Busyness often passes quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it is already November, the leaves are gradually falling, and the earth is yellow.

The planting of winter wheat has ended, and more than 2,000 acres have been sown this time.

But the men of Sanshui Village did not sit idle, but began to rest the work of repairing the wall. Now, however, training takes up more time, and only half a day a day is devoted to digging trenches and walls.

Sanshui Village originally had a village wall, but it was too low, too low and too thin, dilapidated and the ditch outside the wall was shallow. So when the Yellow Turban thieves attacked the village in a big way, the village wall could not resist the attack of the thieves at all. When the thieves retreated, they toppled down many places, leaving the village wall defenseless.

Now the task is to build on the original foundation, dig the trench deep and wide, and then build a wall on the inside of the trench with the excavated earth.

To make a solid wall, it is not simply to pile up the soil, but to adopt the plate construction method, the rammed earth mixed with sand, lime and mud, poured into the middle of the wooden planks on both sides, and after drying, it is a solid wall.

According to the design, the bottom of the new walled wall is two zhang thick, the wall is two zhang high, and the top also has a space of one zhang wide, and the whole walled wall surrounds the village, with a total length of about 200 zhang. This is a lot of work, not a day can be completed, according to the current speed, according to the strength of Sanshui Village, at least half a year.

Sanshui Village does not have this time at all, so after the high-level discussion of the security team, it was decided to simply repair the original wall, fill those gaps, and have a certain defensive ability, so as to prevent a small number of thieves from attacking. As for the new wall, wait until the village grows stronger.

So, now the men's main focus is on training.

Zhang Miao also follows the training every day, he will definitely lead the troops to fight in the future, and it will definitely not work if he is not familiar with these.

Of course, the intelligence of the traverser is not comparable to ordinary people, when ordinary security guards are still ignorant of the change of formation, Zhang Miao has been able to draw inferences from one another, and many of the opinions put forward are Xu Shu is amazed.

The two of them often discussed together, discussed various combat procedures such as training, marching, camping, logistics and supply, and then wrote down the agreed things into regulations.

Xu Shu has read a lot of military books, and Zhang Miao has the knowledge to be ahead of nearly two thousand years, and the two complement each other well.

After the morning training, the men began to build the wall, and Xu Shu was invited by Zhang Miao to teach the children in the village to read and write.

Xu Shu's teaching is very distinctive, and it is based on Sun Tzu's Art of War. He wrote Sun Tzu's Art of War on a black lacquer board, taught the pronunciation, and asked the children to memorize it by rote without any explanation.

Zhang Miao didn't care about Xu Shu's teaching methods, he just taught arithmetic every two days, and then spent his main energy on industrial production after training.

For example, now, he is working with Zhang Ping and Zhang Chuang to make soap after boiling the fat sent by Deng Tu yesterday.

Add water to a large clay kettle, add caustic soda at the same time to boil, then pour in the boiled lard, start heating and stirring, and continue to heat over low heat after boiling, keep stirring until it is completely saponified, this process is very slow, it takes several hours.

Zhang Miao can't do this kind of work alone, and in order to keep it secret, he can't find someone casually for the time being, so he called Zhang Ping and Zhang Chuang, and the three of them are busy working together, and they are not lonely while talking. And Zhang Ping and Zhang Chuang are also very happy, compared with this work, the work of building the wall is more tiring.

"Okay, let's wait for the results tomorrow morning." Looking at the soap liquid filled in dozens of wooden molds, Zhang Miao said with satisfaction.

"That's it?" Zhang Pinghu asked suspiciously.

"It will be completely solidified overnight, and this soap will be made, and it is very convenient to wash your hands and take a bath, no matter how thick the dirt and greasy aret are." Zhang Miao said with a smile.

"It's finally time for dinner." Zhang Chuang stretched and said with a smile.

As soon as the three of them left the courtyard of Zhang Miao's house, they saw Zhang Che running over.

"Brother Miao."

"What's the matter, is there something wrong with Mr. Yuanzhi?" Zhang Miao hurriedly asked.

Zhang Che is the squad leader, he is very smart, Xu Shu likes him very much, and often runs errands for Xu Shu.

"It's not Mr. Yuanzhi, it's a few people who arrived outside the village and were stopped by the villagers, and the leader said that his name was Deng Niu, and he came to find Brother Miao." Zhang Che said breathlessly.

Zhang Miao suddenly smiled: "After waiting for so many days, Deng Niu and they are finally here, Xiao Che, you go and bring him in." ”

"Brother Zhang Miao, it's so difficult to enter your village." As soon as he was led into the courtyard and put down the sack on his shoulder, Deng Niu couldn't help but complain.

Zhang Miao smiled slightly: "The village was attacked by thieves not long ago, so I have to be cautious, and I ask Brother Deng Niu to forgive me." ”

"Forget it," Deng Niu waved his hand, "Brother Zhang Miao, I brought the insect wax you mentioned, a total of two sacks, one hundred and eighty-three catties, you take a good look." ”

With Deng Niu's words, Hu Fa, who came with him, also put down the shoulder sack.

Zhang Miao walked over excitedly, untied the mouth of the sack, and sure enough, he saw that the two sacks were filled with the secretions of ash worms, that is, worm wax.

"Ah Ping, you go to the warehouse to get 400 catties of grain, just say what I said." Zhang Miao commanded.

"Okay." Zhang Ping said yes and went out.

"Four hundred pounds? It doesn't take so much, didn't it say that a good pound of insect wax would give a pound of two taels of grain? Deng Niu hurriedly refused. He is a ranger, and there is no shame in earning some food, but he can't take advantage of others for nothing.

Zhang Miao said with a smile: "Brother Deng Niu doesn't have to refuse, the reason why I gave more is that I didn't expect it to be so hard to find worm wax, and then there are other things to trouble brother." ”

"It's really not easy, I sent Deng Yi's little brothers out, and I found more than ten miles of flowers and willows around Deng Yi, and I got so many." Deng Niu sighed, "By the way, Brother Zhang Miao, if you have anything to say, it is still the same sentence, and I Deng Niu who can help has nothing to say!" ”

"Brother Deng Niu, I want you to help me get some iron tools, I don't know if it's okay?" Zhang Miao said with a smile.

"Iron?" Deng Niu was stunned for a moment, "What do you want?" ”

Zhang Miao said: "Spearheads, arrowheads, steel knives, bows and crossbows, these are all fine." ”

Deng Niu sweated and said with a wry smile: "Brother Zhang Miao, do you look down on me too much?" I'm just a ranger gangster begging for a living in Dengyi, where can I get this kind of thing? ”

Zhang Miao smiled: "I believe in you, Brother Deng Niu, there must be a way." If I can't get that, I can get iron, and I'll find some blacksmiths to make it myself. ”

"Brother Zhang Miao, are you going to rebel?" Deng Niu asked weakly.