Infrastructure masters in the red building

Juntun, or Tuntian, is a collective farming system to solve the shortage of military supplies.In the vernacular, it is to let soldiers farm and use the fields to support soldiers.

When the eldest prince first came to Wuyuan, he complained to Jia Fang that it was very expensive to raise soldiers; and the situation in the Pingnan camp was even more shocking-the food and salary for one member of the quota could only support half a soldier, and the officials and generals were empty. They were paid to fill their pockets, and the entire Pingnan camp claimed to have [-] soldiers, but in fact there were only [-] soldiers, barely able to withstand the threat of Nanyi—in the final analysis, it was still for money.

The solution proposed by Jia Fang is actually very simple: Isn't it insufficient food and salary?Then let the soldiers plant their own crops—as long as these soldiers don't fight all year round, and they farm and train while farming, there is absolutely no problem.

In addition, another advantage of military villages is collective farming, which facilitates the promotion of current planting techniques and production methods.More people are easier to handle, and centralized production also makes it possible for some large-scale water conservancy and public facilities projects that need to be completed together.

As in the past, Jia Fang suggested that the First Prince should start from a pilot site, and after gradually understanding the local conditions, he would summarize the pros and cons, and then extend this collective farming system to the entire south.

The preferred pilot location is naturally Wuyuan County.

Wuyuan County had previously sent [-] soldiers from the Pingnan Camp, and now [-] soldiers have been dispatched back.There were [-] soldiers left in the area.

The two thousand soldiers faced the eldest prince's two hundred cavalry all day long, and were disgusted by them in every way.

In addition to these [-] soldiers, there were [-] local bandits who were sentenced to hard labor.A total of five thousand hands, idle is also idle.In addition, although the soldiers of the Pingnan Camp are poor, they are always soldiers, just enough to deter bandits, manage and organize them to serve.

Jia Fang has already planned what to do specifically.Right now, the south has just entered winter, which is the slack time for farming.With these 5000 people, it is just enough to level the fields for 5000 people to cultivate.

Wuyuan County has a lot of land that can be reclaimed, but without the permission of the government, the people are not allowed to convert mountains, forests and swamps into cultivated land. Therefore, apart from the cultivated land that can meet the rations of 10 people in Wuyuan County, the natural environment is still relatively well preserved. good.

Originally, Jia Fang did not want to change the local topography and landforms.However, the collapse of the "Taihang and Wangwu" brought great changes to the local natural environment.

A large part of the forest has disappeared due to landslides.In its place was a wasteland of limestone rocks, large and small.The limestone thrown from these wastelands was sent to cement factories in large quantities for burning cement, exposing the soil under the gravel.

In addition, part of the original swamp was changed due to geological changes, the excess water was drained, the soil was fertile, and it could become a paddy field with a little dredging.

Therefore, Jia Fang's idea is to cultivate these two types of fields separately without damaging the local ecology.Paddy fields naturally grow rice and raise rice flower fish; dry fields have a variety of choices, and Jia Fang's cards include: corn, cotton, soybeans, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In addition, there are some lands close to mountains and forests, and Jia Fang considers planting rubber forests as commercial crops.Although in this time and space, no one has produced rubber, and no one knows what to do with rubber.But Jia Fang thought: Once such an important industrial raw material is produced, it is impossible for it to be useless.

When his suggestion was brought to the First Prince, it was naturally 100% approved.But the eldest prince's only interest in "farming" is not in these real "farming".He pulled Jia Fang and asked, "Can you cultivate a few pastures for my [-] horses to breed offspring and train excellent military horses?"

Jia Fang immediately made a bitter face: "Your Highness, I didn't pour cold water on you. In Wuyuan County, it may be okay to open a pasture for your horses to have fun, but it's really impossible to raise military horses from generation to generation. arrive."

The stables in the world suitable for use as cavalry mounts are located in the temperate middle latitudes.Wuyuan County is located in the subtropical zone, so it can only raise small horses with small body and strong load-bearing capacity, which are the "Dian horses" or "Yunnan horses" commonly used on the ancient tea-horse road.But the tall horses used by cavalrymen like the First Prince, who can charge and charge, cannot be raised.

It was the first time that the eldest prince had heard about the relationship between raising horses and temperature. This happened to be a topic he was interested in, so he followed Jia Fang behind him, asking questions again and again.

Jia Fang couldn't hold back his vigor of chasing and fighting, and said: "The metabolism is faster in areas with higher temperatures..."

The eldest prince was stunned: "Lao Liu, you always speak some strange words that people can't understand. Speak human language!"

Jia Fang had no choice but to point out: "I heard that there are some alpine meadows in Yongning Prefecture. The altitude is relatively high there, and the climate is more suitable for breeding horses. It may be possible there. If Your Highness has the time, you can go and see it yourself. Just take a look there. It doesn’t matter if the size of the horses produced is similar to your army horses.”

As soon as the eldest prince heard this, he let Jia Fang go for the time being: "That's fine, I originally planned to go to Pingnan camp in the past few days to see with my own eyes how corrupt the military affairs there are. Since you recommend it, I will drop by Go to Yongning Prefecture to see if it is possible to produce military horses there. Whether it succeeds or not, it is finally on my mind."

"Hey, I'll take away the two hundred riders, leaving only you and those soldiers and bandits, can you do it?" the eldest prince asked Jia Fang before leaving.

Jia Fang stretched out three fingers and made an "OK" gesture: "Don't worry, there must be no problem on my side."

Seeing that this posture was strange and interesting, the first prince immediately learned it, and stretched out three fingers to gesture: "Okay, then I'll go."

Jia Fang couldn't help but sigh in his heart: This family is actually very good at learning.

Here, Wu Yuan left him alone to face [-] Pingnan camp officers who were stationed in the fields, and [-] "former" bandits who were sentenced to hard labor.

But Jia Fang is not worried.Of the [-] Pingnan camp officers and troops left behind, the leading general was the adjutant he had promoted that day from the "Fire Line". His name was Wu Shenxue, and he was the brother of Wu Shenyong from the Pingnan camp.This person has been in the position of adjutant for seven or eight years, and one day he will become a leader, so he naturally refuses to let go of this opportunity to show his face in front of the superior.

Besides, although the two thousand officers and soldiers are cowardly, they are still confident in the face of the unarmed three thousand bandits.

But Jia Fang is worried about other things—5000 people have been stationed here for a long time, and they can’t sit on the ground, and they don’t even have a place to live.In addition, if you think about the long-term, you want to organize these soldiers who are stationed in the fields into a long-term force stationed in "Wuyuan-Taoyuan", to protect local law and order, and to deter evil-minded people. Willing to stay here for a long time.

This means that a natural village should be built for the soldiers in the farmland and the bandits who have been transformed into military service.

Soon, the construction plan of the new natural village was released. 5000 people, divided into two natural villages, located on both sides of the "Wuyuan-Taoyuan" high-grade highway, and the distance to Taoyuan and Wuyuan is equal.

Jia Fang was lazy again in naming the villages—in order to commemorate the victory of the bandit suppression, the two villages were named "Shengli [-] Village" and "Shengli [-] Village", collectively referred to as "Shengli New Village".

Lao Yao's cement factory has set up branch factories in Shengli No. [-] Village and No. [-] Village respectively, using local materials to produce cement continuously, and laying floors on the sites of houses in the two villages.After the floor is dry, assemble the simple activity room directly.

The current simple prefab houses are basically not the ones shipped by Baigongfang in the early years - the local carpenters have learned all the structures and can perfectly replicate them.During the reconstruction of Taoyuan Village and the construction of Shengli New Village, this kind of simple prefab houses were mass-produced and assembled.

The officers and bandits stationed in Shengli New Village were indeed prepared to live a hard life behind closed doors.No one expected that within three days, the floor would be plastered, and in two days, the frame of the house would be erected.They do it themselves, put a roof and four walls around the house, and it is a "dormitory" that can shelter from wind and rain.

After a period of intensive construction, all temporary residences in Shengli New Village have been completed and delivered for use.

All officers and soldiers have a "double room". There are two wooden couches, two tables, and two wooden boxes in the house, which can be used for soldiers to store personal belongings or as benches.

But the rooms of the bandits are even more crude. They live in big bunks for six people. There are no beds, so they can only lie on the ground on the couch made of straw.In addition, the officers and soldiers will routinely check the bandits' rooms every day to ensure that these bandits will not hide weapons privately.

Both the officers and the bandits are not used to the various new sanitation facilities. They don't understand why they can't relieve themselves everywhere, and why they must wash their hands from time to time.Although the Pingnan Jiedu envoy sent a construction team from Taoyuan Village to build them quite complicated sanitation facilities, they still didn't understand that they were all rough men, and the camp was so clean—it was waiting for a blind date to marry a wife ?

However, according to Shangfeng's instructions, the officers and soldiers must strictly supervise the bandits to develop hygiene habits.If the officers and soldiers can't do it themselves, they will be ridiculed by the bandits who serve hard labor, and they may be discovered by Shangfeng and punished.

This was a good one, and they supervised each other during the two visits. Both the officers and soldiers and the bandits in hard labor gradually got used to the new environment and new rules.

Tonghuan Sanliu was assigned to Shengli No. [-] Village. Around him were some who were rebels who had served lifelong service, and some who had been sentenced to ten years' service.After all, the fiercest among them was directly killed by those god-like cavalry that day.

After Tonghuan Sanliu arrived at Shengli No. [-] Village, he learned that he and his companions had got new names. They were no longer called "Bandits" but "Reformed Objects".All the officers and soldiers changed their minds, calling them bandits collectively "reform targets", but for specific individuals, they were still called by their names directly.

There are also officers and soldiers who will come to "admire" the famous Tonghuan Sanliu, saying that he is the original form of a famous opera character, praising him for his good looks, and asking him if there is really a girl named "Fengzhen" waiting for him.

Brass ring three six: ...

In addition, Tonghuan Sanliu and other transformation objects are scheduled to be very full every day.Every 48 of them were organized into a group and worked collectively.

The main labor of Tonghuan Sanliu is to clean up a large amount of limestone thrown on the land, shovel them up, load them on a small cart, and when the cart is full, a companion will immediately push the cart away and send it to a nearby cement factory. Pile up rocks.After the rocks are cleared, they have to loosen the soil, level the land, and clear out the fields piece by piece before they can stop.

At this time, a hale and hearty old farmer will come to inspect the land with his hands behind his back. Tonghuan heard that the soldiers call him "Old Shao".

The old Shao would check whether there was any problem with the acres they cultivated, and even go to the field to demonstrate how to ridge the fields and crush those lumps.He would smile and say to the reformed subjects: "In the future, you will see seedlings growing in the ridges of the field, crops, earing, grouting, fruiting, and harvesting... If you have never been in the field, you will never imagine that. How satisfied you will be."

Tonghuan Sanliuda grew up in a cottage and never worked in the fields.Hearing what Lao Shao said, I couldn't help but feel itchy in my heart, and I really wanted to wait until the harvest of this field, and also feel the "satisfaction" that Lao Shao said.

And Lao Shao would pack a bag of soil every time before leaving, saying that he would bring it back to Teacher Gui to test the pH of the soil—Tonghuan Sanliu was as confused as his companions, wondering if they were in the village I've been inside for so long that I don't understand the changes outside.Soil acidity?Is the land still divided into sour and salty?

Tonghuan Sanliu and his companions work about four hours a day, and they don't think it's too hard—after all, they have been bandits, and they used to be able to catch up with more than ten miles of mountain roads just to grab a bite. , Now I eat and drink every day, so naturally I have nothing to complain about.

However, what they are most afraid of is going to literacy classes.

More than 1000 bandits in Shengli No. [-] Village were divided into [-] classes, and each class took turns taking literacy classes every day.The class time is not fixed, sometimes I go to class early in the morning, and sometimes I am almost tired after a busy day, and I am rushed to class by the officers.

As for the purpose of literacy, the teacher who came to the class made it clear: "We provide you with cultural education for the purpose of curing diseases and saving lives, so as to help you more deeply understand your previous mistakes and prepare for your new life after transformation. Set a new benchmark."

"By completing the cultural education, you will get a certain number of transformation points. The more transformation points you have, the greater your chances of ending your service early. Do you understand when I say that?"

As soon as the teacher proposed to end the service early, the class immediately exploded.

"Really? Teacher, is this true?"

"I was sentenced to lifelong hard labor, can I... go out earlier?"

"Lifelong hard labor is also possible. After obtaining a certain amount of reformation points, your criminal record and current performance will be re-evaluated. If you meet the standard, you can reduce it to ten years, and if you reach the standard, you can reduce it to eight years, and so on. But getting reformation points is a necessary condition, if you don’t have any points, no matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to get a reduced sentence.”

With hope, many reformed subjects began to take literacy classes seriously.But in the past, they were always screaming and shouting, and now they work all day long. These rough guys are too incompatible with reading and writing.Many guys regard the half-hour daily literacy class and homework as torture, and some even proposed to run away for this.

"Or... let's run away!"

The subject of the renovation in the same bedroom as Tonghuan [-] took advantage of the quarter of an hour of free time before going to bed to gather their heads together to discuss.

"I also feel that this life is really hard to live on. Every day, my mind is like a paste. Who can remember that 'population is up and down'?"

Tonghuan Sanliu suddenly wanted to roll his eyes: -- isn't this already remembered?

"I see that the management here is not very strict. There are only a few night watchmen at night. We sneak out in the dark, and no one will be found. By tomorrow morning, we will already be more than ten miles away."

The management of Shengli New Village is indeed not very strict.At night, the lights are turned off uniformly, and after the lights are turned off, only a few soldiers are patrolling outside.The new village talked about installing "methane lamps", which immediately brought back the horrible memories of Tonghuan Sanliu.However, the "methane lamps" have not yet been installed, and the new village is still illuminated by torches at night.

Several young remodeling subjects discussed several ways of "running away", and everyone gathered their heads together to make a decision.

"Sanliu, what do you say?" Everyone came to seek Tonghuan Sanliu's opinion.

"I can't bear it." Tonghuan Sanliu said the truth.

"What is there to be reluctant about?" A boy next to him stretched out his hand and patted Tonghuan Sanliu's arm hard.

"I hate the canteen."

After Tonghuan Sanliu said this, the dormitory fell silent—obviously, no one wanted to part with the cafeteria.

The chefs in the canteen of Shengli New Village are simply amazing. Compared with the messy cooks in their village, the food they cook is a world away.

It is said that these canteen chefs are master chefs specially hired from Taoyuanzhai in the village. Not to mention the excellent dishes, they also use some unexpected seasonings, so that Tonghuan Sanliu and the others can eat for more than ten days without a single dish. Dishes are completely different.

The weather has turned cold recently, and Xincun is not so pleasant at night. Sometimes it is too cold to sleep.The cafeteria made Tonghuan Sanliu and the others a supper called "Army Pot". A large copper pot was placed on the fire, and all kinds of mixed vegetables, precious meat and into the water, and eggs are often beaten into it.The soup was bright red and very spicy.The chef in the cafeteria puts rice noodles into the pot, and when the rice noodles are cooked, he scoops up the soup and distributes them to everyone. Each person has a bowl, and the copper rings are eating it with a snort. I really can feel the happiness that I have never experienced before. .

At this moment, thinking of this cafeteria, thinking of having a heart-warming meal after working every day, Tonghuan Sanliu no longer wants to travel far away. Instead, serve in this "Victory New Village" and serve!

Anyway, he has accepted his fate.

If Jia Fang knew that he had worked so hard to save the "reform subjects" of the bandits who planned to escape because they couldn't stand the literacy class, he would probably be directly stunned;

But if he knows that these people are also for the delicious food in the cafeteria, and he refrained from running away, he will probably laugh three times—as expected, the charm of this "late night cafeteria" is infinite, and no one can resist it.