Back at the courtyard where he had been away for a long time, Xu Chen and others had no time to do anything else. They couldn't wait to drink a cup of hot aphrodisiac fruit tea to warm up, then boil water and take a hot shower, change into clean and warm clothes, shoes and socks, and then they began to distribute various small gifts they brought back to everyone.

There are not many gifts, nor are they prepared deliberately, but some small things selected from the Thunder Clan, such as exquisite feathers, unique animal teeth, rare gems, rare and soft fur, etc., regardless of gender, age, everyone has a share.

During the process of distributing gifts, the whole yard was extremely lively. Everyone was very excited when they received these exquisite small gifts. A group of children were even running around inside and outside the yard, as excited as a group of waiters.

However, the twin sisters are different from Ye. The three of them are not interested in these small gifts, and they are obviously much higher in level.

At this time, the three of them gathered in Xu Chen's room, each holding a thick stack of animal skins and sitting beside the bed with relish.

Go out and explore the vast strange world, and draw maps to make better travel in the future.

But keeping a diary is a hard requirement for the little witch and Ye.

They could not go out with them, so they begged Xu Chen to record all their daily experiences in diary.

So Xu Chen added a skill, which became a diary generator walking in a strange land. As long as he had some leisure time, he would take time to record what he saw, heard, did, and thoughts that day. Gu Heju was also responsible for helping to carry maps and diaries in person while holding the banner. The two of them basically did not participate in any battles along the way. The main task was to protect the precious information recorded by Xu Chen, which was more important than their own lives.

Even when riding a raft, both of them would hold the vine baskets containing maps and animal skins tightly in their arms to prevent any water from getting stuck.

After accumulating in the past three months, Xu Chen recorded more than a hundred pages of animal skin diary and tens of thousands of words.

These animal skins are thick and heavy, and they have two large baskets in total.

Therefore, it is enough for three girls to study for a long time.

After Xu Chen gave the gift, he went to the inside and outside the courtyard to inspect the stables, sheep pens, pig pens, duck houses, etc. in the third phase courtyard all took a quick look. He also visited two big eagles and the heads of the leopard that had grown into a small leopard. When he returned to the room with a cup of hot aphrodisiac fruit tea again, he found that the three girls were sitting on their bed, each of whom was watching the diary of the animal skins, and they were forgetting to eat and sleep.

OK, let's sort it out when you finish reading it!

Xu Chen looked at the two lifted vine baskets placed in the middle of the room, smiled bitterly, shook his head with a teacup, and then turned around and left to arrange other things.

This time I came back, not only brought back the map and diary, but also brought back a lot of plant specialties from the southeast.

Some of the bamboo roots were planted in the Gonghuo clan, and some were given to the Wu clan. There were more than ten left, all of which were kept in the vine frame with soil.

He asked someone to carry him to the courtyard and find several suitable locations to dig holes and plant them. He also built a circle of fences with wooden sticks around, so as not to be harmed by a group of animals after the bamboo grows out.

In addition to bamboo, there are also some aquatic plants such as lotus roots, chicken heads, water chestnuts and other aquatic plants brought back from the swamp of the Tsaicha tribe. Xu Chen asked those who were planted in the pond. Although they were always wrapped in wet mud and watered them every few days on the road, it is still unknown whether they can survive. However, Xu Chen hopes that these plants can take root and sprout in the Ba tribe.

In particular, lotus roots are rich in starch and have always been an important food and vegetable variety for humans. If potatoes and sweet potatoes have raised a large population in the Central Plains and the north, then in the south, lotus roots, foods like water have also raised a large population.

Therefore, in the south, growing lotus roots has always been a very important agricultural activity, and it is as important as fishing.

Once the fish and lotus root are raised in the pond, once it forms a scale, it will greatly supplement the types and sources of the Ba people's food.

This pond has more than ten acres. If it grows well, it can produce more than ten tons of lotus roots a year.

Although they say that eating lotus root is ugly, they are all a group of savages. No matter how many beautiful and ugly he is, he can eat enough.

Therefore, as long as you can grow it, the Ba people can survive in the future by relying on this pond lotus root.

What's more, the Ba people are currently raising hundreds of acres of farmland and have raised so many pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks. The food and meat are gradually being sufficient. The lotus root is just a food supplement to improve the dietary structure of the tribe and enrich the nutrition.

There are still some medicinal herbs and seeds. Xu Chen also asked someone to find a place to plant them on nearby hillsides and mark them.

After all this, the harvest Xu Chen brought back from his long trip this time was basically processed.

What remains are hundreds of kilograms of lead and tin, which are the two metal materials that Xu Chen most expects and is most important.

However, it is the end of December, and there are only a few days left before the beginning of spring.

Spring sowing was approaching, and Xu Chen did not rush to start smelting bronze. Instead, after a day of rest, he devoted himself to the farming construction of the entire tribe.

The third phase of the compound has been completed. Because it is not available for living, most of the construction inside are forage pergolas, stables and pigpens, so it looks very spacious and messy. Some finishing work is being done now.

Livestock feeding is very polluted. Although primitive people do not pay attention to it, because they are close to the courtyard, Xu Chen carefully guided and planned the feces treatment and drainage ditches, striving to avoid affecting and polluting domestic water and the environment.

In order to meet Xu Chen's requirements, a small door was opened on the side of the third phase courtyard, and a septic tank was dug outside. All sewage and feces must be discharged into the septic tank for treatment. After fermentation, deodorization, lime was killed and insect-killed, it was thrown into the pond or farmland, and used as fertilizer in the vegetable garden.

This matter does not require much carefulness, and Xu Chen does not expect the tribe's people to do it more seriously. He just hopes that they can develop the most basic hygiene habits and completely separate the lives of humans and animals.

The most important thing for the tribe is no longer the construction and ending of the third phase compound, but the cultivation of farmland and farming.

Last year, the farmland area was 400 acres, but now there are at least 800 acres. Almost flat areas on both sides of the river have been reclaimed.

Except for the areas where the river beaches are prone to flooding and a few willow bushes, at a glance near the foot of the mountains on both sides, there are large black and empty areas left after burning the wasteland.

Although Xu Chen was not at home, after two years of land reclamation and cultivation, Muba and others were fully familiar with the experience of land reclamation and cultivation. Even though the manpower was slightly short of people, they still completed the cultivation of 400 acres of new fields and the cultivation of old fields for three months at home.

Because the preparation time this year has been long, after the spring and spring sowing, a large amount of suitable materials for making wooden plows and field rakes were cut down. After drying in spring and summer, several tools have been made in autumn and winter.

Now the tribe has more than twenty wooden plows and more than ten field rakes, plus more than twenty adult horses and hundreds of adult men and women, as well as a group of Gonghuo tribes and Cha tribe prisoners. In October, more than thirty male and female prisoners of the Yugong tribe and Maotun tribe were sent back. The number of people participating in farming of the Ba tribe is still enough.

Therefore, these 800 acres of farmland have been basically reclaimed, and some subsequent finishing work is being carried out in full swing.

Dig deep into drainage ditch.

Embankments are built in some low-lying areas of the river.

Plant grass men in places where wild animals often appear, etc.

All the Ba tribes are familiar with these things, and after a group of Yu Gong and Maotun men and women who have just arrived have completely devoted themselves to the construction of the Ba tribe after the initial surprise period of the prosperous and prosperous Ba tribe.

Like the men and women of the Gonghuo tribe and the Cha tribe who were captured after they were conquered, they were actively working and transforming, and quickly absorbing all the advanced technologies and experiences of the Ba tribe, and learning to build houses, reclamation, and build canals and raise poultry and livestock, and learn to make food and eat with pottery pots, pottery pots, bowls and chopsticks.

Of course, language communication and learning are also the most important aspects.

In addition to using so many prisoners as free labor to promote the development of the Ba people, Xu Chen's most important purpose was to serve as a civilized ambassador. After labor reform, these prisoners brought the advanced experience and technology they learned back to their respective tribes to promote the common development of civilization.

A year-long mutual exchange and learning will also cultivate a large number of people who are proficient in the Ba language, and these people will become channels and links for communication between tribes in the future.

The unity of language and characters will greatly promote the unity of ideas.

The unity of ideas will transcend race and tribal communities, creating favorable conditions and foundations for future tribal reunion and elimination of racial barriers.

Before there is no way to open a school, war and slavery are the best ways and means to quickly merge between tribes.

The Ba people continued to import a large number of foreign strong labor for two consecutive years, causing the tribal development to progress by leaps and bounds.

The 400 acres of wasteland that have been newly reclaimed this year are still fertile river beaches with deep rotten soil. They do not simply clean up stones and dig ditches, but also use wooden plows and field rakes for large-scale tilling and sorting, so they look very flat at first sight, and basically no stones can be seen.

Most of the weed roots in the new fields after being plowed and leveled are cleaned up. Therefore, as long as the weather is good, the output of these 400 acres of new fields should be comparable to that of the 400 acres of mature fields last year.

After a few busy days, under Xu Chen's guidance, these new and mature fields have undergone some small-scale transformations. The ditches should be digged deep and the river embankment should be raised. In some places where it feels that the plowing is not carefully enough, I will lead the horse to plow it.

As the farmland gradually tiles and finishes, the weather temperature is slowly rising.
Chapter completed!