Chapter Twenty-Three: The Beginning of Tuntian
Ninety percent of these soldiers are from peasant households, and no one knows how to do farm work, but there is only one thing, farm tools are not good, and the number is small.
Chen Gong looked at it and shook his head, how long do you have to do this?
For example, Huaxiong's battalion, a team of tens of thousands of people, after all, training and preparation for war came first, and 500 people were transferred to plough the land and open up the wasteland, and hoes and shovels were barely usable, but the efficiency was very low.
Especially these shovels made by the blacksmith shop, once the force is too strong, the shovel will collapse on the stone, not to mention that more than 50,000 homeless people have no tools.
Now it is still early February, and there will be more than a month to spring ploughing and sowing, Chen Gong is not full of emotion that it is difficult to start a business, and it is not so easy to do a career.
There are not so many blacksmiths in the surrounding counties, and when they are built, they will definitely delay sowing.
Chen Gong was helpless, so he turned his head and went back to the city to look for Lu Bu.
Lu Bu is very busy today, leading Wei Xu to raid his home, there is a local tyrant in Jinan County, who opens a green building and a wine shop.
Originally, Lu Bu didn't plan to touch him, but his subordinates found out that in order to let the girl pick up customers, this Qinglou was often beaten, and no less than dozens of people were killed.
Wei Xu led his troops to raid the building, but he was fiercely resisted.
Lu Bu sat on the red rabbit horse, and Wei Xu shouted loudly: "Listen to the people inside, you have been surrounded, and you are the only one who comes out to surrender by laying down your arms." ”
Suddenly, there was a cry, and Liu Heita, the owner of the Qinglou, stood on the second floor with dozens of Qinglou women.
Liu Heita was furious, holding a sharp waist knife in his hand and pressing it against a woman's neck.
"Lu Bu, you are not a thing, I just donated five hundred yuan to you a few days ago, and I also pay dozens of yuan every month, and I will copy my Qinglou as soon as I turn around."
Lu Bu laughed when he heard this: "Liu Heita, I am grateful to you for your donation." But you bully men and women, there are more than a dozen people buried in the backyard who were beaten to death by you, if you don't deal with you, how can you be worthy of the people of Qingzhou and surrender quickly. ”
"Haha, whoever dares to come in and I'll kill them."
The situation is deadlocked, if you rush forward regardless of life or death, you will definitely kill and injure many Qinglou women.
There were a lot of people watching the excitement around, and Chen Gong was in time for a stalemate when he came over.
"Lord, if we don't retreat first, the small green buildings won't be able to make big waves."
"It's not a big storm, but look at this situation on the public platform."
Lu Bu handed a stack of shapes to Chen Gong.
Among them, there are seven or eight copies, there is a Zhang Laoshi daughter, who went to the Qinglou to be a maid, only fourteen years old, but was favored by the guests and tortured to death.
In other things, most of the women deceived by Liu Heita did not obey the management and were beaten to death.
"It's supposed to be killed, but it's not good to attack now."
Lu Bu smiled: "Gongtai doesn't know the combat strength of our army yet. ”
Seeing that Lu Bu made a gesture lightly, the crossbowman hidden in front suddenly lifted, and hit Liu Heita's head, and the crossbow arrow pierced directly and fell to the ground with a bang.
Hundreds of elite soldiers rushed forward with small round shields, and quickly caught the thugs of the Qinglou clean.
Wei Xu found about 10,000 taels of gold, 5,000 or 6,000 taels of silver, and more than 10,000 copper coins, with a field yield of more than 500 acres.
Dozens of girls brushed over to thank Lu Bu, "Xie Wenhou." ”
"You're welcome, you can take your own things with you and go home."
These women were dumbfounded: "I am waiting for the women of Qinglou, where do I have a home, I am used to this business, I can't pick my shoulders, I can't lift my hands, how do I know how to make a living." ”
Lu Bu looked at Chen Gong, and Chen Gong didn't have any good way: "Just change it to an official office, the bottom line that must be kept, it is strictly forbidden to beat and hurt the woman in the Qinglou, come and go freely, and it is strictly forbidden to force." ”
The people cheered and praised Lu Bu and Chen Gong for their wisdom and decision for the people.
However, some Haoqiang who are engaged in crooked and evil businesses also have a grudge against Lu Bu.
Jinan County has launched a campaign to rectify public security, bullying men and women, and arresting dozens of usurers.
However, Lu Bu is stronger than Cao Cao, and he is not cut everywhere.
Returning to the yamen of the Thorn Mansion, Chen Gongyi arched his hand: "Lord, the situation in Tuntian is not optimistic, there is a lot of land, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion has left a lot of wasteland, but the surrounding blacksmith shops have been scavenged, and there are only more than 10,000 hoes and shovels. ”
"It doesn't matter if you miss the farming time, once the crops can't be planted, the people of Tunding will be unstable, and it will be troublesome to become the Yellow Turban Army again."
"Yes, my lord. At least 40,000 shovels and hoes are missing, and the lord is asked to find a way. ”
"It turns out that there is no way, but I have copied so much gold today, I have a way, early tomorrow morning, you bring the carriage to get it, you really can't get anything else, you can get it with a shovel and hoe."
Chen Gong was confused, and he didn't know what medicine was sold in Lu Bu's gourd.
Early the next morning, Chen Gong drove hundreds of carriages from the Tuntian camp to the warehouse next to the Assassin's Mansion to wait.
After a while, Cheng Lian led the soldiers to push open the door.
"Strategist, please, the lord has been waiting for a long time."
This yard is quite large, and the carriages are driven directly into it.
Lu Bu was holding a long-handled shovel of about 1.5 meters in front of the warehouse and was trying his hand there.
Next to it is a hoe, slightly shorter, only about one meter two.
This is exchanged in the system, and they are all outdoor shovels and hoes made of fine steel, with sharp steel mouths and cracked stones.
"Please look at the public platform, how is this shovel, I feel that it is lighter, you can try it."
Chen Gong took it in his hand, it weighed about six or seven pounds, and knocked on the head of the shovel, making a deafening sound.
"Good iron, good iron, I'm afraid this is not something that ordinary blacksmiths can build, not to mention shoveling the ground, I think you can take it and fight. The hoe is a bit heavy, and it is clearly made of iron. ”
"There are 30,000 shovels and 30,000 hoes. In addition, there is a design of a plow, you can arrange for craftsmen to build it, if you can try to buy some cattle and horses from Liaodong, Jizhou, and Yanzhou. ”
"The caravan has been dispatched, not so fast, it won't come back in a few months, and this time it won't be able to catch up."
Only then did Lu Bu understand that this was the end of the Han Dynasty, and the caravan was only seventy or eighty miles a day, and the speed of coming and going was not so fast.
Lu Bu and Chen Gong escorted tens of thousands of tools to the Tuntian Farm in the west of the city.
It's a busy place, tens of thousands of tunding, thousands of soldiers are working in their respective plots, and the simple tools can't stop their enthusiasm for work, especially these tunding who surrendered from the Yellow Turban Army, they are hungry and scared, and they work very hard.
The division of Tunding is relatively strict, with a small team of ten people, a squadron of 100 people, a large team of 1,000 people, and a thousand people in charge of a farm. There were a total of forty farms, and Chen Heng arranged to mark and mark the farm tools before distributing them.