Wang Zhaojing has not returned to the city, just stayed in Hejiazhuang, Ruhui has already bought a house in Hejiazhuang, and the good friends in the city have also moved over, Jixiang has also come to Hejiazhuang for the New Year, these three people have always been on Hejiazhuang's side, Chen Huang's father Chen Wu is a little stubborn, and he has to stay in the city to be the head of this idle hunt, so he will also go into the city during the New Year, and he can only rush back on the fifth day of the first month, and in these few days, the first regiment will be temporarily managed by Zhao Jin.

"Brother Jin, you are really hard." This is Mu Shulan's words, seeing Zhao Jin's situation in Xuzhou, and then seeing Zhao Jin's busyness, anyone will have such feelings.

On the morning of the fifth day of the new year, Zhao Jin took a Yu brother and dozens of cavalry guards to the edge of the Yellow River, which was in full swing on the north and south banks of the Yellow River, but this excitement was not because of the market and play in the first month, but the work of the people and the homeless, everyone was digging mud and piling earth dams, and building water conservancy.

Although there is Zhao Ziying, Xuzhou's annual situation is quite good, but not full, in the spring there are still a lot of people, not to mention because of Liao, as well as from all over the displaced people and disaster victims, at this time in previous years, these people either ran to the south, or have frozen and starved to death, Zhao Ziying is to these people as much as possible, but Zhao Ziying is not plain mercy, want to eat Zhao Ziying's sorghum and brown rice bran, you need to pay a certain amount of labor, how much to eat every day, Manor farmers with a certain amount of rations can also participate, so they can save more grain for export and save more.

River mud is a good fertilizer for fertile fields, winter is a good time to dig and repair ditches, and build an earthen dam to do a cofferdam is also one of the purposes, after all, Xuzhou is close to the Yellow River, the Yellow River flood is one of the most terrible disasters in this era, it is better to be on guard in advance than to temporarily hold Buddha's feet.

Excavation of river mud, excavation and repair of ditches, construction of dams and cofferdams, each of which represents a huge amount of earthwork and heavy labor, after a hard day, the labor involved is exhausted at night, but everyone's enthusiasm for participation is still very high, because they can eat enough, everyone is in full swing, many people have been very worried in their hearts, for fear that after these jobs are over, there will be no place to eat but starvation.

However, this water conservancy project is very large, it is estimated that the Yellow River will not be completed before the enlightenment, and the foreman in charge and the like have promises to work here, and the table is good, and there will be arrangements for the beginning of spring, and when the time comes, we will either arrange for everyone to open up the wasteland, or arrange to go to the manor to farm, and there will always be a place to eat.

"Not surprisingly, this year's harvest is even better than last year's, not only Xuzhou, as long as we grasp the stable territory, are doing such things, and can attract displaced people, and can stabilize the minds of the villagers, there is a life, there is food, there will not be so many cranky thoughts." Zhao Jin and a few people rode on horses to watch, and the family members around them were heavily guarded on horseback, and Ruhui was quite excited to point out and explain.

Everyone has a smile on their faces, this winter is busy, it is naturally Zhao Jin's idea, everyone can see all kinds of benefits from it, just now Ruhui only said what he could say, and there are some things that everyone understands.

In the past few years, the Zhuang Ding in the village has been living a stable life, and he has lived a peaceful life, and some people have begun to have other thoughts, they think very simply, they feel that they are too safe and stable everywhere in the manor, and it is also a peaceful season outside, so what is this Zhao Lao encircling everyone and not letting him go, is it difficult to let everyone make cattle and horses for him for the rest of his life?

With this thought, it is natural to go back to the hometown to see, these Zhuang Ding have been in the system of Zhao Ziying for a long time, and they are also very familiar with the rules here, and now there are not many children, and there is no burden for young and strong men and women, they can easily escape, but Liao Yu urged them to scrape, out of Xuzhou, this circle, it is not a peaceful paradise.

Some people were lucky and were caught back by the Yellow River, but the more they felt that they had been deceived, and some people were unlucky and ran out of the range of the Zhao Ziying, and then no matter what they saw and what happened, whether they regretted it or not, they couldn't come back, only a few people ran back, and their families and companions often didn't come back with them.

Zhao Ziying was very annoyed by these things, and the few people who ran back preached in various manors, and they didn't need to add fuel and vinegar, just tell their true experiences, and what they saw and heard was enough to ⊥shock others.

But it was not enough to do this, for the sake of a better harvest, for a better estate, for better fortifications and camps, the homeless people in the various estates were passive, carrying out all kinds of labor, so that they had no chance to escape, no time and energy to think nonsense.

Yes, but the foremen are all family members or group trainees, and they use what they have learned in training to manage the labor, and in this work, the laborers have the most basic organization and basic cooperation, and if some of them are selected as group drills or even become family members in the future, the acceptance of those training will be much higher.

In addition to the role of their own Zhuang Ding, these heavy labor is also absorbing the displaced refugees who have entered Xuzhou, and those who can participate in this labor and persist must be the young and strong people with the best physical qualities, they are the most beneficial, to put it cruelly, under the cold and hunger, the people who are not strong enough have been eliminated.

There are also lucky people among the foreign refugees, if you have a skill, no matter what it is, it will ensure that you will not starve to death, you can use your skill in exchange for the survival of the whole family, in addition, literacy is also lucky, but don't think that Zhao Ziying will pay attention to what scholars, if you want to live, you must learn to keep accounts and do things, the things on the book are completely useless, what you want to learn is the ability of the officials in the yamen to do things and the shopkeeper in the business house, these two sound very decent, but at the beginning, you start with the apprentice, In addition, the people who get free relief are healthy children, whether it is a boy or a girl, this Zhao Zi camp will take the initiative to take care of and help, if the parents agree to sell themselves to the Zhao family, even if they are not orphans, they will also get a certain subsidy.

Some people said quite harshly, this is Zhao Jin himself has children, so there is not much kindness left, if he goes to buy and sell human beings, the sky is really going to send a thunder to kill him, however, Zhao Jin didn't even take this into account, for him, children are a blank sheet of paper, can cultivate subordinates who are loyal to themselves and master their own skills.

Finally, these labors are also to consume the grain that is about to mold in the various warehouses, exchange grain for wine, and cultivate the manor, so that Zhao Ziying has accumulated a large amount of grain, although Xuzhou is very suitable for storing grain, but after all, it can't be too long, rather than letting the grain mold, it is better to play a greater role.

However, no matter how mean people are, they must admit the efficiency of the Zhao Ziying project in winter, and the government of the four counties of Xuzhou has not organized similar activities, but they are all anticlimactic, and they have all ended up without a problem, and even become a means for officials to collude to gain benefits and extort the people, but the work organized by Zhao Ziying is several times or even ten times more efficient and effective than the government organization.

Many people inside and outside Xuzhou never even thought they could do this, which made them have a deeper understanding of Zhao Jin.

In addition to the more efficient deployment of civil power, many people did not notice that a large number of iron tools were put into use, without the tools at hand, digging and dredging is not so easy, and there are a large number of cattle carts are put into these labor, which further improves efficiency, and the construction of ditches is not only to dig ditches, but also to know how to divide the water and release the sluice, otherwise the ditches are easy to be abolished, and they can not play their due role, in order to do the best, Zhao Ziying specially invited water conservancy craftsmen in Qingjiangpu, these people are also in the transportation system, Specially designed to repair the canal, it is also sad to say, in addition to the craftsmen who understand water conservancy in the Ming Dynasty today, the rest of the irrigation ditches and so on are only passed down by experience, and have become extremely rough, and they eat everywhere.

Even the Zhao Ziying stationed in Xuzhou and the group training also participated in the winter labor, which was directly regarded as a kind of training, but they did not participate in the whole day, but the rotation of each team and each company, although the Zhao Ziying family and the group training in the life for a short time, but let the other farmers and homeless people not low energy, even into the master's hands with knives and horseback have participated, everyone in this work is not reconciled.

Zhao Jin and his party ran to the earthen dam by the Yellow River, looking at the busy crowd below, the people of Yu Huo looked up at Zhao Jin's team in awe, knowing that they were the masters of Xuzhou, but they didn't expect Zhao Jin and the people around them to look at the busy crowd below with complicated eyes.

"Big brother, little brother looked at the people below, I only felt full of pride, I can use the people's power to this point, what can't we do in Zhao Ziying?" Wang Zhaojing pointed with a horsewhip and said.

Not only Wang Zhaojing thought so, but everyone who looked down on this qiē on the earthen dam thought so, looking at the dense crowd below, busy working in an orderly and formation, watching the various projects along the Yellow River gradually complete, and everyone had pride and ambition in their hearts.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the Xu family sent the first batch of fifteen bird guns, and the bird guns were the first to be sent to Zhao Jin's side, with curved handles, slender guns, bird beak pliers, triggers, medicine pools and other parts are very complete, and the lead and gunpowder and even lead are also completely purchased, after all, the Xu family has been using this bird gun for a long time.

People inside and outside the Zhao Zi camp know Zhao Jin's habits, or they have all heard of this deed, Jin Ye is not very old, but he is very calm, and the only few gaffes are related to this firearm, today sent fifteen at once, Zhao Jin came to the camp of the Xueding team early, and everyone didn't think there was anything unusual.

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