The room goes through the late Ming Dynasty, and the back door leads to North America at the beginni

Chapter 184: The natives are used by the locals and prepared to divide the fields

Because it was something that had never happened before, even though the translator tried his best to explain it clearly, Zha Xiong and other chiefs were still suspicious.

At this time, Liu Sheng asked people to take out the cloth (cheese cloth) and salted fish brought with the ship.

Dozens of pieces of cloth and hundreds of kilograms of dried salted fish were piled in the original duel circle, which was quite eye-catching.

A native warrior came over, first stroked the cotton cloth, and then picked up the dried salted fish and took a bite.

Immediately his eyes lit up!

"Salty! These dried fish are salty, and so salty!"

The native warrior shouted loudly in native language, attracting the attention of all the natives.

Immediately, many native warriors came over to get dried fish to taste.

The Kuei soldiers were afraid that the natives would snatch all the dried fish. At Liu Sheng's signal, one of the guards fired a shot into the sky, causing the natives to retreat in panic and kneel down again. land.

They thought the divine soldiers were angry.

Liu Sheng shook his head when he saw it, and then asked his guards to take out some dried fish and give it to the natives to taste.

In this way, the natives stood up again and the atmosphere gradually became harmonious.

When the chiefs came over and tasted the dried fish and touched the cotton cloth, they were all overjoyed and had smiles on their faces.

As a tribe further upstream of the Xinluo River, they are even more salt-poor than the Heluo Alliance to which the Shangluo tribe belongs!

Even the women of the tribe need to drink blood from time to time to maintain salt in their bodies.

The act of drinking blood often leads to many diseases, and the life span of the natives is generally not long.

Therefore, for the native tribes in the upper reaches of the Xinluo River, salt is not only necessary for life, but also necessary for maintaining life!

At this time, several chiefs no longer hesitated and expressed that there were many warriors in the tribe who were willing to apply and work for the Wei tribe.

It's a pity that Liu Sheng didn't want to recruit too many native warriors for the first time - after all, the language and customs of the natives and the Yi tribe were too different, so recruiting too many at once would be difficult to manage.

What's more, Liu Sheng has no shortage of soldiers now - it is much easier to recruit young people from the Ming Dynasty as soldiers than natives.

Therefore, this time he only planned to recruit dozens of naturally strong and brave natives like Le Xiong to serve as heavy infantry in the Huben Guards.

As soon as Liu Sheng revealed this idea, Zha Xiong and other seven chiefs of the Altay Alliance immediately promoted the warriors of their respective tribes.

Because all tribes still have public ownership of property, Liu Sheng will get more cloth and salted fish from which tribe he recruits more warriors.

As a result, Zha Xiong and the other chiefs couldn't come to an agreement - the salted fish was too tempting, and no chief was willing to give in, and they almost started fighting on the spot.

Finally, it was decided to take advantage of the fact that most of the warriors from the seven tribes were present to hold an alliance competition and select dozens of warriors.

After Liu Sheng learned about it, he immediately expressed his support.

"Tell them that Ibu is willing to give out thirty kilograms of salted fish as prizes for the top ten in this competition."

Liu Sheng didn't take too many material rewards not because he was stingy, but because he was afraid that the prizes would be too tempting and these native warriors would risk their lives during the competition.

He regarded the native warriors as his own, and did not want the native warriors to suffer too many casualties in the fight for ranking.

But even if it was only thirty kilograms of salted fish, it still excited the native warriors, and they all wanted to participate in the competition...

Taking advantage of the Atele Alliance's big competition, the Three Wolf Killers approached Liu Sheng.

"Liu Sheng, we also have warriors in the Shangluo tribe, and the warriors in the Heluo Alliance don't need to be short of Atele. Our warriors are also willing to make deals!"

Liu Sheng could only partially understand the words "kill the three wolves", which were spoken by natives. Only after someone translated them did he understand the idea of ​​​​killing the three wolves.

He smiled and nodded, "Of course there is no problem - but whether it is the Altay Alliance or the Heluo Alliance, we will only recruit 30 warriors this time, and they must be good enough warriors."

"I understand." Sha Sanlang nodded, "Our Shangluo Lehu is such a warrior, he is not even much worse than Lexiong, he must meet your requirements.

However, I don’t want cloth or dried salted fish. I want to trade your planting methods so that Shangluo tribe can grow as much food as you do. "

When Liu Sheng heard this from the translator, he couldn't help but look at Sha Sanlang with some surprise.

He did not expect that the first indigenous chief he met had already realized the importance of planting and had the idea of ​​using planting to replace fishing and hunting.

Liu Sheng was not afraid that Shangluo tribe would grow up as a result.

Because by the time the Shangluo tribe really grows up, the Wei tribe must have been very powerful, and it has probably assimilated all the surrounding native tribes.

In other words, it is impossible for the Shangluo tribe to come back to bite the Yi tribe after growing up, just like the Northeastern Jurchens did to the Ming Dynasty in the past.

Even if such a thing happened, it would only happen a few hundred years later to other large native tribes on the fringes of North America.

The problem is that in the future, Weibu will start several industrial revolutions in advance and develop rapidly, leaving these fishing and hunting tribes far behind, making it impossible for them to catch up.

When machine guns come out, all nomadic, fishing and hunting groups will become good at singing and dancing.

Therefore, when Liu Sheng came back to his senses, he laughed, patted the three wolves on the shoulder and said: "No problem! As long as your people are recruited to serve as soldiers for our army, I will send people to teach you how to grow new wolves." More food!”

Recruiting native warriors as heavy infantry is only the first step.

Moreover, from now on Liu Sheng will only recruit brave warriors among the native warriors, not ordinary young men.

After the exchanges between various tribes and the Wei tribe deepened, and the native people were more influenced by the Wei tribe's language, customs, habits, etc., they could recruit the native people to do other things.For example, mining, logging, hunting bison and grazing in the neighboring grasslands and alpine meadows in the central and southern regions, etc.

As time goes by, the surrounding natives will become migrant workers in Kuaibu and will no longer be able to leave Kuaibu.

At that time, it will not be up to the tribal chiefs whether the various native tribes will submit to the Wei tribe.

It will be decided by Liu Sheng.

After the Altay Alliance selected 30 warriors through a competition, Liu Sheng made an agreement with Zha Xiong and other seven elders that all seven tribes must leave the Sacramento area before 60 sunrises and sunsets.

The upper reaches of the Xinluo River have denser forests and more prey.

The natives, however, limited the growth of the tribe due to factors such as productivity, the upper limit of the hunting range, and life span, so they did not breed too many people to go fishing and hunting further upstream.

One of the important reasons is that it is more difficult to obtain salt further upstream.

Therefore, after the Altay Alliance learned that they could use animal skins and other materials to trade salted fish and other goods with the Weibei in the future, they all happily beat their chests and promised to migrate away as soon as possible.

At present, Weibu is not too anxious about occupying more territory, and Liu Sheng does not push too hard.

When boarding the boat and leaving, Liu Sheng looked at the scenery on both sides of the Xinluo River and asked Li Dingguo next to him, "How does Hongyuan (Li Dingguo) think I handled the native people's affairs this time?"

"Very good." Li Dingguo replied succinctly first. "It not only overwhelms the natives, but also maintains benevolence and righteousness. It can also recruit native warriors to be used by the Wei tribe. Anyway, the general can't think of a better way to deal with it."

Liu Sheng laughed, "I didn't expect Hongyuan to be quite good at flattering people."

"Everything the general says is true."

"Hahaha···"

···
After solving the Altay Alliance, Liu Sheng spent three days inspecting various production work in the six camps of Huachu, Huazuo, Huaxi, Coal Field, Riverside, and Hexi, as well as the craftsmanship camp and several major prisoners. camp situation.

After the sweet potatoes and various beans, mainly soybeans, were harvested in Kueibu last fall, the fields were mainly planted with winter wheat and potatoes.

Winter wheat cannot be harvested until summer.

Potatoes are just in season for harvest.

Liu Sheng planted [-] acres of potatoes using improved varieties from later generations and obtained a bumper harvest similar to last year's sweet potato harvest, with an output of more than [-] kilograms per mu!
Another thousand acres are planted with native potatoes, and the average yield per mu has reached more than 500 kilograms!
The high yield of potatoes makes the people feel particularly energetic when doing farm work - because they have a better hope for life.

After the potatoes are harvested in these more than 1000 acres, peas will be planted.

Because peas can be grown in all seasons, they can be used as cereals, vegetables, and fodder for large livestock. The most important thing is that they have a stronger nitrogen-fixing effect than soybeans.

Liu Sheng no longer needs to worry about specific farming matters. When he inspects, he mainly pays attention to the status of the people in each camp.

Although overall, the living and production conditions of the people in the major camps are very good, which is much better than the living conditions of the people outside under the Ming Dynasty.

However, Liu Sheng still keenly discovered that those people who migrated earlier were significantly less motivated to produce than in the first few months.

This situation is most obvious in the two major camps, Huachu and Riverside.

So Liu Sheng decided to first test the two major policies of "dividing fields" and "setting up villages and towns" in the two camps of Huachu and Hebian.

On administrative matters, Liu Sheng did not issue direct orders.

Although he had already made a general decision in his mind, for the sake of safety, he still called the general managers and chief managers of the Huachu and Hebian camps to have a meeting.

There are currently three levels of managers in each major camp from top to bottom: general manager, chief manager, and manager.

As for other production captains and team captains, they only assist in management and still focus on production labor on a daily basis.

If Liu Sheng wants to implement a policy, at least the majority of the management must understand and support the policy so that it can be implemented better.

If the management does not do it sincerely, it will mislead the production captains and ordinary people at the grassroots level, causing the policy to change directly during the implementation process.

Therefore, the convening of this meeting is very necessary.

Fortunately, the management of the major camps in Guibe is still relatively simple, and Liu Sheng's authority is extremely high.

They had previously actively reported to Liu Sheng the demands of some old immigrants for land distribution as soon as possible. Now that they learned that Liu Sheng was planning to implement the policy in Huachu and Hebian camps, they all expressed their support.

Then we will discuss some specific issues and make some specific implementation suggestions...
After the meeting, Liu Dachuan returned home.

His wife Tao Chunlan was breastfeeding the baby, but she still put the baby in the cradle first and got a basin of hot water for Liu Dachuan to wash his face and hands.

"The meeting is over?"

"It's over." Liu Dachuan finished washing and drying his hands with a towel before going to hug his son.

Having followed Liu Sheng for so long, he understands the importance of daily hygiene. With children at home, he pays more attention to it.

Tao Chunlan watched Liu Dachuan teasing her son, and smiled happily - she had a better appearance, and because she was breastfeeding, her figure was a bit plump. Although she was not as good as the ladies and ladies from wealthy families, she was definitely the third among peasant women. First-class appearance.

The most important thing is that she is a virtuous person, otherwise Liu Dachuan would not have fallen in love with her and married her last year.

After a while, Tao Chunlan took the child over and asked, "The commander-in-chief really wants to divide the land? How much can our family divide?"

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)