Chapter 408: Seven Hundred Years A.D
Traveling all the way west, the dangers encountered on the road cannot be explained in a sentence or two, and all kinds of problems make Bao Xi and Ji Bofu waver about being able to find a place where they can settle down safely. Fortunately, with Ji Sui'an, these problems were easily solved by her. once migrated to the American continent with tens of thousands of people, and encountered more problems on the way, didn't she solve them? Today's problems are nothing compared to those problems.
Bao Xi and Ji Bofu are both happy, fortunately there is Ji Sui'an, otherwise their mother and son really don't know what to do, they can't say that they will die before they get out of the territory of the Central Plains, right? Ji Sui'an became the backbone of everyone, as long as she ordered, no one objected. Facts have proved that Ji Sui'an's orders are all correct.
Ji Sui'an taught everyone in the team the basic movements of physical arts, forcing everyone to learn, including Bao Xi. In order to learn these movements, Bao Xi suffered from the boss, she was originally a delicate person, not to mention that she was not young, and it was more difficult to practice physical skills than others. Bao Xi wanted to give up every time she practiced, but Ji Sui'an was supervising on the side, and Bao Xi had to persevere.
After a month, Bao Xi felt the benefits of practicing physical arts, and consciously practiced physical skills without Ji Sui'an's supervision. Not to mention the others, especially Ji Bofu, who knew the benefits of being strong the most, as long as he stopped and rested, half of his time was spent practicing physical arts.
In this way, everyone's health is getting better and better, and they are able to support even in the face of difficult circumstances, and they are not unable to cope with it as before.
Relying on physical skills, the group did not reduce the number of people.
Today, there are no countries in the Western Regions, only small tribes. When Ji Sui'an and his party passed through these tribes, they would make friends with them, and exchange them with the things that Ji Sui'an had specially collected from the Central Plains in exchange for useful materials for them.
The civilization of the Western Regions is much more backward than that of the Central Plains, and many of these tribes are still uncivilized, they don't know how to make bronze, they don't know how to make cloth, they are equivalent to primitive people, and they still use stone tools.
Ji Sui'an's people exchanged bronze knives and cloth with the tribesmen for animal skins. Because of the bronze tools and fabrics, Ji Sui'an and his party were very popular with the tribes of the Western Regions, and the tribes of the Western Regions were looking forward to their arrival, thus helping them reduce a lot of trouble.
Because they left the Central Plains in a hurry, they didn't have much to carry with them, and when they arrived at the tribe behind, they couldn't take out bronze tools and cloth to exchange with the natives, so Ji Sui'an took out ramie seeds and sweet potatoes to exchange with the natives, taught them to plant ramie and sweet potatoes, and told them how to spin ramie into cloth. This makes them even more popular.
Finally, after more than a year of trekking, Ji Sui'an took them to the destination she had seen in the morning, the Tarim Basin.
The Tarim Basin has a lot of area and rich resources, and it is enough to build a country here since then. There were other tribes in the basin, but they were all very small tribes, and together they were quite numerous, but apart, none of them were their opponents.
Ji Sui'an and his entourage have a total of more than 300 people, and in the eyes of the natives, this is a large tribe. Ji Sui'an led the people to settle down in Korla, and led the people to build houses, burn pottery, plant ramie, grow sweet potatoes, grow chestnut rice and barley. Fruits such as pears, figs, pomegranates, and grapes that had existed in the basin were found by Ji Sui'an and transplanted around the residence.
Ji Sui'an singled out men who knew carpentry and taught them how to make quyuan ploughs, agricultural tools that were more advanced than today, spinning machines and looms, furniture such as chairs and tables, and small boats—the Tarim Basin is still rich in water resources, and the rivers such as the Kashgar River and the Weigan River have not been cut off.
The desert area of the Tarim Basin is not large, and in order to prevent the expansion of the desert area, Ji Sui'an formulated a plan to reduce the desert area and prevent the desertification of the land. She found plants such as dates, saxon trees, cacti, and birch trees, and decided that once she had settled down, she would have them planted around the desert. This is a long-term process, Ji Sui'an decided to write this article into the Ji family's family rules, and each generation of the head of the Ji family in the future must follow her plan and send people to plant trees on the edge of the desert every year.
The most abundant minerals in the Tarim Basin are oil and natural gas, but oil is too wasteful to burn alone. Natural gas is not easy to control, and if it is not well sealed, it will leak gas and endanger human life. Ji Sui'an had to temporarily put down these two rich minerals and lead everyone to mine coal and iron ore. Korla is very rich in mineral resources, with coal, andalusite, mica, vermiculite, graphite, iron, manganese and other mineral deposits, but only coal and iron ore can be used for the time being. In fact, andalusite is the raw material for making porcelain, and it is the mineral deposit with the largest content in Korla, but nowadays, only pottery is enough to use, and porcelain is not used.
With coal mines, it is possible to forge iron. Ji Sui'an had bellows made, and the craftsmen who were originally roughly bronze vessels were taught to strike iron and make stronger and sharper iron tools.
The grain harvest was abundant, and the large output of sweet potatoes made everyone in the Zhou tribe follow the customs, Ji Sui'an included all his subordinates into her tribesmen, and named the tribe Zhou after the name of the Zhou Dynasty - happy crazy, so much grain, they can't eat even four or five meals a day, right? And in addition to the sweet potato accident, they also harvested chestnut rice and barley, as well as fruits!
This day is so good, even in the Central Plains, even if they are the ones who serve the king and the queen and the prince, it is impossible to eat a full stomach every day.
Ramie was also harvested, and the women spun it into linen cloth to make clothes for the men. The remaining linen cloth and surplus grain, Ji Sui'an sent people to exchange with nearby tribes, in exchange for cattle and sheep and other livestock, and raised them. In this way, in addition to grain, the people of the Zhou tribe also have meat to eat.
The people of the surrounding tribes were all envious when they saw that the Zhou tribe was so powerful and had so many magical and practical things, and they all wanted to be one of them. Such thoughts were even stronger when Ji Sui'an's winter came. Watching the people of the Zhou tribe live in a wind-proof house, there are magical black stones burning for warmth, there is enough food to eat without going hungry, there are warm and comfortable clothes, and there are better and lighter tools than stone pots to boil hot water in a shorter time...... People from other tribes really want to join the Zhou tribe, and if they join in, will they not be frozen to death and starved to death?