Chapter 261: Go down the mountain for a walk
In March, most of the spring sowing in the villages around Taiping City had ended. Most of the construction began to build the road from their own village to Taiping City, while others returned to Taiping City and joined the army of the city. There was no money to make money to build roads for the village, but going to Taiping City to build the city was a way to take food and there was still a good salary to get.
Of course, the situation in each village is different. For example, when Sun Deliang was the village chief, the village host divided the people into two groups, one group built roads for the village and the other group went to work. The money earned from working must belong to the village rather than to put it into his pocket. This money will become public expenses in the village and be invested in road construction and water diversion projects.
All of this depends on the ability of the leader in a village.
Like Donglai Village, there are many people and powerful people. In addition, there are more than ten people like Sun Deliang who built villages with them, after half a year, they immediately opened up the gap with other villages.
In other villages, when they repaired their houses and reclaimed the land, they immediately entered a single-handed stand-alone style. Donglai Village has so far been a collective-based and individual-assisted model. The fields reclaimed belong to the village, allowing individuals to own a certain garden, and the food grown is naturally owned by the village. After autumn, they are distributed to each person according to their population.
Of course, if you have a skill, for example, the blacksmiths, stonemasons, carpenters and other skills that Taiping City is now recruiting, the money you earn is entirely yours. Of course, if you don’t contribute to the village, you won’t have yours to distribute the grain.
The road from Donglai Village to Taiping City was built very fast. Although it was less than two meters wide, it was of very good quality. After the roadbed was built, the road was built and the road was started, and then it was covered with crushed fine stone seeds and compacted it. Even the city lord Ge Qingsheng applauded after seeing it.
All villages are busy, and the deep mountains and forests centered on Taiping City are showing a lively vitality. Lao Lin, who has not had so many human activities in many years, suddenly woke up like a person who has been sleeping for too long, showing unparalleled vitality and vitality.
The city walls are getting longer, wider and taller day by day. The old forest on this mountainous plain is shrinking every day, and instead houses are extending from the edge to the inside. Every day, they are in a new shape.
After defeating Bao Bufan's tens of thousands of people, the population suddenly swelled. If the refugees who had not been dismissed from the mountain in time to build their own villages around them, the current Taiping City would be overcrowded.
The nearly 100,000 people were pressing on the top leaders of Taiping City like a big stone. There are seven things to do when opening the door, and that one is worthless? The accumulations from the past were immediately like flowing water.
In this case, Qin Feng accepted the suggestions of Ge Qingsheng and others. Those prisoners stolen from Bao Bufan cannot enjoy the same rights as those who went up the mountain earlier.
Let’s not talk about the people assigned to Feng County. People in the mountains only care about food when working, but they don’t have any wages to get them, so they can only protect you from starving to death. In the words of Ge Qingsheng, these people should have been punished. They burned, killed, looted and robbed all the way from Changyang County. How many people suffered their disaster and suffered their losses?
You can't just rob other people just because you are poor. In this world, the wealth of most people is earned by themselves with their hard work, rather than falling from the sky. You have deprived others of their wealth for no reason. Now you are only hungry for a few months and punished you for a year and a half of hard work. This is the lightest punishment.
But even so, Taiping City still couldn't accommodate the excess, and most of the people were weak or some strong women. Qin Feng came up with an idea and divided these people into various villages. First, they wouldn't have any trouble if they went there. Secondly, they could give the village more labor.
Of course, there is one thing that the village cannot abuse them wantonly because of their identity. There are records in Taiping City. If they die for no reason, Taiping City will also cause trouble for them.
For those prisoners, such treatment was beyond their expectations. So far, they still believed that those who captured them were all the officers and soldiers of Yue. If they fell into the hands of the officers and soldiers, they would lose their skin even if they did not die. This was the consensus of everyone, but the result was unexpected, and they were just asking them to sell their labor.
They also work hard labor. When they were in Changyang County, they were so tired that they couldn't even eat enough. In this place called Taiping City, although they were tired, they could eat enough. Even if they were rice dumplings wrapped in wild vegetables, they were only pickled lumps, but they were much better than hungry. What made them even more hopeful is that the great people in Taiping City had already made it clear that they served hard labor for a year, and after a year, they came and went freely.
In other words, even if they want to leave, no one will care about them anymore.
As a result, tens of thousands of prisoners were extremely stable, and there were very few people who caused trouble. Of course, those who wanted to cause trouble were already ruthlessly suppressed before he could cause some storms. On this point, whether it was Ge Qingsheng or Qin Feng, or a female like Wang Yueyao, the opinions were unexpectedly consistent, that is, they would never tolerate it.
Kill a warning to the bai, kill the chicken to show the monkey.
The grain channel in Shayang County has now been cut off. Molo, the general leader of the locust, swept away all places in Shayang County except for the county town and Feng County. From the Qi people, the iron and other strategic materials are easy to do, but it is very difficult to obtain civilian living materials such as grain cloths. Qin Feng also knew that he had to go out to fight this battle. If he didn't defeat Molo, he would not have a good life. If he defeated Molo, he could get another money from Mr. Liu, and he could survive today. Of course, Mr. Liu this year is probably not going to be able to produce too many. The places that have been washed by Mr. Molo were probably cleaner than anything else.
"I defeated him earlier, or could replant him for one season." Qin Feng whispered in a low voice as he looked at the newly sprouted buds on the tree.
"Boss, steel fire is good!" A rough voice sounded in Qin Feng's ears. When he turned around, he saw a wild dog walking over happily with a big knife that had just opened his head. This was the first batch of weapons produced by Taiping City. Today is the day to open his head. Qin Feng came here to take a look.
This kind of big sword is the standard long sword in the previous Death Camp. The blade is three feet long, the handle is two feet long, and the back is thin. Seeing this big sword, Qin Feng couldn't help but feel emotions. He seemed to see more than two thousand such big swords raised up at the same time on the battlefield, shouting and rushing towards the enemy formation, encountering gods and killing gods, and encountering Buddhas.
The knife gently held up, and his fingers stroked the blade, and a chill immediately passed by his heart. The sharpness of the blade was even better than the big swords specially created for them by the Great Chu court in the past. A surprise came to Qin Feng's heart. He knew that the raw materials for making these big swords were not good, mainly the iron that had just been obtained from Liang Da, and some broken swords and guns picked up from the battlefield, which were refined after being rebuilt.
"Boss, have you noticed it too?" The wild dog laughed: "I'm also surprised. I went to ask the blacksmith's room to wear the chief arm. He said, the raw materials and other things are all easy to say. Anyway, after repeated trials, even the stubborn iron can turn him into steel. The key is pure fire. This pure fire requires technology, but it also needs good water."
"Good water?"
"Yes, the cold pool water found by this master in the deep mountains is said to be an excellent thing of pure fire. With the sword, gun and blade of pure fire, the cold air of this cold pool was born with it, which was extremely sharp." said the wild dog.
"Everyone has the top scholar, every one has the master!" After gently pulling a knife flower, Qin Feng turned to look at Ge Qingsheng beside him, "Mr. Ge, such top figures in the industry can be won over. This is the case with blacksmiths, carpenters, and stonemasons. We all have to find ways to make them work for us wholeheartedly."
"Go to the government to save money." Ge Qingsheng nodded repeatedly: "General, there are nearly 200 blacksmiths in the blacksmith house now, and there are more than 300 carpenters in the carpenter house. There are fewer stonemasons, and there are about a hundred people, which can almost meet the needs."
"I don't care about these things, it's not your business." Qin Feng raised the sword in front of his eyes, glanced left, right, and narrowed his eyes and said, "Look soon, I will lead the team out of the mountain to fight a battle. Only by driving Molo away earlier can we concentrate on our own business. If he wants to stay in Shayang County and don't leave, we may go hungry after autumn. The winter here is really hard."
"Is the general going down the mountain now? Why don't they fight again and talk about it? If both sides suffer losses, we will be able to benefit!" Ge Qingsheng said.
Qin Feng laughed loudly. Ge Qingsheng was a regular court official. He was originally a member of Grandpa Liu, but now, unconsciously, he has classified Grandpa Liu as one of the potential enemies of Taiping City. This change is gratifying. Ge Qingsheng probably also understood why Qin Feng was laughing, and his face turned red.
"That's right, but this degree is really hard to grasp. Once the control is not good, and the clam of Mr. Liu is pecked, we will lose money. It's safe to see, so it's better to take action as soon as possible. After all, Moro always moves hundreds of thousands of people, which is really a frightening thing."
Chapter completed!