Ten days later, Qin Feng came to Huangniling Village again, this place was really as Jun Sima Su Kan said, completely changed, if Qin Feng hadn't come here ten days ago, he would almost not have recognized this is that extremely dilapidated place.

Rows of new thatched houses were neatly arranged, horizontal and vertical, much more refreshing than the disorderly horizontal and vertical arrangement in the original village, and the roads in the village divided these thatched houses into squares, like tents camped by large armies. The road was paved with gravel, and then it was pressed down solidly, and it was easy to walk without mud.

A thatched hut was pushed open at random, there was no one in the house, but it was extremely clean, and in the corner of the house, there was a fire pit, which was full of baked ashes.

"Where are the people?" Qin Feng asked the village chief of this village a little strangely, a wounded veteran, who was assigned here to manage these refugees, and with him, there were more than a dozen soldiers, all of whom had been injured and had not yet recovered.

"Your Majesty, now the people in the village are working in the shed!" The veteran bent over, genuinely terrified.

Qin Feng nodded: "What kind of charter is this village now, it doesn't seem to be showing signs of firing?" Walking into the side of the cottage that looked like a kitchen, there were no pots and pans or anything. There is still a big black hole on the stove.

"Now the village is under military administration. The big guys work together and eat together. On the other side of the village, there is a shack and a canteen." The veteran explained: "The food is not abundant, and it is more economical to centralize the management and use. These refugees themselves have nothing, nothing to say about private property."

"I see, take me to see it." Qin Feng exited the thatched hut and strode towards the other end of the village.

At the other end of the village, there is a shack, which is much simpler than the thatched huts that live in it, with more than a dozen pillars in each row, each pillar is spaced several meters apart, and the top of the dozens of pillars is the roof of the shed with two sloping ridges, which is also covered with thatch. The four sides of the shed are not completely covered, but the lower half is blocked by rows of tied straw.

The shed is much more lively, and when you walk in, there are at least hundreds of people busy inside. Basically, there are women, children and children, and the inside of the shed is divided into several areas, which are distinguished one by one by straw rows.

In one of the largest areas, there are piles of hemp, and the work here is to weave hemp rope. All the hemp ropes in the Ming army are twisted with extremely thin steel wires, which are much more difficult to weave than ordinary hemp ropes. This kind of rope can be used in the army in many places, and it can be damaged quickly. Once damaged, the only thing that can be recovered is the wire in the rope. It has always been the fastest depleting item in the army.

On one side of the shelf, there were strings of woven hemp ropes, and rows of women and children were sitting on the dwarf knots, weaving intently.

It was very cold in the shed, and those soaked hemp ropes had obviously been fished out of the water not long ago, and there were ice slags on them, Qin Feng looked at the hands that were cracked with blood, and his brows couldn't help frowning. Whether it is a woman or a child, basically the hands are covered with blood, and the braided hemp rope can occasionally be seen blood.

He turned his head to look at Su Kan, the military officer who was accompanying him.

"Your Majesty, this is also a helpless thing, you can't make a fire in this shed. When an open flame is lit, it is easy to run water." Su Kan knew what Qin Feng wanted to say, and explained: "There are some flammable things in this shed. That's all there is to it."

"If this is in the Ming Dynasty, you will be convicted of doing this." Qin Feng snorted.

"It's not impossible." Su Kan said: "But compared to those Qindi refugees who are still struggling in the ice and snow, their lives are much better, the cold is a little colder, and they are a little bitter, but at least they can be fed, clothed, and have no risk of life, here, it is already a very lucky thing. That's all we can do now."

"You always have to find a way to improve it." Qin Feng was still a little unbearable.

"Your Majesty, there are more and more refugees coming, and in addition to Huangni Village, several new villages have begun to be built. Chen Shaowei'er's logistics troops couldn't always be here, so the last general transferred some sappers from Pingtang City and hired some locals to continue this work. In order to give these people a shelter as soon as possible, they can only make do with it at first, and then slowly improve it. The most important thing now is to save their lives."

"Are there a lot of people coming?"

"Many!" Su Kan nodded: "It seems that the news of our collection of refugees has spread, and more and more refugees are pouring into this area. The general is already a little worried about the safety of these places, because among the refugees who are pouring in, there are more and more young people, and there must be spies mixed in with them. The Great General has sent a sentry to station in the vicinity."

"These people are all rushing here, there must be someone to guide them, no matter what intentions this person has, but ninety percent of the people here are always some old and weak women and children, and they should be saved." Qin Feng said: "Be vigilant."

"Yes, Your Majesty. In each village, we sent more than a dozen soldiers, all of whom were lightly wounded, and could not go into battle for a while, but we were still competent to take care of these refugees. Your Majesty, take a look here, the other end is made of hemp and woven hemp rope, and here is the work of sewing and mending, and the soldiers' cotton robes, bedding, gloves, and hats that are torn are also collected and transported here to be repaired." Su Kan guided Qin Feng to another area in the shed.

The things to be repaired here are also piled up, and groups of women sit there, their heads bowed, and they are seriously mending with stitches and threads.

"In the past, once these things were broken, they were thrown back into the warehouse, and the end result was either throwing them away or allowing the merchants to recycle them at a very low price, but now with these people, you can save a lot." Su Kan said with a smile: "The merchants who gathered in Pingtang City to do this line of work are going to be disappointed."

As soon as he came out of the shed, he heard a burst of gongs, and a veteran stood in another shed dozens of meters away from the shed, shouting: "Stop work, start eating!"

There was a lot of chaos in the shed, and everyone put down their work, poured out of the shed, and rushed towards the shed opposite.

"Queue up, don't crowd." Several veterans walked out with heavy barrels and placed them outside the shed, and then came out with baskets of steamed buns, and the air was suddenly filled with the aroma of food.

Looking at those women, children and children lining up neatly, Qin Feng chuckled: "It's a good look."

"Your Majesty doesn't know, it wasn't like this at the beginning, everyone rushed up, spilled the food all over the floor, and punished a few people, so that they slowly developed the habit of queuing." Su Kan said: "I have slowly gotten used to it in the past few days. In fact, although the food is not abundant, it will not make them hungry, but these people are probably hungry and scared, for fear that they will not be in the end."

Walking to the front of the shed, Qin Feng stretched out his head and looked at the bucket, it was just some vegetable soup, with some oil flowers floating on it, one bowl of vegetable soup for each person, and two steamed buns. This thing, there is no oil, and it is not hungry. But for these people who were struggling with life and death not so long ago, it's already a pretty good thing.

"It's difficult to transfer supplies for the army, and that's the only way to do it. Wait until the beginning of spring next year, and it will be better." Jun Sima Su Kan was afraid that Qin Feng would be dissatisfied again, so he hurriedly explained.

"It's already good. Saving lives is now much more important than eating well. By the way, it looks like there are only four or five hundred people here, and the rest of them have been relocated elsewhere?" Qin Feng asked.

"Yes, there are more and more refugees, and there are a lot of young and strong people in them, if they gather together, it is not easy to manage, and it is easy to make trouble, and it is necessary to guard against someone making trouble, so I chose several places to build a new village, and the people in the village are all organized at will, especially those young and strong, they are all scattered, and each village loses a few, but I am not afraid that they can play any tricks."

"Is there no other way to solve the problem of heating?" Leaving this place and walking on the gravel path in the village, Qin Feng thought of the blood on the hands of those women and children, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, among them was a little girl, probably the size of Xiaowen, who was doing a small vulture, and carefully weaving hemp rope, and the blood on those small hands made Qin Feng even more unbearable.

"Your Majesty, we're also trying to figure out a way. The soil of this Huangniling is suitable for burning bricks, the logistics soldiers of the Chinese army are building several cellars there to prepare to burn bricks, not far from Huangniling in the Heiniling found a coal mine, there are businessmen in Pingtang City who have paid to buy the right to operate this coal mine, and are preparing to open a mine there, I heard that he is going to do honeycomb coal, and he has also recruited a lot of blacksmiths and masons in Pingtang City, and he is about to start work. But it's not a matter of time, it takes time."

"Where did this merchant come from?" Qin Feng was stunned.

"I came from Xintong, with a few very special stoves, the general liked it very much, and asked him to put it into production as soon as possible and give priority to supplying the army. The general said that with this thing, the army would not have to send so many people every day to find firewood for warmth. The samples have actually been sent to me, but I've been thinking about these refugee villages all this time, and I haven't gone back to take a closer look."

The merchant of Daming really has a keen sense of smell, and he has already arrived here with things, and it seems that the new Tong County Guard must have sold these things for a good price. can produce these things on the spot,

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