The big event has been decided, everyone talks happily, and a simple wine banquet is eaten until late at night.

The next day, Lu Shi and the third uncle and others found a few experienced and skilled old men, followed Wu Tao, and began to set off to the Huluyu Valley, and began to carry out a preliminary investigation of the Huluyu, so that he knew in his heart, and in order to carefully formulate a model plan for the construction of Huluyu in the spare time of the battle.

The topography of Huluyu is very good, the valley mouth is narrow, the gourd village has been established here, although the wall is dilapidated, but it is in a critical place, if it will flow out of the gourd river of the valley again, and then build a water village, there will really be a situation where the husband is not open.

The whole gourd valley, there are steep mountains on all sides and the outside world, there are more dense forests, covering the sky and the sun, there are no roads at all, if there are enemies who want to attack each other in these directions, it can only be a small unit, it is impossible for a large army to climb over such high mountains and mountains, and the valley is a vast area, the hills are undulating, a large area of trees is covered, more than a hundred years of towering trees can be seen everywhere, people walk in the middle of always a variety of animals and beasts haunted in the meantime, constantly causing the Wang brothers and Chunlan to shout, There was even a time when three people ran out to chase a fox and disappeared in the mountains and trees, which made everyone worried.

Just when everyone was jumping anxiously, after a while, Chunlan came to Lu Shi with a little rabbit in her hand to report her merits, the little face stained with sweat and blades of grass was full of smug laughter, Lu Shi lovingly rolled up her sleeves to wipe her, and the group of people who followed her were embarrassed. However, the third uncle and Cao Meng both smiled happily and nodded.

There are more than a dozen wide streams in the valley bottom, running through the hilly valley bottom, perennial continuously, clear and turbulent, and finally converge into a big river of vast soup soup - the gourd river, rushing out of the gourd valley. This is the ideal place for the development of water power in the future, and he wants to make a big difference this time with his own windmill. From time to time there are fish swimming in the creek leisurely, and they are not afraid of people, which is a great supplement for the elderly and children in the future, and these fish will not have a good life for a few days.

Look at the mountains and valleys along the river to impact a large plain, the land is fertile and flat, as the third uncle said, it should be no problem to reclaim to feed more than 100,000 people, but now it is the middle of winter, these can only be implemented in spring, but with these unique terrain, there will be a good scene of prosperity in spring.

Go further in, from the Huluyu cottage is also four or five miles away, let them find a high ridge, after knocking to know that the ridge soil is tight and thick, it is a good place to play the cave, and it is not far from the cottage, everyone is very happy, immediately let people go back to the cottage to transfer manpower, and began to try to build.

If the cave is successful this time, then everyone will have a stable place to live. The four old battalion leaders also celebrated, thinking that as long as King Chuang transferred three hundred young and strong soldiers to help, he would be able to dig rows of caves in a few days for everyone to live and work in peace and contentment.

Further into the valley, the grass and trees are more dense, and the wild beasts are more frequent, Lu Shi said to the third uncle; "Third uncle, with the resources here now, you can organize some old hunters to come out, set traps, dig hunting pits, and capture some prey, one is to get some meat for the wounded brothers in the army, and the other is to get some fur and other things that are in short supply in the cottage, but for the hunters to get in vain, they must also give certain rewards to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm."

The third uncle nodded again and again, and Chen Ce stepped forward and said: "King Chuang's words are very good, while sending Orions to hunt around, don't forget to give them some tasks, this is to increase the cottage materials, and secondly, you can also investigate the surrounding mountains by the way, the situation of the passes in various places, according to the drawing method that King Chuang handed over to Zhao Xing, the supervisor sergeant, draw the terrain of this gourd valley into a map, and then mark the pass to the pass, and set up a beacon fire in the future, so as not to have an official army cargo pole over the mountain in the future." ”

Lu Shi appreciated Chen Ce's caution very much, and after talking about it briefly, he said to the third uncle: "Mr. Chen Ce's affairs need to be slowed down, but now the third uncle is organizing some women to graze and reproduce the cattle and sheep from Chenjiabao and other fortresses that we seized last time, so that we can slowly develop our own production on the basis of looting, and then call on the women and old people among the people to raise some chickens and ducks in the spring, first, to give the soldiers some nutritional supplements for poultry eggs, and secondly, to let the children in the cottage get some nutrition. What are we living for? It's not for the sake of future generations. ”

After all, Lu Shi was born as a farmer, and he is still very attentive and careful about living at home, which is also in harmony with the third uncle's spleen and stomach, and the third uncle immediately asked people to write it down so that they could be implemented immediately. (Support genuine, support author, please log in 17k, thank you)

Lu Shirang, who followed Zhang Jiaerlang, took out a pen and paper, and wrote down and marked down where the site suitable for the construction of the craftsman camp and the place suitable for the development of the firearms camp were written down along the way. More carefully to the place that can produce red bricks to point out, and tell Wang Zhao blacksmith some simple processes of firing red bricks to know, this is a small common sense of life, in modern times almost everyone will, Erlang even asked to build an independent factory for himself, so as to produce repeaters, for this, of course, Lu Shi nodded and agreed.

So stop-and-go, this gourd valley brings constant surprises to everyone.

The biggest surprise came when he reached the bottom of the valley, when a soldier who was a miner suddenly screamed as he crossed a river.

"King Chuang, King Chuang, come and see, we have picked up the treasure." The miner's soldier's voice changed with excitement.

Lu Shi hurriedly dismounted and ran over to look, only to see the sergeant holding a large handful of black quicksand in the river and shouting.

Lu Shi didn't know why, so he came to the front to take a closer look, and saw that in the black mud and sand in the soldier's hand, the stars were constantly flashing in the sun, and after seeing it, he looked at the soldier in shock; "Brother, do you think this is iron sand in your hand?"

"Exactly, King Chuang, we found a treasure, this is iron sand, and it is the kind of iron sand with a very high iron content, which shows ---"

"This means that there must be an iron ore mine not far above this stream, which is very rich in iron, right?" Lu Shi was already trembling for such a discovery, what does an iron mine, an iron ore with a very high iron content mean to the Black Tiger Village that needs to start a military career, it is self-evident, as soon as the third uncle and Chen Ce heard it, they immediately arranged people to guard the Quartet, and Cao Meng even assigned a person to return to Huluyu immediately, and asked to send the original Black Tiger Village veterans to run over to guard this unknown location, and the look was like a great enemy.

Before the personnel came, everyone followed the direction of the river, regardless of the thorns, slowly explored, under the leadership of the experienced miner-turned-soldier, they really found a bare iron ore vein, and the result of the stone test turned out to be forty percent, which was not an unexpected joy, all of them forgot the pain of the thorns cutting through the skin, and cheered unhappily.

With iron ore, although it is not big, it is equivalent to the possibility of breaking the iron blockade of the imperial court, coupled with the knowledge of the old craftsman and the improvement of Lu Shi, then, the cottage will no longer worry about iron in the future.

After shouting, everyone carefully explored, but there was also something unsatisfactory, that is, this deposit is not very large, but it is enough for Black Tiger Village. Shaanxi lacks large-scale iron and other metal mines, but such small iron mines are available everywhere, and there is such a one in this gourd valley, how can you not say that this is God's favor?

Lu Shi summoned his men to him and said solemnly; "Now I declare, don't tell anyone about the discovery of iron ore, this is the real strategic material, this is the lifeblood of our cottage's future development, and we can't be careless. Chief Manager Cao must send more people to take care of him day and night, and there must be no slackness. ”

Cao Meng stepped forward to salute and said solemnly: "The military advisor can rest assured, his subordinates are provincial, and if there is any mistake, he is willing to bear it." ”

In the current world, salt, iron, tea and wine are strictly controlled by the government, and during the Apocalypse, the imperial court also specially sent mine supervisors and eunuchs in various places, which shows the importance of the Ming Dynasty to the mine. A small iron factory is a cornucopia-like location, if it is really known to the outside world, not to mention the government, even the surrounding poles and landlords will fight for their lives endlessly like flies.

Further in, the mountains and forests became more and more dense, although it was winter, there was also a feeling of covering the sky and the sun, and Lu Shi found a kind of tree in the mountain, which was rooted in the wood. This tree is tough and resilient, making it a good material for longbows. The old elm trees all over the mountain are even better materials for elm spraying, so that the firearms battalion can grow and develop.

In this way, everyone stopped and stopped, constantly discovering, planning, and returned to the cottage in Huluyu at night, everyone was tired to death, but everyone was excited to die, and the third uncle arranged people according to the method given by Lu Shi.

Regardless of fatigue, Lu Shi focused on the four elders of the old camp to promote agricultural terraced operation methods on the slopes around Huluyu, so that the slopes become flattened, water conservation and fertilizer, which opened the eyes of several township bosses, and shouted that the method of the military division is really wonderful, and the military division is almost respected as an immortal.

The terraced fields only appeared in a large area in the north during the time of Mao Taizu, and this method also brought endless benefits to mountain agriculture, so of course everyone was surprised.

Now that everything has been decided, the relocation of the old camp immediately mentioned the agenda of the day, so the Black Tiger Village, Chenjiabao once again became a sensation, especially the people who had no way to live around, and they rushed to tell each other, helping the old and the young to rush to Huluyu with their families to join the Black Tiger Army.

At the beginning, there were still a small number of people who were displaced to defect, but the army raised materials, laid down a few notorious forts, and distributed grain on the spot to help the lonely people, this time won the hearts of the people, and there were more agitators with the army, promising that the people who were forced and oppressed outside could no longer live, as long as they went to Huluyu, they would divide the fields and land, and no longer had to pay the levy taxes.

At one time, on the three roads, there was an endless stream of people, and there was a continuous flow of people on the main roads and small roads. Such a situation made the various forces around Fuxian panic at that time.