The newborn morning sun jumped out of the horizon, the waves kept crashing on the beach, Pang Gang was wearing a casual suit and walking barefoot slowly on the beach, the fine sand continued to massage his toes, making people feel very comfortable. But this did not make Pang Gang's mood better, and now the affairs in the fort were all pressed on him, which made our comrade Pang Gang, who had never been a leader, feel that his shoulders were always heavy.

Now it is the eighth day of coming to Wanghai Fort, most of the military households who have just arrived are under the leadership of Li Xian, Gou Yu and others to clean up the water conservancy channels on the wasteland, and there are dozens of people turning over the soil to prepare for sowing in two months, but now another urgent problem has been reflected, that is, food, the current grain in the fort is only enough to eat for half a month, and it is simply impossible to support more than 300 people until the end of the grain harvest season, and most of the sixty families they brought have no surplus rations, and they have to rely on their own boss to provide it.

Now that the fort has begun to dig ditches and turn over the ground, it is not possible to let those military households drink gruel as before, which will not be full, so they can only be allowed to eat dry rice. Pang Gang calculated that if an adult was allowed to eat dry rice in the midst of high-intensity labor, no one would need at least two and a half stones of grain for half a year if he ate one catty or even one and a half pounds of rice a day, and if he wanted more than 300 people in Wanghaibao to survive the grain harvest season at the end of the year, he would need at least nearly seven hundred stone rice, and if Pang Gang wanted to continue to recruit displaced people, then this number would have to roll up.

This is not counting, Li Xian, who was in charge of purchasing yesterday, also reported to Pang Gang, saying that those strong laborers must be allowed to eat some meat every other day, otherwise people will easily vomit blood due to lack of fat, and they must often buy some lard or fat to serve the dish in order to ensure people's physical strength. Buy it, buy it, Pang Gang is not a stingy person, but then Li Xian's report made Pang Gang almost vomit blood, the price of a pound of lean meat is ten yuan, but the fat meat is sold for twenty yuan, and the fat meat that no one cares about in later generations is much more expensive than lean meat, based on the fact that each adult eats one or two fat meat per day, the money for buying pork for the military households will cost at least more than thirty taels of silver every month, this news can really make Pang Gang thunder.

If in the future generations, if there was anyone who dared to sell fat meat more expensive than lean meat, he would definitely be spit on the face, but now things are the other way around, lean meat is no longer popular, and those more expensive pork ribs in later generations can almost only be reduced to adding heads. Later, Pang just learned that because of the backward oil extraction technology in ancient times, the cost of vegetable oil was very high and the price was very expensive, and the common people were accustomed to replacing rapeseed oil with animal oil in fatty meat, so the fatter the meat, the more popular, and the fatter the meat, the more expensive. This is also the reason why fat meat, which is worthless in later generations, is sold so expensive. Thinking of this, Comrade Pang Gang couldn't help but have an impulse to be full of cows, Nima's fat meat is sold so expensive, how embarrassing are you for the pig dealers in later generations who grit their teeth and give pigs "lean meat" at the risk of being fined.

Although the cost was a little bigger, Pang Gang still gritted his teeth and paid for the soldiers, but in this way, Pang Gang's pockets became more and more deflated. The two thousand seven hundred taels of silver that were scavenged from under Wang Haozi's bed last time had been poured out like flowing water during this time, and the remaining silver made Pang Gang very worried about whether he could support it until the end of the year. Now Wanghai Fort is like a fragile young child, unable to withstand any wind and waves at all, as long as a slightly larger wave hits, it will be swept away.

No, we must speed up the pace of tuntian and recruit displaced people, and increase grain reserves, otherwise Wanghaibao will not be able to become strong in the short term, and the current situation is becoming more and more chaotic, if Wanghaibao cannot grow stronger in the next few years, what awaits itself can only be destruction.

However, this period of time was not without good news, after Pang Gang's unremitting research, he finally figured out some of the functions of the book that came with his crossing. In this goldfinger-like mutation book, it is indeed very convenient and cheap to cash out cold weapons, as long as it is thirty catties of iron ore, you can cash out a Damascus scimitar that has been lost in later generations, as for those sabers, spears, shields, armor and other things are also very cheap. Pang Gang calculated that it only took about 100 to 150 catties of iron ore and a little wood to arm a soldier to the asshole, which may be the only place that can make our huge officials happy during this time. For this reason, Pang Gang also sent people to collect iron ore everywhere, but there has not been much harvest yet.

"Your Excellency, your Excellency!" A voice sounded behind Pang Gang, and Pang Gang didn't have to look back to know that it was Da Zhuang coming.

Da Zhuang quickly ran to Pang Gang and said breathlessly: "My lord, Gou Yu has come back from Qingzhou Mansion, he asked me to come to you."

The big name of the dog is Wang Zhi, which Pang Gang only knew when he registered for everyone, and since then Pang Gang has asked him to officially change his name back to his real name, but Da Zhuang, a partner who grew up with him, is still used to calling him by his nickname.

Pang Gang reproached: "Da Zhuang, don't always call people leftovers, now you are a small flag, how can you call Wang Zhi like that, this is not good!" ”

"Hehe" Da Zhuang touched his head and said with a smile: "My lord, haven't I been calling it for so many years, I'm used to it, and I can't change it if I want to!" ”

Pang Gang had no choice but to smile bitterly and shake his head, he didn't care about these anymore, he had to change his tone and ask: "Da Zhuang, dog, what is the matter with Wang Zhi asking you to find me?" ”

Da Zhuang said happily, "It's such an adult, Gou Yu not only bought back 400 stone of grain, but also brought back sixty families of displaced people from Qingzhou Mansion, and most of them are young and middle-aged, so we don't have to worry about the shortage of manpower!" ”

Looking at the elated Da Zhuang, Pang Gang did sigh secretly in his heart, it was a good thing to recruit such a homeless person at once, but in this way, his burden would be heavy, and the landlord's family had no surplus food these years!

With joy and worry, Pang Gang rushed to Wanghai Fort with Da Zhuang quickly, after more than half a month of construction, Wanghai Fort at this time has begun to take shape, although more than 300 people have occupied nearly half of the area in the fort, some new wooden houses are also being built, and now Wanghai Fort looks like there is a trace of vitality.

As soon as Pang came to Wanghai Fort, he saw a commotion in front of the fort, and Wang Zhizheng took more than 20 strong men in the original fort to maintain order. In addition to 10 oxen and dozens of bags of rice and noodles beside them, all kinds of dustpans, flat poles, baskets, hoes, plowshares, ploughshares, ox yokes, and mats were also piled up all over the ground. Except for the cattle that are stored in the outer pen, the rest of these items are piled up in the warehouse inside the mound.

Hundreds of newcomers were looking at the newly arrived official who had just arrived and was supported by the crowd, their faces and numb eyes, which had been yellowed by long-term malnutrition, were full of a trace of longing and expectation for the future, mixed with these slight uneasiness and fear.

Looking at the figure that was still a little trembling in the sun, Pang Gang sighed in his heart, and called a village woman who came in advance, ordering her to take some people to quickly make a fire and boil some millet porridge for everyone to cushion their stomachs first, and specially ordered her to boil thicker.

The village woman was also a quick person, and after agreeing, she took dozens of village women and began to set up more than a dozen stoves in the fort, and soon a fire was burning on the stove.

In less than half an hour, the hot porridge was boiled, and when these newly arrived homeless people rushed up to grab the porridge, they were knocked down by the big strong man who had been waiting for a long time with more than a dozen strong men with big wooden sticks, especially the few young adults who were in front of them were knocked down lightly.

"Queue, queue!" At this time, Da Zhuang has long lost his honest appearance in front of Pang Gang, holding a big wooden stick, he roared loudly in front of him like a fierce god, which is also Pang Gang's repeated request, in Wanghai Fort must abide by the rules, for the future development of Wanghai Fort The necessary rules are absolutely indispensable.

Just as Da Zhuang was holding a big stick to bring out those unruly people, a middle-aged man in a green robe with messy hair tied on his head was standing at the back of the crowd and staring at all this faintly

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