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The camp of the original Black Mountain thief army on Drum Mountain is still there, but unfortunately under the reputation of the plague, no one dares to live in it, and it took everyone two days to find a valley slope in the mountains on the east bank of Qingzhangshui, which is a good place to live.

There is Drum Mountain in the north of Fukou Mountain, there is Shenlu Mountain in the south, the width is about more than 80 zhang, the mountain ridge is towering, the terrain is dangerous, it is connected with Hebei, it is the place where the soldiers of the past dynasties must fight, this valley is more than 20 miles away from the city of the Hou Kingdom, the mouth of the canyon in the mountain has been leading to the road of Fukou Mountain, several dangerous places are easy to defend and difficult to attack, the valley is quite large, a large gentle slope ground is slightly flat in the middle, there is a mountain stream flowing through during the period, can give water supply, is a suitable place to live.

The river that flows outside the city of Shehou is Qingzhang water, called Qingzhang River in later generations, it originates in the Taihang Mountains, it is the largest river in the territory of Shehou country, runs through the whole county from north to south, and when it flows with turbid Zhangshui at the southern end of the county border, and is Zhangshui, it is moistened by Qingzhang River, there is a lot of arable land on both banks, the land is idle, this year is wrong when the spring ploughing is farming, if you can find grain seeds, or you can try to cultivate wheat in winter.

When Deng Ji announced that he would live here from now on, the team was overjoyed, and he was really scared of wandering, and the faces of the old and young women and children all had long-lost smiles.

After choosing a location, the first thing to do was to live, and in addition to the healer, all kinds of useful craftsmen in the team were selected and began to prepare for the construction of the house.

In addition to the blacksmith and carpenter, there is also an old bowsmith, but it takes at least two or three years to make a good hard bow, and he can only collect hardwood for preparation at present, and the rest of the time he works with others to work hard for the house.

The vertical mud is a wall, the supporting wood is a beam, and the roof tile is not made with effort, so the grass is the top first. People are full of energy, cut off a large area of thorns on the gentle slope, after leveling the land, the soil is strong, the old man mixes the water, the woman carries the mud, and the children lay their hands, just four or five days of work, the first row of nearly 100 thatched mud houses will be erected, and then the kang will be played, and the soil will be dry before people can live.

Kang is an invention of the Goguryeo people, the history is not long, it only began to appear in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the north is cold, but Deng Ji has seen the kang bed on TV, so he asked to add this new thing to the room.

In addition to the wooden door, the carpenter also opened the window, and the thatched hut was bright, but unfortunately there was no paste, but now it is the warm weather, and no one cares after living in the wild for so long.

This method of building mud houses is basically no different from the rural areas in backward places in later generations, and Deng Ji is also familiar with it.

During this period, everyone's labor intensity was very high, Deng Ji didn't care about the large consumption of food, and for the first time, all the old and weak people were allowed to open their bellies to eat, and everyone worked very hard, which greatly shortened the time for building houses.

The first row of houses was built, and in order to prevent the grain from getting wet, the first few large houses that had just dried up were made into granaries, and all the grain on the wagons was unloaded and collected.

In addition to the granary, the two houses with the brightest location and the best location were given to Tian Feng's family to live in, but there was nothing in the stove, and everyone still had to get together when they had dinner, except that his family was not allowed to go out of the valley, Deng Ji treated Tian Feng the best, and not many bedding and other utensils were given to his family first, which was what most people did not have.

The rest of the thatched huts built first were divided among the strong soldiers and craftsmen, one for each person, whether there were family members or not, and those with too many family members could also get more, of course, after so many lives and deaths, there was no one in the team who had too many family members.

The second batch was given to the strong, and the houses built after the third batch were the turn of the remaining old and weak.

By this time, there were very few families that remained intact, and there were many people whose families were all dead and only they were left, and they were not treated as well as soldiers and craftsmen.

On weekdays, when wandering around, it is not obvious, as soon as it settles down, the excretion of thousands of people has become a big problem, open defecation is the most common in this era, and within a few days the stench around the valley is stinking, and the dwellings have not yet been fully built, and the problem of thatched houses is imminent.

In addition to hygiene, another function of the thatched house is to store and ferment manure, to this life, Deng Ji first found that the first place that can be changed within the ability is the use of manure, before the incident, the first thing to do in Nanyang's home to encourage his father Deng Bo to do is to use manure in his own field.

The grain yield in this era is too low, the most important reason is the seeds of crops, according to biology, thousands of years will be the best of the best grain varieties, generation after generation evolution, grain yield will gradually increase, on the eve of liberation, the yield of millet per mu has reached nearly 200 catties, about three times that of this period, to modern times, scientists have improved the seeds and hybridized, only to have the output of thousands of kilograms per mu. For Deng Ji, the traverser, he knew too little, and it was impossible for him to make any improvements to the seeds with his ability.

In addition to seeds, that is, ground fertilizer, although the Shang Dynasty had "soup drought, teach the people to plant dung, negative water to marry", but only a few areas insisted, our country did not begin to use agricultural fertilizer in a large area until the Song Dynasty, fertilizer is more modern only, if not add fertilizer, long-term use will make the land more and more barren, people in this era use the fallow method, most of them are a round of ploughing every three years, fallow land is left unused for three years, let the artemisia grass grow, and then use it after accumulating enough fertility, what Deng Ji can do is to use manure to avoid fallow, To increase the land use rate and grain production, with this, the family was able to use one-third more arable land, and the yield was also increased, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, and finally under the leadership of Deng Bo, the whole family entered the yellow scarf, and there was no chance to farm.

It is very difficult to ask the civilians of this era to pay attention to hygiene and not defecate in the open, not to mention that they are still dirty moth thieves, but fertilizer is so important that Deng Ji personally instructed and built four large thatched houses, and asked everyone to carefully explain the location of the men's and women's toilets, and strictly ordered everyone to go to the toilet and supervise each other, if anyone disobeys, they are not allowed to eat for a day.

With the threat of hungry belly and strong suppression, this can be persevered.

In any case, the habit of going to the toilet has been accommodated by Deng Ji, but Deng Ji has more things in this era, and the most difficult thing to talk about is the use of toilet chips (note), even writing paper is not common in the era, not to mention toilet paper, the use of toilet chips after entering the toilet is what he learned when he was still in Nanyang when he was a child, of course, this is just a digression joke.

After the dwellings were built, they were followed by cattle houses, cowsheds, stables, and sheepfolds, and their manure was also an important source of manure.

After these things were preliminarily completed, the blacksmith and carpenter were asked to hurry up to make the plows and hoes and other farm tools, and Deng Ji led the chariot and horses out of the valley.

Wheat is a combination of barley and wheat, earlier than this era, wheat is called Lai, this kind of crops introduced into our country from the Western Regions are cold-tolerant but do not have millet and millet drought-tolerant, can be sown in winter and harvested in the summer of the next year, this year's Spring Festival agricultural time has been delayed, naturally only count on winter ploughing, but all the wheat in the team has been ground into flour, can not be seeded, if you can find enough wheat seeds, you can try to plant this winter.

Wheat seeds may be solved, but at present, there is a shortage of farm tools, although there are many farm tools left behind in the villages around Shehou Guocheng, but for fear of contracting the plague, Deng Ji did not dare to send someone to get it, so he had to rely on his own production.

There are so many livestock in the team, the most important agricultural tool is naturally the plow, this era is still using the straight plough coupling plough, each ridge of land is plowed, when the direction of the plow is transferred back, the plow needs to be taken off and set again, it is very inconvenient, the appearance of the zigyuan plough in the history of agriculture is in the Tang Dynasty, there is only a brief introduction in this history book, but Deng Ji himself is a farmer's child, and there is a plough at home in later generations, and he is so familiar with its structure that he can no longer be familiar with it, and he personally instructed the carpenters to make them, and as for the blacksmiths, they are responsible for melting the iron weapons of destruction, Make ploughshares, and when you have some leisure, make some hoes and shovels.

The people in the valley are still very busy, the labor intensity is also large, and the food consumption is also large, and it is initially estimated that the surplus food is enough for this team to eat until the end of summer, but in addition to food, there are more urgent things that Deng Ji needs to do at this time.

Shan Gen is dead, and it is basically impossible for other teams to take in this old and weak army, not to mention that there is no way out for the moth thief and the black mountain thief, Deng Ji has died five Qu Shuai, and now he really doesn't want to put his fate in the hands of others, although it is difficult, he still wants to be his own Qu Shuai.

As long as the subordinates agree in the Yellow Turban, it is no problem to be Qu Shuai, but not in Taihang, this is the sphere of influence of the Black Mountain thieves, if you want to exist, you must agree with Zhang Yanxian, the general of the Yellow Turban, and get his protection, so that the other thieves will not covet it.

Although there is no team of Black Mountain thieves near the valley now, nothing can be guaranteed, in case the news of the plague has passed here, a team will come over and look at these livestock, and it will only be a matter of raising hands to destroy his old and weak army.

After settling down, the rest of the things were given to Han Qi, and Deng Ji found two pieces of captured peiyu in the baggage as a gift, and let Che Huang lead the way, and went out of the valley to the north end of Taihang to find that Zhang Yan.

Note: Toilet chips, also known as toilet chips, simply put, are wooden or bamboo strips used to wipe filth after defecation. They were also used in parts of China and Japan over the last century.