Chapter 45: The Village at the Foot of Langya Mountain

In fact, Langya Mountain is not just one mountain, but a large series of mountain ranges, and the main peak is famous for Langya Mountain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

After Liu Zhi came here, while building the Langya Pavilion, he took in a large number of refugees at the foot of the mountain, and organized them to reclaim the wasteland, and gradually transformed into a village, the land on the mountain is generally relatively barren, only the small area at the foot of the mountain can be cultivated, so their number is not much, and only one or two thousand people have gathered in four or five months.

Liu Zhi gave them a lot of seeds, most of which were seeds that had already appeared in this era, such as rice, wheat and other crops.

Since there are many mountainous areas, he plans to promote some things suitable for mountain cultivation to these people, such as peanuts, corn, sesame seeds and sweet potatoes.

Among these plants, except for sesame is a native plant in China, the others are introduced from other places, these people have not seen, although sesame is a thing that produces oil, but the yield is too low, an acre of land produces rapeseed at most a hundred catties, it is not cost-effective, under the premise of rapeseed, basically few people will take and plant this plant in particular, and before the oil extraction technology came out in the Song Dynasty, stir-fry is not common, because stir-fry must have oil, and the vegetable paste without oil can not be eaten.

The ancient people had a lot of food, and it was not surprising to eat half a catty of rice at a meal, the main reason was that there was no oil in their dishes, and the supply of energy depended on rice and noodles, so naturally they consumed more food.

Liu Zhi is ready to let them plant some rape and peanuts, which are better than rape, not only can be used to squeeze oil, but also can be eaten raw, fried and boiled, itself is a kind of food that can be eaten directly, after eating directly can replenish oil, not to mention the high utilization rate, but also save trouble, saving a lot of drying and squeezing things.

And sweet potatoes are better, its vitality is tenacious, almost no manual management, you can plant anywhere, the yield is also high, the starch content is surprisingly high, and it can even be used as a staple food to supplement energy, the reason why China's population exceeded 200 million or even 340 million people in the Qing Dynasty, a very important reason is because these foreign crops have flowed in, greatly increasing the output of grain, so that the extra grain can feed more people!

Liu Zhi, accompanied by a Li Zheng, inspected several villages at the foot of the mountain.

He had already had the seeds he had brought with him to be distributed and taught the villagers how to plant them, in fact, these things were not complicated to grow, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes were very drought tolerant, as long as you found some sunny sunny slopes, you could plant them, and then manage them a little, so that hares and wild boars would not destroy them.

"Sun Lizheng, when did these villagers come? How do you feel like there are a lot more people? ”

Liu Zhi is very familiar with the four villages at the foot of the mountain, he has come a lot of times, so many people know him, at this time after seeing him, they have saluted him, Liu Zhi also nodded, the Chinese people have always been very kind, you are good to them, care about them and take care of them, they will naturally be grateful to you and show reverence.

Sun Lizheng looked a little flustered, and said nervously: "Lord Pavilion, these people are fleeing from the Xuzhou area, I heard that the Sui army and Jianghuai's Du Fuwei's chaotic army have recently fought in that area, many people are unable to escape, want to take refuge in the southern region, these people met bandits on the road, their savings and food have been looted, obviously they can't support the south, I saw that they were pitiful, moved by compassion, this is the way to take them in, the villain made his own opinion, and hope that the pavilion master will be forgiving, just don't drive them away." Let them rest here for a while, and then let them go after they have enough energy! ”

Sun Lizheng thought that Liu Zhi was very unhappy that he had taken in these people, so he was very frightened, Liu Zhi knew that he was kind-hearted, there were a lot of these people, if he left it alone, he was afraid that most of them would become starving, even if he saw it himself, he would definitely come to the rescue, so naturally he would not punish Sun Lizheng.

"Let them stay, the south is not peaceful, and there are few places in this world where to live!"

Liu Zhi sighed, worried about the fate of these people, at this time it has only been eight years, according to the historical process, the Sui Rebellion is only afraid that it will take seven or eight years to end, during the **** period, every more year, there are countless ordinary people who have died in their homes, the rise and fall of all dynasties, I don't know how much blood has flowed on the land of China, and how many bones have been buried.

"Settle them down, I will have people set up a batch of tents for you, solve the problem of their accommodation first, you unite with several other villages, organize manpower, see where they choose to settle down, first build the house, and then go to reclaim the farmland, I will send people out to buy a batch of livestock and farm tools, and then I will hand over to you."

Liu Zhi walked into this group of refugees, their number is very large, many of them are women and children, the number of young and middle-aged men is very small, compared to either being recruited by the government to join the army, or being caught by the rogues and pulling the team closer to the team to rebel, these women and children have a very weak ability to survive, and need the protection of a large group, and the weather is hot at this time, and there are many mosquitoes, if they are allowed to sleep like this, I am afraid that they will soon be infected.

"Yes, Pavilion Master, the villain will definitely do what you instruct!"

Liu Zhi inspected the four villages, most of the villages have been planted with the seeds he provided, they have also planted these seeds on some vacant hillsides, for this purpose also cut down a large number of trees, just at this time to build houses for these refugees, so these trees also came in handy, several villages of strong men sent out together, and soon the location selected as the house was flat and compacted, because it is at the foot of the mountain, so most of the houses are built by the mountains and rivers, For this reason, the feng shui master was also invited to choose the location for the village, and Liu Zhi did not understand these very well, so he returned to Langya Pavilion, and sent a few gentlemen in the pavilion to register these people.

However, Liu Zhi knew that soon, the war of the Sui Rebellion would spread to the area of Langya Mountain, and he was afraid that the stable life here would not last long.

To end the troubled times, there must be a powerful force to defeat other forces, so that the world can be unified, and now, who is such a powerful force?