Lu Bu said: "Rules are rules, and this general cannot make an exception. But in this way, each county can have a hunting team of dozens of hunters, who receive government training, pass the training, and send bows and arrows, hunt and protect people in normal times, and participate in wartime, which will be perfectly solved."

This is an organization similar to the village soldiers. Although there is not much money to get, there are still many benefits.

Xu Wu said: "The villain is willing to join the hunting team."

This is a matter of Donghai County, and Lu Bu will definitely not manage it beyond the level.

"Waiting for the government's notice, we will train and issue bows and arrows. There are many requirements for bows and arrows hunting. I think you are a senior hunter, so you can organize the rules and make it possible for your colleagues to refer to each other." Lu Bu said.

Xu Wu was very happy and went back to sort it out. He was illiterate and needed to find a teacher from the village to write it down.

Lu Bu talked with Xu Wen for a long time and learned about the situation in the mountains.

The farmer breeds in this area have a long history, mainly green goats, white goats, small yellow oxes, and black donkeys. Most of the wealthy families have thousands of sheep and hundreds of cows. There are fewer small families, a few sheep and one or two cows.

The mountains here are very thin, with only a deep piece of soil, poor drought resistance, and sorghum cannot grow.

The reason is that farmers do not have good farm tools to dig deep into the land, and ordinary blacksmith shops cannot create sharp pickaxes.

Moreover, there are no particularly good crop varieties, which leads to a small mountain harvest, and can only rely on breeding as the main source of income.

The best crops to adapt to the mountains are sweet potatoes and peanuts. These two crops like sandy land and can be harvested even in poor areas. Moreover, sweet potato seedlings and peanut seedlings are good animal feed.

Xu Wen said: "As long as the overall environment is stable, life in the mountains is still OK. Not only can you eat food, but you can also eat meat. The main reason is that the taxes and fees cannot be too high."

Lu Bu knew a lot and said, "Let Mr. Xu Ting go back first. I will take a day off and it's time to go to Tancheng tomorrow."

Xu Wen stood up and said goodbye.

Lu Bu didn't believe Xu Wen's words very much. He was the pavilion chief and a small local official. He represented some of the ideas of local wealthy families.

Listen to both sides, and Lu Bu needs to listen to different voices.

Lu Bu only brought Feng Xiong Huaji and Xu Sheng, and the four of them went east to a small mountain village by the river. Xu Sheng was a nearby person and sometimes he could translate the local dialect that he couldn't understand.

On the hillside, a man in his thirties was digging in the ground. When he looked up, he saw four generals riding horses coming. He was shocked and quickly saluted.

Lu Bu bowed and said, "Men, let's take a break, I will ask you to find out the situation."

The man dared not say no, and said, "Okay, I just happened to be tired of doing it."

Lu Bu and four others dismounted, and Lu Bu talked with the man who was digging the ground.

Lu Bu looked at this piece of land with semen stone, with less soil and more sand.

"Your hoe is short and small, and the ground is so hard, how can you dig it?"

The man said bitterly: "The villain has old people and young people. There are only ten acres of mountainous land at home. If you don't dig hard, you can't even pay the taxes. This land is just planted with millet, cowpeas, buckwheat, and nothing else grows."

Lu Bu tried his hoe, as expected, without a deep sweep, the land with such shallow water retention is very poor.

Lu Bu took a pickaxe from Feng Xiong's horse's back and handed it to the man, saying, "You try digging the ground with this to see if you can dig the ground deeper."

The man was a little scared and dared not answer.

"It's okay, just dig it out, you don't have to worry about it if it is broken."

The man then took it, and the pickaxe was heavy and sharp, and he dug it up with a crack.

The seemingly hard cranberries became as vulnerable as tofu under the heavy blow of the steel pick.

"Awesome, amazing, so amazing. If you dig this hillside, you can at least double the yield. But we can't buy this kind of agricultural tools made of good steel, and we can't afford it, either." The man said regretfully.

"Stop talking about the common people, this thing is a rare good thing in the Xuzhou army. If you lend this pickaxe to you for a year, but you need to pay 100 kilograms of sorghum, would you like?"

"I'm willing, I'm so willing. I can use this pickaxe to take advantage of the slack season to dig all the land in my home, which will increase the yield a lot. The general doesn't know that if the ground is shallow, it's easy to drought."

Lu Bu smiled and said, "I am very familiar with farming. After deep sweeping, the yield will be repeated."

The man was quite surprised, but he didn't expect that the general in front of him could still know how to farm.

"The government has started to do this recently. At that time, any farmers who need a pickaxe can take a handful of them home for use. There is also a kind of sweet potato that is suitable for the growth of the mountainous areas, with a per mu yield of about 5,000 kilograms. People can eat and feed livestock. I wonder if you are willing to plant it?"

"I'm sure I'm willing to plant it, but I'm afraid the government will not release seedlings."

"Yes, the government will issue it soon."

The man bowed and said, "Thank you, General, so that tens of thousands of people in the mountains can get a lot of income."

The group continued to walk forward, walking on the mountain path, and seeing that the crops on both sides were indeed growing very well.

Some farmers are exposed to the ground, so fertilization is not in place.

Feng Xiong reminded: "Lord, there are 10,000 or 20,000 people in this area, each household, and at least 3,000 people are needed. This thing can be expensive."

"The mountains are not harmed by soldiers, and the population is quite large. Distribute agricultural tools and new varieties of grain crops, so that production can be quickly resumed in the mountainous areas in the northern part of Donghai County. Only when production is restored can the government receive food and grass, forming a virtuous cycle. What we want is to turn it into a large granary here. What we want is not for free. A pickaxe can have a hundred kilograms of grain a year, which is not low." Lu Bu said.

Xu Sheng reminded: "At that man's shovel was just a small piece of iron. He had to go through the procedures for sending an iron pickaxe. It would be better to add another shovel and add twenty kilograms of grain appropriately."

"It makes sense. One sheep is to be released, and a group of sheep is also released. It seems that it will be accelerated. When we arrive in Tancheng tomorrow, Hou Cheng will be arranged to start doing this. Distribute farm tools, sweet potato seedlings, and pumpkin seedlings, and support farmers in the mountainous areas of this area first."

The government is very systematic in doing things. It is distributed in village units, with household registration books and land deeds registered and distributed. There is no need to worry that someone will take them away and not return them.

Tancheng is an ancient city under Xuzhou. It has never been tested for many years. Anyway, it has existed since the beginning of the Han Dynasty. The most famous thing in Tancheng is the ginkgo tree, and there are many ginkgo trees planted in and outside the city.

When Lu Bu arrived at the south gate of Tancheng, thousands of refugees outside the city were drinking porridge.

The situation is similar everywhere, and there are always some homeless refugees.

Things that starve people to death are more or less happening.

When Hou Cheng saw Lu Bu coming, he was very happy and hurried over to salute.

"Master, why are you here?" Hou Cheng said.
Chapter completed!