Chapter 33: The Harvest Season (Part I)

"Now there are two hundred cavalry in the city, one thousand foot soldiers, and two thousand could have been recruited, but it is not necessary, first, it is not needed at present, and secondly, it is difficult to provide for the city, the most important thing is that there are only a few dozen people who can fight from the middle plains, which makes me feel at ease, with you, it is much better." Standing at the head of the city, Zou Yu introduced Bai Suhua and the two daughters.

Early in the morning, Bai Suhua and the two gathered their subordinates, explained the original situation, and then talked about the treatment of Fuyu City, and asked thirty subordinates to set off back with the prepared materials, and those who were willing to come came together, and those who were unwilling were also given enough severance expenses. As for safety, you don't have to worry about it, Silla has been suppressed by Baekje and Goguryeo in recent years, and it is still very friendly to the merchants of the Central Plains, although the road is a little farther.

There are more than 70 people left, all of whom are cottage men, all of whom are assigned to the barracks, and after getting acquainted, they can help better control the army, which is Zou Yu's happiest, after all, it has only been half a year, and the Goguryeo people are not so relieved.

With the two daughters joining, Zou Yu is really a lot easier, Bai Suhua is thoughtful, delicate, and quickly gets started with dealing with things in the city, as for Hei Sumei, her personality is a little arrogant, so Zou Yu arranged for her to take people to maintain law and order, as for Zou Yu, this time took time, of course, to continue his digging career, and changed tricks to seduce Xi people, Khitan people.

There are a lot of Xi people and Khitan people, but there are few who really make up their minds, but there is an unexpected harvest that is the Xi people, there are actually several tribes, adding up to 3,000 people, who have joined Buyeo City together.

Because of the addition of the Thunderbolts, there is also an unexpected gain, that is, there is an additional copper mine, and it is ironic that the Thunderbolts do not use bronze to make weapons, because the copper is too soft, they all use it to make ornaments, especially the women have more or less bells on their bodies.

The productivity of the people is low, they are all collecting open-pit mines, but in the eyes of Zou Yu, it is different, when there is no iron ore, copper is also very good to make weapons, of course, this is a bit wasteful, and it is quite troublesome, but it can make money.

The Sui Dynasty re-stipulated that five baht coins must be used, and it was strictly forbidden to make them privately, but for Zou Yu, who knew that there was about to be a big chaos, he didn't care so much at all, and after the three expeditions to Goguryeo, he could use it in large quantities, and now, it can be made into utensils, go to Baekje, Silla to trade, it's not bad, this is still the idea that Bai Suhua brought them.

Goguryeo was heavily guarded on the Central Plains side, but not necessarily on the Silla side, and Zou Yu learned that the Central Plains-style utensils, silk, were the bestsellers there.

At the beginning of July, after several months of hard work, hundreds of thousands of mud bricks began to be fired, because it is speculated that there will be no big war this year, so the first task is to build new houses and build ondols, so that the people can better survive the winter.

A kiln hollow bricks, only need ten days to get out of the kiln, plus filling and cooling, it is only about half a month, with yellow mud as a binder, to build a brick house, that is quite fast, the original houses in the city have been demolished and rebuilt, without rich businessmen, officials, there is no resistance at all.

The newly planned houses are neat, tidy, beautiful in atmosphere, and have unified sewage pipes, and the greenery is also good, a large number of trees have been transplanted, and there are stone benches on the roadside to provide passers-by to rest, and the small park can also make people sit down and chat together when they are bored, and let children run and play wildly.

The street is wide, and there are reserved shops on both sides of the road, and this Zou Yu plans to rent it out at a low price in the future, after all, there are no rich people in Buyeo City now.

Through trading, the cattle and sheep in Buyeo City were still quite sufficient, and by August, 500 cavalry had been formed.

In mid-August, Zou Yu specially invited dozens of Xi and Khitan tribal leaders to visit the harvest.

This year, the wind and rain are good, all kinds of grain are growing very well, and there are a lot of livestock, the dung of the nomadic livestock is originally stored as fuel, and now that they have settled down, they have timber fire, of course, they will be used to fertilize the fields.

The settled herdsmen all built manure tanks, and because of the combination of agriculture and pastoralism, they had very little land, and it was all land, so after growing wheat, they planted barley and beans. Barley has the advantage that when it is 50 centimeters high, most of it can be cut, as long as the water is sufficient, fertilizer is supplemented, and it can continue to grow, and the most important thing is that the livestock love to eat it very much.

The combination of agriculture and animal husbandry does not mean that the animals will be eaten at will, and every few days, they will be driven to another field, and so on, so that the vegetation will not be destroyed.

A plant that has been introduced since the Western Han Dynastyβ€”β€”β€” alfalfa! It is the main food for the nomads to feed their horses, but with their rough cultivation methods, the harvest is certainly not high. Zou Yu had a large number of seeds collected and planted in pastures and fields, especially on hillsides, so that they could gradually replace wild grasses.

The green storage β€”β€”β€” originally existed, but the technology was not very mature, and the grass was collected in the past, piled up and waited for the winter to feed the animals, such reserves really did not have much nutrition, so the animals will lose fat in winter.

Now Zou Yu let people dig out the cellar, the grass is compacted and piled up in it, after fermentation, although the appearance is not good, but the animal likes it very much, try to raise it for a month, the cattle, sheep and horses of the experiment not only did not lose fat, but grew a lot of fat.

People who come to visit, see former compatriots, living in brick houses, grain harvest in the field, and enough forage to raise animals in winter, are simply envious, especially such a model, not tired, this is the point.

The cattle, sheep and horses that are bred can be exchanged for rice, vegetables, refined salt from the city lord's mansion, pottery, including new houses, all of which only need to pay a small tax, and they can be exchanged for a lot, and the price is a hundred times worse than before, but unfortunately each family has set a certain amount and dispelled the idea of making the difference.

The new house fire kang is also a highlight, the grass shed where the animals live, but also to ensure that the livestock will not freeze to death in winter, a pasture of about 100 people, although it feels small, but the harvest is not a lot, especially the alfalfa on the hillside, the growth is gratifying, it is foreseeable that there will be more in the coming year.

Just a few days after the visit, Zou Yu received more than 10 tribes, more than 4,000 people to take refuge, as for the tribes that asked for help, Zou Yu said that now there is a shortage of manpower, need to take care of their own people first, only wait two years.

The tribal leaders all know that this is a polite refusal, but there is no way, firstly, Zou Yu accepts all poor small tribes, and secondly, you have to consider the feelings of other people when you turn your face, I am afraid that there are more people with different hearts underneath, after all, no one likes the leader who can't see his own people live a good life.