Mid-July.

It was the height of summer, and the fierce sun was high in the sky, venting its heat like crazy, almost baking everything on the earth, squeezing no water left.

Early in the morning, Liu Yan got up early and came to the salt field, thinking that it would be cooler, but the weather was still hot in the early morning, and people had nowhere to hide.

At this time, Liu Yan readjusted all parts of Dapan Fort, Chen Xun returned to Juntun to be responsible, Wang Yue still stayed in Dapan Fort, Wang Bo was responsible for supervising the craftsmen who built the fort wall and internal facilities, and Zhang Yi was sent by Liu Yan to supervise the salt drying field.

At this time, Liu Yan was already sweating under the scorching sun, and the clothes on his body were wet with sweat and tightly wrapped around his body, which was very uncomfortable.

The woman who was cleaning the two salt pools was also sweating profusely, struggling to clear the sand. Zhang Yi is also shirtless, digging hard, and every time he seems to have exhausted all his strength.

Liu Yan wiped his sweat and walked below, everyone put down the tools in their hands and saluted, Liu Yan smiled and encouraged everyone, and then let everyone rest for a while.

This salt field was originally built on the beach, so it is not very difficult to clean up, these few days, the two salt ponds are basically cleaned up, but the manpower in Dapan Fort must be insufficient, men have to farm during the day, training at night, women have to keep an eye on the soap workshop, and do a good job of logistics for the dun army and men, except for the elderly and children in Dapan Fort, everyone is busy every day, there is no moment of leisure.

"How long will it take?"

Zhang Yi wiped his sweat with his already damp shirt, and then said: "There will be two more days at most, the main reason is that the bamboo tube is not enough, and you need to wait." As long as there are enough bamboo tubes, the aqueduct can be dredged, and the remaining salt pond is not a difficult task. ”

Liu Yan nodded and said, "When you go back tonight, remember to prepare some light salt water, and bring it with you when you go to work tomorrow." Now that the weather is hot, you have to stop every half hour to drink and rest, or else the heat will go wrong. ”

Zhang Yi said movingly: "Don't worry, Chief A, your subordinates must remember." ”

Liu Yan inspected here for a while, and then returned to Dapanbao. Along the way, Liu Yan has always thought about the problem of lack of manpower, although Dapanbao now has a population of several hundred, but when it comes to allocating manpower, Liu Yan still feels overstretched.

So when Juntun finished work that night, Liu Yan asked Wang Bo, Zhang Yi, and Wang Yue to lead the team to train, and he called Chen Xun back to the house.

"Don't go to Juntun early tomorrow morning, take a few people and go around the surrounding forts."

Chen Xun was stunned for a moment, and then grinned and said, "Captain Jia, this is going to dig the foot of the wall!" ”

Liu Yan glanced at Chen Xun and said, "Otherwise? Now that we are short of manpower, what else do you have to do? ”

Although Wang Weizhen and Zhang Hailin both promoted Liu Yan and attracted many displaced people, both the number and frequency could no longer meet the development needs of Dapanbao.

Therefore, Liu Yan had to take the sword sideways at this time and directly grab people from all over the forts. Of course, this is not the first creation of Liu Yan, not only Wangjiazhuang, but also Lingshanwei everywhere in the forts, pulling people to dig the foot of the wall between each other has happened repeatedly, and the officials have long been surprised.

Who made the current shortage of guards in various places serious, the military households have fled repeatedly, and there is no manpower, so the forts have to find their own way.

Chen Xun said with some worry: "Captain A, my subordinates are worried that it will cause trouble. ”

Liu Yan said indifferently: "If we develop honestly, Dapanbao is still a small Dapandun, and we are still eating bran and suffering poverty!" I just want the sword to go sideways, before it was to make soap, and now it is to pull people to dig the foot of the wall, as the saying goes: horses have no night grass and no fertilizer, that's the truth! ”

"But there were a few military families who fled from other places before, and there are already many people who have opinions about us.

Liu Yan laughed when he heard this, and said, "Then I'll take you to fight again." Now we have more than 70 dun troops in Dapan Fort, and we will raise it well during this time, and the training is also very solid, what are you afraid of? We don't have enough people to fight, enough to fight in groups! ”

Chen Xun was dumbfounded when he heard this.

Early the next morning, Chen Xun set off with people, and for several days, Chen Xun and others went out early and returned late, constantly publicizing in the surrounding Tunpu and Huoludun, which was very hard.

After a few more days, military households from all over the country moved in one after another, some were a few people in a single household, some were more than a dozen or dozens of people, and the largest group was 22 households, a total of more than 70 people!

During this time, there were 113 military households and more than 500 people from all over Dapan Fort!

This amount was something Liu Yan didn't expect, and now the military households in Tunbao and Huoludun are all on the run, and it is really a miracle that they can still dig up so many people. Liu Yan looked at the population of so many military households, and his heart was also a little drummed, after all, there were too many people, and now the population of Dapanbao was already around 1,000 people, surpassing Wangjiazhuang and ranking first among 100 households.

However, Liu Yan is now eager to develop his strength, so he gritted his teeth and accepted them all, and let Wang Yue be in charge of the arrangements for these new military households.

"Hygiene, we must pay attention to hygiene!"

Liu Yan called Wang Yue to him and instructed: "Let all these new military families go to the Nanhe River to take a bath, wash them and then assign shelter." Remember, if you find someone sick among them, you must be placed in isolation alone, and you must be careful. ”

Wang Yue nodded and said, "Don't worry, Captain A, your subordinates must be careful and careful." ”

"In addition, you inform Mr. Zhao that these people will be registered as soon as possible and issued military household stickers."

Wang Yue said with a smile: "My subordinates understand that this military household sticker will be distributed today and tomorrow, so as not to have too many dreams at night." ”

"Hmm."

I have to say that this Wang Yue's ability to be empathetic is really not covered, Liu Yan nodded with satisfaction, and Wang Yue asked: "Captain Jia, after these people settle down, how to arrange it?" ”

Liu Yan thought for a while and said: "Now there is a shortage of people everywhere, when Mr. Zhao finishes counting, you can take a look, Qingzhuang sent to Juntun to open up the wasteland, now our Dapanbao arable land is no longer enough, we must continue to open up the wasteland, and let Chen Xun be responsible for the specific things." ”

"All the strong women were sent to the salt drying field, and the rest of the old people and children were to do what they could in the fort for the time being. If there is a shortage of manpower in the soap workshop, let the Chen family brothers and sisters pick some elderly women. ”

Wang Yue answered and wrote them down one by one.

In the evening, Liu Yan gathered several small flag officials into his house and held a small meeting for everyone.

"All teams of dun troops should be vigilant during this time, there are so many military households coming over these days, and the tunbao must have been opened everywhere, so we must be in case someone comes to make trouble."

Chen Xun and others agreed, no one expected that Dapanbao would attract so many military households to take refuge in the surrounding area.

Zhang Yi said suspiciously: "When we started the military camp before, we also recruited people, but I didn't see so many military households coming, why did so many people suddenly pop up now?" ”

Wang Yue preemptively said: "What's wrong with this, when we just started in the army, everyone was a poor ghost, as long as they didn't survive, who wanted to come over and suffer hardship?" It's different now, our Dapanbao is second to none rich in the entire Wangjiazhuang, every household can eat enough, and even get money with the help of the soap workshop, who doesn't envy such days, those military households elsewhere want to invest in their dreams! ”

Chen Xun nodded in agreement, and said with a smile: "I estimate that if it weren't for the strict management of the commanders and garrison officers in various places, there would be more military households who came to take refuge!" ”

Liu Yan said: "No matter what, now while everyone is grasping production, we must be ready for others to come to the door." ”

Then Liu Yan began to deploy the task: "The military camp is all young and strong, I don't worry too much, we also have a fort wall in the fort, although it has not been completely completed, but there is no problem with the defense, and there are enough people in the fort." I'm worried about the salt plant right now. ”

Now that Liu Yan has begun to clean up the salt farm, several surrounding forts also know about it, after all, the salt farm occupies a lot of land, and it is placed there, and Liu Yan has no way to keep it secret.

So Liu Yan simply started working directly, anyway, there is Wang Weizhen, the management officer in Wangjiazhuang, who is under the cover, and he also has dozens of dun troops in his hands, so he doesn't have to worry about anything for the time being.

"There are basically women on the side of the salt field, if someone really comes to the door and suffers a loss in the military tun and the fort, most of them will go to the salt field to make trouble, so ...... from tomorrow"

Speaking of this, Liu Yan looked at Zhang Yi and said: "From tomorrow onwards, your team of Dunjun will no longer go to the military camp to work, let Chen Xun transfer some elderly men from the fort, and let others help with the farm work in the Dunjun family in your team." ”

"Early tomorrow morning, you will take your subordinates to the salt drying field, build some simple nests to live in temporarily, and stay there."

Zhang Yi received the order, and then asked, "Chief A, won't we come back at night?" ”

Liu Yan thought for a moment and said: "It is not easy to restore the two salt drying ponds and the aqueduct in the salt drying field, so you don't have to come back, and you will live there directly at night to prevent someone from sabotage." ”

"Yes."

"Remember, if you are really hit by a large number of people, don't fight hard, send someone back as soon as possible to report the news, you just need to stay until I bring someone to arrive. Of course, it would be best if everything was safe and sound during this time. ”

"Yes."

Although Liu Yan said so, he smiled bitterly in his heart: "I robbed so many people at once, how can I be safe?" ”

At this time, Liu Yan had already prepared for the worst, but it was just a big fight, anyway, the population that had already arrived, he would never send it out again, and no one would be able to do it!