In just one morning, the number of farmers in Xiaobai Village increased to 6, plus 5 players, for a total of 11 laborers. In order to catch up with the farming, Zhan Xiaobai personally rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs, led the founding fathers of Xiaobai Village, and buried his head in the farmland area of the village to reclaim wasteland.

The expiration date of the planting is the first 5 days at the beginning of each month. The first day of the open beta was January 1st, and now it's day 2, with 3 and a half days left to reclaim the land. Once you miss the farming time, you don't regret taking the medicine.

When Zhan Xiaobai was free, he deliberately went to check the system and asked the player about the number of villages. At present, more than 1,000 small villages have been established in China, and it is estimated that another 2~3,000 will be added in the next 3 days. Those who build villages later will miss the first five days of farming in the first month, and life will be very difficult.

The competition for food in the first month will be extremely fierce. As the first village in the world, Xiaobai Village is temporarily in a limited leading position in terms of construction progress, and already has 3 thatched huts and 1 carpenter's house. Most of the small villages in the world have only 1~2 thatched houses. There are very few craftsmen like Xiaobai Village.

Now the most important task is to reclaim farmland.

Zhan Xiaobai and they have almost no contact with the farmland, and the first time they tried to reclaim the field, they were in full swing and their morale was high.

"Come on, everyone!"

"Well, I was a carpenter in the morning, and I became a farmer in the afternoon. According to the social status of scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants in ancient times, our social status has risen significantly. Ah Fei laughed at himself.

Zhan Xiaobai carried a copper knife and dug hard into the ground. The other four men were also digging with copper knives. They don't have hoes to work with.

Each of the six peasants brought a hoe of his own.

There is now only one carpenter's house in the village, and there is a lack of a blacksmith shop to make the hammers needed to make hoes. The wooden ploughs made by carpenters are only pulled by farmers. It's not very efficient to use.

One thing needs to be clarified. As soon as the player comes out, it is level 0, HP is 10, and strength is 5. As soon as an ordinary farmer comes out, it is level 10, with 100 HP and 10 strength. So, in the early days, farmers are much more powerful than players. Players level up mainly by killing beasts and working to gain experience. Farmers are upgraded mainly by farming. The player has to be raised to about level 10 to compete with the strength of the upper level 10 farmers.

Zhan Xiaobai made a bitter face, and forcefully inserted the copper knife into the soil and continued to dig. It's not easy to reclaim this work, just reclaim a piece of land, and I'm tired and panting, and my enthusiasm is gone. If it weren't for the current shortage of labor, it would not have been enough for a few of them to cultivate the fields.

"Squeak!"

With a scream, a gray shadow emerged from the earth and stood on the ridge. With a pointed head, a fat body, and small sharp claws, he glared at Zhan Xiaobai angrily.

Zhan Xiaobai was stunned, damn, what is this? Like a mouse, it's not the same.

"Mouse!"

Ah Fei was the closest to Zhan Xiaobai, he screamed in surprise, threw down the work in his hand, and threw himself at the fat thing.

"Wrong, it's a rat!" Qiushui corrected: "Also known as vole, mouse." It's different from house mice. ”

"It doesn't matter what kind of rat it is, it's a good thing to experience!"

Ah Fei pounced, and was about to raise the knife and fall.

Zhan Xiaobai smiled, how can a good thing with experience make people, he quickly cut it down with a knife.

"Squeak!"

The fat rat turned into a puddle of flesh under his bronze knife.

The system prompts: "Kill the level 0 rat to gain experience 1." ”

Zhan Xiaobai was deeply satisfied: "Yes, a vole can get 1 experience. You will be able to upgrade to a level 1 civilian at 9 points. ”

Ah Fei pounced, got up, and complained: "Big brother reacted too quickly, he was actually 0.01 seconds faster than me." I pounced. No, I have to earn my experience back. ”

The crowd laughed.

Zhan Xiaobai squatted down at the place where the vole came out, looked at it carefully, and said, "There is a vole nest here, I'm afraid it's not just a vole." Let's split up and get rid of all the voles while we work. And a little bit of experience. ”

The crowd became excited and began to look for the vole's nest.

Unexpectedly, there are really a lot of vole nests on the wasteland of the small village, and there are dozens of litters of voles on the ground of more than ten hectares. It's a feast of experience, there are at least ten voles in a litter, and each of them has been upgraded by more than 1 level. The crowd chased the vole and chopped it, and they were overjoyed.

The old village head, Li Asan, is not cultivating the land, but wandering around the village. Occasionally, when I came to the cultivated land to take a look, I was taken aback when I saw piles of dead rats, and exclaimed: "Rats, rats!" If it is not completely eradicated, I am afraid that there will be no harvest at the end of the month. My lord, please attach great importance to this and clean up all the rat plagues in the village! ”

As soon as Zhan Xiaobai heard the music, he accidentally hit and did a big business. Anyway, the five of them together can't reclaim an acre of land in a day, so they just go to exterminate voles. It's easy to live and gain experience.

"The people will listen to the order and do their best to exterminate the rats, and there will be no mistakes."

"Whoa!"

Within five meters of the village chief's administrative courtyard, craftsman area, trade area, residents' thatched hut area, cultivated land area, side corners, and fence walls, they turned the bottom to the sky, not letting go of any clues, and went all out to encircle and suppress voles. In order to compete for a rat's nest, they scramble to dig holes in the ground.

The next day, the last cub vole was taken out of a hole more than a meter deep by Zhan Xiaobai and held in his hand.

"Alas, I really can't bear to kill you, look, how small, how pitiful. But if I spare you today, I will have nothing to gain in a month. Come on, Ah Fei, put it to death by Ling Chi! ”

Zhan Xiaobai threw the little vole to Ah Fei. He had already killed the vole to the point of relent, and he didn't mind giving this little vole to Ah Fei at all.

Ah Fei burst into tears, "Big brother's conscience has been discovered", he took the little vole in surprise, and raised the knife in his hand with a "click".

"Dingbell" was upgraded, and Ah Fei became a level 2 civilian.

To kill voles to level 2, at least sixty need to be killed, and the villagers of Xiaobai Village have become experts in rodent extermination. Even Qiushui, a clean-loving beauty, has been killed to level 2, not to mention the sword tyrant and the Spring and Autumn Young Heroes. Ah Fei suffered the most, and every time he tried to grab the vole with Zhan Xiaobai, he couldn't grab it, but the level was the lowest.

By the end of the operation, Xiaobai Village had 15 farmers.

Because of the low quality of farm tools, each farmer can only reclaim 1 mu of farmland in 1 day. From yesterday to today, a total of 19 acres of land have been reclaimed.

Zhan Xiaobai often guards alone to inspect the quality of farmland, and is disappointed to find that it is all inferior farmland, with a yield of -30%. The normal yield of farmland per mu is 50 catties/1 mu, and the yield per mu of his farmland is 35 catties/mu. (Because it is January 1, the yield per mu is very low.) Converted into one year, the yield per mu is actually very high. ）

Xiliang's natural production conditions are harsh, and this is indeed the case.

During the internal test, he built a small village in the rich south of the Yangtze River, and the farmland grain yield was +30%, as high as 65 catties/mu. That's the gap. It is easy to build a village in the south of the Yangtze River to have abundant food, sufficient money, and easy to develop infantry.

Zhan Xiaobai has not considered this. But Xiliang has the advantage of Xiliang, that is, it is easy to get strategic materials - war horses. And then form a cavalry that dominates the world. The importance of horses is more than enough to offset the lack of money. And in Jiangnan, it is extremely difficult to get war horses.

If you want to compete for the world, you must not consider the momentary advantage of Jiangnan in the early days.

Zhan Xiaobai touched his nose and smiled dryly. All of this is far away, and the key now is to think about how to get grain and raise a few more farmers. Only 19 acres of land have been reclaimed now, and only 665 catties of grain can be produced after a month when the land is full.

"My lord, something is wrong." Li Asan limped and rushed in a panic.

"What's wrong?"

Zhan Xiaobai said strangely. When the sky falls, he is also on top, what is there to panic about.

Li Asan ran to him and said in a loud voice: "Wild boar, a wild boar is attacking the fence wall of the village!" ”

Zhan Xiaobai said secretly: Damn, it turned out to be "a" wild boar. I thought there were many.

"Let's go, let's see!"