The lively New Year passed quickly. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the weather in the Taihang Mountains became warmer.

According to the arrangement of the headquarters, after the tenth day of the first lunar month, the immigrants in the new village, began to compete for the opinions of each family, willing to settle down in Taihang Mountain for a long time, after the fifteenth day of the first month, began to participate in the wasteland reclamation activities according to the arrangement of several responsible persons in the village, and before the Qingming Festival, the land was reclaimed and crops were always cropped.

If they still want to return to their hometowns, they will also participate in a month and a half of land reclamation work from the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and only when they leave can they distribute a month's worth of grain, and then each of them will go home to fend for himself.

The village chiefs of each village said that there are several major advantages to staying here: First, unified labor and management, the old people do the things of the elderly, the young adults do the things of the young adults, and the children do the things of the children, so everyone does not have to worry about it.

Second, as long as you actively participate in labor, do not pretend to be sick, and do not be lazy, you will have enough to eat and new clothes to wear. Spring is coming, and I have to make clothes for spring and autumn for everyone.

Third, starting next year, schools will be set up in all towns and villages, and all children under the age of 12 can be enrolled free of charge, and they must also be sent to study.

Fourth, everyone must be paid for their daily labor, and at the end of the year, in addition to deducting the family's expenses, the village will also pay everyone wages.

The only downside is that it is not free. Except for the busy farming season, there is only one day off on seven days. You can't be idle, you can't sleep in.

In a word, there are no lazy people here. Those who remain here and are unwilling to work will be escorted to the coal mine to be forced to work.

The vast majority of refugees are willing to stay here and settle down, and only a very few gangsters and lazy people have not worked hard for a day, and some have been mixed for half their lives. Now I have food and wine here every day, and I have to give out new clothes every season, which is really good. But everybody has to go to work, and that's what these people don't want to do.

After listening to the above-mentioned speech of the person in charge, a few lazy people at the Songshuwan refugee shelter prepared to steal some grain from the food group warehouse on the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month and absconded from the Taihang Mountains after some secret discussions.

But one of these eight had an old mother, who was unwilling to follow them to live a wandering life, and told the person in charge about the matter that his son had discussed with several people.

After hearing the news, the person in charge secretly informed the platoon commander Xin of the Yang family's army, who was in charge of public security here, that the two of them took dozens of soldiers to ambush around the food group that night.

It was after night, and while everyone was asleep, the men quietly slipped out of their lodgings, evading the patrol, and came under the big pine tree outside the food group.

The two guys in charge of the organization counted the number of people and found that except for the mother and son, the rest of the eight people were all there.

One of them, perhaps a habitual thief, quickly climbed up to the windowsill, pried open the window, climbed into the hall of the food group, and gently opened the men from the inside, and let them in.

The man walked to the door of the warehouse where the grain was kept, took out the lock-picking tool he had prepared, and unlocked the door, and then several people followed the previous division of labor, one outside to watch the wind, and the other to guard outside the room of the personnel who watched the food group.

Unable to find a pocket for food, the other six took the new trousers that had been given to them a year ago, and when they had sewn the cuffs of the trousers, they used the new trousers as pockets and filled them with fine food.

The pants of the eight people were all filled with food, and after they were tied, several guys sneaked out with a bag of food in their trousers.

Suddenly, a roar came from afar: "Stop! What for? ”

Suddenly, the torches around were lit up, and dozens of people surrounded them with knives and guns in a trance.

When a few people saw that things were not good, they wanted to return to the food group with food. When I turned around, I saw that at the door of the food group, the leader of the refugee shelter, with two strong men with sticks, was smiling at them......

This has also happened occasionally in other refugee camps and resettlement villages. Anyone who tried to steal grain and escape, all of them were caught digging coal in the mines.

The vigorous large-scale reclamation movement began, and all new village resettlement sites and refugee shelters took active action.

In order to develop enough land to plant crops such as corn, sweet potatoes and millet before the spring ploughing, refugee housing in the refugee shelters was also built after the spring ploughing.

There are two things that cannot be opened, one is not opened where the slope is more than 25 degrees, and the other is not opened where the trees are particularly flourishing.

When the wasteland is cleared, the trees on the wasteland to be developed are first cut down and used to repair houses and make paper, and the grass is cut and sent to the horse farm to raise horses.

And only then did they start to set fire to the wasteland. When burning, if the land is in close contact with forests in other places, cut out the barrier, otherwise it may cause a large-scale fire.

Two days later, the fire in the wasteland was extinguished, and the digging could begin in earnest.

Through mobilization, the leaders have stimulated everyone's sense of ownership, men, women and children working together, the elderly and children under the age of 12 are engaged in logistics at home, cooking, feeding pigs, herding cattle and sheep, and those between the ages of 12 and 65 must participate in large-scale land reclamation and large-scale production.

Millions of people wore the stars and the moon, worked day and night, and finally opened up one and a half acres of wasteland before the Qingming Festival. Before and after the Qingming Festival, corn, millet, wheat, pumpkin and other crops were planted.

Then, the villages divided the labor and part of the land continued to be cultivated, planting sweet potatoes, eggplants, winter melons, radishes and other vegetables.

Some of them are led by leaders and construction workers to build ditches to irrigate seedlings during droughts. Fortunately, at this time, the Taihang Mountains were densely forested, and there were mountain streams and small rivers everywhere.

Under the leadership of the masters, some experienced and skilled people built new homes for one family according to the plan.

Seeing that the work in various parts of Taihang Mountain has basically entered a virtuous circle, Zhao Chongyang is also ready to take the three princesses back to Dasheng Kingdom.