It was already November, and after a simple village had been built in each cantonment, preparations were immediately made for the spring planting.

Zhao Yan naturally couldn't let all the land be planted with sweet potatoes, after all, although the yield of sweet potatoes was high, they could also be used as a staple food, but it was not good to eat that thing every day.

Half of the land is planted with wheat and half with sweet potatoes.

Winter wheat has now been planted, so we have to wait until the first month of the following year to plant spring wheat. Sweet potatoes are also planted after the beginning of spring.

Therefore, the time for irrigation and fertilization is relatively tight.

According to Zhao Yan's requirements, thousands of kilograms of farm fertilizer must be applied to each mu of land, and farm fertilizer such as plant ash and livestock manure must be prepared.

After Zhao Yan explained the things to be paid attention to in Tuntian, they went back to mobilize the people to start cultivating the land and spreading fertilizer and repairing the water conservancy.

With an order, the tun was busy again.

The homeless people happily drove the ploughing cattle and began to plough in the fields, and most of the homeless people had hope for Yuzi, and they could eat every day in the Zhao family, without worrying about being starved to death.

People of different generations have different pursuits, and the farmers of later generations pursued a well-off life, while the farmers of this era pursued food and clothing, without worrying about starvation.

As long as they don't starve to death, they can be satisfied. As long as they don't starve to death, they won't be thieves. However, it is not excluded that some people are addicted to bandits and are unwilling to farm anymore, so the exiles who have been thieves in Pingkobao are strictly guarded, and the exiles in Anminbao are recruited and not so strictly guarded.

At the same time, each tun was highly vigilant during the busy period, and some time ago there was an incident in which the tun was attacked by the Gao family, and each tun regiment practiced leading people to guard when the farm was busy, and each tun was equipped with two fast horses, and once the enemy situation was discovered, it was immediately reported to prevent it from being attacked again.

After two days off, the family returned to training.

They all worked harder than before in training, and no one wanted to be eliminated from the ranks in a month and lose this lucrative spot.

Zhao Yan plans to carry out the restructuring in a month, first of all, to expand some men and horses, and establish cavalry and long-range anti-personnel troops.

Anyway, on this day, Zhao Yan was teaching Yuan'er to read pinyin and Arabic numerals, and Zhao Quan ran to say that the recruitment bureau caught a big fish, and Lin Zhenghai, an old Chinese medicine doctor who was famous in Huang County, was invited.

Zhao Yan hurriedly went out to greet him, and soon Zhao Yan saw an old man who was a little down, wearing a torn jacket, and it seemed that he was not mixing well.

"Childe, this is Doctor Lin." Zhao Quan introduced Zhao Yan.

"Hearing that Divine Doctor Lin is coming, it really makes my son overjoyed, if the divine doctor is willing to do things in my Zhao family, he will definitely treat him well." Zhao Yan said directly, this Lin Zhenghai can have such a reputation in the Huang County area, and he naturally has the ability in his hands.

"The divine doctor doesn't dare to be a doctor, as long as Zhao Gongzi gives Lin a stable name." Lin Zhenghai clenched his fists and said, and agreed to stay in the Zhao family.

"Doctor Na Lin will be the chief physician of my Zhaojiabao Hospital in the future, and he will give thirty taels of silver in one month and one stone of grain from outsiders." Zhao Yan said.

Lin Zhenghai nodded calmly.

Zhao Yan immediately asked Zhao Quan to explain the hospital system to Lin Zhenghai, and the hospital in Zhaojiabao was set up as the general hospital, which provided free medical treatment to the displaced people recruited by the Zhao family, and was responsible for sending doctors to other hoarding land.

The hospital has not yet been established, Lin Zhenghai, a professional, immediately solved the imminent problem of medical treatment, and Zhao Yan directly sowed 5,000 taels of construction funds for the hospital to buy and make herbal medicines.

After settling Lin Zhenghai, Zhao Yan asked Zhao Quan: "Why did this Lin Zhenghai come to us?" ”

"His house was ransacked by the rebels, and now Huang County is very dilapidated, so our Zhao family's generous treatment will naturally come." Zhao Quan said with a smile.

Sure enough, it was easy to fish in mixed water, and Zhao Yan began to ask about Tuntian, "Is there any problem with Tuntian?" ”

"There is no shortage of cattle and farm tools, and the grain in Jinan City is enough to recruit 10,000 displaced people, enough for 20,000 people to last until next autumn's harvest. Just if you recruit another 10,000 people, it will not be enough to plough cattle and farm tools. Zhao Quan said the results of the estimate, "It's better to slow down, and wait for the next year, when there is income on the tuntian, there is no need to spend silver." ”

"Each young and strong 30 acres of land, three sets to reclaim 90,000 acres of land, the next year can harvest a lot of grain, now the tuntian is not on the right track, can be slowed down. But people still have to continue to recruit, the more people the better, this can't be delayed. Zhao Yan directly vetoed: "Silver is just a dead thing, what can be bought with silver should be bought with silver as much as possible, our Zhao family is not short of silver." ”

"But now the silver is like flowing water, it costs 110,000 taels to fight a thief, and there are only 70,000 taels of silver left in the treasury......" Zhao Quan wanted to persuade, but Zhao Yan smiled and said: "If the silver is not enough, we will earn more, as long as we are stronger, the more silver we will earn." ”

"How are the recruited people settled?" Zhao Quan asked helplessly.

"First of all, we need to build three big forts, and we need people for brick factories and everything." Zhao Yan plans to build three castles, so that he will not be discarded.

"Okay!" Zhao Quan is not easy to refute, but the more he looks at it during this time, the more wrong it becomes, originally the son just said to practice some soldiers and horses to protect himself, but now this posture is ......

With soldiers and horses to protect themselves, it is natural to keep the family business safely and steadily, but the son is not like that, he is expanding very quickly, and it seems that he wants to do something big.

"Have you found anyone else who is proficient in horse breeding?" Zhao Yan asked.

"I recruited the Liao people who fled to Dengzhou, who know how to raise horses, but they are overwhelmed by the heavy responsibility and have been arranged to raise horses." Zhao Quan said.

"Hmmm! So be it! In terms of horse breeding, it will be slowed down for a while. Zhao Yan reluctantly compromised with reality, after all, his current pattern is still too small, many resources are still scarce, and he feels that the most lacking is talent.

Zhao Yan is still in its infancy, many rules have not been decided, the organization is not strict enough, and rash expansion will cause management chaos.

It is better to first set the rules of Tuntian and the army, and then expand outward after getting on the right track. There are only two cores of expansion, the restoration of production and the strengthening of troops, and everything is on the same level as these two points.

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On the Tuntian side, Zhao Quan managed the tun chiefs below, Zhao Yong, Lin Yi, and Wang Wenyue were training their own team members, and Zhao Yan pounced on weapon manufacturing.

The musket will obviously not be usable for a while, first, there is a lack of craftsmen who can make muskets, and second, Zhao Yan looks down on the arquebuses of this year.

He would have made a pistol, but it would have taken a little longer. So Zhao Yan decided to build a longbow first.

The longbow is a monolithic bow and is very simple to make.

The maximum range of the longbow reached more than 360 meters, but it was made of yew wood, and now there was no yew wood, so elm wood was used instead.

An elm longbow with a 30-kilogram rally force can have an effective killing range of 180 meters, and if yew wood is used, the effective range of 30 kg of rally can reach about 220 meters.

These data were tested by Zhao Yan in the research institute of later generations, and now he is also handy in making longbows, and he took a few carpenters to make longbows.

Longbows are monolithic bows, and the process of making them is much simpler than compound bows and reinforced bows. The biggest advantage over compound bows is that they are low cost and have a long range.

Of course, the ancients generally made bows and arrows very well, and any range of thousands of meters could be made, but the problem is that only superhumans can pull them open, and crossbows are too bulky and meaningless in actual combat.

The British also made compound longbows, but they were no longer able to be pulled by normal humans.

The range of the bow and arrow generally depends on the bow surface and bow length, the compound bow is the bow surface material is complex, and the longbow is the bow length is longer, one takes the qualitative route, and the other takes the quantitative route. However, the penetration of the longbow is stronger than that of the compound bow, and it can be described as invincible within 80 meters.

If it is against thieves and the Ming army, the longbow is definitely better than firearms, because the longbow is much more flexible than firearms, and most of the thieves and the Ming army have no armor on their bodies, which is easy to be killed and injured.

Even if your own soldiers charge, the longbowmen can still kill and injure the enemy by throwing them. If it was against the Manchus, a mixture of longbow and musket was required.

The prospect of a longbow is considerable, and it can definitely inflict great damage on the enemy in an era when firearms are not yet mature, but it requires a large number of experienced longbowmen.

Zhao Yan immediately set up a workshop, mobilized more than 30 carpenters, and ten blacksmiths to specialize in making longbows and arrows, and Zhaojiabao still had nearly 2,000 old and weak people who did not plan to go to the tundi, and just recruited them to work in the longbow workshop.

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Collection, tickets!

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