Help people restore their shelters.

Today, there are about 1,000 people registered in Huanggang City through soup kitchens.

According to the data of the people, the permanent population of Huanggang in the past was basically 30,000 or 40,000.

Although these more than 1,000 people did not have much effect on Huanggang, even if they recovered their productivity, they could not help in a short time.

But that's just the beginning.

It is the beginning of governance.

As for craftsmen who are familiar with building houses, they are not needed at all.

In these years, the people can also take out one or two crafts.

The matter of building a house, basically everyone who has become a family knows it in their hearts, after all, it is not a difficult building to build.

After instructing the 100 soldiers to pay attention to safety and assigning special people to supervise the progress, Qi Heng returned to the north of the city.

Today, the focus of Huanggang is still on grain.

It is also something that needs to be addressed urgently.

Winter will begin in a few months.

Once winter, the air temperature is too low, and the potatoes will not sprout.

Today's conditions are not enough for winter planting.

Therefore, the first potatoes must be planted in the last few months to fill the food shortage after the winter.

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The cultivation of potatoes was not a complicated matter, and after staring at it for a few days, Qi Heng handed over the matter to Han Qin.

He oversaw the reclamation, renovation and planting of the land.

And Qi Heng himself began to wander around Huanggang looking for something.

A group of seven or eight people, led by Qi Heng, went to the mountains outside Huanggang City to look around.

Yesterday, when Qi Heng was serving porridge, he chatted with several local old people in Huanggang.

I learned a lot of information about Huanggang from their mouths, and one of them surprised Qi Heng very much.

There are iron mines in the mountains on the edge of Huanggang City!

Although Qi Heng knows that Anhui is rich in mineral resources, iron, copper and coal are available.

But I didn't think about it before.

However, the old man said that iron ore was discovered here during the Yuan Dynasty, and it was originally intended to be mined, but because the Red Turban Army made a lot of trouble, it never started.

Until now, I have forgotten about it.

This news is a very big surprise for Qi Heng.

The biggest shortcoming of the righteous army and the regular army of the Yuan Dynasty was resources.

For example, the armor and weapons of the soldiers, and so on.

The rebels generally relied on defeating the Yuan army to obtain these supplies, but once they had iron ore, it was a different matter.

They could have set up their own ironworks and then use blacksmith forging to equip their soldiers with armor, weapons, and so on.

Of course, that's not all.

There are also tilling tools for ploughing the fields, and so on.

These can help them quickly improve labor efficiency.

Since yesterday, Qi Heng has brought people out to look for it, but he has never found the iron ore that the old man said.

And the old man had only heard about it, and he didn't know the exact location.

I only know that it is in the direction of the north of the city.

Qi Heng rode on his horse and instructed the soldiers around him: "Let's go and look for it, if we find it, notify me as soon as possible, if we don't find it, we will go back to the city by ourselves after dark." ”

"Yes!"

Seeing that the people around him scattered one by one to look for it, Qi Heng got off his horse and tied the horse to the trunk of a tree on the side, and went up the mountain to look for it.

The area of the surrounding mountains is huge, and although Qi Heng also knows that this method of finding is a bit stupid, there is nothing to be done.

But it doesn't matter, when the wasteland is reclaimed in the next few days, most of the soldiers will be liberated, and when the time comes, they will all come to search the mountains, and they will always be able to find them.

Yamanaka.

Qi Heng walked among the trees, looking for the way as he walked.

According to the old man's words, although this iron mine was not developed, there were still many people who went there at that time, and the more people walked, the road would naturally be formed, and even if the weeds grew in the middle of the time, some traces could always be found.

So it's easier to find some trail marks than to look aimlessly.

From early in the morning until night was about to fall, Qi Heng didn't find anything, so he could only return to the city.

But when he walked down from the mountains and forests, and was about to lead the horse, he suddenly heard a horse cry.

At this time, the sky had not completely darkened, Qi Heng took a look from afar, and immediately saw that there were a few people looking around next to his horses, and more than a dozen people were coming from a distance.

Qi Heng, who saw this scene, immediately took off his bow and arrow from his back.

When he came to the bottom of the mountain, he put his bow and arrows on his bow and shouted to the front, "Who are you?" ”

Qi Heng's shouts alarmed them, and they immediately took out their weapons one by one.

It's just that the weapons in their hands are all the iron tools of some peasants.

Seeing this scene, Qi Heng breathed a sigh of relief.

At the very least, it can be confirmed that these people are not robbers or anything like that.

As Qi Heng kept getting closer, when they saw the bow and arrow in Qi Heng's hand, these people immediately became vigilant.

"We're just passers-by, and we don't have bad intentions."

One of them shouted at Qi Heng.

"And what are you doing with my horse?"

The man continued: "Little brother, we were just passing by, and when we saw that there were horses here, we came to have a look, and there was nothing wrong with it. ”

Qi Heng, who heard this, did not relax his vigilance, after all, there were too many of them, nearly twenty people.

"You go backwards."

Watching them retreat step by step, Qi Heng came to his horse's side, took off the horse leash, and turned over and jumped.

Then he looked at them and asked, "Where did you come from?" ”

"We fled from Huguang De'an, where the Red Turban soldiers and the Yuan army were fighting, and we heard that the Yuan army was going to slaughter the city, so we didn't dare to stay, so we fled here."

Seeing that the expression on this person's face did not seem to be fake, and the dress on his body was also very similar to that of the fleeing people, Qi Heng put away the bow and arrow in his hand.

"How's the battle going there?"

One of the refugees immediately said: "The Red Turban soldiers can't be defeated, they have been hiding in the city, the Yuan army is attacking the city everywhere, fighting everywhere, we don't know what the battle situation is." ”

Qi Heng nodded: "Are you people who are the ones who have fled?" ”

"No, there are many more, and there are thousands of them we have encountered on the road alone."

Hearing this, Qi Heng's heart moved.

"Can you find them, then?"

The refugees looked left and right and said, "Yes! ”

"Okay."

"From here to the south, there is a city called Huanggang, which is now under my rule. Go and dwell in the city today, or go and seek out those who have fled like you, and bring one of them with you, and you may be rewarded with a measure of food, and ten men will be a tire. ”

"Take this as an example, the more people you bring, the more prizes you get, and I will order people to register in the city, and as long as they are registered, they can receive food."

"In addition, no matter where you come from, when you arrive in Huanggang, I will provide you with shelter."