"What a fairy day!" After a long full burp, Yang San licked his lips contentedly, touched his slightly swollen belly and sighed. Yang San was originally a poor man in Dayi City, although he was young and strong, he often ate the last meal without the next meal, and after Cao Ergou took Dayi, he decisively threw himself into the Thunderbolt Army in order to have something to eat. He spent a few days on a construction site in Yokohara Town, and then he was sent to the rootless mountains to open up land and farm. After exterminating the bandits, the Thunderbolts screened the captured bandits and their families, and sent the guilty to the mines to serve hard labor, while the innocent were scattered and distributed to various villages in the mountains. The vacated Huaguoshan camp was all resettled by the poor people from Dayi.

Yang San is not a lazy person, and he is poor not because he does not work hard, but because he has no house and no job and is oppressed by the government and local tyrants. He never spared any effort in cultivating wasteland, got up early every day and was greedy for darkness, and he also focused on heavy work and tiring work, and his spring ploughing team was praised by Huang Dagen many times. In order to give full play to the power of teamwork, the Perak Army divided all the reclamation personnel into groups of 10 and implemented a labor competition system. Each group is a mix of civilians and soldiers – soldiers participate only temporarily during the sowing and harvesting seasons, while civilians are responsible for the day-to-day management of crops. According to Ouyang Xuan's order, in order to ensure the physical strength of the spring ploughing personnel, in addition to the full grain pipe, some meat was also provided. These meats range from dried fish, game, horse meat, and even the hugely popular fatty pork. When it's time to eat, the steaming and fragrant broth is the best solace after a day of hunger and exhaustion, and of course, how much meat you can eat depends on your ability - the amount of labor. Because according to the regulations of the labor competition, each group of labor results is linked to the amount of broth that can be shared, and the broth that is distributed on the day with the largest labor results will naturally be more, and the labor fruits are ranked last only to watch others eat meat and swallow their saliva silently.

Everyone praised Yang San for his enthusiasm and willingness to work, but they didn't know that he also had Xiao Jiujiu in his heart, that is, he could eat more meat if he worked more - Yang San was afraid of hunger but was not afraid of hardship and hard work. Before he defected to the Thunderbolts, he was often so hungry that his eyes were glazed, but now that he can eat enough, he still has the opportunity to eat meat, where will he save effort? Of course, in addition to his efforts, Yang San is also very good at using his brains, only two days after the start of construction, he combined with the situation of the group of personnel to demarcation, burning, leveling, ridges, sowing and other spring plowing processes were optimized, and made suggestions to the team leader. Yang San's suggestion not only improved the work efficiency a lot, but also the quality of cultivation was far ahead of other groups, which was highly praised by the technical group, and was named "Yang San's cultivation method" to popularize and promote to all reclamation sites. At the same time, Ouyang Xuan also sent a technical team composed of old farmers who are good at planting crops and agricultural technicians from the Education Institute, which not only carried out roving technical guidance, but also increased the practical ability of the agricultural technicians of the Education Institute.

There are two parts of the focus of the spring plowing and sowing of the Perak Army, the first of which is the rootless mountainous area. Huang Dagen brought to Tuntian, Wugen Mountain, in addition to the three companies of the Navy under his command and the teaching company, there were also 600 civilians. Because the spring sowing time was tight, and he was also afraid of the surprise attack and harassment of the Mongols, Ouyang Xuan ordered that each tuntian site must complete the task within 20 days. After the planting is completed, the Thunderbolts will focus their manpower on the construction of Yokohara Fort. Huang Dagen, who is in charge of the Rootless Mountain Tuntian site, decided to sow seeds directly on the fallow land after consulting with the rootless mountain people. The cultivation of rootless mountain people adopts the rotation mode of fallow two crops and one crop, that is, the land opened by burning is cultivated for one year, and then fallow for two years, and then find new plots to burn in the second and third years, and then cultivate the plots of the first year in the fourth year, and so on every three years. This mode of output requires a large amount of land, but it can ensure the fertility of the land, and if it is fertility, it will ensure food production. Of course, Huang Dagen knows that planting crops on fallow land will affect the future fertility of the land, but the current urgent need for food can only be taken as a stopgap measure. As long as we survive this year, according to Xuan Ge'er's plan, in the future, we will mainly cultivate on the plains where rice and wheat are cropped, and we will no longer use this method of fishing with all our resources.

The second focus of spring plowing and sowing is to take Hengyuan Fort as the center, and establish several reclamation points within 20 miles from Hengyuan Fort in the piedmont plain area from Yongkang City in the east to Dayi City in the west. The main reason for choosing to camp on the edge of Longmen Mountain is to guard against the Mongol cavalry - when they find an enemy attack, they can quickly flee to the mountains to hide, and the shacks of the planters and guards are set up on the mountains. As long as the Mongols dared to chase them into the dense forests in the mountains, the thunderbolt weapons and traps would teach them how to behave. If the Mongols dismounted and fought in the mountains and dense forests, not only the Thunderbolt soldiers had the strength to fight, but even the peasants with dung forks could be repelled by virtue of their numbers. Of course, in order to guard against the Mongols, a large number of traps and ditches were dug around the farmland, which were not only used to prevent crops from being flooded during the rainy season, but also to delay the Mongol cavalry.

Just when the Perak army was busy plowing the fields in the spring, the messenger sent by the Chongqing Mansion came to Hengyuan Town again. The Messenger, though humble and polite, is in fact a threat. He first described the battle situation in Chengdu City, saying that Pu Zezhi led the army into the city to fight fiercely with the Mongolian army, and killed the enemy chief Atahu in the street battle, and will conquer Chengdu Yunyun in the near future. Speaking of the war situation, the envoy said that the Pan system could not bear Ouyang Xuan to miss this monstrous achievement, and immediately ordered him to send an opportunity to Yongkang County, hoping that Ouyang Xuan would make an immortal contribution. Ouyang Xuan was willing to believe this nonsense, knowing that Pan Tongzhi would definitely not have such good intentions, but he didn't know what kind of ghost he had to do.

After Ouyang Xuan read the official letter of Chongqing Mansion, Rao was mentally prepared, but he was still taken aback by the lion under the control of Pan. The official letter written by Pan Tongzhi first pointed out the identity of Ouyang Xuan's Yongkang County Commander, and ordered him to immediately lead all the troops under his rule, bring all the firearms to Chengdu City to help in the war, and at the same time organize 3,000 people to bring their own dry food and tools, and be responsible for repairing the city walls and houses in the city after the spring ploughing is over. Pan Tongzhi also mentioned in the letter that if he neglected the military order, Ouyang Xuan would be strictly held responsible.

Ouyang Xuan read the letter and pondered for a moment, then said to the messenger: "Dare to ask the envoy, if I bring all the military forces to Chengdu, how can the unrestrained people resist the raiding of the Mongol rangers and the harassment of bandits?" ”

"Lord Ouyang's concerns have already been considered, after Lord Ouyang led his troops to Chengdu, Lord Pan Luohuan of the capital city is responsible for the protection of the territory and the people, and Lord Ouyang does not need to worry."

The messenger's words made Ouyang Xuan secretly angry in his heart, it seemed that this uncle and nephew of the Pan family had been coveting the territory of the Thunderbolt Army, and he would definitely not stop if he Ouyang Xuan was not brought down. At that moment, he said with a blushing face: "Please tell Lord Pan that the Mongolian Tatars often plunder, and bandits are rampant in the territory, and it is still difficult for the current Yongkang soldiers to protect themselves, and there are really no soldiers to send." The plan of the year lies in the spring, and the current labor is all in the cultivation and spring sowing, and I can't bear to drive far to Fucheng. At present, although Yongkang County is poor, it will still try its best to provide seeds and agricultural tools for the city, please send someone to Hengyuan Town to pick it up."

"Please think twice, Lord Ouyang's order is really disobedient in the eyes of Lord Pan, if you tell Lord Pu Xue about the situation, Lord Pu will inevitably be furious, and he will definitely ask the teacher after conquering Chengdu....." The messenger's words seemed to be a threat, which made Ouyang angry, and he snorted coldly: "Listen to the respect, send off the guests", and let the messenger be driven out.