Chapter 189: Mobilization
Lin Feng and the others have something to do, and the soldiers under his command are not idle, in addition to the daily training, since last month after hanging up the exemption card, Lin Feng ordered people to organize many small teams, about three hundred people a team, and twenty teams will be dispatched at one time, these thousands of Feng family soldiers did not go to harass the rebels or as scouts to find out the news, let alone to attack the city.
Instead, under Lin Feng's commanding order, he set off from the military camp every morning and rushed to various villages near Yazhou, helping the nearby villagers to cultivate the land in this season when farming arrived.
Because of the sudden outbreak of the war, many villagers did not even have seeds for this year's farming, and even when they went to Jiazhou, which was the nearest neighborhood, the villagers with only donkeys and mules had to be delayed on the road for a month long back and forth. Just when the villagers were anxious about this year's food, the soldiers of the Feng family army carried bags of grain seeds and distributed them to everyone.
These seeds are brought by the grain teams of Chengdu Mansion and Hanzhong Mansion in Shannan Province in the rear, not only the varieties are excellent, but the most important thing is that the price is also very cheap, I don't know how many times better than the villagers bought from the city traders in previous years, and how many times cheaper!
However, all this is not completely free of charge, but the villagers signed a contract with the Feng Jiajun, and at that time, in addition to the use of the family, all the remaining grain will be sold to the Fengjia Army as grain and grass at the market price.
After all, in previous years, under Chen Jingxuan's jurisdiction, most of the grain had to be handed over as taxes, not to mention the market price, and even half a copper was in his hands.
So the villagers were very happy and did not hesitate to sign this seemingly non-oppressive and very fair contract. What happened next made the villagers even happier, because the Feng Jiajun not only provided good seeds and Baili without harmless contracts, but also provided labor free of charge.
Every day, the sun has just risen, and there will be scattered soldiers of the Feng family in their fields. Even some distant villages can reach groups of Feng family soldiers before the sun fully rises. To the delight of the villagers, the farm work that used to take a month can be solved in less than half a month. At the beginning, the soldiers of the Feng family army were not very good at farm work, and after a few days of study, the soldiers with strong bodies even began to think that the villagers' hands and feet were not sharp, and directly asked the villagers to take care of the war horses every day, by the way, to dig well water or something, and then "rub" a more sumptuous farm meal, they would regather and return to the camp to rest.
Maybe in the eyes of outsiders, these soldiers are all crazy, and they have nothing to do to help the villagers and farmers farm. But the sergeants of the Feng family didn't think so, because compared to staying in the barracks to 'enjoy' the daily devilish training, going out of the camp to help with farming was the real enjoyment.
This activity, which Lin Feng called "Mobilization", raised the morale of the Feng family's army, who originally thought it would be extremely boring, and laid a solid and good network foundation with the villagers in the surrounding villages in a short period of time. The activities of the "General Mobilization" were very relaxed, and they only needed to leave the camp at midnight in the morning and report back to the camp before the end of the afternoon, so there was no violation of military law.
During this period, in addition to the fixed farm work, there was only one prohibition, no matter what the circumstances, it was not allowed to receive any form of money and property without permission. In addition, the remaining time of farm work can be arranged by the soldiers themselves.
In fact, that ban only worked on a small number of "wealth fans", because the Feng family's military salary was well known, and even ordinary soldiers would not be interested in the three melons and two dates in the local villagers' homes. The important thing is that after the daily farm work and after lunch, in addition to the time needed to return to the camp, everyone will have about an hour or two of free time to arrange their own time. At this time of the day, there are groups of soldiers gathered, or chatting and relaxing, or hunting and killing game with bows and arrows, so that the next day at the villagers' homes for dinner, there will be an extra dish of game meat and vegetables, and the villagers will naturally take out the wine brewed at home without hesitation to entertain these distinguished guests.
In the blink of an eye, April flashed by, and the happiest people in my heart were the villagers in the surrounding villages, because in previous years, the fields at home were basically the limit of what they could take care of, but this year there are as many as one or two times, but fortunately, in the future, only small things such as watering and fertilizing are needed, and a person can cope with it if he is a little busy. However, after thinking that this year's bumper harvest could be sold to the Feng family's army, many people began to fantasize about the future, thinking about whether to add a few cows or donkeys after selling the grain, or buy two more old sows, and by the way, the old house at home can be renovated.
There are better things next, in the eyes of the villagers, Feng Jiajun is like the God of Wealth, and in his mind, he is thinking that his ancestors don't know which generation of virtue has come to fruition. Because there were suddenly many more fields, the problem of water sources was not very serious, after all, there were wells in every village, and the soldiers of the Feng family army even helped to take a few more looks.
And fertilizer is such an important issue, before the villagers realized, one morning when they got up, they found that on the big tree in front of their house, the courtyard gate and the courtyard wall were pasted with black and white notices, people who knew it were happy at a glance, and people who didn't know were also hurriedly inquiring, and then joined the ranks of festivities.
It is very clear from the notice that according to the calculation of the ox cart used by ordinary farmers, every cart of manure taken from the Fengjia military camp will not only not charge any fee, but also give a certain reward. You must know that in this era, human and animal manure is the most natural fertilizer, of course, there is no other fertilizer in this era. In normal times, most farmers do not have enough money to use in the farmland, so they need to spend money from the 'dung pickers'.
Therefore, Lin Feng's order indirectly gave the villagers an invisible wealth, and at the same time, it also completely solved the environmental problem that was most likely to go wrong in the military camp, after all, the weather is getting hotter and hotter day by day, just the excrement of the whole army, if the deterioration causes the plague in the army, the consequences will definitely be unimaginable.
Therefore, this initiative can also be described as killing two birds with one stone, not only with a large number of free labor to solve environmental problems for the army, but also to win the hearts and minds of nearby villagers. More importantly, if this continues, even if he confronts Chen Jingxuan locally, as long as he carries it until this year's autumn harvest, he will no longer have to waste huge manpower, material and financial resources to transfer grain and grass from the rear.