Around Jinding Mountain, surrounded by Luoshui, the residents in the village are working hard to cultivate their own land. The grain from the village has already been planted, and now the daily work of taking care of the crops is a task that they have to complete conscientiously every day.

In the past, when the imperial court had not yet accepted the recruitment, the residents and their own armed forces were mainly rationed in the cottage. At that time, the situation was special, and the supervision and law enforcement of the cottage leaders in Jinding Mountain were quite strict. Therefore, Jindingshan's previous farming and other production work can maintain satisfactory efficiency.

However, at this time, the leaders of Jinding Mountain had cleared their identities, and the situation in Baoan County had generally shown a relatively stable state. Since the situation we are facing and our own position have changed, it is natural that the old methods of the past cannot be continued.

After Zhang Mengcheng's personal planning and consultation with other leaders, the ownership of the large amount of farmland controlled by the cottage was changed, and the large area of land around the Jinding cottage was divided into two parts. One part is to reward the private land of the residents of the cottage, and the other part is the public farmland where the cottage needs to organize people to produce.

This reform, coupled with changes in the policies on the use of other means of production, has effectively maintained the enthusiasm of the residents of Jindingshan. Now not only the land directly under the cottage, but also the other camps under the Jinding Mountain forces have shown a relatively hot passion for production.

Now everyone is eager to grow two more hands, as long as they put in more effort, their future life will be better and better. There is a shortage of labor everywhere in the agricultural reclamation area of Jinding Mountain, and I hope that the leaders in the cottage who have great skills can find a way to help.

As the supreme person in charge of Jindingshan's farming and production, Zhang Mengcheng could only rack his brains to constantly tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, even his own students. At the same time, he also contacted the craftsmen on the top of the mugwort, and brought a lot of new tools with the people of Jinding Mountain, which finally relieved a lot of pressure.

Just when Zhang Mengcheng planned to break the wrist of the strong man and take out some of the horses left behind in the cavalry team and put them in the production and business activities, the eldest brother of Duhe Fort in the north actually sent him another problem. Zhang Mengjin, the big boss, asked Jin Dingshan, the rear base, to try to find a way to replenish his manpower as soon as possible, which undoubtedly increased the pressure on Jin Dingshan himself.

Zhang Mengcheng and other leaders who stayed behind, after receiving the news from Zhang Mengjin of Duhe Fort, felt very difficult to handle the requirements for the reinforcement of the soldiers of the big boss.

The current sphere of influence of Jinding Mountain, although it is not as large as the Baoan County that was divided almost in half with Cai Xiaozi. But now the whitewashed cottage is still a force to be reckoned with in Baoan County. With the cottage of Jinding Mountain as the center, there are more than 10 large and small tun gathering points within a radius of 40 or 50 miles, which are responsible for the reclamation of tens of thousands of acres of land within the influence of Jinding Mountain.

In the village union system of the Jindingshan forces, there are about 3,400 people in total. Thousands of these people are not local natives of Baoan, they have become a member of Jinding Mountain because of the previous turmoil, and now they are just reassuring to produce.

The area controlled by Jindingshan is almost the size of a township in New China in later generations, but the total population is only so small, which will definitely make many people feel strange. However, in fact, under the rule of the entire Baoan County, even before the turmoil, there was not much population.

Zhang Mengcheng used to look through the county records of Baoan County when he was still in school, and it is recorded that there were only more than 19,570 people in the county during the Hongzhi period.

According to Xiucai's own observations, when he had not yet fallen into the grass, that is, in Baoan County during the Apocalypse, it was estimated that there were about 25,000 to 30,000 people in the optimistic estimation of the hidden population. Now, after years of turmoil, the remaining population of Baoan County is even more sparse.

At the beginning, the soldiers who followed Zhang Mengjin to guard the Duhe Fort, including Zhang Mengjin, the big boss, had a total of 622 people. Most of them are strong men over the age of 18 and under the age of 35.

Moreover, these men are all people who have struggled to survive through constant survival competitions in the environment of the weak and the strong in northern Shaanxi in recent years, so the ferocity of these soldiers can be imagined.

The age composition of the 843 Jianding left behind in Jinding Mountain is within the area of 16 years old and under 60 years old. According to the standard of Duhe Fort, there are only 313 people left in the Jinding Mountain's sphere of influence.

Excluding these more than 800 healthy men, the rest are more than 2,600 old and weak women and children. The gender and age composition data of these people, if carefully compared with the general data, is definitely a rather abnormal phenomenon. But looking at the whole of northern Shaanxi after several years of chaos, similar examples are definitely not uncommon.

The defense, reclamation and other work around Jinding Mountain are all supported by these people. If the elite and strong are dispatched to replenish the losses of the soldiers of Duhe Fort, the daily management in Jinding Mountain will be seriously affected.

First of all, the food production plan of Jindingshan began to collapse due to the lack of labor, even if it was cultivated with the help of cattle and horses collected from all over the world. The second is that all kinds of workshops that are on the right track will turn into running water due to lack of manpower.

Zhang Mengcheng, who couldn't make up enough people no matter how he calculated, pulled his hair worriedly and was silent.

Ma Xiangbo, who also calculated the staffing, didn't have any good ideas, so he could only say to Zhang Mengcheng: "Otherwise, just pull out those people in the workshop, it just so happens that I won't lead the team to run the business this time." Anyway, there is no one in the workshop, so we don't have to buy any materials to come back. ”

"The manufacture of armor and firearms cannot be stopped, there is not enough supply of weapons, and if the eldest brother has another war, there will only be more casualties, and then we can only draw manpower from the Tuntian team. Otherwise, a few older children in the cottage will replace a few people to run a business with you, just so that the children can practice their skills. After that, I went to the top of the mugwort for a run, and they should have plans to run the business there. I discussed it with them, so that the two families could simply get together and set up a team. ”

"Even if you do this, you still can't get the people you want. If we transfer the cavalry from the stockade, there won't be enough rangers on our territory, and you're not going to take them to pull out a few new nails. ”

"Big brother should be able to slow down for a few days, I'll lead someone to pull out a few nails nearby as soon as possible. In these days, we will also try to see if we can accept some people into the stockade, and we should be able to save some more food by squeezing it. ”

"That's all that can be done."

Ma Xiangbo sighed helplessly, due to the lack of food and labor, the cavalry team left behind in the cottage is now rarely trained. It's not that they didn't think about recruiting some people before, but now the main combat power of Jinding Mountain is in Duhe Fort.

If you recruit some people who don't know the details into the cottage, I'm afraid that there will be a situation where wolves will be lured. After all, in the days when the Zhang family and his gang fell into the grass before, they had a lot of enmities outside.