Bai Tianfu's letter came quickly, and his family hurried to the Rock Fort, delivered it before dark, and then rushed back. d-m

After Dong Ce received the letter, he read it hastily and laughed, his plan had been about one-third of a success.

That's a great place to start.

"Bai Zhongqi, go out and say something, and let Yelu Lili and all the family members who were born as horse thieves come to the hall." Dong Ce commanded.

"Yes." Bai Zhongqi answered, and hurriedly went to the door of the inner room to wait. Bai Mo had already written the note, Dong Ce used the seal, and Bai Mo took it and handed it to Bai Zhongqi.

About a quarter of an hour after Bai Zhongqi went out, he came back to report that the family members who were born as horse thieves and Yelu Lihe were already waiting in the hall.

Dong Ce nodded, put on a big hat, and went to the hall.

That night, the lights in the hall were lit until late.

At the same time, Dong Ce also immediately issued an order, except for a few family members who were guarding those prisoners in the kiln factory, all the other family members, tomorrow, that is, at seven o'clock in the future, gathered outside the south gate of the Rock Fort, and all of them brought double sockets, bows and arrows, spears, and cavalry knives. Since these family members who were training officers had to be transferred again, the recruits were fortunate that they were given an order to have a whole day off tomorrow. Not only that, but since the family members have to go out tomorrow, they must recuperate well this evening, and the horses must be put in order, so the training has been cancelled.

When the news reached the barracks, although the recruits did not dare to cheer loudly, they were laughing in private, and their mouths were almost slanted.

This period of training was really hard, and I thought it would be much more interesting to start training weapons than before, but this novelty dissipated without a trace after a few days.

Think about it, even if you love the wolf in your hand, you must not be very happy to hold it, keep lunges with your left foot in front of your right foot, and stab your hands forward, and keep this movement for a quarter of an hour. Or let you practice the front stab with a boring palladium, a practice is still 500 times, a thousand times, less than one is not successful, the instructor is staring at the side, as long as the movement is a little slow, a little non-standard whip will come down immediately. It didn't take a morning at all, after practicing this project, it was a sore back and back pain, and the arm was sore, and he couldn't lift it at all, and he was paralyzed on the ground and didn't even want to move his little finger, just thinking about sleeping. Originally, it was tiring enough to walk in a straight walk and run circles in a military posture, but I didn't expect it to be even more tired now.

This night, plus a day of rest, is invaluable to them.

However, of course, this phenomenon is not what Dong Ce wants to see, and the time for recruit training is cut in pieces, so the effect will be greatly affected. But he is also helpless, after all, there are so many families at hand now, and he has to do this and that, and he is transferred around, which is naturally not enough.

He also thought in his heart that he had to expand the size of the family team again.

And now that the men who can be used in the Rock Fort have been divided between the family team and the rock army, it is difficult to find manpower, so if you want to expand the family team, you have to start from open source. The so-called open source is nothing more than recruiting displaced people. In fact, the recruitment of displaced people has not stopped, Zhou Bo has been in charge of this, and the notices of Panshi Fort are still posted in the surrounding counties, villages and towns, but the effect is very bad, and there has been no team to vote.

In fact, this is also a very normal thing, after all, there are two peak periods for displaced people, one is spring and the other is early autumn. These two seasons, when the weather is the best and the most popular chanting in the mouths of the literati, are the nightmare of the people, especially for the people in the year of disaster.

The first one is early autumn. Because at this time, it is the time to pay the summer grain, but all the provinces and counties that grow the grain harvested in the summer, such as wheat and early rice, must start to pay the summer grain tax. And years of drought and devastation, grain production is extremely low, and the people can't even afford to eat, where can they pay taxes? The government urged, and the families who were often tossed were ruined, and they had no choice but to flee with their families.

Therefore, displaced people often appear on a large scale in early autumn, which is forced by the government and can be regarded as a man-made disaster.

And the second one, it's spring,

There has been a great drought in the north for many years, and the drought is often accompanied by locust plagues, as the so-called "locusts at the extreme drought level".

Because locusts are insects that prefer warmth and dryness, the arid environment has many benefits for their reproduction, growth and survival. Locusts prefer to lay their eggs in the soil, and when the soil is relatively solid and the water content is not high, about 10 to 20%, it is most suitable for them to lay eggs.

Drought causes locusts to multiply and grow rapidly, causing disasters in two ways.

On the one hand, in dry years, the number of eggs laid by locusts increases dramatically as water levels drop, soils become firmer, water content decreases, and ground vegetation is sparse. Moreover, in dry years, the water surface of rivers and lakes shrinks and low-lying areas are exposed, which also provides more suitable places for locusts to lay eggs. On the other hand, plants grown in arid environments have a lower water content, and locusts feed on them, growing faster and having higher fertility.

On the contrary, rainy and humid conditions have many adverse effects on locust reproduction. The high water content of the plants that the locusts feed on will delay the growth of locusts and reduce their fertility, and the rainy and humid environment will also make locust epidemics, and rain and snow can also directly kill locust eggs. In addition, the increase in natural predators such as frogs will also increase the mortality rate of locusts.

There was a snow in the first winter of this year, which was not very big, and in the second half of last year, it was just a snow and a rain, and this year was another year of great drought. The locusts are raging, they have eaten up the seedlings, the people have no hope, and the food left from last year has also been eaten, and they can only starve to death when they wait, so they have to flee the famine.

Now that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has passed, there is still a short time before spring, Dong Ce estimates that after a while, there should be displaced people coming to defect.

When the time comes, there will be more manpower, and everything will be easy to say, but now the problem of Rock Fort, to put it bluntly, is still too small, so all aspects are stretched.

However, at that time, the food consumption will definitely be very large, and you must prepare in advance.

Early in the morning of the second day, Dong Ce woke up and looked out the window, it was still dark. The trip outside the Saiwai consumed a lot, and Dong Ce was not very busy after he came back, so he raised his body at home. Although he is still very young, strong and energetic, he pays great attention to the protection of his body, after all, in his previous life, because he did not pay attention to his body, he often stayed up all night, and he was indulgent, and his body was obviously weak later.

I fell asleep last night with the red sleeves, and I woke up early this morning, refreshed and full of energy.

He glanced at the red sleeves beside him, the red sleeves were asleep on the outside of the bed, he was sleeping like he was thinking about it, his face was a little red, his small mouth was slightly upturned, and there seemed to be a satisfied smile on his face. Dong Ce half sat up and looked at it with a smile, thinking that this gentle and elegant woman like water was his pillow person, and his heart was satisfied.

No wonder people say that there are two best times to see beauties, one is under the candleside lamp, and the other is when you are about to wake up in the morning, the blurred charm is particularly attractive.

Dong Ce looked at it for a while, tucked the quilt for her, and wanted to get up. As if feeling his gaze, the red-sleeved long eyelashes fluttered twice, his eyes opened slightly, and he said in a daze: "Xianggong, are you awake?" ”

As he spoke, he struggled to get up.

Dong Ce hurriedly pressed her down: "It's okay, you go back to sleep, I'll dress myself." You were tired enough last night, so you could rest. ”

As soon as he heard this, Red Sleeves was blushing, he tossed Dong Ce enough last night, screaming again and again, and begging for mercy, but in the end he couldn't bear it, and he used his hands and mouth to make Dong Ce feel good, and he really suffered a lot.

Feeling Dong Ce's carefulness and love, the corners of the red sleeves' mouth hooked slightly, a trace of cunning flashed in his eyes, and he said with a smile: "Then the concubine will find someone to serve her husband." ”

"Who are you looking for? Big girl, two girls? Dong Ce said with a smile: "Don't, it's better for me to wear it myself, they are clumsy, and I also hurt to pinch it." ”

"It's not the two of them, it's your personal maid in the future."

The red sleeves cooed, the two words were very clear, and her voice was slightly raised: "Liu, come in!" ”

"Liu?" Dong Ce couldn't help but be stunned, how could it be her?

I only heard a thin voice from under the window outside: "Yes." ”

Then I heard a thin sound of footsteps outside, and then a creak, and the door to the east hall was opened. The footsteps were louder, and there was a burst of candlelight in the east hall, and the light was approaching, and soon, the east door of the bedroom was opened, and a slender figure walked in with a candlestick.

Each room in the inner house has brick walls and tile roofs, and windows open to the atrium to let in light. There are a total of five main houses divided into two sets, three on the west side and two on the east side. Sandwiched between the two main rooms on the west side is a main hall. The westernmost main room is Qiao's residence, and Dong Ce and his wife live in the bedroom outside the west, which is the middle of the five main houses. Since moving in, because there is only one living room separated from Qiao's bedroom, and Dong Ce and Red Sleeves get up early, and considering the factor of the old man's lightness, Dong Ce has changed the second room from east to west into a living room, which is the east hall. The east hall door faces south, and the bedroom has two open doors, one west and one east, and the east door connects to the east hall. If the two of them get up, they will all go through this door. That slender figure turned out to be Yang Liu's, when she came that day, the dirty clothes on her body had already been thrown away, and now she was wearing a green satin jacket, the material was not very precious, but for Yang Liu's family, it was the best dress she had worn in her life.

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