Chapter 32 Clearing the Wasteland
Qin forgot his home.
Qin Forget looked at the circle of people sitting at the table and couldn't help but nod with satisfaction. From the left-hand side, Yang Xuan and Yang Da, there is no need to introduce. They were followed by Ding Chen and Cao Qing, both of whom were Yang Xuan's brothers in life and death, one of the five brothers who killed Chen Ye in the first place, and the infantry lieutenant under Yang Xuan. Ding Chen is white and clean, with a long face, extremely handsome, and his eyes are sharp, just like the knife in his hand. And Cao Qing is short, only about four feet tall, and his body is developing horizontally, with broad shoulders and strong body, and he is unusually strong, like a board axe. A big black face, with a beard like a needle, sells a lot, but it looks more powerful. Both men have a resolute gaze, and at a glance they know that they are typical warriors.
Then there was Liu Meng, the black man of that day, who was originally a butcher in Chicheng County, who was heroic and righteous, and had a warm heart. Refugees poured into Chicheng in large numbers, and Liu Meng exchanged all the pork in his hand for a dozen stones of grain and sent them out, as a result, the family almost starved to death. Impulsive and reckless, but with a high prestige among refugees.
Then there is Wang Wen, who is in his fifties, still a showman, the only scholar among the refugees, proficient in arithmetic, and old-fashioned and stubborn.
Finally, Luo Zhong, who was born in a handlebar style, seems to be loyal, but in fact he is cunning, and has the unique philistine of a small citizen.
"Two things, first, the owner of the Sihai Warehouse in Akagi ordered 2,000 catties of fish from me, and it will be delivered before the 12th, and I have already received the deposit, let's discuss how to deal with this." Concise and to the point, Qin Feng went straight to the point.
"Sihai, Sihai, isn't the boss the owner of the house a beautiful woman?" Liu Meng's eyes lit up, and he asked urgently.
Qin Forget nodded suspiciously.
"My mother-in-law, now I'm holding my thighs, the owner is amazing!" Unexpectedly, the big black man slapped his thigh and shouted excitedly. Seeing that Qin Wang, Yang Xuan and the others were unclear, he explained proudly: "If you want to say that this Boss Wang, he is really a heroine among women, and ordinary men can't compare to himγγγγγγ He used his eloquence to sell pork and talked endlessly, how big the business of Wang Chen's family was, how beautiful the people were, how many days the porridge shack was open, and even how many people wanted to marry her.
"Okay, let's get to the point." Liu Meng said happily, and everyone listened happily, but after all, it was delayed, wasn't it?
"Well, the point is that this woman is very trustworthy in business, and we will wait to get rich on her big ship. Ha ha...... The big black man is like a rooster choked by the neck, and finally added.
"Fault, what kind of fortune? The key is to save enough food to survive the spring famine in the next few months. The old Xiucai Wang Wen glanced at Liu Meng and said.
"Mr. Wang is right. Next, we are going to prepare these two thousand catties of fish, today on the eighth day of the first month, Yang Xuan, will you raise all the funds before the tenth? Qin Forget turned his face to look at Yang Xuan.
Yang Xuan pondered, "There are two hundred new people recently, and the consumption is very large, but there are still almost a thousand catties in stock, and it should be possible to work hard without sleep these days." β
"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you, you work hard. The nearby river is full, right? You can go farther away, but I can only call the women and children of the whole village to you. Also, we must pay attention to safety, and we must eat better at ordinary times, because we are all old and weak, women and children, and we can't lose them. Qin Forget said.
"Okay." Yang Xuan nodded in agreement.
"The second question, our Qinjia Village relies on the mountains to eat the mountains, and it completely depends on God's face to eat. In the past, there were more than 200 people in the village, and it was fine in normal times, but once the snow fell heavier, people would starve to death as soon as there was less prey. Speaking of this, Qin Wang's eyes couldn't help but darken, this was the pain in the hearts of everyone in the entire Qinjia Village.
"Now that we have more than 300 people in Qinjia Village, this problem is something we will have to face in the future. So, I'm going to solve this problem once and for all. Qin Forget clenched his hands, "How to solve it?" Grow food! If we have hundreds, thousands of acres of land, why worry about food? β
"But our Qinjia Village is all mountainous, where did the fields come from?" Ding Chen asked with a frown.
"Yes, there are hundreds of acres around Qinjia Village, but they are all scattered small pieces of small pieces, which are inconvenient to cultivate, and I am ready to set aside half of the young and strong people to reclaim here first. There is a Monkey's Back Ridge about 30 miles to the north, and the largest basin in the hinterland of Taihang Mountain is over the Monkey's Back Ridge, and we call it 'Monkey's Nest'. The soil is unusually fertile, and because it is surrounded by mountains, the temperature inside is much warmer than outside, and there are many rivers running through it, so it is suitable for farming. I decided to use the other half of the young to develop it and grow food. β
"Owner, are you saying that a place as big as a hundred miles away requires us kittens to reclaim it?" Cao Qing said stammered. He remembered a story he heard when he was a child, about an old man and his family who had to empty a mountainγγγγγγ
"Where there's a will, there's a way. Even if you can't reclaim it all, you can reclaim as much as you can. Better than nothing! During this time, dozens of acres are reclaimed first, and the seeds are sprinkled to take good care of, and in the autumn, maybe you can harvest a dozen or twenty stones, which is better than nothing. Qin Forget nodded affirmatively.
"Can it be burned with fire? If you burn it, you will also fatten the land. Luo Zhong came up with an idea.
"No, this season, it's not easy to burn snow. Even if it burns up, the entire Taihang Mountain will be burned out if one is not careful. The mountain is full of pine trees, which are polyester and flammable, and once they catch fire, they can't be controlled at all. You are not from the mountains, you don't know how terrible the wildfires are, and if there is no rain, you will never be extinguished without burning a fine light. Besides, the timber that has been cut down is of great use to me, it is all good timber, and it is a lot of money to sell it. Qin Forget shook his head and denied the plan.
"Don't worry, we will continue to recruit young people in the future, and the progress will be faster and faster. I don't have high requirements for you, one acre a day is enough. In this way, when spring begins, we will have 60 acres of land. Qin Forget looked at them one by one with bitter faces and said with a smile.
Hearing Qin Wang's "low requirements", everyone's faces became even more bitter.
Early the next morning, Qin Forget personally selected 70 young men over the age of 13, Qin Forget gathered them at the head of the village, looking at their still thin bodies, Qin Wang's eyes flashed a trace of unbearability.
"I guess you already know what I'm going to take you for, maybe some people say I'm whimsical, maybe some people say I'm cruel." Qin Forget paused, looked at the people below and still listened carefully, and nodded with satisfaction, "It's okay, I don't care what you think of me." I just want you and your families to stop going hungry. Tell me, does it feel bad to be hungry? Do you still want to go hungry? Qin Forget shouted hoarsely at the end.
"No, no!" People hold up their tools and make their most instinctive shouts.
"Good! I don't care how you reclaim it, forty percent of the land reclaimed will always belong to you, and sixty percent will be given to the village. For the first three years of your own land, I received sixty percent of the rent. After three years, it will be changed to 20%, and after 10 years, not a grain of rice will be harvested, and the land will be yours. Brothers, work hard, do more and take more! "Now Qin Forget looks like a cabbage seller.
Silence, deathly silence.
"Boss, are you telling the truth?" A young man asked in a trembling voice.
"Black and white, heaven and earth are proof!" Qin Forget took out a notice that he had signed.
A thunderous cheer erupted violently, and it was hard to imagine how attractive land, the primary means of production, had been to the Han people for thousands of years.
The group rushed to the monkey's nest with great enthusiasm, where they will do the hardest work and where they will create a heavenly life.
Returning to the place where the wild boar and the old wolf were hunted last time, Qin Forget was embarrassed.
More than a month ago, he was here like a beast desperately fighting two beasts, but a month later he was able to come back like a man. Everyone in Qinjia Village knows how many things have been going through in the middle, but how difficult it is is I'm afraid only Qin Forget himself knows.
"Mother, I finally survived with the people in the village, and now life in Qinjia Village is getting better and better, do you see it?" Qin Forget touched the red sandalwood box in his arms and muttered to himself.
"Oh my God, the land here is actually black soil, this is too fertile!" Qin Wang's deep thinking was awakened by Yang Da, this guy knelt on the ground and was so excited that he couldn't help himself, "Brother, did you see it?" This is the black land, the same as the land of our hometown in Liaodong, the most fertile black land in the world! β
I don't know if I'm too excited or homesick, Yang Da's eyes are red.
"I saw the big brother, I saw it!" Yang Xuan's eyes also reddened with excitement.
"Boss, give the order! Even if I try my best, I will cut down all these forests and turn them into fertile fields! Yang Da said impassionedly to Qin Wang.
"Okay, let's do it now!" Qin Forget picked up a sharp axe and walked to a towering tree.
This big tree is as thick as three people hugging each other, and it is as high as 20 zhang, and the bark of the pine trees inside and outside is covered with a thick layer of ice and snow, which looks unusually solid.
"Hey!" With a loud shout, Qin Forget raised his axe and struggled to cut it off the tree, the ice and snow splashed, the bark flew, and Qin Wang's full force blow only broke a layer of bark on the big tree.
Looking at the shallow fresh stubble on the big tree, and then at the densely grown big tree in front of him, Qin Wang's brows also furrowed, and he began to realize that he was still thinking simply.
"Don't be discouraged, so many of our big living people can still be stumped by these dead things?" Yang Xuan saw Qin Wang's embarrassment, took the axe in Qin Wang's hand with a chuckle, and quickly chopped it at the stubble of the pine tree.
The stubble grew bigger and bigger, and after an hour, when the stubble was big enough, the pine tree finally couldn't support its weight and fell backwards.
"Look, there's nothing difficult about it." Yang Xuan restrained his heavy wheezing, "As long as you are willing to do it, you can bring down a tree in half an hour." One of us can work him for five hours a day, and seven or eight trees can still do it. There are thirty-five brothers here, and it is really not difficult to bring down three hundred trees in one day, and two or three acres of land will come out! β
Yang Xuan cheered everyone up optimistically, but what he said was only theoretical. Such high-intensity work for ten hours a day is not something that anyone can hold, in fact, it is very good to be able to achieve seventy percent of the expected goals.
But his words still had a great effect, and the thirty-five young men cheered and each raised his tools and threw himself into the woods in front of him, and he was in full swing.
Not all the trees were as huge as the one Yang Xuan had just cut down, some of the various trees that were much smaller were still very easy to clean, and it didn't take long for the thirty-five people to clear a lot of open space.