In a blink of an eye, a few days later.

The first collective farm in Quyang County has been built in full swing.

Perhaps because Xiong Wuliang’s skill in painting big cakes was perfect, the slaves’ enthusiasm for work had been fully mobilized!

In just a few days, a large area of ​​mountains and forests had been reclaimed into a flat land under the struggle of the slaves.

The first batch of houses have been built.

This batch of private houses is considered a luxury house in Quyang County!

Because these houses all use acres of bricks fired from acres of brick factories!

Moreover, the locations of these private houses were uniformly planned and built according to the farm drawings designed by the civil engineering elder brother Xiong Wuliang. Rows of brand new brick and tile houses are neat and orderly, not as messy as ordinary villages.

At the gate of the entire farm, there are a row of big words:

‘Self-reliance, hard work, and build a new countryside in Quyang County!’

‘Diligence creates wealth, hard work creates the future!’

There are some simple slogans...

For example, 'It is forbidden to dump and defecate anywhere! Violators confiscate the tools for crimes!'

Mr. Xiong, accompanied by Zhong Hua and Xiaoyi, walked around the collective farm for a long time. Mr. Mi Liang nodded repeatedly at the slogans on the wall, expressing his satisfaction.

"The little master is really a charity!" The slaves even admire Xiong Wuliang even more.

In the field, a young and strong man was already holding the curved plow and started to farm!

Although it has already entered summer, the Quyang climate is warm and winter comes relatively late. It is still time to start sowing now.

In the farmland, water trucks with burrs slowly rotate in the newly dug ditch, transporting the clear river water to the fields.

Even rows of neat saplings are planted on both sides of the road!

Xiong Wuliang was amazed.

Once the subjective initiative of the working people is fully aroused, the construction speed is really outrageous!

It's only been a few days, and it's completely changed here!

"I don't know if the Lord has arrived, I will be in a position to welcome you. I will forgive you for your crimes!" A simple-looking middle-aged man trotted all the way to Xiong Wuliang's car.

This guy is called Zhou Zhuo, and he is also one of Xiong Wuliang's personal military corps.

Because of his simplicity and hard work, Xiong Wuliang was appointed as the head of the demonstration farm.

"It's done well! In just a few days, the current situation of the farm has completely exceeded my imagination!" Mr. Xiong praised it without hesitation.

Zhou Zhuo smiled honestly: "It's all good to give guidance from the young master."

Zhong Hua, who was standing beside him, coughed lightly: "Zhouzhuo, this is not a place for chatting."

Zhou Zhuo suddenly smiled and immediately bowed and said, "Young Master, forgive me for your sins... Please do this."

The group entered the farm and Zhouzhuo personally brought tea.

After briefly introducing the current population, arable land area and housing supply of the farm, Xiong Wuliang expressed satisfaction.

"How is the militia training going?" Xiong Wuliang asked.

At present, the enemy in Quyang County is the Shaohu Pirates entrenched in Shaohu.

If Xiong Wuliang doesn't stop the powerful enemy beside the bed, he will not sleep peacefully.

If the entire Quyang County could train a militia and defend the village, even if there were thousands of thieves in Shaohu Lake, they would not be able to rob Quyang County at will.

Mr. Mi Liang can have a good sleep.

Zhou Zhuo said respectfully: "Report to the Lord, the farm has just been established, there is a lot of work, and the construction work is too busy, and there is no time to conduct militia training."

"However, every day, some farmers leave production and participate in combat training!"

"According to your order, it is not only the young and strong men who participated in the training... women, children and the elderly have also received training."

Xiong Wuliang nodded with satisfaction.

The enemy is full of power. If you want to resist the Shaohu thief, you must be the whole people!

Zhong Hua was amazed at the construction of the collective farm: "It seems that it won't take long to complete the entire Quyang County will use this farm as a template and re-plan it."

Just because every household has bricks and tile houses is enough to tempt all villagers to turn to the collective farm model.

The demonstration farm has achieved great results!

...

Xiong Wuliang knew very well that large-scale unrest would break out in Yueguo soon.

At that time, Chu will annex the Yue Kingdom according to the historical process!

The militia was organized just to prevent the thief of Shaohu Lake.

But the Shaohu Pirates are just short-term opponents. If you want to get rich from a fiefdom, you must be very interested in attacking and tsunami!

Attacking Yue is not something that these elderly, weak, women and children can do.

This requires an army with strong combat power and absolutely loyal to Xiong Wuliang.

Logically speaking, Quyang has a total population of more than 15,000, of which the young and middle-aged men of the right age can be counted as 1,500. According to the practice of two-year-olds being selected, 800 soldiers of Quyang can be reorganized.

Unfortunately, Quyang County lost its vitality in the battle between Qin and Chu and Danyang, and the private soldiers in his hands can be said to have declined.

After several years of preparations, there were only 200 Quyang soldiers.

Fortunately, there is not enough people, so the equipment is coming to make up.

If you want to make the Quyang Army's combat power soar, the best way is to smel iron and improve the weapons while trying to make all the members wear armor!

But because there is no iron ore, there is no way to start to improve iron smelting technology.

A good cook cannot cook without rice!

The largest mine in the Central Plains is the Yiyang Iron Mine in South Korea. Although South Korea is a primary school student, it has also formed an army with very strong combat power with this mine.

He is known as "Jinhan".

It is conceivable that South Korea must be strictly guarding against domestic iron ore. Even if it is sold occasionally, the price is extremely high.

In this era, iron ore, food and horses, are perfect military supplies.

Not only South Korea, for such arms materials, countries strictly restrict the sale and sale.

Of course, even without this restriction, Xiong Wuliang, a poor man, can't afford it.

However...even if there is no iron, Xiong Wuliang has a way to arm his army.

He had already ordered Shi Er to create a large number of hand-held crossbows according to the drawings.

If you don’t need to consider accuracy, the cost of this thing is really low - the raw material is wood, and the most undesirable thing in Quyang County is wood.

Of course, there is no need to consider accuracy.

Holding a crossbow can fire ten arrows in a row at a time, and one of the two hundred soldiers can use one hand, and two thousand arrows can be poured out in an instant.

Do you understand the theory of superior firepower?

The absolute quantity advantage can make up for the quality deficiency!

Anyway, there is a processing factory here, and the arrow tube is enough!

In addition to the two hundred Quyang soldiers who had a continuous crossbow, they also had a large amount of equipment for militia.

Quyang County lacks metal, and these crossbows are the most economical and affordable weapons!

If an enemy attacks, militia can fire a large number of arrows in any unexpected place, which will inevitably cause a major blow to the enemy.

Let these feudal backward elements feel what is the "the vast ocean of people's war"!

...

In the mountains and forests, a group of reckless men with hair and tattoos were walking quickly.

The man in the lead was eight feet tall, his muscles were tight, and he looked like a powerful general.

General of Yue State - Shaohu!

It is also the second commander of the Shaohu Pirates today!

Since the defeat and death of King Si Wujiang of Yue, a few years ago, the 100,000 troops of Yue State fled in all directions and were intercepted and killed by the Chu army, and were almost completely annihilated.

The living Vietnamese army fled east desperately, trying to escape back to the country of Vietnam.

However, the State of Chu had already set up heavy troops to guard the Chu-Vietnam border, and the people of Yue had no choice but to take advantage of it.

He could only occupy the lake in Quyang and was able to survive by looting the people.

The State of Chu seemed to have no intention of forgiveing ​​them, and sent troops to encircle and suppress them again and again.

Fortunately, Shaohu Lake is very large, and the pirate stars in Shaohu Lake are scattered, so the Chu army can't catch their place at all.

It is already late summer, and although it is not late autumn, there is also a harvest in the farmland.
To be continued...