Go to ancient times and engage in construction

The slave soldiers were trained by Chu Chaohui for a whole morning, and at noon they could finally sit and rest in the shade of the shelter forest in the valley.The protection forest mentioned here is actually the original virgin forest trees.

Zheng and Chu are going to cut down all the trees in the valley and turn the forest into fields and living quarters. They only leave a row of trees in the west near the Changhe River.

These trees can stabilize water and soil, and can block the view of the valley from the wooden boats in the long river.However, in order to prevent soil erosion on the hillside, the trees on the surrounding hillsides cannot be cut down, and only branches and weeds are allowed to be cut down on the hillside for firewood.

Some thousand-year-old trees in the valley have not been sawed off. These big trees that need more than a dozen people to close together are not easy to survive until now. It is best to keep them as scenic trees.As for the centuries-old trees, except for the rare ones, all other big trees have been cut down. One-third of the big trees in the valley are of such a long age. If they were all preserved, the valley would not be able to be developed at all.

A large open space has been cut in the eastward direction of the shelter forest. The tree roots have not been dug out, and the stones on the open space have not been cleared. It will not be turned into arable land until next year.At the edge of the clearing, there were more than 200 people sawing and falling trees. Of these 200 people, more than 100 were serfs led by Da Zhuang, and the other thirty or forty were carpenters at the craftsman's office.

The slaves of the Ministry of Agriculture worked as lumberjacks under the leadership of carpenters during the slack season.The weeds in the rice fields have been almost pulled out, so Da Zhuang left some people to spray vinegar on the rice fields, and the other slaves were taken to the west to log.

Because there will be wooden boats carrying iron ore docked at the valley pier today, Da Zhuang will stop after working for a while, and look at the long river through the path leading to the pier.After the wooden boats of the Nanman tribe arrived, Da Zhuang organized people to unload the iron ore from the boats to the shore and then transport them back to the valley.

The big Zhuang wooden boat did not wait, but the soldiers who had finished training, looked at the soldiers sitting in the shade and rested, Da Zhuang waved his hand to make the slaves and carpenters stop to rest, and looked at the shadows on the ground, the mule cart was coming to deliver lunch in the valley up.

The western logging site is far from the valley villa, and it takes an hour to walk back. The slaves who work here do not go back to the valley for lunch. Their lunch will be delivered by women in mule carts. For the convenience of transportation in the valley, buy He bought more than a dozen mule carts, and bought seven or eight cattle from surrounding countries for plowing. These cattle can also be used to transport goods.

The mule carts in Dacheng are easy to sell, but the cattle are in short supply. To buy cattle, you have to go to Nanman and Chu to buy them.The yellow cattle in Chu State are domesticated. They can be bought and put on a yoke to plow the land. The yellow cattle in Nanman are wild. To pull carts and plow the land, you can only buy small yellow cattle caught by the tribesmen. These small yellow cattle bought back have to be trained for a period of time. Only then can the yoke be used for plowing and pulling carts.

Just as the slaves stopped their work to rest, a group of vehicles drove up from the east side of the road across the valley. There were wooden barrels and wooden frames on the vehicles. The wooden barrels contained rice and vegetables, and wooden bowls and chopsticks were placed in the wooden frames. .The kitchen women brought the food.

Seeing the convoy approaching from a distance, the logging slaves and soldier slaves got up from the ground and cheered.The meals of the soldiers these days are also delivered by the valley kitchen. When the barracks are ready for use, the soldiers and slaves do not need the valley kitchen to deliver their meals. They will have a dedicated chef.

The convoy stopped next to the logging slaves, and two of the mule carts continued to drive towards the shelter forest. Soldiers and loggers had different lunches. The training of soldiers consumed a lot of physical energy, and their meals were more abundant than loggers.

No matter if they are logging slaves or slaves serving as soldiers, they line up at the barrel after receiving the tableware. The women in charge of distributing the food will serve them millet, rice and vegetables, and the slaves who have beaten the meals will go to another barrel to scoop them up. Order soup.Queuing is a compulsory course for slaves who just entered the valley.

The slaves sat down on a stake under the shade of the trees and ate their meals. Today, there was not only a lot of meat in the dishes, but also a lot of meat in the soup, and even a lot of meat and bones.Except for the nobles, people in this time and space generally eat two meals. After arriving in the valley, the two meals were changed to three meals.Even though the slaves can now eat one more meal a day, the amount of food for each meal still does not decrease a little.However, the benefits of eating an extra meal were quickly reflected in the slaves. The slaves no longer had disheveled faces, and their bodies no longer stripped naked to see their ribs. Instead, they began to grow muscles. Everyone’s resistance became stronger, and they fell sick less. , the strength has increased, and some slaves who are under [-] have grown a lot taller.

Da Zhuang went to the soldier with the meal to find the second son.The two found a wooden stake with shade and sat down.

"Second son, you are still welcome. You can eat a lot of meat as a guard." Da Zhuang envied the large pieces of wild meat in Erzi's bowl. There were only a few small pieces of wild meat in his bowl, unlike the meat in Erzi's bowl. many.

"Being a soldier sweats more than doing a job. Look at my jacket." Er Zi's short jacket has been taken off and draped over his shoulders, and the cloth jacket is covered with white salt frost.While talking, the second son took a piece of fat meat from his own bowl for Da Zhuang. People who have no oil and water like to eat fatty meat, and the second son picked the best meat in the bowl for Da Zhuang.

"Well, I sweat more than I do." Da Zhuang's short cloth clothes also had traces of dry sweat, but not as many as on Er Zi's clothes. down.

"After eating and resting for a while, you have to practice. The officer said that those who can't keep up with the training intensity will be sent back to the valley." The second son is the best slave soldier, and he is not worried about being brushed down.

"Back to the valley? Don't say that you don't have any hardware every month, and you will lose your face." Da Zhuang shook his head, then put his head next to Erzi's ear and whispered. "Outside the valley, only the children of the noble master's family can serve as soldiers. Do you think the guards will become soldiers in the future?"

"Turn into a soldier? Be a tiger?" The second son stopped chewing, and his eyes were shining.The soldiers in this time and space are all the children of nobles, and the civilians and slaves can only do logistics, that is, auxiliary soldiers.Chu Chaohui's original intention was to train the slaves into soldiers, but he only said that they were trained into guards to protect the valley.

"Da Zhuang, if my lord will fight for the King of Wu in the future, we may make meritorious deeds and get rid of slavery by following us on the battlefield?" The second son dared not imagine that he would become a tiger, but it is possible to change from a slave to a domestic slave.

Many slaves went out with their masters, rescued their masters on the battlefield, or killed the enemy. At the end of the war, they will be rewarded for their merits. These slaves will take off their slave status and become the master's soldiers.The status of family soldiers is similar to that of civilians, and life is better than that of civilians.

"But we seem to be living better than domestic slaves now. What if we take off our slave status and go out of the valley?" After the second son got excited, he suddenly thought that the life in the valley for the past few months was a life he had dreamed of living.

"Yes, if you become a domestic slave, you will definitely be kicked out of the valley." Dad Zhuang often goes to Nanbu for business. If many hungry people wandering to Nanbu refuse to sell themselves, Zheng and Chu will only allow them to work in Nanbu. Temporary residents exchange coolies for food. When Nanbu no longer needs coolies, these people will have to leave Nanbu. Only slaves will be taken to the valley, and all food, drink and lodging will be provided by the owner.

"I don't want to go out of the valley. I will always live here in the future. When I become a family, my descendants will always live here." The second son firmly swore that he had never seen a commoner living more comfortably than in the valley. This is his ideal place.

Chu Chaohui trained like a slave soldier, and shared joys and sorrows together, but he didn't eat, dress, sleep like a soldier, and wanted everything the same, so he was not a slave owner, not a small nobleman with a fief.Chu Chaohui has never believed that people can be truly equal. No matter how democratic the country is in the 21st century, there are actually different levels.

There were no vegetables in this time and space. At that time, there were only more than 20 kinds of vegetables that people often ate. They tasted bitter and astringent, and the taste was not good. Most of them have withdrawn from the ranks of vegetables and become weeds in modern times.Vegetables from the pre-Qin and Qin and Han Dynasties are only eaten by people today, such as leeks, radishes, green onions and garlic. Common vegetables such as eggplant, cucumber, spinach, lentils, and sword beans in the 21st century were all introduced from abroad during the Wei, Jin, Tang and Song dynasties.

I asked Zheng Yuming's cousin to buy a large bag of rapeseed seeds. Eggplants, cucumbers, spinach, lentils, sword beans, tomatoes, and broad beans were all planted in the greenhouse. Except for the seeds, the extra vegetables went to Zheng Chu The stomachs of the two were followed by only the three children and Mrs. Su.It is a pity that there are no peanuts and sunflower seeds in the villa. These two crops were not introduced to China from America until the Ming Dynasty.

Today Su's wife cooked wild eggs with cucumbers, stewed beans with wild pork, and roasted eggplant with eels. The soup was tomato and wild egg soup, and the rice was white rice.The japonica rice in the villa has been eaten, and the japonica rice for cooking now is the rice that has been culled after screening the rice seeds, and pounded with a stone mortar and rice pestle.

Chu Chaohui’s lunch is red and green on the wooden stakes, it’s so beautiful, it makes people’s index fingers move. The slaves stretched their heads to look at the meal enjoyed by the master, and they all drool. They heard that next year, the master is now Everyone in the valley can enjoy what they eat.It didn't take a day for the news to spread from the villa, and the slaves knew about it. They seemed to be most pursuing food.

Just when people were about to eat, a string of wooden boats in the long river came towards the western pier. It was the Nanman tribe who came to deliver iron ore to the valley.

The Nanman tribe and Dacheng face each other across the river. When the weather is calm, it takes only two hours for a wooden boat to travel from Nanman to the valley. You can reach the valley pier.In a month, the Nanman tribe will transport to the valley three times, and return after unloading.Originally, the unloading time could be fixed in this way. I didn’t want to be delayed by a strong wind. The wooden boat arrived at the pier two hours late. At that time, the logging slaves not far from the pier were having lunch. The person in charge saw that the people from the Nanman tribe were still hungry. They brought the rest of the food to them. The enthusiasm of the logging slaves changed the delivery time of the Nanman tribe in the past. They postponed the delivery time by an hour, and specially arrived at the meal time of the logging slaves in the valley.

Chu Chaohui stood on the tree-lined path with a cigarette in his mouth, smiling as he watched a short, dark-skinned young man jump out of the wooden boat at the pier.

This young man with a height of only 163 centimeters is Tuo Su, a warrior of the Nanbanniu tribe, and the leader of the fleet.

"Lord Chu!" Tuo Su went ashore and saw Chu Chaohui standing on the small road, and asked his tribe to park the wooden boat beside the pier first, then trotted to Chu Chaohui and saluted with his arms crossed. Tribes retain ancient etiquette.

"Tuosu warrior, please eat in the valley before unloading your people." Chu Zhaohui invited.

"Haha! Respected Governor of Nanbu, Tuosu and his tribe will leave home later because they want to have lunch in the valley." Tuosu is a warrior of the Man tribe, and the Barbarians don't seem to know what politeness is, and they always speak straightforwardly. .After Tuosu and his tribe ate the food in the valley by chance, they never forgot about the food in the valley. Although Tuosu made no secret of his greed, they followed the principle of equal value exchange and fairness. Every time they went to the valley, they would always bring Order Nanban local products.Today I brought a ginseng, which is relatively thick, and it will be a very rare and precious medicinal material in the 21st century. But here, ginseng as thick as a thumb is often dug from the surrounding mountains. slightly thicker than a thumb.Ginseng is not considered precious or rare, but it is more than enough to exchange for a meal.

"Thank you." Chu Zhaohui took the ginseng and threw it to the second son.

"What is this?" Seeing that Chu Chaohui had accepted the ginseng, Tuosu walked confidently towards the mule cart, ready to get food there.Glancing at Chu Chaohui's leftover pots of red and green vegetables, he asked in surprise.It was the first time he met the owner of the valley for dinner, and of course it was the first time he saw vegetables in the 21st century.

"The vegetables grown in the valley, if Tuosu doesn't mind using Chu first, you can taste them here."

"Bring dry rice." Tuo Su didn't even have the concept of hygiene in his mind, so of course he wouldn't dislike Chu Chaohui's saliva.The rice has been eaten, and there are only a few pots of vegetables on the stake.

The mule cart will not deliver more food, but more dry rice will be delivered.Today's dishes have been eaten by the slaves, only some corn and rice and vegetable soup are left. In the vegetable soup, there are a few big bones where there is no trace of meat.

The way of cooking in the valley has gradually moved closer to the 21st century. Except for soy sauce and sugar, which are not produced, other condiments that can be found are used in the dishes.It has become a common practice in the valley to add ginger and wine to roast meat to remove the fishy smell. The meat produced is fragrant but has no fishy smell.

"Lord Chu, the food in your valley is delicious." Tuosu and his clansmen used up their food, so within a few minutes, Tuosu was full.

"Then send more ore, so that you can often come to the valley to eat." Chu Chaohui took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it to Tuosu: "Take a sip, smoking a cigarette after dinner is like a fairy."

"Smoke?" Tuo Su took the cigarette, put it in his nose and smelled it. "smell good!"

After Tuo Su finished speaking, he put the cigarette in his mouth and swallowed it.

"Don't! You can't eat it directly, it's eaten with your nose." Fortunately, Chu Zhaohui was fast and stopped Tuo Su before he swallowed the cigarette.

"Nose eating?" Tuo Su's interest increased greatly.

Chu Chaohui taught Tuosu by hand for more than ten minutes, and then demonstrated it himself. Finally, Tuosu lit the cigarette and 'eat' the cigarette.

"Ahem! That's right, it's very choking and spicy!" Tuo Su thought at first that cigarettes were just choking people, but after seeing Chu Zhaohui leisurely puffing out smoke rings, he realized how to 'eat' cigarettes.

After wasting three cigarettes in a row, Tuo Su finally learned to blow smoke out of his nose.Chu Zhaohui didn't feel sorry for being wasted four cigarettes by Tuo Su.

"Haha, not bad! The things in your valley are very good." Tuosu's comprehension is not bad, and he can snort smoke rings from his nose.

"I still have a long knife here, for the warriors of the Eagle Tribe." Chu Zhaohui pulled out a sharp long knife and held it in front of Tuosu with both hands.

"Magic knife!" Tuo Su climbed up from the wooden post at once, the sunlight reflected on the long knife's surface, shaking his eyes so much that he couldn't open it.

Chu Chaohui said that the saber was given to the warriors of the Eagle Clan, and Tuosu was the number one warrior in the clan, so of course the saber was given to him.

"This knife is too precious, I can't take it." Tuo Su's mouth and hands were evasive, but his face was full of reluctance.

"As long as your tribe digs more iron and stone, you can have as many precious knives as you want."

"But the tribe has no manpower to dig iron ore." Tuosu looked at the long knife reluctantly.

"The Eagle Tribe is short of manpower, so we can ask people from the surrounding small tribes to help mine." Chu Zhaohui has thousands of ways to increase miners in his stomach.

"Ask people from the surrounding small tribes to help dig mines?" Tuo Su felt that not many people would come if he wanted to invite them. When he saw the shining long knife, he thought about using the long knife to invite them. With more iron ore, the tribe can have more food and cloth. Now that there are long knives, the tribe will be stronger in the future, and will no longer be afraid of the tiger tribe in the south. As for the small tribe invited by the knife, you can give them some food do pay.

Chu Chaohui watched with satisfaction that the fleet of the Eagle Tribe left the dock after unloading. The long knife given to Tuo Su was just an iron knife that was not fully tempered, only a little sharper than the bronze knife in this time and space. In his eyes, it could only It is considered a defective weapon, and it is a good deal to use a long knife to trigger Tuo Su to find labor on his own.

When Chu Chaohui lured Tuosu to the small tribe of Latin with a defective knife in the valley, Zheng Yuming was fooling around with Tuoxiong, the patriarch of the Eagle Clan and Tuosu's father, at the mudroom office in Nanbu.