Speaking of which, Feng Jian was still under a lot of pressure, facing the three hundred and seventy people in the outpost, there was no source of income for the time being, and people relied on the little food they brought when they went up the mountain to barely survive.

There is no accumulation in his own hands, the commander of the cottage Xu appointed himself as the small flag officer of his own post, and handed over the nearly 400 people to himself, but the cottage did not give any support and help to his own post, Hu Dadao said that the cottage will compensate the casualties of his own post, and he has not seen it yet, and now it seems that it is not reliable to count on external help, and the difficulties must be solved by his own post.

Jishao has a population of nearly 400, and the rations he carries are definitely not enough to maintain the grain harvest next year, and now people like Hu Baocai have no rice to put in the pot and wait for relief, which is the first problem that Feng Jian has to solve.

Feng Jian couldn't solve it by himself, so he went to ask Hu Dadao for help, Feng Jian's idea was to borrow some food from Wu Jiao first, and wait for his own grain harvest to be doubled and returned.

Hu Dadao was a little apologetic, and threw his whistle to Feng Jian and didn't ask, it was really embarrassing for him, but this was not his original intention, but the meaning of Commander Xu, see how Feng Jian dealt with the mess of his whistle.

The movements of Ji Whistle in the past few days are in the eyes of the Great Commander Xu and himself, and I am afraid that the rest of the leaders of Huluyan are also paying attention to Ji Whistle and Feng Jian.

Hu Dadao heard that Feng Jian wanted to borrow some food to help the poor people of his own post, and patted him on the shoulder affectionately and said: "If you don't come, my old Hu will also come to you, and the casualties of your own post have been compensated, and the family of the deceased can receive one stone of cottage grain, and the family of the injured can receive five buckets of cottage grain." ”

Seeing that Inspector Feng let out a sigh of relief, he continued: "The general of the cottage Xu understands the plight of the villagers who have recently gone up the mountain, so he stipulates that the villagers who go up the mountain in the first year can withdraw part of the cottage grain free of charge according to the number of family members, and take up to one stone, you go back to make statistics and then go to the cottage to withdraw it." ”

Feng Jian said that the tense nerves suddenly relaxed, not that the cottage did not care about the life or death of his own post, but complained that he did not apply for help in time, and now each household can withdraw a part of the grain for free, Feng Jian is confident that the grain harvest in the coming year, the family will no longer worry about eating.

Land and grain are the foundation of the livelihood of the farmers, and the next step is to reclaim their own fields as soon as possible and plant winter wheat, which is the season for sowing winter wheat.

In addition, the households in Jishaozhuang also lacked their own farm tools and livestock, so Feng Jian took the opportunity to ask Hu Dadao if the cottage could solve some farm tools and livestock.

Hu Dadao said bluntly: "Farm tools, livestock, etc. are also in short supply in Huluyan Cottage, and Feng Jian has to find his own way in this regard, however, Hu Dadao said that after the end of winter wheat sowing in Wushao, you can borrow some farm tools and livestock for your own post, provided that your own post must reclaim wasteland in time to sow winter wheat."

It can be said that the most urgent thing for the settled Jishao is to cultivate the field, Feng Jian hurriedly said goodbye to Hu Dadao and returned to the Jishao to arrange the reclamation and farming.

As long as the land is successfully reclaimed and food is planted, people have hope, and this difficult period is successfully passed, Feng Jian can be regarded as gaining a firm foothold in Huluyan.

As the saying goes: "The white dew is early, the cold dew is late, and the autumn equinox is the right time to plant wheat." "In the 24 solar terms, the white dew time is on the third or fourth day of the eighth lunar month, the cold dew time is on the fourth or fifth day of the ninth lunar month, and the autumn equinox is on the 19th or 20th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

It's early August, and it's almost time to plant winter wheat. In other words, the autumn equinox is the best time to plant winter wheat, and it is a bit late to plant it in the cold dew season.

Now there are still ** days before the autumn equinox, and Feng Jian and the members of the Jishao reclamation team must reclaim the barren fields and plant winter wheat in ** days, which sounds a bit difficult.

If the hillside wasteland can be reclaimed within ** days, and winter wheat can be sown in time, there will be no need to worry about the food problem in the coming year. If you can't reclaim the fields within this ** day and miss the opportunity to sow winter wheat, Huluyan Cottage will not provide endless relief, and the survival of Jishao will become a big problem in the coming year.

Early in the morning of the third day of the eighth month of the third year of Chongzhen, Feng Jian led the labor of five squads of his own post to the wasteland assigned to his post in the cottage, and everyone carefully looked at the undulating barren slope in front of them.

The barren slope is covered with dense thorns and wild grasses and wild flowers, many wild bees "buzz" back and forth to stay on the wild flowers, all kinds of caterpillars crawl slowly on the thorn branches, and there are many large and small stones on the ground that are half buried in the soil.

In this era, everything in the cultivation of land depends on manpower, and the labor efficiency is very low.

But no matter how difficult it is, it has to be cultivated, how can we complete the cultivation and sowing in a limited few days, Feng Jian and the five team leaders frowned and thought.

Zhang Dalai, the leader of the third team, suggested that the five teams should be separated, and one team should be responsible for reclaiming an area, and it was stipulated that each team must complete the reclamation before the 19th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the team that could not complete it would deduct the harvest of the field next year.

The other team leaders were all from Zhuanghu, and realized the importance of sowing winter wheat in time to their own posts, so they nodded in agreement with Zhao Shougang's proposal. Zhao Shougang, the leader of the fifth squad, opened his mouth to say something, but after thinking about it, he closed his mouth again.

Feng Jian racked his brains to recall the methods used by farmers in later generations to open up wasteland and farm capitals, but he had no memory of this aspect in his mind at all. It is no wonder that he is an ordinary farmer in his later life, and he has some dogs and horses in his head, and as for how to reclaim wasteland, maybe his father has some experience, but he has not experienced the era of reclamation and farming.

To say that the most experienced in reclamation are still the old farmers in their own posts, and many old farmers with experience in reclamation have taken the initiative to put forward their own reclamation experience.

Feng Jian made preparations according to their proposals, for example, to prepare as many production tools as possible, such as ploughing oxen, shovels, shovels, wheelbarrows, etc., to ensure that each reclamation team member has a reclamation tool, and if the tools are insufficient, they will take turns to use the tools, and the tools will not stop for twelve hours a day; Every day, food and water are specially sent to the fields, and the laborers of the reclamation can eat and rest nearby, so as to save time for reclamation.

At the end of the first day of land reclamation, nearly 300 people only reclaimed more than 10 acres of land, Jishaozhuang households will settle accounts, 300 people need to reclaim at least 300 acres of wasteland and sow seeds in time to ensure that they do not starve, Huluyan Cottage allocated to Jishao this area to reclaim 300 acres of land is not a problem, but according to the speed of reclamation today, it will definitely delay this year's winter wheat sowing!

In the evening, Feng Jian once again convened five captains and several experienced old villagers to discuss how to effectively improve the speed of land reclamation.

Some old farmers suggested that it is better to plant as many acres of winter wheat as can be reclaimed before 19 August than to miss the best season for planting, and to plant other grain crops on the reclaimed land in the spring of the following year.

Feng Jian frowned and thought about it, there was really no other way to quickly reclaim the wasteland, so he had to wait for the beginning of spring to plant!

Zhao Shougang, the leader of the fifth team, was the only one who could read, and when he saw that everyone present did not speak, he said to Feng Jian: "Cough, Feng Xiaoqi, the villain has thought of a labor-saving method, maybe it can speed up the reclamation." ”

Feng Jian looked at Zhao Shougang, and in the past few days, he felt that this guy had a more flexible mind, and he was willing to think about solutions in case of trouble.

Feng Jian encouraged: "There is a way to say it quickly, if you can solve the problem in front of you, Brother Zhao is the hero of our own whistle!" ”

"Ahem, the villain thinks that the time spent cultivating the field is mainly wasted on eradicating and transporting the thorns, wild grasses, stones and other debris in the soil, and it is relatively simple to eradicate and clean up the debris, and the difficult thing is how to quickly clean up the debris." Zhao Shougang directly grasped the key to the problem and said it very simply.

"This kind of situation has been encountered by the reclamation people, but it is rare to compete for time to sow winter food like our own whistle. The villain believes that the reclamation area demarcated by each team remains unchanged, and each team needs to assign two people to form a field debris transportation team, and some rollers can be made and erected on the wasteland according to the terrain, and the debris transportation team will use to transport the debris in the field, and the speed of transporting debris will be greatly accelerated. ”

Feng Jian didn't understand, frowned and asked: "You said that it is understandable that people will be dispatched to set up a special sundries transportation team, but isn't the roller specially set up on the well to carry water, how do we use it for farming?" ”

Zhao Shougang patiently explained: "The roller is not only used to carry water from the well, but also the debris cleared from the ground can be erected in the place where we are willing to be wasted. For example, in the wasteland that is about to be reclaimed, a wooden frame made of rough wood is erected in advance, a pulley is fixed with an iron bar in the middle of the wooden frame, and then a wooden frame is also built under the hillside, and a pulley is also fixed, and then the pulley on the wasteland and the wooden shelf under the slope is connected with hemp rope, and one end of the hemp rope is tied to the basket, which is loaded with thorns and gravel cleared out of the reclamation, etc., with the rotation of the pulley, the basket moves to the low place, and soon it can easily reach the bottom of the slope, and someone at the bottom of the slope says that the debris in the basket is emptied, When someone pulls the hemp rope again on the wasteland, the basket is returned to the wasteland with the rotation of the pulley, and so on and so forth, and the debris in the field is soon emptied. ”

Feng Jian suddenly realized, nodded and exclaimed: "Brother Zhao is clever, and the teams will be adjusted accordingly from the beginning of tomorrow." ”

Feng Jian understood when he heard this, this pulley that was widely used in later generations, and couldn't help but look at Zhao Shougang with admiration, "This is what Brother Zhao figured out himself, it's really amazing!" ”

Zhao Shougang blushed and said: "How can a villain have such a great ability, this is taught by Mr. Private School in our village." ”

Zhang Dalai, the third squad leader on the side, said excitedly: "Haha, I also know a little bit about the method proposed by Captain Zhao, the pulley transporting gravel, thorns and weeds can save at least half of the manpower, so that the reclamation of wasteland can be at least half the speed!" ”

Yes, Captain Zhao, the method you proposed has solved a big problem for us! The rest of the crowd also understood, and they all echoed it.

Zhao Shougang's face turned even redder, and he said, "Cough, I just came up with an idea, and I don't deserve everyone's praise like this." ”

Feng Jian's expression was obviously relaxed: "Haha, your idea is really timely, with the wheel, it is possible to reclaim this barren field and complete the planting of winter wheat before the nineteenth day of August." ”

Zhao Shougang's idea suddenly solved the unpleasantness that plagued everyone, Feng Jian was in a better mood, and said to everyone with a smile: "Everyone should be like Zhao Shougang to actively make suggestions and suggestions for the development of their own whistle, and the development of their own whistle must be completed by the collective efforts of the people. ”

The other captains relaxed down, they were all real dealers, laughing when they were happy, and standing on the street scolding when they were unhappy, now Zhao Shougang came up with a good idea to solve the problem, and several people naturally grinned happily.

This situation made Feng Jian secretly relieved, "Hehe, it's a good start!" ”

After more than 10 days of reclamation, more than 300 acres of wasteland within the scope of the post were cleared out, and then the ploughing oxen were put on the ploughing cattle for deep ploughing in the field, and the surface layer of rotten leaf grass ash that played the role of fertilizing the soil was ploughed under the land, and the winter wheat was sown smoothly, and by the way, the mountain stream water was introduced into the field for irrigation.

For the nearly 400 people in their own posts, everyone worked together, and the crucial difficulty was finally overcome!

Feng Jian divided the 300 acres of winter wheat into five slices, which were managed by each of the five squads, and stipulated that if the squad's wheat harvest was good in the coming year, the sentry would reward the excess harvest to the squad, and all members of the squad's excess income would be equally distributed.

Feng Jian's measures were quite effective, and some old farmers walked around the fields every day, removing weeds from the fields at any time, reminding their respective teams to irrigate the wheat fields in time, and hoping that the wheat seedlings would sprout and emerge as soon as possible.

The old villagers in the post said that although it is a newly cultivated land, due to the abundant soil resources and the lack of water, as long as it is not particularly dry, the wheat harvest in the coming year is a foregone conclusion!

The smooth reclamation of the land has relaxed the mood of more than 300 people of all ages, and the wheat field is spontaneously taken care of by the old farmers, and the production and cultivation team seems to have nothing to do.

Feng Jian learned that the other outposts in the cottage were also basically busy with the autumn harvest, and there were only some cabbage radishes harvested before and after the frost in the field waiting to be harvested.

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