The Central Plains, the center of Chinese civilization, is now very poor in Wang Hou's view, indeed, the terrain is flat and endless, but in addition to the field is the field! For example, iron ore, coal mines, and kaolin mines are still imported hundreds of miles away.

Fortunately, in this war, with the advantage of having 100,000 strong men in hand and not having to give money, Wang Hou repaired this strategic highway, and now he is cheaper himself.

In the past, Xu Du, the slag used in ironmaking was thrown directly, but now, let Wang Hou copy a hundred dollars a stone, although his heart was sour, but Wang Hou still had to give part of the 700,000 yuan order to Yingchuan several families to run a cement workshop, and recruited a group of troops to operate the coal and iron mines on Funiu Mountain, and now he has more than 2,000 workers specializing in smelting and mining on the mountain.

Not to mention, the road of fund-raising is not bad, originally Wang Hou thought that all the materials for autumn plowing and winter wheat were all from Xu Du's side, but the Guangling Chen family, Taishan Zang family and other families who participated in the investment party transported 3,000 cattle and more than 20,000 sets of farm tools to him from the Yellow River, and the more unexpected surprise was that the Gao family from the Jizhou family actually brought him more than 10,000 stones of winter wheat seeds.

The Gao family is a peculiar family in Jizhou, and the contemporary patriarch Gao Gan is Yuan Shao's son-in-law! But Gao Lan, who was also from the Gao family in Jizhou, surrendered to Cao Cao, and now Gao Ping, a big businessman of the Gao family in Puyang, has actively invested in Wang Hou's Dongjun Agricultural Reclamation Company, and the Gao family is no longer completely optimistic about Yuan Shao, and has begun to bet on both sides.

Two million yuan of funds and materials were gathered in Zhongmu on August 11 alone, and at the same time, in terms of human resources, Wang Hou was also doing his best to mobilize.

In front of the small military camp in Zhongmu County, a white cloth banner was greatly stretched on two trees, and a few big characters were written on it with the thickest brush: production! Labor! Welcome to a better tomorrow! It doesn't matter if the mostly illiterate captives at the bottom can understand it.

Below, there were more than 4,000 captives of Yuan Shaojun.

After sending all the officers of the Yuan army away, and then looking for those who are close to Cao among the captives, or at least maintaining neutrality, distributing food, and distributing labor tasks are all handed over to them to deal with, after a month and a half of running-in, the new class of Cao Jun's prisoners is beginning to take shape! Now, it's time for them to come in handy!

In order to show kindness, this Wang Hou also deliberately did not wear armor, deliberately wore a plain clothes robe and robe, people really have to exercise, in the past, he was nervous when he spoke to a dozen or so people on stage, but now there are more than 5,000 people underneath, but he doesn't care.

He didn't mind throwing his big sleeves and stepped forward, and he also adjusted the three giant horns that he had specially built before adjusting his body, like a large tuba, and he cleared his throat heavily as a group of captives sat on a small bench and looked curiously.

"Listen, brethren! In three days, you will be assigned to the eastern county south of the Yellow River, where you will enter the farms in batches and work on them! ”

As soon as these words came out, the entire captives couldn't help but stir, some showed excitement, as if they had seized the opportunity to escape, and some people drooped their heads in frustration.

But no matter what happened below, Wang Hou continued to speak hurriedly, chatting with them in the vernacular.

"We're not a family! So Lao Tzu Wang Hou doesn't tell you what loyalty, righteousness and righteousness, Lao Tzu wants you to stay in Dongjun as much as possible to work for Lao Tzu, only the field can be obtained, one person 20 acres of Yongye field, 80 acres of vocational field, Yongye field is Yonggu for you to plant, staff field is you for Lao Tzu to plant! What do you have to say! ”

Everything has to find a nursery, looking at the guy who has already been found, and the guy lurking in the group of captives raised his hand, Wang Hou deliberately raised his chin with an impatient look, and he was really a little flattered, the man stood up in a hurry, and recited the lines with a little stumbling difficulty.

"King, we ......, we are not mules! One hundred acres of land! It's not to exhaust us! ”

"Extensive farming, the cow official's family is out, you only need to open the ditch of the ground, scatter the seeds in, you don't need to plant all the seeds, in the early summer of the next year, and then beat down the harvested wheat, and when the harvest is not enough, you can even hire people!" If you can't do this, you're not as good as an animal! ”

In fact, where is it so simple to farm, but listening to Wang Hou's explanation, I couldn't help it, those captives laughed together, and the nursery who raised his hand to ask questions also sat back with a red face.

"Of course, I know that your hometown is in Hebei, and twenty acres of Yongye land may not be able to tie your heart, so Lao Tzu will add a few more chips here! First of all, in your hometown of Hebei, there was a rebellion in Jizhou, and Yuan Shaogong was still fighting, if you go back at this time, you will only be conscripted into the army! In the spring of the next year, you still won't be able to go back to your own fields to work! ”

"And it is impossible for Lao Tzu to let you go, all the boats and boats in the hundreds of miles of the Yellow River have been collected by Lao Tzu in a pile, and on the north bank of the Yellow River, General Zhang Liao's cavalry received an order to kill without mercy! But if you flee north, kill you on the spot! ”

"The third point is hope! It's not for you to work endlessly, three years! After three years, if you want to leave, you can go as you like, and your twenty acres of Yongye field, all the grain you will hunt within three years will belong to you! You can take the grain, you can take the money from the sale of the grain, and you can go back with whatever wealth you have created! I, Wang Hou, swear again in the name of my ancestors that if I don't let you go free after three years, I will not be allowed to enter the ancestral grave after I die! Never be born! ”

"Do you risk being killed now and flee back to continue to fight as a soldier, or do you suffer for the past three years and return to your hometown, you can figure it out for yourself, which one is suitable!"

Wang Houfa's oath is extremely vicious in contemporary terms! Looking at his serious face and solemn appearance, the group of captives below was really buzzing and began to discuss.

Seriously, if one person cultivates 100 acres of land, even if there are cattle and extensive cultivation, it is hard enough, and it is really hard enough to use people as livestock, but 20 acres of Yongye land, tax exemption for three years, is really a temptation, even if some small landlords may be assigned to their own names, there is no 20 acres of land.

And there is Wang Hou's promise with a poisonous oath to let them go free for three years! With a hope, people have a hope of struggle!

It's better than drowning in the Yellow River, or escaping and being slashed by the cavalry!

It was the nursery again, and in the crowd, a big man with a yellow face was the first to stand up and shout loudly.

"Okay, Wang Envoyjun, I believe in Daniel Zhang of Xinxian County, I will do it for these three years!"

"I, Li Lei of Zheng County, also believe in you, and I will do it for three years!"

"And I, Huaxiang Han Meimei, also believe in you!"

"And my ......"

The fortress is always breached from the inside, with the "help" of the leader, more people have also made up their minds, and the shouts are noisy one after another, looking at the boiling scene below, the smile on Wang Hou's face is also getting richer, but in his eyes, there is a pity and a self-deprecation, self-deprecation nodded slightly.

What kind of corporate culture and what kind of psychology did the small executive mention to him at the beginning, and now he has experienced it. And without giving a penny of wages, he flickered to 80,000 strong laborers, he is even more black-hearted than those black-hearted bosses!

But thinking in his heart, on his face, Wang Hou suddenly stood up, raised his fist high, and shouted along.

"To have a full meal! To catch the carriage! In order to return home! Struggle!!! ”