Speaking of which, Feng Jian was under great pressure. Facing the 370 people at the outpost, he had no source of income for the time being. People barely survived by the little food they brought when they went up the mountain.

He had no accumulation in his hands. Commander Xu of the counterfeit village appointed him as his small flag officer and handed over the nearly four hundred enemies to him. However, the counterfeit village did not provide any support and help. Hu Dadao said that the counterfeit village would provide pensions to the casualties of his post, but he has not yet seen any conclusions. Now it seems that it is not reliable to rely on external help, and the difficulties must be solved by his post.

The population of nearly 400 people is nearly 400, and the food they carry is definitely not enough to maintain the food harvest in the coming year. Now, families like Hu Baocai have no rice to wait for relief. This is the first problem that Feng Jian must solve.

Feng Jian couldn't solve the problem himself, so he asked Hu Dadao for help. Feng Jian's idea was to borrow some grain from Wushou first, and wait for his food to double down.

Hu Dadao apologized and threw his whistle to Feng Jian without hesitation. It was really difficult for him to throw him away, but this was not his original intention, but Commander Xu's intention. Let's see how Feng Jian responded to the messy whistle.

Commander Xu and I have seen the noise of Jishou in the past few days. I am afraid that the other leaders of Huluyan are also paying attention to Jishou and Prosecutor Feng.

When Hu Dadao heard that Feng Jian wanted to borrow some food to help the poor family in his sentry to live, he patted his shoulder intimately and said, "If you don't come, your brother will come to you too. The casualties in your sentry have been paid for. The family of the deceased can receive a stone of copycat food, and the family of the injured can receive five dou of copycat food."

Seeing that Prosecutor Feng breathed a sigh of relief, he continued: "The leader of the parish village, Xu Da, understands the difficulties of the newly-upped village households, so he stipulates that the parish farmers who went up the mountain in the first year can withdraw part of the parish grain for free according to the number of family members, and take up at most one stone. You go back and do the statistics and then go to the parish to collect."

Feng Jian's tense nerves suddenly relaxed over the past few days. It was not that he ignored the life and death of his siege, but that he had not applied for assistance in time. Now every household in Jisiege can withdraw some of the grain for free to make a living. Feng Jian is confident that the harvest of food will never worry about food in the coming year.

Land and grain are the foundation of life for farmers. Next, we must cultivate our own fields as soon as possible and plant winter wheat. This is the time for overwintering wheat to sow.

In addition, the family owned by Jishaozhuang Village also lacked livestock. Feng Jian took the opportunity to ask Hu Dadao whether the copycat could solve some of the farm tools and livestock.

Hu Dadao said bluntly: "Farm tools, livestock, etc. are also scarce in Huluyan Mountain Village. Feng Jian himself needs to find a way in this regard. However, Hu Dadao said that after Wuwai finished sowing winter wheat in the past few days, he could borrow some farm tools and livestock for his post to use, as long as he had to reclaim wasteland in time to sow winter wheat.

It can be said that the most urgent thing for Jishou settled down is to reclaim the land. Feng Jian hurriedly said goodbye to Hu Dadao and returned to Jishou to arrange the land reclamation and farming.

As long as the land reclamation and food are successfully planted, people have hope and through this difficult period, Feng Jian will gain a firm foothold in Huluyan.

As the saying goes, "White dew is early, cold dew is late, and it is the right time to plant wheat in the autumnal equinox." In the twenty-four solar terms, the time of white dew is on the third or fourth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the time of cold dew is on the fourth or fifth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the time of autumnal equinox is on the nineteenth or twentyth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

Now it is early August, and it is almost time to cultivate winter wheat. In other words, the autumnal equinox is the best time to plant winter wheat, and it is a bit late to plant it in the cold dew season.

Now there are eight or nine days left before the autumnal equinox. Feng Jian and Jishao's reclamation team members must reclaim the deserted fields and plant winter wheat within eight or nine days. This sounds a bit difficult.

If the wasteland on the hillside can be cultivated within eight or nine days and winter wheat is sown in time, there is no need to worry about the food problem of the next year. If the fields cannot be cultivated within eight or nine days and missed the opportunity to sow winter wheat, Huluyan Mountain Village will not provide endless relief, and the survival status of the new year will become a big problem.

Early in the third day of the eighth month of the third year of Chongzhen, Feng Jian led the five teams of laborers from Jishou to the land where the village was transferred to Jishou. Everyone carefully observed the ups and downs of the deserted slope in front of him.

The desert slopes are covered with dense thorns and wild grasses and wild flowers. Many wild bees "buzz" and stay back and forth on the wild flowers. Various caterpillars slowly crawl on the thorn branches, and there are many stones half buried in the soil on the ground.

At this time, everything is dependent on human power to farm in the desert, and the labor efficiency is very low. If you want to reclaim fertile land on this wasteland, it will make you feel overwhelmed.

But no matter how great the difficulties are, they have to be cultivated. How can we complete the land reclamation and sowing in a limited few days? Feng Jian and the five team leaders frowned and thought.

Zhang Dalai, the captain of the third team, suggested that the five teams be separated, and one team was responsible for reclaiming a piece of area. It was stipulated that each team must end the land reclamation before the 19th day of the eighth lunar month, and the unfinished team will deduct the land harvest in the next year.

The other team leaders were all from the village households. They realized the importance of sowing winter wheat in time to their whistle, so they nodded in agreement with Zhao Shougang's proposal. Zhao Shougang, the captain of the fifth team, opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he closed his mouth.

Feng Jian racked his brains to recall the methods of farmers who opened land and farmed in later generations, but he had no memory of this in his mind. No wonder, he was an ordinary farmer in his future life, and he had some sensuality in his mind. As for how to reclaim wasteland, perhaps his father had some experience, but he had never experienced the era of reclaiming wasteland.

If you have the most experience in land reclamation, the Laozhuang households who are the ones who are in the fortress are the ones who are in the fortress reclamation. Many old farmers with land reclamation experience take the initiative to propose their own land reclamation experience.

Feng Jian made preparations based on their proposals. For example, try to prepare as many production tools as possible such as oxen, shovel, wheelbarrow, etc., to ensure that each reclamation team member has a reclamation tool. If the tools are insufficient, they will take turns to use the tools, and they will stop for twelve hours a day without resting the tools; daily meals, drinking, water, etc. are specially sent to the fields, and the laborers who reclamation can eat and rest nearby to save time for reclamation.

At the end of the first day of land reclamation, nearly 300 people only reclaimed more than ten acres of land, and the people in Jishaozhuang Village will settle the accounts. At least 300 acres of wasteland needed for a year, sowing at least 300 acres of wasteland and sowing in time to ensure that they do not go hungry. It is no problem to reclaim 300 acres of land in the Huluyan Mountain Village to Jishao. However, at today's reclaiming speed, it will definitely delay the sowing of winter wheat this year!

In the evening, Prosecutor Feng once again summoned five team leaders and several experienced Laozhuang households to discuss how to effectively increase the speed of land reclamation.

Some old farmers suggest that it is better to plant as many acres of winter wheat as many acres of land before August 19th. It is better to miss the best time to plant it. By the beginning of the next spring, other grain crops can be planted on the cultivated land.

Feng Jian frowned and thought, but there was no other way to quickly reclaim land, so he had to wait for the beginning of spring to plant it again!

The captain of Team 5 Zhao Shougang was the only one who could read. Seeing that everyone present was not talking, he said to Feng Jian: "Hey, Feng Xiaoqi, the villain thought of a way to save labor, which might speed up the land reclamation."

Feng Jian looked at Zhao Shougang. He felt that this guy was more flexible in his mind and was willing to think about solutions when he encountered problems.

Feng Jian encouraged: "If you have a way to speak out quickly, you must be able to solve the problem in front of you. Brother Zhao is the hero of our sentry!"

"Well, the villain thinks that the time for reclamation of fields is mainly wasted on eradicating and transporting thorns, wild grasses, stones and other debris in the soil. Eliminating and cleaning up debris is relatively simple. The difficult thing is how to quickly clean up debris." Zhao Shougang directly grasped the problem and said it very simply.

"There have encountered this kind of situation in which people reclaim the land, but it is rare to compete for time to sow wintering food like we are sending out our own mail. The villain believes that the land reclamation area designated by each squad remains unchanged. Each squad needs to draw two men to form a field debris transportation team. According to the terrain, some wheels can be made and set up on the wasteland. The debris transportation team uses the debris in the fields to transport the debris in the fields. With the pulley, the debris transportation speed will be greatly accelerated."

Feng Jian didn't understand and frowned and asked, "It's understandable that you would draw personnel to set up a special miscellaneous transportation team, but isn't the pulley specially built on the well to lift water? How do we use it for land use?"

Zhao Shougang patiently explained: "The wheels are not only used for water wells to lift water. We can now set up a wheel to transport the debris cleared from the ground where we are willing to wasteland. For example, in the wasteland that is about to be reclaimed, a wooden rack is built with iron bars to fix a pulley in the middle of the wooden rack, and then a wooden rack is also built under the hillside, and a pulley is also fixed. Then connect the pulleys on the wooden racks on the ground with hemp ropes. Tie a basket at one end of the hemp rope, and install thorns and gravels cleaned from the fields. As the pulley rotates, the basket moves to the low terrain and can quickly reach the bottom of the slope easily. When someone at the bottom of the slope says that the debris in the basket is cleared, and someone on the wasteland pulls the hemp rope again, and the empty basket returns to the wasteland as the pulley rotates. In this way, the debris in the ground will be cleared soon."

Feng Jian suddenly realized and nodded and exclaimed: "Brother Zhao is so smart, all teams will adjust accordingly tomorrow."

Feng Jian understood that this pulley that was widely used in later generations, and he couldn't help but look at Zhao Shougang with admiration, "This is what Brother Zhao himself figured out, it's amazing!"

Zhao Shougang blushed and said, "The villain does not have such great ability. This is taught by the private school teacher in our village."

Zhang Dalai, the captain of the third team, said excitedly: "Haha, I know a little bit about the solution proposed by Captain Zhao. The tackles can save at least half of the manpower, and this way can be used to reclaim wasteland at least half of the speed!"

Yes, Captain Zhao, the solution you proposed has solved the big problem for us!" The rest of the people understood and agreed.

Zhao Shougang's face turned redder, and he said, "Well, I came up with an idea, it's not worthy of everyone's praise."

Feng Jian's expression obviously relaxed: "Haha, the idea you came up with is really timely. With the wheel, it is possible that he would have reclaimed this deserted field and planted winter wheat before August 19th."

Zhao Shougang's idea suddenly solved the unpleasant problem that troubled everyone. Feng Jian felt better and said to everyone with a smile: "Everyone should actively make suggestions for the development of his own whistle like Zhao Shougang. The development of his own whistle must be accomplished by the efforts of the crowd. Everyone said that this is the case."

The other captains relaxed, and they were all real farmers. They laughed when they were happy, and stood on the street to curse when they were unhappy. Now Zhao Shougang had a good idea to solve the problem, so the few people naturally grinned and were extremely happy.

This situation made Feng Jian secretly relieved, "Haha, the start is good!"

The use of the wheel greatly accelerated the time of land reclamation. After more than ten days of reclaiming, more than 300 acres of wasteland within the scope of the post were cleared out. Then, oxen were placed for deep plowing the fields, and a layer of leaf-corrosive clover ash on the surface that acted as a fertile soil was plowed under the land, and winter wheat was sown smoothly, and mountain streams were introduced into the fields for irrigation.

For nearly 400 people in his post, the crucial difficulty has finally passed!

Prosecutor Feng divided the 300 acres of winter wheat into five pieces, and the five teams were each managed in separate pieces. It is stipulated that the team will harvest the wheat in the next year, and the squad will reward the excess harvest to the team, and all members of the team will distribute the excess income equally.

Feng Jian’s actions are very effective. Some Laozhuang households wander around the fields every day, clearing the weeds in the fields at any time, promptly reminding their teams to irrigate the wheat fields, hoping that the wheat seedlings will sprout and unearth as soon as possible.

The Laozhuang households in Zhaoli said that although it is a newly reclaimed land, due to sufficient territorial capacity and no shortage of water, the wheat harvest will be a foregone conclusion in the coming year as long as it is not particularly arid!

The successful land reclamation made the mood of more than 300 old and young men relaxed. The old farmers had spontaneous care of the wheat field, and the production and farming team seemed to have nothing to do.
Chapter completed!