Super Chief

Chapter 494: Autumn harvest and migration

The battle situation in the southwest was beyond Shi Xiong's expectations, but he still couldn't put all his energy on the Western Expeditionary Army.

The relocation of the royal court is a major event for the tribe, and it is also a matter for the future empire, so Shixiong must be treated with caution. Another thing is that the merger of tribes has now entered the final stage, and hundreds of small tribes have finally merged into 35 big tribes.

Each of these large tribes has a population of more than two thousand people, so it is obviously not suitable to live in the Appalachian Mountains.

After all, this is a mountainous area, and river valleys and plains with a slightly larger area are rare, and it is impossible to feed a large tribe.

Therefore, these tribes also need to relocate according to the previously selected area.

But fortunately, the surrounding area has now fallen into the hands of the Cherokee tribe, even if 80% of the tribesmen moved out, there is no need to worry about the safety issues here.

The place where Wang Ting moved was the area where the logistics camp of the Western Expeditionary Army was located. After more than half a year of construction, there is already a prototype of a town there.

Since the long-term goal is to build a huge empire that encompasses the entire North American continent and even Central America, the area where the royal court is located must be carefully considered. After all, in order to facilitate the rule and management, the position of the royal court must occupy the center of the empire as much as possible.

Coupled with shipping considerations, it is undoubtedly the best choice to build the new palace on the west bank of the Mi River.

The shipping of Mihe River can guarantee to depart from the royal court and reach most areas under the control of the empire. The wide Mi River is also a natural barrier to ensure the safety of the royal court.

The wide and flat plains west of the Mi River can not only grow food on a large area, but also raise various livestock on a large scale.

It is precisely because of these comprehensive considerations that Shi Xiong decided to relocate the new palace to the area where the current logistics camp of the Western Expeditionary Army is located. And Shi Xiong plans to give this place a new name-Shangjing!

As for Monongahela after the relocation of the royal court, Stone Bear intends to leave it to the Dashanqiu tribe.

Originally, the location of the Great Hill Tribe was not far from Monongahela. Because the Great Hill Tribe had to defend against the Shawnees in the north, their conditions were still relatively difficult.

However, when the royal court was moved away, the huge Monongahela was vacant, enough for the hill tribe to live and moisturize here.

As for the other large tribes that are going to relocate, with the exception of the Gaoshu tribe, the four guardian tribes, and the other five large tribes who will move to Shangjing with the king's court, most of the other large tribes will relocate outside the mountainous area.

Now that the royal court moves to the bank of the Mi River, there is no need to worry about the French.

For more than half a year, the soldiers of the Fourth Division who stayed at the two major military fortresses had completely maimed the French.

There are as many as thirty French ships that sank in the rivers near the Fortress of Memphis and the Fort Ocron. According to the information collected by the Stone Bear, these are almost all that the French can find in the waters of the Mi River. The ship is out.

Without the boat, the French are like tigers without teeth. After the Grim Bear Army has conquered all the large areas west of the Mi River, they will free up their hands to completely kill the French entrenched in the north. Well, by the way, they will also completely conquer the tribes that support the French!

The tense and joyful autumn harvest has begun.

Nervous, that is inevitable. Although this year is another good year with good weather, rain is inevitable after autumn. It would be terrible if such a long corn was harvested but caught up with the continuous autumn rain.

Therefore, taking advantage of the fine weather now, hurry up and harvest the original.

As for joy, let alone.

Anyone who sees that heavy corn cob will have a happy smile on his face involuntarily.

This is all food! With so much food, we can have another comfortable winter.

Even Shixiong rolled up his sleeves and harvested with the tribe.

At this time, there is no combine harvester, and the most primitive harvesting method is used to harvest corn.

The first is to use the manhole to break down the heavy corn cobs one by one. Then there are a large number of half-old children behind who are busy sending these broken corn cobs to the ground, and then there are adults over there taking the corn cobs that have just been broken off. Spread out to dry.

When the corn on the cob is broken, start to plan the corn stalks with the sharply ground stubble.

The shank is also one of the farm tools carried by the stone bear, and the efficiency is not bad.

But using this thing really pays attention to a skill, if you can't figure it out, you might be able to scratch your feet. When the tribesmen used this thing to plan corn stalks, many people were injured because of this.

In fact, it is not impossible to burn the corn stalks directly, but once the land in Monongahela is fertile enough, there is no need to burn the corn stalks to increase the fertility of the land. Another is that after the corn stalks are broken up, but one of the good feeds for bison and war horses, no one is willing to burn these corn stalks.

As for the dried corn cobs, they can be sent to the "threshing room" by the river for threshing, and then put in the granary.

Corn is the staple food of Indians, but corn cob threshing is a very troublesome thing.

In the past, the tribes used manual threshing for corn cobs, which was not only very tiring but also extremely inefficient.

Later, Shixiong moved the old-fashioned thresher from his later home and made a slight improvement, turning the pedal-type thresher into a hydraulic-driven thresher.

The huge waterwheel drives the thresher head in the threshing machine to rotate quickly through gears. The workers in charge of threshing only need to constantly stuff the dried corn cobs into the head, and the gears in the head can hold the corn kernels. Take it off, leaving a complete corn sac~lightnovelpub.net~ These things are not difficult for Shi Xiong. He was born in a farm family and knew these things well.

But for the Indians of this era, this thing is an artifact!

The autumn harvest was very fast, and in just five or six days, the entire cornfield of Monongahela was harvested. The dried and threshed corn is put into compact bags made of palm straw, and then stacked on the ox cart one by one.

These newly harvested corn will be transported away from here and sent to Beijing by a steady stream of ox carts along with other materials.

When the autumn harvest entered the end, Wang Ting's relocation work also began...

Shi Xiong rushed to the hillside again, watching the oxcart convoy gradually disappear into the distant mountains under the **** of the neat Grim Bear soldiers. He knew that with the relocation of the king's court. The completion of the Cherokee tribe will usher in a new peak of development!

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