[Three Kingdoms] Xinghan

A month later.

The first batch of soldiers who registered to voluntarily reclaim wasteland successfully arrived in Jiujiang County, a total of 5000 soldiers.

The first piece of wasteland Ling Han chose was a forest in the west of the city.

The way to open up wasteland is also very simple.

In the place where there is an open space in the forest, the large trees in it are cut down, and then a piece of farmland is opened up.

At the same time, it is necessary to capture or kill the large beasts in the forest.

Which places are suitable for farming, Ling Han and Captain Diannong have already done investigation work in advance.

At the entrance of the forest, there will be a line of soldiers guiding the prisoners to choose land.

The way to do this is of course not as fast as burning the forest directly and reclaiming it all into wasteland.

However, if you do that, firstly, it will cause great damage to the ecological environment; secondly, the plants in the forest are lush, and the organic matter produced by photosynthesis will fall and become rotten, which will continuously increase the fertility of the land; and the grain on the farmland will be taken away. , will continue to consume the fertility of the land.

Over time, this forest-turned-farmland will gradually become barren.

Only by combining forest and farmland can it last longer.

Ling Han stood at the entrance of the forest, watching one after another soldiers, with agricultural tools in their hands, enter the forest.

I don't know how long it took, Yang Zhen came to report: "Your Highness, the five thousand soldiers have all received their farm tools."

Ling Han nodded, and asked: "Have you taken the decoction made by Divine Doctor Hua?"

The miasma in this forest is not very serious.But just in case, he still asked Hua Tuo, leading the doctors in Jiujiang, to help brew a large amount of detoxification decoction against miasma.

"Return to His Highness." Yang Zhen said: "D-drink it all."

Seeing him hesitating, Ling Han couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Yang Zhen wiped his sweat: "It's nothing, it's just—"

"Master Hua said that he will resign from His Highness when the batch of soldiers clearing up wasteland is over. Said, otherwise, his old bones won't be able to withstand His Highness's tossing."

Ling Han laughed when he heard this.

Five thousand anti-miasma decoctions at a time, in addition to preparing a large amount of decoctions that can suppress or relieve poisonous insects and snakes.

This is just the beginning.

For the doctor in Jiujiang, it was really a huge test, especially for Hua Tuo.

For this reason, Ling Han also sent soldiers to help Hua Tuo gather herbs in advance.

He knew that Hua Tuo was just complaining like this.

Not to mention anything else, as a doctor, Hua Tuo is a typical man with a knife mouth and a bean curd heart. He absolutely does not want to watch soldiers risk their lives to reclaim the land.

"Your Highness."

Zhou Yu walked out of the forest. He came to Jiujiang with five thousand captive soldiers a few days ago, and now he is responsible for coordinating the use and distribution of farm tools and decoctions.

In other words, Zhou Yu is the biggest person in charge of this land reclamation work, and Ling Han himself is just a supervisor.

Zhou Yu said: "General Zhao just caught a tiger, put it in an iron cage, and is transporting it here."

Ling Han said: "Did you catch the tiger on the first day?"

Because during the investigation, I did not encounter any large beasts.

He once suspected that there might not be tigers and other ferocious beasts living in this forest, so he even prepared two iron cages.

In Ling Han's view, it is normal for hunters to kill tigers as a link in the food chain.

But for my own kind, in order to seize the right to use the forest, it would be a bit cruel to wipe out all the large beasts in it.

So he explained that if you encounter a large beast, it is best to capture it alive.

If the difficulty of capturing alive is too high, and the soldiers' lives may be sacrificed, then kill them directly.

Although it is a bit cruel to do so, it would be too absurd to put yourself in the situation of wild animals when human rations cannot be fully satisfied.

As for driving the large ferocious beasts away from the forest, it was an option that Ling Han had never considered.

These ferocious beasts generally have a strong sense of territory, and if they are driven away now, they are likely to come back later.

At that time, veterans were unarmed, didn't they suffer?

While talking with Zhou Yu, Zhao Yun had brought the tiger over.

Whole body snow white fur, mixed with gray and black stripes.The eyes are dark blue, close to sapphire blue, very beautiful.

Ling Han couldn't move his eyes immediately.

There is actually a white tiger in this forest!

The white tiger is the result of a genetic mutation of the Bengal tiger, and there is only one tiger in [-] on average.

They mostly inhabit Southeast Asia, and there are also a small amount of distribution in Yunnan and Northeast China.

The white fur is very conspicuous in the forest, making it very difficult for them to hunt prey.

In the 21st century, there are only about 300 artificially bred white tigers left in the world, and wild white tigers have long been extinct.

It can be said that this is a much rarer animal than the giant panda.

Ling Han stepped forward, tilted his head halfway to look at it for a moment, and said, "Why are you so listless?"

As if sick, a look weak.It looks more docile than a domestic cat, and he even wants to reach out and touch it.

Of course, just think about it.Putting your hand in a cage with a tiger in it, unless you're crazy.

Zhao Yun didn't know Ling Han's cautiousness, worried that he was curious, and hurriedly reminded: "Junior brother, this time the white tiger almost killed a soldier just now, so don't be careless."

Ling Han was shocked when he heard that.

The team he sent to deal with the beasts was led by Zhao Yun, the most elite soldiers.

Every soldier is wearing iron armor, holding an iron spear and carrying an iron arrow.

With such a group of soldiers, when dealing with a tiger, some people were almost killed.

Judging from the size of this white tiger, it is not very big, so it can only be very fierce.

A soldier in charge of carrying the iron cage said: "It was General Zhao who caught this white tiger just now."

"Thinking of it, this white tiger is also afraid of General Zhao's heroism. With General Zhao here, he dare not make mistakes."

And such a thing?

Ling Han became playful, and immediately said: "Senior brother, get out of here first."

Zhao Yun showed helplessness, cupped his hands and said yes, then turned and retreated.

When Zhao Yun's figure was covered by the forest, as expected.

The docile white tiger just now became arrogant.

"Ouch-"

While howling, it kept slapping the iron cage violently with its sharp claws, trying to rush out of this small prison.

Ling Han took a step back, but stretched his hands forward, fiddled with the place very close to the iron cage, teasing the white tiger inside.

The white tiger roared, desperately trying to stretch out its claws, but it couldn't be done.

This is a cage specially made to hold tigers, not to mention the one in front of me, even if its weight doubles, it is impossible to break through the cage.

On the side, Yang Zhen couldn't help grinning when he saw this.

I thought to myself, His Highness only looks like an uncrowned boy at this time.

Zhou Yu also couldn't help but laugh.

Ling Han didn't care about the reaction of the two of them.

While playing with the white tiger, he asked curiously: "It is so fierce, how can it be afraid of senior brother alone?"

The soldier cupped his hands and said, "If you go back to Your Highness, this white tiger almost killed a soldier. According to His Highness's previous order, it should be shot directly."

"It's just that General Zhao saw the rare fur of this white tiger, and thought that His Highness would like it. So he ordered us to retreat, and went up to fight this white tiger alone, and captured it."

Ling Han's hand that was teasing the white tiger suddenly froze in the air.

Ahead, the white tiger was still beating on the iron cage, making bang bang bang noises.

Ling Han said: "This king really likes this white tiger. But it's really inappropriate for senior brother to do so."

After a pause, he said: "Transport it back to Jiujiang, send someone to take care of it, and feed it 40 catties of raw meat every day."

Then he turned to Zhou Yu and said, "Gongjin, please tell the big families in Jiujiang and Lujiang about the capture of the white tiger as soon as possible. Anyone can come to see it as long as they pay the money and food."

Zhou Yu cupped his hands and said, "Yu takes orders."

Ling Han only passed on the first day.

Because relatively speaking, it is relatively simple to reclaim farmland in a forest where the miasma is not serious.

But for the southern region, the most suitable crop is undoubtedly rice.

Under the circumstances that it is difficult to improve crop varieties, only by extensively developing paddy fields and planting rice can it be possible for Yangzhou's grain production to catch up with that of the north.

However, in this era, farmers may suffer from schistosomiasis in familiar paddy fields, so how dare they open up new paddy fields.

If you want to open up new paddy fields, the only option is this batch of captured soldiers.

But therein lies another complication.

To open up the forest, each soldier selects a range in advance and then develops within that range.

As much as you can develop, you can get as much arable land.

Hard work pays more, at a glance.

Paddy fields are different.

If you want to plant rice in a paddy field, you must first eliminate all the snails in the paddy field before you can start.

This involves the issue of private ownership and public ownership.

When working for everyone, the enthusiasm of soldiers is definitely not as good as working for themselves.

In addition, the high mortality and high infection rate of schistosomiasis is also very likely to discourage many soldiers.

Ling Han didn't want to hide from the soldiers.

After seven days, the situation of reclaiming fields in the forest has completely stabilized.

Ling Han sent a letter to Lu Kang, asking him to start registering the second batch of soldiers who voluntarily cultivated fields.

At the same time, he told Lu Kang that he must explain the dangers of reclaiming paddy fields.The authorities will do their best to keep them safe, but the death rate may still be high.

This time, taking into account the contagiousness of schistosomiasis and the willingness of the soldiers.

Ling Han chose a relatively small paddy field, and the quota was only 1000 people.

In addition to preparing iron farm tools.

Ling Han also needs to make a thousand pairs of leather gloves to prevent soldiers from directly touching the snails with their hands.

Moreover, he built a camp in advance not far from the paddy field.

Before the reclamation of this paddy field is completed, all soldiers who reclaim the paddy field must live here.

He was prepared for the worst.

If schistosomiasis cannot be effectively controlled, it is also necessary to prevent the disease from spreading to the city.

However, Ling Han still has great confidence in Hua Tuo.

Although in later generations, only antibiotics can treat schistosomiasis, Chinese medicine is helpless.

But Hua Tuo has the reputation of a miracle doctor after all.

Guessing that Lu Kang had already received the letter, Ling Han went to Jishi Hall to visit Hua Tuo.

And in Lujiang.

After Lu Kang received the letter, he immediately ordered Zhang Xun to publicize the matter in the prison camp.

The situation was not the same as Ling Han expected.

When the prisoners heard about schistosomiasis, they didn't feel afraid, and they all signed up enthusiastically.

This is because Jiujiang is adjacent to Lujiang, and they had easily learned about the situation of the first batch of captured soldiers through letters.

Some of the companions have finished reclaiming and started to cultivate their own land.

Some companions are still continuing to cultivate, planning to cultivate hundreds of acres of fertile land in one go.

Knowing such a thing, the remaining captive soldiers were naturally jealous!

Farm tools are rented from the government, and everyone can get several. How can ordinary people have the opportunity to use iron farm tools!

Although the grain will be returned in the future, the King of Changsha has already lowered the tax in Yangzhou, and the money for renting farm tools will only offset the original tax.

The most important thing is that they have not heard of any companion who lost his life while reclaiming the land.

Of course they know about schistosomiasis, it is quite scary.

But the question is, aren't the miasma and ferocious beasts in the forest also killing people?

His Royal Highness the King of Changsha, who is a daughter of gold, keeps his promise.Since I promised to do my best to ensure their safety, I will definitely do it.

When you join the army, you can die at any time.

The risks brought about by schistosomiasis are really not worth mentioning in front of the good books and fields that can be obtained.