I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 80 The Mountain People
Huang Yi ignored the bow and arrow pointed at him, walked up to the woman and said to the children:

"We are all Han Chinese, good people, good people who can cook cakes and mutton for you."

While talking, Huang Yi handed two steamed buns and two pieces of yellow mutton to a four or five-year-old child who didn't know whether he was a boy or a girl.

This scene was something that the strong man and the young man never expected. They were dumbfounded and at a loss for a while.

The child's mother felt that Huang Yi had a kind face, but just looked at him without moving.

Children don't understand anything, but they know that they are hungry, and they can't bear it when they see the food and smell the meat.

Immediately took a bite of the steamed bun.

Huang Yi smiled, and said to the other two older children, "You guys eat too!"

The older of the two children is no more than ten years old, and the younger one should be seven or eight years old. I don't know whether they are boys or girls.

Seeing that the youngest ate deliciously and was so greedy, he immediately took the steamed buns and yellow mutton and munched, and the older child even brought the steamed buns to the woman's mouth, saying:

"Mom, it's delicious, you should eat some too."

The woman looked at Huang Yi pitifully, and whispered:

"Master, there is nothing in the servant's house, you hold your hand high!"

Huang Yi found it funny and couldn't help laughing. He pointed at the strong man and asked loudly:

"You also know that you have nothing, so what are you afraid of?
Capture you as slaves?There is no work to do in this winter, are you arrested to eat food for nothing?Hahaha……"

Zhang Dong laughed cooperatively, and exaggerated: "We have thousands of people, why should we arrest you?"

The burly man was embarrassed by the laughter, and said, "Then what exactly do you want to do?"

Huang Yi went straight into the room and found a stool to sit down on, saying:

"I want to live in harmony with you and all the people in this mountain. If you are willing, we will open up wasteland and farm together next spring.

If any Tartars come to attack us, we will take up arms and kill them together. "

The woman's eyes lit up, and she said: "Master, the servants can open up wasteland and farm land, but it is impossible to open up wasteland without large animals."

"We have hundreds of cattle and horses, and there is no shortage of large animals. If your family wants to open up wasteland and farm land, you can do it with us!"

"Then... how about the land reclaimed by the servant's family?"

"According to the proportion of labor, as long as you put in a lot of effort, your family can always count two or three acres of land a year."

In order to understand how to open up wasteland, Huang Yi not only specifically checked the information saved in his mobile phone, but also took the initiative to ask Zhang, He Jiye, Liu Shifu and so on.

Knowing that spring sowing does not necessarily need to be planted at the same time, it can be done in several batches.

If seven or eight hundred Han people work together, four or five hundred cattle and horses will plow the fields, and more than 3000 mu of wasteland will be reclaimed in ten days to complete a batch of sowing.

If it is to reclaim ripe fields, with so many people and so many animals, eight or nine thousand mu can be reclaimed in ten days.

Taking ten days as a batch, three times, one month's time can completely reclaim [-] mu of wasteland to complete the spring sowing.

The next step is to continue to cultivate, to carry out summer sowing, and to insert vegetables and fruits.

Zhang, He Jiye, Liu Shifu, etc., including Wang Baishan, are all better at how to use the land skillfully and rationally than Huang Yi.

With hundreds of people and hundreds of large livestock, it is not too difficult to reclaim all [-] mu of wasteland in six months.

It is unrealistic to plant all the wheat, because the frost-free period here is only four or five months, but it is still possible to plant half of it.

After working for half a year, this family can reclaim dozens of acres of wasteland no matter what, and it is not a problem to allocate three acres of private land to their family as a ration field.

The woman didn't believe it, and asked suspiciously, "Will this field be ours from now on?"

"Yes! Your family strives to reclaim more land and obtain more land. It is best to be able to cultivate [-] acres.

At that time, sufficient food rations were reserved, half of the remaining food was taxed, and the other half was freely disposed of. "

"I still have to pay taxes!"

"This is necessary. Without taxes, there is no money to support soldiers. Without the protection of strong soldiers, sooner or later this place will be robbed by Tartars and slaves."

"That's it!"

Huang Yi said: "After talking so much, I still don't know your names!"

The strong man said: "The youngest is Bi Zitong, his wife's maiden name is Gu, the eldest is Bi Daxi, and the second is Bi Shuangxi."

It seems that the four children in this family are two boys and two girls. Huang Yi knew that Bi Daxi was the strong boy, but he didn't know who Bi Shuangxi was.

Of course, Huang Yi would not ask about such trivial matters, but instead asked: "How many other families like you are there around here?"

"I know there should be dozens of households!"

"You should take your children to visit us. When you meet other mountain people in the future, tell them that we don't kill people, set fires, rob, or harm women, and advise them not to attack our people."

"Little obedience!"

Bi Zitong’s house had air leaks everywhere, and the center of the main room was built with a few stones... how should I put it, it should be a stove, but it is too simple, a bit like a wild stove built when camping.

The fuel is not wood, but coal.

Huang Yi knew that there were many coal mines in the mountains outside the mouth, but he didn't know the exact location. He also knew that coal was called coal in the Ming Dynasty. He pointed to the burning coal and asked Bi Zitong:
"You should be very familiar with the nearby mountains, but do you know where there is coal?"

"I know, there are several places, and there is a place about ten miles away from here where the carbon is buried very shallow.

The master is going to arrange for people to dig some charcoal for warmth? "

"Yes!"

"Master, be careful of carbon gas, otherwise you will die."

"I know, your family should also pay attention, it is very dangerous to burn coal in the house like this!"

"The little one knows, but you can't survive the winter without burning, it's too cold."

Huang Yi chatted with Bi Zitong's house for more than an hour. Not only did he find out where there was coal, but he also learned about the water volume of the "Wuming River" and how many horse thieves were haunting this area.

The number of horse thieves is not very large, and the largest group has less than 100 people. There should be their dens in the mountains, and it may be their lair.

These horse thieves may be rabbits who don't eat grass beside their nests, or they may think that the mountain people are extremely poor and there is really nothing to grab, so they live in peace with Bi Zitong and other mountain people.

This is a new situation.

This is also good news.

It is enough to show that even outside the Great Wall, being a horse thief can make a living.

Huang Yi has experienced several fierce battles, and his heart is particularly strong.

Jiannu belonged to the strongest cold weapon unit of this era, and he personally killed five of them.

Therefore, Huang Yi proudly thought that if he became a horse thief, he would definitely be the king of horse thieves.

It doesn't matter if there are horse thieves nearby, if they don't escape as soon as possible, Huang Yi will go to Lianguodan after a while.

Huang Yi asked a lot, but deliberately did not ask about Bi Zitong's background.

He guessed in his heart that Bi Zitong was either a fugitive slave or a deserter. Judging from his wife's words, this woman should have been a maidservant of a rich family or an official family.

It is possible that Bi Zitong abducted the maidservant of a wealthy family, and then escaped to live in the mountains outside the pass.

(End of this chapter)