Cultivation Starts From Planting Sweet Potatoes

This time, he used six spirit stones to buy the management rights of two towns, and Zhang He's current territory is three times that of the original.

But now the residents of these two towns have all become refugees, and everything they see is barren, with dry and cracked land everywhere, not even a single weed.

All the trees in the mountains have only bare trunks, and the branches, leaves and bark have been eaten up by the refugees.

The current Shangling Town and Duihe Town can be said to be a blank slate, with nothing.

Of course, if the conditions are good, he still can't buy three spirit stones.

In a place like this, each town has to pay 3 million catties of grain to the city lord's mansion every year, and he might have lost money in the past few years.

Regarding the management of Shangling Town and Duihe Town, Zhang He had already thought about it. Except that there was no need to build a city or a wall, other aspects could be directly copied according to the model of Heishui Town.

Now as long as there is food, it is easy to recruit a large number of refugees to work.

Fugui, from now on Shangling Town will be handed over to you to manage, and Duhe Town will be handed over to Fat Tiger.

The two of you can choose talents from the Blackwater Army and the school to be the backbone of the town's management.

When they got there, they first recruited refugees to build water canals and divert water from the Heishui River, so as to plant crops next spring, and the grain produced next year should be able to feed the population of the town.

Don't worry, son, the task will be completed.

Fat Hu gave a salute excitedly. He, Fat Hu, can finally manage the population of a town, and he still has a future with the young master.

He had to sigh how wise it was for him to stop Zhang He in the town that winter many years ago, which directly changed the fate of their brothers.

Fugui seemed much more stable. After accepting the promise, he asked about some details.

Young Master, the Blackwater Army may be overwhelmed with the addition of two towns' defense this time. Do you want to expand the manpower?

Ma Gan is in charge of the Black Water Army, and the total number of the Black Water Army has been maintained at around 500 people.

This time, some manpower will definitely be drawn from the Blackwater Army, but the defense range has been expanded to three towns.

Zhang He didn't immediately agree when he heard the words. It was very expensive to raise an army.

What's the current security situation in Heishui Town?

Ma Gan thought for a while,

Answered truthfully:

The law and order in the town is still very good, but it is more troublesome between the wild villages.

There have been too many refugees in the past two years, and Heishui Town is the richest place in the ten miles and eight townships. Therefore, all villages need to be on guard at all times. When the number of refugees is large, the Blackwater Army will need to send cavalry reinforcements.

The most important thing is that the villagers have food stored in their homes, ranging from hundreds of catties to thousands of catties, which is inconvenient to carry. In the face of large-scale refugees and bandits, it is always easy to lose sight of one thing and lose another.

In other words, the most troublesome thing at present is to protect the food security of the tenants' homes?

Mentioning this point, Zhang He thought of an idea. He has always had such an idea, but he has never had time to implement it. Now is just an opportunity.

That's true. If it weren't for worrying about storing food at home, the soldiers from all villages could support each other. If they couldn't fight, they could retreat at any time.

In this case, I thought of a way, let's build a large number of grain depots within the walls of Heishui Town.

All tenants can be allowed to store grain in the grain depot, and the grain depot will issue paper bills to the tenants, and the tenants can exchange grain at any time with the bills.

We can call this kind of bill food stamps, which are bearer bills and can be freely exchanged among residents.

That is to say, the ticket does not recognize the person. Anyone who holds a food stamp can go to the warehouse in Heishui Town to exchange for the corresponding grain.

Zhang He's plagiarized idea immediately convinced everyone present.

Young master is a great talent, this plan is very clever!

In this way, in the future, as long as the tenants carry the receipts with them, they can easily carry hundreds of thousands of catties of grain with them, which will prevent fire, theft, and rodents and ants.

Of course, there are some different voices among the cheering voices.

If the food stamps are anonymous, what if others forge them?

Also, there will be wear and tear in grain storage. If the tenant saves a catty and takes a catty, who will pay for the loss?

That's right, and the maintenance of the granary requires labor. This seems to be a loss-making business.

Now that everyone thinks about it, it seems that helping the tenant farmers to store grain has not gained any benefits, but they have to pay for it instead. This is not in line with the behavior style of the landlord class.

I just want to help the tenants, do something for them, but do good deeds, don't worry about the future.

As for the prevention of forgery, we will find a way to overcome it.

Zhang Hehe didn't intend to explain the benefits of this to them, and he will naturally understand it later.

Printing and distributing food stamps is only his first step. After everyone gradually accepts food stamps, they can naturally change them into paper currency.

In the future, paper money will be used to replace the current gold, silver and spirit stones.

Wei Peng, you start to build the granary now.

In addition, a group of paper craftsmen should be recruited to build a paper factory to prepare for the issuance of food stamps in the future.

Magan, you form a caravan, go to the Sui Kingdom, catch some zombies and come back.

In the future, the development of Shangling Town and Duihe Town, as well as the establishment of paper mills, will require a lot of labor, and then catch a batch of zombies and come back as coolies.

As long as Heishui Town can be replaced by zombies, it will never use manpower.

In Heishui Town, vehicles pulled by zombies, zombie cranes, zombie farming vehicles, and various zombie tools can be seen everywhere.

At the same time, Blackwater Town will also produce some vehicles pulled by zombies and sell them to other counties.

Now many families in Lu country are imitating the zombie tools in Heishui Town, so that the use of zombie tools has become a big trend.

Nowadays, zombie trading markets have appeared in many places. Some people go to Sui country to catch zombies and transport them to Lu country for sale.

Although zombies have good physical fitness, all talent points are added to the body, and the brain is not easy to use. As long as you understand its characteristics, it is still easy to catch.

After this meeting, everyone received tasks and went to work on their own affairs.

Fugui and Fat Hu each led 100 black water soldiers, and selected a group of civilian staff from the school to go to Shangling Town and Duihe Town respectively.

Zhang He transferred 100,000 catties of grain to each of them as start-up capital, which was enough to recruit thousands of refugees for a month or two.

The two of them have food in their hands, so it is very convenient to do things. There is no need to deliberately publicize the news that refugees are recruited to work and have food. Soon, a large number of refugees flock to sign up.

According to Zhang He's previous arrangement, the recruited thousands of refugees focused their energy on building water conservancy projects.

It is certainly impossible to build a water network like that of Heishui Town in a short time now. As long as a channel can be drawn from Heishui River to introduce the river water to most of these two towns, the drought will be alleviated a lot.

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