Jingbian Fort has a certain scale, and the construction of the outer city wall will not be completed in a short time and a half.

For the rest, Wang Dou plans to take out 100 taels of silver to dig five deep wells of masonry and stone in various places, and all military households will use water together, and before the spring of next year, a batch of land will be reclaimed, and each household will be divided into dozens of acres.

During this time, Wang Douzao sent Qi Tianliang to lead some military households to conduct a detailed investigation of this piece of land, and they had a careful understanding of where there was a lot of wasteland and where the land was fertile. In the end, Wang Dou decided to reclaim wasteland on both sides of a waste canal called Baihu Canal to the west of Jingbian Fort, dredge this canal, and then dig several deep wells around each side of the canal to roughly solve the problem of water use in the fields.

At this time, in addition to the Han Dynasty leading more than 20 men to quarry stones on the mountain of Shunxiang Fort, Wang Dou now has about 50 men and more than 80 strong women. After these years of recuperation, everyone's mood has improved a lot, although most of these men and women are old and weak, but it is undeniable that they are very motivated.

Among these people, in addition to letting Yang Tong lead them, Wang Dou also assigned some people to dredge the Baihu Canal, and the rest of them were all with him in the surrounding wasteland and cultivation.

For many days, everyone came out of dawn and returned after dark, working hard every day, seeing Wang Dou taking the lead every day, sweating like rain, and working very hard, all the military households were a little surprised, some moved, and felt that Wang Zongqi was really rare to be such a Shangguan.

And Lord Wang has taken the lead in working every day, so naturally no military household dares to be lazy in the back.

And every day, Qi Tianliang, Han Zhong, and Zhong Rong also followed Wang Dou's side and worked hard. Wang Dou also secretly observed that Yang Tong, he took some military households to dredge the Baihu Canal, but he also worked hard. The sludge is also picked up in one place and used to fertilize the fields in the future. Wang Dou nodded, this Yang Tong can still be used.

Early in the morning, all the military households quickly finished breakfast, under the leadership of Wang Dou, everyone went out of the fort again, each carrying a pickaxe, or carrying a hoe, and some women carrying dustpans, baskets and other things to go together, and some military households drove the dozen or so ploughing oxen, and also took them to open up the wasteland, which could speed up the speed. According to manpower, each man can only open up half an acre of wasteland a day, but with ploughing cattle, he can open up one acre a day, or even more.

Wang Dou saw that Zhong Rong was also carrying a pickaxe and following him, today he was wearing a short robe and cotton jacket, and his sparse beard was blown up by the cold wind from time to time, but his tall and thin figure was still straight, and it could be seen that he had a literati temperament. ”

The four of them stood in a row with pickaxes or hoes in their hands, all with serious expressions. Wang Dou's eyes were deep, just looking ahead, Han Zhong gritted his teeth, his eyes were wide open, Qi Tianliang opened his mouth wide, his expression was quite hideous, Zhong Rong also pursed his mouth, but he just held the hoe with both hands.

Suddenly, Wang Dou shouted: "Ah! ”

Holding his pickaxe aloof, he rushed out first.

Then Qi Tianliang, Han Zhong, and Zhong Rong also blushed, shouting and rushing out behind Wang Dou. At this time, an old man who was in charge of beating the gong to boost morale on the ground also sounded the gong in his hand at the same time, and the gong sound was rapid, which was quite like a general's order.

The old man struck the gong vigorously and shouted in a hissing voice: "Work, everyone work hard!" ”

Behind him, rows of men and women rushed out with Wang Dou and a few people, all holding hoes high.

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Swinging the hoe like rain, Wang Dou has not stood up straight since his pickaxe fell to the ground, Zhong Rong also did it silently, Qi Tianliang kept waving his hands while looking at the results of the three people, Han Zhong was immersed in his head and worked hard for a while, and when he saw that he was behind, he burst into laughter, and when he saw that he was lagging behind, after scolding a few times, he hurriedly caught up again.

I worked like this until noon, until Dow's big voice came from afar: "Eat, everyone rest and eat!" ”

However, it was Tao and Liu who led a few women to deliver the meal, and in order to improve efficiency, everyone ate on the ground, and Tao led a few women to deliver it after it was done in the fort.

Seeing that it was time to eat, Wang Dou stood up and said with a smile: "It's time to eat, everyone should rest!" ”

Zhong Rong, Qi Tianliang, and Han Zhong also straightened their waists, Zhong Rong suddenly stumbled, and Qi Tianliang next to him hurriedly supported him and said, "Mr. Zhong, are you okay?" ”

Zhong Rong waved his hand and said continuously: "It's okay, I'm okay ()!" ”

He knocked on his waist and sighed, "I haven't done farm work for a long time, and my bones are loose." ”

Wang Dou also asked him a few words with concern, asking him to pay attention to rest, and Zhong Rong thanked him again and again.

Then Wang Dou smiled at everyone: "How about it, how do you see winning or losing?" ”

Sure enough, today is Wang Dou's first, Qi Tianliang sighed: "The ability of the king's head, my old Qi really wants to bow down." ”

Zhong Rong was also smiling beside him, but Han Zhong said unconvinced: "Let Wang Tou get the first place again, and come back tomorrow to compare." ”

Wang Dou smiled slightly: "Okay, let's rest, let's eat." ”

Everyone is putting down the farm tools one after another, gathered together to eat, see that today is a big bucket of rice, there are a large bucket of clear soup, there are a few plates of vegetarian dishes, and a plate of meat dishes, everyone is smiling, after hard work, the most enjoyable is to eat beautifully.

In Wang Dou's regulations, it has always been a day of meat, five days of vegetarian, early morning porridge, every ten people are given a ladle of wine on seven days, and they can be full of work and scolding, and Shangguan does not beat and scold, and shares weal and woe with them every day, such a life makes many people laugh in their dreams.

Although Jingbian Fort has only been established for a short time, it has quickly become a cohesive collective.

Wang Dou and the others were also looking for a place to sit down and eat, and at this time Yang Tong appeared in time, this guy, every time he had to eat, he would come over from Baihuqu and eat with Wang Dou and a few people, in order to show that he was also an insider. Wang Dou understood Yang Tong's thoughts, smiled and beckoned him to sit down, Yang Tong happily sat next to Wang Dou and squeezed Han Zhong aside, Han Zhong glared at him angrily.

was eating, and suddenly Wang Dou saw a small figure appear timidly in front of him, Wang Dou sighed: "Xiuniang? ”