Zhen Mingku, who was arranging fields on his fiefdom in the south of the city for the newly recruited refugees and soldiers of the Dark Guard, suddenly sneezed and shivered inexplicably.

The Secret Guard General's Mansion recruited nearly 10,000 people from the hundreds of thousands of refugees in the south of the city to become the cultivators of the Secret Guard's fiefdom, of which 3,000 were used as the standing army of the Secret Guard.

It is divided into ten brigades, each brigade has 300 people, with a brigade commander, every 100 people as a team, a team is set up, ten people are a fire, a fire commander, when there is no war in peacetime, each brigade takes turns on duty, and the brigade on duty is responsible for the guard of the palace David in addition to participating in the special training of the Dark Guard every day.

Due to the haste to form an army, in order to allow these recruits to form combat strength as soon as possible, he pulled out the ten Dark Guards brought back from Shuofang and served as the brigade commander and team leader of each brigade, responsible for training these recruits.

These Secret Guards, all of them are outstanding figures in the Dark Guards, it is common for one to be ten, and the method of training recruits is to dare to fight and dare to die for the purpose, and the intensity is set up differently from person to person, with the medical team of Sun's Medical Center provided by Zhen Mingku, which greatly reduces the probability of accidental death and injury during training.

Coupled with the reward system set up by Zhen Mingku, the position of the brigade commander of each brigade is not immutable, but the one who is strong in force, and the first person in the assessment, and the brigade commander is only a military position of the eighth grade, but the treatment given by Zhen Mingku is comparable to that of the three grades of the imperial court, decreasing in turn, with this fair and just assessment mechanism and rich rewards, the training enthusiasm of all soldiers has been greatly improved.

Except for the 300 people on duty, the rest are all unarmed and returned to the field, however, the charm of this assessment mechanism is that even if these people unload their armor and return to the field, they will consciously conduct high-intensity training for themselves, trying to win the assessment and not waste the training.

So much so that people often see that the cultivated land of Zhen Mingku's fiefdom is full of men who use their bodies to pull plows to plow, and the ploughing cattle are left idle.

In addition to these 3,000 recruits, the Secret Guard General's Mansion also recruited all kinds of skilled people, carpenters, craftsmen, plasterers, blacksmiths, architects, weavers, kiln burners, silkworm keepers, bookkeepers, teachers, etc......

The cultivated land within 30 miles around Luoyang City is used as public land for worshipping hundreds of officials, and it is the most barren piece in the south of the city, thousands of hectares of land, most of which can only be planted with mulberry, but cannot grow rice.

Although there is a fief, there are no high-yield food crops, let alone the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of refugees, even if the more than 10,000 cultivators on the fiefdom are allocated land, they may not be able to be self-sufficient.

The 50,000 taels paid by Wang Shichong were used by him to build a refugee camp and buy grain and crop seeds, and there was not much left, and such a huge expenditure could not be recovered from the tenants for the time being, and it was a question whether it could survive until the beginning of spring next year.

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In the mansion of the Great General of the Dark Guard, several brigades of the Dark Guard were standing in front of Zhen Mingku, quietly waiting for Zhen Mingku's orders.

Zhen Ming worked hard to write a crooked and personal letterhead, dipped it in red paint, stamped it with the seal of his secret guard general, and handed it to one of the brigade leaders.

"Hurry up, rush to Guangzhou and Yizhou respectively, hand over the Guangzhou Thorn History and Yizhou Thorn History, and be sure to rush back before this month."

"Yes!" The brigade was taking the letter, and with the other brigade members turned around and hurried out of the house.

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When he returned to the Laurel Tower after a busy day, the eldest grandson Belle had already woken up, and the wound on his foot had been treated by Huan'er, and he was no longer in serious trouble, but his body was still a little tired.

Zhang accompanied her to take care of her, and when he saw Zhen Mingku's return, he greeted him, with a trace of distress on his face, and asked, "Xianggong, are you tired?" ”

If it weren't for her request, how could he, a person with no big ambitions, be busy at this time.

Zhen Ming's bitterness was relaxed, and he was allowed to sit on a chair in the living room and enjoy her gentle massage service.

Her hands were soft and warm, gently rubbing his neck and shoulders, and the fatigue of the day vanished.

"The lady's craftsmanship is getting more and more exquisite."

Feeling the tiredness on his face, Zhang asked distressedly, "Xianggong, is there anything bothering?" ”

Zhen Mingku's eyes were closed, and he groaned comfortably: "It's not a bother, now the recruited farmers are basically saturated, but if you want to farm, at least until the beginning of spring next year, now that winter is approaching, the price of food will definitely become more and more expensive, it is definitely impossible to rely on you to earn money to support so many people, even if you want, I can't let you work so hard, it's best to let them support themselves." ”

A trace of guilt flashed in Zhang's eyes, and he whispered, "It's me who is embarrassed." ”

Zhen Ming smiled bitterly: "There is nothing to be embarrassed about, as long as it is reasonably guided and utilized, there is no problem that cannot be solved, and there are many people who are worried about not being able to do things?" The problem now is that there is no manpower, but they don't know what to do and what they can do. I've been trying to figure out a way these days, and in the past few days, I have accidentally seen when I was looking through the information, it turned out that a crop called sweet potato was found in that place in Nanyue as early as the Western Han Dynasty, which is a good thing, if you can build a greenhouse base and plant it in large quantities, maybe it can solve the food problem of a considerable number of people...... Lady, yes, that's right there, just like that! Again, ah, that's a new trick! Where did you learn it? Xianggong really didn't hurt you in vain. ”

It turned out that Zhang's fingers were gently inserted into his hair, caressing his scalp, and from time to time gently piercing his scalp with his nails, which stimulated him to goosebumps all over his body, but it was extremely comfortable, hearing his strange moans, Zhang's face blushed, but as if encouraged, he massaged his head harder and harder, while asking softly: "What is a greenhouse base?" ”

Zhen Mingku gave her a detailed introduction, including the function and construction method of the greenhouse.

Zhang asked again: "Does it cost a lot of money to build this kind of greenhouse base?" ”

"I estimated that to solve the food problem of 50,000 people, it will take about 200,000 taels of silver, with this greenhouse base, plus suitable crops, the winter grain can also be self-sufficient, I have asked people to go to the south to get sweet potato seedlings, and when they bring back these seedlings and plant them, as long as there are no major changes, how can this winter barely survive, and it will be easy to survive until the spring of next year."

There was a strong curiosity in Zhang's eyes: "What does this sweet potato look like?" Is it tasty? ”

Zhen Ming smiled bitterly and said: "Not only delicious, but also rapid growth, fast reproduction, high yield, easy to store, and the stems and leaves can be eaten, and can also feed livestock, if the lady has the opportunity to taste the sweet potato I roasted with my own hands, I will definitely like it, that is called a sweet and smooth tender, that is, it is easy to fart after eating too much, which will damage the image of your laurel fairy and beautiful woman." ”