Beyond the main canal, there are large acres of well-opened fields ahead.

It's too late to plant cotton here, and it's too late to plant rice seedlings, so it's mainly sorghum and beans here, and the time is just right.

Bean seedlings and sorghum seedlings have been produced quite well, this large area of acres of land has more than 10,000 acres, a hundred households is a hundred families, here is also all the acres of 1100 households, each family about 100 acres.

Some families have several strong laborers, and the number of acres of land they have cultivated is not only 100 acres, but even more.

Huang Laigui's parents only cultivated 30 acres, and planted a few acres of vegetable fields at home.

"I'm going to open another fifty acres of land in the fall." Huang's father, who was carrying a bow and arrows, suddenly said to Huang Laigui: "I know boss, you don't want us to work too hard, but in fact, we are not very tired." The mules, horses, and cattle in the public can be rented, and the limited money at one time is given by our family. If I want to buy it, I can actually buy it, I want to see if I can find a few big deer, and how much money I can sell for the grain money. Now the cow is six through a cow, but then the cow and the calf, if you want to be a strong bull, you have to run nine to ten runs, this price is much higher than in Fujian Road, but it is not easy to transport the ship, there are always a lot of dead cattle and horses to transport, this price is not too expensive. If you can buy two horses and a cow, even if it is dozens of acres or hundreds of acres, you will not be tired. ”

Huang Laigui's mind was also a little moved...... There really is a big opportunity here.

Next year, if the parents can open dozens of acres of cotton fields, they will be able to earn at least dozens of dollars a year, which is already quite a high income.

In addition, dozens of acres of soybean fields or paddy fields, because there are no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the harvested grain can also be sold at a good price, and the parents' annual income is also considerable.

Of course, a large part of it must be offset, and two horses and a cow have to eat half a stone a day, or even more. Maybe you have to hire a cattle herding baby to herd cattle and horses every day, and you also have to pay off the money owed to the Hou Mansion, and it won't fall too much into your hands.

But this situation will change greatly in a few years, one acre of cotton field, one season of harvest, cotton farmers at least net income consistent money, many immigrants will also owe a single pedal machine, spinning cotton weaving cloth can also earn more than ten or twenty a year, plus cotton field income...... This was unthinkable to these poor displaced people or immigrants before.

In a wealthy place like Nan'an, middle-class farmers who have their own fields and looms earn more than a dozen yuan a year, and those who are poorer earn five or six yuan a year, or at most seven or eight yuan.

In fact, their incomes could have been higher, but heavy taxes have sent more than half or more of these households' income into the national treasury.

In a wealthy place like Fujian, the people can still have food and clothing, and some savings, in the northwest, Lianghu, Yunnan and Guizhou, the people in these places are rebelling more and more.

After thinking about it, Huang Laigui said to his father: "Daddy, do what you want, I'll just say one, don't be too tired, if you can't stand it, don't think about wasting money, if there is something wrong with your body, I'm afraid it will cost more money." And my two brothers are both promising, if you are tired, what do we have to boast about? ”

"Brother Huang is very right." Li Guozhu agreed.

Father Huang also pressed his excited thoughts, looked at his palm, felt the strength on his body, sighed, and said: "Then let's open another thirty acres, the cattle will be bought, and the horse will only be bought, so that we will not be too tired to take care of it." ”

He had already walked several miles while speaking, when another avenue appeared in the east-west direction.

Li Guozhu said: "To build this road, it took a hundred or ten cows, hundreds of mules and horses, plus two thousand strong men, twenty-two miles, more than 200,000 catties of gravel, repeatedly rolled and tamped, there are breathable holes, and the top layer is cushioned with carbon slag, but it took too much effort on this road." ”

"It's called the official road around the island." Huang's father also explained to his son: "From each village, walking through farmland areas and crossing canals, it is about ten miles, and there is this official road, which is said to be an elliptical shape, from north to south to east and west, it happens to go around a big circle. Now we have built twenty-two miles here, mobilized more than a dozen strong men from hundreds of households, and it took a month to complete the ......."

"It's all three hundred and thirty miles." Li Guozhu exclaimed: "Nan'an Hou is really generous and admirable. ”

In addition to repairing the road, it is to build a defense project on the periphery, a large number of small military fortresses made of masonry, plus a wooden arrow tower more than ten meters high as a sentry tower, although there is no way to build a long wall to block wild beasts and mountain people, but as far as the current planning defense system is concerned, it is quite tight.

After all, after being killed by the main force of the Great Wei, the natives in the mountains also know that before this, Chen Duzhong's sparse defense and waste box army did not attract the covetousness of the mountain people, you must know that they have several large tribes united, so they can dispatch one or two thousand strong men, this kind of man with broken hair and tattoos will not be weaker than the weak-willed and untrained box army, and the number of people stationed in the box army is too small.

As for the threat from the sea, Xu Zixian had other plans.

At this time, He Baihu in front of him issued a silent command.

Everyone kept their mouths shut.

Then the sound of horses' hooves was evident, and soon a troop of horsemen galloping at high speed appeared on the horizon.

"This is the first battalion of the First Army." He Baihu said loudly: "Before Lao Tzu retired from the army, he was in the letter camp, and he dealt with them a lot!" ”

Huang Laigui suddenly felt an obvious military aura on He Baihu, and then he realized that He Baihu was limping when walking, and it turned out to be a retired soldier with a disabled leg.

On the Eastern Domain, many retired military soldiers from Nan'an were placed in official positions.

When they were in Nan'an, these disabled soldiers were arranged to work in their spare time, and in their spare time, they were arranged to learn the language, because they could no longer fight in battle, and these people studied very seriously.

Later, he simply studied arithmetic and law, Huang Laigui faintly understood, why He Baihu was polite, shrewd and capable, and familiar with government affairs and laws, he was simply an all-round official, there were dozens of hundreds of households in the Eastern Domain, where did the Nan'an Hou Mansion come from so many capable and qualified officials?

Now that I understand it, this is a talent reserve that Nan'anhou Mansion has prepared for a long time, and judging from the effect I feel now, the preparation of Nan'anhou Mansion is quite ingenious and admirable.

A group of more than ten cavalry galloped in.

The equipment of the cavalry is the best among the soldiers of Nan'an Prefecture, there are ten people wearing cloth cotton armor inlaid with iron leaves, this kind of armor is also nearly 30 catties, copper mirrors are installed on the chest, and multiple layers of cotton cloth and iron leaves are used to protect from the shoulders to the hem.

The protection against spear stabbing armor is quite weak, which is stronger than wearing ordinary robes, but against knife and arrow shooting, the protection of this cotton armor is quite good, at least it can reduce most of the damage, so that serious injuries become minor injuries, and minor injuries become no injuries.

And the knight at the head should be the leader of this squad, wearing a serious iron leaf scale armor.

Strictly speaking, this kind of armor is pierced with a large piece of iron leaf, and there may be loopholes in the protection of large pieces of iron, which is not as good as the small annular iron blade, with iron helmet, arm guard, heart protection, belly protection, and the protection of the shin guard is higher.

Even so, this kind of iron armor is also about forty pounds, and the layers of iron pieces will protect most of the vital points, even if it is stabbed in the front, it is very likely to reduce most of the damage, and it is difficult to cause fatal damage, and after it is damaged, it is quite easy to replace the nail leaf.

The price of such an iron armor is at least 80 or more, and this alone shows how expensive it is to raise soldiers.

Just replacing all the cavalry of more than 500 people with armor will cost tens of thousands of yuan.

If nearly 10,000 soldiers from Nan'an Prefecture are all ironclad, it will cost nearly one million.

This is just armor, but also war horses, saddles, shoes, concentrates, people's salt and vegetable money, staple food, monthly salary, all kinds of welfare pensions, plus the loss of weapons, raising 10,000 soldiers, and the treatment has to be raised, and it is almost a million yuan a year.

The cavalry galloped, to the crowd of 1100 households in front of more than ten steps stopped, before this the horse speed gradually slowed down, Huang Laigui and others did not know the goods, do not know that the cavalry just now is from the slow, high, and then to the low speed, slow, and finally slow forward, headed by the head, with the right arm obliquely raised, raised, put obliquely, and then waved the fist down, completed from slow to high, and then to slow, slow walking and walking various speed changes, for the cavalry, this is the standard pace conversion, but also the most basic training subject.

"In Xialin Guoji," the head of the cavalry team led by him clasped his fists on his horse and said: "On the order of Sun Rulan, the head of the capital, come to the hundredth household to cooperate with the burning of the wasteland." ”

"The hard forest team is the leader." He Baihu also returned the salute with a fist, and said: "Please patrol the cavalry in front of us on the right side, and we will send a guard to open the brigade for three miles in front of the left. ”

"Okay, you can." There is also a guard tower of the government soldiers on the outermost part, and if a large number of natives sneak in, the guard tower about five miles ahead will already call the police.

Six miles to the east, there is a three-storey brick and stone building, this is a military fort under construction, there is such a military fort every three miles, at least fifty will be built in the future, and then a small arrow tower as a sentry tower, which initially establishes the outer defense system, which is completely sufficient.

The fort was built on a hillside with a water source for excavation, and the perimeter was fenced off by a fence to store food and vegetables inside, and the sergeants lived in the courtyard and on the ground floor.

Generally, it can accommodate about 50 people in half of it, with a small team of cavalry, which is used for sentry in peacetime and transmission of warning signals in wartime, or for the forts to unite and clear out the scattered natives.

If the weather is calm in normal times, some guards can also be stationed in these military forts and used as auxiliary forces.

The second floor is the weapons depot armory and grain store, the third floor is the bed crossbow with perforations, there are long-range weapons on the third floor and the top, and the third floor also has sun-dried feces and the like, which is used to set off wolf smoke and transmit warnings.

But now the military fort is still under construction, and it is also the afterglow of large-scale construction of residential buildings.

Thousands of strong men keep making brick embryos, digging rocks, and there are still many materials that have not been used up, take this opportunity to build a large number of buildings, get twice the result with half the effort, if you wait for the peak period of construction to pass, and start the big work again, it will take more time and energy, and waste money.

Historically, the Dutch built the city of Reranza in Dayuan, but due to the lack of technology and manpower, it was quite laborious and expensive to build such a large-scale fortress building.

There are many large stones that were simply made in Batavia and transported by sea to the big guys.

A lot of wooden items were also shipped by sea.

This is the advantage of the Age of Discovery, compared to digging stones in the mountains, lack of manpower, waste of time and labor, it is better to prepare the basic materials in a place with many colonies, anyway, the sea is quite fast, and it does not cost much money.

The Eastern Clan here must not be able to learn from the historical Dutch, fortunately, the Chinese's skills in architecture are quite high, although they cannot build a fortress, but in the absence of heavy artillery, there is no way to control the sea and the beach with a military fort, the construction of a large coastal fortress is not of great significance to the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

In addition to half of the planned three-story military fort for the defense of the mountain natives, half of it is for the protection of shipyards, workshops, commercial areas, and residential areas on the beach.

The patchwork of military forts and barracks protects these vital places in the inner ring, and even if there is a beach, it will be quite expensive to break through the rather dense defensive area of military forts and arrow towers.

The defenders can calmly assemble and dispatch with the help of the defense of the military fort, and use superior forces to attack the pirates who come ashore, which is the best way to achieve under the current technical conditions.

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