During the Chongzhen period, Daming was always in the Xiaoice climate period, so by the beginning of April, the ice and snow had not yet melted, and the new citizens who were resettled in various settlements were very anxious, because if they did not plant the seedlings, they were afraid that they would not be able to harvest at the end of August.

Ge Tiedan's family, whose family was allocated ten acres of good fields, looked for the chief several times for this matter, and each time the chief smiled mysteriously and told Ge Tiedan, saying that he just had to wait patiently, as long as it thawed in May, wheat seedlings could be planted, and there would be a bumper harvest in August.

Ge Tiedan didn't believe much about the governor's statement, because their family had planted the land for an unknown number of years, according to common sense, it must be planted in April, filled in June and July, and harvested in August.

When Ge Tiedan raised such questions, the chief just smiled slightly, and said confidently: "Tiedan, I know that your younger brother is a soldier in the hands of the marshal, and this future may be very ambitious, so I won't lie to you anyway, you just have to rest assured, but the old man who followed the handsome a year ago has seen the world."

Let's tell you, you should wait with peace of mind, in May, use the ploughing oxen given to you by the marshal to plough the land, prepare the fertilizer, and in May, the agricultural research institute of our industrial manufacturing plant will send the wheat seedlings over, and the wheat seedlings will grow the same as those planted in April, so you just have to be relieved. ”

The lieutenant chief had said this, and Ge Tiedan couldn't say anything more, so he could only return to his tent with a worried heart.

"What's going on, what did the chief say?" Aunt Ge saw that her son was back, so she asked.

"The lieutenant said, let us wait with peace of mind, and plant wheat in May." Ge Tiedan replied in a muffled voice.

"Where's that? In May, it was planted again, and it could not be ripened in August, and in September, a gust of wind blew over, and then a shower of rain, and it was all rotten. Aunt Ge was worried.

"Mother, what you said is reasonable, but when we farm the land, we must obey the arrangement of the chief, otherwise the canal will not release water to us, how can we plant the land?" Ge Tiedan's brows knotted into a Sichuan character, and he said in a deep voice.

"Alas, we borrowed so many things from the government, if there is no harvest, how can we pay it back?" Aunt Ge was worried about the debt she had borrowed from the government, and said with great concern.

"Mother, what are you afraid of, the government said that it will be paid off within three years, and we will not be charged interest." Ge Tiedan said with relief.

"Hey, don't you believe it, isn't the government the government, can they still let us please do it? If we don't pay it this year, I'm really afraid that they will change another policy next year, and if the interest is included, it will be the same as our owner who killed a thousand knives in the past, and we can't afford it. "Aunt Ge seems to be afraid of a hard life, and she is full of vigilance against the government.

"You old lady knows a fart, just what Liu Dashuai did, even if it is the Qingtian master, you actually say bad things about the handsome, you can be careful, these words are not allowed to be talked nonsense, I have heard it, the entire Jingbian Fort has the eyes and ears of the handsome, if you say bad things about him, you yourself will be arrested and don't worry, don't miss the future of the iron egg and the second egg." Uncle Ge saw that his wife was getting more and more outrageous, so he blew his beard and glared, and really taught his wife a lesson.

"Can't you!" When Aunt Ge heard this, she trembled with fright and looked around vigilantly.

"You can rest assured, even if the handsome ears and eyes are powerful, they will not stare at us mud legs, the forehead is to remind you, you should be careful when you go out, don't cover your mouth, you can hear it, some people who say bad things about the handsome, if you don't pay attention to it, you will lose your trace, you can't see anyone, you can't see the corpse, you can scare people to pinch, you have to put a good door on your mouth, you know?" Uncle Ge reminded his wife again.

"I know, I know, that's it, since the chief said that it's not too late to plant in May, let's plant it in May." When Aunt Ge said this, the previous momentum had long since disappeared.

"That's what I said, father, mother, I'm going to serve the cattle, the government said that we must take care of the cattle, otherwise we are afraid of being punished." After Ge Tiedan said this, he walked out of the tent, walked into the cowshed, tidied up the cowshed, brushed the cow, and waited carefully.

When he had nothing to do, Ge Tiedan also had to participate in the militia training, there were a total of 20 households in their residential area, there were two lieutenant chiefs, divided into two teams, the captain was served by the lieutenant chief, and the person in charge of training was the retired firecracker sent by the Jingbian Fort Army.

Ge Tiedan followed this veteran to first practice the formation of the queue every day, then hang a brick on the muzzle of the gun, raise the gun for half an hour to an hour, practice strength, and finally shoot with live ammunition and fight bayonets.

After round after round of training, the militiamen were all soft and tired.

Ge Tiedan was worried about his younger brother being a soldier in the army, so he wanted to ask about things in the army, so in his spare time, he made a pot of good tea, brought it to the veteran, and asked the veteran curiously: "Master Jun, my younger brother is a soldier under our handsome, is he also training so hard?" ”

"Oh, your brother is from our Jingbian Fort Army, what kind of army is he?" When the veteran heard that Ge Tiedan's younger brother was his own robe, he immediately became interested.

"Cavalry." Ge Tiedan replied.

"Yo, that's not bad, the cavalry is the main force of our Jingbian Fort Army, covering the flanks, going out to sentry, going out to fight and expand the results when the enemy army is defeated, they are everywhere, and the general of our cavalry is the younger brother of the marshal, who is a soldier in the cavalry, and the speed of promotion can be fast!" The veteran heard that Ge Tiedan's younger brother was a cavalryman, and he said this big string of words without thinking about it.

"Yes," Ge Tiedan first felt happy when he heard this, and then asked, "Is it so hard for my younger brother to be a soldier and train so hard?" Ge Tiedan asked curiously.

"It's hard to talk about this training, we only train for three hours a day in the afternoon, and you are also tired, so I tell you, as far as your brother's cavalry, the training is not particularly hard, but it is also from morning to night, training for eight hours, every day is physical training, military skills training, simulated actual combat drills, after a day of practice, I want to sleep when I see the bed.

If your younger brother is selected by Yang Ye to be a pikeman, congratulations to your brother, he is considered to be a hell on earth, our Yang Ye trains, it is not bitter, it is not tired, it is called torture, but our Yang Ye himself also practiced, so we really admire it. When the veteran said this, he looked scared, obviously apprehensive about the intensity of Yang Desheng's training.

"It turns out that the commander's soldiers have trained so hard, I don't know if my brother can hold it?" When Ge Tiedan heard this, he couldn't help but be a little worried.

"If you can't hold on, you have to hold on, if we soldiers quit halfway, all the good land allocated to you will be returned, and you will be replaced with land far away from our settlements and ditches, and then you will have to walk a long way just to go to the field, not to mention carrying the water to the mountains when watering, can you stand it?" When the veteran heard this, he immediately told his story.

"Then military master, you came out to be a soldier, is your brother inheriting the family property in your family?" Ge Tiedan asked again.

"Don't say it, at that time, we didn't have this rule, and I also had a share in the family's field, because this is the family property I earned by joining the army, but the marshal has this policy, we are his soldiers, how can we not listen. My brother made it clear to me, he holds the family property, and the old people are taken care of by him, and he usually doesn't want me to pay, and when my father and mother close their eyes, they will go to the grave.

Although I have no land to rely on, but I was injured and retired, and my life is not too sad, the marshal sent us an errand for the recruit training camp, training recruits every year, and taking the same monthly money as being a soldier, the days are also free, but I can't be promoted anymore, it's a pity. When the veteran said this, he couldn't help but sigh.

"In this way, the marshal is really good to the wounded and retired soldiers." Ge Tiedan said with a lot of emotion.

"Isn't that it, let me tell you, in our team, there is a broken leg, and the handsome man directly assigned a shop in Liujiabao, and this guy let an old man from Sichuan rent it, and the rent, good guy, is five hundred taels a year, which is worth four years of work."

Alas, but there is nothing to envy, because after all, people are missing a leg, and life is inconvenient, if it were me, I would rather not have that shop, but also let my legs and feet be there. ”

The veteran seemed to be a little envious of the crippled robe, but then realized that it all had a price, so he immediately removed this thought from his mind.

"That's what you said, I hope my brother will always be safe." Ge Tiedan remembered that his younger brother was in the army, and he couldn't help but say this.

"Actually, our Jingbianbao army has always won battles, and the casualty rate is not high, do you know Jiannu? It's powerful in Liaodong, it's our Ming's henchmen, we fought two big battles with Jiannu, each time it was a big victory, and our marshal was also promoted from general to chief officer, so you just have to rest assured, your brother is difficult to die in battle. The veteran said with relief.

"What the military master said is, by the way, military master, you have a field at home, so I want to ask you, is your family planted wheat now?" Ge Tiedan has always been thinking about this, so he asked.

"Where can I plant now, the weather is cold, the ground is hard like iron, it is really laborious to plow, we usually plow the land in mid-May, and then plant wheat, and at the end of August, harvest wheat, and then plant potatoes, and in November there will be a bumper harvest, and the nest will begin to nest in winter." The veteran replied.

"Is it too late to plant wheat in May? Can't be cooked in August! Ge Tiedan said in surprise.

"Didn't you tell you? Our Agricultural Research Institute uses greenhouses to cultivate wheat seedlings, which are planted in early April, and in May, when the climate is suitable, they will be sent to you and let you plant them. The veteran laughed.

"I said it, but it's not as detailed as you said, by the way, military master, what is a greenhouse? There is such a wonderful use! When Ge Tiedan heard such a surprising thing, he couldn't help but be full of curiosity about the greenhouse.

"I don't understand the greenhouse, anyway, you can provide us with suitable wheat seedlings, and we have more strange things in Jingbian Fort, you can see it then, okay, don't talk about it, let's continue to practice." The veteran couldn't explain clearly, so he simply continued to train.

"Yes, Master Jun." Ge Erdan agreed, and then took the fire gun to stand in line, but his heart was still thinking about the greenhouse cultivation of wheat seedlings, he really wanted to see if in May, the government would really send the wheat seedlings that had grown for a month and a half.