In the blink of an eye, it has been more than half a year since Guo Bin came to the Han Dynasty. In the past half a year, Tong Yuan has never returned, but the development of Fulong Villa has been on the right track.

The population had already crossed the 1,000 mark a month earlier, and more than 500 people had settled in the village, not counting the people who were hired by the village to burn bricks and lime, and the workers who transported bricks, lime, wine, and soap. If all of them were assembled, there would be more than 1,500 young people in the village. Moreover, these people are driven by the atmosphere of Fulong Villa, and they also go out in the morning to exercise in the morning and practice marksmanship in the evening.

Although these people do not live in the mountains, they live in Fulong Villa, and they all regard themselves as people from Fulong Villa. Presumably, once something happens, these people will defend the villa and become a terrifying force to the outside of the villa. It can be said that so far, Xi Zhicai has recruited a wide range of disciples, and the strategy of training soldiers has begun to bear fruit.

In addition, Guo Yong used the soap sales network, with the Guo family as the backbone, and the intelligence network established by means of bribery and other methods was also preliminarily completed. The information from all over the country continued to gather in the restaurant opened by Guo Bin in Yangzhai City, and after Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia sorted it out, they ordered a special person to send Guo Bin to Fulong Villa.

Guo Bin's restaurant has been put into use long before the completion of the main line from Fulong Villa to Yangzhai City, and it is the word that Guo Bin asked Mr. Sima Decao to inscribe for the restaurant, called "Drunken Immortal Building". Of course, this is just the bad taste of a certain Jin Yong fan.

The drunken immortal building does not dishonor its name, the wine sold in the building is really immortal and drunk and does not want to leave, Yang Zhai has a little identity and surplus money people will occasionally go to taste a taste of the exclusive special brew of the drunken immortal building - heroic blood. This hero's blood is the wine made by Guo Bin, which is famous for its bright color, mellow taste, and great stamina.

The function of the restaurant to attract talents has not yet been fully opened, and there is not a celebrity that Guo Bin has heard of in history to come to work, but there are many migrant workers recruited. Most of these people have a skill, but they have lost their land for various reasons, or offended the local tycoons, and they can't get along in their hometown and come out to find something to eat. Because the drunken immortal building is the most prosperous area in Yangzhai City, there are many people who go to find opportunities, and it is really useless to recruit a few countrymen to work with the ability of drama talents.

It's just that the day of establishment is still short, Guo Bin's name has not yet been revealed, and no real heroes have been recruited. But in this way, Guo Bin is also satisfied, his actions are only to protect himself in the troubled times, as for whether to fight for that position, with Guo Bin's laziness, he is really too lazy to do it.

Now in Fulong Villa, there are opera Zhicai, Guo Jia, Zhao Yun and Guan Hai, and more than 1,500 young men and soldiers who "have a good body and can make steel guns". Of course, Guo Bin, who is unlearned and unskilled, and his heart is full of conspiracy theories, will not think of the helplessness of Song Taizu's yellow robe at this time.

In addition, in the warehouse of Fulong Villa, stacks of various animal skins have been stored that have long been nitrated. Among them, there are many bear skins, tiger skins, and of course, there are also cowhides that Guo Yong asked people to buy from Luoyang, the capital of Beijing, which were later used to make armor for soldiers. An iron spear with neatly stacked handles in the arsenal also gave Guo Bin the confidence to survive in troubled times.

According to Guo Bin's request, Ma Lao led a group of old men in the village to make a batch of English longbows out of oak wood. This oak wood is drought-resistant, barren-resistant, produced in the mountains, and the material is hard, the proportion is heavy, the toughness is enough, and the corrosion resistance is water and moisture resistant, it is really the best choice for making the bow body.

As for the bowstring, there is not so much elaboration, only a thin hemp rope to tie one end, and the other end to hang a buckle. He also chose a thin and straight branch to make the arrow body, and installed the iron arrow that was made by the blacksmith of the village.

This longbow is wound up to the angle of the eyebrows, and has an effective range of 200 meters, which is not inferior to the Japanese bow except for a somewhat unstable trajectory. The advantage is that the production is simple, the material is easy to find, and the cost is well controlled compared to the cumbersome process of Japanese bow that needs to be viscose and shaped.

Originally, Guo Bin saw that the production process was very simple and easy to imitate, but he was afraid that others would imitate it in the future and use it against himself. But thinking of the height of people in this era, if it weren't for the fact that everyone in Fulong Villa had enough meat and vegetables every day, it would be a joke to pull out this English longbow.

Longbows are suitable for battlefield suppression, think of the rain of arrows in the movie "Heroes", where thousands of archers gather and are covered by fire in a split second, which will cause a blockade of an area. It doesn't matter if you're a martial arts master, Hulk or Spider-Man, there's no hope of surviving under such firepower. Every time he thought that he would have the opportunity to lead thousands of archers to cover the fire in the future, Guo Bin trembled with excitement.

Of course, there are many shortcomings. One is that the bow is too large for people who are not physically good to use. The other is that it is not suitable for cavalry, of course, this is also because the bow is too large and not easy to carry and use. But even so, the appearance of the longbow shocked Zhao Yun and the others beyond measure. Such a low-cost bow has a super long range and extraordinary penetration, which is really a killing weapon.

In addition, the foreign trade of Fulong Villa is also booming. Chickens, ducks, pigs and other domestic animals, as well as game from the mountains, are no longer sold to the outside world, but only used for meat supply in the village. In addition, thanks to the efforts of hundreds of ewes, the number of children in the farm has skyrocketed to 400, barely enough for each person to have a cup of milk a day.

Some of these children came to the villa with their families to open up the wasteland, and some of them were orphans sent by Xi Zhicai, and they are currently studying in Fulongshan Academy, which is why Guo Bin, who has always been lazy, is busy with his feet and does not touch the ground.

With the help of the road built by the villa, dozens of truckloads of bricks, stones, cement, soap and wine are transported out of the village every day, and more grain and meat are transported into the village. Although the trunk line of Fulong Villa-Guojiazhuang-Yangzhai County is wide enough, it still operates at an almost extreme transportation level every day.

It was Guo Bin who took out the traffic rules of later generations and built a line with bricks in the middle of the road, so that everyone walked on the right, which made the main artery of Fulong Villa run at a busy and speedy speed. Only this one made Xi Zhicai secretly admire.

Through more than half a year's efforts, Yangzhai County has been full of new farms of all sizes. Because of the fast construction speed, the price is cheaper than the version building, and it is strong and solid, and the local tyrants in Yangzhai County have shown great enthusiasm for the construction of the village.

Now the Yingchuan clan Xun, Chen, and Zhong have cooperated with Fulong Villa to open hotels in various parts of Yingchuan and even in Luoyang, Beijing, and the relationship is very very, and it can be said that the relationship between Guo Bin and the Yingchuan Hao family has entered the honeymoon period. Taking advantage of this convenience, the three major families also made requests to purchase building materials such as masonry and cement.

It can be said that through "architectural diplomacy" and "luxury diplomacy", Guo Bin has been closely integrated with the Yingchuan wealthy family, and the plan of "breaking into the wealthy family" proposed by Xi Zhicai has also achieved initial results. The only regret is that I haven't seen Xun You, Xun Yu, Chen Qun and others, and Guo Bin is too busy, and he only visited Xi Zhicai once, maybe because he was not very lucky, and he didn't see these heroes.

In the name of sake brewing, the purchase of grain in various places is also going smoothly. At present, dozens of grain hoards in Fulong Villa are full of grain, and at the current rate of population growth, the rations of the people in the village will be enough for the next few years. Everyone looked at the towering grain hoards, their hearts were very steady, and then listening to the sound of reading in Fulongshan Academy, their hearts were full of yearning for the future, and they worked harder.

After nearly half a year of education, the older ones in the college have almost mastered addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Because there were too many students, and the teacher was the only one, Guo Bin, he divided these students into two groups: morning and afternoon. Each group of people only takes half a day of class, and the other half day is to help Zhuang Zhong write and calculate, which can be regarded as a combination of theory and practice. A few older people can already take advantage of the time when they are not in class to help Guo Bin lead students.

Unexpectedly, this method is not bad, not only greatly alleviating the shortage of manpower in Zhuangzhong, especially the shortage of "high-quality talents" who can write and calculate, students can apply what they have learned, the desire to learn is unprecedentedly high, and the learning progress is also very fast.

Among these people, Guo Bin also found a few children who learn very quickly, usually work hard and are willing to use their brains to think about problems, Ma Lao's grandson Ma Jun is one of the best. This kid was the first to learn from Guo Bin, and he is smart, and now he not only knows more than 2,000 words, but also excels in mathematics.

In addition, he was particularly interested in the three laws of Newtonian mechanics that Guo Bin had spent a lot of effort to torture himself through various methods and finally recalled, and invented several practical gadgets in half a day of practice, which really helped Zhuang Zhong a lot. Now Ma Lao smiled from ear to ear when he mentioned his little grandson, and the pride in his heart was indescribable.

However, the world is not all rosy. The isolated life of the people in Guojiazhuang has also been gradually broken with this year's drought. This year's drought in the Central Plains, the harvest in various places or reduced yield, or no harvest, Fulong Villa has not yet reclaimed the land, so the feeling is not deep, only from the news that Xi Zhicai ordered people to bring to the village, more and more displaced people in Yangzhai City have made Guo Bin vigilant.

In addition, there was news from Guo Yong's side that Taiping Dao, which had been handed down for more than ten years, took advantage of the year of the great drought to recruit disciples, serve Huang Lao, and use the water spell to cure the disease, which spread the fastest among the homeless people. The eight prefectures of Qing, Xu, You, Hebei, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Henan are full of believers, and there are probably no less than 300,000 people, and there is no shortage of believers among the rich and even officials. Now the displaced people in Yingchuan County are benefiting the public, and they are afraid that Taiping Dao will coerce the people to cause chaos, so Guo Bin should prepare as soon as possible.

Seeing this news, Guo Bin finally couldn't sit still anymore, and muttered in his mouth:

"Are troubled times coming after all?"