After several months of tidying up, in early autumn, Hua'an sorted out a total of 600 hectares of paddy fields, 800 hectares of dry land, 1,000 hectares of pasture and 100 hectares of reservoirs on this wasteland.

In response to the problem that the soil has been abandoned for a long time and the fertility is insufficient, Hua'an not only uses the manure of the camp to fertilize, but also ignites the grass and trees around the field and uses plant ash as fertilizer for the land.

Autumn is the harvest season, but also the season for planting winter crops, when the people near the capital are still busy harvesting rice, Hua'an has taken the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, planted wheat on the newly reclaimed fields.

Of course, with little confidence in the fertility of the land, Hua'an planted only one-third of the fields, and the rest was temporarily vacant.

For the Baiqing Reservoir, it is all utilized, in addition to breeding fish and turtles and other aquatic animals, but also planted in some water chestnut, white lotus and other aquatic plants, it can be said that there is no waste at all.

The terrain is too high, and the thousands of hectares of wasteland with insufficient water resources are all divided into pastures by Hua'an, and the pastures are the most extensive, overgrown with all kinds of weeds, some of which are the grasses that cattle and sheep love to eat.

Hua'an divides the pasture into many blocks according to the geographical location, each piece is built a fence that can surround the livestock, and the nine armies under his command are each responsible for several pastures, among them, only one is occupied when raising livestock, and when this piece of pasture is eaten by cattle and sheep, it is changed to a pasture to continue to raise, so as to keep the pasture will not degrade, and the armies also compete with each other to see who raises it well.

Hua'an's pro-military camp was allocated the best pastures, but they did not breed cattle and sheep, but horses, war horses are a scarce resource, the Northern Expeditionary Army war horses are relatively large, only less than 5,000, and the other armies are even less, Hua'an wants to raise horses and train them into war horses to improve the combat effectiveness and mobility of their troops.

Planting and breeding, for the army, after all, is a sideline, the main task of the Northern Expeditionary Army is still to train the ability to kill the enemy, ready to fight at any time, this Hua'an is very clear, and it will not be upside down.

Each corps has three battalions, each battalion takes turns to go to Tuntian, and the remaining two battalions are trained in the barracks; in this way, two-thirds of the time each soldier is spent training in the barracks, and only one-third of the time is spent in the barracks, and this has almost no impact on the improvement of combat effectiveness.

Tuntian is a kind of work, which can be regarded as the body of training soldiers, and it can also get a large amount of output from the land, which can be said to be more than one stone.

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In the spring equinox of the second year, the wheat planted in the fields was ripe, and the officers and soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army tasted the joy of harvest for the first time.

Hua'an reported the harvest to the imperial court, and the imperial court was overjoyed and rewarded the Northern Expeditionary Army, rewarding millions of dollars, but the tens of thousands of deniers of military rations that should have been allocated to the Northern Expeditionary Army did not need to be allocated.

The fish and turtles in the reservoir have also entered the mating and spawning season, the white lotus planted last autumn bloomed a brilliant lotus, the water chestnut reproduced frantically on the surface of the reservoir, the pasture is more lively, the bull and ram in estrus in order to obtain the right to mate, duel on the grass, the loser leaves in gray, and the winner will get the favor of the female, and complete the mating process with it.

After a few months of grazing, the Northern Expeditionary Army collected a large amount of cattle and sheep manure, which was used to improve the fertility of the fields along with the manure from the big business, and with this batch of natural fertilizer, more fields turned from barren to fertile.

After harvesting the wheat, the straw discarded in the field will affect the next step of cultivation, and there is no problem of air pollution in this era, so the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army set a fire and burned the waste straw to ashes, and these grass ashes became fertilizer for the field.

Tens of thousands of deniers of wheat were stored in the granary of the Northern Expeditionary Army camp, and after processing the wheat, the next step was to plant spring crops, and this time, Hua'an will plant all the fields that have been organized, of which 600 hectares of paddy fields will be planted with rice, and 800 hectares of dry fields will be planted with drought-tolerant crops such as sorghum and soybeans.

The busy farming season is fleeting, and the task of planting is more urgent, so Hua'an temporarily changed the original deployment, allowing the soldiers to work for two days and train for one day, and then change back after the busy farming.

After adjusting the deployment, the efficiency of planting was doubled at once, and the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army planted all the fields smoothly during the busy agricultural season, only waiting for the harvest after autumn.

When planting the last acre of land, Hua'an breathed a sigh of relief, this more than half a month can exhaust him, in order to encourage the enthusiasm of the soldiers to plant, Hua'an has been leading by example, personally farming, the dignified Pingbei general has become an authentic farmer.

Hua'an, who has been tired for more than half a month, naturally wants to relax, on the east side of this land of tuntian, is a mountain with a lot of trees, although the mountain is not too high, but the scenery on the mountain is quite beautiful, and there are many wild animals, it is an ideal hunting place.

Hua An was dressed in military uniform, and with dozens of generals such as Lei Storm and Zhao Wu, he rode his horse to hunt in the mountains.

After running out of the camp, the first thing to pass through the land of Tuntian, Hua'an Zema stood in a relatively high position, looking at the green rice seedlings in the distance, the mood was extremely comfortable, and the generals next to him were also happy to talk to each other about the harvest after the autumn, most of these generals were farmers, and they were experts in farming.

"Big brother, how much grain can be harvested in autumn in such a large field." Thunderstorm looked at the fields in the distance and said with emotion.

When Zhao Wu heard this, he interjected: "Last year, I only planted thirty percent of the fields and harvested tens of thousands of deniers of grain, and this year I planted all of them, it is estimated that there are at least more than a hundred thousand deniers!" ”

"A lot of fertilizer has been applied in the past few months, and the general thinks it should not be less than 200,000 deniers." A general affirmed.

"200,000 deniers is more reliable, and the last general thinks so." Several peasant generals seemed to think so.

Hua An stretched out his finger and pointed to the sky, and said indifferently: "It depends on God, if the wind and rain are smooth this year, there are no insect plagues and rat plagues, 200,000 denier will definitely not be able to run, if there is a disaster, there may be no harvest!" ”

When Wang San heard this, his brows tightened, and he said, "Big brother, if we encounter a disaster, won't we all do it in vain, and what can be done to eliminate the disaster?" ”

"Burn incense and kowtow to the Buddha and pray for good weather and good weather." A subordinate general blurted out.

"That's right! It is better to set up a Buddha statue in this tuntian, worship every day, and the Buddha may be able to manifest his spirit. Iron Bull followed.

When Hua An heard this, he smiled, and then shook his head, for these pseudo-scientific bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods, Hua An, as a descendant, would never believe it, and even a little contemptuous.