Andong's spring ploughing was carried out from March to mid-April, and after the supervision of the Metropolitan Protectorate, local officials hurriedly organized the local people to carry out land reclamation and cultivation, and basically completed the annual plan of spring plowing and sowing. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The time is so busy with the people into May, the weather is gradually getting hotter, which means that the hot summer is no longer far away.

With the efforts of the Andong Pioneer Group for half a year, a total of 160,000 victims from the Central Plains have been transported to Liaodong, and for this reason, 15 new counties have been set up in the entire Andong Yellow and Bohai Sea coastal plains to govern the disaster victims who have migrated here.

In the months when the grain was not harvested, 160,000 people relied on the help of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate. As a result, the grain pressure in the capital has remained high since the beginning of the year, and Li Yu used a lot of money to buy grain in Jiangnan, and he had to spend a lot of money to hire Jiangnan maritime merchants to transport grain north.

Fortunately, Datang has a huge ship carrying 20,000 stones, otherwise Li Yu would have to vomit blood.

Although the winter in Andong is bitterly cold, the spring, summer and autumn are beautiful and the wind and rain are smooth, and natural disasters such as droughts and floods that cause a reduction in grain production rarely occur.

Therefore, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the animal and plant resources are abundant, so it is not difficult for people to obtain food from the wild. Later generations described the barren scene of the Great Northern Wilderness as "beating the roe deer and scooping the fish, and the pheasant flying into the rice pot" is also applicable to the current coastal area of Andong.

The government only provided daily rations to the immigrants, or did it carefully calculate to ensure that the young and strong men could only eat every meal, and the old and young women and children could only eat half full. With the end of spring ploughing, the rations of young men were reduced to half-satiety.

For this change, although some people have complained in their hearts, they have not made trouble, compared to the two years of natural disasters in their hometown, there is no day to live, and now life can be called happy and healthy.

In the ordinary years when there is no disaster in my hometown, two meals a day is good, and I immigrated to Anton with the Anton Pioneer Group, and the government also gave me three meals a day. Although they are only half-fed, for 99 percent of the immigrants, this kind of life makes them grateful to the Anton Protectorate.

As for wanting to eat a full meal and eat a vegetable, there are all kinds of edible wild vegetables and fungi in the mountains and forests just a few miles away from the village, and the amount is not worrying about people picking them. People who can set traps and hunt can also get some game in the jungle to improve their food.

The immigrants spent their initial discomfort in the vast new world of Andong, and under the effective organization and arrangement of the government, they lived a better and more promising new life than the life in their hometown.

Of course, Li Yu also took advantage of this great opportunity to collect the hearts of the people, so that when the Anton Pioneer Group and local officials distributed fields, farm tools, and relief grain to the immigrants, they hyped up that this was the benevolent government of the Andong Protector and the Great Protector of Yanwang.

So much so that now the fifteen newly established counties in Andong, at the end of spring ploughing, the idle people spontaneously organized themselves in order to repay Li Yu's kindness, and built six ancestral halls for Li Yu with scriptures, built temples and corridors, and sculpted his statues, so as to enjoy the worship of the local people forever, and there are five that have not yet been built!

When the news reached Li Yu's ears, he couldn't help laughing and said: "The people of this era are simple!" ”

Although the construction of the ancestral hall was a spontaneous act, Li Yu considered that the people's lives were difficult and it was not appropriate to waste the people's strength, so he ordered to urgently stop the ancestral hall that the people were building for him.

When he was a child, Zheng Cheng learned from his father how to set up a small trap in the mountains and forests to catch rabbits. With the end of the busy spring ploughing, the young son is growing up and needs nutrition, Zheng Cheng will enter the mountains and forests in the north every two or three days, and set up a small trap on the road that the rabbit must pass, just wait for the rabbit to pass by will be entangled, and every second time he can catch it back and eat a meal.

"Is Brother Zheng at home?"

"Yes." Zheng Cheng put down the work he was doing and greeted his neighbor Wang Liang, who came to visit the door.

Wang Liang walked in the door and said with a smile: "Brother Zheng, there are many long and strong wild boars in the mountains and forests. My brother thought, it's tiring for us to run backwards in the mountains every once in a while, so we might as well do a big ticket, kill a wild boar and come back to eat meat, and if you can't finish eating, you can take it to the county seat and sell it, or buy salt and pickle it. Recently, I heard from the county seat that a department store has opened in our county, and the salt in the shop is 20% cheaper than the salt in my hometown......"

The immigrants were all disaster victims and had no money, so salt was temporarily supplied by the government, but if they wanted to use it more, they could only buy it themselves from the shops in the county seat.

"Hunting wild boars?" Zheng Cheng hesitated, he had also seen wild boars in the mountains and forests, adult boars were huge, weighing more than 400 catties, which was much larger than the wild boars in his hometown.

As soon as Zheng Cheng saw a wild boar in the jungle and the distance was not far enough, he quickly climbed the tree and waited for the wild boar to go far away before coming down.

"Brother Wang, this wild boar of Anton is very dangerous, just the two of us can do it?"

"Don't worry, I've got four good players in the village. We only need to dig a deep pit on the road where the wild boar will pass, so that the wild boar can enter and exit. ”

Wang Liang confidently patted his thick chest muscles and assured, telling Zheng Cheng to quickly take the guy and go up the mountain with him.

Wang Liang is the only blacksmith in the village, although he is not very good at making weapons, but there is no problem at all in making a simple spearhead.

A group of five people took spears and ropes and touched them into the mountains and forests where wild boars often frequented.

Wang Liang led everyone to a small ditch and found a group of wild boars drinking water.

"Quick, those wild boars will pass by here after drinking the water, let's dig a big pit here and let those wild boars jump into it......"

Wang Liang called Zheng Cheng and the four of them to dig a big pit in the middle of the road where the wild boar came out more than 40 zhang away from drinking water. He had been observing the wild boars for several days, and every day he would come to the creek to drink the mud, and then leave the road slowly.

A large pit as deep as one zhang was dug and covered with fallen leaves to cover up the traces, and Wang Liang and the others immediately left to hunt other prey, just wait to check if there is anything in the trap when they return.

More than an hour passed, and the wild boar herd left the ditch and walked back, and a huge boar proudly walked to the location ......of the trap.

With a "bang", the wild boar weighing more than 400 pounds stepped on the air, and the hiss was stuck in the hole.

"There is a pig cry!"

"Ha, a wild boar has fallen into a trap."

Wang Liang, Zheng Cheng, and their entourage, who had come back from a long distance, heard the neighing of the wild boar being trapped, and they were overjoyed one by one, and ran quickly to the trap.

"Wow! What a big boar! The crowd gasped and caught a huge boar, six feet long and two feet wide, stuck in a trap and unable to move, as well as a small sow.

"Hurry up and fight back, it's going to be dark in another hour." Wang Liang looked at the sky and said.

Wang Liang and Zheng Cheng held their spears and stabbed the necks of the two wild boars, and it took a long time for the wild boars to stop breathing.

It took a lot of effort for the six people to drag the wild boar up, and it was extremely difficult to resist the two wild boars back to the village.

Zheng Cheng dragged his tired body back home, and his wife Zhang panicked: "It's not good to be in charge, someone from the government will recruit you to be a soldier in the afternoon......"