Gu Ji and Tian Hong spent the entire day in Shanghe Village. They ate with the villagers, looked around the village, and visited the brick-and-tile courtyard houses built for the immigrants.
At first, the immigrant settlement had only ten courtyards, but it had now expanded to more than thirty. Most of the young people in the village moved into these brick-and-tile courtyard houses after getting married.
Because they were convenient.
Although the villagers had grown accustomed to living in bamboo buildings, the changes in their way of life brought by the Han Tribe had forced them to move down to the ground.
There was no way to carry out production work inside bamboo buildings. They wanted to raise cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, rabbits, and other livestock, but not every animal was suitable for raising beneath a bamboo building.
Then there were looms. Those things could not be moved into bamboo buildings, so the villagers could not engage in production there.
There were also the elderly, for whom going up and down the bamboo buildings every day was extremely inconvenient.
Things like stone mills could not possibly be moved inside bamboo buildings either.
They needed houses on level ground, doors wide enough for easy entry and exit, and large courtyards. All these needs were forcing them to move down to the ground.
If things continued like this, it probably would not take even a generation before all the people on Bamboo Island came down from their bamboo buildings and moved into the Han Tribe's brick-and-tile houses with private courtyards.
After seeing the villagers' homes, Gu Ji and Tian Hong went to look at their fields. With the immigrants' careful instruction, combined with the indigenous people of Bamboo Island's deep farming experience, they had mastered the cultivation techniques for rice, wheat, and