Although it is still cold and windy.

But this cold is completely different from the cold that was mixed with wind and snow when Xu Chen returned. When he was blowing on his face, he could feel a little bit of warmth and dampness, rather than the sharpness and severe coldness.

The Ba people have officially entered the vast spring sowing.

The total number of male, female, old and young prisoners was nearly 200. They waved stone hoes and wooden hoes, and were busy in the farmland on both sides of the river, talking loudly and laughing.

Mo Ba led the men and women in the main courtyard to be responsible for the 400 acres of mature fields near the courtyard.

My mother took the men and women in the side yard and a group of male and female prisoners of the feather tribe, responsible for the four hundred acres of new land on the other side of the river.

Two sowing troops looked at each other across the river, and they could chat loudly between nearly half a mile away.

Especially my mother's unique loud voice, when she spoke, the entire valley seemed to echo, and could be heard in most of the valley. Therefore, during the process of sheeping and chatting, she could almost only hear her voice ringing constantly on the river beach, which would sometimes cause a burst of laughter.

Xu Chen is still responsible for the cultivation of the experimental fields, but this year the sowing area has been expanded to 100 acres, just near the courtyard, and it is also the first 100 acres of mature fields to be reclaimed.

However, Xu Chen no longer needs to do it himself.

This hundred acres of mature fields have been carefully ploughed and leveled. After two years of cultivation, the soil is soft and fertile, with few wild grass roots and stems inside, and even stones as big as eggs are almost invisible.

As a personal tool, Gu Heju led a group of specially selected skillful men and women sowing seeds, while Xu Chen was responsible for patrol and guidance, striving to achieve another bumper harvest in this year's experimental fields.

Under such primitive and crude farming conditions, it is very important to obtain higher yields.

Wild oats have thick leaves and developed roots, small ears and few grains. On a seemingly large oat, there are actually a few seeds on the scattered ears.

There are seven or eight more, as few as two or three more, and some even have a batch of ears but not seeds, just like an iron rooster.

If it is not screened and domesticated and improved, even if it continues like this for thousands of years, the yield per mu will still make people crazy.

Moreover, if the seeds are kept repeatedly and not selected for a long time, the seeds may continue to degenerate, the seeds will become fewer and smaller, and the grains will become smaller and smaller. In the end, they will become iron roosters, with only leaves but not seeds.

Think about how crazy it would be to have a father-in-law who worked hard for half a year and finally grew a field of wheat beans.

Therefore, Xu Chen will never allow it to happen. Not only must it be eliminated in the bud, but he also has to constantly experiment and select higher yield grains to continuously improve the harvest of planting.

The 100 acres of experimental fields planned this year use all the high-yield grains harvested last year's twenty acres.

These seeds have been further screened and selected large and plump particles, and were sterilized and soaked with lime water.

The seeds from other farmlands have also been processed, but they have been roughly selected, and the difference is still very big.

Xu Chen didn't hope that the yield per mu could reach the highest of 70 kilograms last year. If the average yield per mu could reach 50 kilograms, then the area of ​​800 mu would also harvest 40,000 kilograms of grain, which could fully meet the annual grain needs of the entire Ba people.

Now that there is salt and sufficient food, the demand for meat will be greatly reduced, which can be met by hunting a small amount and captive livestock.

In this way, the tribe can draw more people to carry out more industrial innovation and development, such as building carriages, building ships, making furniture, forging metals, etc.

Xu Chen's attitude towards grain production seriously affected the development of the entire tribe.

Although the little witch does not need to participate in labor, as a great witch, she has the responsibility and obligation to guide the survival and development of all tribes. Therefore, even if Xu Chen is not in the tribe, she will follow Muba and others to inspect the farmland every day.

After Xu Chen came back, she followed Xu Chen almost inseparably every day and learned how to guide farming production.

Xu Chen naturally explained to her various matters of farmland production very seriously and carefully, telling her that everything is natural, the change of seasons, the water and soil climate, the cultivation of grain seeds, the deep cultivation of fertilizer accumulation, drainage and irrigation, etc., and even hearing about various farming knowledge through time and through the past.

There are even many things that seem to him completely nonsense.

However, although he was completely unaware of the right or wrong of these nonsense, at least some time before the time travel, he might have heard such a few words and a little impression.

What's more, he grew up in the countryside and had more or less exposed to a lot of farming knowledge. Therefore, whether these contents are correct or not, there is any so-called scientific basis. However, for the current primitive era, for the ignorant girl who has no idea what farming is, and who knows the natural understanding of the heaven and earth is still at the stage of gods, these theories seem so profound and magical.

The longer he stayed with Xu Chen, the more the little witch felt ignorant, and he would feel more and more awe of Xu Chen, and be deeply impressed by the various bizarre theories and innovations that shocked his hair, until he could no longer tolerate any other human shadow in his simple and naive heart.

Xu Chen looked down at himself in the high sky like a god, slowly opening the door to the magical kingdom for her.

The world, time and space seem to gradually become less mysterious.

All things in nature seem to be slowly retracting from the mysterious halo.

It seems that in Xu Chen's eyes, the world is so simple, and there are not as many mysteries as the great witch inheritance. The little witch doesn't understand it, but she just lacks a pair of eyes that have insight into nature.

And these eyes now carry little stars every day, and there is only a young man busy and waving in it.

"Please note all sowing groups, please note that today is the last day of spring sowing. After sowing, gather on the river beach for a meeting!"

After seven or eight days of busy life, with the efforts of nearly two hundred people, all 800 acres of farmland were sown to the end.

Before the afternoon was about to finish work, Xu Chen stood in the middle of the dry river with a bark trumpet in his hand, shouting loudly at the men and women working on both sides.

Although the sound after the speaker was expanded was a little blurry, it completely covered up Mother Ba's loud voice.

The men and women who sowed the seeds on both sides of the Taiwan Strait all laughed. Some people shouted that my mother was very angry and that no one was allowed to speak louder than her.

So I saw my mother holding a hoe and starting to chase and beat the guy who was just talking. The scene became even more noisy while laughing.

Xu Chen's return not only restored the whole tribe to its former liveliness, but also became more harmonious.

As the head of the family, my mother is still very serious on weekdays, but after the spring season, she replied loudly again without saying anything, and she seemed to be much younger. She started playing and playing with the tribe members, and suddenly she became more than ten years younger.

Even Mother Ba's face was full of smiles all day long, and her old cheeks seemed to look much more relaxed and younger than before.

With Xu Chen here, the entire tribe has a backbone, and everyone will feel extremely relaxed and fulfilled.

Although Xu Chen seemed to do nothing every day, he rode a pony around the farmland, shouted a few times with a trumpet, and stood by the field with a little witch and talked and laughed about farming, or simply did nothing, and others were working, he led a group of children to drive two big eagles to practice flying on the river beach.

But as long as there is his place, everyone will be full of energy and energy.

While there were lively jokes and joking, the teams of sowing farmland on both sides of the Taiwan Strait also ended one after another.

Under the sunset, groups of men, women, young and old were carrying tools and slowly gathering towards the open space in front of the courtyard.

Every two or three days, Xu Chen would convene a meeting for the entire clan.

The purpose of the meeting is not to satisfy his desire to speak as a leader, but to constantly summarize his farming experience and gather and organize and discuss various problems he encounters.

This is an era of primitive communism, and everyone within the tribe is equal.

Although Xu Chen advocates decisions in many things, others are used to following his instructions.

However, as a collective commune system, Xu Chen still hopes to give full play to the active initiative of the group members, actively use his brain for the development of the tribe, put forward different suggestions and suggestions, and listen to some different voices to find a more suitable development path for the future development of the tribe.

Although private ownership is inevitable, it is still impossible at the moment.

But Xu Chen is very clear about the disadvantages of the big pot rice system. If he doesn’t chase after the reminder every day, it will be a paradise for the slutty party.

No one likes to work, being lazy is a nature.

In the past, hunters went out to hunt, but basically went home for a day to eat, do piles and sleep, and basically didn't do any extra work.

After basically solving the problem of food and clothing, this mentality of a craftsman has become even worse.

Therefore, from the first day of spring sowing mobilization, Xu Chen divided the two families into eight groups according to the number of people and men and women. Each group was responsible for sowing about 100 acres, and implemented simple military management. The quality and area of ​​sowing were checked every day. If it was completed by quality and quantity, it would naturally be rewarded. At the same time, the food ratio was slightly tilted. Men could get dried fruits such as milk, vines, and even occasionally they could get half a ripe duck egg or a piece of salted fish and bacon. Although it was only a small difference in form, it would also make everyone have a different mental difference.

Xu Chen asked the wind to bring back dozens of kilograms of stone salt in October and taught him how to develop salted fish and bacon. With this magical material that can preserve meat for a long time, the entire Ba people have aroused a enthusiasm for making salted fish and bacon.

A group of hunters hunted and fished outside all day, and every day, meat was sent back continuously. They mashed the stone salt crystals into powder, sprinkled with a layer, and then hung them to dry them.

After being air-dried and smoked, these salted fish and bacon have a unique taste and are more unique than fresh meat. Especially the cooked bacon, which tastes rich and fragrant, and the roasted salted fish has a more flavor, dry, salty and crispy, making people unable to stop.

The taste of the new food makes everyone talk about it, but after all, there is too little salt, and there is not much salted fish and bacon made in winter, so naturally there is insufficient distribution and everyone wants to eat it, but if the distribution is uneven, it will inevitably cause many contradictions.

Therefore, Xu Chen decided to temporarily perform differentiated distribution in the collective life of big pot rice according to the labor team. If he works actively and has high quality and good speed, he can be allocated some. The teams of fishing and grinding workers can naturally only see others eating.
Chapter completed!