The village is basically completed. In the future, we will expand the village or build defensive facilities such as city walls in our spare time. What we need to do now is to plant rice seeds. As early as when the village was built, Hua Xi had already selected the cultivated farmland during his break.
After several months of cultivation, it has become dark and shiny. At a glance, you can tell that it is soil with sufficient fertilizer nutrients. However, the fields cultivated with natural fertilizers such as dung, ashes, and grass hay are only one acre in size. Most of the cultivated fields are basically
They have only been disturbed but have not been nurtured.
But it was enough for Hua Xi, because there were not many excellent rice seeds on hand. A waterway was introduced from the river not far away, and then spread out along the ridges and furrows in the fields. The river water would be cultivated for nearly two years.
Ten acres of fields were covered and soaked. The soil in the fields had already been soaked into a muddy state. Hua Xi asked the tribesmen to go to the fields to trample the soil with their feet or wooden sticks, and then they started to raise seedlings and transplant rice seedlings.
The following work was very familiar to Hua Xi. Under his leadership, in just one day, the tribesmen basically learned the essentials of selecting seeds and throwing them. It takes 32-35 days from raising the seedlings to planting the small ones, and from the small ones to the large ones.
45-55 days. It takes about 45-50 days from big seedling to maturity. The total time before and after is between four and five months. However, in view of the current cold climate environment, the sunshine time and temperature will vary greatly from the later generations.
It is not clear when the rice seeds mature, but it takes at least 1200 hours to mature.
After planting the seedlings, Hua Xi chose a day that she thought was a good time to move the whole clan into the village house. Hua Xi made the relocation ceremony extremely grand, with dozens of large pottery pots boiling under the fire of dry wood.
Boiling broth, fruits, wild vegetables, and happy tribesmen singing and dancing around the giant bonfire can be seen everywhere.
"Hey, it would be better if there is wine. At least you need something to drink before you want to have a party!" Hua Xi, who had finished a series of work, now thought of getting some fragrant rice wine, but rice wine is currently out of the question.
Yes, but fruit wine shouldn’t be too difficult
After several months of working together, the newly joined primitive people from different tribes have now truly integrated into the big family of the Shui Tribe. The Shui Tribe is filled with so much novelty and vitality, just like the grassland bursting with vitality after a thunderstorm.
With the stability of the tribe's food source and the emergence of houses and pottery products, selfish desires gradually appeared among the Shui tribe. Excess food and production tools would be privately possessed by some tribesmen. Hua Xi was not surprised at all by this phenomenon.
Once surplus items appear in primitive society, they will provide the foundation for the germination of private property. Human beings' original desires are naturally the subjective conditions for the emergence of private property. Human beings are selfish at heart. Hua Xi has never doubted this, but everyone's selfish desires are somewhat different.
That's all
At present, tribesmen are just purely human beings out of the desire to own private property, and are still far from private ownership. As we all know, in the primitive society period, the level of productivity was extremely low. In order to survive, we must produce together and distribute equally, so there is no private ownership and commodities.
As a result of the development of productive forces, social division of labor was promoted, the scale of production was expanded, social wealth was increased, and opposition and differences in interests were intensified. Frequent exchanges and commodity production for the purpose of exchange appeared. Later, in order to make commodities
Production proceeds smoothly and exists for a long time, and private ownership adapted to commodity production appears again.
Naturally, the wheel of history of human development cannot be changed by Hua Xi. Furthermore, Hua Xi must accelerate the advancement of the wheel of private ownership. Only when private ownership appears, social exchanges and the development of various industries will be nourished by sufficient political and economic nutrients.
Growth is something that cannot be rushed. What Hua Xi has to do is to stabilize the foundation and seek development. As for watching the protagonist in YY novels criticizing the situation and crusading against this and that, Hua Xi has never even thought about it. All he has to do is
live on
One is to satisfy one's own hunger. Secondly, in the Stone Age with a cold climate, a moderate diet and a little wine can help resist the cold invasion. Finally, it can be used for trade with other tribes and clan banquets and other rituals. Ever since humans learned to make wine,
This thing has always been loved by humans, and they can't stop it
It is common for rural people to make homemade old wine, that is, glutinous rice wine. Therefore, for Hua Xi, the fruit wine is not much different. The roughly process is the same. The process of making wine seems to be complicated, but in fact it is an extremely simple process. It is not easy to make.
Of course, it is difficult to make high-altitude or high-quality wine, which is naturally beyond the scope of Hua Xi's understanding.
The wine making process is roughly divided into: raw material selection → cleaning → mashing → juice extraction → tank → fermentation → measurement → preparation → storage → bottling
Hua Xi asked Hua An to bring back half a bucket of fruit, but specifically told him that it is best to pick ripe fruits because ripe fruits contain high sugar content and are good ingredients for making wine. After cleaning the fruits a little, Hua Xi picked up the big round ones.
The wooden stick gently mashes the fruits in the barrel. The amount of fruits required to make wine is very large. Hua Xi just makes a little to satisfy his craving. Later, when the tribe's food is sufficient, he can make large quantities of wine.
Seeing that the fruit was almost done, Hua Xi grabbed the mellow pulp with both hands and squeezed out the juice, then put the pulp residue of the fruit into a wooden barrel aside. It was better to use a cloth for squeezing the juice, but
If there was no cloth, he could only use his hands instead. Fortunately, the effect was not bad. When the juice was squeezed until half of the pottery bucket was filled, Hua Xi poured the juice into a pottery bucket that had been sterilized with boiling water, then closed the lid and waited for fermentation.
The fermentation process of Huaxi is natural fermentation, which uses yeast attached to the surface of the apple peel to ferment. The fermentation time varies depending on the sugar content of the juice, temperature and yeast, etc. It generally takes 4 to 10 days. The room temperature is high and the liquid temperature reaches 28-30c.
When fermenting, the fermentation time is fast. After about a few hours, you will hear the rustling sound like eating mulberry leaves, and the surface of the juice will foam. At this time, the yeast has turned the sugar into alcohol and released carbon dioxide. If this phenomenon does not occur for a long time, it may be due to
There are too few yeasts or insufficient air in the juice, or the temperature is too low. Fruit juice with strong fermentation should be added in time, or the vat should be rotated, or the temperature should be appropriately heated.
After completing these processes, it was already early morning the next day. When Hua Xi was daydreaming about the fruity fruit wine in a few days, Hua An hurriedly walked into the patriarch's room and said to Hua Xi: "Chief, come outside.
You met people from other tribes and they asked to see you.”
"Huh? People from other tribes?" After hearing the news, Hua Xi's thinking paused, because some Shui tribe people have had their own wise leadership in the past six months, and the range of their regular activities has been greatly expanded by three to four kilometers.
Even the tribesmen who were sent out to explore took the footprints of the Shui Tribe more than ten kilometers away, but no human traces were found.