A few days later, Mulu brought the large-headed pin that Hua Xi wanted. Hua Xi first used an awl to drill a hole the size of a needle in the center of the board, then passed the pin through the center of the north side of the chassis of the board and inserted the pointed end.
The magnet with one end exposed on the disk as an axis and used as a compass had been melted by Hua Xi in the past few days and combined with the bronze juice to create a small needle with bronze on one side and a magnet on the other because bronze is a non-magnetic material.
, so Hua Xi used it as the other end of the compass. Finally, after gently passing the pointer through the pin, he placed the pointer on the magnet side of the pointer in the water. Of course, it suddenly and automatically turned to one of the sailors watching.
"Haha, this is the south." Hua Xi saw it and said happily.
"Ah, it's spinning automatically. This is so amazing -" the sailors who didn't know the truth shouted one after another. Some even hurriedly fell down and kept reciting something silently.
"Mulu, did you see how I made this compass just now?" Hua Xi suddenly turned around and asked Mulu
"Muru can see clearly!" Muru replied, quite interested in the gadget in front of him.
"Okay, we will rush to make a batch of these tools in the future. These tools can be of any size and can point us in the direction so that we will not get lost!" Hua Xi said happily
"Ah, this thing can keep us from losing our way?" Mulu said in surprise, the tone revealed in his mouth clearly made him believe it.
Hua Xi didn't pay attention. Facts speak louder than words. After they used it, they became convinced. Hua Xi hadn't stayed in Chinatown for a long time. Things at Sunset Castle were generally on track.
It's time to go back there and see what's going on.
A few days later, Hua Xi returned to Chinatown
"Clan leader, it's not good -" Not long after Hua Xi returned to the palace, the people who came after hearing the news started shouting at the top of their lungs while they were still outside the door.
"Ah!" Hua Xi's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He didn't know what made this usually calm elder so flustered.
After a while, the hurried figures of the people appeared in the meeting hall
"People, why are you so alarmed?" Hua Xi asked calmly
"Chief, many of our cattle working in the fields are dying -" the people cried with mournful faces.
"Ah! What... what is going on! Quick, take me to see it!" As soon as he heard that something happened to the cattle, Hua Xi's heart felt as if someone had hit him hard with a heavy hammer, and the pain was unbearable.
Cows are a precious thing in this era, and they have a great impact on the productivity and stability of the tribe.
The people hurriedly agreed, turned around and hurried out of the north gate. Along the way, the people told Hua Xi about the situation of the cattle and hurried on. Listening to the people's feedback on the situation, Hua Xi's heart gradually began to calm down.
Because according to the reports from the people, the farm cattle should have diarrhea, which is a disease called diarrhea. Hua Xi doesn’t know what the medical name of traditional Chinese medicine is, but the symptoms of diarrhea are very obvious.
Hua Xi went to the field and took a look, and saw dozens of cattle lying motionless in the cowshed, looking listless. When Hua Xi and his people came to the cowshed, they made a noise. The cattle even had their eyes open.
Without even opening his eyes, he closed his eyes tightly. From time to time, the painful whine of some cattle could be heard from the cowshed.
In order to confirm his idea, Hua Xi walked next to a farm cow, stretched out his right hand and slapped the cow's back several times.
There was a sound of "Puff", and an unpleasant stench came out from the cow's buttocks. The cow stood up in fright, and with a few snaps, a bunch of foul-smelling diarrhea that hit the nose was scattered from the cow's buttocks.
come out
"Well - it's diarrhea!" Hua Xi covered her nose and shouted
"Diarrhea?" The people were so frightened that they opened their mouths and were choked to the point of being speechless.
"Yeah!" Hua Xi nodded, did not continue, and walked out of the bullpen to take a breath of fresh air.
The people stood there in a daze for a while, then woke up after a while, walked out of the cowshed quickly and came to Hua Xi's side, mourning and saying: "Chief, is it difficult... Could it be that none of these cattle can be saved? That's it.
Dying in vain?”
"It's okay, I can cure this disease!" Hua Xi's firm and powerful voice calmed the excitement of the people a little. After all, the current symptoms of the farm cow looked really bad, so the people hesitated.
After a while, he plucked up the courage and asked with doubts on his face: "Chief, do you think this diarrhea disease can be cured?"
"Yes! How many more cattle are in this situation? Bring them all to the cowshed and leave the cattle work to me. They will all be well in a few days." Hua Xi smiled faintly and gave his son
A look of stability and confidence
"Yes!" Seeing that the patriarch seemed confident, the people calmed down a lot and quickly called several farmers to bring the cattle suffering from diarrhea to the cowshed.
When he was a child in the countryside, the family's cattle had gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea. Hua Xi's father would collect some Chinese medicinal herbs to prepare some medicine and feed it to the cattle. The cattle would be cured in a few days, but it took only a short time.
Not knowing where to find those herbs, Hua Xi remembered another folk trick, that is, using garlic or onions, both of which have the effect of killing insects and treating minor gastrointestinal problems.
Without further ado, if the delay continues, these cattle may really get worse and die. Hua Xi called a few farmers and told them to go to the market to get a few buckets of garlic or onions, ginger and fruit wine. He wanted to start.
After treating the cattle, the farmers rushed to the market to collect the food Hua Xi wanted. Not long after, several barrels filled with the medicine Hua Xi needed were carried over by several farmers.
Not long after the medicine came back, the people and a group of farmers also drove the sick cattle over one after another. Hua Xi didn't waste any time. He quickly rolled up his sleeves and asked everyone to peel the garlic. After peeling it off, Hua Xi
Xi smashed all the several kilograms of peeled garlic, took a few barrels of fruit wine, put down the garlic and green onions, and made several barrels of garlic and green onion fruit wine. This was his method of treating cattle diarrhea, removing bacteria from garlic and green onions.
Ginger and wine can dispel cold. No matter whether you are a human or an animal, if you have diarrhea and it doesn't stop, if it is not too serious, you can drink it four or five times immediately. No matter how loose the diarrhea is, it can stop you.
"That's it?!" The people and several farmers pointed at the decoction that Hua Xi handed them and wondered in their hearts: Can this alone save the cattle?
Although the farmers didn't say it out loud, Hua Xi saw the doubtful expressions on their faces.
"Not bad! That's it! Okay, you guys, hold this cow down quickly, I'm going to drink it." Hua Xi pointed at a cow and shouted to several farmers. The farmers quickly followed Hua Xi's instructions.
, Hua Xi, who was holding down the cattle, opened the mouth of the cattle, picked up a spoon and poured the soup down. The cattle were already sick and weak, but under the restraint of several powerful farmers, how could they still
I had the strength to resist, so I drank a few spoonfuls of the soup that tasted weird and disgusting.
"Okay, let go!" After drinking the decoction, Hua Xi motioned to the farmer who was pressing down on the cow to get up.
Not long after, under the suspicious eyes of the farmers, Hua Xi fed these strange-tasting soups one after another. After finishing, Hua Xi turned around and told the people who had been following him: "From today on, you
Apply this decoction to the cattle two or three times a day, and they will be fine in a few days!"
"Yes!" The people haven't seen the improvement of the farming cattle yet. Although they are suspicious in their hearts, the patriarch has always made people think it is incredible, and it is not wrong to think about it, so they quickly replied
Hua Xi saw that after taking the decoction, most of the cattle were lying on the ground and resting silently. They stopped staying and went to the farmland to see how the reclamation and planting of the farmland had been due to the opening of the farmland.
It was too vast to cover on foot, so Hua Xi recruited a war horse and started patrolling alone.
From the hills and forests outside the north gate, most of the area within a few miles has been reclaimed into farmland. At the Yanshan Observatory, a checkpoint has already been built, and the garrison has been increased to a team of 100 people, led by a centurion.
I have been stationed here as a guard for a long time.
From outside the south gate of China City to Iron Wall, you can see tribesmen working on the roadside in many places along the way, either cultivating land or planting and irrigating. It is a busy scene.
On the field road, the prancing horse trotted, smelled the fragrance of the rice fields and the breeze passing by his ears, and felt the joy and relaxation there. Hua Xi felt that he was in a good mood, refreshed and at ease.
According to the current rate of reclamation and planting, by the end of this year the tribe will be able to barely rely on crops to maintain the food needs of the tribe. In addition, not counting the food brought by livestock and fishing, the basic conditions for the stability of a tribe or a country are
People must have something to eat. Even if they don't have enough to eat, they must not starve to death. Otherwise, doing other things better will be in vain.
The bright sky gradually dimmed. Hua Xi looked up and found that he had arrived near the iron wall unknowingly. He stopped by to see what the current situation was like and the city lord Kunpeng's abilities. Hua Xi already knew a lot about it. He hadn't seen him for half a year.
, Tiebei’s current situation is the best proof of Kunpeng’s ability.
Before entering the north gate of the iron wall, Hua Xi discovered a large area of growing rice fields on the grassland a few miles away from the north gate. Groups of slaves and tribesmen were scattered in the fields in small groups, busy with farm work.
When they saw Hua Xi riding by on horseback, they all stopped their farm work to say hello to Hua Xi. Along the way, Hua Xi waved and said hello to them very kindly.