Dong Ce saw the doubts of his subordinates, and said with a smile: "You all know what Lord Bingbeidao said to me before, let us recruit displaced people, train troops in Tuntian, and train a new army!" But how much does it take to train the new army? People, Territory, Shelter, Weapons, Armor...... All of these are needed, but the problem is that none of them are available now, and it is vague to ask Lord Liu. Even if all these are aside, we must at least have food, and if we don't have food to eat, what new army? Before the shelf is erected, it will collapse and collapse! ”

"The scale of the new army is not small, think about the amount of food you guys have, all of them are like bottomless pits, and you can't fill them even if you go in!" Dong Ce gently shook the horsewhip and quipped, everyone laughed, especially Wang Hun, a big-bellied man, who laughed the most heartlessly.

"To feed a sturdy soldier, coupled with the intensive training every day, sweating like rain every day, food consumption has to increase a lot. Song Ji Shen Kuo's Mengxi pen talk said that even if the soldiers who only march and do not practice, they also need two liters of grain a day, and we will be bigger in the Ming Dynasty, even if one person has one liter of five grains a day, it will be close to more than five stones of grain in a year, plus the family members and children of military households or even the elderly, I am afraid that it will take more than ten or twenty acres of land to feed a military household. According to the calculation of 500 soldiers, there are also 7,000 acres. If it is calculated according to 1,000 soldiers, it is 14,500 acres away. Where is there such a big open space in this town Qiangbao for us to reclaim? What's more, the location must be chosen under the jurisdiction of Shilipu, which is the heel of our *one* book* reading* novel xstxt, otherwise, go to someone else's territory, everything will not go well. ”

Dong Ce pointed around: "Where else is there a more suitable place than here?" It is very close to Anxiangdun and Shilipu, and the place is also large, and it is rich in water and soil. Look at ......."

Looking in the direction pointed by Dong Ce, you can see that the two rivers meander through here, the rivers are quite wide, because of the heavy rain just now, the water is extremely abundant, and there is a river with a turbulent current, and you can hear the movement from such a distance.

These two rivers, one from northwest to southeast, and the other from east to west, happen to draw an oblique cross. Along the banks of the two rivers are vast expanses of wasteland.

Dong Ce asked those old people, and then he learned that the river that flowed in the northwest and southeast was a tributary of the Yinma River that passed by next to Shilipu, and it also had a name, called Ganhe, which means that its water is sweet. As for the river that runs from east to west, it is the upper reaches of the Hunshui River. Both rivers originate in the mountains to the north, not in season, so they are not in danger of breaking their streams, and they can always be maintained no matter what.

"Farming is nothing more than the word water and soil. The two rivers pass through this place, and there is a guarantee of irrigation, and the impact is not great regardless of drought or flood. As for the soil ......"

"I have consulted historical materials, although this place is deserted, in fact, the land here is unusually fertile." Dong Ce continued: "When the Wuling King of Zhao State was in the pre-Qin period, he used to train troops in Tuntian here. After that, Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty, the Huns, also used to be in this place. Later, when Cao Cao was the king of Wei, when the Wuhu was chaotic, it was a densely populated high-yield grain area. Even in the early days of the dynasty, it was also reclaimed here and set up a hundred households. ”

"There's no reason why you can't farm now!" Dong Ce said with a smile: "I have asked the old man in Shilipu, one of the reasons why the land here is abandoned is that this place is indeed the site of an ancient battlefield and there are countless bones, and another more important reason is because the irrigation canal is silted. ”

Dong Ce waved his hand: "Let's go, let's take a look in front of us." ”

Everyone beat their horses and came all the way, and sure enough, they saw a lot of traces of irrigation canals, but the water conservancy of these irrigation ditches had been abandoned and silted.

The northern part of the Ming Dynasty has always been dry and rainless, especially after the advent of the Xiaoice River in the past fifty or sixty years, so the land is extremely dependent on river irrigation. Since the end of the Wanli Dynasty, the Donglin Party was in power, and none of the water conservancy in the Ming Dynasty has been repaired in recent years.

Shi Jin shook his head: "It's a pity that this is a good land, if the irrigation ditches in this place can be dredged and repaired again, and then those smaller and narrower water channels can be built, it won't be long before this is another fertile land!" ”

Most of these people under Dong Ce are recruited from peasant households, that is, Wang Tong and Wang Yu, who were born in military households, and these people often work in the fields, so they all nodded again and again when they heard it, knowing that what Dong Ce said was true.

Su Da grew up like an old farmer, and he was really a good hand at farming, he jumped off the horse, didn't care about the slippery soil, took a handful on the ground, and put it in front of his eyes to take a closer look.

After a while, he turned back to Dong Ce and said excitedly: "My lord, the soil here is a good green clay, with large particles, not sticky to your hands, and you can grab the oil out of it!" ”

Zhou Bo added on the side: "And generally digging down the green clay can dig out the black soil." ”

"Oh?" Dong Ce raised his eyebrows, this was really an unexpected joy.

In this piece of East Asia, the black soil is generally only distributed in the Songhua River outside the Guan, which is now occupied by Jiannu, but I didn't expect that there is also here, which is known as 'pinching the black soil to make oil flowers, and inserting a pair of chopsticks also sprouts', the most suitable fertile soil for farming!

In the next two hours, everyone rode around this place carefully, and they also had an overall understanding of this place.

The soil here is thick and soft, with a deep layer of soil, and there is almost no gravel in it. There are a lot of big rocks that look quite terrifying, but in fact, they are mostly concentrated on the left side of the rocky mountain and on both sides of the valley, and they are large stones, not gravel. The most feared thing about farming is not the boulders like hills, just bypass them, but the gravel in the soil is afraid of it, which not only hinders the cultivated land, but also damages the precious ploughshare.

Since the two rivers run diagonally through the wasteland, and the rocky mountains meet to the south, every inch of land is not too far from the two rivers, and if you dig a ditch with all your efforts, you can cover the whole area in the irrigation network.

Needless to say, Dong Ce said that they were already very fond of this place.

Why did he choose this place, Dong Ce naturally has his own calculations, but those are big strategic things, but they are not suitable to mention to his subordinates.

After reading it, everyone rode their horses to Anxiangdun, this time not only to observe the land of reclamation, but also to return to Anxiangdun by the way. After all, that's where life is built. The aftermath of Shilipu has been completed, and the captured war horses, prisoners, and the loot that have been searched have all been transported to Anxiangdun earlier. Those people who were saved, Wang Tong was staring at them, and as soon as they were supplied, Dong Ce handed them over to Wang Xunian.

Dong Ce was not interested in the daily affairs of Shilipu, so Liu Daku volunteered to take it over. The latter is the general flag of Shilipu in charge of logistics baggage and treasury, and it turned out to be one of Xu Ruji's deputies, he was very arrogant and arrogant, and he has always been a little hostile to Dong Ce.

On the way back, several people were happily discussing the training of troops in Tuntian. Dong Ce has already told them all this, and everyone is excited-once the troops are trained, there are more people under him, and the adults will naturally be promoted. Now everyone has the false title of general flag and small flag, and if there is a major vacancy, they are also qualified to fill the vacancy immediately and become an officer.

"If you want to cultivate the fields, you must first level the land and get rid of the wild grasses, which have been abandoned for many years, and I am afraid that you must cultivate deeply."

"It would be great if you could turn the black soil up below."

"How can it be so easy? If you want to plough deeply, you have to plough and ploughshare, and manpower can't pull it, so you have to use oxen! We have seized three or five cows in the past, but how can such a large amount of land be enough? Buying cattle and making ploughshares is another sum of money. ”

"There are a lot of things, but it's always a personal word!"

"In fact, you don't have to cultivate too much land, it depends on how many people are recruited. The grass may not have to be removed, but it can also raise sheep and horses, feed cows, and eat pigs. We don't have to worry about these animals in the future! ”

"Who says it isn't! Let's go out and weed them today! The pig is my uncle! ”

………………

Everyone was talking there, but Dong Ce didn't stop it, nor did he speak, just watched it with a smile and a groan. These henchmen under him will be of great use in the future, so it is also a great thing for them to learn more about management and learn to think about problems in multiple directions from now on.

It seemed that rain was falling again, and the wind and rain were like obscurity, but Dong Ce looked up at the sky leisurely, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

This is the place where I, Dong someone, can make great progress!

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When Dong Ce returned to Anxiangdun, he got the news: Master Liu sent someone to recruit Dong Ce to meet him.

Dong Ce didn't care about the slanting wind and drizzle outside, and immediately took Shi Jin and the others to set off when he heard the words. The six members of the group were all dressed in armor, weapons and bodies, and in order to keep the horses warm, they also put a layer of felt on the horses.

It's not that Dong Ce is trying to play tricks, but he is really afraid of Hou Jiawei's unreasonable routine. If he is single-handed, what if he is killed by Hou Jiawei? Even if Hou Jiawei will die in the future, he will exchange his life for a life, which is really a big loss.

Between the horses, Dong Ce suddenly found that since he came to this time and space, he had never had such a big fear of anyone.

Even if it is a soldier, Liu Ruozai does not have it.

Thinking of this, Dong Ce was suddenly shocked, and quickly broke open this year and crushed it for careful thought. After a long time, he found that the reason why he was most jealous of Hou Jiawei was because no one else could threaten his life except him. It's Liu Ruozai, does he dare to directly order himself to be killed?