Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 31
"Dig! Dig! Dig! I really don't know what the master is doing with these things every day!"

Turning the hoe in the cold weather, Wang Ganzi was still complaining and muttering there. He was complaining, but suddenly there was a bang, and he was hit hard on the forehead. Turning around sadly, he happened to see his father slamming His face was so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head with a submissive look, and then swung the hoe desperately.

But now Niujia Village is not as resistant to digging a large dung pit as before, because it is nearby, on the first dung cellar built, a hot flame is slowly burning in the air channel tired out with bricks. Squirting!

Biogas!

In order to let the fertilizer ferment in the freezing weather, Wang Hou kept heating the stove in the shed for a few days. After the temperature rose, the rotten and fermented fertilizer began to spray these flammable gases upward.Now that there is a lack of firewood and little warmth near Xudu, the common people are also the most pragmatic. They burn less firewood during the day and more at night to keep warm, so as to avoid the cold for a while, regardless of whether it is a big dung fire or not. In broad daylight, even the people of the nearby Zhaojia Village come here with their pots in their hands to cook and keep warm. With this convenience, the people have a little more motivation to build biogas digesters, and even their attitude has changed 360 degrees. turn.

"Brother Zhuzi! Don't dig this pit after a while, go to our Zhaojia Village to dig it! Everyone is ready for you!"

This Wang Zhuzi was still complaining, and suddenly there was a sound on the edge of the pit, and he looked up in amazement, but it was Zhao Laotian, the village elder of Zhaojia Village, bending over there and shouting.

A few days ago, Niujia Village protested that the fat cellar should be repaired in Zhaojia Village, but this old guy was still blocking it. Good guy, how could this place take the initiative to take this dirty thing to his own village?

But before Wang Zhuzi was stunned, Niu Wanjin, another clan official of Niujia Village, who had been lame in his early years as a soldier, had wandered over on a crutch, yelling with an accent.

"Nan, get the hell out of here! Master Wang is locked! This night Xiangjiao is in our village! Stay wherever it's cool!"

"Why is it your village? Our village doesn't farm land for Mr. Wang!"

"Who made Nanmen Village have bad Fengshui! The cellar belongs to Nanmen Village!"

While Wang Zhuzi was stunned, the two old men, each over 100 years old, looked like fighting cocks, carrying crutches and performing martial arts. The villagers of Zhaojia Village also began to move their hands. In this era, the folk customs are simple and honest, and the villages fight with each other with real hands, blood and teeth are knocked out all over the ground.

Seeing his father, Wang Fu, holding a peace stick, and trying to pull it to both sides, Wang Ganzi groaned depressedly.

"For a big dung cellar, as for it!"

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This year Wang Ganzi is still ignorant, but next year, he will know that there is no smell of dung, and where the fragrance of grains comes from!How true is this agricultural proverb!For these fertilizers, it is indeed worth fighting.

But at this time Wang Hou was not in the mood to teach him, because the old man was packing up and going out.

As the ducks with bare butts and stomachs quacked in grief and anger, Wang Hou put one of his down jackets on and put one in his bag, and pressed a string of copper coins borrowed from Cao Hongjie on top of it. His official seal, Putting away the documents and dangling the bundle, he walked out of the warm kang room.

In the yard, Cao Hongjie had already prepared to stop. She was not in the army, even if she went out, she was still dressed as a woman, her hair was combed high, and there were two jade hairpins stuck in her head. Her hot and delicate body was covered with bread. The big down jacket was completely wrapped inside, and he was holding his feet impatiently at the moment.

This time Wang Ganzi is not qualified to follow, because Wang Hou has a new batch of more powerful thugs, nine of the Xiahou family and Cao family's trilogy transferred from the tiger and leopard cavalry, and now they are the members of the Wang family's trilogy. The backbone of the team also followed Wang Hou's surname and should be named Wang. With these professional thugs, Wang Ganzi's strong men were sadly reduced to backup players. When Wang Hou came out, they were very neatly organized. One fist.

"Homeowner!"

"You're not a woman! It took me so long to pack my luggage!!!"

Cao Hongjie's outraged complaints were directly thrown to the back of Wang Hou's mind. When watching TV dramas in later generations, those local tyrant male protagonists always have a few loyal, capable thugs and bodyguards, this time they are all there!Wang Hou, who looked like a nouveau riche in later generations, slapped his subordinates triumphantly when he heard the promise made by his subordinates.

"No courtesy, get on the horse!"

"Subordinates obey!"

This is what is called a soldier, and amidst the neat answers, the nine of them got on their horses neatly, without any sloppy movements, just like a single person!Although pouted with anger, seeing this scene, Cao Hongjie didn't bother too much, she also supported her rouge horse's saddle and turned over beautifully, a pair of small boots kicked the horse's stomach lightly, but trotted ahead .

Shaking his head helplessly, Wang Hou also pulled the saddle and stepped on the stirrups to get on the horse, and followed the young lady closely. However, it is worth mentioning that no matter whether he is still Cao Hongjie, the saddle has undergone a big change now. It is wrapped in leather. The wooden saddle covers the horse's back toweringly. The raised saddle head and tail perfectly cage the person in it. The soft leather acts as a buffer between the horse and the person. With the blessing of Takahashi's saddle, anyone They couldn't even tell that Wang Hou was a rookie who had only been riding a horse for a few months.

The goal of this trip is Liuxian County, Yuzhou, which is subordinate to Prime Minister Cao.

This year, Yangzhou not only endured a severe drought that was rare in the late Han Dynasty, but also encountered a tragic war between two large warlords, Cao and Yuan. Natural disasters and man-made disasters also caused a large number of victims to flee in all directions, some of them entered Xuzhou, most of them flowed to Jingzhou of Liu Biao, some forcibly crossed the Yangtze River to seek a living in Jiangnan, which is still desolate today, and some fled to the Central Plains.

It’s just that Taicang is short of food. Whether it is Cao Cao or the Han court in Xudu, they are afraid that the victims will change. Now Li Dian, the lieutenant of the Dianjun, leads the 10,000 soldiers under the command of the Bafu and the Ministry to block [-] to [-]+ refugees. In Lioliu County, they were not allowed to go north to the Central Plains.

In ancient times, population was wealth. Nowadays, there are hardly many self-cultivating farmers near Xudu. Most of the population are tenant slaves attached to major families. Wang Hou’s Zhaojia Village and Niujia Village are all divided under the command of Mr. Cao’s family. For him, due to the population loss caused by the war, there is still a lot of idle land near Xudu, but the population is only about 10,000+. Wang Hou wants the population to develop coal mines and cultivate Fengtian, so he can only live in Liu County. recruited among the refugees.

However, there are many disadvantages in recruiting refugees these days. The first is the issue of loyalty. The tenant farmers under the command of each family have cultivated for the family for several generations, and they have already formed a sense of identity like an independent kingdom. The children of the family are often the most loyal, but these Refugees fleeing from other places often fail to achieve this level of loyalty. After a long life of fleeing refugees, refugees who are forced to band together are often rebellious and difficult to tame.

There are also various diseases that may be carried by the refugees. After a catastrophe, a major epidemic often breaks out, which makes these Central Plains landlord families change the color of these refugees.

Cao Cao's Qingzhou soldiers are an example. The Qingzhou soldiers recruited by the Yellow Turbans have not been digested by Cao Cao's separatist group until now. The Qingzhou army can only form an army of its own and is only loyal to Cao Cao. Last autumn, the lack of food was the most resentful. It was these Qingzhou soldiers who were instigated by Wang Hou, and they were the ones who beat the prison officials to death.

The ancients said that self-cultivation, family harmony, and country rule are the best in the world! Self-cultivation and family harmony are placed before governing the country. Now it seems that it makes sense!How can you manage the country if you have hundreds or thousands of people in your own family?

Braving the light snow, they headed south one after another. Wang Hou, who became a Lizard Gull in such a big company for the first time, was wandering with his horse while thinking hard about how to recruit refugees and how to manage his company!
It’s definitely not easy to post a recruitment notice like in later generations. We have to find a way to dismantle the gangs of refugees one by one and select those who are honest and willing to work. But a group of honest people can’t do it well. The management of those slippery, greedy and domineering bad guys also needs some.

As for the number of people, a standard family of seven, three men, and two middle-aged laborers in this era can take care of 700 acres of land, [-] acres of plain fields plus hundreds of acres of hillside woodland, recruit [-] people, and then divide them into three villages The most suitable.

Then the coal mines try to recruit single strong laborers, let's start with 100 people.

The most troublesome thing is the 100 plays that Prime Minister Cao asked him to organize. Now there are nine tiger and leopard riders and nine hundred generals. There are a few quotas, why don't you count the hundred or so coal diggers?In this way, more than [-] strong men's food can be saved.

Recently, I spend a lot of money. In this era, things are bartered. The most common hard currency is grain. Now I have more than 5000 millet seeds from Xuzhou, and there are still 500. If I start to switch to cloth trading, [-] The food rations for the population, plus the equipment training for the trilogy, should be more than enough to support the autumn harvest, and selling coal may make a fortune.

"Patriarch, we're here!"

The area to the southeast of Xuchang belongs to the North China Plain, and the terrain is flat. In addition, eleven people are riding horses. They set off from Xudu in the morning and arrive at Liuxian at about three o'clock in the afternoon. Wang Hou was still planning in his heart. During the construction of his own enterprise, Wang Hou suddenly came back to his senses with a sound of a report without much emotion. When he looked up, a rather dilapidated city whose walls had collapsed appeared in sight. , and next to the ancient city, Luzhai was surrounded by a series of barracks with wooden bone and grass huts, and the military camps were stationed there, and the green smoke used for heating filled the sky.

"Well, go see General Li Dian!"

Taking out the customs clearance document issued by the Prime Minister's Mansion from the package behind him, Wang Hou has the courage of a large enterprise lizard gull, with his chest straight, and he ordered high-spirited.

(End of this chapter)