After entering the early autumn, Xi'an, as in the past, became a huge military station, where the large army withdrawn from the western front gathered, after all, it was too expensive to maintain the army to fight thousands of miles away, because the railway from Tongguan to Xi'an had been built and opened to traffic, and the natural Xi'an became the most suitable assembly area.

Not only that, the urns of the soldiers sent from all fronts were also temporarily placed in Xi'an, and were placed in the Great Ci'en Temple, almost every day, this more than a thousand years ago, that is, in the 22nd year of the Zhenguan of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the crown prince Li Zhi in order to commemorate the memory of his mother Empress Wende's eldest grandson founded the Great Ci'en Temple, will usher in many officers and soldiers who come to worship their comrades-in-arms, and the monks in the temple are also for these soldiers to hold a fifteen-day puja.

There are more than 10,000 urns temporarily housed here waiting to be brought back, among them, only a few thousand people have died in battle, and many more soldiers have died of disease, and midsummer is always the season when infectious diseases are rampant, even after hundreds of years, infectious diseases are the army's worst enemy.

The grand puja overtakes the souls of the warriors, and the monks of the various units participate in the puja until the urns are all removed, which may be a comfort to the ordinary warriors, at least, knowing that their comrades have not been forgotten after their deaths.

Half a month later, as the last batch of urns were sent to the train, the Great Mercy Temple returned to its former peace, and the soldiers no longer went to the temple to worship as in the past, of course, for them, at this time, there are more joyful things - the post office sent a large number of mail and condolence bags, these mails are sent by their families, as well as letters sent by ordinary people from all over their Ming Dynasty, most of them encourage them to fight bravely on the battlefield, and thank them for their sacrifices and contributions, as for the condolence bags, Most of them were sent by the Veterans Association and students in the rear, and the contents of the condolence bags were simple, often a pair of socks, a pack of cigarettes and a short letter, which were worthless, but they made them feel a kind of warmth.

What's even more surprising is that the soldiers will be pleasantly surprised to find that it is not only ordinary people who send condolence bags, but also the ladies and daughters of the Ming Dynasty, and of course, the condolence bags sent by the queen and the princes and princesses.

Although these mail, condolence bags to boost morale, but to a certain extent, but also a waste of capacity, almost every day the carriage full of mail and condolence bags sent to the various troops stationed around Xi'an, the postal carriage drivers, postmen are recruited from the post offices around the staff, they came more than 1,000 people, the corresponding wages have increased by eighty, after all, this is a war zone. They were like soldiers, with leggings, swords at their waists, and flintlock firearms on their backs, and at each stop, they unloaded a batch of mail. Of course, they also carry private goods - all kinds of household items that the soldiers need. Of course, these things are not gratuitous, even high-priced, a piece of soap can be twice as expensive as outside, and as for a razor, it can be sold for a high price of one or two silver, although the price is high, but these "profiteers" who take advantage of the fire are not worried that no one will buy them, after all, not everyone has the opportunity to enter the city every day, but they will come here every day.

Of course, where there are soldiers, there will be vendors, but these local vendors obviously haven't figured out the consumption needs of the Ming army, and more importantly, ordinary traders can't enter the barracks, so they can only watch the ** merchants make a lot of money from the "loveliest people" there.

After selling all the goods on the cart, the postal carriage staggered forward through the morning mist covered wilderness, and the land was still desolate - there used to be tens of thousands of people living here, but now those people have completely disappeared from this land, like the people of Shaanxi, men have been killed, women have been captured, and their land has become a flag field. And now, this former flag field has become an official field, because no one cultivates it and it has been abandoned, showing a desolate and dead silence.

And in this desolate land, rows of artillery carts are parked, bronze field guns are neatly arranged, military horses graze freely on the wasteland, and those magpies with long tails and white bellies flying around in the air.

Everything was so peaceful. However, in this peace, there is still an ominous existence.

"Profiteers!"

Holding a piece of soap in his hand, Zhang Guodong said indignantly to his comrades-in-arms beside him.

"Damn, a piece of soap actually dares to sell for ten cents, damn it, it's twice as expensive, if it weren't for it...... Lao Tzu has to clean him up! ”

Or what?

No one can say clearly, the brothers dare not speak out about the "exploitation" of those profiteers, after all, they still point to people and bring letters, and if they want to buy something, they have to tell them to bring it when they come, and double the price, which is already good.

"Hey, no business, no treachery!"

Lying on the grass, Li Desheng held a grass branch in his mouth, and then said slowly.

"I said squad leader, you are too honest, if you don't buy any soap, when you do this laundry, ask this to borrow one, ask that one to borrow and use, is it a ......"

"You're going to have a bad idea!"

As if reacting, Zhang Guodong reprimanded again.

"Okay, after a long time, your kid has run out of soap in one mouth, and after a long time, it's not that it's used up, it's that your kid doesn't have the heart to buy it at all!"

"Squad leader, don't wronged me!"

was reprimanded by the squad leader, and Li Desheng immediately defended.

"I'm doing this for your good, think about it, such a piece of soap, when do you have to use it, in case the troops are pulled, it is estimated that by then, you will not run out of soap, just carry it like this, and it will not be troublesome......"

"You kid, just one mouth......"

Zhang Guodong scolded with a smile, and then glanced at the tent in the distance.

"Don't think about the uprooting, I guess the area of the station is larger, don't you see, there are people over there who teach the brothers all day long?"

The big tent in the distance is the camp church of the army, but unlike in the past, when I learned to read and write in the army, the camp church now teaches how to farm.

"Alas, I said squad leader, our ancestors have been farming for generations, and they still need to teach this kind of land......"

Li Desheng snorted, looking at the big tent over there, his face was full of contempt.

"Can a scholar plant the land well? Doesn't this mean that Bai Ding is the top student in the exam......"

Then he shouted again.

"And not everyone is going to go, squad leader, don't you see, it's all those who have made meritorious contributions......"

Then he deliberately lowered his voice and said.

"I heard that I'm going to give them a lot!"

As soon as he heard Fen Xuntian, Zhang Guodong's eyes opened slightly, and then said silently.

"Well, it should be, you see, it won't be long before we will be in our turn."

Just as Zhang Guodong guessed, it will soon be his turn and his comrades-in-arms, when he received the notice to go to class, Zhang Guodong noticed that even Li Desheng, who didn't care about it before, was holding the ability and carrying a pencil, obviously the big guys were prepared, the book and pencil must have been bought recently, and they all seemed very serious, after all, this is related to their livelihood in the future.

In the army, they have all heard of some rules for the distribution of land in the army, one of which is that planting and breeding should be arranged by the government, that is, they cannot change the crops planted without authorization, as for why, of course they do not know, but anyway, they have heard that these people, but all the officers and soldiers who divide the fields abide by such rules, and most of them live a good life.

With a pen in his hand, Li Desheng didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, lest he leak something, he was the third in the family, and being a soldier was an opportunity for him to change his fate, and he could get his own land, even if he had no military merits, it was better to have a small area of land than no land, right?

"How many of you are from a family of Zhuang households?"

As soon as the words of the instructor in military uniform fell, the black pressure below rose up, and most of the soldiers were from Zhuang families.

"Since they have all planted land, let me ask, do you know what is the difference between good land and bad land?"

"It is water, and the land that is by the water is good land, and the land that is far from the water is the ......"

"There has to be fertilizer, some land is not fertilized, that land can also harvest a few buckets of grain, and some of the land has a manure, that is, one or two buckets of ......"

When everyone spoke in one word, the instructor just laughed and did not speak, and finally he wrote the words "water" and "fertilizer" on the blackboard, and finally wrote "earth power" before speaking.

"Actually, in the final analysis, it's still the earth's strength. In the pre-Qin period, in order to nourish the soil and avoid exhausting the soil power, the implementation of crop rotation ...... "not easy land, years of planting, the land is beautiful, so the family is 100 acres; A change of land, one year old is replanting, the old family is 200 acres; In the land of re-exchange, the second year old is replanting, so the family is 300 acres." The "easy" here is used for replacement and rotation, that is, the rotation between cultivated land and fallow land. The longer the fallow period, the worse the quality of the land, and the "beauty of the land" does not need to be fallow......"

After introducing the rotation of the pre-Qin period, he continued.

Later, when there was less land and more people, crop rotation was no longer implemented, and from the rotational system to the continuous cropping system, under the continuous cropping system, fallow was abandoned, and the continuous planting system was to "make the best of the land" in order to maximize food output. In order to ensure that the land can provide sufficient support for crop continuous cropping, we will actively use various technical means to cultivate the land, and "manure field" is the most common practice. The effect of fertilizing with manure is to "thin the field into fertile land, and turn the soil into fertile soil" ......"

In the past, they only knew that farming was like this, but they didn't know why it was planted, many of them were rules passed down from their ancestors, and now the instructor tells them the reason for all this.

Although it seems boring, they have also learned a lot of things, what is the "three nursery system", what is alfalfa, soybeans and other crops to raise land, and so on, and so on, and tell them one by one through the instructor's explanation, so that they know the good and bad of these farming methods.

Of course, they also learned how to select, breed and a series of knowledge, as for the yield of thousands of catties per mu of red taro, but also make them feel a little fresh, red taro is not like potatoes, red taro can be dried, can be used to feed pigs, pork is more expensive......

In the past, many crops and farming methods that would have taken decades, if not hundreds of years, to spread were spread in this class, but in the end, the instructor asked rhetorically.

"Presumably, everyone must be curious, why the millions of acres of fields outside this camp are just left to be barren to him, right?"

Shaanxi's tens of millions of banner fields have now been turned into wasteland, which is indeed a bit surprising, especially these soldiers, according to the past methods, it is estimated that they have already organized officers and soldiers to reclaim wasteland, and then give the land to officers and soldiers.

"In fact, Shaanxi and other places have been constantly wasteland since the Tang Dynasty, and many former mountains and forests and grasslands have been reclaimed into farmland, but what is the result? It's just that the poorer you are, the poorer you are, the poorer you are! ”

The instructor looked at the fighters, who were a little confused.

"The reason why this is so, in fact, is because of the ...... of the earth"

Turning around, he drew a heavy circle on the word "earth power", and then he said.

"There is a saying that adapts measures to local conditions, this Shaanxi, especially the land in northern Shaanxi, itself is not suitable for farming, its land fertility is poor, even if it is reclaimed into farmland, but in a year or two, the land will be exhausted, even if it is a few truckloads of fertilizer, the harvest is also very poor, so it will fall into the cycle of getting poorer and poorer."

Listening to the instructor's explanation on the stage, Zhang Guodong was a little confused, he looked at the words recorded in the notebook, a lot of knowledge he didn't know in the past, but what does it have to do with Shaanxi?

“…… Therefore, compared with agriculture, it is more suitable for animal husbandry in Shaanxi, that is, extensive planting of pasture, and then raising sheep, which is also the industry that you need to engage in if you are assigned Xuntian in Shaanxi in the future, in fact, compared to farming, raising sheep is undoubtedly easier, and the income is higher, an acre of alfalfa land can raise two sheep, and a hundred acres can raise two hundred, two hundred sheep can shear 10 catties per year, two hundred wool production is not less than 2,000 catties, as for the income......

When they heard that they could have an income of hundreds of taels a year, the big guys all opened their eyes in surprise, and when the instructor introduced the sheep to everyone, in their eyes, the sheep immediately turned into silver sheep, and they were covered with silver.

However, when imagining the future of herding sheep on his own Xuntian, Zhang Guodong naturally thought of those local people, perhaps, they can have 100 acres or 200 acres of Xuntian, and they can make a living by raising sheep, but what about these local people whose families only have 20 or 30 acres of land? What do they do?