Chapter 1226 Still Meowing (2 in 1)

Han Cheng stood in the Sanxingdui residential area, stopped and looked around. The purpose of his entry was the rice that had been planted.

Here, where the original Red Tiger tribe lived, there are a lot of paddy fields.

After being cultivated here by the Qingque tribe who are more experienced in farming, the farmland here looks more orderly.

Looking at the paddy fields in front of him, as well as the planted seedlings and the people who were planting them, Han Cheng couldn't help showing some smiles on his face.

Spring planting and autumn harvest can always bring people a good mood.

After the rice in the many paddy fields around the Sanxingdui residential area and the rice in some paddy fields opened up around the Tieshan residential area are mature and harvested in autumn this year, the Tieshan residential area and the Sanxingdui residential area will be able to achieve the goal of staple food. self-sufficient.

The part of the entire tribe south of the Qinling Mountains is not restricted by food.

And there can be surplus food.

And if this is done, the deployment of the Qingque tribe in the south can be regarded as completely stable.

After all, there is food in hand, and there is no panic in my heart.

This is also the main reason why Han Cheng is so happy after looking at the scene in front of him.

Standing here looking at the fertile fields for a while, Han Cheng went down from here and walked towards a place along the road.

After a while, we came to a road.

The road is wide and smooth.

After being trampled by so many people and livestock, and crushed by wheels, the road here has already become solid.

There is only one difference from other places, that is, the road here is black.

It's not that the Qingque tribesmen who live here do it deliberately, nor is it because the road will become more solid and durable if it is made black.

It is because the people here often transport coal from the coal production area to the valley along this road.

It doesn't show up in a day or two, but after a long time, the road will become dark.

Han Cheng stood on the road and looked around.

The left side of the road leads to the coal mine, and the right side leads to the interior of Sanxingdui.

However, where Han Cheng is standing now is about the same distance from the two places, and he wants to go to both places.

So when he stood here, he felt a little tangled for a while, not knowing where to go first.

Standing here and thinking about it carefully, and finally came to the conclusion that going from here to the valley behind the Sanxingdui residential area is about a few tens of meters away. Then Han Cheng set off and walked all the way towards here and go.

Passing through the wall of the Sanxingdui residential area, Han Cheng came to the valley on the south side.

Speaking of which, the Sanxingdui residential area is a little different from other places.

For example, the main entrance of the wall here is the North Gate.

The reason for this is that there are mountains to the south of the place of residence.

And the extremely important valley containing many mineral resources is also to the south of the entire residential area.

If the main entrance of the residence is really left to the south, then the open space in front of the residence is too narrow.

Moreover, it is too inconvenient to travel between the many fields in the north.

So when building this residence, Han Chengcheng made some moves. The houses and other buildings here are still facing south, but the courtyard or the main gate of the small city is opened to the north.

This is an adjustment made according to local conditions.

In the valley, compared with the previous one, there have also been great changes at this time.

One of the biggest changes is regularization.

When the people of the Red Tiger Tribe were here, they were messed up everywhere, and it looked very messy.

Coupled with the fact that there are quite a few people eating, drinking, and sleeping in it, the environment inside is even more needless to elaborate.

Now, there are various infrastructures such as built toilets and built drainage ditches.

More than a dozen houses were also built inside to store some things and allow the staff to take temporary rest at noon and the rest of the time.

Some people even opened up some small pieces of land in front of the house, behind the house, and in other free, flat and fertile places after work, and planted some vegetables or some grains on it.

It can be said that it has won the essence of Qingque tribe farming.

And farming, the innate skill that has been integrated into the blood of the local people of Han Cheng's descendants, after his continuous influence over the years, gradually began to integrate into the blood of the Qingque tribe, and gradually became To become their natural skills.

Standing here, looking at the small piece of land in the valley in front of him, Han Cheng smiled again.

This valley with forks, which is extremely important to the Sanxingdui residential area, has become orderly now.

Salt making, bronze smelting, and pottery making are separated from each other and become different functional areas.

In the high places above the valley, several outposts were built.

On the one hand, it is to protect the valley, and at the same time, it also means to prevent the slaves who work here in the copper mine from climbing over these mountains and escaping.

Of course, the location here is very high, condescending, and can see far away. It can provide a good early warning for the entire Sanxingdui residence and monitor the surrounding movements. This is also one of the reasons for building an outpost here...

Han Cheng walked around and looked at these places one by one. After spending about half a day, he left the valley, passed through the Sanxingdui residential area, came out from the north gate, and walked along this black road. Go all the way to the northwest.

Coming out of the residential area, after walking about three miles, Han Cheng came to another mine here - the coal mine.

Before I got here, I could see a piece of darkness from a distance.

After walking here, these blacks look even more eye-catching.

There are also some temporary houses built here, which look gray because of the proximity to the coal mine.

Coal is a good thing, especially after Han Cheng developed the function of smelting minerals, it became even more popular.

After being coked to make the effect better, here, the coke extracted from coal completely replaced charcoal on top of smelting bronze and iron ore.

Also because of this, the consumption of coal is not small.

In the past, there was open-pit coal here, but when Han Cheng came this time, the open-pit coal had already been mined seven to eighty-eight times. If we continue to mine, we need to dig deeper...

After watching for a while, it was already noon when Han Cheng left here and returned to the Sanxingdui residential area all the way.

Among the meals for lunch, there is also a stir-fried dish in an iron pot.

With the arrival of Han Cheng, this newly made iron pot, as well as the cooking in the iron pot, was also brought to the Sanxingdui residential area by him, and was highly praised and sought after by the residents of the Qingque tribe in Sanxingdui.

It was only a few days later, and the people present already had the feeling that there was no cooking in an iron pan, and they felt that there was something missing and that they were not happy to eat.

Han Cheng didn't enjoy eating very much, not because he was tired of cooking in an iron pot, but because he had something on his mind.

Today's inspection, combined with what he saw and heard in the main tribe and the Tongshan residential area, made Han Cheng finally pay attention to a problem that he had discovered before.

This problem is the mining of ore in the tribe.

The mining of ore has always been easy to mine on the top and open-pit part. When it is mined further down and deeper, it becomes a little difficult.

Today, the mines of the Qingque tribe are basically at this stage.

Of course, the most serious of them is the Copper Mountain located in the Copper Mountain residential area.

People in the tribe, limited by their vision, don't think there is anything wrong with mining ore with tools such as hammers, chisels, and picks, nor do they think how slow it is to mine ore with such things.

However, as a later generation, Han Cheng became a little dissatisfied with some things after watching the whole tribe develop day by day under his leadership and after the initial joy.

Just like mining ore.

When encountering those big, hard stones with large slabs connected together, it is really difficult to deal with them with tools such as hammers, drills, chisels, etc.

Sometimes, even a person working with a hammer and a chisel for three days in a row can't carve out such an existence!

It can be said that it is extraordinarily hard, but the efficiency cannot be improved, and the work cannot be done much.

This is why Han Cheng thought and felt a little depressed about it.

The way to solve the problem, Han Cheng has known for a long time, is to make gunpowder and apply it to this matter.

However, just as the matter of the compass was stuck on the magnet, the matter of gunpowder was also stuck on the saltpeter.

Even now, Han Chengcheng has not encountered natural nitrate.

As the saying goes, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. Even if Han Cheng knows the formula of gunpowder and the ratio needed to mix it, but in the absence of such an extremely important thing as nitrate, it is impossible to go against common sense and make this thing get it out...

Nitre!

When will I be able to find this thing myself.

If you find it earlier, you can get the gunpowder out earlier, and if you get the gunpowder out earlier, you can get an extra sharp weapon in the tribe earlier.

It is not only used to open mountains and cut roads, mines and blast stones, but it can also be used on the weapons of the Ministry.

Of course, it can also be used for entertainment in the tribe.

Han Cheng is still looking forward to things like fireworks. During the Chinese New Year, it is very good to light up a few boxes, let them bloom with brilliant colors, embellish the night sky, let everyone watch together, and enhance the atmosphere of the New Year.

Of course, having gunpowder does not mean that fireworks can be produced immediately. Fireworks, a relatively advanced thing, require certain skills and accumulation of experience.

However, it is still very good to use gunpowder to make some firecrackers.

However, the saltpeter that he had been thinking about had never been seen before, and what Han Cheng was thinking in his heart could only become a fantasy in the end...

Han Cheng, who had eaten, squatted on a rock, thinking about these things here, feeling rather unhappy.

Fujiang, the guy who just ran to the toilet to shit, came here leisurely all the way. Seeing Han Cheng squatting on a big rock, he walked half a circle around the rock and came to a place where the rock is the lowest. , jumped up vigorously with all four limbs, trotted a few steps, and also landed on this big rock.

Fu Jiang, who came to the stone, took a few steps to squat down next to Han Cheng, side by side with Han Cheng, and then rubbed his head against Han Cheng's body.

Sensing the lucky general who came by his side, Han Cheng felt a little uncomfortable because of the saltpeter, and immediately became better.

Of course, it wasn't because Fu Jiang rubbed his head against him with this dog leg, which made him feel extra joy.

It was because of new changes in Fu Jiang.

This guy, Fujiang, lost his hair in pieces before, and the whole dog looked like he was going to be bald. The aging made people feel uncomfortable.

But now, new hairs have grown back on the places where the hairs had fallen out before, and after covering these skins, this guy looks younger.

Han Cheng, who has always been worried about Fu Jiang, seeing such a situation, how could he not feel happy in his heart?

The lucky general is coming, so as its sister, the lucky star, naturally it will not be too far away.

Sure enough, after such thoughts arose in Han Cheng's mind, he saw an orange-red light rushing from a distance. After approaching the stone, he landed in Han Cheng's arms skillfully after several consecutive jumps. It turned into a fat, plump big cat.

This thing is the 'Red Tiger' obtained from the original Red Tiger Tribe earlier.

If you see that this thing has already been raised by Han Cheng, it doesn't have the wildness of the past.

And I don't know if the food here in the Qingque tribe is so good, or this guy came to a place where he feels at ease is my hometown, so that until now, his weight has been increasing.

The originally slender figure and smooth curves have all disappeared now, leaving only a big fat cat.

When Han Cheng stroked it a few times with his hands, and then tickled the guy's exposed belly with his hands, the guy would meow, and he didn't want any morals.

Lying next to it was a rejuvenated old dog and a plump, heavy fat cat. After petting the cat for a while and stroking the dog's head for a while, Han Cheng's depression quickly disappeared. got a clean.

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Han Cheng, who stayed here in Sanxingdui for seven or eight days, left here with his cats and dogs, and those who could be called guards, and returned to Tieshan residential area along the spacious road...