Chapter 204: Clearing the Wasteland
The female chief of the Big Tree tribe returned to the tribe after leading them to the cave that day.
They are very interested in making pottery, and women are generally more dexterous than men.
They burned jars of different shades to hold water and grass seeds. Everyone loves the earthen bowl, and if you burn more than a hundred of them in one go, every family can get a bite.
The earthen bowl is also delicious for cooking broth, and it can also be used to cook grass seeds and boil various plant rhizomes.
Everyone was given a large bowl, and the quality of life of the entire tribe was greatly improved.
When the sheikh let down her guard against the tall men, she began to wonder again, and she didn't know what kind of skin the clothes they wore were made of.
It looked better than bark and straw, and she wanted to exchange it with them, but they didn't have anything to do with it except for the jaundice.
In order to prevent the attack of wild beasts, there were people from other tribes who came to kidnap their women, so the big tree tribe built the house on the tree, although it was more troublesome to go up, but it was much safer.
The tribe with many women, on this continent, hunting is not advantageous, and the big tree tribe basically relies on collecting plant roots and grass seeds to fill their stomachs.
They can catch pheasants and hares, but they can't help deer and bison, let alone crocodiles and lions.
When the women become adults, they are either snatched away, or they are willing to follow the men of other tribes to live in the other tribe, and the population of the Big Tree tribe is decreasing year by year.
The female chief was worried, she was not like other tribesmen who had enough to eat, she didn't want to go to other tribes, she wanted to rely on men to support her, she wanted to carry forward the big tree tribe.
Thinking of this, the idea of using the power of outsiders to improve the tribe lingered.
The chiefess pondered: the group of outsiders who dig for jazz must not lack meat to eat, and they must sort out their tribe's property to see what those people will be interested in.
She has a better impression of the man who is not too tall (Heiwa, 1.7 meters tall and weighs 130 pounds), and that man is obviously the leader of that group.
Heiwa would never have thought that he won against Gao Huaiyu and others because of his height and size, which did not bring too much oppression to the female chief.
The base camp is busy, and the first dozen or so acres of land to be planted have proven that this land can grow these grains.
During this time, they continued to open up wasteland near the base camp, and hundreds of acres of land were opened up in one go at the lake and river beach.
The soil here is mostly maroon, and there are quite a few stones underneath, and the bricks burned from these soil are all red.
In order to add some base fertilizer to the wasteland, Heiwa asked the soldiers to dig up a lot of humus from the big forest.
In the end, the wasteland was tossed out, and the soil quality was similar to that of the medium fields of Great Xia.
Whether it was corn, sweet potatoes, or potatoes, the black baby made the soldiers get up and dig a drainage ditch.
It wasn't until the sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn planted in the wasteland had successfully emerged, and the tomatoes, beans, peppers and zucchini had all been transplanted to life that Heiwa was relieved.
With such a large area of planting new grain, Huang Shangshu couldn't suppress his excitement, and he asked Uncle Zhongqin: "Uncle, what do you say is the production capacity per mu after these are grown?" ”
"Who knows? Growing does not mean that it will be able to bear fruit smoothly, Huang Shangshu, you have to do a good job of planting records. Back in Daxia, your planting guide is unique! ”
"Uncle, don't worry, you and Mr. Gao have done the most difficult work, and the old man can't do this work well, isn't it what the boys say about eating rice!"
"Lord Shangshu, you are our Dinghai Divine Needle, we can rest assured that you are in the base camp!"
In the last few days of the winter month, Heiwa took people into the mountain again, and he wanted to change shifts with Gao Huaijin.
If they had marched quickly, it would have taken them only five days to get back to the mines.
At the bottom of the cliff again, the place has changed dramatically. The cave was doubled and guarded by soldiers.
The newly dug soil was transported out of the hole and piled up in a col, which made Heiwa very heartbroken, what a good mud, isn't it fragrant when you plant some sweet potatoes?
Entering from the cave, the bottom of the long ditch was dug more than one person deep, and it was still expanding to the left and right with the cave entrance as the center.
The golden lumps that had been shoveled out were piled up in piles and stacked in a freshly dug cave.
This cave has an area of more than 200 square meters, and it is two meters high, and it is also supported by thick wood, isolating several spaces, and General Gao's camp tent is in this hole.
"Uncle, why are you here? I'm so impatient with this gold digging that I'm too lazy to look at it now! ”
Gao Huaiyu is really stuffy, no matter how much gold is seen for a long time, it is not rare, he has nothing to do except hunting, and he has been muttering loyalty and diligence with Han Bao for several days.
Heiwa rolled his eyes: "Lord Commander, I am in the base camp to grow grain, but I am not idle at all, it is much harder than guarding the gold here!" ”
"Are they all alive?" Gao Huaiyu sneered, if he was in the base camp, he would not want to go to the wasteland.
"Definitely, it's a good life, after you go back, let my boys organize people again, go to the river beach where we first planted sweet potatoes, and cut more sweet potato vines for me. The newly dug soil outside the cave entrance is also planted, and we can pick up some leaves and eat more vegetables. ”
When they came, they went to the river beach to see it, and in a few days, they should be able to cut vines again.
Gao Huaiyu patted Heiwa's shoulder and happily agreed: "This matter is wrapped up in me, this meat is eaten, wild vegetables are too unpalatable, this sweet potato leaf should be stronger than wild vegetables!" ”
After saying that, they couldn't wait to leave with their own soldiers, leaving their big tent to Heiwa, Zhao Leiting and his left and right protectors.
Yuan Wenjie and the others were recently caught by Master Yan to study, and they couldn't come out to shake up.
Heiwa is an idle person, let Zhao Leiting stay and take care of the chores in the big tent, and he took Qingyi and Qinger out of the cave to wander around.
Most of the soldiers' camps are outside the cave, and most of them are tents, and the black baby frowns, the humidity here is too heavy, and the old body and bones that have been sleeping on the ground for a long time will be punished.
Hey, roll up your sleeves and continue to burn bricks, you really have to build infrastructure wherever you go.
There are more than 500 people in the hunting security logistics group, and more than 100 people are left to continue hunting, and the rest will follow Zhongqinbo to improve the accommodation environment.
The foundation was chosen halfway up the low hill at the mouth of the cave, and the gold-digging soldiers were also transferred to dig the foundation.
Fortunately, it is not too troublesome for them to find a water source, and mud, beat the mud, make large bricks in molds, put them in a cool place, dry them and then burn them.
Reddish-brown kaolin, a good raw material for red bricks.
After the sweet potato vines were brought in one by one, they were quickly planted in the mud dug out, but in a few days, they were so energetic that they could grow in a day and a night when it rained.
Hearing that the stems and leaves of this sweet potato could be eaten as vegetables, the soldiers planted all the new soil, an area of more than ten acres, and the newly dug sun-dried soil was very fluffy.
It was also sprinkled with a lot of humus at the bottom of the ditch, and after a few rains, the sweet potatoes were connected into a green ocean in less than a month.
According to the calendar of Great Xia, it will be the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve in a few days, and Gao Huaiyu has not yet come to change shifts, and the red brick barracks of the soldiers have been completed.
"Uncle, I'm guarding here, you go back to celebrate the New Year with your younger brothers, General Gao is estimated to be on the ship for the New Year!" Zhao Leiting is very proud of being able to help his uncle, and he can be of great use at critical moments.
Heiwa thought about it, and had to arrange it like this, the young men hunted very hard, and they would not lose their mouths during the New Year.
Looking at the two hundred square meters of caves, a quarter of them are piled up, and the daily harvest is still a lot, so I have to discuss how to dispose of the gold when I go back.
He took Qingyi and Qingji back to the base camp, passing by the river beach, and found that the sweet potato leaves had been eaten a lot by the herbivores.
There's no one to guard it, so you can't prevent it, right?
When he returned to the camp and saw Zhong Qinbo's black face, Gao Huaiyu smiled embarrassedly:
"Uncle, didn't I think I'd go in and change you tomorrow? You came out so fast?! "The days at the base camp are much better than those in the mines, and he can't think about the entrance to the cave.
"General Gao, tomorrow is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, my two boys are still here, I can't prepare for it!"
"Oh, a few days ago, we killed a dozen crocodiles, and we sent you two, roasted and eaten, it tastes good!"
This guy is very thick-skinned, and Heiwa can't settle accounts with him, so he went to inspect his wasteland.
In two months, the corn of the first few acres of land planted was already one person tall, because the planting was relatively thin, the corn stalk was very thick, and at least two sticks of corn could grow on each stalk;
Pumpkins crawled all over the ground, and I saw a lot of small pumpkins the size of eggs and fists;
Beans, peppers, tomatoes, and zucchini bloom a lot and bear a lot of fruit.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes have grown crazy, especially sweet potatoes, and the people in the base camp pinch the tips of sweet potatoes every day to eat.
Not only is the sweet potato tip delicious, but the taste of the stem is also very good, much better than most wild vegetables.
These more than ten acres can already be seen, the harvest is indispensable, not only a few grains do not pick the ground, but several vegetables are also alive and well.
The hundreds of acres of land that came out of the wasteland behind the beginning were green, with humus as base fertilizer, and it was conducive to drainage, and the momentum was more fierce than that planted first, and Heiwa saw many soldiers pulling weeds in the ground.
Gao Huaiyu's sailors, all of them are not weak in hands-on ability, and they can kill the enemy when they get on the boat.
After getting off the ship: burning bricks and porcelain, repairing houses, striking iron and farming, each of them has two brushes.
Huang Shangshu has to go to the field every day to check it, and he has to make various observation records in his small notebook, what he is most concerned about at the moment is these food crops and what the yield is!
The old man has an account in his heart, this can grow so well in the wasteland, if it is planted in a good land, then it will be done?