Chapter 20: Bamboo Civilization

In the early morning of the next day, the clansmen, who had been partying all night, were summoned by Yan Zheng to the paddy field.

There was no exhaustion of staying up late on their faces, and they were still full of energy.

This made Yan Zheng admire from the bottom of his heart, these clansmen are really fiercer than livestock.

The seedlings in the seedling field have been pulled out and bundled, and Yan Zheng is going to teach them to plant seedlings today.

He first asked a few of his clansmen to chop a few bamboos with iron axes, and after having an iron axe, the tribesmen became enthusiastic about cutting down trees.

In the past, they generally did not cut tree trunks, or only cut small trees that were not thick.

But with an iron axe, no matter how hard the wood is, it has become an existence that can be cut down.

This greatly expanded the resources available to the tribe, especially the bamboo that Yan Zheng had them cut down.

In the era of stone axes, bamboo could only be cut down by fire.

And without iron tools, bamboo is much more difficult to handle than trees.

This is due to the fact that the mature bamboo is generally very tough, and the bamboo fiber grows longitudinally.

This property makes bamboo ideal for weaving, provided that there are tools that can combat its toughness.

The first use of bamboo was to be used by Yan Zheng to level paddy fields.

Four large bamboos were cut down to form a bamboo row, on which a stone was placed and then pulled by a clansman to walk through the paddy fields.

After such treatment, the paddy field has really become a mirror.

And in order to ensure the spacing between each rice plant when the clansmen planted seedlings, Yan Zheng also made a lot of bamboo strips.

In this way, the tribesmen planted a seedling and used bamboo strips to make a comparison. At the same time, it is also necessary to pay attention to the alignment of the front, back, left and right required by Yan Zheng.

The reason why rice planting has become so cumbersome is mainly because Yan Zheng wants to make the tribesmen develop a habit.

As long as the clansmen have a certain amount of experience, then they will naturally be able to do a good job of planting rice by feeling.

He also does not expect these people to master all the experience of planting rice, and he has the patience to train these people to become suitable farmers.

The leader and Wu both looked at each other with a smile, they no longer doubted Yan Zheng's words.

Since Yan Zheng said that if you plant crops in these fields, you will no longer be hungry, then it must be true.

While the two of them observed with great interest, they also started to do it themselves, inserting about half an acre of land.

"If you have cows, you can grow more!" Yan Zheng said to them with a smile.

The leader and Wu didn't know what the cow was, and they looked at Yan Zheng's physical imitation, and they didn't understand what kind of creature he was talking about.

This made Yan Zheng sigh helplessly, he found that the largest animal in the tribe's animal skin was a deer.

Even the boar skin was only one, and it was a little different from the boar he remembered.

These facts made him have to accept that there may not be large livestock that can be tamed around the tribe, or in the area of the tribesmen's activities.

The absence of large livestock means that the pace of development slows down and the range of movement is limited.

After all, if the logistical problem is not solved, the limit of the activity is to see how many things a person can carry.

But fortunately, with this river more than ten meters wide, he can rely on the power of the boat to use this river to make himself go further.

And this is already achievable, because of the appearance of the iron axe, he has now been able to build a large number of bamboo rafts very quickly.

Only before that, he was going to make something else out of bamboo.

This thing is the artifact of the Stone Age - bamboo armor!

He had always wanted to make a bamboo armor for himself, but he was constrained by the lack of metal tools.

Now, cutting bamboo is as simple as drinking water.

He went back to his thatched hut and had a dozen bamboos cut down and break them open with an axe.

Then cut into pieces of bamboo armor of about the same size.

Since it was intended for his own use, in order to make it stronger, he deliberately found two pieces of deerskin and chose to set bamboo armor pieces on the deerskin.

There is no need to drill holes, as long as two horizontal grooves are drawn on the upper and lower edges of each piece of bamboo armor, and then tied tightly with hemp rope.

Then drill a hole in the deerskin, put the bamboo carapace piece on it, and put a piece of bamboo carapace on the other side as well, and then tie it firmly.

If you want to make the bamboo slices stronger, there should be another step of drying and then boiling them in oil.

However, the tribe basically has no oil now, and the stone tools of the savages, in addition to smashing can cause damage, even cutting animal skins is difficult.

The bamboo armor piece can offset the force of the smash, so that it can block the attack of the stone tool more than the leather armor.

After sewing more than a dozen pieces, Yan Zheng handed over the work to Lan Ya.

He used the red and white vines collected by the tribe to weave a helmet. It's like a rattan helmet woven by the local method, you don't need too many bells and whistles, as long as you can hold your head.

Lan Ya's hands are still very skillful, and the armor pieces she inlaid with are almost perfectly matched with the animal skin, which is extraordinarily strong.

Yan Zheng glanced at the helmet he had braided, and couldn't help but look at his right hand and fell into deep thought. He understands the skills of compilation, but he is still handicapped!

We must train a group of craftsmen!

This is his first thought, otherwise it would be a fool's dream to rely on him to make technological progress with his handicapped hands.

"Lan Ya, you can try it and make a hat with this."

"Hats?" Lan Ya put down the armor piece in her hand, took the semi-finished product in Yan Zheng's hand and pondered it.

Yan Zheng instructed: "You are optimistic, it is entangled like this, it is passed through like this, this one is pressing that one." ”

Lan Ya nodded, and immediately began to weave it up.

Yan Zheng's eyes widened,! Just teach it once, and it's much more than him.

A sense of frustration rose in his heart, and he said irritably: "Then this hat will be handed over to you to make up!" ”

Lan Ya smiled, put the half-finished product aside, and began to fiddle with the nail piece again.

Yan Zheng walked out of the thatched hut with an unhappy face, but suddenly found that he was already communicating with Lan Ya more fluently than with the leader and Wu.

And in Fang Cai, Lan Ya's words already had half of the Chinese vocabulary.

"Isn't this damn girl a genius?" Yan Zheng sighed.

He walked to the chicken pen unhappily and found that the two chicks had grown fat, and their coat color had also changed somewhat.

grabbed it and took a closer look, and the chick's neck began to grow a circle of sarcoma, and the head also faintly grew.

It's a pity that from the perspective of appearance characteristics, these two should be of the same sex, so we can't expect these two chickens to reproduce.

"Hey, it's not easy to eat chicken!" He let out a long sigh.

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Hey-hey-hey-hey!

Just as he was about to go to the paddy field again to check the progress of rice planting, a rush of shouts suddenly came from a distance.

The next moment, the clansmen rushed from all directions to their thatched huts.

The leader and Wu also ran over in horror, and everyone's faces showed anxious expressions.

After a while, everyone with weapons in hand began to gather. Even Lan Ya ran out with a wooden spear.

Yan Zheng understood that something must have happened, so he hurriedly ran to the leader and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"The enemy is out of the grass!"

Yan Zheng panicked instantly, this is someone from other tribes who came to hunt for heads.

And the strength of the comer should be very strong, otherwise he will not go directly to the tribe's territory.

The leader and the witch looked a little anxious, but they were still calm and encouraged the clansmen.

Yan Zheng knew that this was the weakest time for the tribe, because the hunting team had gone out to hunt early in the morning.

And in order to catch more prey, the hunting team took almost the vast majority of the tribe's young and strong.

"Zheng, you stay!" The leader said to Yan Zheng.

Wu also said: "Zheng stays, you, protect him!" ”

The two young men nodded and stood behind Yan Zheng.

Although Yan Zheng wanted to advance and retreat with the tribesmen, he was not excited at this moment.

Because his life is the most important thing, and only when he lives can he quickly civilize the wild world.

So he also felt that he couldn't make a mistake!

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