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The construction team finished repairing the houses of the 20 new citizens, but they did not leave immediately, they also had to build a village office for this settlement, which is usually used as a school, and can also be used as a place for everyone to meet and discuss problems when there are problems.

In addition, the construction team also had to instruct everyone to build the city wall for the settlement, which was a must-have thing at least in this era.

Of course, the wall of this settlement does not need to be repaired as majestic as Liujiabao, it must be as high as six meters, which is the treatment of a large town, and it is enough to build a three-meter-high wall in this small settlement.

When building the wall, the construction team did not use the reinforced concrete method, but used strips of bricks to build a four-meter-thick and three-meter-high city wall, which was reinforced with cement between the bricks.

This wall was not built close to the dwellings, but also freed up some vacant land, but this was to leave room for more families to build houses after the population multiplied in the future.

In mid-to-late September, the weather in Shaanxi began to rain heavily, which had a somewhat impact on the construction of residential areas.

But fortunately, at this time, all the new citizens' houses have been capped, and the bricks on the walls have been sealed, and the doors and windows have been installed in place, even if there is rain, it is not tight, anyway, they are painting the walls in their own homes, so they don't have to go out.

As for the crops in the fields of the new citizens, there is no need to worry, potatoes are crops that grow in the soil, and they are not afraid of rain, or in other words, the rain saves the new citizens the effort of watering.

"Dad, mother, fortunately we have wheat seedlings distributed by the government, otherwise our wheat planting is late, and the filling has not been completed at this time. Ge Tiedan painted the walls of his house white, and sighed to his father and mother.

"Who says it's not, God is blind and specifically harms us, but fortunately, Liu Bodhisattva came to save us, that potato grows underground, don't be afraid of the rain in September, don't be afraid of the wind in October, after all, no matter how strong the wind is, it is impossible to blow up the potatoes under the ground." When Uncle Ge said this, he suddenly had a feeling of exhaling and raising his eyebrows.

"That's right, Tiedan, the government is really good to us, those two lieutenants are gone, you are our lieutenant chiefs, you really give our Ge family a face." Aunt Ge came up with such a sentence coldly.

"Mother, what are you talking about, it's all a matter that hasn't been skimmed yet, how can you talk nonsense." Ge Tiedan said with some embarrassment when he heard this.

"What do you call the eight characters without a word, the two lieutenant chiefs said that they will leave when they build our area, who will be the lieutenant chief when they leave, and they will be on an errand in the hands of your younger brother in the hands of Liu Erye, our old Ge family will definitely produce a lieutenant chief.

You don't have to look at it, no matter what we have here, the chief there will always discuss it with you first, you say, isn't this just to pass on the position of the chief to you. People outside are talking about this, don't you know? Aunt Ge glanced at her son and said angrily.

"Hehe, I haven't sent a notice yet, and it's hard to say anything, in fact, I told the chief about this a long time ago, but I was a little uncomfortable for a while, so I didn't say it." Ge Tiedan reached this point, and finally came out with the truth.

"Look at you, treat us as outsiders, don't tell us about this kind of good thing, I said, your brother sent a letter, saying that they were going to follow Liu Bodhisattva out to fight the northern captives in November, so the army will have a holiday, and he will come back then.

You tell him the good news that you are going to be the chief, and then tell him how Liu Bodhisattva treats us, and let him do things for Liu Bodhisattva sincerely, otherwise how can we accept Liu Bodhisattva's kindness with peace of mind. Aunt Ge told Ge Tie Dan again and again.

"I know, mother, my brother will come back in early November, and our house will almost be completed, but there is no furniture or anything, but I am afraid that I will have to buy it in Liujiabao." Ge Tiedan glanced around his house for a while and muttered to himself.

"Do you have the money to buy it?" Aunt Ge heard that her son wanted to buy furniture, so she asked casually.

"Mother, I have money, when I went to repay my debts some time ago, there was a lot of grain, and the government bought it at the price of four taels of silver and one stone, but I had more than 20 taels of silver in my hand, and I bought some beds and other things, and it was enough." Ge Tiedan thought about it for a while, and then replied to his mother.

"I know, if you don't have enough money in your hand, but there are still some silver taels here, you can use it first." Aunt Ge said with a smile.

"That's not possible, that's my brother's money to buy my life, I don't dare to use it." Ge Tiedan waved his hand and refused.

"What don't you dare to use, your brother is not an outsider, just return it to him after using it, if you dare not return him, you will be whipped with a shoehorn, do you believe it?" Aunt Ge said with a smile.

"Believe it, how dare you not believe it." Ge Tiedan grinned, and then continued to carry the bucket, concentrating on painting the walls.

New citizens like Ge Tiedan are really not satisfied with their new houses, which is a characteristic building designed by Liu Renyu based on what he has seen and heard in later generations.

Frame structure, glass windows, upper and lower floors, all are cement floors, very flat, and in order to adapt to the current era, take care of the economic affordability of ordinary people, and do not design floor heating or fire walls, but uniformly design fireplaces, chimneys, to the cold winter, people only need to go to the mountains to chop some firewood back, put it in the fireplace to burn, can be used for heating.

The houses of the new citizens are all designed in a standardized manner, and there is no other style, and the new citizens' own stables, pigsties, chicken coops, sheep pens and other supporting houses are designed by themselves, each according to their hobbies.

The rain in September was not very turbulent, and it only lasted for half a month before it came to an abrupt end.

When the clouds and rain stopped, the wind outside the plug came as promised, it came suddenly, it came violently, as if it wanted to blow everything away.

The shelterbelts planted in the fields were bent by the strong wind because they were a little thin, but the potatoes planted in the fields were almost unaffected because they lay low on the ground and had a relatively low chassis.

Windy days had no effect on the growth of potatoes, nor on the progress of construction in settlements.

According to the design requirements, the village hall was designed to resemble the type of building of the Western cathedral of later generations, except that it was not so tall and did not have many cumbersome sculptures.

Such a building is also relatively easy to build, just lay the foundation, build the walls, and then build the roof.

When this school is built, Ma Tianjun will send a teacher to teach here, this settlement has only six children, and the age is not the same, it is impossible to send too many teachers, so just send one, that is, to teach simple Chinese and arithmetic.

In addition to teaching children to read and write, the instructor is also to teach adults in the neighborhood to read and write.

In this way, the workload of this teacher may be a bit large, and Ma Tianjun took this into account and paid double salaries to those teachers who were sent to the settlements, that is, the money for the two positions of elementary school teacher and adult night school teacher was counted together.

New citizens do not have to pay for their education, but they have to pay for the textbooks themselves, and if they refuse to buy textbooks because they want to save money, they will be severely punished.

If the new citizens can't realize the benefits of reading and literacy, then Liu Renyu will let the new citizens learn knowledge, etiquette, and understand things even if they use coercive means, which is the so-called opening up of people's wisdom.

Of course, this is all for later, and the village office is still only under construction, and the new citizens are busy with the renovation of their homes every morning, and they have to come to help build the village office.

The village hall is a relatively big project, and it takes some delay, so when it is time to harvest the potatoes, the construction has not yet been completed, and there is not even a shadow of the city wall.

For the peasants, as soon as the harvest time came, the harvest was the top priority, and the two lieutenants took all the laborers in the settlements to the fields to dig potatoes.

This is the second time of the year that the new citizens of the settlement have harvested food crops. In fact, the wheat harvested this time alone is enough to eat, and there is even surplus wheat that can be sold as commercial grain, and now with the addition of potatoes, the grain stored in the granary of each new citizen will be more abundant and diverse.

It is the first time for the new citizens to harvest potatoes, a new food crop, which is the size of an egg, and there are long strings dug out of the soil, and there are more than ten in a bunch, and a good field can harvest more than 600 catties of potatoes in just one acre of land, and more than 400 catties can be harvested even in barren soil.

Seeing so much food in their fields, every new citizen laughed as much as he could.

The two lieutenants may have been worried that the new citizens of this settlement would not know how to make potatoes delicious, and they made a point of showing their hands to open the eyes of the new citizens.

On the night when all the potatoes had been harvested, a large bonfire was lit in the open space in front of the village office, and the two lieutenants sat around it with all the new citizens.

The two lieutenants turned into chefs and taught the new citizens how to eat potatoes.

Potatoes can be boiled and eaten, roasted and eaten, and can also be made into a plate of divine vegetables for later generations, sour and hot shredded potatoes, in addition, potatoes can also be dried and stored, and can also be made into potato flour.

The new citizens were shocked when the two lieutenants introduced their own methods of potatoes, and they never expected that the little potatoes would be so magical and have so many methods.

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