Chapter 268 Irrigation and Drainage Project
This time the situation went smoothly.
A group of hunters had the lessons learned after the last roundup. In addition to the sufficient manpower and limited terrain, the two wild horses were quickly dragged to the entrance of the valley by a group of lives, and joined with several tamed wild horses.
After a little struggling, under the influence of several betrayal wild horses, the two horses quickly calmed down and started to communicate with their familiar companions.
"Brother, why are you here too?"
"Don't mention it, I was caught by these two-legged beasts last time!"
"You didn't want to run away?"
"What are you running? Didn't you see that we were all covered with bridles?"
"What does the bridle do? Is it comfortable to tie the head?"
"It's so comfortable, so you'll know when you're all trapped."
"Oh, why were we running around in the corners at that time? We were so afraid that we would be eaten!"
"I won't be eaten, and there are people feeding grass every day, so I'll be ridden by others, which makes me feel uncomfortable!"
"Damn, what should I do?"
"Cold salmon, don't struggle hard when you're ridden later."
“Why?”
"No, you'll know if you try it!"
"Just try it. I don't believe they can climb onto my back. They'd rather die if they are not free. I've grown up so old that I haven't been ridden by a mare."
"Well, come on, cousin, I'm very optimistic about you!"
The two horses caught here were quiet, but at this time the narrow Wild Wolf Valley was even more lively.
The remaining six horses were extremely manic, but under the pressure of nearly a hundred people, the range of movement became smaller and smaller. Soon, two more horses were stumbled by the squat rope and then wrapped around a net of seven or eight feet of rope. In the struggle, they were tied into two zongzi horses, and were dragged out of the stone by a group of hunters.
So there were two more wild horse brothers who were chatting.
As more and more wild horses were caught, the remaining horses became more and more anxious, but more and more hunters participated in the roundup. The last four horses were slowly forced into a huge rock area. Some horses even wanted to jump onto a big rock, but fell into the cracks of the rock and were stuck and unable to move.
In the end, only an hour later, all eight adult wild horses who had been hiding in the valley for more than half a month were caught. Except for two of them, there were basically no serious injuries. A group of men who participated in the hunt were all safe and none of them were injured.
The huge gains made the entire Ba tribe fall into a carnival again.
Both men and women, now we know that these wild horses are huge wealth.
In the eyes of women, these horses can plow the fields and carry goods. With these wild horses, farming will be easier next year.
In the eyes of men, these wild horses can make them run faster and farther, and they will gain unparalleled speed and strength regardless of hunting or fighting with foreigners.
The strength of the Ba tribe will become stronger as a result.
Imagine that when hunters ride more than ten wild horses to launch a powerful attack, even a powerful tribe as powerful as the Ukrainian tribe cannot stop it at the violent speed.
What if there were a hundred or even more wild horses?
No man dared to imagine what a magnificent scene it was.
Once a hunter rides on a wild beast, no one in the world dares to stop him.
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As soon as Xu Chen came back, he conquered eight adult wild horses, which made the tribe's atmosphere reach its most lively state.
And this group of wild horses quickly became the new favorites and toys of tribal men.
The taming process was as full of challenges as last time, and even caused several people to fall and injured, but everyone involved felt a sense of accomplishment. Seeing these guys who had committed crimes in the valley in the past as if they were riding under their crotch with drooping eyes, all the hunters who participated in the roundup and domestication felt an unprecedented excitement and pride.
As the warblers grow in March, the weeds on the river beach become greener and greener. The flowering period of various plants has passed and they have begun to bolt and strengthen. With the gradual arrival of the high temperature and rainy season, all animals and plants are about to enter the craziest growth stage of the year.
The rise of farmland will always be more lush than weeds.
Muba and Amu recently started a large-scale second weeding activity with women, children, young and old from two families.
Since there was no group of wild horses, the situation in the farmland has improved greatly. On weekdays, some wild animals such as wild sheep and deer occasionally appear to catch food. However, after Gu Heju and others had a group of wild horses, the speed and number of patrols increased a lot. Feng and others even rode horses to drive and hunt the wild animals in the valley on two large-scale occasions, which reduced the number of wild animals in the valley and entered the safest growth stage.
It rains more and more.
The water in the river is getting bigger and bigger.
The flowing water in the Wild Wolf Valley began to roar day and night, and more and more wild birds were on the river beach, and nests of chicks began to appear. It was the season for water birds to reproduce on a large scale again.
A group of prisoners basically didn't do much now, so Xu Chen simply devoted himself to the ditches in advance.
In addition to providing watering for farmland during drought, this ditch has another use, which is to drain the farmland and also provides sufficient and clean daily water for increasingly large families.
As the main source of the river, Wild Wolf Valley belongs to mountain spring water and has good cleanliness. It is directed to the vicinity of the courtyard through the ditches. Not only is it more convenient to wash and wash vegetables, it can also provide water for the kiln factory. In addition, as the scale of the kiln factory continues to expand, although a pond formed by digging clay can store water and use it for daily use, Xu Chen also wants to take this opportunity to excavate it larger and make it into a fish pond.
Now the fishing level is constantly improving, and fish catches are endless every day, but pure wild fishing is very seasonal, with more summer, autumn, winter and spring. If some of the small fish caught are fed in the pond, it can provide the tribe with an additional source of meat in winter and spring, which can be considered as killing two birds with one stone.
Food safety is the absolute primary guarantee of survival in any era.
No amount of food reserves can be an exaggeration.
There are conditions for someone to take action now. Once this year is missed, most of these prisoners are redeemed by the Gonghuo Clan, there will be few opportunities to have so many free manpower in the future.
After doing it at will, Xu Chen led a group of people back and forth to observe the Wild Wolf Valley, farmland, courtyard, and kiln factory for a few days, planned a ditches route and then officially started construction.
It turned out that more than 80 prisoners had been trained and twenty people had been left in the Gonghuo Clan.
The purpose of leaving these people is not to help the Gonghuo Clan improve its survival ability, but because these people have a high recognition of the Ba tribe. They are mainly to cooperate with the Thunder Clan to speed up the splitting speed of the Gonghuo Clan.
During his life in the Ba tribe, Xu Chen used military training and reward and punishment systems to brainwash them every day, emphasizing the abide by military discipline and promoting the strength and beauty of the Ba tribe. These stubborn savages had almost no resistance to this kind of spiritual brainwashing. They all believed Xu Chen's words as if they were injected with chicken blood, and developed a strong disgust for their original tribe. They even regretted the previous actions of invading the Cang tribe, and cried and said that they would change their minds. Everything was based on the orders of His Majesty the Witch King and the guidance of the Great Witch. They would stay with the Gonghuo tribe to help Xu Chen look forward to them, and would not allow the Gonghuo tribe to show unfavorable actions against the Ba tribe alliance again.
This is a group of completely trustworthy traitors of the Gonghuo Clan.
Xu Chen was very pleased.
Of course, this also shows that after his witch-making plan succeeded, the tribe's cohesion became stronger and stronger.
Including the remaining more than 60 prisoners, most of them are now fully adapted to and used to living with the Ba people. Many people even think they are part of the Ba people. Even if Xu Chen took the large army to leave the Ba people a few times, these prisoners were very docile and cooperative, and they all actively hunted, fished and drove away the farmland and beasts, and took care of the Ba people's women, children, and young and old.
There are many reasons for this, but the main reason is that the strong strength of the Ba people and Xu Chen's powerful personal charm conquered them.
The ditch project was planned to start construction in three parts at the same time.
First, the pond where fish farming in the kiln factory is based on the mud pits from the original soil collection, and continues to dig deep and expand, with a scale of roughly five acres, with a considerable project volume.
However, in order to speed up the project, Xu Chen included a nearby low-lying place in the project scope, and did not require large-scale excavation, but only needed to expand and build the embankment.
The entire fish pond is planned to be a narrow and long shape that runs north and south, just connected to the ditches, forming a whole.
The second is the main body of the ditches, from the mouth of the Wild Wolf Valley to the area through the farmland area, and according to the terrain, there is about five miles in length. The project volume is not small and it will definitely not be completed in a short period of time. However, the water cannot flood here in summer, so you can dig slowly.
The most difficult project of the project lies in the water intake at the mouth of the Wild Wolf Valley.
Here we need to build a dam with stones first, divide the stream in Wild Wolf Valley into two, and intercept some of it into the ditches.
However, the water level in Wild Wolf Valley will be very fierce after summer. If the embankment is not solid enough, it may be washed away. In addition, if the water volume is not large enough, the water volume in winter and spring will also cause water shortage in the ditches. Therefore, the design of this water intake is very important.
In order to quickly complete the construction of the dam before the summer arrives, Xu Chen devoted some of the people here.
There is no shortage of stones here, but they are all very large ones, weighing hundreds of kilograms or even several tons per piece.
After these stones were washed out of the valley by the rushing streams in summer, they formed a large messy beach of rocks at the entrance of the valley.
Last time, it was based on the complex environment formed by these messy stones, and the wild horses were cut off in one fell swoop and the hunting operation was completed.
The wild horses have been done, and these stones can be used to build dams on the spot.
More than forty most powerful prisoners selected used wooden hoes, stones, bone rods and sticks to pry these big stones out of the soil, and then slowly pushed them to the position planned by Xu Chen.
Some stones were too big and too heavy to move with human power, Xu Chen invented the winch, using larger stones and some trees as fixing points, and used ropes and wooden bars as thick as arms to push the noose tightening. Under the strong traction force, these large rock-solid stones were finally slowly transported to the required position.
Sometimes when the winch and rope cannot complete the traction, Xu Chen will use a group of wild horses to pull it.
In addition to humans, the Ba tribe has already had a group of animal power available. Although Xu Chen cherishes and cares about it, he is not stingy when it is time to use it.
More than ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and a large group of prisoners were busy with wind and rain every day, and almost all the big stones within dozens of meters near the mouth of the Wild Wolf Valley were transported.
At the exit of the valley, a dam made of huge rocks slowly appeared near the farmland.
These stones are arranged very roughly and are not shaped.
Chapter completed!