Chapter 125 Come on, donor, let’s go to the grove to talk about Buddhism

Yang Feng met up with Zhang Dingbian and others who had arrived earlier at Changtu or Qingyang Fort, and then continued northward together with Zhu Zhi's escort.

However, there is still no real way to go north.

The Ming army's material transportation from Qingyang Fort to Jilin City was mainly carried by pack teams.

There are plenty of horses here.

Packaging transport uses the least number of people.

The most important limitation in Liaodong now is that its population is too small.

They happily moved forward on the Songnen Plain in spring. It took them more than ten days to reach Jilin City with the reclamation team on foot and even carrying various supplies. Then it took them another ten days to reach Jilin City in what can be called a wilderness.

Their reclaimed land...

By the Gangniu River.

“This place is like a paradise!”

Zhang Dingbian stood on the flowery grass and looked at the green mountains and forests ahead.

"What the master said is very true. I originally thought that Huining was a barren land, but I didn't expect that all the way along was a fertile land, that is, no one was cultivating it. If someone were to cultivate it, look at the land, it would really be fertile.

Oil. Moreover, there are mountains and forests on both sides of this place, with streams flowing downwards. As long as we cultivate on both sides, it will be a good paddy field, and the soil quality will be enough for an acre of seven or eight stones."

An old craftsman sighed with emotion.

"Yes, I really didn't expect it to be so good here!"

“What a great place!”

…

Other reclamation team members expressed their opinions one after another.

Zhu Zhi just laughed as he listened.

It's early summer!

How can it be bad?

Try again in five months!

"It's winter now and I'm afraid I'm going to run away."

He whispered.

"They can't run away. The contract is here. Where can they run? If they leave without permission, they will have to pay compensation. My adopted daughters cannot let them sleep in vain. The compensation alone is not enough even if I sell them."

Yang Feng also whispered.

"Brother has great foresight!"

Zhu Zhi said.

"Don't even look at it. Along this river, all the way to the mouth of the Lalin River, a hundred miles north and south are ours. According to the distribution on the previous map, each production team will go to their own farm and then build a house first.

Just use wood. The mountains and forests are also ours. Cut the wood as you like. Save food, hunt and fish as much as possible, and store it as much as possible. The more you store, the better. In addition, the more wood you can use to burn firewood, the better.

, all the houses are according to the style given to you, especially the fire kang must be strictly in accordance with the design. I want to inspect, and those who fail to meet the standards will be whipped.

Take back the woman for three months.”

Yang Feng shouted.

Take back women...

This punishment is very severe.

However, in theory, those adopted daughters were not married to these land reclamation team members. They were still Yang Feng's adopted daughters. To put it simply, they only had the right to use but not ownership, so Yang Feng could take back a period of time as punishment at any time.

Then I’ll have to wait for these three months to sleep alone!

As for the construction of houses here, they all have special design drawings.

The first thing is wood.

Secondly, there must be a fire kang.

The third thing is to have screen doors and screen windows.

Otherwise, we will wait for death when the army of small bites is dispatched in a few months!

Not only do you need screen doors and windows, but you also need to use the finest gauze, and you also need to prepare repellent medicine, that is, wormwood and the like. The more of these, the better. You are destined to suffer in the first year, but you will get used to it in the second year.

Enough.

Or numb.

fourth……

In short, it is all the result of experience.

In the first year, we did not consider actually reclaiming the wasteland, but settled down first.

But you can grow vegetables.

This does not require cultivating much land.

Things like radish, cabbage, especially pickled sauerkraut must be learned.

Then comes hunting.

So Yang Feng equipped everyone, even women and children, with crossbows. If he saw small animals that could be shot, he would shoot them directly. If they couldn't eat them, they would smoke them. Fishing nets were also a necessity for every household. Fishing and hunting must be everyone's.

Necessary skills. Fortunately, fishing is not difficult. After all, most of these people are from the southern water towns, and the old bandits in Zhang Dingbian have rich hunting experience. They are now assigned to various production teams.

It's hard to say.

After all, the most they encountered in the southern mountains and forests was South China tigers, but here were Siberian tigers.

Not to mention there are brown bears!

Legend has it that Zhang Dingbian can kill tigers with his fists, which should be South China tigers. I wonder if he can kill Siberian tigers with his fists.

"This is the field of hope!"

Yang Feng looked at the people happily distributing supplies and preparing to go to their respective farms.

The specific farms have already been assigned.

It is along the Mangniu River, lining up on both sides from the upstream to the downstream.

Then rely on mountains, forests and streams.

There are small ditches everywhere here that merge into the Mangniu River. To build dams on these small ditches, it is not necessary to build high-grade dams. It is just to use wood and stones to build overflow dams that raise the water level to facilitate irrigation.

Houses, dams, canals, and then land reclamation, infrastructure construction in the first year, cement kilns, and iron smelting.

There is iron ore here.

This is where Aguda started.

Aguda started its business by smelting iron.

Although it seems a bit exaggerated, a fishing and hunting barbarian actually made his fortune by smelting iron, but in fact he did it by smelting iron, and there are still ruins of their iron smelting in Acheng.

Before he launched his army, the main commodity traded with the Liao Kingdom was iron.

He sold ironware to the Khitans.

So Yang Feng can also do iron smelting here.

Of course, forget about Wuchang rice. You have to cultivate rice seedlings in greenhouses. Rice does not have a sufficient growth period here. That is, spring wheat and soybeans can be grown, but the key is soybeans. Making money as a cash crop is the most important.

"Ambassador, there are savages coming!"

Suddenly a reclamation team member galloped over on horseback.

Zhu Zhi looked at Yang Feng.

"Need not!"

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Zhi meant whether to use his guards or not.

"Grandmaster!"

Yang Feng shouted to Zhang Dingbian.

The latter is leading a group of old bandits there to study the location of dam construction. This old guy is not just a super general. He has a lot of knowledge, not just medical skills. He has probably been enriching himself over the years to prepare for a comeback in the future.

, he raised his head and looked ahead. Hundreds of guys in messy clothes walked out of the forest in an aggressive manner.

Obviously they are looking for trouble.

"Is this a Wuzi here?"

Yang Feng said.

"Yes, supposedly I should have told them, but obviously they didn't know, otherwise they wouldn't dare to mess with my brother if I were to kill them. It's probably that the prefect of Huining didn't tell them on purpose.
To be continued...