After sending away Zhong Qinghan and the craftsmen of Zhongfu, Su Ziheng ordered the closure of the workshop and the withdrawal of all the people in the workshop to Sujiazhuang.

Just in case, Zhong Qinghan did not bring back the hundred black crow army guards, but let Su Ziheng command, which can be regarded as a return for the favor. Because no one knows whether after the large-scale outbreak of the locust plague, there will be people who will take risks and plunder large households.

With these 100 crow soldiers guarding, the safety factor of Sujiazhuang will be much higher. In addition to these 100 black crow troops, Su Ziheng also began to select some trustworthy strong men among the homeless people who worked for him, and planned to form his own escort team.

Originally, he planned to let the 100 house slaves who had signed the death contract form an escort team, but they needed manpower to make cement later, so they were all transferred to the workshop. He simply thought about re-recruiting all the escorts, and those house slaves would be responsible for research and development of technology in the future.

He still understands the principle of force and technology, and grasping both hands. In such a not very peaceful era, without force to protect yourself, even if you have thousands of family wealth, you can't keep it; Similarly, without money in hand, he couldn't recruit people to be his guards.

Therefore, the best way is to train a group of guards who are loyal to themselves when developing technology, and arm a team of guards with money and equipment that no one dares to provoke easily.

As for whether it would be a waste to raise so many guards, Su Ziheng didn't care. If you really want to create your own peach blossom source, you must first have money, it is definitely not enough to rely on farming alone, it is bound to do business, and when the time comes, you can arrange the surplus escort team trained to enter the caravan to protect the safety of the caravan to transport goods to various countries.

Even directly set up a dart bureau, in addition to transporting goods under their own name, they can also take over to help others transport goods, which can be regarded as opening the express delivery industry in this world.

The housekeeper Qian Lu entered the study and reported to Su Ziheng: "Master, according to your requirements, you have recruited a hundred strong guards. It's all not dragged down by the family, you see, where is the arrangement? ”

Su Ziheng frowned and thought for a moment, and asked, "Have you demolished the wooden sheds for temporary accommodation that you built last time?" ”

"Not yet, why don't you arrange to stay in the wooden shed for a while. It's just that if these guards are to be hired for a long time, they still have to build houses for them to live in. ”

Su Ziheng nodded and smiled: "Didn't cement be made in the workshop, and after the locust plague passed, a collective dormitory was built with cement bricks near the workshop." Cement and bricks can be used to build a three-storey building directly, and a collective dormitory of more than 100 people will not take up much space. ”

In the previous life, the most common type of three-story brick house in the Chinese countryside on the earth was the same thing, and the collective dormitory of the school was basically the same. Except that it doesn't look good like a matchbox, there are no major drawbacks in other aspects.

Qian Lu doesn't have a particularly clear concept of buildings or anything, but since the master is like this, it is definitely feasible.

"Master, how do you arrange this group of people now?"

Su Ziheng thought for a while, "Let Shi Meng take them to practice first, and I will tell him the training method later." Then ask Miss Xie to teach them some martial arts, as a guard, the kung fu is too bad. ”

"Okay, master, the old slave will arrange it."

"Wait......" Seeing that Qian Lu was about to retire, Su Ziheng hurriedly stopped him, "Uncle Qian, you go and arrange it, see if you can recruit a few more blacksmiths into the mansion?" I have something that needs a blacksmith to do. ”

Now that the convoy is to be formed, it is necessary to equip them with new weapons. Su Ziheng knew that his family was weak, and the newly established escort team would definitely have little combat effectiveness, so he had to use new weapons to make up for this weakness.

So, he was going to get gunpowder and flintlock pistols out.

Qian Lu said: "Okay, master." I will be careful, I heard that the locust plague has spread, and there will definitely be a lot of displaced people by then, and it will be much easier to recruit craftsmen. ”

Su Ziheng said: "Anyway, you look at it, like a craftsman, you can recruit, the more the better, don't worry about the master, I can't afford it." ”

It's just a few more mouths to eat, don't Su Ziheng got several warehouses of tens of thousands of stones of grain from Chen Wenxuan's warehouse in West City last time, even if he doesn't have any grain in stock now, he is not afraid.

Under Cai'er's arrangement, the hundreds of people who moved in yesterday have already begun to develop the space. There are those who are responsible for grazing, and there are those who are responsible for growing crops.

As long as he lasts a few months, when the first crops in the base space are harvested, he will never have to worry about food.

You must know that in a space of nearly ten square kilometers, many high-yield crops are planted, such as hybrid rice, high-yield wheat, sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes, and so on, don't raise hundreds of them, even if it is tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, there must be no problem.

Of course, Su Ziheng would not be stupid to use all the land in the base space to grow food, in his plan, food is only a part.

More importantly, cash crops, such as tobacco, are a major killer for his future exports. There is also a rubber tree, which can produce natural rubber, which is widely used in industry, national defense, transportation, medicine and health fields and daily life.

Of course, these cash crops are also planted as seeds in the space, and when they are to be planted in a large area in the future, they must get a safe planting base.

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The official arrival of the locust plague made everyone in Xining City panic.

Only the family members who followed Su Ziheng once went out were full of confidence. They knew that their lord was blessed by the dragon god, and there would be no loss at all.

It's just that today the old man gave a very strange order, go to the mountains to cut bamboo, so that everyone in the Zhuangzi is weaving bamboo cages with bamboo strips, or the kind of cage with a door that can keep everything inside.

Although they don't know what the master wants to do? But still do it honestly.

For Su Zihenglai, this locust plague is a crisis.

Crisis, as the name suggests, is the coexistence of danger and opportunity. For him, the opportunities far outweigh the dangers.

If Pandora hadn't been able to transform the Divine Dragon Battleship before the locust plague arrived, maybe Su Ziheng wouldn't have this idea.

But now that the transformation of the Shenlong Battleship has been completed, the weapon spitting system has been installed, and the energy has been obtained enough to activate, if he sees this group of locusts indifferent again, then he will be too violent.

Locusts, although they are agricultural pests, do not grow a single grass wherever they pass. But at the same time, it is rich in nutrition, the meat is tender, and the taste is as delicious as shrimp, and it is a favorite food for people of all countries on the earth in the previous life.

The locusts obtained are fed and footed, washed, scalded to death with boiling water, and eaten, which contains high protein and is the most ideal food. It not only has edible value, but also has medicinal value, which can strengthen the spleen and eliminate food, relieve wind and spasms, relieve cough and asthma, and clear the channels. It is used for spleen deficiency, lack of food or malnutrition; Rapid and slow convulsions, convulsions and spasms; Whooping cough, bronchial asthma, wheezing cough and shortness of breath.