Go to ancient times and engage in construction

Chu Chaohui set it on fire very happily, and Zheng Yuming started to leave early and return late for the post-disaster reconstruction of Nanbu.If Zheng Yuming returned to the valley too late this time, Chu Chaohui's tall and slender figure would no longer be seen in the gap passage.

The barracks in the valley were ready for use. Chu Chaohui took Wei Qing and fifty slave soldiers to the west of the valley to start training. They ate, drank and lived in the barracks. He needed to discuss things with Zheng Yuming, so he sent Wei Qing to bring the letter to the villa.Zheng Yuming could see from Wei Qing's black and tired face that the training intensity of the slave soldiers was very high.

A total of [-] villagers whose houses were burned down, and the other five or six were workshops and Yu Kui's closed wine shop.Before setting the fire, Chu Chaohui stated that it was the residential houses that would compensate for the new brick and tile houses, and that the moving expenses would be subsidized, and that the workshops would be distributed to them after the shops were built.As soon as Chu Chaohui's compensation plan came out, the villagers on both sides of the village road scrambled to move out the things in their houses, and vacated the house for the slaves in the valley to light the fire.Some villagers who were not in the burning area looked at the fire and sighed, lamenting that the location of their house was too late, otherwise the mud house would be turned into a brick house after a fire.

The rebuilt new houses were not built on the original site, but only rezoned on the edge of the village for construction.In order to finish the house before the autumn harvest, the brick kilns in Nanbu and the valley began to burn bricks and tiles day and night. The wood factory suspended shipbuilding to make beams and wooden beams, and the decoration of the governor's mansion was also suspended.Zheng Yuming charged high prices, attracting villagers from Houpo and Qianzhuang to come to Nanbu to do small labor.After hearing the news, Chen Meng and the patriarch of the Guo clan also sent their care, and sent slaves who could build houses to help Nanbu build houses.In this way, the villagers who got up early and went into the dark, and finally had their houses burnt down, moved into their new houses before the harvest.

The japonica rice variety in the villa kitchen can only be planted as a single-season late rice. The seedlings are planted in May of the lunar calendar, harvested after the cold dew and before the frost, and soybeans are also harvested in the field at the same time.

When the rice fields in Nanbu and the valley were golden, except for the female workers in the textile factory, all factories and workshops in Nanbu and the valley stopped working. The children were not spared, and those who were too young to cut the rice would hold the baskets and pick up the leftover ears of rice in the harvested rice fields, and they must return the grains to the warehouse.

In this time and space, there are no machines for harvesting and threshing, and everything has to be done manually. Fortunately, the convenient agricultural tools of later generations were all thought out by Zheng Yuming. The villagers and slaves had auxiliary tools, and the speed and efficiency of harvesting grain was greatly improved. It was snatched up.

Because of the enhanced irrigation of cultivated crops and improved management techniques, the output of winter wheat in Nanbu has increased by 700% compared with previous years, and soybeans have also increased by 8%. The cultivation is fine, and the soil quality is particularly fertile, reaching 9 or [-] jin.The heavy rice makes the villagers in Nanbu and the slaves in the valley smile. Such a high yield is unheard of, especially when the rice is peeled into rice through a stone mortar and let them eat delicious white rice, the villagers and slaves feel that all All the hard work is worth it.

The crops in the fields of Nanbu Village are only japonica rice and soybeans. In addition to soybeans, there are seven or eight mu of sweet potatoes, one mu of corn, and more than two mu of potatoes in the valley. Potatoes can be grown in two varieties a year. It is the second planting.Seeds from only two pumpkins, and after careful care, more than 100 pumpkins were harvested.By next year, in addition to japonica rice and sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes and pumpkins will be able to be planted on a large scale in Nanbu and valleys.

After the crops in the field are harvested, the stubble left in the ground must be taken back, because there are many overwintering insect eggs and germs hidden in it.The stubble in the field was cleaned up, and the field was turned over with a plow pulled by oxen, and the field was trimmed, and wheat seeds and rapeseed were sprinkled into the soil.

The main crops in Nanbu and Valley in the first half of next year are wheat and rapeseed.

People in this time and space do not know how to extract vegetable oil, and all they eat are animal oil.Rapeseed, soybeans, sunflowers, and peanuts are the four major oil crops in the world. In the local area, there are only soybeans, and rapeseed has only the original types—cabbage seeds and mustard seeds.Rapeseed, the original type of rapeseed, does not have as high a rate of oil yield as the later generations of rapeseed. There are a few later generations of rapeseed on the vegetable field of the villa, and the harvested rapeseeds are too few.In order to eat vegetable oil, Zheng Yuming bought a large number of rapeseed seeds and planted them first when the cabbage seeds and mustard seeds were harvested, and replaced them when there were enough rapeseed seeds.

After the autumn harvest, the villagers had to pay taxes to the main family. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were not generous this time, and even collected the spring taxes.Because the yield of rice per mu is too high, after the villagers pay one-third of the grain, the grain in the granary at home still increases unprecedentedly.All the grain paid by the villagers was transported back to the valley. Before the special granary was built in the valley, the grain was temporarily stored in the warehouse of the barracks. After the special granary was built in winter, the grain would be moved there.In order to prevent mice, the barn raised more than a dozen tabby cats to catch mice, and specially sent an older slave to take care of them.

After the Frost's Descent, the villagers of Nanbu could finally take a break from the intense farming work.The villagers soaked soybeans, ground tofu, plucked rice, ate persimmons and wild chestnuts from the mountain, and enjoyed the fruits of their labor.

There is not much farm work in the fields in winter, but there is a lot of work in Nanbu village.Shops will be built on both sides of the village road, and the ancestral hall in the village will be rebuilt. After the reconstruction, it will be used as a school except for the New Year and festivals.

In order to improve the learning interest of the people in Nanbu Village, except that children over six years old are required to go to school, if other villagers go to night school to practice calligraphy at night, they can learn one hundred characters, and the family tax can be reduced by one dollar a year, and two hundred characters can be reduced. Two buckets, and so on.Sure enough, material promotes civilization. As soon as this order came out, the rebuilt ancestral hall school was overcrowded at night. Two teachers in Nanbu Village who could only read a few hundred characters yelled that they couldn't bear it. After half a month, they asked Zheng Chu call for help.

Because most of the literate people are aristocrats, it is impossible to invite someone with a little knowledge to come to Nanbu as a teacher. No aristocrat is willing to put down his airs and go to Nanbu to teach ordinary people. Bu personally taught the villagers, so he could only assign Fan Jin to Nanbu to train them at night. Huo Sihua, who was nine years old, made up the cultural lessons for the adult slaves in the valley at night. Zheng Yuming would also teach one or two when he was free. As for Chu Chaohui, He takes care of both civil and martial arts for soldiers.

Poor Fan Jin, he had to teach slave children in the valley during the day, and went to Nanbu as a guest tutor at night, and he had to study by himself in a little spare time. He was so busy that he had to count the time in the latrine.However, Fan Jin is very busy, and the material rewards given by the valley are also very high. Before the Spring Festival this year, Fan Jin will have his own brick and tile building in the valley. He is the third slave in the valley to have his own residence.

At the beginning of winter, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui completed the construction of the Governor's Mansion in Nanbu.Said it was a mansion, but Zheng Yuming actually built it as an office.On the day the mansion was completed, Chu Chaohui stopped training for a day, and together with Zheng Yuming held a banquet to celebrate the new residence in the new mansion.

After hearing the news, Young Master Guang came to congratulate himself. All the nobles in Dacheng saw that the city lord had gone in person, and hurriedly followed. Wu Da, who was in charge of receiving gifts, almost broke a brush.

There are not many houses in Nanbu Governor's Mansion, but the yard is big enough. When Zheng Yuming learned that Young Master Guang was coming, he ordered people to build a reed shed in the yard.

Nanbu's new house banquet was not the most luxurious banquet in Dacheng, but it was definitely a memorable one.Under the leadership of Mrs. Su, the slave chefs in the valley cook food by mixing, frying, roasting, boiling, steaming, frying, popping, frying, boiling, stewing, shredding, and slipping.Compared with the nobles who had only eaten simple cooked food, they were dazzled by Mrs. Su's various cooking methods.Mrs. Su's cooking skills were taught by Zheng Yuming while eating.

Some vegetables from the greenhouse in the valley were not on the table today. Zheng Yuming was afraid that the out-of-season dishes would attract the attention of the nobles, so he only served some seasonal dishes.For example, sweet potatoes are made into shredded rice, pumpkins are made into pumpkin cakes, soybeans are made into tofu and dried tofu, glutinous rice is made into eight-treasure rice, and crabs caught in rice fields are steamed.

"This sweet potato can not only be boiled, but also fried and shredded. The taste is much better than boiled." Chen Meng is very fond of sweet potatoes, and sent people to Nanbu to ask for sweet potatoes. Zheng Yuming was afraid that there would be not enough seed potatoes left, so he warned Chen Meng If Meng continues to eat like this, next year Chen's sweet potato seedlings will be eaten up by him.Chen Meng immediately stopped asking for sweet potatoes.At today's banquet, he can feast on his mouth.

"Zheng Qing, what is this? The color is really beautiful." Young Master Guang held up a piece of pumpkin pie.

"This is pumpkin, which can strengthen the spleen, prevent gastritis, prevent night blindness, and protect the liver." In fact, pumpkin can also make the skin tender and neutralize carcinogens.Zheng Yuming thinks that for men, beauty is of secondary importance. As for neutralizing carcinogens, Young Master Guang doesn't understand.

"Oh, it's such a good thing!" Young Master Guang took a bite and tasted it, then said to Wei Shen, "Wei Sheren, you have a bad stomach, eat more of this rare thing."

"Yes! Young Master." Wei Shen's expression was moved. Young Master Guang was very concerned about his health. Whenever Wei Shen felt a little unwell, Young Master Guang would feel restless when he heard about it.

"By next year, this thing can be greatly planted, and then Mr. Wei can use it frequently."

Wei Shen took a bite of the pumpkin pie, it tasted sweet but not greasy, a crunchy and delicious taste spread from the tip of his tongue, he couldn't help nodding his head twice, if this thing could cure his stomach problems, it would be much better than herbal medicine , he is willing to enjoy this golden pancake every day.

"Governor Chu, how is the training of the slaves going? Can you use the weapons sent by Hyogo?" Wei Shen was in a good mood, eating pumpkin pie, and casually asked about Chu Chaohui's training of the self-defense force.

"Weapons are good, but there is one thing that is not suitable for slaves to use." Chu Zhaohui stood up and answered Wei Shen respectfully.

"What is inappropriate?" Although the weapons sent to Nanbu were obsolete, they were also very valuable. In this time and space, everything that is linked to metal is very expensive, and even the expensive things were said to be inappropriate by Chu Chaohui. Wei Shen's face was a little hesitant when he heard this.

"It's ten sets of armor." Chu Zhaohui didn't seem to see Wei Shen's downcast face.

"Why doesn't the armor fit?" Wei Shen's eyes narrowed, and there was a faint cold light inside.These ten sets of armor were the best items from the Hyogo to be sent to Nanbu. Wei Shen didn't want to give them away, but he was afraid that his son would be dissatisfied if he found out, so he gritted his teeth and sent them.

"It's not that the armor is bad, it's that the slaves are not suitable for wearing armor." Chu Chaohui lowered his head while talking, and Zheng Yuming, who was sitting next to him, followed suit with his nose down.

"Slaves are not suitable for wearing armor?" Wei Shen glanced at the slaves in charge of guarding the yard. Standing together with the soldiers, these slaves were not only half a head shorter in stature, but also weighed ten or twenty catties lighter.These slaves were still the group of thin and weak ghosts he had inspected in the Nanbu fire.

"The slaves put on armor, and they couldn't bear it one by one. I want to equip them with lighter armor."

"But these armors are already the lightest." Wei Shen listened to Chu Chaohui's explanation, and the hesitation in his heart immediately dissipated. It turned out that Chu Chaohui was not ignorant of good and evil, but that the slaves could not support the wall with mud.

"The slaves can't bear the weight, and I want to replace the armor with something else."

"Oh, what can replace bronze for armor?" Wei Ren, son Guang's uncle, became interested.

"Use rattan to make a helmet, which can not only protect, but also the slaves can bear it."

"Haha! Haha! Governor Chu really thought of making armor out of vines." Wei Ren had never heard that vines and grasses can protect against weapons and kills. As soon as Chu Chaohui finished speaking, he laughed loudly.

"Zheng Qing, how can you use vines as bronze protection." Young Master Guang frowned, feeling that Chu Chaohui didn't know much about armed protection.

"My lord, the slaves are only patrolling the village, and they don't need to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, they just need some protection." Zheng Yuming said this as if embarrassed.

"Hehe, that's right. The slaves are only defending against bandits, so they don't need to be equipped like Huben." Wei Shen nodded, stroking his beard. "Governor Chu, your slaves should be equipped with rattan armor." Wei Shen lost the last bit of defense against the Nanbu slave guards.

Since then, Nanbu has bought old vines in the mountains in a big way. When the nobles in Dacheng first heard about it, it was still a strange thing to talk about. Nanbu has been insisting on buying old vines from mountain people and hunters for a long time. The fact that the armor of the slaves in Nanbu was made of vines no longer aroused their interest.

Celebrating the end of the banquet in the new residence, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui did not return to the valley, and they stayed in the new residence that night.

"Chu Chaohui, if you always fool people, I'm afraid you will become a professional fool in the future." Zheng Yuming has no pressure to fool others, but when he only fools Young Master Guang, he feels uncomfortable in his heart.

"If I don't fool you, can I train slaves in such an upright manner? Can I make rattan armor?" Chu Chaohui's face was very cold: "No matter how good Mr. Guang treats you, I can't tolerate your power. Look at Wei Shen's treatment of us. You should let go of your defenses, no one is stronger than ourselves!"

"I understand. To this world, we are different." Zheng Yuming looked lonely.

"With two different species, we are not alone, are we?" Chu Zhaohui's voice was very soft, and his tough face seemed a little soft under the light of the pine torch.

Zheng Yuming raised his head and looked at Chu Chaohui's soft face reflected by the torch, he couldn't help but smile in relief, yes, he is not alone, there is someone of his kind to rely on.This wonderful fate makes a kidnapper and a kidnapper become dependent on each other in different time and space.

Rattan armor is made of wild rattan. It is processed by skilled craftsmen and soaked in tung oil for 49 days.This armor is light and strong, it is good at defending against arrows, it cannot be pierced by knives, slashes and spears, and it does not sink in water. Apart from being afraid of fire attacks, it is invincible on the battlefield.During the Three Kingdoms period, the Tengjia soldiers once defeated the Shu soldiers, and were besieged in the valley by Zhuge Liang's design, and burned to the ground.

Chu Chaohui had no choice but to choose rattan armor as armor. The armor made of century-old wild rattan has a protective function comparable to armor made of metal, and it is lighter than metal armor.When Chu Chaohui talked to Wei Shen, he deliberately said it was rattan grass. Rattan grass is not a very strong thing in people's minds. They don't know that the old wild rattan will be very tough after soaking. Arrows are the most effective protection.There is no Zhuge Liang in this world. As long as the rattan armored soldiers are not besieged in one place and cannot move, and the tactics of fire attack are used, the rattan armored soldiers trained in the valley will be invincible in the world.

Slave soldiers wearing metal armor would arouse Wei Shen's taboo, but slaves equipped with rattan armor would not attract Wei Shen's attention.Chu Chaohui will not train soldiers in the valley all the time. He will pull the team out of the valley and go to the place where there are bandits to fight on the ground. Only soldiers who have really experienced bloody battles will truly grow after seeing blood on their hands. For a qualified soldier.