Chapter 15 Sowing Corn
Liao Hua urged his chopsticks to eat. He was so hungry. He had nothing to eat in the mountains recently. He occasionally caught a few wild boars.
"It's delicious, delicious. It's really delicious." Liao Hua said excitedly, and after a few chopsticks, a bowl of noodles was eaten up.
Lu Bu said: "The soldiers brought by General Liao Hua are also eating the same noodles. Of course, daily life is not so good, occasionally."
Liao Hua was very moved and said, "Thank you lord."
Not far away, the refugees brought to Liao Hua by Cheng Lian settled a barracks, each of them was a little restrained, after all, they were newcomers.
Wang Heng came over with something and said, "Do you have a fire-headed army in your battalion?"
"Yes, yes, I'm responsible for the food." An old army in his forties came out and said.
Wang Heng said: "Your camp is going to be reorganized, and you will be given your supplies today first. All of them are collected. One thousand kilograms of cornmeal, which is used for steaming steamed buns and making porridge, and one hundred kilograms of old pickles. There is also the instant noodles that the lord rewards you with, each person, put the noodles in a bowl, add boiling water and soak for a while before you can eat them."
"Okay, thank you, thank you."
Wang Heng arranged a few Huotou soldiers to teach them how to cook. The Huotou soldiers in Liao Hua's camp were used to hard life, so they dared not be extravagant. They cut pickled vegetables, cooked corn porridge, and then each person had a bowl of bone soup noodles.
Others are common, but the bone soup noodles are so delicious. They drink all the noodles soups all the time and don’t need to brush the bowls.
At this time, Lu Bu and Liao Hua also came.
The reorganization was certain. Gao Shun came to select according to the standards of the Xuzhou army. He selected 200 elite soldiers for Liao Hua, and the remaining more than 300 people were allocated to Qin Yilu for military farming.
Lu Bu said: "Don't worry, General Liao Hua is now recruiting new recruits. After the training comes out, we will add 400 new recruits to General Liao Hua."
Liao Hua said: "Okay lord. These people have a good place to go to farm, and at least they don't have to worry about eating anymore."
Wang Heng is here again, and this time he has sent two hundred sets of clothes. Since he has joined the Xuzhou army, the clothes must be unified, otherwise it will be easy to admit mistakes when fighting.
There are also two hundred sets of autumn clothes and camouflage cloth shoes.
Seeing his subordinates take off their ragged clothes and put on new clothes and shoes, they all got very happy.
Lu Bu said: "General Liao Hua's camp has few troops, so he will train with the goalkeeper General Cheng Lian first, and then set up a new camp after he has enough troops in the future."
Liao Hua said again: "Thank you for your credit, Liao Hua will definitely do what you do."
"General Liao Hua please get up quickly."
The next morning, I clicked on the Baihu Hall.
The three-way war drum sounded, and Lu Bu sat in the middle, and Chen Gong, Qin Yilu and other civil officials on the left.
On the right side, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Wei Yue and others.
Lu Bu looked around for a week and said, "This morning I will introduce you to a new brother, General Liao Hua, to you, and our Xuzhou army has grown stronger."
Liao Hua left the line and bowed to everyone, saying, "I am here to Liao Hua, please take care of you in the future."
Chen Gong said: "General Liao Hua is young and promising, he is in his twenties this year?"
“It’s twenty-three this year.”
He originally followed the original trajectory and only defected to Guan Yu after passing five passes and killing six generals more than ten years later. Unexpectedly, he defected to Lu Bu in advance because of Lu Bu's porridge.
"Okay, our Xuzhou army is a virtuous person. As long as we perform well, it will not be difficult to stand out." Zhang Liao said.
Lu Bu said: "The second thing today is Xia Pi. Although Xia Pi is our territory, no one has been appointed to manage it. This will decide to select one person to serve as the Prime Minister of Xia Pi."
The so-called Xia Pi Prime Minister is the county magistrate of Xia Pi. Xia Pi is a small town under Xuzhou. It is very small in scale, and there are only more than 100,000 people in the surrounding rural areas.
Lu Bu looked at Chen Gong, and Chen Gong understood that he was throwing the topic to him.
Chen Gong said: "Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, and Hao Meng are the pillars of the army, so they must be unable to leave. I suggest selecting one from Wei Yue, Song Xian and Hou Cheng."
Lu Bu said: "It makes sense. Do you agree with the three generals?"
The relationship between these three people is quite good, but Xia Pi is an important place and is considered a fat man.
"We agree, but we just don't know how to select," said Hou Cheng.
"Of course, we can't hurt the harmony. Everyone should train well. Ten days later. I will randomly draw fifty elite soldiers from your camp to perform a ten-mile cross-country running, bow and arrow, and discus throwing triathlon competition. The winning battalion went to Xia Pi, and the lagging battalion went to Yunlong Mountain to log in for ten days."
"Okay, okay, this method is fair." Everyone praised, and the three of them had no objection. After all, there is no need to use swords and guns in this kind of competition, and it does not hurt the harmony, but it tests the ability to train troops.
After arranging these two important things, everyone distributed their accounts and went to train the soldiers.
Lu Bu left Qin Yilu and said, "Have the remaining five thousand acres been cultivated?"
"I've sorted it out, I dug it manually and sprinkled it with the fertilizer given by the Lord's bus and ploughed it with animals. I finished it yesterday." Qin Yilu said happily.
Lu Bu exclaimed: "This year, you will make a great contribution. Let's go and plant corn and vegetables."
Lu Bu arranged a carriage and horse to pull the seeds and came to the military farm with Qin Yilu. More than 13,000 strong men were building canals along the river bank. With shovels, the work efficiency of the iron pickaxe was improved well. The canals had been built for more than ten miles long, and the canals were wandering in the farmland like spiders webs.
Qin Yilu immediately transferred the strong men over, leaving only more than 3,000 people to dig the canal.
When Qin Yilu opened the corn seeds, he saw that it was very good, and the yellow seeds were full of grains.
"Lord, is this what you said about corn with ten stones per mu?" Qin Yilu asked.
Lu Bu shook his head and said, "Ten stones should be more than ten stones, that is the most conservative estimate. It is expected to produce twenty stones. The main reason is that corn stalks are better than sorghum stalks and can be fed to horses, cattle and sheep."
"Okay, I will carefully count when I get it." Qin Yilu said.
There is no other machinery except for the cart, but corn seeds are so expensive, so it is better to use on-demand.
These people are veterans of farming, and they promised to have a good plant spacing, one digs a hole and the other planting. Two people can sow two acres of land on demand a day.
The corn grown in this season is called spring corn, with a long growth cycle, but you can eat it by breaking the corn in midsummer.
Corn that is normally grown needs to be planted until the wheat is ripe, which is called summer corn.
There are about five kilograms of corn seeds per acre, and after planting three thousand acres of corn seeds, they will disappear. The harvest period of spring corn is relatively long, and it takes at least 120 days. It is not as short as that of potatoes.
The vegetables are relatively finer. One thousand acres of small cabbage is planted, which is called fast vegetables. The seeds are relatively large and they are scattered everywhere.
"This vegetable is harvested normally forty-five days, but we plant it in a dense manner. We can observe it at any time. We can eat it and eat it once. The other 1,000 acres of vegetable gardens are distributed to each camp, with five acres of land for each hundred people, and a pigpen is built to grow vegetables in other places. You can plan it." Lu Bu arranged.
Chapter completed!