Before and after the Double Ninth Festival, Wen Yuan went to the camp to practice every day, eating and living with the soldiers. On September 10, the military posture training in the army finally ended. Wen Yuan began to make the soldiers learn the method of marching in formation, and familiarize themselves with flags and banners, etc.
wait.
In addition to training, there is another important thing that must be carried out, and that is to open up wasteland for farming!
It is late autumn now, and the weather is getting colder. In more than a month, the ground will be frozen, and it will be even more difficult to open up wasteland by then.
In addition, Wenyuan had 1,300 regular soldiers, but nearly 1,500 baggage soldiers. Now that the soldiers had no combat missions, there were obviously more baggage soldiers. Wenyuan just happened to take a thousand men from them to open up wasteland and farm.
On September 11, Wen Yuan came to the north of the city with more than a thousand heavy troops and more than two thousand young men. These more than a thousand young men were the common people in the city and relatives of Wenyuan's army sergeants. These people came to help open up wasteland. Although Wen Yuan
They don’t pay wages, but they still take care of two meals a day. Now that the autumn harvest has just passed, it’s the slack season. As soon as these young men heard that they would open up wasteland and take care of food, they all signed up enthusiastically. If it weren’t for Wen Yuan, he wouldn’t have enough food.
, I’m afraid all the young people in Xiaquyang will have to come.
As early as when Wen Yuan entered the city, he had already ordered his subordinates to explore around the city to see where there was a lot of wasteland and where the soil was fertile. Finally, Wen Yuan chose an area in the north of the city near the south bank of the Hutuo River, which is close to the river beach and has good soil quality.
Fertile and easy to draw water for irrigation, it is a rare fertile land. Originally, fertile land like this would never have been left idle waiting for Wen Yuan to open it, just because during the Yellow Turban Rebellion, wealthy families had their homes confiscated or fled everywhere.
These fertile fields gradually became deserted. After that, although small people and small households came to open up wasteland in the north of the city, the number was limited after all. Moreover, the Yellow Turban Rebellion started in Julu, and it was like this in the entire county.
There are more than 3,000 people, and more than 3,000 hoes alone are needed. This one is easy to find. Wenyuan searched the inventory of the iron shop in the entire county and gathered it together. The matter of plowing is more troublesome. There are more than 1,000 people in Wenyuan's army.
On weekdays, Wen Yuan had his soldiers serve the cows like treasures, just so that they could be used for plowing in the future. However, it was difficult to equip so many iron plows at the same time. Therefore, as soon as Wen Yuan arrived in Quyang, he urgently ordered the county to
Inside, the blacksmiths in the army stepped up their efforts to build them and sent people to Lin County to buy them. It was not until now that so many iron plows were gathered together.
Wen Yuan led a large group of people to the field, and each person was assigned a piece of land. A dozen heavy soldiers spread out with small drums on their backs. Wen Yuan looked at Zhang Yu beside him, and Wang Li said with a smile: "You two, you have
Don’t you have the guts to compete with me? "
"Okay, young master! I won't let you open the field," Zhang Yu said with a cheerful smile.
"If the adults compete, the villains will naturally accompany you!" Wang Li also responded solemnly.
Wen Yuan chuckled and said, "Okay, then let's compete. Whoever loses will be punished by not eating meat for three days!"
Zhang and Wang nodded in agreement. Wen Yuan immediately raised his hoe and swung it down with a roar. The heavy soldiers beat the small drums, and the sound was as dense as raindrops!
Since many of the wastelands to be reclaimed are good fields that have been cultivated before, it does not require much effort. You only need to remove the weeds on the edges of the fields and plow them over with an ox-drawn plow.
Wen Yuan swung his hoe one after another to open up the grass roots buried in the ground. How could he have done this in his previous life? After a while, sweat appeared on his forehead. Fortunately, his current body didn't know
He is many times stronger than in his previous life, and he can work much faster than the supply soldiers who were born from farmers around him.
When he looked back, he saw Zhang Yu screaming and waving the hoe in his hand. Seeing that he was making the slowest progress, he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. On the other hand, although Wang Li was silent, he was hoeing like the wind, even slower than himself.
But it's only a little different.
The soldiers around him saw that their leader was working so hard, and none of them dared to neglect him. The young men also worked enthusiastically thinking that they would have free meals.
In just one morning, more than 3,000 people cultivated more than 1,000 acres of farmland.
Wen Yuan rubbed his sore and numb arms and sat on the soft ground. In one morning, he cleared out almost an acre of land, which was almost three times that of ordinary soldiers. Everyone stared at him in amazement. Zhang Yu only opened an acre of land.
Out of the fourth place, Wang's strength was just a little less than Wen Yuan's. When a group of people saw how powerful their lord was, they all expressed their admiration.
"It's dinner! It's dinner! Let's stop and have a rest and have a good meal." The sound of banging was heard, and a dozen strong women rushed over pushing wheelbarrows and bowed their heads.
Wen Yuan's waist had never straightened up since he started swinging the hoe. Now when he straightened up, he suddenly felt that his whole body was sore, NND, it was really more tiring than fighting a bloody battle.
Opening up wasteland is a laborious job, and Wen Yuan doesn't want his subordinates to be lazy because they don't have enough to eat, so they give them plenty of food, which are solid pancakes or cornmeal. On weekdays, they get some wild vegetables to make soup, and they have to add more every few days.
Meat dishes.
Because it was the first day, every worker was given a bowl of broth. Many of them might not have had any meat for a long time, but when they saw the fragrant broth, they couldn't help but shed tears, and many of them shed tears.
People were reluctant to drink it, so they kept it carefully and took some home to the elderly and children at home.
They can have a full meal, and all the strong laborers who are recruited to work have happy smiles on their faces. General Zhang is a good man, he has no official airs at all, he smiles warmly to everyone, and he has lived for half his life.
, have you ever seen such a big official working in the fields? Not only did he work more than the average person, but he also ate the same as these poor people. Compared with him, those officials in the past were really just beasts. They often
Not to mention not paying wages to the people, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are as much as a drop of ox hair. General Zhang's army is also very disciplined, unlike those armies that have been here before, who robbed like bandits as soon as they entered the city...
After the meal, Wenyuan and the enthusiastic people continued to open up wasteland and opened up more than a thousand acres of farmland.
The reason why he was so anxious was that at this time, even Wen Yuan started to panic. The food and grass in his hands were originally only enough to feed three thousand people for a year, but after his repeated efforts, more than two hundred people
The army's food supply is not even enough to last for three months! In other words, in more than a month, Wen Yuan's soldiers will be out of food.
Zhang Zha came to advise him several times, asking Wen Yuan to make plans in advance, either to reduce everyone's food supply, or to find a way to raise a batch of food and grass as soon as possible. Wen Yuan thought about it but was still at a loss, and he couldn't bear it.
Almost the whole person has lost weight.
On this day, Wen Yuan was clearing land in the north of the city, when he suddenly heard that Han Fu, the governor of Jizhou, had sent someone with a letter, and he was already waiting at the county government office.
The clerk hurried back to the county government office, only to see an elegant scholar standing in front of the hall, who turned out to be Han Fu's confidant Xin Ping. The two exchanged greetings, and then each took his seat.
During the conversation, Wen Yuan had already opened Han Fu's letter. The letter explained to Wen Yuan in detail what happened in Luoyang in August. If historical development happened, He Jin did not listen to the loyal advice and entered the palace and was killed by the eunuch. Dong Zhuo took advantage of the civil strife in Luoyang.
, brazenly led heavy troops into the city, and then had a falling out with Ding Yuan because of the proposal to depose the young emperor Liu Bian, so Zhonglang bribed Li Su to his fellow villager Lu Bu, killed Ding Yuan and captured all of them. In the letter, Han Fu comforted Wen Yuan with many gentle words.
, advised him to refrain from mourning and surrender, and just stay in Jizhou. If there is any need in the future, he is willing to fully support it.
This letter was obviously a letter of appointment for Wen Yuan. Han Fu, as the governor of a state, could be so condescending as to write such a letter to him as a small captain. An ordinary person would have been a long time ago.
I am already grateful and swear to serve, but who is Wen Yuan? He has traveled from the past life and is very aware of the development of history. In more than two years, this Jizhou shepherd will be deprived of his foundation by Yuan Shao, and he will follow closely.
Suicide out of fear, leaving Wen Yuan to seek refuge with this mediocre man who can't survive for long? Even if Wen Yuan has no long-term plans for the future, he will never be willing.
But at least the superficial work for the moment still needs to be done, and if it is handled properly, maybe it can be paid back. Before Wen Yuan could close the letter, tears had already fallen, and he said sadly: "Oh! Ding Gong."
!I didn’t expect my husband and I to leave the capital and never see each other again!”
Wen Yuan's suffering was not completely artificial. Ding Yuan was kind to him, so it was really sad to hear the news of his death!
Xin Ping was busy trying to comfort him, but Wen Yuan just cried bitterly. Xin Ping tried to persuade him several times and sighed with emotion: "General Zhang is a true righteous man! General, please express your condolences and discuss revenge in the future!"
After a while, Wen Yuan stopped his sorrow and said through gritted teeth: "Old thief Dong Zhuo! I will cut off your head to relieve this hatred!"