Chapter 18: Preparations for War
Silent, silent, the two silent old men seemed to put huge pressure on Liu Feng, making him even tremble a little.
As a modern person, Liu Feng does not understand the meaning of his hometown to these people. In ancient times, hometown had a special meaning for people, and the so-called seeking roots and asking ancestors and returning to their hometown was the case. For ordinary people, if there is really no way, no one will leave their hometown without permission. And more importantly, even if he is an official outside and dies in a foreign country, he will ask his descendants to help him return to his hometown for burial.
All three villages have been here for hundreds of years, and if they are not really home, this is the home of those who were born and raised in Sri Lanka when they can't find their way back. Now Liu Feng wants to merge the three villages, this is definitely not to merge his own villages, it is undoubtedly to ask them to give up their own villages, however, how can they be reluctant?
After a long time, the two seemed to have an answer, and asked Liu Fengdao: "I don't know what detailed arrangements Village Chief Liu has?" ”
"Now that all three villages are facing the threat of bandits, and we have too few people to resist even one of the cottages, I want to merge the three villages together to reduce the range of enemies. Perhaps together we can get through this. Liu Feng explained.
"And I want to merge the two villages into Baijia Village, the reason why this is so is that Baijia Village has been upgraded to an intermediate village, which can fully accommodate so many people; The second is that Baijia Village, after fighting with the bandits, has a certain understanding of the surrounding situation and has some experience in resisting the bandits, and we are not familiar with anything here; In the end, after the three families were merged, with the addition of these manpower, although most of them were old people and women, they could help a little after all, so that we could send some strong men to participate in training and defend the village. ”
After Liu Feng finished speaking, seeing that the two old men were still silent, he asked, "I don't know if you two still have any doubts?" ”
"There is no doubt, our two villages have also reached the point of exhaustion, otherwise, there will only be destruction. It's just that it's hard to leave the homeland, and I'm a little reluctant. Wang Hua sighed.
Liu Feng was silent, he also knew that it was difficult for these people to leave their homeland, but he didn't have any good methods. The strength of the bandit is seen in the eyes of everyone, if he really cares about it, he is afraid that if he comes back after a while, these two villages will be gone. And at that time, it was hard to say whether his village was still there.
"Don't worry, we are only a temporary retreat, and I promise that one day, we will come back and build Mengjia Village and Wangjia Village again. I believe that Wangjia Village and Mengjia Village at that time will be even stronger than now. Liu Feng said categorically, and he also said to himself in his heart that he must fulfill his promise.
"Alright then, without further ado, we'll go and arrange it now, and we'll go to Baijia Village tomorrow." The two old men finally made up their minds to join the village and fight against the bandits.
It was already dark, and Meng Fang went to the village to make arrangements, and after Liu Feng explained some things to Zhou Yi, he instructed him to take someone to escort Wang Hua back to Wangjia Village, and he took Zhang Kui and his party to Baijia Village quickly. He had to arrange for Bai Wen to prepare for tomorrow's answer.
Bai Wen was shocked when he heard that Liu Feng had persuaded the second village to move here, and admired the young village chief. You must know that when the ancestors of the three surnames came here, they were all arrogant and arrogant, and no one was convinced by anyone, so they built a village separately. Unexpectedly, the young village chief in front of him could persuade the other two villages in just one day.
Bai Wen went to arrange tomorrow's affairs, and Liu Feng also checked the resources in his hands intensively to prepare for the upcoming war.
There are now more than 110 people in Baijia Village, and after being upgraded to an intermediate village, the number of displaced people attracted every day has increased. After the arrival of people from Mengjia Village and Wangjia Village, about 10 people can be further transferred to training. It's just that in this way, the labor force in the village is seriously insufficient, and the special talents who are left to produce are all old people and women, which is extremely unfavorable to the development of the village.
But this is also something that can't be helped, if you can't even pass this level, how can you talk about development? Liu Feng has already made up his mind to send another 10 people to join the Xiangyong training.
All the buildings that can be built at this stage have already been built. Lumberyards, quarries, mining sites, and so on are already in operation, but the difference is that there are fewer people. Those who have the ability to work are not idle, they are all helping.
In terms of weapons, the blacksmith shop already has three junior blacksmiths, as well as two apprentices, and these days of weapon building and war captures are enough to support the rest of the war. However, none of the three blacksmiths could craft bows and arrows, which greatly limited the process of equipping this weapon of war. Fortunately, iron arrows could be crafted, and with the shafts of the carpenter's workshop, some arrows were made, which could be used for the more than a dozen bows and arrows that were captured.
The quality of the carpentry room's balsa shield has also been greatly improved, not just a bare wooden shield, but it is covered with animal skin, becoming a better defensive leather shield, these days relying on the harvest of the villagers to clean up the monsters, the animal skin is more, and the animal skin shield is enough for the next equipment, although it is all inferior equipment.
The tailor shop already has two rooms, one of which is a mid-level building, which was opened by Zhou Yi's mother. She is a senior tailor, and she could have opened a senior tailor shop directly, but now the conditions in Baijia Village do not allow it, so she has to open the intermediate level first, and then upgrade it. With the large amount of cleaning up these days, there are more animal skins, and the tailor shop is no longer just making the previous cloth armor, but making more advanced leather armor, such as deerskin armor, wolf skin armor, cowhide armor, etc., with stronger defense. Not only that, but fur hats were also made to strengthen the defense of the head. As for the iron armor and iron helmet, the current Baijia Village does not have the strength to manufacture it.
There are only dozens of people, the equipment is also available, and the training is also being carried out step by step, and what is still missing is the skills. Liu Feng has been busy these days, and he has almost used several skill books, leaving only one Lianzhu Arrow skill book. This skill requires bow and arrow mastery to learn, but there is no suitable candidate in Baijia Village right now. I don't know how Zhang Kui's guy mixed up before, as a hunter, he didn't know how to shoot arrows, so he knew that he was obscene in creating traps.
In terms of funds, there are more than 110 gold, hundreds of silver, and thousands of copper, which is a huge amount of money for players at this stage, but what makes Liu Feng depressed is that there is nowhere to spend this money. Except for the construction of some buildings, the funds paid to the system and the payment of wages, there is no longer a channel for the flow of funds. This is also because Baijia Village is too closed, Liu Feng decided to wait for the war to end and carry out reforms, and the economy without a market cannot prosper.
The grain is enough to last for a while, and when the sowing season arrives and the large amount of arable land that has been opened up now can be planted, there will be no need to worry about food again.
The hospital also has two doctors on staff, and a medicine garden has been initially established in the village to grow medicinal herbs, and for some injured people, there are enough medicinal materials to heal, and there are no longer worries during the war.
Now he still has taverns, shipyards that have not been built, and a few special drawings, all of which can only be built if the territory has developed to a certain extent. Liu Feng now only prays for a few more special professional talents in Mengjia Village and Wangjia Village, after all, it is a fait accompli that they have no labor force. Liu Feng also hoped that Wang Ying, a young man who could fight more than a dozen bandits alone, would be able to give some strength and add some strength to the village.
The next day, when it was close to noon, Liu Feng finally saw the people from the two villages coming with his family, so he hurriedly took Bai Wen to greet him.
"Village Chief Liu, both of our villages have come to join you." Wang Hua looked at Liu Fengdao.
"Welcome everyone, rest assured, that is, when you enter my village, you are a family, and I will treat everyone equally." Liu Feng said happily.
Bai Wen obviously knew the two village chiefs as well, and happily stepped forward to greet them, followed by some emotion, and then led everyone into the village to arrange accommodation.
Originally, although the villagers of Baijia Village were all old and weak, women and children, many of them also came from the two villages, and they were all very happy to suddenly see so many people coming, including acquaintances and relatives.
"Two village chiefs, I don't know if the villagers you brought have any special occupations, please tell me, and I can arrange it as needed."
"The village chief is polite, now that it has been merged, there is only one village chief, just call us by name." Meng Fang said, and then said a few talents in special occupations, Bai Wen hurriedly wrote them down one by one, ready to arrange work. Wang Hua also said that there are several special talents, especially his grandson, who is a military general.
Don't look at these three villages to look dilapidated, but there are a lot of talents. Also, if you have been isolated from the world for hundreds of years, how can you survive here without some special skills.
What especially makes Liu Feng happy is that there is a senior blacksmith in Mengjia Village, who can make bows and arrows, but unfortunately this old man broke his arm because he was hunting when he was young, so he couldn't join the road out of the mountain, although he was a senior blacksmith, he couldn't handle it himself, but fortunately, Liu Feng learned that under his guidance, the blacksmith shop was finally able to create a short bow.
Among the nearly 50 people in the two villages, nearly 20 are professional talents, such as chefs and tailors.
"I didn't expect there to be no winemaker!" After listening to the introduction of the two, Liu Feng was a little pity.
"Does the village chief need a brewer?" Hearing this, Meng Fang asked.
"Yes, I have a tavern building blueprint here, and the secret recipe for making famous wine, but I can't find the right person to run it. You know, once the tavern is built, the number of heroes in the past will increase, and if one or two remain, it will greatly increase the strength of the village. Even if you take a step back, if you can't recruit heroes, you can increase the income of the village. Liu Feng sighed.
"That being the case, I'm willing to run a tavern for the village chief." Meng said to Liu Feng.
"You're a winemaker?" Liu Feng was a little surprised.
"Yes, I was a drinker since I was a child, and the village was more affluent at that time, so I had the opportunity to make my own wine. It is also because of winemaking and negligence in martial arts training that his own strength is low, so he did not go out to explore the road with everyone back then, until today. In recent years, the village has been depressed, and there is no leisure time and no extra materials to make wine, and now he is just a senior winemaker. Meng Fang said.
"That's great, I'll make arrangements for the tavern to be built immediately. Also, I decided to give this tavern to Meng Lao. Liu Feng said happily.
"That's not necessary, as long as the village chief can meet my needs for winemaking, I don't want anything else." Meng Fang said.
"How can this be done, Meng Lao's move is undoubtedly a relief for me, how can I not want anything? In this way, it is considered our cooperation, you only need to make wine, and the operation will be handed over to the people arranged by me, and the income will be divided into five or five accounts, what do you think? Liu Feng said.
What else did the Mongolian side want to say, Wang Hua interrupted him and said, "Since the village chief has this good intention, the Mongolian side should stop refusing it." ”
Meng Fang nodded in agreement.
Liu Feng turned to Wang Hua again and said, "I don't know what kind of occupation Wang Lao has?" His voice was full of excitement, eager for Wang Hua to surprise him.
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