It is said that the people of Zhenbeibao and Jingbianbao were the first to be under Liu Renyu's rule, because they had already been allocated to the fields early, and because Liu Renyu concentrated his efforts to renovate a complete set of water conservancy facilities, Shaanxi's successive years of drought had almost no impact on agriculture.

In addition, after several years of cultivation, the agricultural scientific research department has cultivated cold-tolerant wheat, and the latitude of this place in Shaanxi is not very high, so the people of Zhenbeibao and Jingbianbao plant wheat around October in autumn and harvest it in April of the following year.

Potatoes are planted in April and harvested in October, so that two crops of grain can be harvested in a year.

If that's not enough, you can also grow sweet potatoes in the mountains. The sweet potato is extremely drought tolerant and absorbs water, so people only need to weed and water it from time to time.

Liu Renyu only harvested 30 percent of the grain harvested by the people of Zhenbei Fort and Jingbian Fort, and only harvested wheat, and did not harvest any potatoes and sweet potatoes, and the people kept them for food.

In this way, the food in the hands of the people is very sufficient, and in addition to the grain, Liu Renyu also allocated additional pigs, chickens, ducks, livestock and poultry to feed the people.

Generally speaking, each household will generally raise one or two pigs, and as for chickens and ducks, they will generally raise a dozen to dozens of pigs.

The people raised pigs, chickens and ducks, got piglets, chickens, and ducklings, and after raising them, they repaid Liu Renyu's government live pig and a chicken and duck respectively, so that even if the borrowed capital was returned to the government, the remaining pigs and chickens and ducks were kept for themselves.

Some people raised pigs, chickens and ducks at home were more than enough to eat by themselves, so some of them used their brains and went to Yan'an, Ansai and Anding to sell their pork, chickens and ducks.

As a result, some families have made a lot of money.

When the other people saw that they could make money in this way, they followed suit and sold their own pork, chickens and ducks, and eggs.

But meat and eggs are limited and will always be sold out, so some people have a big brain, buy soap and glass mirrors and go to nearby villages, towns, forts and county towns to sell them.

These people who dared to think made a lot of money, so more people joined the team to make money.

When Liu Renyu learned about this situation, he did not object to the people doing this, but the world is not peaceful now, and the people may be looted when they go out to do business.

In order to ensure the safety of the people under his rule, Liu Renyu instructed Zhao to strike iron and sell the surplus firearms to the people, so that the people could use them for self-defense. As a result, every household owned a gun.

The people had fire guns in their hands, and they had something to do when they were slack, and when they were slack in the past, the people had nothing to do, so they gathered in groups of three or five to play double land and horse hanging.

Now with the firecracker, the people's hobby has become more than marksmanship, practice marksmanship, the style of martial arts spread in Zhenbei Fort and Jingbian Fort, and it has become a trend. Liu Renyu would also send wounded and retired soldiers to a village as instructors, teaching the people how to fight in formation and training them in white-knuckle combat.

After training, Zhenbei Fort, Jingbian Fort, and the male people of the villages scattered outside these two forts all have a certain combat effectiveness, and those ordinary thieves and thieves want to rob the villages and towns and fortresses under the rule of Liu Renyu, which is simply wishful thinking.

Regarding Liu Renyu's style of selling weapons to the people, Ma Tianjun was deeply worried.

He once said to Liu Renyu: "The people have firearms, if the government wants to act and violate their interests, won't they want to resist the government with firearms?" ”

Liu Renyu smiled and replied: "The purpose I gave the people was to resist the strong enemy externally and resist the tyrannical government inside. If the government acts reasonably, why not fear that the people will not accept it. If the government is unreasonable and the people are defenseless, they can only let the government fish and meat, and if the people have guns and arms, they can counter violence with violence and assert their rights. ”

When Ma Tianjun heard this, he was silent for a long time, and said: "General, the general affairs of Zhenbei Fort, Jingbian Fort, and Liujiabao are all managed by students. ”

"Don't be annoyed, it's not that you don't manage it well, your personal conduct is impeccable, and the ancient gentleman is also! But a good system makes bad people good, and a bad system makes good people bad, and we may not have no wicked people in this system now, if they do evil, the people will have the capital to resist, do you say yes or no? Liu Renyu said with a smile.

"The students got it." Ma Tianjun then understood Liu Renyu's purpose of selling firecrackers to the people, but as if he remembered something, he reminded Liu Renyu: "General, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the people are not allowed to have weapons. ”

"Where can Chen Junmen and Hong Zhishuai manage so much, even if they know, I will reply to them in the name of the rogue rebellion and the special fire gun to defend the people." Liu Renyu replied.

"Wait until the sea is appeased, and then take back the firecracker, right?" Ma Tianjun asked.

"Haha, let's talk about this later." Liu Renyu smiled but did not answer.

Ma Tianjun didn't ask anymore.

The people had firecrackers in their hands, so Liu Renyu specially ordered each of the armor under his rule to form a militia firecrackle team, the captain of which was served by the captain of the first division, and the tenth armor was a 120 firecracker militia, and the commander of the lieutenant was appointed as the militia chief.

When the people had firearms, when doing business, they would usually gather a militia of armor first, and then go out in a group. Such an organized, disciplined, and combat-ready militia force would not dare to be provoked by ordinary thieves and bandits.

The people of Zhenbei Fort and Jingbian Fort had a strong economic foundation, and Liu Renyu decided to give them horses.

It is still the old rule, and now the horses issued by the government to the people are borrowed, and when these horses give birth to foals, each household must return a horse or other amount of horses to the government.

As soon as this news spread, the people of Zhenbeibao and Jingbianbao were all very excited, and they had gone to do business, because there was no effective means of transportation, and they could only rely on walking, so they could only go to Ansai, Anding and Yan'an to go around, and now they have horses, and they can go farther away to do business.

So the people of Zhenbeibao and Jingbianbao wholesaled a lot of glass mirrors and soap at one time, and then sold them in other distant places.

These people have a wide range of activities, from Shanxi in the east, to Lanzhou in the west, to the grassland in the north, and to Yan'an in the south.

Their customers even included the Mongols in the Hetao area and the thieves in Shanxi, and their business was doing very well for a time.

Liu Renyu knows these things, and he doesn't want to care about them, after all, everyone has the right to chase a better life, which is normal, and there is nothing to say.

Thanks to Liu Renyu's policy, most of the men in Zhenbei and Jingbian had a horse in their hands, and their equestrian skills were growing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Liu Renyu is very satisfied with this.

When he was free, Liu Renyu also took the time to check on the progress of Liu Jiabao.

The city wall of this Liujiabao has been repaired, and the sewer is also very wide, Liu Renyu specially went in to experience it, and the space in it is very large, just like the sewer built by the German colonists in Qingdao in later generations.

In this way, he no longer has to worry about Liujiabao becoming Venice when it rains.

Zeng Xiangbai, Zhou Anjin, Song Genyin, Song Shijun, these engineers who have mastered the core technology teach their own skills to their sons or immediate family members, and then let them report to Chen Danqing.

Chen Danqing assigned each technician a squad of bodyguards, a team of 12 people, and the duty of these bodyguards was to protect these technicians from kidnapping these technicians with ulterior motives, so as to obtain the core technology that Jingbian Fort relied on to make money.

After these technicians were taught, they were sent to Liaodong and Jiangnan to open branch factories.

Before leaving, the bodyguards who protected these technicians all received a top-secret special order from Liu Renyu, saying that if these personnel who had mastered the core technology of Jingbian Fort were at risk of being abducted by unknown forces, they should immediately kill these technicians to prevent the technology from leaking.

After He Ergou received Liu Renyu's order to find a military dog, he immediately found a more reliable breed of military dog, called Shaanxi thin dog.

The thin dog is a very famous hunting dog and is the prototype dog of the Journey to the West. Liu Renyu asked He Ergou to select a hundred fine dogs to be carefully raised for use in the future when suppressing thieves.

While raising military dogs, Liu Renyu specially asked people to go to Li Jixian Village in Mizhi, Shaanxi Province to find Li Zicheng's belongings, let the fine dogs smell it, and then firmly remember this taste.

In addition to Li Zicheng, Liu Renyu also sent people to find some items from Zhang Xianzhong's former residence, so that the fine dog could remember Zhang Xianzhong's taste.

In this way, when fighting with the thieves in the future, Liu Renyu can accurately guide and capture Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng in one fell swoop.

These two people will be amazing characters in the future, and they will be used in the future.