Chapter 456: Spring Sowing
In the soft spring rain.
Several large long insects were churning and rolling in the wet soil, sometimes burrowing into the ground, sometimes freeing up the ground with wet mud, and constantly plowing the land.
In the process of moving, they also open their mouthparts full of sharp teeth, swallow the soil into their stomachs, and quickly excrete it, making the soil more fertile.
The originally solid loess surface became softer and more fertile, becoming more and more like a "field".
Ye Xi was in a good mood and watched these long insects burrow into the soil.
I thought to myself, it was a wise choice to keep them at the beginning, these long pigs are still quite useful, equivalent to a giant mulcher and a fertilizer machine, which saves a lot of manpower and makes farming much easier.
Also, I finally have time to farm!
The fields of Jiugong are continuous into a sea, and the golden fields are connected together, and one day, the fields of their Xicheng will be so spectacular!
Ye Xi took a deep breath, full of confidence.
Estimating that it was almost there, he said, "Okay, take them away." ”
"Yes!"
Several of the Pig Tribe slaves immediately controlled the Pig Worm and left.
Ye Xi nodded at a few aphids, and those aphids immediately understood, picked up a few huge bags of animal skins and walked towards the field.
These bags of animal skins are filled with aphid droppings, and the aphid people are not too dirty, so they directly dig out a lot of them with their hands and scatter them evenly on the farmland.
Aphid droppings can promote plant growth and shorten the growth time, which is a rare good thing.
After the aphid droppings were sprinkled, Ye Xi ordered everyone to rake the soil with tools such as bone rakes, stone hoes, and bone nail rakes, and then dig ditches and pile ridges.
The last step is the main part of farming - sowing seeds.
This task Ye Xi handed over to the tribesmen to do.
Each of the tribesmen carried a large bag of animal skins around his waist, and began to sow seeds with a solemn face in high spirits.
They had a lot of fun sowing seeds, singing songs in their mouths as they scattered, and dancing in circles, grabbing handfuls of seeds like sprinkling water and throwing them out.
The last tribesman was holding a large wooden bucket full of dirt and spreading the seeds, his lips slightly open and closed, not knowing what he was muttering.
Ye Xi couldn't cry or laugh.
He originally thought that the tribesmen had some special sowing skills, but he didn't expect to see a scene similar to the dancing god......
But he didn't let the tribesmen go down, after all, their expressions were so solemn, as if they were doing a very sacred thing, and it hurt their hearts to call them down like this.
By the time all the fields were sown, it was already noon.
The tribesmen danced very hard, and when they retreated, beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads, but with a sense of pride on their faces that they had completed a major task, they looked at Ye Xi with wide eyes.
It's time to ask for credit.
Ye Xi: "......"
What could he say, he had to perfunctorily praise them for doing a good job.
Although the appearance of the people of the tribe sowing seeds is very oolong, Ye Xi's mood is still very happy, looking at the newly opened large field, he counted it with his hands.
The seeds that were sown were carefully selected, and more than 20 crops were planted.
There are toon seeds, giant lettuce seeds, cereal grass seeds, red mango pits, pepper seeds, pepper seeds, sweet potato stems brought from Tushan......
as well as garlic seeds, chrysanthemum seeds, and soybeans brought from Jiugong.
The other tribesmen also brought chestnuts, as well as seeds of various wild plants, and by the way, seeds of an oil crop!
This kind of oil crop Ye Xi has never seen before, it grows on the tree, the fruit is about the same size and shape as the cherry, it is light yellow, the oil content is rich, the oil squeezed out has a good smelling fragrance, Ye Xi named it the oil bean.
Since then, Xicheng has also had vegetable oil.
However, among this dazzling array of crops, the most anticipated crop by Ye Xi is soybeans.
After having soybeans, tofu, bean skin, soybean paste, bean sprouts, tempeh, soy milk, tofu brain, yuba, ...... And most importantly, soy sauce, you can make it all!
He's been eating meat for a year, and for vegetables, he swallows at the thought of it now.
Because of the food drive, since the seeds were planted, Ye Xi came to the field every day to inspect the field to see if there were any new sprouts.
I don't know if the seeds felt Ye Xi's urgency, and a week later, the sprouts of the oil beans were the first to drill out of the soil.
A large number of immature, green buds are dotted around the field, which looks very cute.
After some time, other crops also pulled out the buds one after another.
To Ye Xi's surprise, the germination rate of the whole field was very high, and I don't know whether it was the tenacious relationship between the seeds, or the fertile soil, or the magical sowing skills of the tribesmen.
As soon as the buds were pulled out of the ground, they grew rapidly, almost one by one, like a race, and they grew taller and stronger than anyone else.
Every time Ye Xi comes to the field to look at the vigorous crops, he will be very satisfied and full of expectations for the future.
However, he is the leader of Xicheng and the strongest warrior in Xicheng, and there are too many things waiting for him to do, so after sending someone to guard the field area, Ye Xi began to arrange other things.
First hunting.
After a whole winter of consumption, the food stored in the cellar of Xicheng has bottomed out, and a large amount of food is urgently needed.
After the beginning of spring, the hunting team almost poured out of the nest, bringing back batch after batch of prey from the deep mountains.
Food is the top priority for survival, and Ye Xi also contributes to lead an elite hunting team to hunt in the deeper and more dangerous mountains to help Xicheng's cellar fill up as soon as possible.
After the food crisis was alleviated, Ye Xi immediately put the task of improving the architecture of Xicheng on the agenda.
Before the winter, the stone houses and the ground were only paved, and even the city walls were only half built, and no other functional buildings were built at all.
The city wall has always been built by slaves, and this Ye Xi has full authority to be watched by the Gongtao chieftain, and Ye Xi is no longer in charge.
He is now responsible for the construction of other functional buildings.
Now Ye Xi plans to build three giant buildings first.
One is the young tower.
In the future, there must be many female slaves who give birth to newborns, and these newborns need to be raised uniformly, the stone house space is too small, which is not conducive to centralized management, and the cave conditions are too simple to live in, so a tall tower needs to be built.
The second is the watchtower.
Although there are falcons on the perimeter of Xicheng at all times, people cannot let their guard down, and a watchtower built on the top of the mountain is indispensable. After the building is completed, Ye Xi will also use high-purity Bingzhou stone to polish into a telescope, so that the soldiers guarding the sentry can see farther.
The third is the Colosseum.
This Colosseum is mainly for the warriors and reserve fighters of Xicheng.
The arena inside will be divided into two, half of which will be used for skill training, where you can connect with bows and arrows, wrestling, throwing spears, and there will also be elite warriors to guide you.
The other half is the Colosseum, when the hunting team will catch some characteristic beasts, fierce beasts and giant insects back, for the warriors and reserve fighters to carry out actual combat, improve their actual combat ability.
In this way, the training ground cannot be built too small, after all, the field inside will be divided into two.
Ye Xi didn't want to spend time planning on his own, so he decided to build it according to the ancient Roman Colosseum, which covers an area of 20,000 square meters, so it will be a very large project.
Fortunately, after the Great Sacrifice, there were many more warriors in Xicheng.
The strength of ordinary people is also amazing.
Ye Xi estimated that if it went well, all three giant buildings would be completed within a year.
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