Chapter 29: Recruitment

"Dig! Dig! Dig! I really don't know what the old man is doing with these buried things every day! ”

The big cold day turned the hoe, and the king pole was still complaining and grunting there, complaining, but he couldn't catch it coldly, and he was beaten on the door of his head, and turned his head sadly, but he happened to see his father with a tiger face, so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head and looked submissive, and then waved the hoe desperately.

But now Niujia Village is not so resistant to digging a big dung pit as before, because it is next to the neighborhood, on top of the first built dung cellar, in the air path tired of bricks, a hot flame is spraying!

Biogas!

In order to ferment these fertilizers in the cold weather, Wang Hou has been heating the stove in the shed for a few days, and after the temperature rises, the rotten and fermented fertilizers begin to spray these flammable gases upward. Now the vicinity of Xudu is the time of lack of firewood and less warmth, the people are also the most pragmatic, firewood burns less during the day, more heating at night, less freezing, regardless of whether it is a big dung fire, in broad daylight, even the people of nearby Zhaojia Village also hold the pot here to cook, heating, with this convenience, the people have a little more motivation to repair the biogas digester, and even the attitude has come to a 360-degree turn.

"Brother Pillar! Don't dig this cellar after digging for a while, go to our Zhaojia Village to dig! They've got you covered! ”

This Wang Zhuzi was still complaining, and a cold voice suddenly sounded on the edge of the pit, and he looked up in amazement, but it was Zhao Laotian, the village elder of Zhaojia Village, who was bending over and shouting.

A few days ago, Niujia Village protested, to repair the fat cellar to Zhaojia Village, this old guy still held the vertical block, good guy, how can you take the initiative to take this dirty thing to your own village?

But before Wang Zhuzi was stunned, another Niujia Village clan, Niu Wanjin, who was lame as a soldier in the early years, had already swayed over with a crutch, shouting with an accent.

"Tell me, get out of here! People forget that the master is locked! This night, the incense cellar is in the village of Murns! Stay where it's cool! ”

"Why is it in your village? Our village doesn't farm for Master Wang! ”

"Who made the feng shui of the village of Murns bad! The cellar is in the village of the Murmurs! ”

In Wang Zhuzi's stunned, the two old men who were more than 100 years old and one piece were like fighting cocks, carrying crutches and ping pong, and the boss did it, and the people of Niujia Village who were digging the cellar and the people of Zhaojia Village who heard the news also started to do it, the folk customs of this era were simple, and the cooperation between the village and the village was also really hands-on, and the blood and teeth were knocked to the ground.

Seeing that his father Wang Fu was carrying a peace battle, desperately pumping to both sides, Wang Zhuzi was humming depressedly.

"For a big dung cellar, as far as it goes!"

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This year, Wang Gongzi is still at a loss, but next year, he will know that there is no big dung smell, where to get the fragrance of grains! How plausible is this agricultural proverb! For these fertilizers, it is indeed worth fighting.

But at this time, Wang Hou didn't have the heart to teach him, because his old man was packing up and going out.

In the grief and indignation of a few bare-bottomed and bare-bellied ducks, Wang Hou put one of his down jackets on one, and put one in the baggage, and then pressed a string of copper coins borrowed from Cao Hongjie on it, and put his official seal and document away, dangling the burden, and he walked out of the warm kang house.

In the yard, Cao Hongjie was already ready to stop, not in the army, even if she went out, this girl was dressed up in women's clothes, her hair was combed high on her head, and two hostas were inserted, and her hot delicate body was completely wrapped in a big down jacket like bread, and she was impatiently lifting her feet at this time.

This time, Wang Pole is not qualified to follow, because Wang Hou has a new batch of stronger thugs, nine of the Xiahou family and the Cao family who were transferred from the tiger and leopard ride, and now as the backbone of the Wang family's trilogy, they also follow Wang Hou's surname Wang, with these professional thugs, Wang Pole and a few strong men are very sad to become backup players, and when they see Wang Hou come out, several people are very neat and heavy.

"Head of the house!"

"You're not a woman! Packing up for a long time!! ”

Cao Hong's frustrated complaints were directly left behind by Wang Hou, watching TV series in later generations, those local tyrant heroes always have a few loyal and capable thug bodyguards, this time it's all together! looked like a nouveau riche in later generations, listening to the roaring promises of his subordinates, Wang Hou slapped him triumphantly.

"Excuse me, get on the horse!"

"Subordinates obey!"

This is called a soldier, and in the neat answer, the nine people turned over and got on the horse neatly, without a trace of mud and water, neatly like a person! Although she was so angry that she pouted, seeing this scene, Cao Hongjie didn't dwell on it, and she also held the saddle of her rouge horse and turned over beautifully, and a pair of small boots gently kicked the horse's belly, but it was trotting ahead.

Shaking his head helplessly, Wang Hou also pulled the saddle and stepped on the stirrup and turned over on the horse, following closely behind the eldest lady, but it is worth mentioning that no matter whether he is Cao Hongjie, now the saddle is a big change, the leather-wrapped wooden saddle is towering on the horse's back, the front and rear bulging saddle head and tail perfectly cage people in it, and the soft leather plays a buffer between the horse and the person, with the blessing of the Takahashi saddle, no one can see that Wang Hou is actually a rookie who has only been riding a horse for a few months.

The target of this trip was Yuzhou Liuxian under Prime Minister Cao Cheng.

This year, Yangzhou not only suffered a rare drought in the late Han Dynasty, but also encountered the tragic war of the two large warlords of Cao and Yuan, and the originally densely populated Huaihe River valley has now become a human purgatory where white bones are exposed in the wilderness and wild beasts walk in the streets, and natural and man-made disasters have also caused a large number of victims to flee to all directions, some of them entered Xuzhou, a large part of them flowed to Liu Biao's Jingzhou, some forcibly crossed the Yangtze River to the Jiangnan that is still very desolate to seek life, and some of them fled to the Central Plains.

It's just that there is little food in Taicang, whether it is Cao Cao or the Han court of Xu Du, they are afraid that the victims will change loudly, and now it is Li Dian, the captain of the military academy, who led the 8,000 soldiers under the command of the overlord and the headquarters of the army, to block 8 to 100,000 refugees in Liuxian, and do not allow them to continue to go north to the Central Plains.

In ancient times, population is wealth, there are almost no yeoman farmers near Xudu now, most of the population is dependent on the tenant slaves of the major families, Wang Hou's Zhaojia Village and Niujia Village, are from the Cao Zong family to him, because of the population loss caused by the war, now there is a lot of idle land near Xudu, but the population is only about 100,000, Wang Hou wants the population to develop coal mines and cultivate Fengtian, so he can only recruit among the displaced people in Liuxian County.

However, there are many drawbacks in recruiting displaced people in these years, first of all, the problem of loyalty, the tenant farmers under the command of each family have been farming for the family for several generations, and have been able to form a sense of identity like an independent kingdom, and the children born in the family are often the most loyal, but these displaced people who have fled from other places often do not reach this level of loyalty, and the long-term escape life, the displaced refugees who are forced to helplessly join forces are often unruly and difficult to tame.

There are also various diseases that may be carried by the displaced people, and the epidemic often breaks out after the catastrophe, which makes these Central Plains landlord families change color when talking about these displaced people.

Cao Cao's Qingzhou soldiers are an example, the Qingzhou soldiers recruited from the Yellow Turban Army are not digested by Cao Cao's separatist group until now, the Qingzhou army can only form an army of its own, only loyal to Cao Cao, last autumn The biggest grievance for the lack of food was these Qingzhou soldiers, who were instigated by Wang Hou and tortured the prison officials to death, and it was also these Qingzhou soldiers.

The ancients said, self-cultivation and Qi family rule the country and level the world! Self-cultivation and the Qi family are placed in front of governing the country, and now it seems that it makes too much sense! How can you govern the country if you can't manage hundreds or thousands of people in your own family?

Braving the light snow, Wang Hou, who was the lizard gull of such a large enterprise for the first time, followed the war horse and pondered hard about how to recruit the homeless people, and then how to manage the enterprise that belonged to him!

It is definitely not good to post a job posting like in later generations, and you have to find a way to break up the gangs of homeless people who are in a group, and select those who are honest and willing to do it, but just a group of honest people still can't do a good job, and those slick, greedy and domineering bad guy management also need some.

As for the number of people, the standard of this era is that a family of seven, three men, and two middle-aged laborers can take care of 30 acres of land, and 2,500 acres of plain fields plus a few hundred acres of hillside woodland, it is most appropriate to recruit 700 people and divide them into three villages.

Then the coal mine is trying to recruit single strong laborers, and it is better to have a hundred people first.

The most headache is the three hundred parts that Prime Minister Cao Cheng let himself organize, and now there are nine hundred generals on the nine tigers and leopards, and it is really impossible to stuff Wang Pole and more than a dozen of them into the strong Ding family, which is more than 20 places, or count the 100 or so people who dig coal? In this way, more than 100 mouthfuls of food can be saved.

Recently, they have spent money lavishly, this era is barter, the most common hard currency is grain, now from Xuzhou to obtain more than 5,000 stone millet still left 3,009, now start to use cloth trading, 1,500 population rations, plus the equipment training of the tribe, grain support to the autumn harvest should be more than enough, and the sale of charcoal may also be able to make a profit.

"The head of the house, it's here!"

Xuchang to the southeast, all belong to the North China Plain, the terrain is flat, plus eleven people are horseback, starting from Xudu in the morning, almost about three o'clock in the afternoon to Liuxian County, just when Wang Hou is still planning his own enterprise construction book in his heart, a voice without much emotion suddenly made Wang Hou come back to his senses, look up, a rather dilapidated, the city wall has collapsed I don't know how many traces of the ancient city appeared in the eye, and next to the edge of the ancient city, The deer village is surrounded by a series of wooden and straw sheds, and the military camp is stationed there, and the green smoke used for heating fills the sky.

"Well, go and meet General Li Dian!"

Taking out the customs clearance document issued by the Prime Minister's Mansion from the package behind him, Wang Hou had the courage of a lizard gull of a large enterprise, his chest was straight, and he commanded highly.