Chapter 14 Patrol the Territory
"Swoosh!" A prairie wolf fell down fifty steps away, and the iron arrow penetrated its throat.
A personal soldier hurried over and dragged the wolf over.
Tang Han looked at it and it should be a lone wolf, with skinny and dry hair. It was obviously an old wolf who was weak and unable to catch prey. He took the risk of running to the near territory to find food. As a result, he was met by Tang Han who was taking his personal soldiers out for inspection.
"This guy is really unlucky. Many animals around the territory have left, and it is becoming more and more difficult for these beasts to hunt. Drag it back, and you can make a mattress after peeling it."
Tang Han waved his hand and ordered Zhao Hu, the captain of the personal soldiers.
He had been patrolling around the territory for a whole morning today, and he had never seen any other animals except this lone wolf. Obviously, Chang'an City had already posed a huge threat to the surrounding animals. In order not to become food in humans, they could only choose to migrate.
Therefore, it is now becoming more and more difficult for villagers to hunt food, and it takes longer and longer.
The growth rate of food reserves has slowed down significantly.
However, Tang Han had long been mentally prepared for this.
The real primitive people migrated everywhere. If there was not enough food in one place, they migrated to another place with sufficient food.
However, Tang Han's territory could not be migrated, so it is inevitable that the mode of production will transition from collection to planting.
Fortunately, the current food reserves are still enough for everyone to eat for a considerable period of time. During this period, Tang Han's territory will definitely reclaim enough farmland to complete a successful transformation of the main food source method.
About ten miles north of Chang'an City, a river winds through it.
Although the water volume of this river is not large, it is not small. There are abundant plants and trees on both sides of the river, and many animals will run to the river to drink water. It is precisely because of this that villagers like to hunt here the most, and they always return with a full load every time.
But now all the animals who dare to come to the river to drink water have basically disappeared, because this place has now completely become the territory of human beings.
The wasteland south of the river bank has been included in the reclaimed area by Tang Han. Nowadays, dozens of villagers work here.
They cut off all the trees, shrubs, and weeds in this area, then made fire protection belts, and finally burned the trees and other plants by burning wasteland. Finally, they turned the trees and ash into the ground with a shovel to serve as fertilizer to nourish the land.
Moreover, all the manure in the territory was transported here and buried in the soil as fertilizer.
In addition, these lands are right by the river, so irrigation is also very convenient.
It is not easy to turn a wasteland into a fertile field. Burning wasteland is only the first step. After completing the first step, you must build ridges and build water diversion canals and other processes.
After Tang Han's lord title was upgraded from a free citizen to a self-cultivated farmer, the function of the market also changed a lot. The two most significant changes were that Tang Han could purchase some resources and materials from the market.
For example, you can directly purchase stone and wheat seeds.
This made Tang Han very satisfied. If he had enough funds at present, he could use stone to build a stronger stone city.
Unfortunately, I can only think about it at the moment. After all, Chang'an City cannot be built in one day.
Therefore, you can only buy some stones in small quantities as the cornerstone of some buildings.
What satisfied Tang Han the most was that he could buy wheat seeds directly in the market, which solved Tang Han’s major concern.
In the original human history, wheat was from wild wheat domesticated by humans.
With the cultivation of the best choices from generation to generation, the final yield has become higher and higher, becoming one of the staple foods of human beings.
Now that you can buy it in the market, you don’t need to really learn from the primitive people to domesticate wild wheat.
Seeing Tang Han coming, the villagers who were working stood up and saluted Tang Han.
Tang Han also greeted him one by one, and went downstairs to the ground with a shovel and flipped over the ground a few times, which made the villagers very excited.
As a qualified superior, proper show is not only a kind of political wisdom, but also a necessary policy measure, which is very conducive to gathering people's hearts and inspiring morale.
This is especially true in the early stages of entrepreneurship.
Although Tang Han was a soldier, he has not read books over the years in vain and knows when to do what.
Moreover, the system also has a KPI with public opinion value waiting for itself.
Sure enough, after leaving the land reclamation area, Tang Han checked the public's confidence value and found that it had risen a little more.
On the way to the barracks, Tang Han met a group of female villagers who came back with bamboo baskets filled with collected fruits. After asking and motivating, he came to the lord's kitchen to inspect.
The Lord’s Kitchen is Tang Han’s imperial kitchen. However, this imperial kitchen is incomparable to the emperor’s imperial kitchen at present.
There were hundreds or thousands of people working in the emperor's kitchen alone. At present, there were only ten people working in the kitchen of Tang Han.
The overall structure of the lord's kitchen is built with stone, and it is divided into several areas such as storage areas, cooking areas, and cooking areas. The area is not large, almost equivalent to an ordinary collective canteen in later generations.
It is said to be the lord's kitchen, but in fact, Tang Han treats it as a collective canteen.
A rectangular dining area was built with wooden boards outside the kitchen. The tables and long benches inside were made of logs by villagers. They looked rough, but they were also very practical. They were very similar to the style of many restaurants in later generations, and they could even smell the original fragrance of wood.
The dining area is also divided into two sides, one is a large canteen and the other is a small canteen.
The large canteen is for ordinary people to eat, and the small canteen is for militia to eat.
As for the lord Tang Han, he usually sent him directly to the lord castle for a separate meal.
Although Tang Han sometimes wants to get along with the masses, it is OK for a superior to establish an imperial system to make a show appropriately, but it is not a good thing if the distance is too close.
If you are far away, you will be resentful; if you are close, you will be inferior. How to maintain an appropriate distance from the people is a very subtle science.
Tang Han felt that some aspects of the territory were very similar to the people's commune movement that was vigorously engaged in big pot meals in later generations, and everyone worked together and had dinner together.
But this is temporary, everything will change with the evolution of production modes and population growth.
In addition to the meat of wild animals, a pig farm has been opened in the territory.
Pig farms raise purebred domestic pigs. Piglets are also purchased from the market. Otherwise, they would have to be domesticated according to the human development process, and they would not know when they would be domesticated.
Tang Han also went to the pig farm to take a look. The fat little piglets were all bowing their heads and gnawing on the grass they brought by the farmers, humming while eating.
Tang Han reminded the breeders to pay attention to the sewage discharge in the pig farm. Finally, they would like to see a reservoir to send all the manure water to the reservoir. This would not cause pollution to the human living area, but could also finally ferment the manure water into fertilizer.
To be honest, although those wild beasts have a lot of lean meat, their taste is really a bit tidy, and it’s really nauseous after eating it for a long time.
Although Tang Han used to not like to eat fatty meat, now he really wants to try the home pork with a more delicate texture.
But these little piglets are still young now and have to wait for a while if they want to eat meat.
After leaving the lord's kitchen, Tang Han took his personal soldiers to the barracks again.
Two militiamen were standing guard at the gate. When they saw Tang Han, they hurriedly stood at attention and saluted.
Tang Han nodded and led people into the barracks.
In the schoolyard of the barracks, the militia captain Zhang Long was training with the militia who was not on duty.
The so-called practice is actually very simple. These militias have only received simple training, and their weapons are just a wooden spear, so they cannot become elites no matter how trained.
Through this period of observation, Tang Han found that neither the villagers nor the militia would be as unchanging as in the game, but would be growing.
Therefore, Tang Han believes that through reasonable training, their combat effectiveness will definitely be increased. Although the foundation is militia, they will not always be militias.
At present, they are conducting collective sting training, that is, the continuous cycle of stinging and stinging. Through a lot of training, these militiamen can form instinctive reactions when they hear the order and immediately make corresponding actions.
Of course, Tang Han also added a queue training program to them, which is also a good way to help soldiers improve their discipline and fighting will.
"Catch it!" Zhang Long stood on the far left side of the team, holding a wooden spear in his hand and shouted loudly.
The militiamen took back the wooden spear in a unified manner.
"Thorn!" Zhang Long shouted again, and the wooden spear suddenly stabbed forward at the same time.
The militia also shouted and made the same move.
Tang Han looked aside for a while before he asked someone to call Zhang Long over.
"See you in the humble position!" Zhang Long hurried over and saluted in a deep voice.
"No. You are training well. The sprint training should be the main event of daily training. You can intersperse the queue training during rest intervals." Tang Han looked at him and said.
"No!" Zhang Long received the order.
"Zhao Hu, your personal soldiers must also participate in training when there is no mission. The lord still has to rely on you to defend it. At present, this ability is not enough." Tang Han turned his head and looked at the personal soldiers captain Zhao Hu.
"Okay!" Zhao Hu bowed and took the order.
"Let's go and see the prisoners." Tang Han waved his hand and walked towards the barracks where the prisoners were imprisoned.
Zhang Long hurriedly ran to the front to open the door and arranged for militia to enter early.
After Tang Han entered the barracks, his eyes suddenly became dim and it took a while to get used to the light inside.
Most of these primitive captives were shot through the thigh by Tang Han. Although under Tang Han's instructions, they received timely treatment.
But in this era without anti-inflammatory drugs, whether they can survive depends on their luck.
Fortunately, the result was much better than Tang Han imagined. Only four of them died, and only thirty-four people survived.
These people were lying on the ground with their hands and feet tied. When they saw a bunch of people coming in, they were so scared that they retreated, and were rumbling about something, obviously very scared.
When they saw the appearance of Tang Han in the leader, they screamed in fear.
Because the man in front of him defeated them all like a messenger of the witch god, this left a strong psychological shadow on them, so when he saw Tang Han, he remembered the situation that day.
Chapter completed!