The construction started very quickly. As the people of the glutton empire, their work efficiency was unparalleled in the entire world. Soon, wooden houses rose from the ground, and the surroundings were completely cleaned up.
Of course, in Li Chengdao's plan, not everyone came to build houses. In fact, the people who built houses were only a thousand farmers. The remaining soldiers and craftsmen did not participate.
It was not that these people had special treatment, but that he had more arrangements to make.
Houses were the simplest of things. If they wanted to survive and even develop better in America, then they would undoubtedly have to go one step further. Just having a house was not enough. It could even be said that it was far from enough.
Whether it was food, production, or other related things, they were all needed.
Therefore, when the construction of the houses began, Li Chengdao let the rest of the people start their own work. First, more than a thousand soldiers began to fish. They used large ships to fish.
The fishing resources on the west coast of the United States were extremely rich, especially in the 7th century. The fishing industry here was almost a holy land.
Giant crabs, big fish, and even whales were everywhere on the west coast. For them, it was almost guaranteed that they would have a long supply of food.
Of course, eating fish alone was definitely not enough, even if there were many types of fish.
Therefore, Li Chengdao divided the rest of the troops into two parts. One part was used as a scout. From the camp as the starting point, they began to radiate in all directions to search for, or to see, the Native Americans. It would be best if they could establish contact with them. It would be best if they could do foreign trade. If they couldn't do it, it didn't matter if they were directly destroyed. It would be fine as long as they could snatch back the population and wealth.
Li Chengdao didn't feel any pressure at all.
If one fell behind, one would be beaten. This was an eternal truth. Not to mention, Li Chengdao believed that he was definitely more benevolent than those barbarians in Europe. At least he could guarantee their safety. Under normal circumstances, he did not even plan to do so. At least in the short term, he would definitely trade with them. It was more beneficial to him than conquering them.
Of course, this was only a portion of the hundreds of people. Li Chengdao did not have much hope of finding the Native Americans in the short term.
America was too big, beyond imagination, and there were too few people. Although it was not as awkward as Australia, the population was still too small compared to the huge America. In ancient times, such a population gap was gradually filled by the Europeans with the population of the African continent. At this time, there was no African continent to fill it. Under such circumstances, it was not so easy to meet the Native Americans.
However, this was just a test. Li Chengdao's main focus was still on the other team of thousands of people. These people were shouldering the heavy responsibility of Li Chengdao's development.
The dawn of civilization was often bronze, written language, and systems. For the Tang Empire, who had crossed the Pacific Ocean, they had no lack of written language and systems. However, bronze, or more accurately, metal, was not available to them. At least, they did not have a place to smelt metal. Now that they had lost the entire Huaxia Continent, Li Chengdao had to urgently start building a smelting base. Otherwise, weapons and tools would only be worn away with the passage of time. At that time, the light of dawn would completely dim.
To build a smelting plant, minerals were essential. Therefore, at the beginning of the construction, Li Chengdao had sent thousands of people to look for minerals in order to start as soon as possible.
As for the remaining people, Li Chengdao began to call them to reclaim the surrounding area.
As a descendant of the foodie empire, even if the Chinese people's farming talent was still maxed out a thousand years ago, Li Chengdao could not waste this innate talent.
As for whether it would be too embarrassing to play farming in America, Li Chengdao didn't consider it at all. Food was the most important thing for the people. Fantasy was fantasy after all. When reality arrived, everything that needed to be faced was much more complicated than imagined.
With no guarantee of food, there was no way to develop. Although there were fish, farming was still an indispensable part, at least for the people of China.
However, this was only the initial stage. When the manpower was gradually emptied, or when enough labor was obtained, these people would naturally be liberated from the farmland to do more meaningful things. However, that was in the future, not now.
As time passed, large numbers of trees were cut down, and houses were built. At the same time, plots of farmland outside the houses were reclaimed. In the American continent, which was almost virgin land, there was no need to consider what was good farmland, what was bad farmland, what could be reclaimed, and what could not be reclaimed. Everything here was good farmland, and everything here was suitable for reclamation.
Hundreds of millions of years of accumulation had made the land extremely fertile. Now that there were few people, there were even fewer traces of man-made destruction. There was no soil erosion, and there was no salinification.
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