Early in the morning of the second day, Tang Xidong entered the role, holding a charcoal pen made of dead branches, white rice paper, and a wooden ruler for women to make clothes, and with the newly appointed entourage and two sons, under the guidance of Liu Dagou, he began to run around all corners of the cottage and Luoliang Mountain, and the rice paper in his hand was gradually covered with small characters and stick figures.

Although Liu Dagou couldn't understand what Tang Xidong was writing, he didn't ask much, in Liu Dagou's opinion, this is probably the temperament of a scholar.

Throughout the morning, Tang Xidong completed the investigation of the cottage situation and also achieved the purpose of exercising.

The climate is arid, autumn and winter are even more cold, the land is deserted, there is no harvest, the terraces have basically been deserted, and the cottages located on the mountains have become difficult to even draft, especially in autumn and winter.

So solving the draft problem became the first step.

In his vision, he had been preparing to lay a track on the mountain road, and now that he has collected the weapons, he can almost make a track of iron-wood cooperation.

In the era of underdeveloped agricultural science and technology, people rely on God and the land for food, and the land is the life of hundreds of millions of peasants.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the landlords, bureaucrats, and nobles took most of the fertile land into their hands, and even more natural and man-made disasters were rampant, and the peasants worked hard all year round to have a poor grain harvest or directly had no land to plant.

Therefore, Tang Xidong's most personal feeling is that he still has to pick up the land and be self-sufficient for a long time, otherwise the world will become more and more chaotic in the future, there will be less food in the north, and there will be nowhere to grab the cottages, and in the end he will either become a homeless person or join the tide of the uprising.

Reopening the land is fundamentally a top priority.

On this point, Tang Xidong has been prepared before, the first terraced greenhouse planting has been carried out, only after a few days, wheat seedlings emerge in the ground, you can plant on a large scale, and now the cottage also has food, it can be said that it is only owing the east wind.

Finally, how to survive in the chaos, or how to survive the chaos.

At this point, there is no other way, that is, to build a copycat elite combat force that is enough to protect itself.

Therefore, the way of the guarding team must continue, and the team must be expanded quickly.

As for where the road will go in the future, even Tang Xidong, who has more than 300 years of experience in later generations, is at a loss, and can only go anywhere.

After determining the general direction and plan in his mind, Tang Xidong began to brainstorm, and various thoughts appeared in his mind and were denied, so this day, Tang Xidong spent the process of proposing and self-denial.

Because Tang Xidong has been promoted by Liu Lianqing to a cottage military division, the residence has also been upgraded, and the east room in Liu Lianqing's courtyard has been assigned to Tang Xidong, and in the morning, under Liu Lianqing's arrangement, Xiaoqian and others, Tang Xidong's new residence has been cleaned up.

It seems that he is really ready to admit the relationship between the two husband and wife, but Tang Xidong's heart is like a mirror, just to give himself a little sweetness.

In the evening, Tang Xidong, who returned with his second son, seemed to have lost his soul, his eyes were dull, his mouth was full of thoughts, and he even ate while serving dishes while staring at the air in a daze.

Xiao Qian, who was sitting on the side, wanted to remind her several times, but was stopped by Liu Lianqing with a look.

Liu Lianqing knew that Tang Xidong was planning for the cottage, looking at Tang Xidong, who was a little crazy in front of him, Liu Lianqing was very satisfied with her decision to push Tang Xidong in front of others, doesn't the other party's state mean that the other party is responsible?

After dinner, Tang Xidong still didn't wake up, the window was open, the cold wind poured out of the window, and he stared at the empty yard, like dementia.

When night fell, Tang Xidong lay on the desk alone and didn't know when he had fallen asleep, his body soaked by the cold outside the window was constantly shivering, and in the dark room, a light suddenly turned on, but Liu Lian, who entered the room at some point, counted the oil lamp.

The girl stared at the sleeping scholar who climbed on the desk, and all kinds of emotions flashed in her eyes, and after a long time, the girl closed the window, picked up the quilt on the kang and wrapped it in the sleeping scholar, and then added a briquette to the stove, and finally took a deep look at the scholar, blew out the oil lamp, and then went out.

In the courtyard, the girl looked at the moon in the sky, there seemed to be a middle-aged man smiling at her on the bright moon, the person's face gradually became clear, and suddenly became the deceased father, the girl looked at the face infatuatedly, and suddenly a touching smile appeared on her face.

Perhaps, you were right from the beginning!

Someone said this in their hearts.

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Another day.

In Liu Lianqing's hall, more than a dozen people in the cottage sat in the hall.

The upper seat is still silent Liu Lianqing and Tang Xidong holding hot tea, and the lower seat is Deng Dahu, Liu Dagou, Seventh Uncle, and ten young and strong leaders.

A discussion about the fate of the cottage began, maybe in the future, this symposium that happened in the nameless corner of the Ming Dynasty will also be given an unclear name, maybe this nameless corner will also be turned into a holy place, maybe the words of these people present will be infinitely magnified, maybe this day will be given important significance.

But on this day, in this small hall, these people present were just like the gossip of the neighborhood, you said a word and I said a word, and finally everyone else was listening to the scholars sitting on it to issue instructions.

Regardless of whether anyone can accept Tang Xidong's next plans and arrangements, in short, from this day on, a cottage construction movement with the characteristics of the later generations of Daming and Jiajia was kicked off.

In the afternoon of this day, a photo wall was erected in the square, and the men, women, and children of the cottage were counted by their names, genders, and ages, and those with experience in blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, miners, textiles, tailoring, and shopkeepers were found and counted, and the weapons in the treasury were classified, and the grain, silver, money, farm tools, and livestock were registered.

Then tell everyone to gather in the square early tomorrow morning.

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In the early morning, in the cottage square, the old bell that was snatched from the temple and never used was runged.

The crowd gathered towards the square, and gradually the crowd gathered in front of the wall.

Tang Xidong stood on the stone platform in front of the wall, Liu Lianqing sat behind him, and Liu Dagou and more than a dozen people stood beside him.

Tang Xidong held a few pieces of paper full of small characters in his hand, looking at the 1,382 people up and down the cottage with a serious expression.

Natural and man-made disasters, landlords and bullies, dog officials and evil officials, and tax and labor are all pressed on the body, bending our backbones, crushing our relatives to death, leaving us from our hometowns, and having nowhere to go home, and finally going up the mountain to become this mountain bandit that everyone shouts and beats."

"Folks, I know that each of you desires: to plant your own one-third of an acre, to have food and clothing, not to be exploited by others, not to be invaded by others, and to live a life of peace and self-control, but you also know that you can't go back, and that kind of day will never come again."

"However, we aspire to be a clean man, to be a person who can make his own decisions."

"And now, right now, right now, right here. I want to tell you that we are going to work together, work hard and struggle together for the ideal life of worry-free food and clothing, living and working in peace and contentment. This will no longer be a den of mountain bandits, this will be our home, a happy land, a place where we pay sweat and blood. There will no longer be oppression by the government, no more exploitation by landlords, no more insufficient food, no more warm clothes, no more starving old people, and frozen children. ”

"And all of this needs to be done from today, all of us working together."

"We are no longer mountain bandits, we no longer need to be afraid of the government's pursuit, encirclement, and suppression, we are just ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty. We will no longer rob other people's money and food, because we have to be upright, eat steamed buns, drink soju, and wear cotton clothes with a clear conscience. ”

"We must be self-sufficient, eating the food we have grown so hard, drinking the wine we brew, and wearing clothes that we have woven and cut with our own hands."

"Folks, if you work hard and work, the food you eat is sweet, you rob others and use other people's, and you can't sleep well."

"In order to live a good life, from today onwards, regardless of men, women and children in the cottage, no matter what status they had in the cottage before, they all have to have their own strength and do a job that they can do."

"I, Tang Xidong, swear here that I will definitely lead everyone to live a good life and live a down-to-earth life. Not to be bullied, but to live better than others. ”

Tang Xidong, who was standing on the stage, preached loudly, what he said was sincere, as he thought in his heart, as exactly as he said, so sincere.