After arranging the matter of plowing the fields, Liu An went to see the weak victims such as Gao Sheng, and when he saw that they had recovered their complexion, he was relieved.

When several people saw Liu An coming, they were all grateful to Dade, and even asked Liu An to let them work now to repay Liu An, but Liu An did not allow it, so a few people knelt down and cried and said that they did not dare to continue to enjoy the food they had earned for nothing, and the rest of the people, including Gao Sheng, also knelt down and asked Liu An to arrange things for them.

Liu An was helpless, so he asked a few people except Gao Sheng to help feed the animals.

As for Gao Sheng, Liu An asked him to follow him to the outside of the village to see the work situation outside.

After Liu An arranged the farming affairs, Feng Yan and the others immediately organized people to come over to carry the fertilizer, sprinkle the fertilizer into the field, and at the same time find someone to carry water to irrigate the field after the fertilizer was spread.

Liu An noticed that almost everyone in the field had a tool, which should have been purchased by Feng Yan and Qu Ze.

Liu An had already said that there was no need to tell him everything, he believed that the dead soldiers under his command would not waste their money for no reason.

Except, of course, those who commit stupidity.

But with an IQ of only 14 points like Chen Zhao, Liu An will never give him the right to act independently.

The construction of the exterior walls and new houses was also carried out in an orderly manner under the command of Wang Zhi, but as the number of Zhuang people increased, it was clear that the craftsmen who had been working there were no longer enough.

Wang Zhi took matters into his own hands and went to the city to hire 30 craftsmen, who were 15 yuan a day and took care of food like those craftsmen before.

Stepping over the earthen wall under construction, Liu An saw Liu Ming leading some people to clean up the newly bought fields.

Liu An asked: "Deran, where are the newly purchased 600 acres of land distributed?" ”

"Uncle Hui, all of them are distributed on the south side of the old field, because the east and north sides of the old field are roads, and the west side is mountainous, so Ming chose the wasteland on the south side."

"Hmmm! Very good! Liu An praised.

Walking south along the wasteland for a while, Liu An roughly asked the boundary of Xintian, not only all of them are on the south side of Jiutian, but it is also a relatively regular square, so if it is a wall, it only needs to be surrounded on three sides, and the northernmost side can directly use the wall of Jiutian, and then open a few doors to make the two places communicate.

Thinking of this, Liu An said to Liu Ming: "Deran, you arrange for someone to give priority to clearing out 50 acres of barren land, and then notify Wang Zhi and ask him to fence the fields in the north and the south along the boundaries of the fields." ”

"No!" Liu Ming left with his hands.

Liu An returned to the manor and asked Gao Sheng to find Qu Ze, while he went into an empty room and extracted 50 portions of high-grade fertilizer and 200 kilograms of corn.

The corn was divided into four large bags and packed in sacks, and Liu An cut it with his sword to look at it, and it was indeed all untreated corn kernels, without any traces of soaking in the medicine.

However, now that there is still vacant land, and it happens that corn can be planted at this time, Liu An plans to plant these idle corn first, even if the yield will be reduced, it is better than empty land.

After Gao Sheng brought Qu Ze, Liu An asked Qu Ze to wait for Nantian to be cleaned up, and then arranged for someone to give priority to trimming 50 acres of land and planting these corns.

Then Liu An asked Qu Ze again: "How much money is still in the village now?" ”

Since Liu Bei left, Liu An handed over financial management to Qu Ze.

Qu Ze replied: "There are still 820,000 yuan." ”

"820,000 ......" Liu An didn't expect this money to be spent so much, he remembered that he had just taken 1.4 million from himself more than ten days ago to make up for the village, plus there was a lot of money left over from the village to buy things before, but he didn't expect that it had only been more than ten days, and it was already halfway down.

Liu An turned his head and asked Gao Sheng to inform Chen Zhao and Guo Hai to go to the place where he hid the money and take two million yuan to give to Qu Ze.

Liu An hid his money in an extremely secret place, and only told Chen Zhao and Guo Hai, and gave a gag order to the two.

Both of them were dead soldiers, and there was no need to worry about their guards stealing from each other.

After returning from Zhongshan, Liu An still had 2.17 million left in his hands, and he left 170,000 to be enough for the time being.

Then Liu An went to Qu Ze and instructed: "After Chen Zhao hands over the money to you, I will go and buy all the grain from the grain shop in Fangcheng, Linxian County, and buy it until the money is spent." If there is still money left over after buying, they will search the food in the nearby cities and shops, and try to buy as much food as possible at the lowest price. ”

"Now that there is enough food in the village, I wonder why the owner of the village is in such a hurry to buy food?" Qu Ze asked puzzled.

"I have a hunch that there will be a drought this year, and grain prices will definitely rise wildly, so it is better to stock up on grain as soon as possible."

Liu An remembers the drought in the first two years of the Yellow Turban Rebellion clearly, this year's drought, and next year's drought will be a big drought, so many people starve to death, and in the face of the drought, Liu Hong not only did not reduce taxes, but intensified.

The Yellow Turban Uprising was able to sweep through the prefectures and counties of Dahan in an instant, and it was absolutely inseparable from this disaster and Liu Hong's policies.

Qu Ze was still not at ease, and asked Liu An again: "If the court asks, how should I deal with it?" ”

"Do your best, and if anyone gets in the way, stop at the right time."

"No!" Qu Ze retreated and went to arrange what Liu An had ordered.

After arranging everything, Liu An said to Gao Sheng, who came back: "Your body has not recovered yet, and I just want to learn martial arts, are you willing to teach me these days?" ”

Gao Sheng was shocked when he heard this, claiming that he was not good at learning and was not worthy of teaching Liu An, and only after Liu An's repeated insistence did he agree to do his best to guide Liu An.

In the next few days, Liu An learned martial arts in the manor.

Gao Sheng is not very proficient in swordsmanship, he is more accustomed to using knives and spears, and he is also very good at fighting on horseback, Liu An found a carpenter to build two wooden knives and wooden spears, and Gao Sheng learned the art of swords and spears.

Five days later, Gao Sheng's body basically recovered, and Liu An extracted the 30 Guardian Swords from his inventory.

Although this guardian sword is far inferior to the previous sword, it is similar to the novice sword on Liu An's body, and even more refined.

After that, Liu An selected 29 young men with a force value of more than 30, and handed over the swords to Gao Sheng and these 29 people to form the second manor armament, which Liu An called the escort team.

He also ordered Gao Sheng and Zuo to drill the convoy and patrol every morning and evening.

Liu An also asked children over the age of 8 in the village to participate in daily morning and evening exercises, and if they were in time, Liu An himself would practice together.

In five days, Qu Ze bought 5,000 stone of rice at the Zhenjia grain shop, all at the price of 180 yuan a stone, and then bought more shopkeepers, but said that there was no rice to buy in the grain shop.

Later, Qu Ze bought 2,000 stones, 3,000 stones, and 3,000 stones of rice at the prices of 220 yuan, 230 yuan, and 240 yuan per stone in Zhuoxian County and nearby counties such as Fangcheng and Liangxiang.

It spent 2.75 million yuan to purchase a total of 13,000 stone of grain, which was enough for Liu Anzhuang's more than 1,400 people to eat for nine months.

In this way, even if he can't buy grain later, Liu An can survive until the crops are harvested later.

However, since Liu An ordered those who came to the disaster victims not to refuse, several or dozens of disaster victims came to the village every day to ask for take-in, although Liu An did not refuse to come, but everyone he carefully examined, and all those with bad intentions and bad intentions refused to take them in.

Therefore, the matter of stockpiling grain cannot be stopped.

It's just that there is only 70,000 money left in the manor, and he only has 170,000 yuan in his hand, and he still has to keep his life and the manor's expenses, but for the time being, he can't use it to buy grain.

I can only wait for Liu Bei's auction to end and think about buying grain after I get the money.