Xinye County Ling's surname is Wang, called Wang Yi, a native of Jizhou, originally a descendant of the party, after Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the party's power fell apart, and his hometown was in chaos, so he came to Jingzhou to join Liu Biao.

Knowing that a large number of Deng's children were returning to their hometowns, and Liu Biao's order, Wang Yi did not dare to slack off and went out of the city to greet him.

Liu Xian took Deng Mao, Deng Hong, Deng Zhao, Shen Zhen and others to meet him, the villagers stayed outside the city first, and the group entered Xinye County and went to the county mansion to discuss.

Shen Chen also followed the adults in, and when he arrived at the county office, there were already people waiting inside, it was an old man who looked fifty or sixty years old, Wang Yi introduced: "This is the current villager of the Xinye Deng family, named Deng Qi. ”

"I'm Deng Mao."

"Deng Hong."

"Deng Zhao."

Several people saluted each other.

Deng Qi was still holding several rolls of bamboo slips in his arms, and said to them: "Please also meet the genealogy." ”

Deng Mao beckoned, and behind him, Deng Zhao also took the bamboo slip he was holding in his arms.

The two sat down on the table and began to compare the bamboo slips between each other.

After a while, the genealogy was compared, and Deng Qi said with a smile: "It turned out to be a few disciples." ”

It has been confirmed that Deng Qi's grandfather and Deng Mao's grandfather are brothers, and both of them are the sons of Yehou Deng Guangzong.

Deng Mao's grandfather moved to Xuzhou, while Deng Qi's grandfather went south to Yicheng, and Deng Qi's father's generation returned to Nanyang.

Therefore, Deng Qi and Deng Mao should be regarded as cousins and brothers.

Deng Mao smiled bitterly: "The world is difficult, Xuzhou is already a scorched earth, we have to flee back to Nanyang with my family, and I hope to be taken in by my brother." ”

Deng Qi said with a smile: "They are all their own brothers, so they naturally have to help each other." Nanyang now lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of land, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the hometown has been dilapidated, there are very few Dingkou, there are barren fields everywhere, re-cultivated, and you can live again. ”

"Thank you, brother."

When Deng Mao heard the news, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, the only thing he was worried about was that his hometown father and elders could not tolerate them, but fortunately, now that there is war and countless wasted land, there is no need to consider the problem of habitat.

Wang Yi pondered: "We have wasteland everywhere in Xinye now, and the better place is the area around Shahe, which can accommodate more than 1,000 of you, so let's settle the village in Shahe." ”

"Thank you, county."

Deng Mao thanked Wang Yi again.

After finalizing the place, Wang Yi and Deng Qi personally took them there.

The elders of Huangmenting Township set off again, the Shahe River is the river between the water and the water, running through the two places, in addition to the Shahe River, there are several rivers such as the Li River and the Tangzi River.

The Nanyang Basin is about the same size as the Guanzhong Basin, with a population of more than 2 million during the Hedi period, accounting for two-fifths of the total population of Jingzhou at that time.

But since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Nanyang Basin has suffered many disasters, coupled with Yuan Shu's early entrenchment here, he did not cultivate the law, to plunder as capital, insatiable extravagance, the people suffered from his scourge, Nanyang gradually withered.

However, in the past two years, Yuan Shu was defeated by Liu Biao and Cao Cao one after another, and had to retreat to Huainan, the situation in Nanyang is much better, and now the population is still one million, which is the source of food and Dingkou that Liu Biao values very much.

Therefore, he arranged a lot of soldiers and horses in Nanyang, such as Wen Ping is now guarding Wancheng, Cai Mao, the Taishou of Nanjun and the general of Zhennan, is stationed in Xiangyang, and Liu Biao's nephew Zhang Yun is stationed in Fancheng.

In addition to these main forces to resist the north, there are also some other armed forces, such as Gan Ning is also here at this time, with 800 parts, as well as Huo Jun's brother Huo Du, there are also hundreds of people, and others such as Shen Mi, Lou Fa and the like, more than ten large and small forces.

Even to a certain extent, the more than 200 clans guarding the Huangmen Pavilion can be regarded as an armed force.

Shen Chen followed the villagers to the resettlement site, and saw that the Nanyang Basin wilderness was endless, overgrown with weeds, and the forests in the distance covered the sky and the sun, although the Shahe River was not a big river, but it was a river between the Bai River and the Tang River in later generations, which was more than enough to irrigate the farmland.

The villagers moved here, cut down trees again, built houses, and reclaimed the land.

After moving to Nanyang, the first meeting of the elders of Huangmenting Township was held at the foot of a small hill in the northeast of the Shahe River, where the trees were dense and overgrown with weeds, and it was the early winter, although it had not yet snowed, the weather was already cold.

Deng Zhao called a few wrestlers, temporarily cut down some trees, and built a shack.

Deng Mao, Deng Hong and other brothers, plus the two clan elders of the Shen family, and Shen Chen, a total of eight people, everyone sat in columns, their faces were very serious.

There were a lot of contents in this meeting, and there were three main ones, one was to determine Shen Chen's command dominance, the second was to plan for the new rural settlement in Huangmenting, and the third was the issue of the future development of the clan.

At the meeting, Deng Mao was the first to speak: "Although Ah Chen is a foreign surname, the two clans of Deng Shen have always advanced and retreated together, and this time we were able to move back to the ancestral land smoothly, Ah Chen has made great contributions, and I support Ah Chen's decision on clan affairs in the future." ”

Deng Hong nodded and said: "Ah Chen is very smart, and this time I also succeeded in Jingzhou, and I agree." ”

"I'm fine."

"Although Ah Chen is not very old, he has a calm personality, and if he is there, it should be fine."

"Then it's decided, Ah Chen, what do you think?"

Several clan elders have no opinion.

Since the beginning of this year, Shen Chen has been preaching about the relocation in the township pavilion, and the villagers didn't care about it at that time, but it didn't take long for everything he said to come true.

After Cao Cao slaughtered Xuzhou, the villagers felt very afraid, and it was through this incident that Shen Chen's weight in speaking among the clan gradually increased, and everyone valued it.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Chen planned the migration route, trained the soldiers in the clan, and carried out a land transaction with the wealthy Mizhu of Xuzhou, and a series of things were done in an orderly manner, so he was gradually convinced by the villagers.

And unlike the villagers, Shen Chen is smart and can lead them to survive in troubled times.

Deng Mao, Deng Hong and others considered the future development of the clan.

As descendants of the Deng family, their horizons are naturally much broader than those of ordinary villagers. It is clear that in such a world, if you can't have a certain social status, or hold an official position, and control power, then you will be slaughtered like a pig and a dog.

Just like Xuzhou, Cao Cao obviously sought revenge from Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, but Tao Qian had 10,000 soldiers and horses to garrison in the city, and Cao Cao couldn't attack it, so he took the people of the countryside and counties out of anger.

If it weren't for Shen Chen, maybe the current Huangmen Pavilion would already be full of corpses and bones.

So after this happened, Deng Mao and the others had to think, what if they could avoid such a situation?

Naturally, strength is needed.

They don't have the strength, so let a strong person lead them.

Shen Chen is the best choice.

First, he is a relative of the clan, and second, his future is limitless.

Therefore, at this time, it was just right to determine Shen Chen's dominant position, so as to bind him to the clan.

"Thank you uncles for your approval, although I don't feel that I am qualified to be the head of the clan, but time is pressing, and many things must be done."

Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "The top priority now is to build the village and reclaim the fields, so I will temporarily decide the major affairs of the clan." As for the convenience of farming, you clan elders are more familiar than me, so I don't participate too much, but the specific planning of the village is implemented by me, what do you think of your uncles? ”

Deng Mao said: "Ah Chen, you can make a decision." ”

"Okay."

Shen Chen nodded and said, "In the past two days, everyone has cut down trees and built shacks to live in, and I will take advantage of this time to check the surrounding terrain first, and then design and build." ”

The matter was decided first, and in the next two days, Shen Chen began his road of surveying, looking for a suitable place to live in the surrounding several square kilometers.

The place that Wang Yi chose for them is located in the north of the Shahe River, and the south is the Shahe River, which is a small and medium-sized river with a width of seventeen or eighteen zhang, and the river is quite rich in water resources, the deepest part is about two or three zhang, and there are large tracts of land on both banks.

There is a mountain forest in the northeast, which is said to be a mountain, but in fact it is a hill, and the highest place is only more than 20 zhang, and the small slopes of seven or eight zhang abound, among which the trees are clustered, and there are a large number of animals inhabiting.

To the north, northwest, west, and southwest are plains with lush forest vegetation, and it is said that a little west was originally a village, which was ruined during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

After a few days of investigation, Shen Chen finally planned to settle the village on the north bank of the Shahe River, about 200 meters away from the river.

At the same time, a large number of fields were cultivated on the south bank and on the outskirts of the village.

The reason for this design was that Shen Chen wanted to dig a tunnel, and the soil near the river was too wet to be suitable for excavation, so he moved the village away from the river.

The problem of water is also simple, just build a canal.

And just near here is the narrowest part of the Shahe River, only seven or eight zhang, and a bridge can be built, so that the fields on the north and south banks can be used uniformly.

To the east of the village was that hill, and Shen Chen also planned to carry out a big project in this hill, building a bunker above the hill and a shelter below, with tunnels leading directly to the village, so that even if the enemy attacked, he could immediately hide.

In addition, Shen Chen also asked every family to build a thatched house, and according to the requirements of his painting, a boxy cellar was dug under the backyard of each house, and a rammed earth thatched hut was built above to raise livestock.

Although there were thatched houses in the Han Dynasty, they were basically owned by high-ranking families or county residents. It is good for ordinary villagers to have a house, which is often a simple rammed earth or wooden house, with a hall house on the outside, a bedroom on the inside, and a kitchen at most, and rarely build a special thatched house.

The kind of rural standard houses that really came to our later generations were not until after the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Because the manure technology did not appear until the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty began to popularize, and the Ming and Qing dynasties spread throughout the country, and the Han Dynasty people did not understand this technology.

Before Shen Chen crossed, he studied architectural design and worked in a design institute.

Although they are basically doing civil architectural design, when I used to study, I traveled all over the country to collect local architectural features, and I saw a lot of watchtowers, manors, and cities left over from ancient times, and I also saw a lot of old rural houses.

Therefore, I still have some experience in rural construction.

At present, it is unlikely that the population of Huangmen Pavilion wants to build a city, but it is possible to build a Qionglong.

This kind of thing actually existed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but it was created by the Western Liangqiang people, and it played a huge role until the Qing Dynasty's Xiaochuan Campaign, and even the artillery could not penetrate it.

After several days of surveying, Shen Chen finally planned the pastoral area, the residential area, the Qionglong area and some underground castles.

The Qionglong tunnel dark castle is an ancient architectural design, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have existed until the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the design is unreasonable and not standardized, so it is not particularly popular.

What's more, these things are only suitable for small-scale construction.

Even the most famous tunnel warfare in the Jizhong Plain during the later anti-Japanese period was the excavation of tunnels inside the village, rather than large-scale excavation.

Therefore, it is particularly useful when engaging in guerrilla warfare and dealing with small-scale wars.