Lu Bu looked at the dilapidated city wall, the unclothed refugee, and said, "I'm worried that you won't be able to suppress the scene, so come and cheer you up."

Hou Cheng shook his head and said, "If you don't want to be an official, you will find the difficulty of becoming an official. The refugees need relief, the city walls need to be repaired. The rivers need to be dredged, and the money, grain and flowers are the same. There are no big tyrants in the local area, and the government orders are still smooth. The clerks at all levels of the county government will be ready immediately. When the personnel are ready and each performs their duties, I will be relaxed."

When Lu Bu said that the idea of ​​distributing agricultural tools was very supportive, because the effect of distributing agricultural tools in Teng Kingdom was very obvious.

Donghai County has a large area, with as many as ten counties. Among them, the mountainous areas are mostly Shanting and Liangqiu. It is connected to Langya in the north, and some places do not even have a boundary.

Because of the natural barriers in the mountains, the population in the mountains did not decrease much during the war, which is a good thing. However, the conditions in the mountains are poor, and the wealthy families occupy fertile land, while the poor people only have barren mountains.

What Lu Bu has to do now is to support the poor.

Hou Cheng suggested: "Lord, as far as I know, the mountainous areas in that area are deeply influenced by Confucius and Mencius's teachings. The gentry is relatively enlightened, at least they do not have that kind of excessive exploitation of the people. Moreover, the people in the mountainous areas have a characteristic, that is, they are very grateful and know how to be grateful. Since the lord is willing to take out thousands of sets of shovels and picks, why not add thousands of wheelbarrows? Only in the mountainous areas can they truly play a role. Most of the wheelbarrows in the army are idle except when fighting, but they are different in the hands of the people. They can be pushed every day when they go to the fields to work."

Lu Bu touched and said, "It's not like falling into the pit." At first, he just wanted to give a pickaxe to dig for the people. Later, he thought that their shovels were not good, so he added another shovel, and now he asked to add a wheelbarrow."

"Forget this wheelbarrow, it costs five or six hundred cents per car." Lu Bu felt a little distressed.

Hou Cheng said: "What the lord wants to be is not a Taiping official. We have to rely on these people to support us in the Central Plains. It is not possible to do without a strong grain and grass reserve. It is better to send it to the people together for 800 ci, and pay it once in three years. This will play a great role in promoting grain production."

After all, it turns out that Lu Xiaoqiang's small peasant thoughts are causing trouble. Sometimes it is a stingy one. Instead of shoulder-carrying wheelbarrows, it is a huge improvement in productivity.

Yes, it is not for nothing to be given to you when you give it up. Moreover, during these three years, each household has to serve in the government for one month every year.

"This wheelbarrow can be named Xinyi Car. At that time, farmers who pay back the money normally can nail a praise Xinyi sign on the door sign of his house. If they do not speak of Xinyi, they will be marked with the opposite sign." Hou Cheng said.

"It makes sense. In this way, Langya and Dongguan in the north can go down without a fight. Hou Cheng's proposal is good. When the general returns, arrange for people to send shovels, pickaxes, and wheelbarrows to the mountain pavilion. You first arrange for local officials to do a good job in publicity and registration, and then the items will be distributed directly to farmers as soon as they arrive. However, I ask you to supervise the situation to ensure that these things can be truly distributed to farmers, rather than to local tyrants." Lu Bu emphasized.

"Don't worry, lord, I will definitely go there in person and preside over the distribution." Hou Cheng promised.

Hou Cheng also cultivated 10,000 mu of land around Tancheng. Because he came late, he planted corn and sweet potatoes.

There are more than 1,500 small yellow cattle and 300 donkeys grazing on a small hill nearby.

This was purchased by Hou Cheng with the money allocated by Lu Bu.

Local scalpers have grown up between mountains all year round, with round and small hooves, thin and hard legs, and a small figure that is only about 500 kilograms to be converted into a market kilogram. This is very small, so it is called a scalper.

Among them, there were more than 800 cattle, all of whom were veterans who were ploughing and pulling carts. There were more than 300 cows and four hundred calfs.

There are more than 300 donkeys.

And according to Hou Cheng, a lot of donkeys and oxen can be harvested here one after another.

Lu Bu was very happy. Xuzhou has not had much animal power, and it takes a large number of livestock to pull carts in arable land. Now he has finally accumulated some of it.

Lu Bu ordered the Marquis Lu Tong to escort eight hundred cattle back to Xuzhou to increase the transportation efficiency of military farmland and supplies in Xuzhou.

This kind of little yellow cattle is very capable of walking. He travels seventy or eighty or even hundreds of miles a day, and can normally keep up with the pace of infantry marching.

Seeing that Lu Bu needed a lot of animal power, Xu Sheng said, "Lord, there are many large animals such as cows and donkeys in our Ju County. The lord can send a caravan to purchase."

"We can use it for the time being, so we have to take it slowly. If you step too big, you will easily fall. Langya Xiang Xiaojian has not surrendered yet, so don't rush to go there." Lu Bu said.

In the next few days, Hou Cheng sent more than 100 cavalrymen to drive cattle, commander Lu led 200 cavalry escorted him, and slowly transported more than 800 cattle back to Xuzhou.

These cattle are raised by farmers one by one, not as easy to drive as the cattle on the grassland. They need to tie a rope and take it. It takes nearly three days to reach the land of 170 or 80 miles.

During this trip, Lu Bu brought about 50,000 bags of Wenhou melon seeds, all of which were handed over to Hou Cheng, and asked him to arrange for distribution.

Mountainous areas are more suitable for growing pumpkins, which are very easy to produce and harvest.

Once the sweet potatoes and pumpkins spread, they will never be hungry again in normal years.

Early this morning, Lu Bu led more than a thousand cavalry to continue traveling eastward and drove to Qu County, a seaside in Donghai County.

First, it is to show the military power to intimidate the sluts, second, it is to see if the ocean can be developed in this year.

You should know that the ocean is rich in fish. If you can catch a lot of fish, you will no longer have to worry about food.

Qu County is the area around Lianyungang, which is under the jurisdiction of Donghai County. The population is still acceptable. There are about 30,000 people in the county town, and about 50,000 people in rural areas and fishing villages. This is a large population these days.

One of the most important purpose of Lu Bu coming here was to prepare a salt field and fishing port directly belonging to the governor's mansion.

Needless to say, fish is an important source of food.

Before we arrived at the beach, the soldiers smelled the sea breeze and started talking too much. These men from Bingzhou and Xiliang had never seen the sea.

"Look, look, what a big sea." Feng Xiong said, pointing to the vast sea in front.

Huaji said: "That's not, it's much bigger than Weishan Lake."

Xu Sheng quickly stayed away from these two fools to avoid lowering his IQ.

"Select a place and set up a camp. After setting up a camp, everyone will go to see the sea in batches." Lu Bu ordered.

"yes."

The soldiers were very happy and had to say that their general was good. The general brought everyone to travel around the mountains and rivers. If he went back to Xiliang, he would be able to play for the rest of his life. I have also seen the sea.

Feng Xiong, Hua Ji and Cao Ping led the cavalry to camp.
Chapter completed!