Although the hundreds of laborers were still recuperating from their wounds for the time being, the 350 town soldiers and their families who landed on the island yesterday, as well as the more than 100 officers, were busy all night, and they still dug a thousand pits outside the city after dawn.

It is very simple to build a nest in the ground, first dig a square more than one or three feet deep in the ground and four feet wide on the side. Then the top of the pit was surrounded by a small earthen wall about two feet high with excavated earth, and then a tent bought was used to build it on it, and a few wooden stakes were tied to it, and immediately a standard ground nest was built. Although there are islands on three sides of Salmon Island, the wind is still very strong, and it is difficult to resist it with a tent alone, but it is excellent to cooperate with the nest. The only drawback is that it is not very breathable. And it can only be temporarily lived in autumn and winter, and it is not suitable for the rainy season in spring and summer.

On the periphery of the shack area, Li Jing also had people erect a circle of wooden stake barracks, and also built a simple wooden fence in the middle of the shack barracks, dividing the shack camp into two, on the left are the soldiers who were demoted to laborers and the guards of the merchant groups, and on the right are the families of the original soldiers. Since hundreds of people are now either broken hands and feet, or their buttocks are blooming, Li Jing also sent a team of soldiers to guard outside the barracks.

After dawn, Li Jing personally led two teams of family members to the wharf at the foot of Phoenix Mountain to greet Li's mother and other family members. When the family members passed by Tianjie after getting off the boat, they were all amazed. Li Hui'er and a few people even shouted that they wanted to open their quilt workshop on this street.

"Wait a while, and then you can open as many as you want." Li Jing turned his head to look at the bustling Heavenly Street, and an ambition surged in his heart. At the moment, he is not capable of doing anything about this heavenly street, but he will never allow such a situation as a 'concession' on his own territory. Bear with it first, and when you stabilize the foundation on Salmon Island, you will be the first to find a way to take back the control of Tianjie.

The two teams of family guards opened the way, and the family members of the officers were very curious to look left and right. The bustling Tianjie I saw before has already surprised everyone's hearts. I thought that Shamenshu was a bitter cold place, but now it seems that all the way, there are huge sea ships everywhere in Natang Bay, and there are such bustling streets on the island. Seemingly. Far from what they think.

However, there are also some people who are more concerned about the land on the island, and Li Jing has promised everyone before coming that he will distribute the fields to the families. Wang Blacksmith's son Xiao Shi has now become the deputy head of Li Jing's family team, and he has also become the father of the son of an official, who has been a blacksmith for generations, and now he has suddenly become an official, not to mention this pride. Although the family still has 50 acres of land returned and given away by Li Jing. But the old blacksmith still took the initiative to sign up for the craftsman camp, and brought his wife to Salmon Island with all his belongings.

After the foot of Phoenix Mountain, there are all cultivated Shamen Shu hoarding fields, the old blacksmith watched carefully for a long time, came back to Li Jing and said: "These lands are not bad, not good fields, but they can also be regarded as good fields." It's just a pity that it has been abandoned for a long time, and it has to be cultivated again. If you want a good harvest, you have to raise it well for a year or two. Not only this year, but also next year, I'm afraid that there won't be much food. ”

Li Jing nodded, Zhang Hong had already reported to him last night that the total cultivated land on Shamen Island was about 1,500 mu, all of which belonged to Shamenshu's hoards. Last year's drought caused a shortage of water and wells on the island. The Feng Ming and other garrison generals did not live on the land originally. Then they were all abandoned.

Guarding such a golden island as Salmon Island, Li Jing has long since lost the plan of farming and hoarding grain. Salmon Island is fully frequented. It is only 1,500 acres of land, and one acre of land is calculated according to the average annual output of eight buckets, even if all the taxes are left, it is only 1,200 stone grain, and if you go to the shell, you have to remove 30 percent, and you only get 900 stone grain at the end. If you deduct the cost of seeds, farm tools, and cattle, you have to reduce about 20%. After the last crop, I got 700 stone of grain, and it had to be a good year without drought and no waterlogging. And Li Jing now raises 1,200 soldiers, giving two liters of grain a day, and at least 400 catties of grain a year, which is three and a half stones. 1,200 soldiers is 4,200 stones, and this is only the food consumption of the soldiers, not counting the food and salaries that will be paid to them every month. Relying on farming alone, Li Jing planted the whole island with grain, and he couldn't afford to support these soldiers.

What's more, Li Jing now owes the Han family a huge amount of 100,000 yuan.

Li Jing had already thought about it yesterday that he would not keep any of the 1,500 acres of land on the island and would distribute it all to the families of all the soldiers. However, the large number of people and the lack of land are not enough, and the next step is to open various workshops as soon as possible to consume some of the soldiers' family labor who have not been allocated to the fields.

Li Jing smiled at Blacksmith Wang: "Uncle Blacksmith, I will divide all the land for everyone today." ”

The old blacksmith's eyes immediately lit up, and he said with a smile: "San Lang, see if you can give my family a few more acres." ”

Although the old blacksmith still has dozens of acres of land in his family, his son Xiaoshi is Li Jing's deputy head of the family, and he is now appointed by Li Jing as the owner of the blacksmith workshop, and the family is not short of money. But in his heart, land is still the most important, no matter how much gold, silver and copper money there is, it can't be used for food and clothing. Li Jing sighed in his heart and nodded in agreement, there is little land on the island, and Li Jing estimates that the most difficult thing can only be the families of those officers who can share some land. Although he also wants to be fair, sometimes, rank can better reflect the favor of Shangguan.

Liu Shouqian, who came to greet his family together, whispered in Li Jing's ear: "It's still thoughtful that the general has already gone around buying and hoarding grain." Now there are more than 10,000 stones of grain in several warehouses at our port terminal. I have food in my hands, and I don't panic in my heart. Otherwise, in two days, thousands of people will come over, and they will not be able to bear the food they eat every day. "He used to be a landlord, and he had the best experience of grain.

Li Jing does have a lot of grain in his hands now, but he knows that the Great People's Revolution at the end of the Tang Dynasty is coming, and at that time, food will be the most precious thing, and no amount of gold and silver can be exchanged. Huang Chao, Qin Zongquan, Sun Ru, when these people arrived, the army they led was all man-eating demon kings, what are they doing, it's not because they can't even grab food.

"You can't keep that grain in someone else's warehouse forever, and in a few days, you'll sail and bring all the grain back to Salmon Island." Food is a real life-saving thing, and Li Jing doesn't have to worry about putting this thing in someone else's warehouse. Not only does his own grain have to be shipped back, but Li Jing still has some money in his hands, and he also plans to buy as much grain as possible. Food will only rise in the future, and it will definitely not fall again. Moreover, even if the price rises at that time, it may not be able to buy it. Buy more while you still have it. Anyway, you can't plant much by yourself.

Mother Li and Han Xiao were both sitting in a soft sedan chair, but they didn't have to blow cold wind all the way, and when the soft sedan stopped, the Shamen Fort had already arrived. When Han saw the 1,000 shacks outside the fort wall, he thought that everyone had to live outside.

"Mother, the child has prepared a big house in the castle, and we can all live there."

"What about your sisters, do they have a place to live?" Li Jing's three sisters who married also came with their children this time, and the three brothers-in-law have also joined the logistics army as a small leader. The logistics soldiers do some technical work, neither need to train hard every day, nor do they have to worry about going to the battlefield to kill the enemy, which can be regarded as Li Jing's care for his three brothers-in-law.

"Don't worry, it's all arranged, the homes of the three sisters are next to our house, and the house of the other fourth sister is also on the side."

Zhang Hong, Lin Wei and a few others, who were directing the soldiers to start construction of the second shack camp, ran over and hurriedly greeted Li Mu and the others. "Zhang Bingcao, you can make a copy of the housing allocation list that was arranged yesterday and paste it here, let a few people read it, and help everyone settle down first." Almost all of the family members of this group were the families of the officers, and all of them belonged to the people who were assigned to the houses in the fort.

Hearing that there was a ready-made house, many family members were all interested, and immediately surrounded Zhang Hong inside and outside three floors. Fortunately, the list was drawn up yesterday, and Zhang Hong immediately copied a copy and posted it for the soldiers to read. When they read about a house, the family members came up to receive a wooden sign with the address number written on it, and then naturally a soldier took them to the address of the house written on the sign.

Li Hui'er and Yu Youniang, Li Jing also arranged a very beautiful yard for them, and several people went happily. After a while, he ran back and asked Li Jing to divide a house for them as a quilt workshop. Li Jing didn't expect these women to be so concerned about the affairs of the workshop recently, but it was good to avoid a lot of trouble. For the workshop, Li Jing has also made arrangements for a long time.

Originally, there was a workshop area in the fort, and Li Jing preserved this area intact, and the surrounding houses were also assigned to the workshop area, expanding the workshop area. Yu Youniang's quilt workshop still uses the original tailor and dyeing workshop, and these two workshops and some tools are all directly assigned to them.

With a place to live, and a larger workshop and more complete tools than when they were in Wangli Village, Yu Youniang and the others had everything in their workshops, but only the female workers in those workshops had not yet arrived. "When will they arrive, we are still waiting to start work, we haven't completed the last order for thousands of sets of military uniforms."

Seeing their eagerness, Li Jing smiled and said, "Come on, come soon, I'll send the boat to Dengzhou Wharf to wait in a while." As soon as the people arrive, I'll ask them to bring your workshop workers first. ”

After sending Li Hui'er and them away, Blacksmith Wang also hurriedly came, but asked Li Jing to divide the land for everyone. Looking at the old blacksmith's expectant look, Li Jing suddenly felt that the more than 1,000 acres of land on the island that he couldn't look at was actually very precious. After thinking about it, he called Zhang Hong, and the land was only divided into half, only to the officers' families, and they had to be distinguished by rank. The remaining 750 acres of land were to be reserved for reward, and only soldiers who performed exceptionally well and made meritorious contributions and promotions were eligible for land distribution.

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