In the past few years, the people have fled, a large amount of land has been abandoned, there is no harvest, the life of the fleeing people is also extremely difficult, there is no food to eat, they can only eat the bark and wild vegetables, the bark and wild vegetables are eaten up, people compete to eat, and the bones are in the wild.

Liu Ze posted a notice to the people, setting up a porridge shack in Xiaopei to relieve refugees, as long as those who are willing to work still have money and food. Don't look at the vast majority of the fleeing people are illiterate and can't read the words written on the notice, but the nose of the refugees can smell the smell of food from dozens of miles.

With the labor force, the reconstruction of Xiaopeicheng is very fast, and within a dozen days, it has been renovated inside and out. Liu Ze also ordered the people to reclaim the land and prepare for spring plowing and spring sowing in the coming year. The land is the foundation of the people's survival, the people take food as the sky, and if there is no food in the ground, how can the people eat?

The grain and straw allocated by Xuzhou were calculated by the head of Liu Ze's army, and the population of Peiguo surged by tens of thousands at once, and there were no grains left in the treasury, and the food supply was stretched. However, Liu Ze is not worried at all, his Mangdang Mountain base is in the territory of Peiguo, which can be described as a building near the water, Liu Ze ordered someone to transport grain from Mangdang Mountain to solve the urgent need.

Jia Xu sighed sincerely: "Xu thinks that he has left nothing behind, but compared with the lord, it is really a thousand miles behind." When the lord chose Mangdang Mountain as the base, it was difficult to understand his meaning, and he couldn't imagine that ten years later, the lord could really act as Peiguo, and he was expected to be like a god, and no one in the world could compare. ”

Liu Ze smiled slightly: "Does Wenhe think that I only aim to be in one county?" ”

"Of course not. The lord's vision is naturally the whole of Xuzhou, and the money and grain accumulated in Mangdang Mountain are naturally prepared for taking Xuzhou. It's just that I am very curious, when Mangdang Mountain was first built, the world was peaceful, and the four seas were Jingning, why did the lord choose Xuzhou as a foothold? And the development of the current situation is the same as what the lord predicted back then, how can the lord do this? Jia Xu was full of emotion. This decade. After a big circle, I finally returned to Mangdang Mountain.

Of course, Liu Ze couldn't say that he knew history well, so he just smiled mysteriously: "Although I can't be prophetic, I still have some premonitions about many things." For example, choose Mangdang Mountain. At the very least, I'm still confident in my hunch. Mention Mangdang Mountain. I still really want to see how it has changed in ten years? How about Wen He. Interested? ”

Jia Xu said: "The lord wants to go to Mangdang Mountain, and his subordinates are willing to accompany him." ”

Liu Ze laughed and said, "Okay, just leave, it's best to call Shangzilong." Liu Ze ordered someone to pass Zhao Yun over, and when it came to returning to Mangdang Mountain, Zhao Yun was also excited, and he also wanted to go to see his brother and sister-in-law. So Liu Ze drove lightly, and together with Jia Xu and Zhao Yun, he took dozens of guards and went straight to Mangdang Mountain.

After receiving the report, Zhao Feng and Liao Hua were overjoyed, opened the gate of the village, and went down the mountain to greet them. Since Zhao Feng took the medicine given by Liu Ze, his illness has long been cured, and his spirit is refreshing, elegant and elegant. Liao Hua has grown from a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy to a strong man with tiger arms and a bear's waist, and Liu Ze almost can't recognize it.

"Ziyi, Yuan Jian, you have worked hard." Liu Ze greeted with a smile as soon as they met.

Zhao Fengliao bowed and saluted, and Zhao Feng said: "Compared with the lord wearing the stars and the moon and fighting the world, we are waiting for us to live in Mangdang, where the word hard work can be called." ”

Liao Hua said: "I heard that the lord of the Yellow Turban to fight Dong Zhuo against Yuan Shao, Hua has been in love for a long time, I can't follow the lord to drive forward, kill the enemy and serve the country, when will the lord let Hua go down the mountain to taste what he wants?" ”

Liu Ze patted him on the shoulder and said, "You guys have guarded Mangdang Mountain and kept the foundation of our army, and you have worked hard and made great achievements. Yuan Jian wants to go down the mountain, it's good! I tell you, the days won't be too long, but you can't slack off, and you must stand on the last shift! ”

Zhao Fengliao bowed and said, "Obey the orders of the lord." ”

Liu Ze said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for ten years, I really want to see Mangdang's new face again." ”

Zhao Feng and Liao led Liu Zejia to Zhao Yun up the mountain, still on the winding mountain road, even walking to watch.

Compared with ten years ago, Mangdang Mountain has changed dramatically, the terraced fields on the mountain are lined up one after another, the grain millet is fragrant, the people in the cottage are bustling, shoulder to shoulder, the scholars are industrial and commercial, each in its place. According to Liu Ze's arrangement, in the years when Zhao Yun was in charge of the affairs of Mangdang Mountain, the population of Mangdang Mountain surged. Although it is widely accepted, Zhao Yun is strict in terms of quality, and he can't enter the door of Mangdang Mountain without a skill. After Zhao Yun left, the affairs of managing Mangdang Mountain fell on the shoulders of Zhao Feng and Liao Hua. Now Mangdang Mountain has a population of 100,000, tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and countless skilled craftsmen.

Liu Ze was most concerned about the warehouse and the matter of sweat and blood, and Zhao Feng led Liu Ze to inspect them one by one.

The sweaty horses are growing stronger and stronger under the careful breeding of the five hundred great horsemen, and now tens of thousands of sweaty horses have been bred, and the middle and upper class horses occupy more than eighty percent, which makes Liu Ze very happy.

What makes Liu Ze even happier is that he and Zhang Fei's mount Zhaoye Jade Lion and Kicking Snow Black Horse mated several sweaty and bloody horses are called divine horses, which are the best of the best, and what is even more rare is that the horsemen once asserted that the infertile Thousand Miles Horse has been cultivated into one, and it will never lose to the Jade Lion and Kicking Snow Black Horse when they become adults.

Zhao Feng told Liu Ze that every year, the newly harvested grain is returned to the warehouse, and the grain stored in the warehouse for more than a few years is replaced with priority to eat, so as to ensure that the grain in the warehouse is not left for too long.

The problem of grain aging is a problem that Liu Ze is more worried about, the earliest accumulation of grain has been ten years, although it is said that as long as the grain of corn, rice and wheat is not shelled, pay attention to moisture and mildew prevention, and can be completely edible if it is stored for more than ten years, but after all, the taste will be much worse. But in the troubled times, as long as there is food to eat, who cares if it is aged or not, so Liu Ze was also relieved and didn't think much about it. Unexpectedly, Zhao Feng disposed of it properly, and every year the newly harvested grain was put into storage and the long-term food would be eaten first, and Liu Ze praised this alone.

Zhao Feng told Liu Ze that because the terraced fields on the mountain are all used as an irrigation tool designed by Ma Jun, the water in the river under the mountain can be drawn to a high place, ensuring that every terraced field can be watered.

When it comes to Ma Jun, Liu Ze is quite expectant, the first inventor of the Three Kingdoms era, I don't know what kind of surprise he will bring to himself.

"Where is Ma Jun?" Liu Ze asked Zhao Feng.

Zhao Feng said: "According to the orders of the lord, Ma Jun has the right to call the craftsman utensils of a qiē workshop in Mangdang Mountain, and Ma Jun has been staying in the gunpowder workshop all day these days, as if he is developing something, and his subordinates dare not disturb." ”

"Let's go, let's see." Liu Ze was enthusiastic and walked towards the gunpowder workshop.

The gunpowder workshop is located in a valley, and not far from the blacksmith's workshop and the carpentry workshop. Artisans are in full swing crafting weapons, armor and horse harnesses, and the scene is busy. Before entering the gunpowder workshop, they only heard a loud "bang" inside, and everyone was shocked, thinking that there was an accident inside.

The production of gunpowder is an extremely dangerous thing, and the slightest negligence in the production process may lead to tragedy, so Zhao Feng is extremely strict with the management of the gunpowder workshop, and the craftsmen are all experienced veterans and have a set of strict operating procedures. Out of the need for secrecy, this valley is garrisoned all year round, and the craftsmen inside are not allowed to leave at will, and the idle people outside are strictly forbidden to set foot in this place.

The safety production of the gunpowder workshop has been maintained for a long time, but when Liu Ze came to inspect, there was an accident, Zhao Feng's face couldn't help but be red and white, and he stepped forward quickly and asked, "What's going on in the workshop?" ”

The steward hurriedly saluted Zhao Feng and said, "Back to Zhao, it is Mr. Deheng who is testing gunpowder. "Deheng is Ma Jun's expression, although Liu Ze asked Ma Jun to send manpower and material resources to Mangdang Mountain at will, but there is no actual position, everyone is obedient, so he is called Mr.

Liu Ze is interested, Ma Jun is the most ingenious person in the world, and the things he invents are often breathtaking, I don't know what kind of surprise it will bring to people this time.

In a separate warehouse in the gunpowder workshop, Liu Ze saw Ma Jun, who was smoky with gunpowder and gunpowder, he hadn't seen him for ten years, Ma Jun was no longer the skinny, weak and timid child, tall and thin, his eyes were bright, and when he saw Liu Ze, he hurriedly saluted and said: "Ma Jun sees the lord." ”

"Oh, I can't imagine that I haven't seen him for ten years, and Deheng has not only grown taller, but also stopped stuttering." In Liu Ze's impression, Ma Junmu is shy and introverted, often unable to say a few coherent words, and blushes when he speaks.

Ma Jun lowered his head and said: "Thanks to the teachings of the lord, let his subordinates have more contact with people, and Jun's stuttering problem has changed a lot." ”

Liu Ze laughed, and when he saw Ma Jun holding a bronze pipe in his hand, which was about two feet long, he asked, "What is in Deheng's hand?" ”

Ma Jun explained to Liu Ze in detail. It turned out that Ma Jun saw the craftsmen testing gunpowder by chance, and the craftsmen filled the gunpowder into a chiseled stone hole, and after igniting, a small stone was thrown a hundred steps away, and it fell to Ma Jun's feet, almost hitting Ma Jun, frightening several craftsmen to kowtow again and again to make amends, Ma Jun did not blame them, but had a novel idea in his mind. (To be continued......)