression of her.
Who let her have nothing to do to cheat the grain for so many years, and even this year there is no surplus food, she still came and took the only little food left.
How could it be that Xia Ren would like her?
If it weren't for the fact that King Mumu took out the meat in the end, it would be equivalent to relieving the food crisis, and the Xia people would not have accepted her so quickly.
When the grain was exchanged, it was the barbarians who suffered a loss, and King Mumu knew very well in her heart, but she knew better that if she wanted the Xia people to accept it, she had to suffer this loss, so she didn't say anything.
This can be regarded as a disguised return to the grain that I cheated before.
Moreover, King Mumu also instructed his people that even if the grain is harvested in the future, they will go to the mountains to hunt, and then distribute the prey they have brought back to the Xia people.
King Mumu's words naturally followed, so they obediently did so, and they all kept them in mind.
Speaking of which, barbarians are really simple and honest.
They are not educated, they are not civilized, and they don't have so many eyes, they don't know what deceit is, and they don't know how to intrigue.
If you suffer a loss, you will say that you will pay it back if you take advantage of it.
Looking at the barbarians who were so pure, He Huan was also emotional.
He couldn't bear to educate these barbarians, and it was not bad to let them continue to do so.
Once you receive education and understand more things, the benefits will be there, and the disadvantages will not be less when the time comes.