30. Changes in Qinghe Village
After a while of noisy, Changdingxiang returned to peace as the work of sacking children ended.
However, Chu He knew that after calming down, there was a hidden undercurrent hidden.
Nowadays, the countryside needs not much young and strong labor. When the farming is busy, Dingfu has not yet ended, and even Dingfu has been taken to attack the mountain tiger, which will ignite the powder barrel. Changding Township and even the entire Datong County will surely cause chaos.
Chu He must take advantage of this period of time to strengthen the power in his hands in order to protect himself and even gain benefits in the chaos.
There were less than 30,000 people in Changding Township, and no more than 8,000 young and strong people. Dan Ding Jiao drew 1,300 people. Once these young and strong people died on the battlefield, you can imagine what would happen to Changding Township.
More than a thousand young men walked listlessly on the mountain road. They were basically dressed in rags and carrying a cloth bag, which contained some dry food, clothes and some money.
In the past, there was no remuneration for military service, but this time the range of sacks was too large and the number was more, and the service was not slaughtered. Datong County decided to distribute some food to shangzhuang.
This little food must not fill your stomach. If you don’t bring some dry food and money, you may starve to death before the military service is over.
Zhao Shen, a black-faced military general, was responsible for the recruits in Changding Township, and naturally got a lot of money and was in a good mood. He hummed a little tune along the way, which was very comfortable.
Even his dozens of his men were filled with things.
However, these officials were still worried about what happened in Qinghe Village.
Then I heard a soldier with steel-toothed wild boar leather armor say to Zhao Shen angrily: "General Zhao, that Qinghe Village is really hateful."
"The people behind know the situation in Qinghe Village and resisted very hard. If the general had not decided to kill a lot of thorns, he would probably not have been enough to kill Ding Jun."
Another soldier also echoed: "The 200 young men in Qinghe Village are only worth 500 taels of silver, and those who buy the children in the future are unwilling to pay much. Otherwise, we can get more benefits."
Zhao Shen's original good mood suddenly disappeared, and it seemed that he felt a vague pain again. He couldn't help but look gloomy and said coldly: "This revenge will naturally avenge you! I didn't conflict with them before, but I was just afraid of affecting the matter of eliminating."
He pondered for a moment: "However, Qinghe Village is different from other villages. I didn't expect that they had such masters and sharp weapons. If I read that correctly, the bow and arrow in Chu He's child's hand was made of steelmaking."
"Also, that white-faced boy has a hundred-sharp steel gun in his hand!"
"With the strength of Qinghe Village, we alone cannot avenge our revenge. The county magistrate cannot send troops to attack Qinghe Village!"
The soldier in the wild boar's leather armor said angrily: "General Zhao, can we just let Qinghe Village go like this?"
Zhao Shen sneered: "Of course not! Immortal Qinghe Village, how can I swallow this tone? We can't do it, but others will do it!"
"Ma San, when you pass by Niujiao Mountain, you go up the mountain and ask for another 300 taels of silver. If they don't give it, they will personally lead the army to destroy them."
Zhao Shen's eyes became more and more sinister: "At the same time, if you ask the bandits in Niujiao Mountain to notify the Shuangfeng Mountain, you will say that Qinghe Village has magical weapons and a lot of money, silver, and food. The bandits in Shuangfeng Mountain will naturally send people to find out."
"Hehe! At that time, I will see if the thousand people in Qinghe Village can block the hundreds of bandits in Shuangfeng Mountain!"
"General is brilliant!" Several soldiers praised him repeatedly.
Chu He naturally didn't know that Zhao Shen was planning to deal with Qinghe Village.
He is quite busy now.
There are more than 100 hunting teams and village protection teams. It is not easy to train more than 100 people. Chu He also has to build barracks for them, sew standard cloth clothes, etc.
When Chu He really started to manage a team, he realized that there were too many trivial things, which was completely different from what he imagined.
The problem of the military posture of a village-protecting team alone made Chu He not complete it for three days.
These barbaric mountain people can withstand the loneliness of military posture. Often, Chu He can still keep calm when he watches. When Chu He's eyes turn, these guys will make all their small moves.
In the end, Chu He had to implement a reward and punishment system, dividing 140 people from the village protection team into fourteen teams, each team chose a captain to supervise each other.
Chu He scored them. The first five teams can add meat to two meals, while the second four teams can reduce their appetite by half. The last team will be hungry and can only have one lunch a day!
It was difficult for these guys to stand honestly for half an hour, but then Chu He was helpless.
They could not tell the difference between the left and right. No matter what Chu He used, he would tie cloth strips on his arms, punish and whip them, etc., but instead caused complaints from the young and strong.
If Chu He hadn't had the reputation of being high enough now and was a young and strong parent of food and clothing, the food and clothing of the whole village would have to be provided by Chu He, and these wild young and strong people would have long been the rebellion of Chu He.
Chu He had no choice but to skip this step and let them perform training like weight-bearing cross-country running, and strengthen their discipline in daily life.
After finally completing the training, Chu He also arranged a village protection team and a hunting team to build a barracks together.
This barracks are different from the stone, wooden, and thatched huts in the village. They need to be equipped with drainage ditches, thatched huts, etc., and Chu He himself has to do the design, which almost drove Chu He crazy.
The fields in the village cannot be really lost.
Chu He was left to Chu Zhenhai to take charge of this matter, and he had to find something for grandpa, the new patriarch.
However, Chu He advised grandpa not to plant other messy things, only rice and coarse grains and some vegetables.
Chuhe concentratedly managed these fields and signed documents with the villagers, which was equivalent to Chuhe paying money to rent their fields.
接下来楚河又尽量购买了牛马驴子,让楚铁匠打造了些新式农具,如锄头犁耙这样的,还指点了一些先进的耕作方法,如轮耕,套种,深耕等,定让能地里的出产提升许多.
Qinghe Village implements group production, which can save manpower and material resources, and can barely make up for the lack of young and strong labor.
Chu Zhishuangshuang San's Uncle and his father, Chu He did not let them be idle either.
Chu Zhishuang was responsible for leading people to investigate the terrain around Qinghe Village. He had to bring back any special stones or the like to Chuhe for viewing.
Chu Zhiquan was responsible for fishing fish in the river and raising livestock, chickens and ducks to supplement the protein consumption of the hunting team and the village protection team.
Chu He took time to draw some fishing tools, such as ground cages, fishing nets, etc., which are very helpful in increasing the fishing catch.
With Chu He's high prestige and sufficient money support, these things went smoothly.
I have to say that the productivity of this world is extremely backward. In Chu He's view, Qinghe Village has great potential and there is no need to waste youth and strong people in the fields.
For example, fishing and raising, some elderly people are competent. Children can do things like building livestock, digging earthworms, cutting pig grass, and raising chickens and ducks.
In fact, there are many resources around Qinghe Village. If the nameless river outside the village is managed properly, it can fully meet the protein needs of most Qinghe Village.
The prey caught by Huyaling, such as piglets, rabbits, etc., can be raised.
How did the villagers in Qinghe Village do it in the past? They only caught fish when they hit the ashore. They didn’t understand fishing nets or other things. The little wild boars and rabbits they caught were either sold for money or slaughtered for food, and there was no concept of reproduction.
Of course, Chu He could understand it, after all, there was no rice in the jar, so he would consider raising livestock and wait for them to grow and reproduce.
It is not unreasonable that the poor are getting poorer. Chu He has carried out reforms in the production mode because he has sufficient funds as a backing.
With the vigorous promotion of Chuhe, the situation in Qinghe Village has gradually changed.
Of course, this will happen two or three months later.
The people in the village didn't understand Chu He's approach at first, but later on, they felt the benefits of the change and became more and more active.
Ru Chu Zhiquan was responsible for the livestock farm, and gave birth to several small rabbits. Chu Si, who was responsible for taking care of the farm, received a reward of 300 yuan.
Another example is the wild duck raised by the boy from the Chu Liu family. They are getting bigger and bigger, and they are about to cut off their wings and they can lay eggs or slaughter them.
There were also women from Chu Heizi and other families who, following Chu He's instructions, weaved fishing nets and land dragons, caught many fat fish in the river, etc.
Of course, the most intuitive change is that the villagers find that they can eat enough for two meals a day, the food on their faces is gone, the face is rosy and the figure is strong, and the money box at home is getting heavier and heavier.
Chu He's reputation slowly rose and rose in these small things.
In addition to these training and protecting the countryside and transforming Qinghe Village, Chuhe has a more important task, which is to practice the Golden Bell Cover and the Breaking Wave Sword Technique.
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Chapter completed!