[Flowers, collection, everyone, please click harder! It is gratifying that this book is soaring. If you work harder, you will see me bragging!] Twenty days, in the blink of an eye! The season has also arrived in early autumn, but there is no refreshing feeling of autumn at all.
, people have begun to feel a hint of winter chill - in these twenty days, three 4x7 meter bamboo rafts were built, which can take about
Because the four-layer bamboo raft is used to tie up 6-8 adults, it looks much more stable than a small bamboo raft. It should be good for transporting manpower and goods to the other side of the river. However, large bamboo rafts are
It was made and the purpose was thought out, but Hua Xi had not yet had a chance to test whether the bamboo raft could sail in rivers with fast currents and strong winds.
After ten to twenty days of rigorous training, the thirty specially selected tribesmen are now able to swim in the water using freestyle and backstroke. Because the training time is still short, the thirty tribesmen with the best water skills can only swim a few meters.
, the worst one can barely reach about 223 meters. As for the depth of diving, basically everyone can dive to 5-7 meters. Hua Xi is quite satisfied with this sailor's achievement of holding his breath for about one minute.
At least it's much faster than when I learned it before.
On this day, the wind was beautiful and the breeze was cool. Hua Xi decided to carry the raft to the Bailong River today to test the strength of the bamboo raft. Some tribesmen clamored to test it on the sea. Hua Xi gave him a severe scolding.
Strictly prohibit clan members
They are not allowed to put the raft out to sea without their own orders. If they go out to sea at their current level, even if the raft is strong enough and not broken up by the waves, the suction force of the sea is not something that these ducks who have just learned to take to the water can handle.
Hua Xi chose the location of the test two or three miles upstream of the fishing training. The reason why he chose this location was because when Hua Xi rode his horse through it, he observed that the Bailong River between China City and Iron Wall was too wide.
, although the water flow is slow, the area is too vast. I wonder if there are any dangerous things such as aquatic plants underwater. Be careful.
Once a person falls into the water, it will be difficult to save him. Two or three miles upstream from the fishery, the current is relatively fast, but the Bailong River begins to narrow here. The width of the river is only a hundred meters. If a person accidentally falls,
If they go down, even if they are not rescued, the time they can hold their breath is enough to rescue the person at the fishing point downstream.
"Oh hey -" In the shouts of the tribesmen, the huge bamboo raft was pushed into the river by Hua Xi and others. Then, Hua Xi waited for the sailors to land on it with a body shape and pace that could almost be called vigorous.
This time on the bamboo raft, Hua Xi ordered the remaining sailors and other onlookers to wait on the shore, while he selected the five sailors with the best training scores to jump on the bamboo raft for the first voyage test.
On the bank of the river, the water flow was gentle, and no one felt much. As they pushed out about thirty or forty meters from the river bank, Hua Xi and the unknown sailor both felt that the water flow was obviously much faster than before, and the bamboo raft
The speed of going down the river also suddenly increased. Due to the consideration of potential unknown factors such as water depth and underwater plants, Hua Xi not only required a long bamboo pole, but also asked each tribesman to bring a wooden stick.
Pulp
After sailing in the fast-flowing river for nearly a mile, the bamboo raft swayed slightly, but overall it was still calm. The scenery along the coast quickly retreated as if reflected in the rearview mirror, and was replaced by a new scenery on the river.
From time to time, some strange things jump out
The well-known fish, after grabbing a crystal clear water droplet, sank to the bottom of the river again with a slight bang. The water surface is very open, and the underwater situation is clearly visible. From time to time, you can see groups of fish passing back and forth, or
Foraging for food or playing is so pleasant!
The fishing spot was there in an instant. After two or three miles of sailing, the length of the bamboo raft sailing in the rushing river was enough to prove that the bamboo raft could withstand the impact of the currents in these waters of the Bailong River.
"That's enough, you now start paddling with wood pulp to the place where the bamboo raft was launched!" Hua Xi stood on the head of the bamboo raft and shouted into the wind, his voice drifting back and forth on the river.
"Here!" I was honored to be selected by the clan leader as the first batch of people to test the bamboo raft. The sailors were very enthusiastic. This is a capital.
According to the division of labor during training at the beach, the sailors have four people rowing and one person supporting the raft. Among them, the person supporting the raft is the most important, because he not only needs to work hard to support the boat like everyone else, but also needs to watch the river carefully.
According to the situation on the river, change the direction of the bamboo raft to avoid the danger ahead. Of course, the waterway of Bailong River is very clean. Some rocks and reefs can be clearly detected from a distance, so changes can be made in time.
Soon, the sailors were humming some unknown songs taught by Hua Xi while paddling happily. The bamboo raft unknowingly returned to the place where it was originally launched. After landing on the shore, those who were looking forward to it
The sailors grabbed hold of the sailors who had just landed and asked about the sailors holding bamboo rafts on the Bailong River.
Okay, what a feeling! Naturally, the first batch of sailors would not give up this good opportunity to show off, and immediately started to talk about the trip to Bailongjiang just now, saying it once and not giving up, continuing for a second time and a third time -
——It can be seen that they are still in a state of excitement.
"Okay, this time you, you, you guys come up!" Hua Xi pointed at a few sailors with fiery eyes and shouted.
"Here!" the five people who were named shouted in unison, then followed Hua Xi with brisk steps, jumped up, and landed on the bamboo raft in the rippling waves. The bamboo raft slowly sailed towards the river.
——At the end of the day, after the last group of sailors disembarked and landed, thirty
The sailor's real trial voyage was also announced to be over. Hua Xi took advantage of the last glow of dusk to carefully inspect the bamboo raft, and concluded that it was even stronger than before it was launched into the water this morning. The rattan binding the bamboo wood had survived the scorching sun and
After a day of hard work, the river becomes more tenacious
Since before winter, Hua Xi has not left the area around Sunset Castle. During the not-so-long months before winter, he sometimes appeared on the coast to check on the tribesmen doing salt fishing and other times.
Loudly supervising the sailors' training on the river bank upstream, and sometimes yelling at the sailors on the river surface, directing the raft's walking route——In the autumn harvest work a few months ago, Hua Xi was also busy training sailors and supervising
Sunset fishing, salt drying and other work points
If we don't leave, we can only let the Elders Council take full responsibility for the top priority of the autumn harvest. When Hua Xi didn't come back to take charge of the autumn harvest work, a group of elders at the Elders Council complained. They all felt that Hua Xi's enthusiasm for fishing was a bit too much.
It's too big to ignore the largest tribe like Qiu Harvest and stay at Sunset Castle to do that. It's a bit outrageous. However, if you have opinions, you have opinions. Under the coordination and leadership of Hua'an and the high priest, everyone will
The autumn harvest is completed
As time goes by, the number of tribesmen who can swim is increasing day by day, the small bamboo rafts on the river for fishing are becoming more and more green day by day, and the number of fish placed on the tribe’s dining tables is also increasing. On the second day after the last maiden voyage,
Month, that is, October, Hua Xi no longer needs to go to the Bailong River or the seaside to supervise the work of the tribe and the training of sailors. Hua Xi promoted and appointed dozens of sailors to captain, and a centurion.
Specialized in training sailors and daily fishing work
In October, with the completion of basic training for a large number of sailors and the increase in fishing rafts, the elders in Chinatown who complained about this gradually shut their mouths because, piles of fleets filled with river fresh food,
Started appearing every few dozen days
Dozens of mule carts are needed to carry the amount of river fresh food purchased by the tribesmen at the market in Huacheng. The weight is about 2,000 kilograms, although it cannot fundamentally solve the food supply for the eight thousand new slaves.
, but it can be regarded as improving the food of the tribe a lot.
Regarding the food problem of more than 8,000 slaves, Hua Xi estimated that the food pressure caused by them will not be solved until March next year at the earliest. The current pressure can be said to be the highest food pressure in history. In order to supply the slaves
Food, almost all tribesmen have to be careful with their rations, because what follows will be a long cold winter lasting four to five months. However, Hua Xi has absolute reason to believe that as long as he survives this difficult period, the more than 8,000
The farmland cultivated by the strong slaves will provide the tribe with countless food.
At present, the value created by slaves has been directly reflected in copper mining, because except for the restriction of personal freedom, almost all the treatment is the same as that of Chinese civilians, and they can also obtain items that can be purchased and are easy to carry.
The thing called Chinese coins, except for the slaves at the beginning,
After those thorns who caused trouble were summarily executed and executed, everyone threw off their arms and got up to speed. After Kunpeng's suggestion of allowing these slaves to have private property was approved by Hua Xi, Kunpeng posted the notice on the city gate while the iron was hot, and
After telling these slaves who could not understand simplified Chinese characters, the slaves' enthusiasm for work blossomed and grew steadily.
Carloads of copper ore were mined by hard-working slaves and transported to the iron wall for smelting and purification. With the productivity increased five to six times, the high copper price in the past quickly fell, and the number of families buying copper products increased significantly. Copper products
Although it began to quickly enter civilian households, it had a great impact on market supply in the short term, but after several months of adjustment and control, the result was that copper products became common people, and tribal productivity was further improved due to a chain reaction.
As early as September, Hua Xi received reports about a series of problems caused by the copper mine. Hua Xi made a special trip back to Chinatown for this purpose. After several days of research and discussion, he made the decision to allow the market copper price to fluctuate freely. At the same time, he
Regarding the purchase of copper mines by foreign tribes, the decision was made to limit the purchase volume and increase the price of copper to protect copper products from quickly entering the households of tribal civilians and improve productivity.
In terms of bronzes, Hua Xi abided by the agreement and privately offered a certain price discount to the White Wolf tribe. At the same time, Hua Xi asked Hua'an to keep in close contact with Tukan to discuss the position of dealing with other tribes in the alliance. Hua Xi gave Hua'an a warning.
The card is: you can win over and cultivate some obedient tribes in private, spread the clues widely and incite the hatred of some tribes against the White Wolf tribe. If you really don’t have any, you can create some conflicts yourself. Anyway, the purpose is to prevent the alliance from being stable and united.
This series of actions by the Chinese tribe caused various tribes in the alliance to change their attitude towards the Chinese from hostility to neutrality, and from neutrality to friendship. Caravans traveling between China City and Iron Wall City are conducting business more frequently than in any previous year.
Due to the frequent exchanges between teams, Mandarin, simplified Chinese characters, and some vocabulary and technical civilization were quickly spread
Before winter, after Hua Xi returned to China City for a meeting, Hua Xi saw from the paper booklet submitted by Hua An that of the remaining 26 large and medium-sized tribes in the alliance, almost every tribe held a weapon.
There are varying amounts of Chinese coins, ranging from 600 to 2,000 yuan. This amount is not small. This also shows that people in the alliance recognize the currency and the status of the Chinese tribe; it also shows that they use coins of equal value in their own tribes.
Goods were exchanged for these currencies
This phenomenon was unexpected by Hua Xi, and it also gave Hua Xi sufficient confidence in the alliance. Why? Because they hold the currency of their own tribe, the weight of their own words in the trade war has also been greatly increased. Don't you see?
, do all countries use the US dollar as their foreign exchange currency? This is also one of the reasons why the United States is strong